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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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Brian Pieralisi visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville last week to discuss the Mississippi cotton crop. Favorable weather has come in short stints, but it has allowed a good deal of Mississippi’s cotton acres to be planted recently. Brian, Jason, and Tom discuss some new traits, herbicide availability, nematodes and other early-season issues.
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Never Too Late to Talk About Ryegrass -- Crossover with Weeds AR Wild Podcast
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Jason did a recent episode of the Weeds AR Wild Podcast with Bob Scott from the University of Arkansas Systems Division of Agriculture and Tyler Hydrick, a crop consultant from Jonesboro, AR. They discuss ryegrass management, focusing on herbicide treatments, but also on some cultural practices too. The episode is really not crop specific, but it does contain some information tailored to rice.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Fighting the Weather to Get a Corn Crop Planted
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Erick Larson called into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk with Jason and Tom about the progress of corn planting across Mississippi. Some corn acres were planted in February, and some have yet to be planted. Problems encountered have included flooding in fields impacting corn before and after emergence, poor stands, and erosion of raised beds affecting nodal root development.
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
New Information on Agricultural Autonomy
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Madison Dixon from the Mississippi State University Agricultural Autonomy Institute visited the Crop Doctor’s Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk with Tom and Jason about updated regulations for commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in Mississippi. More information on the Agricultural Autonomy Institute can be found at https://www.aai.msstate.edu.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Rice Is Up for 2024 Across the Midsouth
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Jarrod Hardke from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture called into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk with Jason and Tom about rice in the upper Midsouth. Topics include planting progress, effects of weather, herbicide drift, and grass management when the wind dries fields out.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Southern Root-knot Nematode as a Pest of Soybean
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Travis Faske with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture called into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss his work on root-knot nematodes in soybean. More information on his work evaluating soybean varieties for host plant resistance can be accessed at https://arkansascrops.uada.edu/posts/disease/2023-soybean-varities-rootknot-nematode.aspx
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Johnsongrass Moves Back Up As a Problem in Midsouth
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Daniel Stephenson with the LSU AgCenter is the authority on johnsongrass management in row crops in the Midsouth. Daniel called into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to share with Tom and Jason tips for controlling johnsongrass in row crops in the Midsouth.
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
New DREC Ag Economist Steve Martin
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
DREC has a “new” Ag Economist. Dr. Steve Martin served previously as an economist and as the station head at Stoneville before holding a variety of positions with Mississippi State University, including most recently the interim Director of Extension. Steve visited the Crop Doctors’ podcast studio to talk with Jason and Tom about the projects and programs he plans to work on now that he has permanently moved back to the Delta.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Spring Preparation for Irrigation
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Dave Spencer from the MSU Water Resources Research Institute in Starkville, along with Drew Gholson, visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk with Jason and Tom about preparing for irrigation for 2024. Even though it’s early April, several tasks can be performed to ensure that when it gets hot and dry in the coming months, irrigation systems are ready to deliver the water essential to optimize crop yields in Mississippi.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Prickly Sida, Yellowcress, and Virginia Pepperweed
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Frank Carey with Valent USA and Tom Eubank with Nutrien Ag Solutions visit the Crops Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville for a deep dive on weed shifts in Mississippi over the last few years. Frank, Tom, Jason, and Tom Allen discuss selection pressure, evolution of herbicide programs, cycles in management, etc. that have caused these weed species to become priorities over the last five years. Please pardon the airplane noise during parts of the podcast.