UACES Facebook Tri-State Soybean Forum rotates to Mississippi on Jan. 7
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Tri-State Soybean Forum rotates to Mississippi on January 7

Tri-State Soybean kicks off new year

Jan. 3, 2022

By the U of A System Division of Agriculture

Fast facts:

  • Meeting returns to in-person format
  • Agenda includes state-by-state updates
  • Cover crop, disease, market, fertility updates slated

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STONEVILLE, Miss. — The Tri-State Soybean Forum will return to Mississippi in 2022, organized as an in-person meeting Jan. 7 at the Delta Research and Extension Center.

“We are so glad to be returning to a face-to-face meeting,” said Preston Aust, Mississippi State extension specialist. “We hope our soybean producers in the tri-state area will once again enjoy the in-person opportunity to hear national and state-by-state updates, ask questions and see friends again.”

four-beans-in-a-pod logo for the Tri-State Soybean forum
The 2022 Tri-State Soybean Forum is in Mississippi.

The half-day meeting opens at 8 a.m. with registration and concludes at 12:45 p.m. with lunch. The schedule includes a break to allow attendees to visit the trade show. Here’s the 2022 agenda:

  • 8:30 a.m. Introduction: Preston Aust / Invocation: Curt Lacy, extension

professor and regional extension coordinator for MSU.

  • 8:35-9:20 a.m. United Soybean Promotion Board Update: UMB Representative
    • Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board Update: MSPB Representative
    • State Specialists Update: Trent Irby, associate extension professor for Mississippi State; David Moseley, assistant professor and state soybean specialist for Louisiana State University; and Jeremy Ross, extension soybean agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
  • 9:20-9:50 a.m. Tap Root Decline: Tom Allen, extension/research professor, crop plant pathology, Mississippi State University.
  • 9:50-10:20 a.m. Fertility and the Potash Calculator: Trent Roberts, the Endowed

Chair in Soil Fertility Research for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

  • 11:00-11:30 a.m. Cover Crops/Conservation Practices/ Insurance Premiums: 

James Hendrix, LSU AgCenter conservation agronomist.     

  • 11:30-Noon Irrigation Efficiency and Technology: Drew Gholson, assistant

professor, MSU

  • Noon-12:30 p.m. Marketing/Trade Update:  Brian Mills, Will Maples, both assistant

professors for MSU.

  • 12:30-12:45             Scholarship presentations
  • 12:45             Lunch

For more information, contact Preston Aust at  p.aust@msstate.edu, or 662-247-2915.

 

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Media contact:

Preston Aust

p.aust@msstate.edu, 662-247-2915.

 

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