by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
The Mississippi Legislature continued working on behalf of Mississippians this week amid concerns of the COVID-19. On Thursday morning, legislative leaders met with Mississippi Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs and other public health officials to determine a course of...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
Sixty mother cows can be a handful even for the most veteran farmer, but throw in a full-time job, full-time graduate school, plus a rather active three year old and you may not see the Blakeneys outside of their fence rows often. “There’s no extra time,” Sam says....
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
For the Poe family in Pontotoc County, farming is in their blood. It’s easy to see this family’s enthusiasm about agriculture in its youngest members, Harrison and Tindall Kay. “If he wants to farm, we’re going to give him every opportunity and set him up for success,...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | 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 rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
From a soft breeze to the soothing sound of wind chimes on his porch where he surveys his property with his wife of 55 years, Jacob MeGehee strives to live simply. “I like to call myself a simple minded person,” MeGehee says. “There’s just something wonderful about...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | News
After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1958, former student body president Ted Kendall III set out to take on the world, or at least a small part of it. The agriculture graduate moved home to Bolton to work on his family farm, but quickly realized how...
