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Byline: Hembree Brandon The USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark., which classes cotton for western Mississippi and southeast Arkansas, will be using two new extraneous matter classing codes for [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon All the while American consumers have been railing about the evils of agricultural pesticides - some of the most tested and regulated materials on the planet - [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon An indication of the complexities - and frustrations - involved in securing needed tools for farmers in today's increasingly regulatory/litigious environment was voiced by Angus Catchot, Mississippi [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon In a half-a-loaf-is-better-than-none action, the U.S. House of Representatives, led by new Speaker Paul Ryan, passed a six-year transportation bill aimed at stanching the widespread deterioration of [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon 'Eschew obfuscation' read the neat sign on the desk of my long-ago communications professor. He took delight in pointing to it while mercilessly dissecting the work of [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Even on the rare occasion when our Washington honorables make a public display of trying to play nice and actually practice bipartisanship, things just seem to go [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon A four decades-old example of government good intentions gone awry will end July 1 when the state of Mississippi halts its requirement for motor vehicles to have [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon It's interesting, says Rep. Rick Crawford, that there are 535 members of Congress who consider themselves experts on farm policy, yet 'few want to be on the [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Producers in the Mississippi Delta have slightly more than four months to meet a voluntary goal for metering of at least 5 percent of irrigation wells, says [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The stories - true stories - Jimmy Nichols tells are not happy ones: They are stories of lives ruined, physical and mental destruction, unspeakable degradation, violence, potential [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon With the number of legislative days in 2013 rapidly dwindling for Congress, National Cotton Council's Gary Adams succinctly summarizes the situation: 'We need a farm bill. The [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Ãá Mississippi farmers who hire out-of-state contract haulers to help move this year's crops to market should make sure those haulers comply with the state's licensing and [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Pigas feet, beef tongue, hog intestines, hearts, and livers a while we in the U.S. may turn up our collective noses at the thought of chowing down [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon *a If you have young children or grandchildren, look at them and imagine signs around their necks: 'I owe my government $52,000 -- and each day I [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon *a You are doubtless thrilled that the U.S. House -- in its last legislative action before leaving town for politicking until after the November elections -- passed [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Be careful what you wish for, the old adage goes, because you just may get it. There was rejoicing in some quarters when the cadre of freshman [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The big jump in peanut acreage in Mississippi and Arkansas this year is 'a very positive thing' for growers by providing them a new source of income [...]

Byline: Hembree BrandonAs discussions move forward on the 2012 farm bill, crop insurance is expected to be a major component of the legislation that is developed, says Keith Coble, professor [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon As discussions move forward on the 2012 farm bill, crop insurance is expected to be a major component of the legislation that is developed, says Keith Coble, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon A If you even occasionally drive on the highway system, youare aware of the execrable condition of the nationas roadways: potholes everywhere, patches galore, uneven/buckled pavement a [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The old saw that 'if you lined up all the economists end-to-end, they still couldn't reach a conclusion' comes to mind as the new year brings its [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Regulatory issues are likely to continue to be an area of skirmishing as discussions for the 2012 farm bill go forward, members of the Mississippi Farm Bureau [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon *a So, OK, we all know that used car salespeople and lobbyists have always been at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of how the [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon As bad as fiscal 2011 federal budget cuts were, 2012 could be even worse a 'cuts will be much deeper under all the proposals weave seen,' says [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Actions by 'extremist environmental organizations trying to take over Washington' and issues of concern 'have made the flood control community very nervous,' the Board of Mississippi Levee [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Mid-South agriculture could be adversely affected by federal budget cuts that would reduce funding for maintenance and improvements to the rivers, streams, and lakes under control of [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon 'Agriculture, resource management, and what we do with our working lands constitute your generationas most pressing challenges,' Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan told students at Mississippi [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon A It has been a roller coaster ride for state funded agricultural programs in Mississippi this year, with Governor Haley Barbouras proposed budget reductions threatening sharp cutbacks [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon While the November 2010 elections reduced the likelihood that some legislative initiatives adverse to agriculture would be passed in Congress, 'the reality is that regulation could and [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon With the changes in Congress as a result of last Novemberas elections and groundwork already being laid for the 2012 presidential race, the next two years are [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon A During his 14 years in the top leadership spot of the 205,000-member Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, David Waide led the organization through challenges ranging from devastating [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Spencer Pope is a poultryman who grows 800,000 broilers a year on his farm near Carthage, Miss., but for the past year he's had another business -- [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The headlines in local newspapers tell a story that's often obscured by the white hot voter anger directed at Washington these days. 'County supervisors to raise taxes...again'; [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Now, the 'day of national reckoning has arrived,' David Stockman says, and rather than the conventional business recovery many in the current administration are desperately hoping for, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff With harvest season cranking up, Mississippi growers and ginners need to be sure that vehicles used in transporting crops have the proper permits, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff Uhh, haven't we heard all this before? Wasn't there something of a hollow echo in the president's Oval Office speech about the Gulf [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff A new lease on life has been promised for the federal governmentas most extensive exercise in private land retirement, the Conservation Reserve Program. [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff The Clean Water Restoration Act, which seeks to amend the federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the government over [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff 'As ginners, it should be our goal to produce the best quality fiber in the world, to let our foreign mill customers know [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff Imagine the entire population of the Memphis, Little Rock, Baton Rouge, and Jackson, Miss., metropolitan areas gone. Vanished. Kaput. That roughly equates to [...]