Mississippi Business Journal » fire ant http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 State’s hay producers see increased yield http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/29/states-hay-producers-see-increased-yield/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=states-hay-producers-see-increased-yield http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/29/states-hay-producers-see-increased-yield/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:52:46 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64534 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s hay producers increased acreage and yields this season in spite of variable rainfall across the state. “Hay production systems in the central part of the state had a really good season,” said Rocky Lemus, Mississippi State University Extension Service forage specialist. “We’ve been blessed with quite a bit of rain in [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/29/states-hay-producers-see-increased-yield/feed/ 0 MDAC checking hay headed to Midwest for fire ants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/11/mdac-checking-hay-headed-to-midwest-for-fire-ants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mdac-checking-hay-headed-to-midwest-for-fire-ants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/11/mdac-checking-hay-headed-to-midwest-for-fire-ants/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:02:04 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=62515 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce’s (MDAC) Bureau of Plant Industry is providing assistance to Mississippi hay producers that are transporting baled hay into areas that do not have established populations of fire ants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a fire ant quarantine in place that restricts the movement [...]

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