New Videos on MSPB YouTube Channel
The primary goal of the Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board (MSPB) is to increase the profitability of soybean production for Mississippi soybean farmers. The volunteer farmer-leaders that serve on MSPB invest your checkoff dollars in ongoing public research and extension programs that address your state’s production challenges. This research helps determine the best management practices to help make your farm more profitable and ensure the sustainability of Mississippi soybean production.
The following videos provide a summary of significant management practices and research projects that can help you be more successful in your soybean-growing operation. The highlighted practices are proven to contribute to higher yields in both research environments and producers’ fields.
Soil Sampling for Nematode Population - Dr. Tom Allen, Extension Plan Pathologist located at the Delta Research and Extension Center, discusses the importance of soil sampling in soybean fields to determine the presence of reniform, root knot and soybean cyst nematodes. Proper sampling is important to detect and measure the population levels of soil-borne pests so that management strategies can be adopted to prevent yield loss in Mississippi fields.
Bollworm Damage Threshold - Dr. Don Cook, Entomologist at the Delta Research and Extension Center, discusses research being conducted to determine when bollworm infestations in soybeans should be treated to prevent economic loss. Field cages shown in the video are used to contain known artificial infestations of the bollworm insect in developing soybeans so that yield loss from those infestations can be measured and used to relate to the known infestation level of the insect. The results from this research project will be used to validate and/or refine the treatment thresholds that appear in the Insect Control Guide for Agronomic Crops in Mississippi.
Determining Safe Spraying Times Through Temperature Inversion - Dr. Steve Thomson, agriculture engineer in the USDA-ARS Crop Production Systems Research Unit at Stoneville, MS, discusses research that he and colleagues are conducting to collect data that can be used to determine when “stable” atmospheric conditions that will result in a temperature inversion will occur. A temperature inversion is a weather occurrence that is frequently associated with calm wind that will greatly increase the risk of drift of aerially-applied pesticides to unintended, offsite targets. Information derived from calculations using these data will provide aerial applicators the information they will need to determine when it is safe to spray without the weather conditions that will cause a temperature inversion.