Author Archives: Phil McKibben

MACA 2010 Board and Committee Assignments

By Phil McKibben | Published: February 18, 2010

2010 Officers and Directors

President: Bert Falkner                                       President-elect: Virgil King
Sec-Treasurer: Brian Hayes                              Director: Dee Boykin
Director: Nick King                                               Director: Jeff North
Director: Tim Sanders                                        Ad-hoc member: Tim Richards

Nomination Committee
Bob Stonestreet, Chair                   Bert Falkner                           Virgil King
Allen McKnight                                  Jeff North                               Tim Sanders
Membership & Rules Committee
Herbert Jones, Chair                        Pete [...]

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MACA 2010 Annual Meeting

By Phil McKibben | Published: February 4, 2010

The 37th annual MACA conference was recently held at the Bost Extension Center on the MSU campus.
The highlight of the meeting (except for when the projector exploded) was the presentation by John McGillicuddy from Iowa.  We had given him the last slot on the program, hoping to allow him the time to begin to scratch [...]

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Red-Banded Stinkbug

By Phil McKibben | Published: November 23, 2009

New Pest for Mississippi’s crops.

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The Changing Face of No-Till

By Phil McKibben | Published: September 17, 2009

As more weed species become resistant or more tolerant to glyphosate, changes must be made to current weed management regimes.  Additional modes of action must be added to burndown materials, as well as residual herbicides in-season, if we are going to be successful overcoming these resistance problems.

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Irrigation Innovation?

By Phil McKibben | Published: June 24, 2009

Actually this was a brand new center pivot that never made a circle.  High winds and a small tornado wreaked a little havoc on this farm in Tallahatchie County this past week.  Two of the farm’s three pivots were damaged significantly.

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