At ports along the mouth of the Mississippi, most ships loading soybeans can carry a maximum of 2.4 million bushels, and any additional weight in the hold puts the vessels in danger of scraping ...

This column was submitted by Mississippi Lieutenant Governor and Vicksburg native Delbert Hosemann. As a state whose roots ...

Agriculture is Mississippi’s largest industry and those farmers are raising a red flag to say they’re struggling to make a ...

For the third consecutive year, historically low water levels on the lower Mississippi River are impacting ... of loading 7,000 fewer bushels of soybeans on an individual barge,” he adds.

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Soybeans and Livestock ranked third and fourth, worth $1.3 billion and $578 million, respectively. These commodities make up about 80% of the value of Mississippi’s $9 billion agriculture industry.

Workers in agriculture are saying Mississippi's future looks bleak based on financial challenges surrounding farming. Thursday morning, they went before the Mississippi Senate Agriculture Committee to ...