Vaughn Reed

#Plant25 starting at the Brown Loam Research station today. We have NxK, Corn tissue study, and Population X Hybrid going in today. Hoping weather cooperates with us! @MississippiCorn

Evidence of how wet our spring has been in Starkville. Our tissue sampling study (funded by @MississippiCorn) is my favorite study to get pictures of. Visually, you can only see differences between 300 and everything else. Most N was lost since application due to rain.

New-ish PhD student Sydney Baker is finally getting to plant her last Soybean K study at Verona, where it has FINALLY dried up enough to work in. In collaboration with @SoybeanScience1 , we’re investigating in-season applications and foliar apps of K to curtail yield loss

With the wet planting season we’ve had, many places along the NE side of the state have some super hungry corn. Here is a pic of V8 corn getting its first shot of the season. We want to know just how late can we be and maintain yields.

Good Friday ended up being decent Friday for the Fertility crew in Starkville and Brooksville. All but one corn trial is in the ground, but both planter and trailer gave out on us as we finished up. We’re just gonna let that be Mondays problem…

Soil test alone cannot predict yield response. On average - it works, but precision is lacking. We concluded that we need not only more, but DIFFERENT data for more accurate and precise P management strategies. acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

When submitting your soil to different labs, many could offer different extractant types, and many may wonder why there are so many options? I talk about this more in my latest blog post. Thanks to @alh1376 for her help on writing this blog post. …fertilitywithvaughnreed.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/why…

I am looking for grid soil data from anyone willing to share. Give us a survey of the region, but also gives us more data to see variability within fields. Mainly from Mississippi, but also in the mid-south region. If interested, reach out!

Check out my first blog post, talking about which source of P do you choose when applying P in the fall. Keep a look out for future posts! Working on a post about soil test extractors now. …fertilitywithvaughnreed.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/sou…

Get registered for this years MSU Short Course! They rarely let me out of the lab, but when they do…

Thanks to @CropdoctorsMs for the invite to come talk about soil sampling after this dry year. We hoped talking about it would make it rain, but weren't necessarily trying to get hit by a hurricane to get it....

It's a sweet potato field day at the #MAFES Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station! #MAFES and @MSUExtService scientists and specialists share research on sweetpotatoes at the annual event. Mississippi ranks third in the nation for sweet potato production!

Seeing some leftover Phosphorus sitting in the field from our preplant application in soybeans in Verona. Not likely to give us a P response this year, but if you were dry like we were here, something to consider when looking at yields and thinking about future applications

Seeing some visual differences in our corn tissue sampling study, looking at how inputs of NPKS can be seen in tissue at different growth stages. How well will tissue tests correlate with yield at the end? #mscorn @MississippiCorn @MSU_AG

Thanks to @cropsciencepod for the invite, and @OSU_NPK for hosting, as we discussed updating fertilizer recommendations, advancements in nutrient management, and some of the work we are doing. Take a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/7L5pkG…

As planting season begins, farmers are testing their soil to determine the nutrients needed to grow their crop. @msstate scientists on a nationwide team have released a new tool to help decipher the nutrients needed. msstate.edu/newsroom/artic…

Learn about the MSU researchers that collaborate on the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool (FRST) @MSU_AG @jagmandhillon msstate.edu/newsroom/artic…