Beekeeping is More Than Just a Hobby By Aimee Robinette The scientific community calls them tiny miracle workers, but many people see them as pests. However with all the buzzing about and a small but painful, barbed stinger, bees can be a little bit scary. Bees carry out a key action for the planet. Pollination …
Super Cowman of the South By Hank Burdine Hot Moore was HOT indeed. To cattlemen all over America, and possibly the world, he was known as the Super Cowman of the South. From a meager beginning in the eroded red clay hills of Tate County, Maurice P. “Hot” Moore built his Circle M Ranch into …
An Outstanding Asset to the Extension Service By Jack Criss Based in Tate County, Tarah Ferguson has been an Extension Agent for eight and a half years in the Senatobia office and has established a great reputation in the position. Her job consists primarily of a focus on agricultural issues with an emphasis on 4-H …
What’s The Right Choice This Year? By Jack Criss With time running out to enroll in two important coverage programs, many farmers are wondering what the best decision is to make between them, especially in today’s uncertain economic climate. Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) provide financial protections to farmers due to …
2020: A Year to Remember for the Farming Community By Mark H. Stowers Each growing season and harvest year brings its own problems with weather and pests. But, with the global pandemic putting an extra layer of complications on the farming community made the 2020 farm year one to remember. A wet spring put planting …
EPA Approves Extended Usage By MARK H. STOWERS In 1967, Dicamba was first used as a broad-spectrum herbicide. With uses for both agriculture crops and on non-agriculture land such as golf courses, it has been used for decades to control broadleaf weeds. The main action of the chemical is that it produces uncontrollable growth that …
Automation Advances Continue to Make Machines More Efficient By Aimee Robinette The research never ends, the technology continuously improves and major companies never sleep in such a competitive market as agriculture. Farmers have come to expect precision, accuracy at the touch of a button and dependability. The major suppliers of such equipment remain in action. …
By Aimee Robinette • Photography Ashley Putnam Walt Rambo didn’t come from a farming family, but that hasn’t stopped him from accumulating – and successfully farming – 1,150 acres of land. “I grew up around Clarksdale,” says Rambo. “My dad was a Methodist preacher. One church member, David Mullin, would take me to his farm …
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By Mark H. Stowers • Photography by Johnny Jennings Jacob Sartain didn’t grow up on a family farm with a unique farm headquarters and shop. He didn’t plant a field until his late 20s. But the family business did have him walking turnrows as Sartain is the third-generation owner of the family real estate business …
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By Aimee Robinette Farming has never been an easy endeavor. It comes with many seen and unseen complications and a plethora of possibilities.But this year, agriculture is facing one of its most unusual years in recent memory. With the introduction of a novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, farmers are dealing with more than just the …