JACKSON — The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) will lead a delegation of state business leaders on a business development mission to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel from March 17-22. The trip is designed to connect Mississippi businesses looking to expand trade and create business relationships with opportunities in Israeli markets.
During the business development mission, [...] [...]
GREENWOOD — Viking Range Corporation has recently appointed a new managing director of international sales, Peter Birch, and announced the expansion of the company’s international distribution network.
Birch oversees all major appliance sales outside of the United States and Canada. A native of Coventry, England, Birch’s career includes senior sales and marketing positions in Brazil, Chile [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Cargo tonnage at the Port of Pascagoula was up 27 percent through the third quarter compared to 2010, mostly due to liquefied natural gas coming into Gulf LNG Energy’s Bayou Casotte terminal.
Port director Mark McAndrews tells the Mississippi Press the beginning LNG shipments more than offset some declines in some of port’s traditional [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 25,2011
Tags: agriculture, exports, farmers, farms, food, food safety, genetically modified products, lawsuit, rice, sales
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Rice farmers have nearly a month to file for part of a $750-million settlement to claims they lost money because Bayer CropScience mistakenly sold genetically modified seed in the United States.
The original deadline was Oct. 10, but Bayer extended it to Nov. 21, attorney Don Downing of St. Louis — one of [...] [...]
JACKSON — The passage of three free trade agreements in Congress puts American and Mississippi farmers back at a competitive advantage, and allows open access to markets that have been at an economic disadvantage, according to the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
Agriculture exports are essential to the prosperity of the overall U.S. economy, and especially to [...] [...]
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 Coffman, an [...] [...]
A major decline in chicken exports does not bode well for the Mississippi port’s tentative plans to resume a pre-Katrina business that created hundreds of jobs.
The port had planned to rebuild its freezer for chicken shipments on the West Pier, but that was before a new strategic plan reserved the space for an elevated containerized [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Southern United States Trade Association (SUSTA) is now accepting applications for the 2012 Market Access Program (MAP) Branded.
The Branded program is designed to help small agricultural companies enter export markets with 50 percent reimbursement for promotional costs like advertising, exhibiting at trade shows and changes to packaging and labels.
To be eligible for [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) have sent a bipartisan letter to Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou regarding recent efforts to restrict U.S. beef exports to Taiwan.
The letter was signed by U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).
The senators wrote, in part: “This past January, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration began rejecting [...] [...]
SHANGHAI — The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says China is improving its oversight of its exporters following a slew of scandals over bogus or substandard drugs and foods ranging from vaccines and infant formula to dog chow.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said today that Chinese officials she spoke with during her first [...] [...]
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