North Mississippi Research and Extension Center - Verona, Mississippi

2001 Annual Report

MAFES Information Bulletin 386

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2001 Annual Report cover

Introduction
Extension

MAFES RESEARCH REPORTS
Corn
Soybean
Cotton
Beef
Dairy
Forage
Sweetpotato
Vegetables
Medicinal Herbs
Fruits & Nuts
Ornamentals
Weather Data

Introduction

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Overview of Center Activities in 2001

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NMREC Personnel

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Cooperating Personnel

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Notice to users

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Title Page

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Stations and locations

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Table of Contents (MAFES Info. Bull. 386)

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Extension

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Extension county programs

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Extension livestock activities

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Forestry and forest products

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Horticulture

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North Mississippi Garden Expo

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Technology

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Entomology

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Wiley L. Bean Swine Demonstration Unit

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MAFES RESEARCH REPORTS

Corn

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Early Corn Hybrid Evaluation

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Corn Hybrid Yield Response on a Leeper Silty Clay Loam Soil

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Market Development for No-Tillage Corn Hybrids

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Performance of Bio-Engineered Corn Hybrids

CORN - PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Corn Response to Twin and Narrow Rows with Selected Seeding Rates

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Grass Control Systems in No-Tillage Roundup Ready Corn Mega-Plot Trial

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Poultry Litter as a Fertilizer in No-Tillage Corn

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Corn and Soybean Production in Sod to Renovate Tall Fescue Stands

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Corn In-Furrow Insecticide Evaluation: Insect Numbers and Yield

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Effect of Field Dry and Delay Harvest on Corn Yield and Quality

CORN - ROTATIONAL STUDIES

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Corn and Soybean Response to Rotation and Tillage

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Corn and Soybean Response to Rotation and Tillage on a Prairie Clay Soil

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Soybean

SOYBEAN VARIETIES

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Roundup and Conventional Soybean Variety Trials

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Soybean Variety Response to Wide-Bed Stale Seedbed Tillage Systems

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Maturity group V Soybean Response to Early Planting

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Roundup Ready Soybean Variety Response to Early Planting

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Selected Soybean Variety Response to Conventional and No-Tillage

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Conventional Soybean Variety Trials

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2001 Soybean Variety Trial for the Blackland Prairie

SOYBEAN - PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Roundup Ready Soybean Weed Control as Influenced by a Pre Herbicide in Combination with Roundup

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Soybean Response to Selected Row Spacing and Seeding Rates with Uniform and Non-Uniform Seed Spacing

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Soybean response to foliar Dimilin, Boron, and N applications

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Utilization of Remotely Sensed Data for Managing Land- Forming Fields in the S.M.A.R.T. Program

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Soil Treatment with Ferrihydrite to Control Runoff, Erosion, and Phosphorus Movement

SOYBEAN - ROTATIONAL STUDIES

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Soybean Yield Response to Crop Rotation and Conservation Tillage for the Blackland Prairie

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Corn and Soybean Response to Rotation and Tillage

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Corn and Soybean Response to Rotation and Tillage on a Prairie Clay Soil

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Cotton

COTTON VARIETIES

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Early and Mid-Season Cotton Variety Trials

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Cotton Variety Response to Seeding Rates

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Cotton Varieties Response to Conventional and Roundup Weed Management Program

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Comparison of Cotton Cultivars with Bioengineered Genes for Yield Drag

COTTON - Ultra Narrow Row (UNR)

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Ultra Narrow Row (UNR) Cotton Response to Soil Insecticides for Early Season Insect Control

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Evaluation of Ultra Narrow Cotton for the Hill Section of Mississippi

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Evaluation of Cotman for use in Ultra-Narrow Row Cotton in Mississippi

COTTON - INSECTICIDES

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Evaluation of Insecticides for Aphid Control in Mississippi 2001(trial 1)

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Evaluation of Insecticides for Aphid Control in Mississippi 2001(trial 2)

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Evaluation of Centric Insecticide for Thrips Management on Cotton in Mississippi, 2001

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Gaucho Cotton Seed Treatment Evaluation Trial: Mississippi State

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Cotton Seed Treatment Evaluation Trial

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Evaluation of Insecticides for Thrips and Tarnished Plant Bugs Management on Cotton in Mississippi 2001

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Evaluation of Foliar Insecticides for Thrips Management on Cotton in Mississippi 2001

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Gaucho Cotton Seed Treatment Evaluation Trial: Verona

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Evaluation of Insecticides For Tarnished Plant Bug Management on Cotton in Quitman County 2001

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Cotton Response to Bed Renovation

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Cotton Response to Foliar Nutrient Application

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Cotton Response to Tillage in a Corn Rotation System

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Cotton Response to Foliar Nutrient Application in UNR Cotton

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Skip Row Cotton Response on a Leeper Silty Clay Loam Soil

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Cotton Growth and Yield Response to Tillage on a Leeper Silty Clay Loam Soil

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Evaluation of Cover Crops for Cotton Production

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Growth and Development Comparison in Tilled and No-Tilled Cotton

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Evaluation of Row Spacing for Cotton

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Evaluation of Skip Row Planting Pattern for Cotton in the Hills

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Evaluation of Chicken Litter as a Nitrogen Source for Cotton

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Evaluation of Bulldog Soda as a Side Dress Application of Nitrogen for Cotton

