by Stephen McDill Published: March 3,2011
Tags: agriculture, catfish, Mississippi, Mississippi Farm Bureau, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, poultry, rice, soybeans, State Capitol, timber
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. [...]
by Wally Northway Published: November 17,2010
Tags: agriculture, Internet, soybeans
JACKSON — The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board (MSPB) announced the launch of a new soybean production resource for the state’s soybean farmers at www.mssoy.org. The new website compiles and centralizes soybean research, reports and resources valuable to Mississippi soybean farmers. “If a soybean farmer is looking for specific information about growing and managing soybeans in [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: November 9,2009
Tags: agriculture, crop damage, flooded field, mississippi farmers, soybeans
Crop damage estimated at nearly $500M John Anderson looked out his car window and surveyed yet another flooded field of soybeans. An agriculture economist at Mississippi State University, Anderson knows well the current crop loss estimates — in late October, he and colleague Dr. John Michael Riley figured it at approximately $371 million, or 23 [...] [...]
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