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)
AT AG HEARING, HYDE-SMITH STRESSES NEED FOR FAIRNESS FOR U.S. CATTLE PRODUCERS
AT AG HEARING, HYDE-SMITH STRESSES NEED FOR FAIRNESS FOR U.S. CATTLE PRODUCERS
Senate Panel Receives Testimony on Two Bills that Address Price Disparity between Producers and Consumers
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses Fairness for Cattle Producers, Consumers.
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Mississippi Producer on Negative Trends Hurting the U.S. Cattle Industry.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today stressed that American cattle producers deserve to...
MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS SUPPORT STATES’ RIGHT TO REGULATE
MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS SUPPORT STATES’ RIGHT TO REGULATE
Miss. Delegation Joins Amicus Brief on Clean Water Act Authority
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and U.S. Representatives Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), Trent Kelly (R-Miss.), and Michael Guest (R-Miss.) today joined 196 of their colleagues in filing an amici curiae brief in support of the petitioners in the pending Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency case before the U.S. Supreme...
HYDE-SMITH & CORPS OFFICIALS AGREE PUMPS WOULD BRING MEANINGFUL FLOOD PROTECTION TO YAZOO BACKWATER AREA
HYDE-SMITH & CORPS OFFICIALS AGREE PUMPS WOULD BRING MEANINGFUL FLOOD PROTECTION TO YAZOO BACKWATER AREA
At Hearing, Hyde-Smith Pressed Army Corps Officials on Environmental Justice and Reviving Pumping Station Cancelled by EPA
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Presses Army Corps Officials on path forward for Yazoo Backwater Pumps.
VIDEO CLIP: Senator Hyde-Smith on Peer-Reviewed Science &Environmental Justice Behind Yazoo Backwater Pumps.
PHOTO: Senator Hyde-Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Army for...
Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses At-Risk Rural Hospitals
Clarksdale Press Register
Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses At-Risk Rural Hospitals
By THE PRESS REGISTER
Wed,11/23/22-12:00PM, 247 Reads
At a hearing in the build-up to writing the nation’s agriculture production law, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith used the dire outlook of rural hospitals in...
Scaling up: 4 ways hog farms changed since the 1990s
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Scaling up: 4 ways hog farms changed since the 1990s
The pork industry shifted dramatically over the past three decades. A USDA report tracks how the industry moved away from small operations to CAFOs, production contracts and specialization.
By Madison...
Working on farm bill, senators frustrated by what counts as rural
CQ Roll Call
Working on farm bill, senators frustrated by what counts as rural
By Ellyn Ferguson, CQ
Senate Agriculture members from both parties on Tuesday offered a glimpse into what could be a thorny issue as lawmakers begin work on the 2023 farm bill: the federal definition of rural.
The...