Mississippi Business Journal » Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rising cattle prices raise rustler worries http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/25/rising-cattle-prices-raise-rustler-worries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rising-cattle-prices-raise-rustler-worries http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/25/rising-cattle-prices-raise-rustler-worries/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:01:31 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=58848 It’s summer time and the living is just a bit easier for Mississippi’s agriculture theft investigators — at least when it comes to chasing down cattle rustlers. But no one can say how long things will stay that way as beef prices head to record levels and thieves out for a lucrative score begin trying [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/25/rising-cattle-prices-raise-rustler-worries/feed/ 0 Is farming good economic development? http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/22/is-farming-good-economic-development/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-farming-good-economic-development http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/22/is-farming-good-economic-development/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:02:23 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=58831 Eight years chairing the Mississippi Senate Agriculture Committee led Cindy Hyde-Smith to conclude there’s a lot of gold to be mined down on the farm. The state just needs to more vigorously dig for it, she decided after a dozen years in the Senate and a lifetime working in agriculture. As the state’s newly elected [...]

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