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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 Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, MS, Jason and Tom have their annual conversation about fall burndown targeting Italian ryegrass. This conversation is unique because about half of it relates to johnsongrass. Those two weed species are very different, but both hold solid places in the list of most problematic weeds of row crops in Mississippi.
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Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Repeat guest Chris Bennett with Farm Journal visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to relate some tales of crime in agriculture. Tilapia, quail, worms, Jerusalem artichokes, even farmland…nothing is safe from schemers looking to make a dollar.
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Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Erick sat down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about cover crops. hese have gained some prominence in areas around the state in recent years and warrant some discussion. Erick has done a lot of work with different areas of cover crop production in the last few years. In this episode, he offers comments on cover crop categories, varieties, planting dates, benefits, and pitfalls.
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
In the second half of the episode that released September 24, Andy Whittington from the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation continues to outline the requirements for herbicide use set forth in the Herbicide Strategy that was recently released by the Us Environmental Protection Agency.
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Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Andy Whittington from the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss what is being called the final Herbicide Strategy related to the Endangered Species Act and new registrations and re-registrations for herbicides. The episode got lengthy so we will split this over two episodes. Look for the follow up content on September 25. In the first episode, Andy recaps the Endangered Species Act and then begins to unpack how the Herbicide Strategy can be effectively navigated by Mississippi farmers.
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Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Bobby Golden visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to continue the conversation he started with Jason and Tom a few weeks ago on fertilizer decision making. Bobby, Jason, and Tom cover a range of topics with the focus on making fertilizer decisions considering crop removal, crop rotation strategies, and affordability of fertilizer.
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Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Corey Bryant and Vaughn Reed visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about soil sampling. Topics include sampling timing, frequency, grids or zones, etc. There are different philosophies on how to manage this important agronomic practice, but it is an essential part of crop production.
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Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
Brian sat down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio before a meeting he was doing in Stoneville to talk about cotton defoliation. We recorded this conversation in late August, but the weather has stayed pretty constant unless it rains Labor Day weekend. Find out more about cotton defoliation at https://www.mississippi-crops.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/W376_2024_Defol.pdf
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Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
The Executive Director of Delta Wildlife, Ron Selby, visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio to talk about programs to assist their members in the Delta. Delta Wildlife offers a variety of services to their members. The podcast focused on their feral swine program and efforts to increase awareness of black bears in the Delta. Find out more at https://www.deltawildlife.org.
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Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Unless something goes sideways, this should be the last insect podcast on real-time issues for 2024. Don and Tyler talked about thresholds and treatment terminations for loopers, kudzu bugs, and red-banded stink bugs in soybeans and plant bugs, bollworms and mites in cotton.
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