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Louisiana's Suggested Chemical Weed Control Guide

This guide includes helpful information on herbicides and weed control with detailed suggestions for aquatics, commercial nursery stock, field crops, forestry, fruit crops, home gardens, lawns and many other Louisiana crops. It includes information on different types of herbicide registrations, as well as information on herbicide labels and restricted uses. Also included are sprayer calibration techniques, suggestions for reducing herbicide drift and a guide to proper spray tip selection.

Field Notes 7/14/08: Blast, Cercospora, and Field Drainage

Photographs and accompanying text on rice disease management tips and best timing to drain rice fields for harvest.

Field Notes 7/7/08 Rice Panicle, Lippa, and Guttation

Photograph and accompanying text on rice panicle size in relation to fungicide timing, dew and guttation affects on rice disease activity, identification of rice weeds, and rice insect pest management.

Field Notes 6/23/08: Shealth Blight, Iron, and Nealley Sprangletop

Photographs and accompanying text on rice plant growth stage, rice disease identification and control measures, weed identification, and iron problematic issues in rice fields

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Field Notes 6/18/08: Borers, Bugs, and Wind Damage

Photographs and accompanying text on firing of rice leaf tips and rice insect pest identification and control.

Field Notes 6/9/08: Torpedograss, Black Rice Bugs, Sugarcane Borer and Rice Panicle

Photographs and accompanying text on torpedograss, black rice bug identification, sugarcane borer activity in rice, and panicle development in rice plants.

Field Notes 6/2/08: Speical Edition - Rice Diseases

Table and accompanying text on rice disease management, scouting procedures, rice variety reaction to major diseases and disease control strategies.

Examining Cropland Rental Arrangements for Rice Production in Louisiana

This report presents results from a 2007 survey of rice production cropland rental arrangments in Louisiana. Results include average cash rent paid on a per land tract, per rice base acre and per rice planted acre basis. Additional information is also included for common share rental arrangements.

Field Notes 6/2/08: Fungicide Table and Rice Nutrient Problems

Photographs and accompanying text on herbicide drift, insect identification, weed identification, nutrient deficiency, water management for rice production and fungicide rates.

Field Notes 5/26/08: Memorial Day Edition

Photographs and accompanying text on phosphorus deficiency, glyphosate rice injury, chinch bug and rice water weevil activity, and aerial applications.

Field Notes 5/19/08: Chinch Bugs, Lightning Wheat, and Phosphorus Deficiency

Photographs and accompanying text on slow-growing rice, rice water weevil and chinch bug management, phosphorus deficiency and lightning storm damage on wheat.

Field Notes 5/12/08: Red Rice, Seedlings, and Stubble

Photographs and accompanying text on red rice invading rice fields, seedling rice emergence, and planting rice in stubble ground.

Field Notes 5/5/08: Rice Water Weevils, Fall Panicum, Eclipta, and Bent Seedlings

Photographs and accompanying text on permanent rice flood, rice stand counts, identification of eclipta and fall panicum, rice water weevil damage, and rice seedling germination.

Field Notes 4/25/08: Weed Seedlings and Chinch Bugs