Louisiana field day June 17

May 21, 2009 3:45 PM

The LSU AgCenter’s annual Northeast Research Station field day will be held June 17 at the station in St. Joseph, La.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., with the program beginning at 8 a.m.

Planned topics for the field tours include:

• Cotton nitrogen fertility.

• Control of volunteer crop plants and emerged crop plants in replant situations.

• Late planting effects on corn in silt loam soils.

• At-planting insecticide/nematicide treatments for reniform and root-knot nematode management in soybeans.

• Disease management in row crops.

• Soybean production systems.

Field tour speakers will include LSU AgCenter research and Extension personnel, said Donnie Miller, research coordinator at the Northeast Research Station.

Contact: Donnie Miller at (318) 766-3769 or dmiller@agcenter.lsu.edu.

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