Ag Practice Custom Rate Survey
A very useful document that we have produced periodically over the years in MSU Agricultural Economics and MSU Extension is the Custom Rate Survey. This document allows for producers and landowners to view custom rate costs for specific practices such as tillage, planting, baling, harvesting and others across the state. However, in order to produce this publication, we need help surveying producers to gain insight into the costs they either charge for custom services or that are incurred by producers for a specific practice that someone did for them. The more quality responses that are given will help with the accuracy of the information that is placed in the next publication. If a producer is not sure of a cost, they can skip that particular section and fill in the ones that they know.
Thanks for your help with this important publication, and if anyone has any questions about the current publication or the survey, feel free to contact Dr. Steve Martin or Dr. Brian Mills.
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The Mississippi State University Extension Service is taking irrigation education a step further than before by offering Master Irrigator status to those who complete a course of training.
There is no cost to growers to participate in this training, which includes eight hours of online classes and 16 hours of in-person training. Drew Gholson, MSU Extension irrigation specialist and coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research, said the goal is for participants to put into practice the skills acquired in the program.
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Success Stories
Cruising into Madison County, you see a cultivated urban landscape full of brick edifices and manicured lawns spring up around you. Your cell phone announces your turnoff, and you comply, turning onto an older road that soon turns to gravel.
Susie Harmon laughs when she relates her granddaughter’s observation of her favorite pastime.
A Smithsonian Institution exhibit about rural communities continues its journey in public libraries across Mississippi.
