Catfish producers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the South notched a key victory last week with a Commerce Department decision to put duties on frozen catfish fillets exported from Vietnam. The Commerce Department ruling marks a reversal of several years of refusing to place tariffs on government-subsidized Vietnamese pangasius catfish imported to the United States [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 18,2013
Tags: agriculture, aquaculture, catfish, farm, farmer, farming, federal government, fedferal agency, fish, import, importer, importing, international trade, investigation, Politics, subsidized, subsidy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is welcoming a U.S. Department of Commerce antidumping decision that he says will give farm-raised catfish producers in Mississippi and the nation “some relief from unfair, low-priced foreign imports.” Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez late last week informed Cochran that the U.S. Department of Commerce [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: March 1,2013
Tags: agriculture, Andy Prosser, catfish, cotton, MDAC, peanuts, poultry, soybeans, sweet potatoes, timber
Agriculture remains the number one industry in Mississippi with one out of every four residents employed directly or indirectly in that industry. In terms of the state’s best cash crop economically, the production of chickens and eggs is our number one commodity, with soybeans at number two and forestry at number three. “Our economy is [...] [...]
>> SMALL BUSINESS IN MISSISSIPPI Many folks are finding that opening shop now has more advantages than not Also in this week’s paper: >> CATFISH Bangladesh is prime factor in state’s catfish woes >> HOUSING Shipping containers are the newest fashion in housing >> CRUISE CONTROL Jackson attorney talks about taking on cruise industry >> [...] [...]
Don’t look for a lot of glee at a gathering of business people who have lost 80 percent of their market share in the last 10 years. Such was the case with the mid-February annual meeting of the Catfish Farmers of America at Little Rock’s Peabody Hotel. Reporting on the gathering, the hometown Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [...] [...]
Most Mississippians can tell you in detail how often farm-raised catfish end up on their dinner tables or the value of catfish farming to their state’s economy. But you’ll likely draw a blank stare if you ask them what Bangladesh has to do with Mississippi catfish farming. The real answer is that the tiny country [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 11,2013
Tags: agriculture, anti-dumping, aquaculture, catfish, dumping, farm, farmer, farming, federal agency, federasl government, import, international trade
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss) say catfish producers in Mississippi and other states are being harmed by the U.S. Department of Commerce not doing enough to stem a flood of imported fish products. Cochran and Wicker have signed a letter to acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank urging her [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 17,2012
Tags: agriculture, catfish, commodity, corn, cotton, crop, farm, farmer, farming, forestry, hay, horticulture, livestock, poultry, production, rice, row crop, Soybean, wheat, yield
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Significant production levels and high market prices combined to give Mississippi’s agricultural commodities their second year in a row of over $7 billion in total value. Mississippi State University agricultural economists gathered preliminary data from crop production reports, world agricultural supply and demand estimates, industry resources and U.S. Department of Agriculture outlook [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 3,2012
Tags: agriculture, aquaculture, catfish, commodity, education, farm, farmer, farming, fish, higher education, international, mission, professor, train, trainer, training
STARKVILLE — Commercially grown catfish in North America or Africa face similar challenges, a fact that sent one Mississippi State University veterinarian on a training mission to Nigeria in June. Dr. Skip Jack, a professor of pathobiology and population medicine at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, spent almost three weeks teaching Nigerian catfish farmers, veterinarians [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 20,2012
Tags: agriculture, aquaculture, catfish, commodity, crop, drought, dry, farm, farmer, farming, fish, heat, input cost, market price, price, row crop, severe weather, Weather
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Mississippians do not have to look far to see the impact of the Midwest’s historic drought, as the state’s catfish farmers already feel the pinch of sky-high feed costs. “There was a window last fall when some farmers were able to book feed at $380 per ton,” said Jimmy Avery, Mississippi State [...] [...]
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