AgCenter hosting series of meetings

The LSU AgCenter is hosting a series of meetings for rice farmers in south and north Louisiana over the next couple of months.
Topics will include variety development updates; control of weeds, insects and diseases; fertilization; and soybean production.
On June 9, the Evangeline Parish rice and soybean field day will start at 8 a.m. at research plots on land farmed by Kenneth LaHaye west of Mamou. (From La. 10, drive 4.4 miles west on Bieber Road, then turn right on Daugeraux Road and drive for a half mile, then turn left at a water well onto a field road.)
The next stop will be at the Kody Bieber Farm on Bieber Road.
On June 15, the Acadia Parish rice and soybean field day will be at the South Farm of the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Crowley starting at 8:30 a.m.
On June 29, the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station will hold its annual field day.
Field tours will start at 7:30 a.m., and the program begins at 10:45 a.m. A lunch will be served.
A rice and soybean field day for St. Landry Parish will be held July 6 at the Charlie Fontenot farm near Palmetto at 8 a.m. (Signs to the field day location will be posted starting at Veazey Road in Palmetto off La. 10.)