• By Trent Irby •
To say that this planting season has been full of challenges with respect to weather conditions would be an extreme understatement. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, Mississippi soybean planting as...
The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service have joined together to open a new research center focused on water management in the Mississippi Delta.
The Agricultural Water Research Center, housed on the...
Targeted, environmentally friendly approach enlists beneficial organism to control corn earworm in soybeans.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Monty Bohanan, who farms with his brother, Derek, near Stuttgart, Arkansas, likes to joke that the biological worm control they tried on soybeans in...
Sure to be a best-seller, Mississippi State University's "2019 Insect Control Guide for Agronomic Crops" is available for free download from https://bit.ly/2tahYVv.
The 129-page manual contains insect-related information on the gamut of Delta crops, ranging from soybeans to rice and cotton.
In...
The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board recently published a soybean irrigation guide to help growers improve their irrigation efficiency while at the same time boosting their profitability.
The irrigation guide is a partner publication to the board's disease and insect scouting guides.
The...
Before adopting RISER techniques on his farm, irrigating was the part of the growing season Clark Carter always dreaded.
“We would string out plastic pipe, punch holes in it every couple of feet, and hook it up, only to see...
Lonnie Fortner, a producer of cotton, corn, soybeans and peanuts in Claiborne County, will represent Mississippi in the 2018 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year contest.
As an early adopter of precision agriculture technology in southwest Mississippi, Fortner...
At about 2.2 million acres, soybeans are easily Mississippi’s biggest row crop with a flexible planting window that puts them in the clean-up position when farmers cannot plant other crops on time.
Trent Irby, soybean specialist with the Mississippi State...
By Angus Catchot, Jeff Gore and Don Cook —
In 2017, we were able to accurately predict the threat of redbanded stink bugs based on sampling ditch banks in the spring.
Every year we sample ditch banks across the state to...
Mid-South soybean producers are encouraged to continue scouting their fields closely for redbanded stink bugs, a pest that can do more severe damage and do it longer into the season than other stink bug species.
The warning came from entomologists...
If you plan to attend the Jan. 8 Tri-State Soybean Conference at Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, organizers ask that you RSVP by Jan. 6.
“We’re asking our producers to RSVP so we can get...
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