![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Singh’s research focuses on agronomic management for optimum irrigation practices, soil fertility, and soil and water quality in row-crop production systems. There is not a better place for on-farm research,” he said. “This award is a result of a great team here at Mississippi State University and DREC and the many farmers that allow us to conduct research on their farm. “To be honored by your peers is incredibly rewarding,” he said. He said he is grateful to the National Conservation Systems and his colleagues across the region. As the Mississippi State Extension irrigation specialist, he established a soil moisture monitoring showcase, where farmers can analyze costs, benefits and functionality of soil moisture sensors and accompany telemetry services. Gholson began an on-farm research program that automates furrow irrigation. The leading agriculture event features more than 100 presentations and encompasses conferences for National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice, Southern Corn and Soybean, Delta States Irrigation and Southern Precision Ag. Both are scientists in MSU’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and stationed at Stoneville’s Delta Research and Extension Center, known as DREC. The 25th Annual Conservation Systems Conferences event recently was held in Jonesboro, Arkansas. STARKVILLE, Miss.-Two Mississippi State scientists in the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station are being recognized nationally as researchers of the year.ĭrew Gholson, assistant professor, and coordinator of the MSU USDA-ARS National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research, or NCAAR, and Gurbir Singh, assistant research professor, were honored as Irrigation Researcher of the Year and Corn Researcher of the Year, respectively. ![]()
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