The Tri-State Soybean Forum will return to Mississippi in 2022, organized as an in-person meeting Jan. 7 at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., in the Capps Entrepreneurial Center.

“We are so glad to be returning to a face-to-face meeting,” said Preston Aust, Mississippi State extension specialist. “We hope our soybean producers in the tri-state area will once again enjoy the in-person opportunity to hear national and state-by-state updates, ask questions and see friends again.”

The half-day meeting opens at 8 a.m. with registration and concludes at 12:45 p.m. with lunch. The schedule includes a break to allow attendees to visit the trade show. Here’s the 2022 agenda:

8:30 a.m. – Introduction: Preston Aust / Invocation: Curt Lacy, extension professor and regional extension coordinator for MSU.

8:35-9:20 a.m. – United Soybean Promotion Board Update: UMB Representative

9:20-9:50 a.m. – Tap Root Decline: Tom Allen, extension/research professor, crop plant pathology, Mississippi State University.

9:50-10:20 a.m. – Fertility and the Potash Calculator: Trent Roberts, the Endowed Chair in Soil Fertility Research for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

11:00-11:30 a.m. – Cover Crops/Conservation Practices/ Insurance Premiums:   James Hendrix, LSU AgCenter conservation agronomist.      

11:30-Noon – Irrigation Efficiency and Technology: Drew Gholson, assistant professor, MSU

Noon-12:30 p.m. – Marketing/Trade Update:  Brian Mills, Will Maples, both assistant  professors for MSU.

12:30-12:45 – Scholarship presentations

12:45 – Lunch

For more information, contact Preston Aust at  [email protected], or 662-247-2915.

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