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.
HuffPost
The U.S. Is Running Low On The Machines Needed To Avoid Blackouts And Quit Fossil Fuels
A nationwide shortage of electrical transformers has been growing for years, and it may be getting worse.
By Alexander C. Kaufman
As COVID-19 ripped through the global economy in 2020, Ford stopped...
Agri-Pulse
Supreme Court's Prop 12 decision could spark fresh state ballot initiatives
By Steve Davies
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow California’s animal housing law to remain in place caused a furor in the pork industry and among farm-state lawmakers, who vowed to introduce legislation to...
Farm Progress
Supreme Court upholds California Prop 12
Court rejects NPPC, AFBF Commerce Clause challenge as insufficiently pled.
By Joshua Baethge
The U.S Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation challenging California’s...
DeSoto County News
Officials promote county needs on annual Washington trip
By Bob Bakken
DeSoto County officials were in Washington, D.C. last week to meet with U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, along with staffers representing Congressmen Trent Kelly, Mike Ezell and Michael Guest...
Mississippi Farm Bureau
Cautious optimism over new plan recommended to finish the pumps
By Jon Kalahar
They’d been in this very same room just weeks ago. Giving the same testimony about the rising waters, the flooded roads and homes, the farm land useless for another year. This time, however, it...
WAPT-TV Jackson
Details shared with community about new Yazoo Backwater pump plan
Project involves installing pumps to prevent flooding
Madeleine Nolan, Reporter
VICKSBURG, Miss. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency held the last of three community...
The Center Square
Yazoo River flood control project to be resurrected
By Steve Wilson | The Center Square
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking at a plan to prevent annual flooding in the Yazoo River basin that will include resurrecting a massive pump project that has...
Vicksburg Post
‘Thank You’: Community, state officials react to Yazoo Backwater proposal
By Anna Guizerix
Eagle Lake resident Ken Klaus, whose home has been impacted by Yazoo Backwater floods for decades, has seen plenty of proposals for the pumps project come and go over the past 30 years. The...
Seafood Source
Louisiana lawmakers ask International Trade Commission to extend antidumping duties on shrimp imports
By Nathan Strout
Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Louisiana have asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to extend antidumping duties on imported warmwater shrimp, suggesting...
Hagstrom Report
Farm Bureau, NFU agree on farm bill; commodity groups provide details
The Hagstrom Report
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 | Volume 14 Number 87
At a Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing on producer perspectives on the farm bill safety net Tuesday, Zippy Duvall, president of the...
