Graduate Student Activities

Southern Weed Contest

The Southern Weed Science Society sponsors the Southern Weed Contest each summer. The purpose of the Southern Weed Contest is to provide an educational experience from which students in southern universities can broaden their applied skills in weed science. The contest provides an opportunity for weed science students to meet and talk with each other, be exposed to weed scientists from other universities and industry, and apply what they have learned using a contest to measure their capabilities. It is also hopeful that the contest will increase the visibility of weed science and intensify the interest level of those participating in the discipline of weed science.

The contest involves testing of the participants expertise in weed identification, crop and weed response to herbicides, and sprayer calibration, as well as their ability to evaluate a field crop/weed problem and recommend the most effective legal remedy to the problem.

Teams of LSU weed science graduate students have participated in the Weed Contest since 1990 and placed second in 1997 and 1999 and third in 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002.

1992 LSU Weed Team	1994 LSU Weed Team
2000 LSU Weed Team	2002 LSU Weed Team