2025

Corn Hybrid Yield Trials

• Brad Burgess Standardization of Mississippi Corn Hybrid Trials

Cover Crops

• Brett Rushing Cover crop, tillage and crop rotation effects on corn production in east-central Mississippi

Crop Protection

• Steve Martin, Mark McConnell, Jason Bond, Tyler Towles, Don Cook Estimation of Economic Costs and Implications of Potential Spray Buffer Requirements due to the Endangered Species Act Herbicide, Insecticide and Fungicide Label Requirements

Crop Protection (Diseases)

• Tom Allen Evaluation of the entries in the Mississippi Corn Official Hybrid Trial for susceptibility to economically important and potentially yield-limiting diseases

Crop Protection (Entomology)

• Don Cook, Tyler Towles, Whitney Crow Evaluation of Commercial Stink Bug Pheromones for Detecting Brown Stink Bug in Seedling Stage Field Corn
• Tyler Towles, Whitney Crow, Don Cook, Fred Musser, Erick Larson Southwestern Corn Borer Trapping Program

Extension & Research

• Erick Larson, Whitney Crow, Tom Allen, Drew Gholson, Dave Spencer Corn Verification Program
• Jeff Gore Delta Agricultural Weather Project
• Drew Gholson, Erick Larson, Dillon Russell, Nicolas Q. Ashwell, Tsz Him Lo, Corey Bryant, Dave Spencer Row-Crop Irrigation Science Extension and Research (RISER) Program

Extension Education

• Julie White FARMtastic: An Agricultural Literacy Program for Mississippi Youth

Extension Programming

• Dave Spencer, Drew Gholson, Erick Larson Providing Irrigation Vision, Optimization, and Training (PIVOT)

Irrigation

• Dave Spencer, Erick Larson, Brian Mills Beyond Cover Crops and No-Tillage: Profitable and Environmental Practices that fit the Predominant Production System
• Tsz Him Lo, Drew Gholson, Alex Deason, Nicolas Q. Ashwell, Mary Love Tagert, Erick Larson Wide-Skip Furrow Irrigation for Corn in Clay Soils: A Farmer-Led Revolution

Nutrient Management

• Vaughn Reed, Corey Bryant Delayed Timing for Spring Application of N in corn
• Vaughn Reed, Corey Bryant Tissue Sampling as a tool for nutrient management in Corn in Misssissippi

Planting Systems

• Erick Larson, Dave Spencer, Jason Bond, Brendan Zurweller, Will Maples Enhancing Compatibility of Cover Crops with Corn Production Systems

Precision Ag Technology

• Wes Lowe, Darrin Dodds, Luis Avila, Whitney Crow, Madison Dixon Evaluation of UAS Systems for Aerial Applications and Cover Crop Seeding
• Dave Spencer, Graham Oakley, Brian Mills Going LIVE (Large-plot Implementation Validation Experiment): Utilization of precision agricultural technology to optimize planting and fertility applications while improving corn productivity and profitability at the field scale

Weed Management

• Luis Avila Cover Crops for Italian Ryegrass Management in Corn