Stand counts at the St. Landry Parish rice water weevil demo site

This blog posting presents pictures of the stand at the St. Landry Parish rice water weevil demonstration site. I also discuss ongoing early-season problems with chinch bugs, rice levee bill bugs, and colaspis.

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Summary of all rww demo locations

We have summarized the observations for our 2010 RWW demonstration test. Overall, Dermacor X-100 prodvided the best level of weevil control, followed by pyrethroid (either Karate pre,Karate pre + mustangMax on fertilizer post, or Karate post) and CruiserMaxx. Dermacor X-100 provided significantly better control than the other two treatments. There was no signficant difference in the core sample average between the pyrethroid and the CruiserMaxx seed treatment.

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Stand Emergence with Dermacor X-100 and CruiserMaxx

Today we met with cooperators in St. Landry to look at the differences in stand emergence between the insecticide treated (Dermacor X-100, CruiserMaxx) and non-insecticide treated seed (fungicide only). There was a visible difference between Dermacor X-100 and untreated seed, but no visible difference between Dermacor X-100 and CruiserMaxx. We’ll return to take stand counts in about two weeks. These first few weeks of the test are critical for detecting colapsis damage, if it occurs.

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St. Landry and Evangeline Parish rice demonstration sites

Yesterday I visited with cooperators in Evangeline and St. Landry Parishes to discuss this years demonstration sites.

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