Research Services

Stoneville R&D, Inc. has three research farm locations in Washington County, Mississippi, comprising nearly 300 acres of the best agricultural soil types in the Mid-South area of the United States. The rich alluvial plains of the Mississippi Delta provides an excellent environment for crop production research.

SRD, Inc. is comprised of the original SRD, Inc. research farm in Metcalfe, Mississippi.  A second farm, located in the former BASF Research Station,  is located  near Greenville, Mississippi, south of the original facility. The third site is located near Burdette, MS and is ideally suited for large plot demonstrations and market training.

The South Farm is headquarters for SRD, Inc. The three locations are ideally suited for field research in cotton, rice, soybeans, wheat, corn, grain sorghum and vegetables. Stoneville R&D, Inc. also has excellent GLP facilities and on-site weather technology. All sites are equipped with lateral irrigation systems. Our agronomic system also allows for furrow irrigation. Accommodations for pecans, turf and greenhouse research are available as well.

Efficacy

SRD, Inc. specializes in efficacy studies involving regulated transgenic crops along with standard varietal evaluations of all area crops. Confidential efficacy studies in entomology, weed science, plant pathology, plant growth regulators, biological and harvest aids are also a specialty. SRD, Inc. also has ample space for any type crop or treatment demonstrations plots and can assist companies with marketing surveys and new product training. We have on-farm, automated weather collection, as well as access to automated stations throughout the Delta.

Cropping History

SRD, Inc. has multiple sites for cotton, rice, soybeans, corn, wheat, sorghum, pasture, turf, vegetables, pecan, industrial rights of way, peanuts and transgenic or regulated crops of all types. We are located in the middle of the Cotton Belt and have vast experience in all types of cotton research. SRD’s rice research area is representative of the predominate soil types for Mississippi’s over 200,000 acres of rice.

Prescription Crop Services

SRD, Inc.’s prescription plot service provides area product or field development representatives and other private industry professionals with a safe place to conduct plot work without fear of oversprays and other mishaps that may occur in farmer fields. Cooperators “prescribe” their needs, and we implement them according to their schedule.

Plot Harvesting and Cotton Ginning Capabilities

Mechanical plot harvesters are available for cotton, soybeans, corn, rice, peanuts, wheat  and grain sorghum. Our specialized cotton harvesters are designed to insure residue sample integrity. SRD, Inc. also has numerous gin arrangements to provide uniform preparation of cotton samples to provide reliable lint yields for cotton. SRD, Inc. has several gin arrangements to facilitate gin trash sample collection. Lint samples are customarily sent to Starlab, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee, for fiber quality analyses, but samples can be shipped anywhere at the request of the sponsor.

Services & Facilities & Capabilities

• The South Farm has full facility backup generators.
• 12 X 12 ft walk-in freezer with alarm and backup generator
• Gins for gin turnout & % lint
• Gin trash collection
• Giddings soil sampler to depths of 4 or more ft or Concord samplers
• Pre-excavation soil sampling techniques
• Temperature-controlled chemical storage area
• Cone planters for row crops and rice
• Multi-species planters with in-furrow sprayers
• In-furrow sprayers
• Specialized granular applicators for experimental granular applications
• Rainfall simulator, non-point source
• Chemigation
• Seed treatments
• USDA-APHIS permitted for insects and pathogens
• Vegetable and seedling transplanter
• Germination Studies
• Forage harvester and weigh wagon sampler
• Electronic Notebooks
• Multi-boom plot sprayers
• Hi-clearance plot sprayers
• Study management, and product development