Earlier work focused on evaluation of summer and winter annuals for milk production. The current studies are mastitis in pre-partum dairy heifers, tail docking for better mastitis control, and feeding trials utilizing silage specific corn hybrids. Early agronomic work focused on legumes as a winter cover crop for erosion control and to provide nitrogen for corn and cotton. Cotton experiments including fertility work, plant spacing, and row spacing which provided much of the information for cotton recommendations in the hill section of the state during the first half of the century. Today a complete agronomic program, lead by Dr. Joe Johnson , continues for corn, cotton, and soybeans.
Major emphasis is on cotton production for the hill section of Mississippi.
The release has to be one of the highlight s of the station s history. USDA-ARS soil and water research began on the station in 1956. Present research includes measuring minerals in ground water from fertilizer applications and mineral loss from ground application of different levels of poultry litter.