Extension Services
Services provided by Extension in every county
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Planning, budgeting, and management education for agricultural and timber producers
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Pest and disease identification and management recommendations
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Turf and home lawn care education and management recommendations
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ServSafe Training and Certification for food service workers
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Dining with Diabetes education for people with diabetes and caregivers
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Mississippi Childcare Resource and Referral network for childcare providers
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Trauma-Informed Parenting and Professional Strategies (TIPPS)
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Nationally recognized, legislatively mandated educational programs to elected officials and government employees, including
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Economic analysis, strategic planning, and training for community revitalization and resilience
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Emergency recovery services for farms, businesses, and communities
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Volunteer and community leadership training and opportunities (4-H, Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Mississippi Homemaker, and more)
Publications
News
STARKVILLE, Miss.—As a father of three, Marcus Drymon has watched his fair share of Disney movies, but he never imagined his work as an associate Extension professor at Mississippi State Universit
An underserved community spent a day enjoying the outdoors at the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in early May as Mississippi State University Extension Service personnel hosted 20 adult residents of care homes.
Jim McAdory, MSU Extension agent in Winston County, coordinated the May 1 event with help from several other Extension agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff. The goal was to allow this population to experience the outdoors, complete with a hot dog lunch at the end of the event.
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Trent Irby has moved into an administrative role with the Mississippi State University Extension Service after more than 12 years of serving the state’s soybean growers.
Success Stories
More than 80 grade-school students from Choctaw Tribal Schools visited Mississippi State University in March to participate in Choctaw Preview Day.
In late February, Mississippi State University hosted the 2024 National Floriculture Forum, an annual conference held at different locations around the country.
A broken-down car on a Sunday afternoon in 1983 led two attorneys to purchase forestland in Hancock County. Forty years and about 500 acres later, La Terre Farms in Kiln has wide-ranging industries that include a holiday greenery business and cut flowers grown for florists across the Gulf Coast and New Orleans.