Introduction

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Overview
of Center Activities in 2002 |

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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,
Units, and locations (NMREC) |

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Table
of Contents (MAFES Info. Bull. 398) |
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Extension

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Restructuring
Family Consumer Sciences
4-H Youth Development
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Livestock
Swine Demonstration Unit
Aquaculture
Horticulture
Economic & Community Development
Pizza Farm |
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Miscellaneous
Reports

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North
Mississippi Garden Expo
Magnolia Botanical Garden
Foundation Sweetpotato Seed Program
Bacteria and Nutrients in Runoff. |
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MAFES
RESEARCH REPORTS
Corn
CORN
HYBRIDS & ROW SPACING

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Market
development for no-tillage corn
hybrids |

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BT/RR
corn hybrid evaluation |

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Corn
response to twin and narrow rows with selected
seeding rates |

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Performance
of bio-engineered corn hybrids |
CORN
ROTATION, TILLAGE, and FERTILITY

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Corn
and soybean response to rotation and tillage on a
Prairie clay soil |

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Corn
and soybean response to rotation and tillage on a
Leeper silty clay loam soil |

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Residual
fall paratill effect on corn yield |

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Corn
response to foliar CoRoN applications with reduced
N rates |

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Corn
yield response to N rates in combination with
HydraHume |
CORN
WEED CONTROL

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Weed
control in ClearfieldÆ corn
hybrid |

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Pre
and Post herbicide weed control in
corn |

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RR-corn
weed control |

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Herbicide
system comparisons in no-tillage corn for broadleaf
signalgrass control |

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Evaluation
of mesotrione for weed control in no-tillage
corn |
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Soybean
SOYBEAN
VARIETIES

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Soybean
maturity group III trial |

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Roundup
and conventional soybean variety
trials |

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Conventional
soybean variety evaluation |

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Glyphosate
tolerant group IV no-tillage soybean
varieties |

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Glyphosate
tolerant group V no-tillage soybean variety
evaluation |

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Roundup
Ready soybean varieties response to early
planting |
SOYBEAN
PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Soybean
response to conventional and no tillage on a
Prairie clay soil |

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Soybean
yield response to residual fall paratill tillage on
a Leeper silty clay soil |

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Soybean
response to selected row spacing and low seeding
rates |
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Cotton
COTTON
VARIETIES

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Early
and mid-season cotton variety trials |

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No-tillage
cotton variety demonstration |

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Comparison
of cotton cultivars for yield drag |
COTTON
PRODUCTION STUDIES

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Cotton
plant response to tillage systems |

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Residual
deep tillage effect on cotton yield |

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Cotton
response to tillage in a corn rotation
system |

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Skip
row planting patterns for cotton in the
hills |

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Skip-row
cotton response on a Leeper silty clay loam
soil |

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Plant
characteristics of ultra narrow row
cotton |

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Comparing
Yields Using Preemerge Herbicide in Roundup Ready
Cotton |

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RR-cotton
response to weed management systems |
COTTON
FERTILITY & NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT

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Broiler
litter as a nitrogen source for
cotton |

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Carry
over nitrogen from a previous year clover
crop |

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Cotton
response to foliar nutrient
application |

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Evaluation
of compact ion meter for measurements of nitrogen
in cotton petiole |

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Evaluation
of Minolta K ion meter on cotton petiole
samples |

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Evaluation
of chlorophyll meter for nitrogen management in
cotton |

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Cotton
response to HydraHume with reduced N
rates |
COTTON
INSECTICIDES

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Evaluation
of insecticides for control of tarnished plant bug
caged on cotton |

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Field
evaluation of insecticides for management of
tarnished plant bugs in Leflore County,
Miss. |

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Evaluation
of early season applications of insecticide on
cotton |

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Comparison
of seed treatments and aldicarb rates for thrips
control in cotton |

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Comparison
of seed treatments and aldicarb rates for thrips
control in cotton ñ trial II |

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Evaluation
of fungicide and insecticide treated cotton seed
for thrips management |

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Evaluation
of Bollgard II cotton in comparison with DP5415 and
NUCOTTN 33B |
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Dairy

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The
impact of tunnel ventilation cooling and BMR corn
silage on heat stress in lactating dairy
cows |

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The
potential for subclinical ammonia toxicity in dairy
cows housed with a tunnel ventilation cooling
system: Year 1 |
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Beef

