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.”
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.