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Building named for Hurt

MBJ Staff — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:01:49 +0000

Mississippi State University recently named a building in honor of retired agricultural researcher and administrator Verner G. Hurt. The Verner G. Hurt Research and Extension Building contains more than 19,000 square feet of office and research space. During Hurt’s service of more than four decades to MSU, he served as director of the Mississippi Agricultural [...]

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MSU scientists recognized

MBJ Staff — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:01:31 +0000

Mississippi State University researchers and graduates received top awards this year from the Southern Weed Science Society. Dan Reynolds, a Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researcher and professor in MSU’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, was named the 2012 weed scientist of the year by the society, the highest honor awarded. Jason Bond, [...]

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MSU scientists earn honors

MBJ Staff — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 06:00:38 +0000

Three Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station faculty members were recently recognized for their significant contributions to their fields. Peter Ryan, Mark Woodrey and Ramon Arancibia were honored at the MAFES and Mississippi State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences annual spring meeting. Ryan, MSU associate provost and animal and dairy sciences professor, received [...]

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Growing demand

Wally Northway — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:03:03 +0000

Mississippi Foundation Seed Stocks still ginning 50 years later While the public planting seed market is well down from its peak in the 1980s, there is still a demand. And as it has for a half-century now, the Mississippi Foundation Seed Stocks, a unit of Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station [...]

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