Laboratory Information:
ARS - Mid South Area
Research Center
P.O. Box 225
Experiment Station Road
Stoneville, MS 38776
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/msa
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Business/Business.htm?modecode=64-00-00-00
Agency/Department: Dept. of Agriculture
Region: Southeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Dr. Edgar King
Phone: 601-686-5265
Fax: 601-686-5459
Email: Edgar.King@ars.usda.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The Mid South Area is one of eight research
areas within ARS. We have over 1000 full-time personnel, including
260 scientist and engineers, working at 13 research locations and worksites in the states of Alabama,
Louisiana,
Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. All major agricultural commodities of the mid- south United States
are
researched by Mid South Area scientists including cotton, corn, soybean, rice, sugarcane, poultry and
catfish, as
well as small fruits such as blueberries and strawberries.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement (NFCA)
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Material Transfer Agreements
- Patents and Licensing
- Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement (RCA)
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Trust Fund Cooperative Agreement (TFCA)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Air Quality
- Animal health
- Soil Resource Management
- Veterinary, Medical and Urban Entomology
- Water Resource Management
- Food Animal Production
- Food Safety, (animal and plant products)
- Global Change
- Human Nutrition
- Crop Production
- Crop Protection & Quarantine
- Plant Biological and Molecular Processes
- Plant Diseases
- Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics and Genetic Improvement
- Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products
- Rangeland, Pasture, and Forages