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Evaluation of a Sidedress Application of Potash

COTTON - PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Dairy

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Forage Production and Nutrient Values of Cool Season Annuals for Silage Production in North Mississippi

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The Impact of Tunnel Ventilation on Heat Stress in Lactating Dairy Cows: Effect on Body Temperature, Respiration Rate and Milk Production

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Beef

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Animal Response to the Ingestion of Tasco Seaweed Meal

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Evaluation of Fungus Infected, Fungus Free and Novel Endophyte Fescues as Roughage Sources for Developing Replacement Heifers

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Evaluation of Using Culled Sweetpotatoes in the Diets of Beef Heifers

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Low Input Feeding Regime for Development of Fall-Born Replacement Heifers

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Seaweed (ascophyllum nodosum) Supplementation for Backgrounding Weanling or Purchased Calves

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Forage

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Eastern Gamagrass Response to Nitrogen Fertilizer

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Seed Production of Eastern Gamagrass as Influenced by nitrogen fertlization

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Forage Soybeans for the Blackbelt Prairie 2001

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Bermudagrass Variety Trials in the Blackland Prairie

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New Dallisgrass Varieties in 2001

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Sumurall 007 Bermudagrass Fertility 2001

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Switchgrass Varieties in the Blackland Prairie 2001

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Evaluation of Ryegrass Varieties in North Mississippi

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Corn for Feed Grain in the Blackland Prairie

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Response of Switchgrass to Nitrogen in 2001

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Runoff and Soil Loss from Ryegrass Plots

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Compared Yields of Nine Warm Season Grass Species and One Legume Receiving Poultry Litter

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Seeded Bermudagrass in North Mississippi, 2001

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Sweetpotato

SWEETPOTATO -- BREEDING

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Sweetpotato Breeding

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Regional Sweetpotato Variety Trial

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Advanced Breeding Line Evaluation

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Mississippi Advanced Breeding Line Evaluation

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Yields of Second and Third Year Sweetpotato Breeding Lines

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An Evaluation of Ten OíHenry Mericlones for Yield and Storage Root Appearance

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A Comparison of Four Beauregard Mericlones for Yield and Storage Root Appearance

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Foundation Sweetpotato Seed Program

SWEETPOTATO -- PEST CONTROL

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Herbicide Efficacy and Sweetpotato Tolerance

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Sweetpotato Insect Research Report Northeast Mississippi Research and Extension Center ñ Beetle Pheromone Trapping Study - 2001

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2001 Sweetpotato Insect Research Report Northeast Mississippi Research and Extension Center: Insecticide Trials

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Evaluation of Preplant-Incorporated Soil Treatments for Control of Sweet Potato Pests

SWEETPOTATO -- PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Management of Spatial Variability in Sweetpotato Production

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Fertilization for Increased Growth of Greenhouse Sweetpotatoes for Transplant Production

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Sweetpotato Growth and Propagation Are Not Suppressed by Starter Fertilizer or Container Type

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Sweetpotato Yield as Influenced by the Concentration of Essential Elements in the Leaf Tissue

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Response of Sweetpotato to Different Rates of Liquid vs Granular Fertilizers

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Row Configuration and Plant Spacing Effect on Sweetpotato Yield

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Vegetables

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Summary of Vegetable Research Projects Conducted in 2001

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Triploid Watermelon Cultivar evaluation, summer 2001

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Triploid Watermelon Cultivars Perform Well in Northern Mississippi for the Second Year

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Plant density affects pumpkin size and weight but not yield

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CoRoN enhancement of pumpkin fungicides

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Swine effluent for plasticulture production of spring tomato followed by fall cucumber: yield and potential contamination by Salmonella

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Thrips populations, but not yield, affected by plastic mulch, but not cultivar, in summer tomatoes

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Long shelf-life muskmelon cultivar evaluation

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Asparagus cultivar evaluation: first-year harvest

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Medicinal Herbs

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Summary of Medicinal Herbs Research Projects Conducted in 2001

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Overcoming Dormancy of Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) Rhizome Propagules with Low Temperature Exposure

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Podophyllotoxin Content of Leaves of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

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First-Year Growth of Transplanted Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) Rhizomes: Influence of Propagule Type and Planting Time

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Harvest Time and Shoot Type Affect Leaf Biomass and Lignan Content of Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) in Sun or Shade

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Ornamentals

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Cut flower production in Mississippi

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Effect of Organic Amendments on Soil Properties and Ornamental Plant Growth

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Magnolia Botanical Gardens

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Effect of Supplemental Organic Amendments on Ornamental Plant Growth

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Growth Regulation of Basil Bedding Plants by Withholding Phosphorus

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Ornamental Pepper Cultivar Landscape Evaluation

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Container Nursery Media Evaluation

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Fruits and Nuts

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Frost hardy peach cultivars

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Evaluation of Apple Cultivars on Dwarfing Rootstocks

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Blueberry Variety Trials

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Etiolation of Pecan Shoots to Enhance Rooting of Cuttings

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Weather Data

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The 2001 Ten-day Average Maximum and Minimum Air and Soil Temperatures at Verona, MS

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Daily rainfall in 2001 at Verona, MS

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Ten-day Average Maximum and Minimum Air Temperatures in 2001 at Prairie, MS

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Daily Rainfall in 2001at the Prairie Research Unit, Prairie, MS

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