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The Mississippi Crop Situation podcast is provided by Mississippi State University Extension Service specialists responsible for agricultural row crops. Our goal is to provide Mississippi agricultural producers, consultants, farmers, and industry with up-to-date, timely, science-based information you can use to help maintain profitability.
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Trent dropped by the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to visit with Jason and Tom about the beginnings of soybean planting across Mississippi. So far so good for the acres that are in. They discuss the 2023 weather patterns, differences from years past, reasons for optimism and concern in 2023.
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Boyd Padgett and Trey Price with the LSU AgCenter call into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss head scab of wheat. Head scab annually carries potential as the most yield limiting disease of wheat in the South. Boyd and Trey visit with Tom and Jason on evaluating varieties for disease resistance, conditions that favor disease, and tactics that help manage head scab in wheat in the South.
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Brian visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast Studio in Stoneville to talk cotton. Acreage forecasts have dipped due to recent price reduction. Following a discussion on acreage guesses for 2023, Brian, Jason, and Tom discuss the commercialization of the ThryvOn trait and how it should be utilized. The discussion wraps up with nematode management.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Dr. Mark McConnell, quail biologist with the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss opportunities with conservation programs in the U.S. Farm Bill. Mark works with precision ag data to increase field revenue by identifying low yielding areas where a Farm Bill conservation payment exceeds revenue from production. He and his group have developed software that helps inform this decision and are currently working to provide technical assistance to farmers across MS.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Erick calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss the early planting for corn that has taken place over the last couple of weeks. Erick, Jason, and Tom discuss 2023 corn acres, temperature and moisture effects on planting and emergence, and management that may need to be adjusted on early acres. They end up with a brief discussion nitrogen fertilizer in wheat.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Craig Hankins from the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation visits with Tom and Jason in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville as a Platinum sponsor of the 2022 Row Crop Short Course.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Jason and Tom have a one-on-one conversation related to controlling Italian ryegrass with postemergence burndown treatments. They discuss the contrasting weather in 2021-22 and 2022-23 and its effects on Italian ryegrass growth stages, the positives and negatives of clethodim- and paraquat-based treatments in the spring, and best treatments for major row crops in Mississippi.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Mississippi State Extension Turfgrass Specialist Jay McCurdy calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast Studio in Stoneville to discuss turfgrass management. Jay, Jason, and Tom discuss differences in the common turfgrass species utilized in Mississippi, spring weed control and fertilizer applications, and wrap up the conversation with techniques for soil sampling turfgrass. Follow Jay on Twitter @MSTurfgrass
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Drew Gholson and Jason Krutz sat down with Jason and Tom at the Mississippi Row Crop Short Course in Starkville during December to discuss their roles with water and water research with Mississippi State. Drew is the Director of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research as part of the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville. Jason heads up the Water Resources Research Institute on the campus of Mississippi State in Starkville.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Brian Arnall from Oklahoma State University and Trent Roberts from the University of Arkansas sat down with Tom and Jason at the Row Crop Short Course in Starkville during December to discuss things to think about with early-season soil fertility. Most of the conversation focuses on starter/early-season treatments, but they also discuss soil testing, crop needs, etc. Check out Brian’s Red Dirt Agronomy podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/red-dirt-agronomy-podcast/id1610609727 and the University of Arkansas Potash Rate Calculator, which can be downloaded at https://agribusiness.uark.edu/decision-support-software.php##PRC