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The
effect of 0%, 10% and 20% levels of TASCO meal,
delivered in a complete mineral mixture, on horn
fly numbers, body temperature, respiration rate,
hair score and calf immunoglobulin levels in
crossbred beef cows |

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Ecology
of antimicrobial resistance of enteric E.
coli and Salmonella in beef cattle
treated with antibiotics |
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Forage
& Water Quality

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A
survey of the total fecal coloforms, E. coli, and
fecal streptococci in water collected from sites
with and without beef cattle |

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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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Gamagrass,
an Alternative Silage Crop |

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Eastern
gamagrass response to nitrogen
fertilizer |

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Seed
production of eastern gamagrass as influenced by
nitrogen fertilization |

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Yield
and nutrient uptake of tropical forages receiving
broiler litter |

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USDA-ARS
erosion control and water quality studies at Holly
Springs, MS |
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Sweetpotato
SWEETPOTATO
FERTILITY STUDIES

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Evaluation
of foliar applied nutrients in
sweetpotato |

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Nitrogen,
phosphorous, potassium, and lime increase yield of
sweetpotato |

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Nitrogen,
phosphorous, potassium and boron affected yield of
sweetpotato |

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Nitrogen,
phosphorous, potassium, and zinc effects on yield
of sweetpotato |

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Nitrogen,
phosphorous, potassium, and copper effects on yield
of sweetpotato |

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Nitrogen,
phosphorous, potassium and sulfur effects on yield
of sweetpotato |
SWEETPOTATO
WEED & INSECT CONTROL

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Effect
of Sandea application timing on
sweetpotato |

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Herbicide
systems for sweetpotato weed control in the delta
of Mississippi |

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Evaluation
of soil-applied insecticides for control of pests
in sweet potato: Mound Bayou, Bolivar County,
Mississippi |

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Evaluation
of foliarly applied insecticides for control of
pests in sweet potato: Mound Bayou, Bolivar County,
Mississippi |

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Sweetpotato
insect research report for northeast Mississippi
Research and Extension Center ñ pheromone
trapping ñ 2002 |

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Evaluation
of foliarly applied insecticides for control of
pests in sweet potato at the Ferguson farm,
Pontotoc County, Miss. 2002 |

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Evaluation
of soil-applied insecticides for control of pests
in sweet potato in Pontotoc County,
Miss. |
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Vegetables
& Culinary Herbs

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Pumpkin
fungicide trial: Verona 2002 |

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Heat
and water stress limit yield of three cultivars of
lima bean |

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Simple
strategies for promoting earliness in fresh-market
tomatoes |

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Evaluation
of elongated and oval triploid (seedless)
watermelon genotypes |

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Asparagus
cultivar evaluation: second-year
harvest |

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Mississippi
medallion purple basil trial |

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Mississippi
medallion grape tomato trial |
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Medical
Herbs

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Mulch
type, mulch depth, and planting depth for
field-grown mayapple: First-year
results |

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The
effect of shade on growth and podophyllotoxin
content of mayapple |

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Growth
and lignan content of field-established
mayapple |

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Growth
of transplanted mayapple: Effect of propagule type
and planting time |
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Ornamentals

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Cut
flower production in Mississippi |

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Production
Cost for Selected Varieties of Cut Flowers in
Mississippi |

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Effect
of spacing on sunflower production |

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Growth
regulation of basil bedding plants by withholding
phosphorus |

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Effect
of supplemental organic amendments on ornamental
plant growth |

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Viola
cultivar evaluation |

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Pansy
cultivar evaluation |
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Fruits

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Frost
hardy peach cultivars |
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Weather
Data

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The
2002 ten-day average maximum and minimum air and
soil temperatures (F) at the MAFES Northeast
Branch, Verona, MS |

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Daily
rainfall in 2002 at the MAFES Northeast Branch,
Verona, MS |

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Ten-day
average (F0) maximum and minimum air
temperatures in 2002 at the Pontotoc
Ridge-Flatwoods Experiment Station, Pontotoc,
MS |

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Dailly
rainfall (inches) in 2002 at the Pontotoc
Ridge-Flatwoods Experiment Station, Pontotoc,
MS |

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Thirty-year
(1972-2002) monthly rainfall summary at the
Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Experiment Station,
Pontotoc, MS. |
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