WICKER, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES DEMAND ANSWERS FROM BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES DEMAND ANSWERS FROM BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL

Twenty-Six Senators Seek Information on Americans & Allies Left Behind in Wake of Hasty U.S. Withdrawal 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined colleagues in demanding information from President Biden regarding the humanitarian crisis created by his withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan.

The Mississippi Senators are among 26 lawmakers who...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $6.6 MILLION FOR MISS. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $6.6 MILLION FOR MISS. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

FAA Airport Improvement Program Grants Offer Support to Nine Facilities Statewide 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of $6.6 million in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants for enhancement projects at nine Mississippi airfields. 

The U.S. Department of Transportation will award the AIP grants on behalf of the Federal Aviation...

HYDE-SMITH:  ADDITIONAL MISS. LIVESTOCK, POULTRY PRODUCERS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR USDA CORONAVIRUS AID

HYDE-SMITH:  ADDITIONAL MISS. LIVESTOCK, POULTRY PRODUCERS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR USDA CORONAVIRUS AID

USDA Rule Expands CFAP 2 Payments to Livestock, Poultry Contract Producers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, today encouraged eligible agriculture producers in Mississippi to apply for U.S. Department of Agriculture assistance related to losses linked to the coronavirus pandemic.

The USDA recently published...

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop California's Prop 12

Progressive Farmer

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop California's Prop 12

By Jerry Hagstrom
 
The National Pork Producers Council has been pushing back against California's law prohibiting the sale of food products from confined animals. Some Republican senators have introduced a bill trying to...

Proposed legislation to limit use of ‘Product of USA’ label

Meat+Poultry

Proposed legislation to limit use of ‘Product of USA’ label

By Erica Shaffer

WASHINGTON – US Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing a law that would limit the “Product of USA” label to beef sourced from cattle that are born, raised and slaughtered...