Combination seed treatments help reduce damage and increase yields, but you must plan ahead.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
As the number of row rice acres increases, so does the potential for infestations and damage by billbugs — inch-long weevils that...
Combination seed treatments may kill two weevils with one blow.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
A weevil that prefers drier ground and typically frequents rice levees has begun damaging furrow-irrigated rice, thanks in part to a lack of permanent flood...
Billbugs, once an occasional pest of rice that cannot survive in standing water, are increasing pressure as row-rice acreage grows.
Billbugs are weevils whose larvae bore into the side of rice tillers, or stems, and deprive developing grain heads of...
