Centennial Celebration News

The Mississippi Legislature today suspended the 2020 Legislative Session until April 1, 2020, at the recommendation of State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, medical professionals have suggested avoiding gatherings of 10...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The rolling countryside covering Mississippi Senator Lydia Chassaniol’s district are perfect for two things – growing cotton and raising cattle. After serving in the Mississippi Senate for 13 years, this fact is not lost on Chassaniol, especially as she continues to...

More than 500 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation members gathered in Jackson in December to reflect on 2019 at the organization’s Annual Convention. Eager members had the opportunity to sample MFBF programs, meet staff, and fill up on wonderful food and fellowship...

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This Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill in support of the completion of the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project this week. Passage of the resolution comes after farmers, ranchers and rural Mississippians in the South Delta experienced devastating floods...