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. -- 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.
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Mississippi State University Extension Service’s Delta region will soon have new leadership.
VERONA, Miss.
Success Stories
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.
Stafford Shurden’s weather station is ideal for monitoring conditions on his row crop farm, but he uses it even more during hunting season than growing season.
Mississippi State University and partners have been awarded a grant of nearly $6.6 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Federation for shoreline restoration work on the Gulf Coast.