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Questions for Your Crop Insurance Agent

Questions for Your Crop Insurance Agent Updated

🕔13:17, 14.Feb 2025

Crop insurance decisions are an essential part of a farm’s risk management strategy. Mississippi’s final sales closing date is February 28, 2025. Below are a few questions producers should consider asking their crop insurance agents as they make their decisions.

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2025 County Meetings

2025 County Meetings Updated

🕔16:35, 30.Jan 2025

Mississippi State University Extension  will be hosting several row crop county meetings in February. Agendas: Tunica, Grenada, Attala/Holmes, Humphreys, Monroe, Noxubee, Prentiss, Leflore, Hinds.  

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Cover Crop Termination and Preparation for Corn Planting

Cover Crop Termination and Preparation for Corn Planting Updated

🕔08:44, 24.Jan 2025

Cover crops can improve soil health and water quality and are being grown on more acres. However, their growth extends into the spring and may present challenges for primary crops, depending upon when you decide to terminate them with a burndown herbicide. We have been researching these dynamics so that we may implement strategies to realize benefits while minimize risk for corn production.

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Variety Response to Iron Chlorosis

Variety Response to Iron Chlorosis Updated

🕔13:30, 13.Jan 2025

2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Early Maturity Group IV 2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Late Maturity Group IV  2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Maturity Group V 2024 Enlist E3 Soybean Maturity Group IV and V     

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The Advantage of Pre-Harvest Marketing

The Advantage of Pre-Harvest Marketing Updated

🕔12:11, 8.Jan 2025

Due to the seasonality of crop prices, farmers often have opportunities to make profitable pre-harvest sales. Historical price patterns indicate that new crop pricing opportunities in the spring and summer are generally more favorable than harvest-time sales. As can be

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New MSU Extension Soybean Agronomist Justin Calhoun (podcast)

New MSU Extension Soybean Agronomist Justin Calhoun (podcast) Updated

🕔12:36, 17.Dec 2024

  Dr. Justin Calhoun visited with Jason and Tom during the MSU Row Crop Short Course in Starkville. MSU Extension Director Dr. Angus Catchot introduced Dr. Calhoun during Row Crop Short Course.  Dr. Calhoun will return to Mississippi where he

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Registration now open for Mississippi Master Irrigator

Registration now open for Mississippi Master Irrigator Updated

🕔08:45, 14.Dec 2024

Don’t miss the next Master Irrigator course! The online component of the 2025 Master Irrigator course continues until January 31, 2025. The in-person compenent will be Feb. 12-13, 2025 at the Capps Center at Delta Research and Extension Center in

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2024 Mississippi Cotton Official Small Plot Variety Trials

2024 Mississippi Cotton Official Small Plot Variety Trials Updated

🕔11:47, 6.Dec 2024

24 COTTON OVT BOOK

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2024: Response of Cotton Varieties to Inoculation with Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum, the Causal Organism of Bacterial Blight

2024: Response of Cotton Varieties to Inoculation with Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum, the Causal Organism of Bacterial Blight Updated

🕔18:17, 3.Dec 2024

Response of the cotton varieties (n=50) contained within the 2024 Official Variety Trial to bacterial blight following evaluations conducted on inoculated plots from Stoneville, MS are included in this blog post.

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2024 MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program Results

2024 MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program Results Updated

🕔21:46, 27.Nov 2024

Mississippi State goes to great lengths to evaluate, assess and analyze corn hybrid performance, so you have good information to make decisions which improve the profitability of your farm. These Hybrid Demonstration trials are grown in numerous on-farm locations throughout the state where you can better evaluate hybrid performance of our region’s most elite hybrids. Complete results, including yields and plant characteristics from this year’s trials are published here.

Read Full Article
Questions for Your Crop Insurance Agent

Questions for Your Crop Insurance Agent Updated

🕔13:17, 14.Feb 2025

Crop insurance decisions are an essential part of a farm’s risk management strategy. Mississippi’s final sales closing date is February 28, 2025. Below are a few questions producers should consider asking their crop insurance agents as they make their decisions.

Read Full Article
2025 County Meetings

2025 County Meetings Updated

🕔16:35, 30.Jan 2025

Mississippi State University Extension  will be hosting several row crop county meetings in February. Agendas: Tunica, Grenada, Attala/Holmes, Humphreys, Monroe, Noxubee, Prentiss, Leflore, Hinds.  

Read Full Article
Cover Crop Termination and Preparation for Corn Planting

Cover Crop Termination and Preparation for Corn Planting Updated

🕔08:44, 24.Jan 2025

Cover crops can improve soil health and water quality and are being grown on more acres. However, their growth extends into the spring and may present challenges for primary crops, depending upon when you decide to terminate them with a burndown herbicide. We have been researching these dynamics so that we may implement strategies to realize benefits while minimize risk for corn production.

Read Full Article
Variety Response to Iron Chlorosis

Variety Response to Iron Chlorosis Updated

🕔13:30, 13.Jan 2025

2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Early Maturity Group IV 2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Late Maturity Group IV  2024 RR2X and XF Soybean Maturity Group V 2024 Enlist E3 Soybean Maturity Group IV and V     

Read Full Article
The Advantage of Pre-Harvest Marketing

The Advantage of Pre-Harvest Marketing Updated

🕔12:11, 8.Jan 2025

Due to the seasonality of crop prices, farmers often have opportunities to make profitable pre-harvest sales. Historical price patterns indicate that new crop pricing opportunities in the spring and summer are generally more favorable than harvest-time sales. As can be

Read Full Article
New MSU Extension Soybean Agronomist Justin Calhoun (podcast)

New MSU Extension Soybean Agronomist Justin Calhoun (podcast) Updated

🕔12:36, 17.Dec 2024

  Dr. Justin Calhoun visited with Jason and Tom during the MSU Row Crop Short Course in Starkville. MSU Extension Director Dr. Angus Catchot introduced Dr. Calhoun during Row Crop Short Course.  Dr. Calhoun will return to Mississippi where he

Read Full Article
Registration now open for Mississippi Master Irrigator

Registration now open for Mississippi Master Irrigator Updated

🕔08:45, 14.Dec 2024

Don’t miss the next Master Irrigator course! The online component of the 2025 Master Irrigator course continues until January 31, 2025. The in-person compenent will be Feb. 12-13, 2025 at the Capps Center at Delta Research and Extension Center in

Read Full Article
2024 Mississippi Cotton Official Small Plot Variety Trials

2024 Mississippi Cotton Official Small Plot Variety Trials Updated

🕔11:47, 6.Dec 2024

24 COTTON OVT BOOK

Read Full Article
2024: Response of Cotton Varieties to Inoculation with Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum, the Causal Organism of Bacterial Blight

2024: Response of Cotton Varieties to Inoculation with Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum, the Causal Organism of Bacterial Blight Updated

🕔18:17, 3.Dec 2024

Response of the cotton varieties (n=50) contained within the 2024 Official Variety Trial to bacterial blight following evaluations conducted on inoculated plots from Stoneville, MS are included in this blog post.

Read Full Article
2024 MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program Results

2024 MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program Results Updated

🕔21:46, 27.Nov 2024

Mississippi State goes to great lengths to evaluate, assess and analyze corn hybrid performance, so you have good information to make decisions which improve the profitability of your farm. These Hybrid Demonstration trials are grown in numerous on-farm locations throughout the state where you can better evaluate hybrid performance of our region’s most elite hybrids. Complete results, including yields and plant characteristics from this year’s trials are published here.

Read Full Article

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