Mississippi Crop Situation Podcast
Summary: 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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Podcasts:
Brian Mills and Corey Bryant visit the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about the fluid situation that is the current state of commodity and fertilizer pricing. Topics covered include acreage projections, the influence of fertilizer prices on acreage, and ways to manage fertilizer inputs in 2022.
Trey Price from the LSU AgCenter calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about late-season wheat diseases. Trey, Tom, and Jason talk about stripe rust and scab and management strategies for those diseases in wheat in the Midsouth.
From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Jason and Tom dive into the status of preplant burndown. They talk about salvage treatments for Italian ryegrass, why it seems a lot of henbit just won’t die this year, and wrap up touching on managing early emergence of Palmer amaranth.
Chris Bennett visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville for an episode of the Why Ag? series. Chris describes his route from a childhood bouncing back and forth between Phillips County, Arkansas, and Amman, Jordan as a young boy to a career writing about the interesting, if not sometimes kooky, stories that are found across the agricultural industry.
Long-time podcast listener Hank Jones was in Stoneville for a consultants’ meeting. He visited Tom and Jason in the Crop Doctor’s Podcast studio to talk about managing in 2022 with the increasing prices for inputs. Topics include modifying budgets, adjusting programs, utilizing integrated pest management, and surviving the current storm.
In this installment, Dr. Erick Larson and Mr. Nolan Stapleton discuss potential injury from cold and freezing temperature on corn that has already been planted. They also offer suggestions for corn planting that will take place in the future.
Whitney, Don, Tom, and Jason sit down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast Studio to discuss the nuts and bolts of the pest management guidelines that are annual Extension publications. They touch on where the information originates, thresholds, changing ratings, resistance, etc.
Daniel Stephenson from the LSU AgCenter calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville while on a cross country drive with his family. The cell service was shaky at times so humor some on the sound. But as always, Daniel offered really good insights on where we are with burndown. Daniel, Jason, and Tom talk more about supply challenges with common burndown herbicides and how folks are working around those in the past few weeks.
Don, Jason, and Tom sit down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss supply and pricing of farm inputs for the 2022 crop. They shotgun a range of topics from what herbicides are in short supply to the importance of thresholds and scouting for insects and diseases to tweaking management plans to navigate the current environment.
Erick Larson calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio to talk with Jason and Tom about all things wheat fertility. Some topics include sources, rates, and timings for fertilization of winter wheat in Mississippi. Erick also addresses the goose issue.
From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Tom, Jason, and Don discuss managing insects in stored grains. Topics include types of insect pests, treatment options, scouting schedule, etc. Other topics include Tom’s favorite podcasts from the last year and Don’s preference of pets.
Travis Faske with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville again to talk nematodes. For this episode, Travis discusses nematode management with Tom and Jason. Topics include in-furrow and seed-applied nematicides, host plant resistance, and optimal crop rotation scheduling for suppressing nematode populations in the Midsouth.
Derek Rapp with Koch Agronomic Services calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville as a Platinum sponsor of the 2021 Row Crop Short Course.
Tom Eubank with Phytogen visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville as a Platinum sponsor of the 2021 Row Crop Short Course.
Trey Cutts from Yara calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to visit with Tom and Jason as a Platinum sponsor of the 2021 Row Crop Short Course.
