Green Foxtail

Green Foxtail Updated

🕔17:02, 28.Oct 2025

Green Foxtail Weed Flora of Mississippi Family: Poaceae Genus: Setaria         Species:   viridis History: Native to Eurasia. It has many common names, including green foxtail, green bristlegrass, pigeon grass, and wild foxtail millet. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Setaria

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2026 Suggested Soybean Varieties for Mississippi

2026 Suggested Soybean Varieties for Mississippi Updated

🕔15:18, 28.Oct 2025

After taking a year off, the soybean “short list” is back. Below are the 2026 Soybean Variety Suggestions developed through Mississippi State University variety testing programs. To build this list, we use harvest data from both the MSU Official Variety

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2025 Soybean Variety Response to Iron Deficiency Chlorosis

2025 Soybean Variety Response to Iron Deficiency Chlorosis Updated

🕔10:00, 28.Oct 2025

With all the other things going on during the 2025 soybean season, we also received a lot of calls and questions about iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC). If you’re not familiar, IDC occurs in Mississippi mainly in the Black Belt region

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2026 MSU Short List of Suggested Corn Hybrids

2026 MSU Short List of Suggested Corn Hybrids Updated

🕔22:42, 24.Oct 2025

This publication lists those corn hybrids which have demonstrated superior performance in the Mississippi Corn for Grain Hybrid Trials. No other source tests as many hybrids representing today’s choices in the market. Thus, this is a great starting point and barometer for you to judge performance and select the best corn hybrids for your farm.

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2025 Row Crop Short Course Preliminary Program

2025 Row Crop Short Course Preliminary Program Updated

🕔13:45, 24.Oct 2025

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Dallisgrass

Dallisgrass Updated

🕔09:52, 22.Oct 2025

Dallisgrass Weed Flora of Mississippi Family: Poaceae Genus: Paspalum         Species:   dilatatum   History: Native to Brazil and Argentina, but it is known throughout the world as an introduced species. It is present in the southern half of North America, southern

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Yellow Foxtail

Yellow Foxtail Updated

🕔09:39, 22.Oct 2025

Yellow Foxtail Weed Flora of Mississippi Family: Poaceae Genus: Setaria         Species:   pumila   History: Native to Europe. It has many common names, including yellow foxtail, yellow bristle-grass, pigeon grass, and cattail grass. Life Cycle: Summer annual Special Characteristics: It grows

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Podcast: October Means Fall Burndown

Podcast: October Means Fall Burndown Updated

🕔12:05, 14.Oct 2025

From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Jason and Tom talk all things fall burndown for Italian ryegrass.  Every October, the discussions are similar but the years always offer something a little different.  Topics include fall-applied residual herbicide timings, product selection,

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2025 Yield Results from the MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program

2025 Yield Results from the MSU Corn Hybrid Demonstration Program Updated

🕔11:09, 11.Oct 2025

Mississippi State goes to great lengths to evaluate corn hybrid performance. These Corn Hybrid Demonstration trials are grown in numerous on-farm locations throughout the state where you can better analyze hybrid performance of our region’s most elite hybrids. Preliminary grain yield results from this year’s trials are published here.

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