Mississippi State visiting assistant professor Miguel LaSala handles a cotton plant in the Delta. LaSala and other new university faculty toured the state as part of the new faculty bus tour Tuesday.
The group stopped at MSU alumnus Wayne Bush's farming operation. Along with visiting with one of the Magnolia State's top crops, the group also visited Taylor Machine Works in Louisville, the Choctaw Reservation in Philadelphia, the town of Kosciusko and the Viking Range Corp. in Greenwood.