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U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith stands next to a display case in a library.
November 17, 2023 - Filed Under: 4-H

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a native and resident of Brookhaven, observes the Lincoln County 4-H display that is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” exhibition at the Lincoln County Library. 

Chickasaw County 4-H members placed in the top 10 in consumer decision making at the Western National 4-H Roundup in Denver. Team members (from left) Shelby Abrams, Gracie Vickers, Lessie Vickers and Gage Vanlandingham earned sixth high point team overall, third high team overall, and eighth high team in overall reasons and overall group think. Vickers also placed second in individual high points. They are joined by Mississippi State Extension Service program associate Angie Abrams. (Submitted photo)
January 25, 2018 - Filed Under: 4-H, Youth Livestock

Mississippi 4-H teams and individual members recently landed several top 10 finishes in a variety of categories when they competed in the Western National 4-H Roundup in Denver.

Jason McDonald (center), FiLoLi Tea Farm owner, talks with Guihong Bi (left), associate research and Extension Professor with Mississippi State University and Shirley Estes, Lincoln County Master Gardener, after the Oct. 17 groundbreaking for the first-ever commercial tea-growing operation in Mississippi. (Photo by MSU Ag Communications/Susan Collins-Smith)
October 17, 2013 - Filed Under: Crops

BROOKHAVEN – When Hurricane Katrina destroyed his timber stand in 2005, Lincoln County landowner Jason McDonald searched for an alternative crop.

In May 2012, he visited the Charleston Tea Plantation in South Carolina and began to consider growing the crop himself.

“I wanted something that was sustainable and better at resisting storm damage,” McDonald said. “As long as tea plants are managed well, they are low-growing, which makes them able to survive high winds.”

Twelve Mississippi business women completed 18 hours of training through Annie's Project, a national program designed for women interested in agriculture-based enterprises. Front row, from left: Joanna Posey, Lincoln County; Sarah Harvill, Franklin County; Sarah Clark, Wilkinson County; Lyndy Berryhill, Franklin County; Jennie Williams, Wilkinson County. Back row: Bobbie Shaffett, MSU Extension Service; Anita R. Leonard, Franklin County; Betsy Berryhill, Franklin County; Sandra Berryhill, Franklin County; P
March 22, 2012 - Filed Under: Agriculture, Women for Agriculture

BROOKHAVEN -- Twelve Mississippi business women completed 18 hours of training through Annie’s Project, a national program designed for women interested in agriculture-based enterprises.

The training was held in late winter at the Lincoln County Extension office through Mississippi Women for Agriculture and the Mississippi State University Extension Service. The curriculum is designed to empower farm women of all ages to be better business partners through networks and by managing and organizing critical information.