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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation
Air
Almond
Animal research, general
Aquatic plants
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Catfish
Chemurgic Crops
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Dairy cattle, live animal
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Finfish
Fish habitats
Forage legumes, other
Fungi (includes yeast)
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red winter wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Laboratory animals
Leguminous vegetables, other
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Nectarine
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other poultry products
Oysters
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pecan
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Strawberry
Striped bass
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Research Projects within Soil
item Acoustic and Geophysical Methods for Multi-Scale Measurements of Soil and Water Resources
item Advancing the State of Soil Information on U.S. Tribal Lands for Improved Food Security
item Agronomic and Engineering Solutions for Conventional and Organic Conservation Agricultural Systems in the Southeastern U.S.
item Agronomic Feasibility of Tile Drainage Sub-irrigation and Furrow Irrigation Systems for Crop Production Systems in Mississippi Delta
item An Evaluation of Alternative Crops and Production Systems in Western Arkansas
item Analysis to Support Soil Health and Climate Change Research
item Assessing the Role of Wildlife in the Movement of Antimicrobial Resistance Including Salmonella
item Autonomous Irrigation of Cover-Crop-Production Systems Reduces Pollutant Loss from Farm Fields, Transport of Agrochemicals in Streams, and Aquifer
item Back to the Future: Improving Productivity, Sustainability, and Resilience of Eastern Grasslands
item Computational Tools & Decision Support System Technologies for Agricultural Watershed Physical Processes, Water Quality and Ground Water Management
item Computational Tools and Decision Support System Technologies for Agricultural Watershed Physical Processes, Water Quality and Ground Water Management
item Contribution of Legacy P to Watershed Outcomes - Phase 1
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems (Booneville)
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems - University of Arizona
item Crop Modeling Digital Twin Development through Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
item Develop Spatially Explicit Soil Property Maps for Precision Management for Forage Production for Small Farms
item Developing Best Management Practices for Poultry Litter to Improve Agronomic Value and Reduce Air, Soil and Water Pollution
item Developing Improved Sugarcane Cultivars using Conventional and Molecular Breeding
item Development of a Digital Twin Agricultural Modeling System
item Development of High Yield and Disease Resistant CP Sugarcane Cultivars for Florida
item Development of the FPAC Soil Carbon Data Management Tools Suites and Systems that are Integrated into and Maintained on the USDA ARS Partnerships
item Development of the FPAC Soil Carbon Data Management Tools Suites and Systems that are Integrated into and Maintained on the USDA ARS Partnerships
item Dissipation and Activity of Selected Pesticides in Sugarcane Production Soil of Louisiana
item Diversification of Crosses for Improving the Canal Point Sugarcane Cultivar Development Program
item Dynamic, Data-Driven, Sustainable, and Resilient Crop Production Systems for the U.S.
item Dynamic, Data-Driven, Sustainable, and Resilient Crop Production Systems for the U.S.
item Dynamic, Data-Driven, Sustainable, and Resilient Crop Production Systems for the U.S.
item Effective Reduction of Ammonia in Poultry Facilities
item Enhanced Soil Carbon Farming As A Climate Solution
item Enhancing Long-Term Agroecosystem Sustainability of Water and Soil Resource Through Science and Technology
item Enhancing Long-Term Agroecosystem Sustainability of Water and Soil Resources Through Science and Technology
item Establishing an Eddy Covariance Flux Network Focusing on Sugarcane Production in Louisiana
item Forage-Based Beef Production Systems Research
item Fostering Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Landscapes by Integrating Diverse Perennial Circular Systems (RESILIENCE CAP)
item Fostering Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Landscapes by Integrating Diverse Perennial Circular Systems - Univ of TX in Arlington
item FY 2021 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) ARS Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on Croplands) -Oxford, MS (Lizotte)
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) - (WQERU Oxford)
item Grazing with the Fun Guy (Fungi) – Small Ruminant Worm Control
item Grazing with the Fun Guy (Fungi) – Small Ruminant Worm Control
item Gulf of Mexico Program
item Improving Resilience and Diversification of Small Farms Through Agroforestry and Specialty Crops
item Improving Sugarcane Growth Estimation Across Variable Climatic Conditions by Integrating Flux Data, Remote Sensing, and Computer Modeling
item Improving the Economic and Ecological Sustainability of US Crop Production through On-Farm Precision Experimentation
item Inflation Reduction Act Cropland Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Starkville Mississippi
item Innovations for Small Farms Pasture and Silvopasture
item Innovative Manure Treatment Technologies and Enhanced Soil Health for Agricultural Systems of the Southeastern Coastal Plain
item Integrating Cover Crops, Tillage, and Irrigation Management to Enhance Crop Productivity and Profitability
item Investigating Naturally Revegetated Chat-Contaminated Soils-Assisted Revegetation
item Land Suitability Analysis for Olive and Maize Crop in Agroforestry System by Using Machine Learning Algorithms
item Long-Term Agro-Ecosystem Sustainability Research Common Experiment
item Maintaining Parental Plants and Optimizing Crosses for the Sugarcane Breeding and Cultivar Development Program in Louisiana
item Nitrous Oxide, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide Soil Flux from Climate-Smart Sugarcane Production Systems in Louisiana
item NRCS AA2 Greenhouse Gas Research Network - Animal Housing Emissions -(Fayetteville, AR)
item Optimizing Conservation Management Practices for Improved Agronomic Performance and Enhanced Ecosystem Services of Cropping Systems in the Mississippi Delta Region
item Optimizing Crop Management Strategies for Enhancing the Sustainability of Integrated Crop and Livestock Agroecosystems in the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain of Georgia
item Post-harvest Crop Residue Management affects Sugarcane Yield, Soil Health, and Carbon Sequestration
item Sampling For Root-Zone Enrichment of Soil Organic Matter
item Scaling Up Potential Antibiotic Resistant Gene Transport to Groundwater in Karst Geologies through Digital Tools
item Silicate Rock (CarbonLock) Soil Application Effects on Insect Herbivory, Carbon Sequestration, and Sugarcane Growth
item Stimulation of Potentially Active Soil Microbes to Provide Maximum Soil Health
item Sugarcane Bagasse Effects on Mechanical and Mechanistic Performance of Hot Mixed Asphalt Mixtures
item Use of Locally Effective Microorganisms and Other Amendments for the Improvement of Soil Health in Mine-Impacted Remediated Soils
item Using Phytoremediation and Other Ecosystem Services to Address Emerging Contaminants in Agroecosystems
item Using Soil and Water Health Assessment Tools to Identify Best Management Strategies
item Utilization of Cutting Edge Real Time Sensor Technology in Sugarcane Breeding
item Utilizing Acoustic and Geophysics Technology to Assess and Monitor Watersheds in the United States
item Water and Soil Resources in Sustainable Sugarcane Production Systems for Temperate Climates
item Winter Cover Crops to Improve Nitrogen Management in Energycane Production