Mississippi agriculture - Mississippi

Tree examinations yield no ash borers in Iowa -- yet - Gazette Online

18.04.09

Nothing yet.

Federal, state and local officials have yet to find the state's first ash tree infested with the ash-decimating emerald ash borer.

But a resurgent hunt for an infested tree and the destructive bug is under way since it was found last week in a campground south of Victory, Wis., just across the Mississippi River from Allamakee County.

The bug can fly up to 12 miles, and so it easily could have gotten across the Mississippi River and into Iowa, Robin Pruisner, the state entomologist at the Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship, said last week.

On Friday, Pruisner said officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week cut down four trees suspected of being infested with the ash borer from three locations in Allamakee County. But an examination of the trees found that none of the four trees had been infested, she said.

The hunt, though, continues. Once the trees leaf, Pruisner said officials and the public will be looking

Source: Gazette Online, IA

Does anyone know Mississippi's agriculture and good jobs!?!?

May 25, 2007 by junnichi | Posted in Other - US Local Businesses

Im talkin about the crops and everything that grows in Mississippi(popular crops please). I need the hot jobs and bad jobs in Mississippi.

POULTRY / EGGS - $1.98 BILLION


> Approximately 827 million broilers are produced yearly.
> Broiler chickens weigh an average of 5 lbs. each.
> Approximately 1.6 billion eggs are produced each year.



2 FORESTRY - $1.27 BILLION


> Timber was the leading agricultural crop in 40 counties.
> of the state’s total land, 61% is devoted to commercial forests.



3 COTTON - $697 MILLION


> In 2005, the average yield was 879 pounds of cotton per acre.
> There were 1.18 million acres harvested in 2005, producing 2.16 million bales.



4 SOYBEANS - $315 MILLION


> In 2005, 1.57 million acres of soybeans were harvested.
> Soybeans yielded 36 bushels per acre.



5 CATFISH - $272 MILLION


> There are approx 400 catfish operations, and 101,000 water acres devoted to channel catfish production.
> There are 13 catfish processing plants in Mississippi.
> Mississippi leads the nation in catfish production.



6 CATTLE & CALVES - $250 MILLION


> Mississippi has about 1.0 million head of cattle, which includes 564,000 mature beef cows.
> In 2005, there were 20,000 cattle operations.



7 RICE - $134 MILLION


> In 2005, 263,000 acres of rice were harvested.
> The average yield per acre was 6,500 pounds.



8 CORN - $120 MILLION


> Mississippi harvested 365,000 acres of corn in 2005.
> The yield was 133 bushels per acre.



9 HAY - $88 MILLION


> In 2005, 700,000 acres of hay were harvested, producing 1.96 million tons.
> The average yield per acre in 2005 was 2.8 tons.



10 HORTICULTURE - $79 MILLION


> Horticulture is one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture.
> There are approximately 70 floriculture producers.

mahleezah | Jun 01, 2007

discuss present day in mississippi and its industry/ agriculture?

Apr 04, 2006 by mokey_whitegirl | Posted in Other - Society & Culture


Dunno.

musafir | Apr 04, 2006

The completion of the Erie Canal in the early 19th century aided the economic development of the United States

Dec 06, 2007 by S H e L xo. | Posted in History

by...

1) supplying water for the irrigation of western farms

2)lowering the cost of shipping goods from the Midwest to the Atlantic coast

3)providing a shipping route for cotton from the South to Europe

4)supplying waterpower for running factories and mills

and

During the first half of the 19th century, the construction of canals and roads led to the..?

1) expansion of trade between Midwestern farmers and eastern merchants

2)growth of plantation agriculture in Texas and New Mexico

3)severe economic decline of the South

4)bankruptcy of several railroad companies in the Mississippi Valley

2

1

Dave aka Spider Monkey | Dec 06, 2007