Senator Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer and the former Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, understands the importance of the state’s $7.5 billion agricultural and forestry industries. As a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, the Senator will work on legislation, programs, and policies to allow agriculture and related industries to grow in Mississippi and the nation.
The Senator’s record includes protecting private property rights against eminent domain abuses, helping to open foreign markets for Mississippi agricultural products, and supporting country-of-origin labeling.
(March 19 to August 15, 2025, the USDA Farm Service Agency is issuing up to $10 billion in direct payments to eligible agricultural producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program. Senator Hyde-Smith fought to get this assistance enacted in December 2024. These one-time economic assistance payments will help eligible commodity producers in Mississippi mitigate the impacts of increased input costs and falling commodity prices. Learn more: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/ecap)
HYDE-SMITH PRAISES AWARD OF $21.3 MILLION FISHERY DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS FOR MISSISSIPPI
HYDE-SMITH PRAISES AWARD OF $21.3 MILLION FISHERY DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS FOR MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, today praised the U.S. Commerce Department allocation of $21.3 million in federal fishery disaster relief funds to Mississippi.
The funding is associated to devastation experienced by Gulf Coast fisheries following prolonged freshwater inundation into the Gulf of Mexico last year. The funds will...
HYDE-SMITH JOINS EFFORT TO OFFSET COVID-19 REVENUE LOSSES AMONG STATES, COUNTIES & CITIES
HYDE-SMITH JOINS EFFORT TO OFFSET COVID-19 REVENUE LOSSES AMONG STATES, COUNTIES & CITIES
Miss. Senator Works to Ensure Rural Needs Addressed in $500 Billion SMART Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined as a leading sponsor of bipartisan legislation to help states, counties, and municipalities offset the significant revenue losses caused by COVID-19 shelter-at-home decrees, a measure that would ensure rural communities affected by the pandemic have access...
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY IN CATTLE PRICING
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY IN CATTLE PRICING
Also Joins Request for DOJ Investigation of Potential Anticompetitive Practices by Beef Packers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to introduce bipartisan legislation to foster efficient markets while increasing competition and transparency among meat packers who purchase livestock directly from independent producers.
The bill would make systemic changes...
Congress reaches agreement on new COVID-19 relief package. See what’s in it.
Y’all Politics
Congress reaches agreement on new COVID-19 relief package. See what’s in it.
By Frank Corder - December 21, 2020
Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that is also tied into a $1.4 trillion spending bill that funds the federal...
Army Corps report supports Mississippi flood-control pumps
Associated Press
Army Corps report supports Mississippi flood-control pumps
By Emily Wagster Pettus
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued another report Friday favoring agribusinesses over environmentalists in a decades-long battle over a massive flood control project in...
MISSISSIPPI RIVER: 'Insanely fast' flood project races past Interior pushback
Greenwire
MISSISSIPPI RIVER: 'Insanely fast' flood project races past Interior pushback
by Hannah Northey and Ariel Wittenberg
The Trump administration is moving at breakneck speed to sign off on a sprawling flood mitigation project in Mississippi that EPA originally vetoed in 2008 — a move that...