Mississippi Row Crops Short Course Programs Now On Line
In case you missed it, last week’s Mississippi Row Crops Short Course is available on line in a series of video presentations. The links below will take you to individual presentations covering cotton, rice, soybeans and corn. Topics include insect control, fertility, disease prevention and weed control, including a big dose of current information on Roundup resistance.
The programs include a small video screen showing the person making the presentation and a larger screen that flips through the PowerPoint images that support the talk.
The audio is a bit distant, recorded through the video camera that captured the presenter. But the sound is good enough that you can follow along pretty easily. In at least one case, the video shows an empty podium for a couple of minutes before that specific presentation started.
That niggly point aside, these presentations are a cost-effective way to make this excellent short course available to a wider audience. There’s no substitute for attending, yourself, but so many meetings get jammed into the late fall and early winter that conflicts occur.
This is the first short course MSU has put together that covers major field crops, and it replaces the long-running and well regarded Cotton Short Course.
The programs are available in the Microsoft Silverlight format, which enables this simultaneous viewing of video and PowerPoint data. While the Row Crop Short Course home page advises that the presentations should be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer, we can no trouble running them in FireFox 3.0. However, we could not run the presentations in Opera 9.2.
Here are the links:
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Influence of Planting Pattern, Maturity Group, & Seeding Rate on Soybean Yield
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Wednesday, December 9th Mediasite
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