WHEN IT COMES TO FEEDING AMERICA. >> HEAVY ROUNDS OF RAIN CAN QUICKLY TURN ACRES OF LAND ON FARMS AND MAKING MISSISSIPPI INTO MUD. >> WE’RE DEALING WITH A LOT OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. I ...

As Mississippi’s blueberry industry faces a steep decline, one Poplarville farm is finding new ways to keep the state fruit ...

LUMBERTON—Farmers in southeast Mississippi are facing rising production costs, making it harder to stay profitable. With crop ...

In the early 1930s, Mississippi had over 300,000 farmers, the most ever recorded for the state in federal census records. The last survey, from 2017, listed just around 55,000. In the 1930s, the ...

The Hansen-Mueller Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nebraska. Although Hansen-Mueller does not have an office in Mississippi, officials with the ...

Mississippi’s farmers and their brethren across the fruited plain are in a mighty struggle to survive. So says Mississippi Delta planter Mike Sturdivant Jr., one to believe. Sturdivant’s family owns ...

Pastor Jason Franklin moves beyond platitudes to provide concrete help for Mississippi Delta farmers facing bankruptcy.

ROY HOWARD COMMUNITY JOURNALISM CENTER- Mississippi’s blueberry farms are shrinking and fewer farmers are entering the field.

Considering the long-range weather outlooks for planting and harvest this year and the potential effects on shipping logistics posed by water levels on the Mississippi River and in the Panama Canal, ...

The costs of farm production, like supplies and labor, have increased dramatically in recent years while international market forces have driven prices down, leaving farmers facing losses after ...