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A chart shows the number of acres that Mississippi producers intend to plant in 2025 for the following crops: soybeans, 2.25 million acres, which is 2 percent less than the acreage planted in 2024; corn, 690,000 acres, which is a 41-percent increase from 2024; and cotton, 360,000 acres, which is a 31-percent decrease from 2024’s acreage.
April 2, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Row crop growers in Mississippi expect to plant more corn in 2025 than they did last year, but not as much cotton or as many soybeans.

January 21, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss.

January 9, 2025

STONEVILLE, Miss. -- After harvest each year, university research and Extension entomologists from across the Cotton Belt states collect and submit data regarding cotton crop losses from insects.

Success Stories

A man wearing overalls and standing in a blooming cotton field.
Volume 10 Number 2

After graduating from college, David Hey got out of farming to be a truck driver, but before long he realized he wanted back in.

A man wearing a cowboy hat and pink polo looking out over a field and a man in a maroon shirt and sunglasses behind him.
Volume 9 Number 3

Gaddis & McLaurin might sound more like the name of a law firm than a general store, but the name is synonymous with all manner of dry goods in the Hinds County community of Bolton and has been since the 1870s.

A man standing in a harvested field.
Volume 9 Number 2

Sledge Taylor is no stranger to cover crops —he first planted vetch on 100 acres of his Panola County farmland in 1979—but he has ramped up his cover crop usage and added other sustainable agricultural practices over the past 15 years.

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