WHEF’s Get2College Program Launches Mobile Center Resource
The Woodward Hines Education Foundation (WHEF) and its Get2College program recently held a ribbon cutting for a new Get2College Mobile Center, a first-of-its-kind resource designed to bring free college and career planning services directly to students and families across Mississippi. Hosted in partnership with the City of Greenville and Mayor Errick D. Simmons at the […]
SafTCart in Clarksdale
Continuing to grow, adding new product lines and increasing sales SafTCart, a major anchor of the economy in Clarksdale, started as the metal fabrication department of Walker Welders, a mom-and-pop business with Jimmy Walker, Sr. and his wife, Helen, driving down country roads selling welding equipment to farmers. Walker said he was peddling oxygen and […]
Harvest Update
Spring weather created issues and current commodity prices raise concerns Delta farmers had a positive spring beginning with great weather and plenty of planting time, but then the rains came and kept coming. This caused many farmers to replant some acreage, lose some acreage and cause wildly different yields across the board. Farmers across the […]
Invasive Cotton Pest
Recently confirmed in five Mississippi counties Specialists with the Mississippi State University Extension Service are monitoring the spread of a newly detected invasive pest in the state that has the potential to severely impact future cotton yields. The two-spotted leafhopper, also known as the cotton jassid, was first found in a Hinds County cotton field […]