STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is officially partnering with a South Korean entity, which has a complementary research mission with the university’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. MSU provost and executive vice president Jerry Gilbert signed a memorandum of understanding, along with Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) Incheon Region Division CEO Sang-Mok Lee. The [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 20,2012
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STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory is receiving funding to support an enhanced multi-state research program examining effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico. The award is among 19 grants out of 629 letters of intent announced recently by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Approximately $20 million will [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 18,2012
Tags: agriculture, association, board, commodity, development, farm, farmer, farming, research, row crop, soybeans
CANTON — The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board (MSPB) is encouraging soybean farmers from around the state to share the problems and issues they face in the field, either noticed for the first time this season or those faced year to year. MSPB plans to use the input to aid the selection of research projects funded [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 7,2012
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STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State University Extension Service recently gained national recognition for a program designed to protect the state’s timberlands from an insect pest. The Mississippi Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program received the 2012 Family Forests Education Award at the Society of American Foresters’ national convention, held in Spokane, Wash. The honor is given [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 5,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodity, development, education, farm, farmer, farming, field, higher education, moisture, plant, professor, report, research, researcher, rice, row crop, science, scientist, study, test, university, water
STONEVILLE — Ten years of research indicates that a water management strategy can save rice producers money on fuel and conserve water without hurting yields. Joe Massey, a scientist with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and professor in Mississippi State University’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, has focused his career on water [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 26,2012
Tags: agriculture, animal, bat, ecosystem, education, environment, Extension Service, farm, farmer, farming, fungus, higher education, insect, insecticide, mammal, mortality, pesticiade, public university, research, researcher, science, scientist, wildlife
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Bats, an organic method of pest control, may become rare in the United States and Canada. The primary predators of night-flying insects, bats reduce the need for chemical pesticides and save the agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year in pest-control costs. But bat populations across the Eastern United States are [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 5,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodity, computer, computing, crop, development, education, farm, farmer, farming, higher education, irrigate, irrigation, moisture, research, row crop, science, software, soil science, Soybean, technology, university, water
STONEVILLE — Mississippi State University scientists are evaluating a free software tool that can increase irrigation efficiency for the state’s soybean producers. MSU Extension Service irrigation specialist Jason Krutz, MSU Extension and research professor Tom Eubank, systems engineer Lyle Pringle and MSU Plant and Soil Sciences professor Joe Massey are field testing a computer program [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 26,2012
Tags: aerodefense, aerospace, development, fabrication, fabricte, global positioning system, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, module, propulsion, research, space, spacecraft, technoilogy
HANCOCK COUNTY — The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has delivered the first spacecraft’s propulsion core module to the company’s Denver, Col.-area GPS Processing Facility (GPF). According to the company, the milestone represents the program’s first major hardware delivery for GPS III Space Vehicle 1 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 24,2012
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MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Scientists at Mississippi State University have been working to find an inexpensive, attractive way to keep the sand on the 26 miles of manmade beach between Biloxi and Pass Christian, and Hurricane Isaac tested their experimental site. As the researchers expected, all of the vegetation at the site is still intact [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 24,2012
Tags: accidennt, analysis, beach, death, disaster, disaster recovery, ecosystem, education, energy, environment, fatality, gasoline, higher edication, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, report, research, tarball, tragedy, university, wildlife
GULF COAST — A new chemical analysis shows that virtually all the tar balls now washing on to the Alabama coast are directly linked to the BP oil spill more than two years ago. The report by Auburn University says that tar balls caused by the spill are hundreds to thousands of times more common [...] [...]
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