Comments from the South Farm Tour stop at the Simon RWW test site in Acadia Parish

We had an excellent crowd at the final stop of the LSU AgCenter south farm tour in Crowley, La this morning. For those of you that could not attend, here is what was discussed.

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Rice stand observations at Acadia Parish RWW demo site

Today Anna and I met with County Agent Barrett Courville and Crop consultant Rustin Gilder at the Acadia Parish demo site which is farmed by Glen and Wes Simon. We were pleased to find a healthy, rigorous stand of rice. Much of the field is already at tillering stage just two weeks after seedling emergence! This location was planted with XL745 at #25 seeding rate.

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Rice water weevils and colaspis in Louisiana rice

On Friday, I headed out to scout rice in Jeff Davis Parish with County Agent Barrett Courville and Consultant Rustin Gilder. We scouted a field where Rustin had found a single colaspis larva. We also discussed rice water weevil management. Rice water weevils are already out and infesting fields in southwest Louisiana. You can watch our scouting videos on colapis and rice water weevil for a refresher on how to scout for these pests of rice.

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Planting at Acadia Parish rww demo test site.

On March 16, 2011 we planted the Acadia parish demo test site. This blog posting includes a description of the treatments, field maps and plans for gathering data this season.

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Making demo test plans in St. Landry, Acadia and Calcasieu Parish

The last couple of days we have traveled the state to meet with cooperators for the rice water weevil demonstration tests. We met with cooperators in Acadia, Calcasieu and St. Landry Parishes.

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South Farm Tour – results from rice water weevil demo location 1.

We met at the Hoffpauir farm to discuss the results of the rice water weevil demonstration. The purpose of this demonstration is to evaluate the use of some currently available insecticides to control rice water weevils in rice fields. This location has a very nice layout with multiple cuts of the seed treatments (CruiserMaxx and Dermacor X-100) and also two pyrethroid treated cuts. These treatments were compared to an untreated cut.

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