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Agriculture remains king of state’s economy

Lynn Lofton — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:03:00 +0000

Agriculture remains the number one industry in Mississippi with one out of every four residents employed directly or indirectly in that industry. In terms of the state’s best cash crop economically, the production of chickens and eggs is our number one commodity, with soybeans at number two and forestry at number three. “Our economy is [...]

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Board soliciting research ideas from state’s farmers

MBJ Staff — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:32:11 +0000

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 [...]

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Warm weather allows early planting of soybean crop

MBJ Staff — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:45:41 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Soybeans are usually an early-planted crop, but an unseasonably warm March gave some growers a chance to get in the fields a little ahead of the typical April 1 start date.Trent Irby, Mississippi State University Extension Service state soybean specialist, said the crop was on track at the end of April. “Many [...]

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Ag commodities groups identify priorites for research, education

MBJ Staff — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:50:25 +0000

ABERDEEN — Advocates for agriculture met recently at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona to identify priorities for research and Extension Service education programs at Mississippi State University. Scientists from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, specialists with the MSU Extension Service and almost 250 members of the North Mississippi Producer [...]

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For Mississippi farmers … Cost uncertainties temper cheers for prospect of higher crop prices

Ted Carter — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:23 +0000

A pair of Mississippi agriculture economists say 2012 crop winners should be soybeans, corn and — to a lesser degree — cotton. But don’t expect farmers are sleeping all that well as March arrives and planting choices must be made, said John Michael Riley, an agriculture economist with the Agricultural Extension Service at Mississippi State [...]

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Even with record year, farmers are still hurting

Wally Northway — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:00:41 +0000

Despite a challenging year of bad weather and a faltering economy, Mississippi agriculture set a new value record year in 2011, according to a report form the Mississippi State University Extension Service. However, spiraling input costs as well as financial woes at home and abroad and an angry Mother Nature put a squeeze on farmers’ [...]

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Irby to assist growers

MBJ Staff — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:40:30 +0000

Mississippi State University’s Extension Service has selected Trent Irby as the new soybean specialist to assist the state’s soybean growers. He began work in January. Irby, a Mississippi native, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at MSU in 2005 and 2009, respectively, and is finishing his doctorate. He served as a student representative to the [...]

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West inducted into Hall

MBJ Staff — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:11:56 +0000

Fifty-one years after graduating from Mississippi State University, Coyt “Bud” West returned to his alma mater to be honored by the industry he served. On Nov. 17, West’s colleagues, friends, family, and MSU faculty and administration gathered at the university’s poultry science building to honor West as he was inducted into the Mississippi Poultry Association’s [...]

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Board funds soybean rust detection study

For the MBJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:04:49 +0000

STARKVILLE — Farmers have battled the yield-robbing soybean cyst nematode (SCN) for decades, but they may soon have the tools to detect a SCN infestation faster than ever. Vincent Klink, Ph.D., with the Mississippi State University Department of Biological Sciences has been funded by the Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board to research new methods to provide [...]

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Soybean farmers fighting wind, rain, weeds

For the MBJ — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:48:42 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi soybean farmers have started planting in spite of unpredictable spring weather that has brought strong wind and heavy rains to some areas while leaving other regions dry. About 10 percent to 20 percent of the soybean crop is planted. “We are a little behind where we would like to be normally [...]

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