Catfish and cotton show new life While most producers enjoyed a bounce-back year in 2010, two commodities that many had given up for dead enjoyed Lazarus-like resurrections. Mississippi’s catfish industry has been on a downward spiral for years. High input costs, rising foreign competition and other factors have driven many out of aquaculture. That attrition [...] [...]
Catfish and cotton show new life While most producers enjoyed a bounce-back year in 2010, two commodities that many had given up for dead enjoyed Lazarus-like resurrections. Mississippi’s catfish industry has been on a downward spiral for years. High input costs, rising foreign competition and other factors have driven many out of aquaculture. That attrition led [...] [...]
While Mississippi’s farmers enjoy a harvest season with cotton prices hovering near 15-year highs, clothing retailers keep a wary eye on the situation. Since the first of the year, cotton prices have doubled. In early September, the price of one pound of raw cotton hit 93 cents, and has since hovered around the 90 cent [...] [...]
Johnny Swayze, 58, has been in the cotton business as long as he can remember. Ask him if remembers the worst crop in his lifetime, and he doesn’t have to go back far — only to last year. “We don’t have anybody living today that can remember one worse,” said Swayze, who operates the Midway [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Spring rains have been kind to most Mississippi farmers, and conditions are offering cotton one of its best starts in recent years. Darrin Dodds, cotton specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said most of the state’s crop has been slightly ahead of schedule. “The weather has not caused a significant [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: May 10,2010
Tags: catfish, Chip Morgan, Clarksdale, cotton, Delta Council, farming, Leland, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi State University, regionalism, Stoneville, Thad Cochran, Travis Satterfield
STONEVILLE- MBJ-TV photojournalist Stephen McDill visits with Delta Council vice-president Chip Morgan to discuss the economic development organization’s work in the Mississippi Delta regional. [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: May 9,2010
Tags: catfish, cotton, Delta Council, farming, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi State University, Stoneville, Thad Cochran, Travis Satterfield
STONEVILLE- MBJ-TV photojournalist Stephen McDill travels to Stoneville, the home of Delta Council, one of the state’s oldest economic development organizations. [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 24,2010
Tags: Alabama, American Medical Response, Arkansas, blues music, catfish, Choctaw County, cotton, Gov. Haley Barbour, Holmes County, Houston Astros, Jim Pollard, Josh Nicholson, Louisiana, Malcolm Gordon, Mayor McArthur Straughter, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, National Guard, Rafael Scott, Roy Oswalt, Southeast, Tallulah, tornado, Weir, Willie M. Horton, Yazoo City
YAZOO CITY — Rescuers stood ready Sunday to comb neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children.James Jackson, a deputy state fire marshal, said crews took a break overnight but were organizing at first daylight to resume [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — Cotton production costs continue to climb in most categories with one exception – boll weevil control. When the boll weevil eradication program first entered Mississippi’s eastern counties in 1997, cotton growers were assessed $20 per acre. As the program progressed westward, first-year assessments ranged from $20 to $24 per acre. Initially, weevils were [...] [...]
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