Evangeline Parish 4-H'ers will attend 4-H Camp Grant Walker July 23-27, 2012. Applications are due in the 4-H office by Friday, April 20, 2012.

This issue includes the following articles: Louisiana Suggested Chemical Weed, Insect and Disease Management Guides, Pesticide Applicator Recertification, Performance Evaluation of Beef Bulls -- Dean Lee Bull Test, Rice Seeding Rates and Dates, Email List Updating.

Provides list of members and links to meeting minutes for the Evangeline Parish Cattle Advisory Council.

Monthly Evangeline Parish 4-H newsletters about events and activities for the 2011-2012 club year.

Stickers poke or stick uncovered feet later this spring and summer but the time to control them is now.

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.

2012 Junior Livestock Show schedule of events and special thanks to 2011 sponsors and buyers.