by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
Throughout the spring of 2020, the impacts of COVID-19 have had wide reaching impacts on American agriculture and producers. Within agriculture, livestock producers have been subject to particularly unique challenges as a result of the impact to labor at processing...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
As of June 1, 2020, Mississippi reported 15,752 total cases of COVID-19 and 739 deaths from the virus. Governor Tate Reeves’s Safe Return order (https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/executiveorders/ExecutiveOrders/1492.pdf) went into place. It gives guidelines for...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
The Tuesday after Memorial Day the Mississippi Legislature resumed the 2020 regular session. This will go down as one of the longest regular sessions in Mississippi history, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The House and Senate committees are working on bills received...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
Farmers and Ranchers to Receive Direct Support for Losses Related to COVID-19 (Washington, D.C., May 19, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which will provide up to $16 billion...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
The Mississippi Legislature passed legislation to establish two separate grant programs to help small businesses throughout the state, totaling around $300 million, on Wednesday. The first portion of the legislation directs a $2,000 payment to Mississippi businesses...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
(AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus) Speaker Phillip Gunn and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann made the decision to convene the Mississippi Mississippi Legislature today, Friday, May 1, 2020, to decide whether the legislature or governor have the authority to spend Mississippi’s...
