by Alex Lowery | Sep 10, 2018 | News
Negotiators from the United States House and Senate have been working diligently over the last several weeks to come to final agreements on as many as nine of the 12 FY2019 appropriations bills, with both the House and Senate formally naming conferees this week on the...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 7, 2018 | News
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation officials hosted Bayer Crop Science officials, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce officials, Mississippi State University Extension Service officials and Mississippi producers for a meeting in Memphis, Tennessee on...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 5, 2018 | News
The United States House and Senate farm bill conferees met for the first public farm bill conference meeting today. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway opened and agreed it is imperative that the...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 4, 2018 | News
Mississippi agricultural producers can now apply for funding to offset losses experienced in 2017 from hurricanes and wildfires. Funds will be distributed by USDA’s Farm Service Agency through the new 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program or 2017 WHIP,...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 4, 2018 | News
Cala Tabb, a Webster County Farm Bureau member, recently accepted an invitation to attend American Farm Bureau Federation’s October GO Team training. The special October training session will focus on key-interests-based advocacy. For some time, advocacy...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 2, 2018 | News
In April, Syngenta settled class action and individual lawsuits related to the sale and marketing of its Agrisure Viptera and Duracade corn seeds. All corn producers with an interest in U.S. corn priced for sale between Sept. 15, 2013, and April 10, 2018, are eligible...
