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Gore, Pieralisi awarded excellence in Cotton IPM

How to Manage Chipmunks

The Eastern chipmunk is found across eastern North America, and they can cause trouble if they decide to take up residence in your landscape.

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Extension for Real Life

What is the TIPPS Program?

Parenting is hard. That’s for sure. But does it seem like nurturing and protecting your children in today’s world is harder than what your parents experienced when you were a child?

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Feature Story

Damage assessments help forest managers bounce back

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Feature Story

MSU received priorities of north Mississippi farmers

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Extension Matters Volume 12 Number 1

Celebrating Traditions

Hundreds gathered in early February to celebrate tradition—skills like metal forging, knife making, weaving, spinning, and quilting, as well as heritage livestock and raptor birds—at the 2026 Forge Day and Heritage Festival.

A person uses a wand to spray a fence outdoors.

Feature Story

Workshop aids those in pest management jobs

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