Information and updates about agriculture in and around Evangeline Parish.

Inside this Issue: Calendar of Activities, Blackbird Baiting Program to Begin in Mid-February, Variety Selection by Dr. Johnny Saichuk, Crawfish Meeting, Plant Back Interval For Popular Rice Burn-Down Herbicides, Winter Weed Burndown Prior to Rice Planting, Pesticide Re-Certification Meetings, E-Mail List Updating.

Because of the severe local damage caused by blackbirds to sprouting rice in southwest Louisiana, several Louisiana agencies will be coopering with local rice growers in a baiting program to control these bird populations.

Two private applicator pesticide recertification meetings have been set in Evangeline Parish.

Inside this issue: January-March 2011 Calendar of Activities, Evangeline and St. Landry Parish Crop Production School Scheduled, Foundation Seed Rice Allocations and Three New Rice Varieties.

The Evangeline and St. Landry Parish Rice and Soybean School will be held at the Ville Platte Civic Center Wednesday, January 4, 2012.

Information about: Master Farmer Training, Commercial Pesticide Applicator Training, Crawfish Referendum, Soybean Variety Test Plot Results, Calf to Carcass Program, Burn Ban Declared.

Tropical Sod Webworms and Armyworms are devouring lawns in and around Evangeline Parish. Here is advice on what you can do about it.

Information about: Calendar of Activities; Rice Harvest Notes; Gramoxone Inteon Use as a Soybean Harvest Aid; Harvest Aid Application Timing to Soybeans; Considerations When Planting Cool Season Forages; McNeese State University Heifer Enhancement and Development.

Newsletters providing news and information for Evangeline Parish agricultural producers and dealers.