| Friday, December 5, 2025 |
| Jeff Gore: Growing Ag Profitability Through Research at DREC | |
 | As a child, Jeff Gore, Ph.D., Director of Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension Center (DREC) in Stoneville, loved to be outside. He was greatly interested in the natural world. "Growing up, I didn't stay inside playing video games," recalls Gore. "If it was a nice day, I was outside playing in a creek looking for salamanders, snakes, frogs and whatever insects I could collect. Growing up in the South, I got to do a lot of hunting and fishing. I fished almost all year around." When considering graduate schools, he chose Louisiana State University working on cotton and other row crops. He got both his master's degree and Ph.D., in entomology from LSU working with cotton entomologist Roger Leonard, Ph.D. "One thing I really enjoyed about working with Dr. Leonard is that he wasn't on the main campus at Baton Rouge but was located at a research center in Northeast Louisiana like where I am here in Stoneville," says Gore. "It is great to be able to spend time close to farmers in an area where you see the benefits of your research." |
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