Mississippi agricultural producers and landowners who are interested in carbon sequestration can test their soil’s carbon content through the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
The Extension Soil Testing Laboratory recently added tests that quantify amounts of organic matter and detect...
• By Audrey Gamble •
albamaFertilizer being transferred to a spreader truck — photo by Josh Thompson, UFL-IFASWith cotton planting dates varying widely across the state, time for sidedress fertilizer may or may not be fast-approaching. Regardless of planting date,...
Cover crops can be an important part of integrated management of weeds in field crops
The over-reliance on one form of weed control has resulted in the selection of weeds resistant to herbicides. Glyphosate, a non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide, has been...
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• By Larry Oldham •
Flooding is challenging Mississippi families, homes and farms again, hence, this should be a review for many readers. The first Mississippi Crop Situation post about flooded soils was published in May 2011.
There is...
• By Larry Steckel, Clay Perkins and Delaney Foster •
Judging from research tests and walking a few farmers’ fields, many of the preemergence-applied herbicides in soybeans and cotton played out about a week or so ago. Timing is everything...
• By Steve M. Brown •
Cool, wet spring weather caused planting delays and even some chilling injury to cotton seedlings — photo courtesy Alabama Cooperative ExtensionAlabama cotton producers find themselves scrambling to complete planting of the 2021 crop. Cool,...
In 2020 we began seeing several cases where summer grass weeds like goosegrass and junglerice were poorly controlled by postemergence treatments in many Xtend crops. This led to a regional project partially funded by the Alabama Soybean Producers to...
When the most common sign is yield loss, it makes it difficult to put a finger on the cause. In a field of cotton or corn, the culprit is likely underground pests: nematodes.
Kathy Lawrence, a professor and researcher in...
• By Clay Perkins, Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster •
This picture (Picture 1) was taken just four days after a dicamba + glyphosate + clethodim application on 3-inch Palmer amaranth. Judging from some experience with this Palmer population, the...
Preventing Plastic From Entering The Supply Chain Is Key To Reducing Contamination
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
Despite continued industry efforts to curb the growing problem of plastic contamination in cotton, 2020 saw a higher percentage of classing office plastic...
• By Steve M. Brown •
Replanting Cotton
Ugh! Replanting brings:
• The FRUSTRATION of re-doing a job that's already been done.
• Added EXPENSE for seed, labor, equipment, fuel, etc.
• DELAYS in stand establishment and the overall crop calendar...and the sinking suspicion...
A new online resource is helping agricultural producers find technologies to improve water conservation on irrigated land.
The Mississippi State University Extension Service is among four land-grant universities collaborating on the webpage, which is available at https://surfaceirrigation.extension.msstate.edu. The page hosts...
Each year, American farmers raise billions of chickens, more than enough for a “chicken for every pot,” as Herbert Hoover’s campaign once promised.
But all those birds mean a lot of something else: manure. Poultry litter is the mix of...
Excessive rainfall in parts of Oklahoma may have caused fertilizer to leech from some producers’ crops, underscoring the need to get out into the field and evaluate plant needs, an Oklahoma State University Extension specialist said.
“Adding to the issue...
A new, secondary market for farmers is on the rise as a carbon commodity market gains traction in the Midwest. In addition to marketing cash crops, producers may have an opportunity to sell carbon stored in the soil on...
