There are more than 2,000 sports fields in Mississippi, the majority being used for football, baseball, softball, and soccer. Cities and communities throughout the state are constructing new or improving existing sports complexes to meet the demand for safe recreational activities. This publication provides coaches, groundskeepers, league employees, and concerned citizens with the basics of caring for natural turfgrass in its most visible and sometimes most stressed scenario.
Pecans are well adapted and widely grown throughout Mississippi. Where the proper varieties have been chosen, good success can be expected near the Gulf Coast and the Delta, but other areas of the state can support pecan production as well.
The 2025 Insect Control Guide for Agronomic Crops (P2471) provides control recommendations for common insect pests of cotton, soybeans, corn, grain sorghum, wheat, sweetpotatoes, rice, peanuts, pasture, and stored grains, as well as insecticide performance ratings for each crop. Download the full PDF above.
Bed bugs, Cimex lectularius, are small (about 0.33 inches or 5 millimeters long), flat, oval-shaped, wingless insects that feed on blood (Figure 1). Their primary hosts are humans, but they may also feed on chickens, other fowl, and mammals when given the opportunity. Bed bugs are found in temperate regions worldwide.
The muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia Michx) is native to the southeastern United States, occurring from Georgia to Texas and northward along the Atlantic Coast to Delaware. Muscadines are well adapted to the warm, humid conditions of the Southeast where European and American grapes do not thrive.
