Mississippi Crop Situation Podcast Mississippi State Extension

Darrin Dodds, Department Head for Mississippi State University’s Plant and Soil Sciences Department visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville for an episode in the Why Ag series.  Darrin describes his route from rural western Illinois to many years as the Mississippi cotton specialist to ultimately leading a large academic department at a major land-grant university. 

Agricultural engineer Wes Lowe visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss the precision agriculture tools Mississippi State University is involved in developing for growers in the state and region.  Wes, Tom, and Jason discuss a range of topics including how Wes evaluates potential new technologies and some of the tools he’s helping develop.  They spend quite a bit of time on precision weed control technology and tools Wes is working on to assist in irrigation. 

Brian visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to visit with Tom and Jason on the current state of the cotton crop in Mississippi.  Topics include the environmental influence on where the crop is currently, variety types, PGR management, nematode considerations, and Brian’s late-season recommendations. 

From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Brian, Whitney, Tom, and Jason discuss the current status of cotton insect management.  Topics include plant bugs, spider mites, cotton growth stages for insecticide termination, and concerns with insecticide product supply.

Connor Webster from the LSU AgCenter calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about this year’s weed control in rice.  Connor is a recent graduate of LSU and began his job as the rice weed scientist earlier this year.  Connor, Hunter, Tom, and Jason spend awhile talking about herbicide carryover in rice and touch on new cases of herbicide resistance affecting rice in Louisiana. 

Jay Mahaffey, manager of The Learning Center with Bayer in Scott, MS, visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville for another deep dive on managing plant growth regulators in cotton.  Jay, Don, Tom, and Jason talk about the differences in cotton variety responses to PGRs. This one has a little of everything from PGRs to disease management to cotton variety history to Don’s musical preferences.