Two years removed from the worst disaster they had ever experienced in history, the state’s sweet potato growers are brimming with optimism. Perhaps more than a half-dozen farmers will put in a crop this year for the first time, and market prices are solid. Still, growers learned a lesson from 2009, when adverse weather wiped [...] [...]
Paula Threadgill, leader of Family and Consumer Sciences for the Mississippi State University Extension Service, has been named state leader of the Extension Service arm of Family and Consumer Sciences, or FCS. She had been filling the role on an interim basis since April 2010. She is also an Extension professor. Threadgill is overseeing the [...] [...]
Mississippi State University Extension Service specialist Rita W. Green is participating in a key U.S. Department of Agriculture policymaking board. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed Green, MSU family resource management area agent based in Grenada County, to the National Agricultural Research Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board. Green earned her bachelor’s degree from [...] [...]
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