2024 Preliminary Rice Variety Trial Results
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2025 MSU Short List of Suggested Corn Hybrids
This publication lists those corn hybrids which have demonstrated superior performance in the Mississippi Corn for Grain Hybrid Trials. No other source tests as many hybrids representing today’s choices in the market. Thus, this is a great starting point and barometer for you to judge performance and select the best corn hybrids for your farm.
2024 Yield Results from the MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program
Mississippi State goes to great lengths to evaluate corn hybrid performance. These Corn Hybrid Demonstration trials are grown in numerous on-farm locations throughout the state where you can better analyze hybrid performance of our region’s most elite hybrids. Preliminary grain yield results from this year’s trials are published here.
Row Crop Short Course Program 2024
Registration All means are provided free of charge if you preregister by November 25th. Registration after November 25th, including at the door, will be $40. Hotel Block Rooms in the hotel block must be booked by November 9th. Courtyard
Cover Crop Strategies in Mississippi (podcast)
Erick sat down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about cover crops. These have gained some prominence in areas around the state in recent years and warrant some discussion. Erick has done a lot of
How to Plant and Grow Wheat for High Yields
Wheat can be a relatively consistent and productive crop which offers opportunities and diversity for your cropping system. Thus, as fall begins to draw near, we address planting practices and key strategies needed to optimize profitability. For instance, unlike summer crops, early planting substantially increases risks for wheat grain production.
ESA and the Herbicide Strategy; Episode 2 (podcast)
In the second half of the episode that released September 24, Andy Whittington from the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation continues to outline the requirements for herbicide use set forth in the Herbicide Strategy that was recently released by the
Cover Crop Planting Methods and Seeding Rates
Cover crops can be successfully established using a variety of seeding methods depending upon your cropping and tillage system, cover crop species, and perhaps other factors. This publication offers guidelines to help ensure favorable results.
2024 MSU Short List of Suggested Wheat Varieties
This publication lists those wheat varieties which have demonstrated superior grain production in the Mississippi Wheat and Oat Variety Trials and summarizes their characteristics. This independent information should help you select better varieties which are suited for producing grain in different growing regions of Mississippi.
2024 Row Crop Short Course
Registration All means are provided free of charge if you preregister by November 25th. Registration after November 25th, including at the door, will be $40. Hotel Block Rooms in the hotel block must be booked by November 9th. Courtyard
Cover Crop Species Selection
Cover crop seed selection can be confusing due to the numerous choices available. Different species have traits which let them serve specific purposes. Various goals can be achieved if you realize there are three primary groups of cover crops and consider the resulting benefits and limitations. This will greatly improve your cover cropping outcome.
Tips and Tricks for Soil Sampling (podcast)
Corey Bryant and Vaughn Reed visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about soil sampling. Topics include sampling timing, frequency, grids or zones, etc. There are different philosophies on how to manage this important agronomic practice, but
Burning Stalks – What does it Really Cost?
Tight margins and high expenses tempt us to consider managing crop residue with fire, rather than tillage or other alternatives. However, fire will reduce recycling of organic matter and nutrients. Thus, burning produces several negative consequences that can definitely diminish profit.
Heliothine Trap Counts, September 6, 2024
Bollworm trap catches were up sharply in many counties this week compared to last week. This was the first week since mid-July that any county averaged more than bollworm 100 moths/trap. Tobacco budworm trap catches were also up somewhat this
Heliothine Trap Counts, August 29, 2024
Bollworm pheromone trap catches this week were comparable to last week, last year, and to the 10-year average. Many fields are now matured past their susceptible stages, so those late planted fields may see higher bollworm pressure than expected due
Heliothine Trap Counts, August 23, 2024
Bollworm moth counts in pheromone traps in most counties dropped a little this week and were lower than typical for this time of year.
2024 Mid-South Cotton Defoliation Guide
Mid-South Cotton Specialists Working Group provides this guide to aid in defoliation decision making. Multiple scenarios ranging from 1 pass to 2 pass programs along with considerations of both temperatures and environmental factors as a reference for applying harvest aids.
Bugcast with Cook and Towles (podcast)
Unless something goes wrong, this should be the last insect podcast on real-time issues for 2024. Don and Tyler talked about thresholds and treatment terminations for loopers, kudzu bugs, and red-banded stink bugs in soybeans and plant bugs, bollworms and
Heliothine Trap Counts, August 15, 2024
Bollworm moth trap catches were similar to the previous week and to long-term average catches in both the Delta and NE Mississippi regions. Tobacco budworm catches continue to be low.
What To Look At For Irrigation Termination (podcast)
Drew sat down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about irrigation termination with Jason and Tom. Podcasts with Drew often conjure up a rain across at least some areas of Mississippi. That’s unlikely this time,
Heliothine Moth Trap Counts August 9, 2024
Bollworm moth captures fell last week in the Delta region but increased in Northeast MS so that pressure was similar in all counties across the state. Tobacco budworm counts remained at a low level.
Southwestern Corn Borer Monitoring – Week ending 8/10/2024
We have seen our first large spike in Southwestern corn borer of the growing season in the central to northern portion of the state. Fortunately, timely planted corn should be nearing a stage where borers are not much of a
