North Mississippi Research and Extension Center - Verona, Mississippi

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North Mississippi Research and Extension Center

The North Mississippi Research and Extension Center exists to serve the needs of agriculture in northeastern Mississippi. It is a part of the Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine of Mississippi State University (MSU), the state's Land Grant institution.

Researchers, educators and agents conduct programs in agronomy, horticulture, animal science and family life at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center and its experiment stations and units. The personnel is made up of employees of the Mississippi Agricultural & Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES), the Mississippi State University Extension Service (MSU- ES) , and the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM).

The North Mississippi Research and Extension Center consists of four research locations:

• North Branch Experiment Station in Holly Springs
• Northeast Mississippi Research and Extension Center and the Horticulture Research and Education Unit in Verona
• Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station and the Wiley L. Bean Swine Demonstration Unit in Pontotoc
• The Prarie Research Unit in Prairie

North Mississippi counties served by the area are: Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Noxubee, Marshall, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, and Yalobusha.