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 WANTS ARKABUTLA DAM FIX PRIORITIZED, LOOKS TO FALL FOR MAJOR MOVES ON YAZOO BACKWATER PUMPS
HYDE-SMITH WANTS ARKABUTLA DAM FIX PRIORITIZED, LOOKS TO FALL FOR MAJOR MOVES ON YAZOO BACKWATER PUMPS
Senator Focuses on Critical Mississippi Flood Control Projects at Army Corps Budget Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today received commitments from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials regarding prioritizing two important Mississippi flood control projects, the Arkabutla Lake dam and the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps.
Hyde-Smith focused on the two...
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH APPLAUD SENATE PASSAGE OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BILL
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH APPLAUD SENATE PASSAGE OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BILL
Miss. Senators Cosponsored the Bipartisan ‘America’s Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today applauded Senate passage of conservation legislation they cosponsored that will reauthorize or establish programs important to sportsmen, hunters, and cattlemen in Mississippi.
The Senate approved the America’s Conservation...
HYDE-SMITH ASSERTS MISS. & U.S. HURT BY BIDEN BROADSIDE AGAINST U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTION
HYDE-SMITH ASSERTS MISS. & U.S. HURT BY BIDEN BROADSIDE AGAINST U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTION
Hyde-Smith Delivers Speech Citing Biden Agencies that are Targeting Energy Production, Consumer Choices
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Lambasts Biden Administration’s Energy Policy Overreach.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today said Mississippi consumers, businesses, and conservation activities are all being dragged down by the Biden administration’s persistent broadside against U.S...
USDA: Farmers can apply Wednesday for economic disaster aid
The Hagstrom Report
USDA: Farmers can apply Wednesday for economic disaster aid
By JERRY HAGSTROM
Agriculture Department officials told reporters today that farmers can begin applying Wednesday for the $10 billion in economic disaster aid that Congress passed as part of an end-of-the-year funding...
Bill to strengthen rural water system resilience, disaster response reintroduced
Vicksburg Daily News
Bill to strengthen rural water system resilience, disaster response reintroduced
By Staff Reports
WASHINGTON (VDN) — U.S. Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) have reintroduced the Rural Water System Disaster Preparedness and Assistance Act...
The U.S. Farm Bill: A chat with Delta Council’s Frank Howell about the long wait for #19
Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
The U.S. Farm Bill: A chat with Delta Council’s Frank Howell about the long wait for #19
By MARK H. STOWERS
The U.S. Farm Bill – hundreds of pages of legislation with 12 sections that cover everything from crop insurance to food stamps. The 2018 version – the last one...