Forage and livestock producers across Mississippi can learn the latest research-based forage management recommendations at a warm-season grass tour at Mississippi State University.

The free tour will be July 13 at the H.H. Leveck Animal Research Farm’s Forage Unit in Starkville, Miss.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. The tour runs from 8 to 11 a.m.

Topics and activities include sorghum varieties, warm-season legumes, bioenergy crops, nitrogen fertility demonstrations, and bermudagrass and bahiagrass variety trials.

Lunch will be served after the tour, so pre-registration is requested.

For more information or to register, visit http://mississippiforages.com, or call Julie White at (662) 325-5916 or Rocky Lemus at (662) 325-7718.

The MSU Extension Service, the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Oktibbeha County Extension Office are hosting the event.