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Fins, bolls rebound

Wally Northway — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:00:18 +0000

Catfish and cotton show new life While most producers enjoyed a bounce-back year in 2010, two commodities that many had given up for dead enjoyed Lazarus-like resurrections. Mississippi’s catfish industry has been on a downward spiral for years. High input costs, rising foreign competition and other factors have driven many out of aquaculture. That attrition led [...]

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Hollow victory?

Wally Northway — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:01:53 +0000

USDA slashes catfish inspection budget As of late, good news coming from the beleaguered U.S. catfish industry has been meager at best. So, it made headlines when, after years of lobbying by the industry, the 2008 Farm Bill approved the transfer of the inspection of imported fish from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [...]

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