by MBJ Staff Published: August 15,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodity, crop, education, farm, farmer, farming, growing season, harvest, higher education, rice, rice crop, university, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The bright spot for Mississippi’s smaller-than-normal rice crop is that it is looking good at harvest, thanks to an early start and a favorable growing season. Nathan Buehring, rice specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said most of the state’s rice was planted by mid-April, putting it about two weeks [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 12,2012
Tags: beetle, forestry, forrest, harvest, home, homebuilding, house, housing, lumber, market, pest, price, tax, tax-free sales, thinning, timber, tree, wood, woodland
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Landowners debating the timing for their next timber sale should send trees to the market sooner, rather than later. James Henderson, assistant forestry professor with Mississippi State University’s Extension Service, said increases in housing starts are contributing to gradual timber price improvements, but better reasons to harvest could be related to insects [...] [...]
GULF OF MEXICO — Mississippi’s brown shrimp season opened May 30, one of the earliest openings on record, when sampling confirmed shrimp had reached a size of 68 count per pound, the state requirement. Mississippi Department of Marine Resources biologist Bill Richardson tells The Sun Herald the first two weeks of the season brought in [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Mississippi, there were 5.9 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Nov. 14. That might have been more time than farmers needed as the row crop harvest is complete, AgFax.com reports. Most areas across the state received rainfall toward the end of the [...] [...]
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — The recent dry and hot weather has put some north Mississippi farmers ahead of schedule for harvesting. At this time last year, excessive rains had left many farmers to work in the mud and some to abandon their crops in the field, experts say. “Last year at this time we had zero [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — This year is shaping up to be a sweet one for Mississippi sweet potato growers, a total change from the rains that destroyed 75 percent of last year’s crop at harvest. Benny Graves, sweet potato specialist with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce’s Bureau of Plant Industry, said, “We have extremely [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Early planting and higher-than-average temperatures have led to Mississippi’s earliest rice crop harvest to date. Optimal planting for rice is before May 1, and favorable conditions allowed most of the state’s crop to make it in by that date. Then, hot summer temperatures accelerated the crop’s maturation process, allowing more than half [...] [...]
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