As farming operations have become more diverse over the years, the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show has evolved beyond just cotton to meet the needs of producers who grow multiple crops.
Tim Price, executive vice president of the Southern Cotton...
B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine said, “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
Although Forbes is speaking the truth in this statement, how successful and bountiful...
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efore I began this job, someone told me that rice is a “whole different kind of cat” when it comes to crop production. I grew up in a land full of cotton, interlaced with some corn, milo, soybeans and...
If you were ever taught to play a sport successfully, you were probably told to keep your eye on the ball. Stay focused. Look at the right place at the right time. This also is good training to help...
Legend has it that the all-you-can-eat buffet, or smorgasbord, hit its height of popularity in the 1980s. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this claim, but I do admit that I’ve eaten my share. Not only the sheer...
2021 is in the rear view mirror, and you’ve been planning for the upcoming season for the past few months. As temperatures warm up across the Rice Belt, it’s time to get your game on. It’s no secret you...
The Mid-South Farm & Gin Show is an iconic event that has educated and entertained the agricultural community for decades. The doors open this year Feb. 25 on its 70th anniversary — quite a milestone!
Generations of Southern families have...
Every year before Christmas, I go to a local grocery store to buy my sister a pocket-sized stuffed hamster dressed in holiday finery, such as reindeer antlers or a Santa Claus hat. (It’s a sister thing, plus we had...
In the 1970s, the British comedic group, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, used to perform the “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch where John Cleese strutted around in a satirical portrayal of bureaucratic inefficiency.
When the California Department of Pesticide Regulation recently...
Back in the 1970s, Fram oil filters ran a series of TV commercials touting how a little prevention, in the form of a regular oil change and oil filter, helped ward off costly engine repairs.
The take-home message: “You can...
In the song “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell sings, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”
The COVID pandemic has reinforced this notion. Many things we used to take for granted,...
Crop dusting had its roots in 1921 when Lt. John A. Macready piloted a modified Curtis JN-6 Super Jenny while passenger Etienne Dormoy dispensed lead arsenate from a crude metal hand-cranked hopper bolted to the plane’s fuselage. C.R. Nellie,...
If the weed kingdom had a band of supervillains, barnyardgrass and watergrass would surely be members. These species that belong to the genus Echinochloa wield super powers and are the bane of rice growers.
Herbicides, once the Kryptonite for these...
Change is inevitable, they say, and with the start of 2021 comes a number of shifts.
Dr. Mo Way, who for 38 years has been at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont, will retire and ride into the...
The Marines have a motto, “Semper fidelis,” which means always faithful or always loyal. A twist on that is “Semper Gumby,” the motto of Marine parents that means always flexible, according to a former coworker whose son served. Considering...
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