Mississippi Crop Situation Podcast

Dalton Whitt and Jacob Dodd are Ph.D. students working at DREC in Stoneville.  They visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio to talk about the different types of work they’re doing trying to address the never-ending issues with Italian ryegrass and johnsongrass. Mississippi Crop Situation | Mississippi State University Extension Service

On this episode of the Crop Doctors’ Podcast, Jason, Tom, Justin Calhoun, and Jeremy Ross with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture discuss a puzzling phenomenon reported in soybean fields across the region. Some fields looked healthy through the mid-reproductive stages, yet harvest results have been disappointing, with blank pods and lower-than-expected yields. The Crop Doctors explore what growers are seeing in the field, possible factors contributing to poor pod fill and yield loss, and what producers can learn from this season’s challenges as they plan for future soybean crops.  

Italian ryegrass is a costly and difficult-to-manage weed in Mississippi row crops, making fall burndown an important part of a weed management program. In this episode of the Crop Doctors’ Podcast, Jason and Tom discuss strategies for targeting Italian ryegrass with fall herbicide treatments, including application timing, herbicide selection, and factors that can influence control.

In this episode of the Crop Doctors' Podcast, Bobby Golden discusses managing soil fertility in the grain-based cropping system that predominates across the Mississippi Delta. Bobby covers how producers can think about nutrient management across corn, soybean, and other crops in the rotation, with particular attention to potassium (K) and sulfur (S). He also discusses considerations for maintaining soil fertility and making nutrient management decisions that support soybean production and the overall productivity of the system.   Mississippi Crop Situation | Mississippi State University Extension Service

[REPEATD SCHEDULING DELAYS DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.] On this episode of the Crop Doctors’ Podcast, Wayne Dulaney shares the remarkable story of his family’s century-long journey in Coahoma County. The Dulaneys arrived in the early 20th century as timber cutters, but as the Delta landscape and agricultural economy changed, so did the family’s place in it. Wayne traces that evolution from the family’s early days in timber through generations of farming and, ultimately, their emergence as a leading source of registered soybean seed by the close of the 20th century.  Along the way, he offers a firsthand look at the people, places, challenges and agricultural changes that shaped his family and the Mississippi Delta.