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MFBF elections, honors

MBJ Staff — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:51:44 +0000

Randy Knight, a dairy farmer from Pelahatchie, was recently re-elected to his second term as president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. Donald Gant from Merigold was re-elected as vice president-North Mississippi. Ted Kendall from Bolton was re-elected as vice president-Central Mississippi. And, Reggie Magee from Mt. Olive was re-elected as vice president-South Mississippi. Newly [...]

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Bryant unsure of migrant labor crackdown’s economic costs

Ted Carter — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:54 +0000

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, [...]

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Walker named best

MBJ Staff — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:13 +0000

Tim Walker, an agronomist at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville and Mississippi State University associate research professor, was recently named the 2012 Rice Researcher of the Year. A Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station scientist, Walker has worked in Stoneville since 2002. He holds a doctoral degree in agronomy from MSU. Walker’s [...]

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Bryant receives award

MBJ Staff — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:55:44 +0000

The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation presented its Friend of Agriculture Award to Gov.-elect Phil Bryant of Brandon. Bryant served as the 2008 honorary chairman of the Republican Lieutenant Governor’s Association and is a past president of the Mississippi Republican Elected Officials Association. He currently serves on the National Lt. Governor’s Association Executive Committee as the [...]

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Statement election

Clay Chandler — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:00:19 +0000

We might have finally found something Mississippians of every political persuasion can agree on: The use of eminent domain for private economic development is a bad idea. Initiative 31, which will amend the state Constitution to essentially restrict the use of eminent domain to projects of direct public use, earned more than 637,000 votes. The [...]

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Farm Bureau chief: Eminent domain push to continue despite lawsuit

Clay Chandler — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:00:48 +0000

The president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation says that organization’s advertising campaign aimed at convincing voters to restrict the state’s use of eminent domain will go forward, even though there is now a chance the initiative won’t even be on the November ballot. Leland Speed, the interim executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, [...]

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Milking 150 cows just the start of the day

Nash Nunnery — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:01:01 +0000

To the casual observer, there doesn’t appear to be enough hours in the day for Randy Knight. Elected as president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation last December, the 48-year-old Knight isn’t just a figurehead for the organization which is considered the voice for Mississippi farm families. He’s a dairy farmer and rancher himself. “Leaving [...]

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Mississippi Ag Day 2011

Stephen McDill — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:00:33 +0000

JACKSON- Farmers met their legislators at the 2011 Mississippi Ag Day at the State Capitol this week. Issues including eminent domain, new EPA regulations and rising input costs were discussed.

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Farmers storm the Capitol

Wally Northway — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:00:22 +0000

Hundreds of farmers from across the state were recently in Jackson to remind any and all lawmakers that agriculture remains Mississippi’s top industry. On March 3, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation hosted the 2nd Annual Ag Day at the State Capitol. The event featured exhibits and food as well as a chance for the agriculture [...]

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Knight takes over at FBF

Clay Chandler — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:00:41 +0000

Long-time leader Waide says he is going back home to tend to family issues and his ranch For the first time since 1996, David Waide is not the president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. At their annual meeting last week, Farm Bureau members elected Rankin County dairy farmer Randy Knight, 48, to succeed Waide, [...]

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