by MBJ Staff Published: January 28,2013
Tags: COST, disaster, disaster recovery, electricity, ice, poll, power, power line, power outage, snow, storm, utility, Weather
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Entergy Arkansas has compiled preliminary damage estimates following the Christmas Day ice storm that gripped Central Arkansas and left more than 194,000 customers without power and caused extensive damage due to ice, snow and high wind. Total restoration costs for the repair and/or replacement of Entergy Arkansas’ electrical facilities in areas [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: January 15,2013
Tags: disaster, disaster declaration, freezing rain, ice, inclement weather, natural disaster, severe weather, sleet, state of emergency, Weather, winter
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Gov. Phil Bryant has declared a state of emergency in several counties hit hard by wintry ice storm. Bryant’s office said late last night that at least 45 counties had reported being affected by the storms. “We are taking the threat of severe weather seriously, and we are looking to ensure that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 15,2012
Tags: commerical, culture, damage, facility, fire, fish, food, Heritage, historic, history, ice, industrial, plant, processing, processor, property, real estate, seafood, shrimp
PASCAGOULA — The brothers who own the Pascagoula Ice and Freezer Co. say they have no plans to reopen the site, which burned in February. The Sun Herald reports the business is owned by three brothers, Andre, Warren and David Gautier. Andre Gautier moved the shrimp-processing segment to Mobile, Ala. Warren Gautier retired, and David [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 4,2012
Tags: agribusiness, Alabama immigration law, Arizona immigration law, federal immigration policy, ice, Illegal immigration, INS, Jan Brewer, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, Phil Bryant, Randy Knight
Gov. Phil Bryant says he has no idea what the costs would be to Mississippi’s agricultural sector if a tough anti-immigration law caused undocumented immigrants to leave the state en masse as they have in Georgia and Alabama. While Georgia and Alabama sustained serious economic losses from crops that went un-harvested after the workers left, [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: April 18,2010
Tags: clovers, eastern gamma grass, ice, MAFES, millet, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi Foundation Seed Stocks, Mississippi State University, partridge peas, ryegrass, southern peas, soybeans, sweet sorghum, wildlife soybeans
Mississippi Foundation Seed Stocks still ginning 50 years later While the public planting seed market is well down from its peak in the 1980s, there is still a demand. And as it has for a half-century now, the Mississippi Foundation Seed Stocks, a unit of Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station [...] [...]
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