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Researchers touting ‘RISER’ system to Delta farmers

MBJ Staff — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:14:48 +0000

STONEVILLE — Mississippi State University experts have a new program to help Delta producers irrigate row crops more efficiently and economically. MSU Extension Service irrigation specialist Jason Krutz is leading a multi-faceted approach to water conservation, dubbed Row-crop Irrigation Science and Extension Research, or RISER. The researchers are working with producers to help reduce irrigation [...]

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Mississippi’s greatest outdoor show

John Woods — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:01:37 +0000

Even though we’re dead into the heat of another Mississippi summer, it is already time to start thinking about the fall, leaves changing, cooler weather, fishing without sweating, and finally, hunting seasons. Definitely this is my favorite time of year. Just around the corner on Aug. 3-5 at the Mississippi Trademart comes the biggest and [...]

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Landowners along river eligible for wetlands-conservation program

MBJ Staff — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:34:30 +0000

WEST MISSISSIPPI — Owners of land along the Mississippi River in Mississippi may be eligible for financial and technical assistance with increasing bottomland forest acreage and enhancing water quality under the Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program (WREP), part of the Wetlands Reserve Program. Eligible land is between the Mississippi River and the river’s primary levees. These [...]

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USDA, partners award $20M-plus for habitat restoration along river

MBJ Staff — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:58:00 +0000

WEST MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its partners report they will invest nearly $32 million this year in financial and technical assistance for five water quality and wetlands improvement projects in seven Mississippi River Basin states. When fully implemented, the projects will prevent sediment and nutrients [...]

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Corps: New National Wetland Plant List now available

MBJ Staff — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:22:31 +0000

VICKSBURG —The updated National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) is now available, reports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. The NWPL plays a critical role in wetland determinations under the Clean Water Act. Wetlands are evaluated using three parameters — soils, hydrology and vegetation. Using sampling protocols outlined in the Regional Supplements to the [...]

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Cochran questions returning unused CIAP funding

MBJ Staff — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:01:38 +0000

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is questioning the justification behind the Department of the Interior budget request to rescind $200 million in funding intended to pay for conservation projects in Mississippi and other Gulf Coast states. Cochran participated in a Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the FY2013 budget request [...]

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Panel to hear levee board’s appeal of Yazoo Pumps ruling

Associated Press — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:04:20 +0000

MISSISSIPPI DELTA — A Mississippi levee board is asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project that the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed in 2008, claiming it would harm wetlands and wildlife. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is scheduled to hear arguments [...]

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Burger gets post permanently

MBJ Staff — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:50:52 +0000

Loren “Wes” Burger Jr. has been named associate director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Forest and Wildlife Research Center at Mississippi State University. Burger has been the interim associate director of both units since January. Prior to this appointment, he served as associate director of the university’s Geosystems Research Institute.

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TVA reports 270 percent improvement in power savings

MBJ Staff — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:55:18 +0000

NORTH MISSISSIPPI — Energy efficiency initiatives by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and local power distributors reduced electric power consumption by 559 gigawatt-hours in fiscal year 2011 — a 270 percent improvement in power savings over last year — according to TVA. TVA’s energy efficiency programs have reduced the region’s electricity use by 765 gigawatt-hours [...]

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Fear of labels hurts the ‘green’ movement

Jeff Seabold — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:00:49 +0000

When I was young I had a fear of vegetables. In fact, I hated them — or at least I thought I did. My mother, being a good mother, would serve them to me every night only to have me slide the plate across the table or spread them out on the plate and say, [...]

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