by MFBF Staff | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Mississippi’s United States Representatives Trent Kelly, Bennie Thompson, Michael Guest and Stephen Palazzo recently signed a letter addressed to United States Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza asking the Small Business Administration to defer the effective...
by Alex Lowery | Mar 9, 2020 | News
For more than 39 years, Jimmie and Dot Arthur produced bale after bale of cotton on their land in Leake County, but their farming career did not start out that way. “I was manager of a chicken hatchery in Hattiesburg,” Jimmie says. “When my dad’s health began to...
by MFBF Staff | Mar 6, 2020 | News
The number of bills the Mississippi Legislature will work with during the remainder of the 2020 Legislative Session decreased drastically after Tuesday, the deadline for bills to pass out of committee. Originally, the House had 1,590 bills and the Senate had 907...
by MFBF Staff | Mar 5, 2020 | News
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President Mike McCormick recently wrote a letter to the United States Fish and Wildlife Services about the submission of comments on issuing migratory bird permits for the management of Double-Crested Cormorants throughout the United...
by MFBF Staff | Mar 4, 2020 | News
As farmers and citizens of the south Delta continue to experience flooding from the incomplete Yazoo Backwater Pump Project, the American Farm Bureau Federation has been working with the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to find members some relief. On Friday, AFBF...
by Alex Lowery | Mar 3, 2020 | News
Mississippi’s legislators and statewide elected officials have been hard at work this month working for the people of Mississippi, including Farm Bureau members. Key Legislative Bills The Mississippi Senate and House worked to develop and pass several pieces of...
