2025 LATMC Presentations
Opening General Session
- ESA Workplan and Implementation of Strategies – Ashlea Frank and Leah Duzy, Compliance Services International (CSI)
- Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation: 2025 Farm Policy Update – Richard Fontenot, Andy Brown
Closing General Session
- Introduction of New LSU AgCenter Faculty – Mike Salassi, LSU AgCenter
- Louisiana Agriculture Update – Mike Strain, DVM, Commissioner
Soybean Session
- Stink Bug Control in Soybean in the Absence of Acephate – Jeff Davis, Dawson Kerns, James Villegas, LSU AgCenter
- Machine Learning Vision – Ivan Grijalva, LSU AgCenter
- Cover Crop and Soil Residual Herbicide Interactions for Weed Management in Soybean – Prashant Jha, LSU AgCenter
- Development of Biological and Chemical Materials that Enhance Soybean Tolerance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses – Jong Ham, LSU AgCenter
- Evaluating Repellents to Mitigate Deer Damage in Soybean: A Collaborative On-Farm Effort – David Moseley
- Addressing the Many Challenges of Cercospora Leaf Blight Management through Collaborative Research – Sara Thomas-Sharma, LSU AgCenter
- Double Dipping: Conservation Compliance in Herbicide Strategies – James Hendrix, LSU AgCenter
Corn Breakout
- Tissue Testing in Corn – Trenton Roberts, University of Arkansas
- Managing Diseases in Corn – Tom Allen, MSU, Travis Faske, UofA Trey Price, LSU AgCenter
- Understanding and Overcoming Nutrient Deficiencies in Corn – Leandro O Vieira, LSU AgCenter
Cotton Breakout
- Variety Performance – Shelly Pate Kerns, LSU AgCenter
- Incorporating Plinazolin into Cotton Insect Management Systems – Dawson Kerns, LSU AgCenter
- Influence of Microbial Products to Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cotton Across the Cotton Belt – Shelly Pate Kerns, LSU AgCenter
- Insights from the Scott Learning Center – Jay Mahaffey, BAYER
Rice Breakout
- Advances in Understanding Host Resistance, Pathogen Races, and the Disease Cycle for Rice Diseases Caused by Cercospora janseana -Jonathan Richards, LSU AgCenter
- Rice Disease Management An overview of the season ahead – Felipe Dalla Lana, LSU AgCenter
- Nitrogen Losses, Timing, and Management – Ronnie Levy, LSU AgCenter
- Cercospora Management – Felipe Dalla Lana, LSU AgCenter
- Breeding Strategies for Simple and Complex Traits – Adam Famoso, LSU AgCenter
- Challenges in Rice Water Weevil Management with Insecticidal Seed Treatments – Tyler Musgrove, LSU AgCenter
- Rice Stem Borer Ecology and Management: What We’ve Learned in 25 Years of Research – Blake Wilson, LSU AgCenter
- Current Weed Management Topics in Rice – Connor Webster, LSU AgCenter
Multi-Crop Session
- Survey of Nematode Species by Crop and Parish – Tristan Watson, LSU AcCenter
- Fertilizer Use Strategies for Louisiana Field Crops – Brenda Tubana, LSU AgCenter
- Double Cropping Wheat and Varietal Resistance – Noah DeWitt, LSU AgCenter
Sugarcane Breakouts
- Billet Planting Research – Andre Gama, LSU AgCenter, Paul White, USDA-ARS
- Brown and Sweet Blood – Saulo Castro, LSU AgCenter
- Mexican Rice Borer Scouting – Blake Wilson, LSU AgCenter
- USDA-ARS Weed and Herbicide Research – Ali Wright, USDA-ARS
- Ripeners – Al Orgeron, LSU AgCenter
- Sugarcane Nematode Research – Tristan Watson, LSU AgCenter
- Entomology Update – Hannah Penn, USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit
- Optimizing Detection of Sugarcane Diseases, Brown Stripe, Damping-off Syndrome, and Rust – Andre Gama
- Sugarcane Herbicide and Weed Control Research – Matt Foster
- Comparison of Outfield Data and Primary Station Commercial Data – Katie Richard, Wilson Judice, Atticus Finger, American Sugar Cane League
- Sugarcane Fertility Update for 2025 – Rich Johnson, USDA-ARS
Emerging Technologies and Industry Updates
- ADAMA – Jason Meier
- AMVAC – Darrin Malone, Matthew Bauerle
- Asido – Macon LaFoe, Lee Rivenbark
- Asido ET
- BASF – Kaelin Saul
- BASF (Corn) – Kaelin Saul
- BASF – Marc Grabert
- BASF (Rice) – Connie Ware
- BAYER – Davy Mize
- BAYER (Cotton) – Kyle Fontenot, John Hand
- Belchim USA (Rice) – Dennis Long
- Corteva (Rice) – Hunter Bowman
- Corteva – Hunter Bowman, Steve Crawford
- DynaGro – Wade Walker
- FMC – Lawson Priess, Eric Bergeron
- FMC (Rice) – Lawson Priess
- FMC – John Lee
- Gowan USA – Craig Sandoski
- Horizon Seed – Corey Conner
- ICL (Rice) – AJ Foster
- KOCH Agronomic Services – Cullen Minter
- Nutrien (Dynagro Rice) – Scott Greenwalt
- RiceTec – Joe Pankey
- Syngenta – Trevor Newkirk
- Syngenta (Rice) – Trevor Newkirk
- Syngenta (Corn) – Trevor Newkirk
- Tiger-Sul Products – David Annis, Kenneth Waters