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USDA Supports Uncle Jerry's Farm on its Path to Prosperity

June 08, 2023 staff of USDA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Uncle Jerry’s Farm, LLC.’s humble beginnings stretch back to 2015, when a health-conscious consumer, Debora Coleman, decided to devote a small patch of her land on the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi, to the growing shiitake mushrooms. She shared the yield with friends and family members...

Equity Farming Initiatives

USDA Continues to Expand Opportunities and Support to Small Businesses

May 27, 2022 Jacqueline A. Davis-Slay, Senior Advisor, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, USDA

As May comes to a close, USDA reflects on recent activities to support small businesses nationwide. The first of the month marked the start of National Small Business Week 2022. In recognition of the observance, USDA’s national and state office leadership connected with small businesses in states...

Equity Farming Initiatives

WIC Making a Difference for Mississippi Mom

May 28, 2021 Jackie Romain, Southeast Regional Office, Public Affairs

When Rebecca and Parker Catt became parents, they faced a new set of challenges, including making the right choices in deciding what their baby James should be fed. After Rebecca heard about the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) from a friend at the gym...

Food and Nutrition

Sowing the Seeds of Success: Future Leaders in Agriculture

March 24, 2021 Sally Gifford, USDA Office of Communications

Who are the students pursuing careers in ag? We spoke to college students from minority-serving institutions who recently met (virtually) with USDA officials and partner organizations through the Future Leaders in Agriculture Program. They shared their insights on the event, their studies, and their...

Equity Initiatives

Scholarly Pursuits

August 27, 2020 Martin Barbre, Administrator, USDA Risk Management Agency

Established in 1992, the 1890 National Scholars Program is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the 1890 Land-Grant Universities. College students accepted into the program receive valuable on-the-job training with USDA agencies and are often eligible for conversion to full...

Initiatives

Mississippi Rises to the Top of U.S. Aquaculture

January 16, 2020 Esmerelda Dickson, Mississippi State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Agriculture continues to be Mississippi’s top industry for revenue generated in the Magnolia State. Poultry is Mississippi’s largest agricultural commodity, leading as the most valuable livestock product including eggs-layers with sales valued at $3.1 billion. The 2017 Census of Agriculture showed...

Research and Science

USDA Helps Veteran’s Dream Come True

October 25, 2018 Candace Chambers, Natural Resources Conservation Service

After returning home from a year-long military tour of duty in Iraq, Matthew Anglin worked as a paramedic for four years. However, he soon realized that he wanted to spend more quality time at home with his wife, Holly, and their children. This desire led Anglin and his wife to venture into farming...

Conservation Farming

Future Soil Conservationist Unearths Valuable Skills at USDA

July 11, 2018 Sally Gifford, USDA Communications

As an aspiring soil conservationist, Luther Thompson II is eager to dig into future career opportunities. Thompson is a rising senior at Alcorn State University, a historically black land-grant university in Lorman, Mississippi. This is his fourth summer as an intern with the USDA Natural Resources...

Conservation Initiatives

High Tunnels Protect Crops through Sleet and Snow

March 26, 2018 Candace Chambers, NRCS Public Affairs Student Intern

When Cindy Ayers-Elliott, Ph.D., left her career as a CEO and investment banker to become a Mississippi farmer, the last challenge she expected was freezing cold weather – especially snow and freezing temperatures.

Conservation

25 Years of Protecting Wetlands, Critical Agricultural Lands

February 02, 2018 Ciji Taylor, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Twenty-five years ago, landowners in Quitman County, Mississippi took action – one even the state conservationist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at the time didn’t think they’d take. Fast forward to 2018, and thousands of other landowners have joined in.

Conservation
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