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The Mississippi legislature convened for the 2021 regular session January 5. Two weeks in and legislators are still finalizing drafts of bills to be introduced and preparing for committee meetings. The first big deadline of the session was January 13, the deadline to...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held a press conference earlier this week 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...

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...

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...

The Mississippi State Legislature convened for the 2021 Regular Legislative Session today. Mississippi’s Constitution states this session will be 90 days. As of today, the Legislature is expected to adjourn Sine Die by Saturday, April 4. However, because of the...

In an effort to help prepare Mississippi farmers and ranchers for the year ahead, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation will host the 2021 Winter Commodity Conference virtually on Tuesday, January 19 from 9-11 a.m. The conference will provide members from across...

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...

To show appreciation for the hard work Mississippi Land Grant University professionals do for Mississippi farmers and the state’s agriculture industry, each year MFBF selects one Mississippi Land Grant University Agricultural Researcher and one Mississippi Extension...

As this article goes to print, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation continues to focus on key policy priorities established by the voting delegates at the MFBF Annual Convention in December 2019. In this column, I would like to highlight the numerous issues...

In January 2020, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation launched a federal Political Action Committee, or PAC, after 93% of MFBF delegates voted in favor of its establishment at the 2019 Annual Convention Business Session. The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation...

Faculty from Mississippi State University Extension Service and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station will present a webinar discussing production and financial management in Mississippi forages. The webinar will begin at 9:00 am on Thursday,...