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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, disaster, disaster recovery, federal agency, federal government, flood, flooding, funding, hurricane, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, storm, storm surge, tropical storm, Weather, wind
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) reports Mississippi will receive more than $6.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support recovery from recent natural disasters. The USDA has approved Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program funding to assist in the recovery from damages incurred during Hurricane Isaac [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 13,2013
Tags: close, community development, cultural tourism, culture, damage, disaster recovery, history, hurricane, Museum, natural disaster, rain, reopen, storm, storm surge, tourism, tourist, tropical, visitor, wind, wund
PASCAGOULA — The Scranton Museum will reopen the weekend of June 21, after being closed for 15 years. The museum, set up on a shrimp boat, has been closed since Hurricane Georges hit in 1998, causing substantial damage to the vessel. Ann Burgo, Pascagoula event specialist and Scranton Museum director who began running the museum [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 12,2013
Tags: flood, flooding, hurricance, park, pool, rain, severe weather, state park, storm, storm surge, tourism, tourist, tropical weather, vacation, visitor, wave pool, Weather, wind
WAVELAND — The 460,000-gallon wave pool at Buccaneer State Park will be open tomorrow for the first time since Hurricane Katrina heavily damaged the water park in 2005. The Sun Herald reports Buccaneer Bay director Stu Rayburn rode out Hurricane Katrina at the park and was there during the difficult recovery process following the storm. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 6,2013
Tags: flood, flooding, forecast, forecaster, rain, severe weather, storm, storm surge, tropical storm, warning, Weather, wind
GULF OF MEXICO — The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea, formed yesterday over the Gulf of Mexico and was expected to bring wet weather to parts of Florida’s west coast over the next few days. Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning for a swath of Florida’s west coast starting at Boca [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 3,2013
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, damage, destruction, flood, flooding, home, house, housing, hurricane, industrial real estate, insurancy, property, rain, real estate, residence, residential real estate, storm, storm surge, tropical, Weather, wind
JACKSON — Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says people should review insurance policies as part of storm preparations as hurricane season approaches. Chaney says in a news release that most insurance companies won’t accept new applications after a designated hurricane or named storm enters the Gulf of Mexico. He says such a storm could develop [...] [...]
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 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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 15,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, court, decision, environment, flood, flooding, global warming, greenhouse gas, home, homeowner, house, hurricane, landowner, law, lawsuit, legal, rain, residence, resident, ruling, storm, storm surge, trial, tropical, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property. In the lawsuit, the landowners sought compensatory and [...] [...]
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