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A batch of live catfish is caught in a net.
August 14, 2023

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- As long as feeding catfish stays pricey, anticipate paying more for fillets at the grocery.

April 28, 2023

STONEVILLE, Miss. -- A Mississippi State University Extension professor has received the U.S.

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February 28, 2023

VERONA, Miss.

Success Stories

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Volume 9 Number 1

With 3,000 acres of corn, soybeans, and cotton, row crops are the most abundantly grown commodity on Philip Good’s land, but he has made strides during nearly 45 years of farming to diversify his inventory.

A smiling woman wearing a blue shirt stands next to and rests her arm on a red piece of machinery.
Volume 8 Number 1

Since 1994, she’s worked for Buck Island Seed Co., a business her brother co-founded with two other men in the same year. The company performs custom seed cleaning, treating, and blending for rice, soybeans, wheat, oats, and triticale, a small grain. Booth also raised various row crops with her husband on their Tunica County farm until his death in 2020. She now rents out the land to a producer who grows soybeans, corn, and triticale.

A catfish net rises in the foreground with 2 men standing on a boat in back.
Volume 7 Number 2

Catfish production continues in Mississippi, and despite labor shortages slowing processing, pond inventories remain strong. Superior Catfish, based in Noxubee County, continues distributing Mississippi-born and bred catfish nationwide.

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