(09/11/18) ALEXANDRIA, La. — The LSU AgCenter will conduct a beef cattle and forage field day on Oct. 18 in Alexandria.
Registration will start at 2:30 p.m. at the State Emergency Evacuation Shelter next to the LSU Alexandria campus on U.S. Highway 71, with a field tour beginning at 3 p.m. on the AgCenter Dean Lee Research Station.
Topics will include a bermudagrass planting study, weed control, fencing and fenceline weaning, horn fly management, armyworm control and breeding soundness examinations.
The field tour will be followed by an indoor program with comments from LSU AgCenter administrators, a Louisiana Master Farmer update and graduation of the latest class of the Louisiana Master Cattleman program.
For more information, contact Vince Deshotel at 337-831-1635.
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture