On old farmland 15 miles east of Oxford, structures sit in varying forms of decay in between trees. In the mid-1900s, William Faulkner raised mules and grew crops on this land. Starting in the third ...

Mississippi officials are calling attention to the growing amount of foreign-owned farmland in the state, although it makes up less than three percent of the state’s agriculture and forest land. The ...

WHEN IT COMES TO FEEDING AMERICA. >> HEAVY ROUNDS OF RAIN CAN QUICKLY TURN ACRES OF LAND ON FARMS AND MAKING MISSISSIPPI INTO MUD. >> WE’RE DEALING WITH A LOT OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. I ...

Mississippi has about 30 million acres, and as of the most recent census data, approximately 10.2 million of that was farmland. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce noted that ...

Amazon, the online retailer with a goal of powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, on July 7 announced a project that would be the first utility-scale wind farm in Mississippi. The ...

"And here we are, and those opportunities have presented themselves," she said, describing her pride in the fact that since ...