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Byline: Hembree BrandonAs time crept agonizingly past in the doctor's office waiting area, I had unenthusiastically thumbed through the only magazines available, a handful of dog-eared six-year-old Better Homes and [...]

Byline: Hembree BrandonHow hard it must be for many to give thanks as the nation celebrates yet another Thanksgiving.How do you find it in your heart to offer thanks if [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon In Cyberland, we're told, writing all caps is the equivalent of shouting; thus, the headline above, to emphasize the anger abroad in the land. Nowadays, everyone is [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark., which classes cotton for western Mississippi and southeast Arkansas, will be using two new extraneous matter classing codes for [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Over the past two years, the USDA Agricultural Research Service Cotton Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville, Miss., has received approval of an additional $1 million in badly needed [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon 1 It cost $14.95, including mounting brackets and a three-foot wood pole, but the red, white, and blue American flag that I place on the fencepost at [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Among the sad parts of life are final goodbyes: parents, friends, classmates, neighbors, co-workers, acquaintances made along the journeys of work, hobbies and interests, children growing up [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Matthew 5:45 to the contrary, 'For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Yeah, I know, technically it's not summer until 5:07 a.m., June 21. But hey, that's for the entire Northern Hemisphere, and as Mr. Sun moves northward we [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon This week's Delta Farm Press contains a special 40-page section commemorating the 75thanniversary of the publication, which began in 1943 as a 4-page supplement to the Clarksdale, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon One of the perks of my work is getting to travel around the Mid-South and to see the changes that are continuously taking place in the landscape. [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Gee, will he ever be missed, the quiet, courtly, gentlemen from Mississippi, who is the tenth longest-serving Senator in history, and who personifies statesmanship in an era [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon For as long as I've known him (more years than we both ever thought we'd last in this business), my fellow editor, Ron Smith, has groused and [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon In the crush of end-of-year publishing schedules and the general breakneck pace of the holidays, it almost escaped me that the state in which I've spent my [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon In a Kodachrome garden she kneels, surrounded by zinnias, marigolds, phlox, daisies, cloyingly sweet tuberoses, and a profusion of other summer, sunlit blooms. When did I take [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The Farm Families of Mississippi promotion campaign, launched in 2010 by the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and more than a hundred supporter organizations and individuals to spotlight [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Our son didn't have a brother. Well, not a biological brother, anyway. But in a key growing-up period, until he was 10 or so - inquisitive, want-to-know-everything, [...]

Incredible, mind-boggling yields for U.S. peanut producers last year left the industry with a worrisome carryover going into 2013--which could bring acreage cutbacks of as much as 40 percent this [...]

Mississippi, the nation's No. 1 farm raised catfish production state, has seen a precipitous overall decline in acres in recent years as farmers, unhappy with prices and profit margins, have [...]

North Mississippi farmland values are holding strong, but if crop prices continue downward that will pressure both land prices and land rents, says Abbott Myers, Dundee, Miss., rice/grains producer who [...]

What do you call someone who (1) has a full-time job, (2) is a mom with two young children, (3) is working toward completion of a Ph.D., (4) helps her [...]

It sounds like the plot of a cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie: Creatures that don't need males to procreate. Females birth hundreds of live babies every five to seven days, which [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon It is one of life's realities we learn late: that we tend to be so immersed in the everyday - school, family, career - that we scarce [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Crikey! Where did summer go? Yeah, I know, it's still 90 degrees-plus, with 5,000 percent humidity, the dratted lawn still has to be mowed, and stuff in [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon 'One needs but to make a casual survey of the cities and towns throughout the Mississippi Delta before he decides that Marks, Miss., is just about the [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Zippy Duvall is a travelin' man. Before he was elected the 12th president of the American Farm Bureau Federation in January 2016, he'd visited nearly three dozen [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon A flowmeter is the most important tool in an irrigator's toolbox, says PaulRodrigue. 'But if you're new toflowmeters, they unfortunately can become just astatic piece of equipment [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon 'Some people just don't have enough to worry about,' my mother was wont to say when something in the wider world struck her as nonsensical or trivial. [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon One of the rewards in life is crossing paths with a lot of good folks - those whose enthusiasm, dedication, good works, and a genuine concern for [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon With weird and wacky 2016 in the rear view mirror and 2017 bursting in with a big bag of unknowns, there came the realization that the year [...]

On a sunny late summer morning, as combines and grain carts move through a corn field miles away, Byron Seward and son Darrington are watching it all on iPad and [...]

As peanuts have become more a part of the crop mix for many Mississippi farmers, research on insect control has been increasing in order to provide growers more information about [...]

As you contemplate all the acronyms --ARC, PLC, STAX, etc. --and complexities of the new crop insurance-based farm legislation, Keith Coble has some cautionary advice for you: 'Don't get terribly [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon So, OK, in a recent weekly newspaper food insert from a national supermarket chain, the 'fresh produce' section advertised 'southern yellow peaches' for 88 cents per pound, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon It is often only from the perspective of years, or even decades, that we come to appreciate the significance of individuals and events in the shaping of [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Two of the pillars of our country's national security have long been a strong military and sound agricultural policy. Those words from Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, chairman [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon He didn't stand a snowball's chance. That was the conventional wisdom. An unruly-haired Jewish senior citizen, whose speech inflections of his native Brooklyn are spookily reminiscent of [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon There is a long, long list of things for which we, as citizens of our great country, can be thankful - many that we take for granted, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Look before you leap is a maxim that may not have been given much heed when British citizens voted to separate their country from the European Union [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon Capitalism, said Noam Chomsky, MIT professor emeritus, philosopher, and social critic, 'is basically a system where everything is for sale - and the more money you have, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon All the while American consumers have been railing about the evils of agricultural pesticides - some of the most tested and regulated materials on the planet - [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon What kind of suckers do they take us for, the handful of presidential candidates still standing after hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the mind-numbing winnowing [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon If ever there was proof that prognosticators, commentators, and high-powered analysts can be big-time wrong, it would be - are you ready for this? - oil. If [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon It was Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, conservative Prussian statesman of the 1800s, who observed, 'Politics is the art of the possible.' He also said, 'Politics [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon The 64th Mid-South Farm and Gin Show is now just two days away, and this year's event - Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27 - is shaping up [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon An indication of the complexities - and frustrations - involved in securing needed tools for farmers in today's increasingly regulatory/litigious environment was voiced by Angus Catchot, Mississippi [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon During the meeting season, we in the ag media get to hear from a lot of specialists in a lot of fields about what happened last year, [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon One is always at home in one's past, Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian novelist wrote in his autobiography, Speak Memory. As the years pile up, decade upon [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon It is fitting that this month includes two thanksgivings - the traditional family gathering day to remember those brave, hardy souls who thumbed their noses at a [...]

Byline: Hembree Brandon In a half-a-loaf-is-better-than-none action, the U.S. House of Representatives, led by new Speaker Paul Ryan, passed a six-year transportation bill aimed at stanching the widespread deterioration of [...]