Tunica County Extension Office

🚜🌱 It’s officially time to enter the 2026 Mississippi Soybean Yield Challenge! 🌱🚜

This is a great opportunity for any soybean producer in Tunica County to showcase their production practices, compete for cash prizes, and have a little fun along the way!

The best part? Your favorite Tunica County Extension Agent, Sam Floyd, will be there to help you every step of the process and make sure you have everything submitted correctly.

🏆 Division Winners Receive:
🥇 1st Place – $7,500
🥈 2nd Place – $5,000
🥉 3rd Place – $2,500

Even if you don’t place in your division, participants who submit all required forms will receive $100 and be entered into a $1,000 drawing!

🎉 We had multiple Tunica County producers place in the challenge and win the $1,000 drawing last year. Let’s make sure Tunica County is represented again in 2026!

📅 Entry Deadline: August 1, 2026

📞 To enter or learn more, contact:

Tunica County Extension Office
☎️ 662-363-2911

Don’t wait, give us a call today and let’s see what Tunica County soybean growers can do! 🌱🏆🚜

Our shooting sports team the “Tunica Skeeters” did a wonderful job on the shotgun range today! We are very very proud of them!!

Red, white and we’re just missing YOU!!! 4-H Club Congress is May 27-29. Contact your county Extension agent to register!

Our ANR Agent, Sam Floyd, had the opportunity to speak and provide a demonstration at the Master Gardeners State Conference this week!

She demonstrated how to create kokedamas and macramé plant hangers, two creative ways to display plants and add a unique touch to any space.

Sam had a great time sharing these techniques and connecting with fellow gardening enthusiasts!

Our office will be closed TODAY (4/23/26) due to attending a District Staff meeting in Stoneville, MS.

We will be open tomorrow Friday, April 24 with regular business hours.

Join us for Club Congress this year! Call our office for more information and to register! 662-363-2911

Being selected as a 4-H Ambassador is an honor that carries great responsibility. Ambassadors serve as emcees, program facilitators, and members of county and state council committees.

Mississippi 4-H Ambassadors are role models who uphold high standards in making the best better in their clubs, communities, country, and world.

Applicants should be 14 years old as of January 1 of the current year and senior-level 4-H members with a genuine commitment to and enthusiasm for 4-H.

Get all the details on how to apply here: https://ow.ly/kMHH50YgOJF

Calling all landowners, wildlife enthusiasts, and habitat managers! 🐦

Want to improve your property for bobwhite quail?

Join us for Establishing Bobwhite Quail Habitat and learn practical, research-based strategies for creating sustainable quail habitat.

📅 March 5, 2026
⏰ 9 AM
📍 Quitman County Extension Office

We’ll cover:
✔ Quail ecology & reproduction
✔ Habitat essentials
✔ Prescribed burning & land management tools
✔ Food plot considerations

Call Peyton at the Quitman County Extension Office to register today!
📧 [email protected]
📞 662-326-8939

Our Multi-County Row Crop Meeting earlier this month was a great success, with producers and agricultural vendors from multiple counties in attendance. We truly appreciate everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to join us!

A special thank you to our event sponsors for helping make this program possible. Your support of Mississippi agriculture and our local producers does not go unnoticed.

We would also like to extend a big thank you to Blue and White Restaurant and Gibson’s Full Serv for catering the meal. The food is always a huge hit thanks to these two outstanding local businesses!

If you were unable to attend, you can still access valuable agricultural updates and economic resources through the Mississippi State University Extension Service Agricultural Economics Program.

🔗 Agricultural Economics Website:
https://extension.msstate.edu/agriculture/agricultural-economics

🔗 2026 Crop Budgets:
https://www.agecon.msstate.edu/whatwedo/budgets.php

These resources provide current outlooks, enterprise budgets, and decision-making tools to help producers plan for the 2026 crop year.

Thank you for your continued support of Extension programs here in the Delta! 🌾