UM Journalism Students Win Awards in Three Separate Contests
By Christina Steube University of Mississippi journalism students working in newspaper, television and radio won more than 50 awards in three separate regional contests this spring. The Daily Mississippian, led by Editor-in-Chief Clara Turnage and advised by Patricia Thompson, assistant dean for student media in the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, was named […]
Secretary Perdue Announces Creation of Undersecretary for Trade
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced the creation of an undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a recognition of the ever-increasing importance of international trade to American agriculture. Perdue made the announcement standing by barges filled with agricultural products along the banks of the Ohio […]
Henk van Riessen
Delta Precision Technologies, LLC By Susan Montgomery Henk van Riessen’s one of those lucky people who grew up understanding what his vocational field would be. “At age 12, I already knew I would go to agriculture school ,” said van Riessen. And he did. That let him in 1993 he to Auburn University in Alabama, […]
Dr. LouAnn Woodward
Leads Mississippi to better health By Becky Gillette Dr. LouAnn Woodward, 53, grew up on a farm in Carroll County south of Grenada. She and her brother Holland were raised in the same home where their father, Bruce Heath—the youngest of six children–grew up. Her paternal grandmother, known as Miss Onyx, lived with them. Her […]
Delta Students Get College Experience during Ole Miss Visit
By Christina Steube Students from Madison S. Palmer High School in Marks got a hands-on learning experience in a college atmosphere recently when they visited the University of Mississippi’s Department of Biology. These students attended learning sessions in Shoemaker Hall, where they participated in field sampling, isolated DNA and learned to use a microscope to […]
Delta Supper Club- For the love of food
By AMILE WILSON • Photography by Rory Doyle Everyone knows the Delta has plenty of stories to tell, some nearly everyone knows while others remain hidden. Before Stewart Robison transplanted to the Mississippi Delta, he heard many of those stories from his grandfather, a Delta native. He looked for a way to unify his love […]
The Importance of Ag Pilots to the Mississippi Delta
By Angela Rogalski All across the Mississippi Delta, and the entire country, for that matter, Ag pilots gear up for their day very early and get into the mindset they need to do their job. It’s an important service they provide, treating and protecting the crops we all need for food and the many other […]
Patrick Johnson- Tunica Farmer
By Becky Gillette • Photography by Austin Britt Patrick Johnson and his father, Pat, have traditionally planted a lot of cotton on their farm in Tunica County. Even while cotton acreage in the state decreased sharply in recent years due to low prices, the Johnsons did not sell their cotton equipment. That puts them in […]
Special Report- Construction Industry
By MARK H. STOWERS The building of America has waxed and waned under assorted presidents. In 1927, Herbert Hoover—a civil engineer by trade—actually picked up his drawing tools and volunteered his services to help configure how to shore up the massive Mississippi River Levee and other flood control mechanisms. The great river will never be […]
Delta Regional Authority
The Clarksdale based Delta Regional Authority, an entity created in 2000, continues to do great things for the Mississippi Delta. Some of DRA’s goals are to grow small businesses and help entrepreneurs, promote tourism in the coverage area, strengthen and cultivate innovate partnerships, promote good health, enhance and support the Delta’s workforce, and enhance transportation […]