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Close-up of rice growing in a field
July 18, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss.

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.

Success Stories

Standing in a soybean field, a person gestures toward another person.
Volume 11 Number 2

Allendale Planting Company in the Mississippi Delta town of Shelby has flourished under Bill O’Neal’s watchful eye for more than a quarter century, but he will be the first to say you can never have too much experience to learn something new.

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.

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