Brad Shivers visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville for an episode of the Why Ag? series. Brad describes his path from a career in pharmaceutical sales to the family farm in Bolivar County.
Bubba Simmons makes a return visit to the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, this time representing the Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board. Bubba, Jason, and Tom discuss the mechanisms for the collection and utilization of money collected through the checkoff programs for different commodities grown in Mississippi.
Daniel Stephenson with the LSU AgCenter is back as a call-in guest to the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville. Daniel, Jason, and Tom discuss some of the histories of fall-applied burndown treatments and then tackle the issue of designing burndown treatments and programs in a climate of increasing herbicide prices and product shortages.
Corey Bryant visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about his new position at DREC. Corey is a Mississippi State graduate and recently started a new job working in agronomy and soil fertility in Stoneville. Corey talks about his background as well as some of the projects he’d like to work on in the future.
Brian Mills and Will Maples visit the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio to talk economics for 2022. As input prices continue to increase, budgeting becomes uncertain. Will and Brian discuss marketing plans with tight margins and make suggestions over how to navigate into early 2022.
Erick Larson calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about selecting corn hybrids for 2022. Erick, Tom, and Jason talk about similarities and differences between small- and large-plot hybrid performance trials, important parameters to use to make corn hybrid selections, and where to find hybrid information for 2022.
Trent Irby calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about things to think about when making soybean variety selection decisions. Trent, Jason, and Tom discuss the different types of variety trial information (small-plot and on-farm), data to focus on (yield, disease susceptibility) when making variety decisions, how to handle the location information, and where to find information on soybean varieties in Mississippi.
Brian Pieralisi calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk about cotton variety trials. Brian, Jason, and Tom discuss the types of variety trials conducted by Mississippi State, the types of data recorded from those trials, how to look at the information to choose a variety, and where to find the information once it is available.
In an episode recorded last summer, Brian Mills and Will Maples visit the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio to discuss the planning budgets for different crops in Mississippi. Brian, Will, Tom, and Jason talk about how the budgets are generated, different ways they can be utilized, and what they hope to see for these tools in the future. All the budgets for 2022 can be found at https://www.agecon.msstate.edu/whatwedo/budgets.php . Happy Thanksgiving!
Trent calls into the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to talk with Whitney, Tom, and Jason about the Mississippi Row Crop Short Course, which will be held December 6 to 8 at The Mill Conference Center in Starkville.