FIELD DAY: Multi-County Spring Forestry Tour; West Point, MS; 5-13-2017

Got a “hankering” to spend a few hours in the outdoors picking up some good forestry info before Mississippi gets HOT? Then sign up for this Spring tour; learn about logging and wild hog control – some of the latest trapping techniques and equipment along with a pine genetics plot tour. Clink on this LINK and take a look at the flyer for details.

APPLICATION: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Tree Thinning Incentives

CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM (CRP)TREE THINNING INCENTIVE

APPLICATION PERIOD:  05/02/2016 – 05/31/2016

ELIGIBILITY:  Current CRP Enrollment

PURPOSE:  (Under authority of the 2014 Farm Bill)

Encourage tree thinning

                             Improve condition of resources

                             Promote forest management

                             Enhance wildlife habitat

 

THINNING INCENTIVE:

          $150/acre for thinning

            (Any thinning operations completed since 10/22/2015 are eligible)

 

Required Secondary Practices and Incentives:

                    $25/acre for prescribed burning

                    $25/acre for disking     

                    $100/acre for chemical woody & herbaceous plant control

                    $125/acre for mechanical woody plant control

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL USDA FARM SERVICE AGENCY (FSA)  FOR DETAILS

NEW SMARTPHONE APP TO HELP LANDOWNERS DETERMINE WHETHER THEIR PINE TREES NEED THINNING

Thinning is a major tool in forest management, with multiple purposes and benefits. Mississippi State University Forestry  Extension has come up with a great new smartphone application “Pine Thin” that will help landowners with pine stands to determine when and/or if their pine stands need thinning.  This LINK will take you to today’s  Agricultural Communications press release on the app, and direct you to further information on where to get it, and how to use it.  Check it out!

A NOTE ABOUT LINKS ON THE BLOG, APRIL 13, 2015

Some comments from users of the blog have indicated a problem in connecting to information that is “linked”.

You will need to click on the “title” first – it will then bring up the same post, but the link here will be live.

EXAMPLE:  I just posted the 2015 1st Quarter MS Timber Price Report (by that title)  – it is the last thing posted so you will see it when you go to the Blog. You will notice that the work LINK is dulled out, i.e., not active. However, if you click on the title as above, it will reopen/refresh the page and the LINK will be live and will take you directly to the report.

I do not know why it is set up to work this way, but thought this note might expedite getting to the desired information.

 

 

SHORT COURSE: EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS & RISK MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR FAMILY FORESTS, Senatobia, MS, 3-26-2015

A basic course on risk management options and strategies to plan for and mitigate damage to forests caused by extreme weather events. This course is designed for forest landowners, professional foresters and anyone involved in forestland management.

6 HRS CATEGORY 1  CLE, AND CFE  Credits offered.  Click on this LINK for access to the brochure and further information.