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Fifty Morehouse Parish farmers turned out yesterday for the Morehouse Parish Ag Producers meeting and Annual Pesticide Recertification at the LSU AgCenter. Producers learned the latest techniques and agronomic practices to improve their yields and the environment.
The topics mainly concentrated on were corn, soybeans, grain sorghum and rice.
LSU AgCenter cotton and corn specialist Dr. John Kruse was one of four speakers at the meeting.
“These farmers are getting data on the latest variety test and latest work that LSU AgCenter conducts on insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, seed treatment and crop rotation,” Kruse said.
Kruse said one of the main problems Morehouse Parish farmers are facing is that some weeds have a resistance to glyphosate which is Roundup.
“We have found a few weeds in a few locations with this resistance,” Kruse said. “We’re finding ways to combat that.”
LSU AgCenter county agent Terry Erwin said that most farmers in Morehouse Parish are grain producers.
“Eight or nine years ago the predominate crop grown here was cotton,” Erwin said. “Now over 100,000 acres of grain is produced here consisting of corn, soybeans and rice.”
Andy Gilly, a corn and soybean farmer in Mer Rouge, was present at the meeting to hear about new pesticide products coming out in 2012.
“A pesticide Temic makes was dropped and we were all kind of worried about that,” Gilly said. “I learned today that another company is going to pick it up and call it Memic.”
Gilly said he liked coming to these annual LSU AgCenter meetings because the specialist weren’t trying to promote any products like a salesman would.
“These LSU Ag guys are neutral,” Gilly said. “They know what products are working. They’re not trying to sell us anything.”
Gilly also came to the meeting to get his pesticide recertification card.
“Every two years farmers have to get this renewed,” Gilly said. “I have to take a test and learn the proper way to use restricted pesticides.”
Gilly said he learned a lot that he wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t attended.
“If you don’t come to these, you’ll get left behind,” Gilly said.
Fifty Morehouse Parish farmers turned out yesterday for the Morehouse Parish Ag Producers meeting and Annual Pesticide Recertification at the LSU AgCenter. Producers learned the latest techniques and agronomic practices to improve their yields and the environment.
The topics mainly concentrated on were corn, soybeans, grain sorghum and rice.
LSU AgCenter cotton and corn specialist Dr. John Kruse was one of four speakers at the meeting.
“These farmers are getting data on the latest variety test and latest work that LSU AgCenter conducts on insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, seed treatment and crop rotation,” Kruse said.
Kruse said one of the main problems Morehouse Parish farmers are facing is that some weeds have a resistance to glyphosate which is Roundup.
“We have found a few weeds in a few locations with this resistance,” Kruse said. “We’re finding ways to combat that.”
LSU AgCenter county agent Terry Erwin said that most farmers in Morehouse Parish are grain producers.
“Eight or nine years ago the predominate crop grown here was cotton,” Erwin said. “Now over 100,000 acres of grain is produced here consisting of corn, soybeans and rice.”
Andy Gilly, a corn and soybean farmer in Mer Rouge, was present at the meeting to hear about new pesticide products coming out in 2012.
“A pesticide Temic makes was dropped and we were all kind of worried about that,” Gilly said. “I learned today that another company is going to pick it up and call it Memic.”
Gilly said he liked coming to these annual LSU AgCenter meetings because the specialist weren’t trying to promote any products like a salesman would.
“These LSU Ag guys are neutral,” Gilly said. “They know what products are working. They’re not trying to sell us anything.”
Gilly also came to the meeting to get his pesticide recertification card.
“Every two years farmers have to get this renewed,” Gilly said. “I have to take a test and learn the proper way to use restricted pesticides.”
Gilly said he learned a lot that he wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t attended.
“If you don’t come to these, you’ll get left behind,” Gilly said.
