Description:Content: Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area: overview of water quality issues on a watershed scale / Martin A. Locke -- Watershed research of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: an evolution in mission / M.J.M. Romkens and C.W. Richardson -- Surface water quality in the delta of Mississippi / Karrie L. Pennington -- Agricultural practices of the Mississippi Delta / Charles E. Snipes ... [et al.] -- Evaluation of best management practices in the Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area / Seth M. Dabney, Yongpin Yuan, Ronald L. Bingner -- Groundwater nutrients in the Beasley Lake watershed of the Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area / S.M. Dabney ... [et al.] -- Pesticides in shallow ground water and lake water in the Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area / S. Smith, Jr. and C.M. Cooper -- Suspended sediment and agrochemicals in runoff from agricultural systems in the Mississippi Delta: 1996-2000 / Richard A. Rebich -- Evaluation of watershed management practices on Oxbow Lake ecology and water quality / Scott S. Knight and Terry D. Welch -- Dynamics of herbicide concentrations in Mississippi delta Oxbow Lakes and the role of planktonic microorganisms in herbicide metabolism / Robert M. Zablotowiz ... [et al.] -- Precision farming technologies for weed control in the Mississippi Delta / James E. Hanks and Charles T. Bryson -- Fluometuron adsorption to soil influenced by best management practices : established filter strip and riparian zones / M.W. Shankle ... [et al.] -- Spatial variability of cyanazine dissipation in soil from a conservation-managed field / William J. Staddon, Martin A. Locke, and Robert M. Zablotowicz -- The role of vegetated drainage ditch research in the Mississippi Delta: current results and future directions / Matthew T. Moore ... [et al.] -- Weed populations as related to conservation tillage and reduced herbicide management systems: Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area / Charles T. Bryson and James E. Hanks -- A watershed based bioeconomic model of best management practices in Mississippi / Diane Hite, Walaiporn Intarapapong, and Murat Isik -- Herbicide and nitrate in surface and ground water: results from the Iowa Management Systems Evaluation Area / T.B. Moorman, J.L. Hatfield, and R.S. Kanwar -- National needs, regional solutions: the development of site-specific assessments of pesticides in water resources / R. Don Wauchope, Timothy C. Strickland, and Martin A. Locke.