2009 LATMC Presentation Titles and Speakers
General Session (Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009)
- State of Louisiana Agriculture
Mike Strain, DVM, Commissioner
Louisiana Dept of Agriculture & Forestry - Growing America’s Future with the FFA
Jonathan Shoemaker, Joey Bell, David Bailey,
Louisiana FFA Association - Water Quality Effects on Pesticides
James L. “Jim” Griffin, LSU AgCenter
Emerging Technologies Session I
- Bayer CropScience
- Dupont Crop Protection
- Dow AgroSciences
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International
- MANA
- Nichino America
- Valent USA Corporation
- Syngenta Crop Protection
- BASF Corporation
- FMC Corporation
- Cheminova, Inc.
- Agleader Technology
General Session (Friday, Feb. 13, 2009)
- From the Red River to the Red River
Dennis Berglund, Centrol of Twin Valley - Louisiana Black Bear
Maria Davidson, Louisiana Dept of Wildlife & Fisheries - Visual Reference Images: Interpretive Lines (Grain Grading)
Len Sanders, Louisiana Dept of Agriculture & Forestry - Pesticide Updates and Issues
Larry LeJeune, Director
Louisiana Dept of Agriculture & Forestry
Grain Crops and Multi-Crop Management Session (Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009)
- Row Configuration and Plant Population Dynamics
Rick Mascagni, LSU AgCenter - Field Storage for Grain
Carol Pinnell-Alison, LSU AgCenter - Stink Bug and Three-Cornered Alfalfa Hopper Management in Soybean
Jeff Davis, LSU AgCenter - Soybean Disease Management
Boyd Padgett, LSU AgCenter - Soybean Verification and Demonstration Results
Rob Ferguson, LSU AgCenter - Hessian Fly in Wheat
Steve Harrison, Fangneng Huang, Roger Leonard - Freeze/Cold Injury in Wheat and Corn
Erick Larson, Mississippi State University - Cropping Systems: Rotations/Double Cropping
Don Boquet, LSU AgCenter - Multi-Crop Weed Management: Carryover and Resistance Considerations
Daniel Stephenson, LSU AgCenter - Fertility Issues
J Stevens, LSU AgCenter - Value of Harvest Aids: An Agronomic and Economic Approach
Joey Boudreaux, LSU AgCenter
Cotton Breakout Sessions (Thurs., Feb. 12 and Fri., Feb. 13, 2009)
- Wheat/Cotton Double-Crop Production Issues
Rob Ferguson, LSU AgCenter - Nutrient Deficiencies in Cotton
Steve Phillips, International Plant Nutrition Institute - Future of Cotton: Where Will It Be in Five Years? Infrastructure and Landscape Changes as Cotton Acreage Declines
- Boll Weevil Eradication Program
Marc Bordelon, Louisiana Dept of Agriculture & Forestry - Bt Traits in Cotton: Understanding Potential Economic Injury and Action Thresholds
Roger Leonard, LSU AgCenter - Tarnished Plant Bug
Ralph Bagwell, LSU AgCenter - Nematodes: Problems and Management
Gene Burris and Charlie Overstreet, LSU AgCenter - Foliar Applied Fungicides
Boyd Padgett, LSU AgCenter - Cotton Plant Growth: Regulators and Harvest Aides
Sandy Stewart, AgriThority, LLC - Costs and Benefits of Different N Sources for Cotton
Don Boquet, LSU AgCenter
Sugarcane Breakout Sessions (Thurs., Feb. 12 and Fri., Feb. 13, 2009)
- Overview of New Sugarcane Crop Insurance Program
Robert Cerda, Crop Insurance Systems, Inc. - Seasonal and Regional Dynamics of Invasive Stem Borers on Dominant Cultivated and Weed Plant Hosts
Julien Beuzelin, LSU AgCenter - Sugarcane Resistance to the Sugarcane Aphid – Insights on Biochemical Bases of Resistance
Waseem Akbar, LSU AgCenter - L 01-283 Off-Type Trial
Kenneth Gravois, LSU AgCenter - Cultural Practices
Ryan Viator, USDA-ARS SRRC - Sugarcane Disease Update Jeff Hoy, LSU AgCenter
- Natural Predators and Aphid Thresholds Bill White, USDA-ARS SRRC
- Next Generation of Precision Technology Rich Johnson, USDA-ARS SRRC
- On-Farm Disease Management Mike Grisham, USDA-ARS SRRC
- Controlling Bermudagrass at Planting in Sugarcane Ed Richard, USDA-ARS SRRC
- Stalk Borer Research Update M.O. Way, Texas A&M AgriLIFE Research Center Gene Reagan, LSU AgCenter
- Sugarcane Ripener Research Ryan Viator and Ed Richard, USDA-ARS SRRC Sugarcane Product Updates
- MANA
- Gowan Company
- FMC Corporation
Rice Breakout Sessions (Thurs., Feb. 12 and Fri., Feb. 13, 2009)
- Brief Review of Salt Effects on Rice Production
Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter - Herbicide Use in Hybrid Rice
Brian Ottis, RiceTec - Grass Control in Rice by Johnny Saichuk, LSU AgCenter
Rice Product Updates
- Clincher White Paper David Ball, Dow AgroSciences
- Clearfield Variety Update
Michael Fruge, Horizon Ag - BASF Rice Product Update Alvin Rhodes, BASF Corporation
- Rice Water Weevil Management Using Current Technology
- Clearfield Rice Stewardship
Brad Guice, BASF Corporation - Dow AgroSciences’ Southern Rice Herbicides
David Ball, Dow AgroSciences - Dupont Crop Protection Technical Update
Michael T. Edwards, Dupont Crop Protection - Invasive Species: Invertebrates That Threaten Louisiana Agriculture
Natalie Hummel, LSU AgCenter - New Insecticidal Seed Treatments for Control of Insect Pests of Rice
Mike Stout, LSU AgCenter - Making the Most of Residual Herbicides in Rice
Alvin Rhodes, BASF Corporation - Bolero for Louisiana Rice
John Bordlee, Valent USA Corporation - Command – Rice fit in a Clearfield System
Rusty Mitchell