Centennial Celebration News

Mississippi area farmers with waste agricultural pesticides are invited to take part in a waste pesticide disposal event to be held on Tuesday, December 8  from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be held in the parking lot of the former Tal Port building located at 2003...

On October 16, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the long awaited Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Yazoo Backwater pumps project. The SEIS does not reexamine the alternatives presented in the 2007 Final Environmental...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President Mike McCormick recently testified before the Mississippi Senate Highways & Transportation Committee. McCormick was invited to present on behalf of Mississippi's farmers, ranchers and rural communities in an effort to...

Mississippians are being encouraged to submit comments to the Environmental Protection Agency's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Yazoo Backwater Pumps Project. The public will have the opportunity to submit comments on the statement until...

For farmers, ranchers and rural Mississippians, weathering storms is a way of life. Storms bring high winds and heavy rains that destroy row after row of crops or cause floods to cover the precious soil needed to continue their way of life. Farmers are accustomed to...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation members typically gather in Jackson in December for an annual convention to celebrate the organization’s accomplishments for the year and conduct business for the future. This year, due to COVID-19, members were forced to conduct...

For Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation 2020 Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award winners, Brian and Ashley Rhodes, their farm in Rankin County is their own little slice of heaven. It brings them immense joy to raise their children, Lucy, Anna Belle and...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation members typically gather in Jackson in December for an annual convention to celebrate the organization’s accomplishments for the year and conduct business for the future. This year, due to COVID-19, members were forced to conduct...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held a press conference today regarding the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps Project, where EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the EPA’s blessing of the proposed project and determined it was not subject to the EPA’s 2008...

The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation was recently awarded the Leadership & Business Development and Engagement & Outreach Awards of Excellence at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Virtual Convention. AFBF presents these awards to states who showed...

United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a $2 million dollar initiative that encourages smart, sensible and sustainable pest control in agriculture at an event hosted with the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation today. MFBF...