Centennial Celebration 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced today that a new safer-at-home order will go into effect Monday, April 27 after the previous shelter-in-place order expires at 8 a.m. The safer-at-home order comes after much deliberation between Reeves and State Health Officer...

As farmers and citizens of the south Delta continue to experience flooding from the incomplete Yazoo Backwater Pump Project, the American Farm Bureau Federation has been working with the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to find members some relief. On Friday, AFBF...

The number of bills the Mississippi Legislature will work with during the remainder of the 2020 Legislative Session decreased drastically after Tuesday, the deadline for bills to pass out of committee. Originally, the House had 1,590 bills and the Senate had 907...

Mississippi’s legislators and statewide elected officials have been hard at work this month working for the people of Mississippi, including Farm Bureau members. Key Legislative Bills The Mississippi Senate and House worked to develop and pass several pieces of...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President Mike McCormick served as U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's guest to the annual State of the Union Address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on February 4. “It was a true honor to participate in the State of the Union...

The Mississippi Senate and House agriculture committees both met this week, and passed several bills pertaining to the Mississippi agriculture industry. The Senate Agriculture Committee bills were: SB 2118 - Increases penalties for those that steal pecans from growers...