Environmental Systems and Sustainability

This program aims to help farmers by providing and installing soil moisture sensors, offering season-long training, and using sensor data for decision making.

This program assists producers by answering common questions regarding irrigation management.

Producers can better understand the many pros and cons of cover crop selection through the use of on-farm demonstration plots.Producers can better understand the many pros and cons of cover crop selection through the use of on-farm demonstration plots.

This program provides a safe and efficient way for farmers and landowners to dispose of waste pesticides and other agricultural products. The program helps communities reduce, manage, and recycle their waste.

Pesticide Safety Education – Private Applicator Training will provide federally mandated training in pesticide and environmental stewardship to agricultural producers in Mississippi.

This new Extension program will share results from our USDA-funded project to expand knowledge of biomass combined heat and power systems and other sources of energy.

This program is intended to educate Mississippians about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling in their households to live more sustainably.

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and General Public will educate commercial production operations (agriculture, forestry, survey, construction, etc.) business personnel on how UASs truly work, resulting in the improved application of UAS technology in commercial operations.