Mississippi row crop growers are planning to plant more soybeans and corn in 2021 than they did last year but not as much cotton, rice or hay.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,...
Researchers from the Mississippi State University Extension Service are looking to collect row-crop farmers’ feedback on stress related to farming.
The focus group sessions are part of the MSU Extension opioid prevention campaign PReventing Opioid Misuse In the SouthEast, or...
• By Trent Irby •
Many consider variety selection as one of the most important management decisions of the season. With lots of excellent soybean varieties to choose from, this decision can sometimes be time consuming.
Remember, factors such as soil...
• By Trent Irby and Tom Allen •
When previously posted, two locations from this year’s program had yet to be harvested. Since that time, harvest has been completed and the link below has been updated to reflect the addition...
Soybean growers in the Mississippi Delta are hustling to beat Hurricane Delta.
Row crop producers across the state are joining in the scramble to harvest as many of their crops as possible before the storm’s expected heavy rains batter their...
• By Trent Irby and Drew Gholson •
While some acres have finished and combines have started moving across fields, other acres that were planted later are still progressing through late reproductive growth stages.
With that said, a lot of our...
The Mississippi State University Extension Service is offering another year of free testing for often overlooked nematode pests that frequently cause poor crop performance.
Soil-dwelling root-knot, reniform and soybean cyst nematodes are the most damaging nematode pests of Mississippi soybeans....
Cotton and corn acreage in Mississippi are more than 30% below March projections, while growers of soybeans and peanuts planted much more than initially forecasted.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service released a report at the end...
A sharper focus on the economic impact of the lower Delta backwater flood of 2019 helps predict the implications of continued flooding this year.
Mississippi State University Extension Service researchers compiled data on the overlooked costs of the backwater flood...
The beginning of May brought a welcome sight for Mississippi producers: sunny skies and drying fields.
For the second straight year, precipitation levels well above normal in the winter and early spring have slowed planting significantly across much of Mississippi....
• By Jeff Gore, Angus Catchot, Don Cook and Whitney Crow•
The 2019 season was one of the most challenging years we have had from a bollworm standpoint in both cotton and soybeans. The issue was not from a numbers...
• By Angus Catchot, Don Cook, Whitney Crow and Jeff Gore •
This year has been unusual to say the least with the COVID-19 outbreak. During this time, worker availability has become our limiting factor. It has ultimately limited our...
Weather always plays a role in the spring planting decisions of Mississippi row-crop producers, but the market impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is another variable they will have to consider in 2020.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Prospective Plantings...
About 200 farmers, consultants and other agriculture industry professionals attended the 64th annual Tri-State Soybean Forum on Jan. 3, taking stock of both the good and bad in soybean production in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
The forum, held this year...
The process of planting this year’s soybean crop in Mississippi has been anything but normal.
The only consistent variable has been rain and a lot of it — from an unusually wet winter and spring to the stormwater the state...
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