by Alex Lowery | Sep 24, 2018 | News
Planning for the 2019 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Winter Commodity Conference on January 28-29 is currently underway. Jim Wiesemeyer, Senior Vice President at Informa Economics, Inc., and Bryce Knorr, Senior Grain Market Analyst for Farm Futures, have already...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 18, 2018 | News
Six members of the Mississippi Congressional Delegation recently received the “Friend of Farm Bureau” Award for the 115th Congress from the American Farm Bureau Federation. Every two-year session of Congress, AFBF monitors the voting records of U.S House...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 16, 2018 | News
The federal district court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, recently enjoined the 2015 WOTUS Rule in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, bringing the number of enjoined states to 27. There is ongoing litigation in courts across the country...
by Alex Lowery | Sep 11, 2018 | News
On Monday, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation held a south Mississippi producer round table with state conservationist Kurt Readus and staff with the USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to discuss ongoing conservation programs available to farmers...
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...
