By Mary Hightower
The annual Tri-State Soybean Forum rotates to Mississippi in January, with an agenda that features talks on drones, regulatory changes and the commodity outlook for 2025.
The 2025 meeting will be held starting at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 3, at the Delta Regional Extension Center, Capps Building, 492 Stoneville Road in Leland, Mississippi. The program includes a catered lunch. The event is presented annually by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University.
“This is our opportunity each year to provide the information our soybean farmers need to make decisions about the upcoming growing season,” said Jeremy Ross, professor and soybean extension agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “We want to be sure they’re aware of regulatory shifts, as well as changes and improvements in tools, technology and resource and pest management tactics.”
The 2025 agenda features experts from Mississippi State University and the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
- 8:30 a.m. — Registration
- 9 a.m. — Tom Allen, Mississippi State University extension/research professor, row crop pathogens: ID and Management of Stem and Root Diseases
- 9:30 a.m. — Whitney Crow, Mississippi State University assistant professor, row crop entomology: Entomology Update
- 10 a.m. — Gene Merkl, program manager, Mississippi State University: Regulatory Herbicide Changes and Updates
- 10:30 a.m. — Brian Mills, assistant professor-agricultural economics, Mississippi State University: Cost of Production in Soybeans and Budgeting
- 11 a.m. — Will Maples, assistant professor, assistant professor-agricultural economics, Mississippi State University: 2025 Soybean Outlook
- 11:30 a.m. — Drew Gholson, assistant professor-agronomy, Mississippi State University: Irrigation Water Management in Soybeans
- Noon – Lunch
- 1 p.m. — Jason Davis, remote sensing and pesticide application extension specialist, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture: UAV Technologies in Soybean Production
- 1:30 p.m. — Madison Dixon, Agricultural Autonomy Institute, Mississippi State University: Spray Drone Regulatory Update for 2025 Growing Season
- 2 p.m. — Jeremy Ross, professor, soybean agronomist, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture: Desiccant and Harvesting
- 2:30 p.m. — Corey Bryant, assistant professor-agronomy-soil fertility, Mississippi State University: Fertility in Soybeans.
The conference returns to Arkansas in 2026.
For additional information, please contact Lea Turner at lea.turner@msstate.edu. MSU Extension will provide reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities or special needs. Please contact our extension office at 662-873-2322 prior to the event to request reasonable accommodation.
To learn about extension programs in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.uada.edu. Follow us on X and Instagram at @AR_Extension. To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website: https://aaes.uada.edu. Follow on X at @ArkAgResearch. To learn more about the Division of Agriculture, visit https://uada.edu/. Follow us on X at @AgInArk.
About the Division of Agriculture
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation’s historic land grant education system.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs to all eligible persons without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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