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| [Image: 2008 weed guide cover]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. |
| Contact Us This page contains the contact information for the parish county agents. |
| [Image: David Lanclos speaking at soybean meeting]Soybean seed expected to be in short supply (Distributed 01/24/08) Farmers and agribusiness personnel discussed an expected shortage of soybean seed for the crop to be planted in the 2008 growing season during recent soybean meetings in Central Louisiana. |
| Identification of Asian Soybean Rust Symptoms of soybean rust appear identical regardless if they are caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi or Phakopsora meibomiae. Host plants infected with soybean rust first exhibit small lesions that gradually increase in size and turn from gray to tan or brown. They become polygonally shaped restricted by leaf veins, and may eventually reach 2 to 3 square millimeters. |
| Asian Soybean Rust Hosts Provides a list of plant hosts for Asian Soybean Rust. |
| [Image: Pest Management Guide]Insect Pest Management Guide This 2008 guide was compiled by LSU AgCenter experts and includes regulations, precautions and suggestions for pest control in Louisiana. Detailed topics include drift of pesticides, hazards of pesticides to beneficial insects and wildlife, phytotoxicity and using beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included. |
| [Image: plant disease mgmt]Plant Disease Control Guide This guide for 2008 contains suggestions for management of the most important or more prevalent diseases of Louisiana plants. It includes information on fungicides, bactericides and nematicides, as well as safety precautions for using them. |
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| [Image: double-cropping soybeans and wheat]Double-cropping Soybeans and Wheat in Louisiana Considerable research has been done by LSU AgCenter scientists on wheat/soybean double-cropping systems since the 1970s. This fact sheet compiles research and observations from recent studies in Central Louisiana to aid producers in developing soybean production practices in a wheat/soybean double-cropping system. |
| Red Banded Stink Bug--A Threat to Soybean Profits? Describes the potential impact on soybean profits of late-planted soybeans infested with the Red-Banded Stink Bug. |
| [Image: Green Stink Bug]The Southern Green Stink Bug and the Brown Stink Bug The southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), and the brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), are common pests in Louisiana agricultural crops including cotton, soybeans, corn and grain sorghum. The objective of this presentation is to point out some visual differences between the two species which are helpful for early field detection. |
| [Image: soybean varieties]Soybean Variety Recommendations Recommended soybean varieties have been tested for at least two years, and the recommendations are based on data from LSU AgCenter research stations around the state. Information on herbicide tolerance, disease resistance and cultural practices also is included in this publication. |
| [Image: Red-shoulder stink bug]Red-shouldered Stink Bug Presentation A brief PowerPoint presentation that shows the locations where the stink bugs have been found and compares indentifying characteristics with other stink bugs. |
| Profitable soybeans topic of association meeting (Distributed 1/4/08) Soybean producers and agribusiness personnel will gather on Jan. 17 near Alexandria to discuss the latest developments in technology for growing soybeans profitably. |
| Corn, soybean producers learn latest LSU AgCenter research (Distributed 01/25/08) DELHI – Some 130 Louisiana corn and soybean producers attended the 2008 Louisiana Corn and Soybean Forum Jan. 15 to learn the latest in research for growing profitable crops. |
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| Keeping an Eye on Red-Shouldered Stink Bugs LSU AgCenter entomologists are concerned that a relatively new insect may play havoc with the state’s soybeans, but they’re hopeful the destructiveness may not be severe. |
| [Image: red-shoulder stink bug markings]Red-shouldered Stink Bug Identification Adults are 10-12 mm and brilliant green, but as they get older, they may appear more yellow. Adults normally have two stripes across the back of the thorax, one yellow and one dark red to purple or even black . |
| Soybean Varieties Performance Trials 2006 This page contains the soybean performance trials research summaries for the year 2006. |
| 2007 Extension Demonstrations This page contains the 2007 extension demonstration data. |
