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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.

A chart shows the number of acres that Mississippi producers intend to plant in 2025 for the following crops: soybeans, 2.25 million acres, which is 2 percent less than the acreage planted in 2024; corn, 690,000 acres, which is a 41-percent increase from 2024; and cotton, 360,000 acres, which is a 31-percent decrease from 2024’s acreage.
April 2, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Row crop growers in Mississippi expect to plant more corn in 2025 than they did last year, but not as much cotton or as many soybeans.

Close-up of a beehive with a red varroa mite inside one of the combs
March 28, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Entering this spring, beekeepers will be tasked with rebounding from the worst winter in over a decade for winter bee mortality.

Success Stories

A group of men and women standing in front of a barn and alongside three horses.
Volume 11 Number 1

Horse riding for children. Horse riding for veterans. Horse riding for special needs and behavioral health.

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Volume 11 Number 1

Fenton Pope looked around his native Covington County a quarter-century ago and saw what he believed was an alarming amount of farmland out of production.

 A woman seated among rose bushes, holding roses, and laughing.
Volume 11 Number 1

Known around Cleveland, Mississippi as “The Rose Lady,” Jane Dunlap marked 30 years as a Master Gardener in 2024, but her home county lacked its own chapter for the first half of that span.

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