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Water stands alongside a soybean field.
June 27, 2025

Rainfall at well above normal accumulations is impacting the state’s row crops, mostly in a negative way.

Mike Brown, state climatologist with the Mississippi State University Department of Geosciences, said many areas of the state have had one and a half times the typical amount of rain for this time of year.

Part of a row of cotton plants in their infancy emerging from soil.
June 6, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Expect to see significantly less cotton than usual blooming in Mississippi later this year.

April 15, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Row crop producers who reported financial loss in 2024 may be eligible for economic assistance through a U.S. Department of Agriculture resource.

Success Stories

A man wearing overalls and standing in a blooming cotton field.
Volume 10 Number 2

After graduating from college, David Hey got out of farming to be a truck driver, but before long he realized he wanted back in.

A man standing in a harvested field.
Volume 9 Number 2

Sledge Taylor is no stranger to cover crops —he first planted vetch on 100 acres of his Panola County farmland in 1979—but he has ramped up his cover crop usage and added other sustainable agricultural practices over the past 15 years.

Two men and one woman standing in front of a green tractor
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.

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