by MBJ Staff Published: June 18,2013
Tags: agriculture, blueberry, cold, farm, farmer, farming, fly, freeze, harvest, horticulture, insect, pest, rain, Weather, wet, yield
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Late-spring cold snaps and untimely freezes have delayed harvests and reduced yields for Mississippi’s 2013 blueberry crop. George Traicoff of Hernando runs a family owned and operated you-pick operation in DeSoto County. He started Nesbit Blueberry Plantation with 6,000 plants in 1984, and today his family tends 16,000 plants. “We are running [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 17,2013
Tags: agriculture, commodity, farm, farmer, farming, planting, rain, row crop, Soybean, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Heavy rains in early April delayed soybean planting in Mississippi and Louisiana. Farmers said the optimal time to plant soybeans is early to mid-April, but excess rain caused area farmers to plant in late April and May. “We had to wait for our fields to dry up,” local farmer Noble Guedon told [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has passed a new farm bill. The Senate yesterday approved the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 (S.954), major legislation that reforms and extends programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through 2018. The bill was approved on a bipartisan 66-27 vote. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, ranking Republican [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 9,2013
Tags: agriculture, commodity, cotton, farm, farmer, farming, insect, pest, planting, row crop, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Farmers are finally catching up on cotton planting, but experts are worried that the late start could expose the crop to more insects than if wet weather hadn’t delayed planting. Mississippi farmers had intended to plant corn on many acres in hopes of cashing in on high prices. But winter and spring [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 6,2013
Tags: agriculture, farm, farmer, farming, financial assistance, food, food safety, fruit, horticulturalist, horticulture, incentive, program, state agency, vegetable
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce is currently offering a cost-share program to provide financial assistance to Mississippi fruit and vegetable farmers receiving Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) Certification. Eligible farmers will receive reimbursement for 75 percent of the certification costs up to a maximum of $500. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 2,2013
Tags: agriculture, farm, farmer, farming, food, planting, producer, rain, row crop, Soybean, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Many Mississippi farmers celebrated Memorial Day in their tractor seats as they took full advantage of about a week of good weather to make significant strides in planting. A nearly unbroken string of rains kept farmers mostly out of the fields through the early-spring planting window. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s May 26 Crop [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 30,2013
Tags: agriculture, Chicken, demand, earnings, farm, farmer, farming, food processor, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, net income, poultry, producer, publicly traded company, revenue, supply
LAUREL — Sanderson Farms Inc. said today that its fiscal second-quarter net income rose 2 percent thanks to higher demand for poultry products. Its performance topped Wall Street’s view. Shares climbed in premarket trading. The poultry company earned $24.4 million, or $1.06 per share, for the three months ended April 30. That’s up from $23.9 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 29,2013
Tags: agriculture, board, commodity, farm, farmer, farming, planting, research, row crop, Soybean, video
CANTON — The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board (MSPB) is hoping its research videos will help the state’s growers overcome the challenges they face during the planting season. After facing weather delays earlier this spring, soybean planting is finally well underway in Mississippi. This also means an application of herbicides to crops for many farmers. The [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 21,2013
Tags: agriculture, ecosystem, environment, exempt, exemtion, farm, farmer, farming, federal agency, federal government, legislation, legislative, legislator, p senator, pollution, water pollution, water quality, wildlife
WASHINGTON — Legislation to exempt small farms from Environmental Protection Agency fuel storage requirements has been incorporated into the Senate-passed Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA), according to a release from U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). The Senate passed WRDA legislation (S.601), and with it also approved all the provisions included in the Farmers [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 20,2013
Tags: agricultutre, commodity, farm, farmer, farming, plant, planter, planting, rain, row crop, Weather, wet
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Planting of Mississippi row crops has fallen behind schedule following a spate of wet weather, according to industry experts and government officials. Ernie Flint, an agronomist at the Mississippi State University Extension Service, says many of the state’s farmers are running about month behind but still have time to catch up before [...] [...]
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