| [Image: adult red-shoulder stink bug]Overview of the Red Shouldered Stink Bug First described in 1837, Piezodorus guildinii (a.k.a the red-shouldered stink bug) has been reported throughout the Americas. In Brazil, it is one of the principal pentatomid pests of soybean and has been common since 1970. In North America, it occurs in the southeast, as far north as Arkansas, as far east as South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and as far west as New Mexico. |
| 2005 Extension Demonstrations This page contains the 2005 extension demonstration data. |
| [Image: soybean report banner]2007 Louisiana Soybean & Grain Research & Promotion Board Report This publication serves as a report to soybean and small grain producers about the results from LSU AgCenter projects that their check-off dollars funded. The continuation of this project will help build producer, industry and stakeholder awareness and support of board activities. It also serves as a marketing p |
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| Soybean Varieties Performance Trials 2007 This page contains the soybean performance trials research summaries for the year 2007. |
| Soybeans - VT2007 - PDF Files PDF files for 2007 soybean variety trials |
| Images Of The Red-Shouldered Stink Bug Several images show the identifying markings of the Red-Shouldered Stink Bug and comparisons to other stink bugs. |
| 2007 Louisiana Red River Area Projected Cotton, Soybean, Corn, Milo and Wheat Production Costs This report presents estimates of projected production costs for the production of cotton, soybeans, corn, milo and wheat in the Red River and central areas of Louisiana for the 2007 crop year. |
| 2007 Northeast Louisiana Projected Cotton, Soybeans, Corn, Milo and Wheat Production Costs This report presents estimates of projected production costs for the production of cotton, soybeans, corn, milo and wheat in Northeast Louisiana for the 2007 crop year. |
| Biomass Energy Resources in Louisiana A description of how biomass is being used for energy in Louisiana with an emphasis on the potential for expansion in the industry. (Revised 11/06) |
| 2006 Soybean Crop Better Than Expected Louisiana soybean growers have harvested about 60 percent of this year's crop. The dry weather early in the season delayed planting for some growers and had others worried about the condition of the crops, but LSU AgCenter soybean specialist Dr. David Lanclos says the harvest so far is turning out better than expected. (Runtime: 60 seconds) |
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| LSU AgCenter To Focus On Developing Bio-based Energy Louisiana farmers and forest producers could find a silver lining in the cloud of rising fuel prices – with the development of new fuels from crops they already grow or could grow. |
| Irrigation Pond Saves Groundwater Irrigation ponds can irrigate fields during the summer without resorting to pumping water from wells. |
| Aerial Applicators Important; ‘Clinics’ Help With Efficiency (Distributed03/27/03) Rice planting has begun in South Louisiana, but many farmers in the central and northern parts of the state are looking for options because they’ve been delayed by persistent rains and wet field conditions. That’s where the state’s aerial applicators – pilots with specially equipped aircraft – come in. And many of those aerial applicators take advantage of LSU AgCenter services that help them check their equipment. |
| Brazilian Soybean Rust Expert Says Check Fields Often; Hurricane Could Blow In More Disease Spores The trouble with Asian soybean rust, the disease most feared by soybean farmers, is that the spores that cause it can blow into a field from anywhere, anytime. And Hurricane Dennis could bring in a new wave from South America. |
| LSU AgCenter Preparing For Asian Soybean Rust Again This Season LSU AgCenter experts are preparing to monitor for Asian soybean rust in Louisiana this year as the fungus threatens to enter the state from a new direction – the west. The rust disease, which is spread by windborne spores, is feared because it’s hard to detect until it’s too late to do anything to stop it. |
| 2005 will be learning year for Asian soybean rust LSU AgCenter scientists are launching a series of research projects in 2005 to learn what they can about Asian soybean rust and how this potentially devastating disease will develop in Louisiana. |
| Seed Treatments: An Alternative Pesticide Delivery System In Louisiana, southern green stink bugs and brown stink bugs (Figures 1, 2 and 3) have become common pests of corn, cotton, grain sorghum, soybean and wheat. In corn, an infestation can cause injury to the plant from seedling emergence through ear formation and grain development. Seedlings punctured by stink bugs exhibit small holes surrounded by localized dead tissue. |
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