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Our partners at @JohnDeere visited the @AgAutonomy Institute for the phase one demo and report-out of our collaborative automated cotton module handling project. Proud to be shaping the future of autonomous agriculture together with industry leaders who trust @msstate to deliver!
Common Ground: New blueberry, sweet potato ice cream flavors expected to churn out in 2026 - mailchi.mp/msstate/may202…
Join us in congratulating Vice President @DrKeithCoble on receiving the @FarmFoundation R.J. Hildreth Public Policy Award! A respected leader, Dr. Coble has dedicated his career to strengthening agriculture through sound policy, research, and education. tinyurl.com/5txh898y

When your homework is making ice cream, and you aced the assignment! 🍠State vegetable ✅ 🫐State fruit ✅ Meet the @MSU_AG students behind our university's newest flavors expected to churn out in 2026!
“I think we’re better irrigators because we have adopted some of the things that we’ve learned through Extension of how to do better and be more efficient.” Read Bill O'Neal's Extension Matters story here: ow.ly/teQm50WrZFK #mscrops #MSUext
Two new Mississippi State-borne ice cream flavors are hitting the freezer shelves soon! 🍦 Blueberry and sweet potato plan to join MSU’s 11 other ice cream flavors in 2026 at the MAFES Sales Store. Read more: msstate.edu/newsroom/artic…
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We are proud to share that Mississippi State University is in Money’s recently released list of the 2025 Best Colleges in America! Read more: msstate.edu/newsroom/artic…
From dolphins at Disney to Mississippi's giant squid, MSU's Dr. Holley Muraco has seen it all 🐬 Dive into her journey and the Magnolia State's surprising variety of marine mammals on Mississippi Outdoors Podcast! YouTube 🔗 youtu.be/95dn01Gh0UY?si… Podcast 🎧…
Solutions to deer depredation is one of the topics @MSUExtService specialists discussed with @MSFarmBureau at last month's meeting. Register for the 2025 Agronomy Field Tour on Aug. 4 to learn more about this and other topics at the Brown Loam Branch in Raymond.
You’re invited! Register here: msstate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8… #mscrops
#MaroonFriday means something extra special today! 🐾 We welcomed 119 new DVM students into our College of Veterinary Medicine during the annual coating ceremony. Let the journey begin! #futureveterinarians




MSU isn't waiting for the future—we're flying it. The nation's largest UAS fleet in academia is right here, and we're just getting started. 📈
At the Delta Council meeting this month, @msstate Athletics Director @zacselmon shared how lessons from farming continue to shape his leadership. #noshortcuts #hardworkpaysoff @HailState
MSU President Mark E. Keenum, center, speaks today during a panel and webinar hosted in Rome, Italy, by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The special event highlighted the innovative partnerships between MSU and the FAO to utilize artificial intelligence,…
Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum met with World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain at the Rome headquarters of the agency June 25. During Keenum’s tenure, MSU established a formal partnership with the WFP to enhance their collaborative efforts…
Before consistent rain in Mississippi hindered planting conditions, row crop growers in the state had already indicated scaling back how much cotton they would plant this year by 30% from 2024. Read our latest crop report here: ow.ly/AScO50W5QoH #mscrops #MSUext
One of the first cotton blooms of the season in Leland during what @MSUExtService Cotton Specialist @BPieralisi calls possibly the worst planting conditions for cotton he’s ever seen. Heavy rainfall left thousands of acres unplanted, cutting Mississippi’s cotton acreage by 30%.


MSU President Mark E. Keenum met with Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, to discuss several MSU research programs in which the university and FAO partner. In 2023, Qu toured the MSU Starkville campus including the…
First day of summer on our North Farm and South Farm...who wore it better? @MSU_AG