2022 Entomology Update

Post-doctoral research scholar Keo Corak of USDA-ARS Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Unit discusses predictive sugarcane breeding at the joint meeting of the American Sugar Cane League and American Society of Sugarcane Technologists in Baton Rouge in February 2024. A video slide deck can be found of this presentation at the American Sugar Cane League website (www.LaCane.org/videos or the Louisiana Sugarcane YouTube channel at www.YouTube.com/LouisianaSugarcane.

 Louisiana state climatologist Jay Grymes of WAFB-TV on weather issues affecting the sugarcane industry at the LSU AgCenter's 2024 winter sugarcane grower meeting in Napoleonville. 

Dr. Rich Johnson of the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit in Houma, La. discusses fertilizer and other soil recommendations at the January 2024 LSU AgCenter sugarcane growers meeting in Napoleonville. 

Dr. Tristan Watson of the LSU AgCenter discusses nematodes at the 2023 Sugarcane Field Day at the LSU Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel, La. A video of the discussion is available at www.LaCane.org.

 LSU AgCenter sugarcane plant breeders Dr. Collins Kimbeng & Dr. Michael Pontif, along with Dr. James Todd of the USDA-ARS Houma, La. Sugarcane Research Unit discuss cane plant breeding at the 2023 LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day at the LSU Sugarcane Research Farm in St. Gabriel, La. 

 Dr. Al Orgeron of the LSU AgCenter discusses his research on sugarcane ripening techniques in Louisiana at the LSU Sugarcane Research Farm in St. Gabriel, La. on July 19, 2023. 

Ali Wright, USDA research agronomist in Houma, La., discusses herbicide resistance in Louisiana sugarcane production at the 2023 winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists and the American Sugar Cane League.

 A summation of the research by Harold Birkett & Jeanie Stein of the Audubon Sugar Institute on the Christmas freeze of 2022 and how it affected sugar production in Louisiana sugar mills. Birkett made the presentation at the winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists in Baton Rouge, La. 

Patrick Ellsworth reviews his research on row spacing and the use of plant-available water in sugarcane cultivation in water-abundant Louisiana at the winter meeting of the American Society of Sugarcane Technologists and American Sugar Cane League.

 Gillian Bruni of the USDA-ARS, SRRC in New Orleans presents the research done by her and Qi Yunci, Thomas Klasson, Isabel Lima and Evan Terrell at the winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists in Baton Rouge.