ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi peanut producers should have a wonderful feeling about the 2012 crop as almost everything is going their way, including buyers from Oklahoma. Mike Howell, state peanut specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said many of the factors favoring Mississippi’s crop this year, started last year. “The 2011 drought in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 15,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodities, cotton, cotton farmers, crops, farmers, farms, planting, row crops, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Warm spring weather sent cotton farmers to the fields as early as the first week of April, and cotton stands are ahead of normal and looking good. As of May 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Statistics Service estimated the state’s cotton was 68 percent planted and 45 percent emerged. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 2,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodities, construction, cotton, cotton gin, crops, farmers, farms, gin, row crops
NOXUBEE COUNTY — Construction is scheduled to begin tomorrow on a $6.5 million cotton gin in Noxubee County. Bogue Chitto Gin Inc. was created by a group of 25 cotton farmers from Aliceville, Ala., and from Lowndes, Clay and Noxubee counties in Mississippi. Rodney Mast, a member of the investment group, tells The Commercial Dispatch [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 1,2012
Tags: agriculture, colleges, commodities, crops, education, farmers, farms, higher education, planting, row crops, soybeans, universities, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Soybeans are usually an early-planted crop, but an unseasonably warm March gave some growers a chance to get in the fields a little ahead of the typical April 1 start date.Trent Irby, Mississippi State University Extension Service state soybean specialist, said the crop was on track at the end of April. “Many [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Dry conditions have allowed Mississippi rice producers to plant earlier this year than in previous years. Nathan Buehring, rice specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said an absence of heavy spring rains put the state’s producers well ahead of schedule. About 80 to 85 percent of the state’s rice was [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 12,2012
Tags: agriculture, computers, crops, environment, farmers, farms, Internet, online, pesticide sales, pesticides, registration, row crops, state agency, state government
JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) introduced the Pesticide Products Registration Online System in 2011 to overwhelming support from businesses nationwide, according to MDAC. In its first year of operation as a pilot system, over 80 percent of businesses took advantage of the online application as a way to register pesticides [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, aquaculture, bees, cattle, chickens, colleges, commodities, cotton, crops, dairy, education, eggs, farmers, farms, forestry, fruits, goats, grain, grain sorghum, growers, herds, higher education, honey, horticulture, livestock, milk, nuts, pecans, poultry, research, rice, soybeans, specialty crops, sweet potatoes, trees, universities, wheat
ABERDEEN — Advocates for agriculture met recently at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona to identify priorities for research and Extension Service education programs at Mississippi State University. Scientists from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, specialists with the MSU Extension Service and almost 250 members of the North Mississippi Producer [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 7,2011
Tags: agriculture, crops, farm subsidies, farmers, farms, federal ogvernment, foresters, forests, ranchers, ranches, subsidies, trees
WASHINGTON — Farm-state lawmakers are moving to create a whole new subsidy that would protect farmers when their revenue drops — an unprecedented program that critics say could pay billions of dollars to farmers now enjoying record-high crop prices. The subsidy, free insurance that would cover farmers’ “shallow crop losses” before their paid insurance kicks [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 3,2011
Tags: agriculture, crops, exports, farmers, farms, genetically modified crops, genetically modified rice, lawsuit, rice, settlement
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The deadline is approaching for rice farmers to submit claims in order to share in the settlement of a lawsuit against Bayer CropScience over genetically modified rice that was inadvertently introduced into the U.S. market. Bayer has agreed to a $750 million settlement. Farmers have until Oct. 10 to submit claims. Richard [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 15,2011
Tags: agriculture, crops, drought, famrs, farmers, rains, row crops, severe weather, tropical storm, tropical weather, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Tropical Storm Lee brought much-needed rains to Mississippi’s parched fields and pastures but minimal flood and wind damage. Late-season tropical storms can be costly, even devastating, when winds and pounding rains may whip plants and complicate harvests. When Lee swept through the state over Labor Day weekend, most of Mississippi’s crops either [...] [...]
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