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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.

Sunset over a brick downtown filled with people milling about.
Volume 10 Number 1

National Rice Month doesn’t just offer rice producers an opportunity to celebrate—it gives them the chance to enjoy the cooked and served finished products, too! There was something for everyone in Merigold on the third Thursday of September at the annual rice celebration in Bolivar County: Rice Fest.

A man stands behind a table with 2 small bags labeled “Two Brooks Farm.”
Volume 8 Number 3

On paper, Mike Wagner seems like an ordinary, successful Mississippi producer, but, in person, he defies expectations.

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