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Farm loan borrowers who have pledged real estate as security for their Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct or guaranteed loans are responsible for maintaining loan collateral. Borrowers must obtain prior consent or approval from FSA or the guaranteed lender for any transaction that affects real estate security. These transactions include, but are not limited to:
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Photo by Chuck Hathcock, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Kirk Academy senior guard Charley Rose attempts to make the steal during a recent home game against Madison-Ridgeland Academy.
Both the Kirk Academy Raiders and Raiderettes were looking to get off to a good start last week in Class AAA, District 1 action as they hosted Lee Academy of Clarksdale Monday night.
The girls jumped out to a 31-4 first-quarter lead en route to a 50-21 victory. On the boys side, Kirk broke open a close game in the second half, limiting the Colts to just 8 second-half points to win a 45-28 decision.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is holding a hearing focused on worldwide threats to America’s homeland.
In scheduling the hearing, Chairman Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY) said today’s challenges facing the U.S. demand clear focus and coordinated action across all levels of government.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Farm loan borrowers who have pledged real estate as security for their Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct or guaranteed loans are responsible for maintaining loan collateral. Borrowers must obtain prior consent or approval from FSA or the guaranteed lender for any transaction that affects real estate security. These transactions include, but are not limited to:
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Efforts to restore American energy dominance is starting in the Gulf of America, the Trump administration said Wednesday.
The Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management successfully conducted the first or thirty mandatory offshore oil and gas lease sale required under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The goal is to accelerate fossil fuel production and put the U.S. in a position to be more self-reliant amid its global competitors.
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USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is delivering more than $16 billion in total Congressionally approved disaster relief. FSA is now accepting applications for assistance through the second stage of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) from agricultural producers who suffered eligible non-indemnified, uncovered or quality crop losses due to qualifying natural disasters in 2023 and 2024.
By Madison Parish USDA Service Center on
3 months 2 weeks ago
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is delivering more than $16 billion in total Congressionally approved disaster relief. FSA is now accepting applications for assistance through the second stage of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) from agricultural producers who suffered eligible non-indemnified, uncovered or quality crop losses due to qualifying natural disasters in 2023 and 2024.
By Madison Parish USDA Service Center on
3 months 2 weeks ago
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is delivering more than $16 billion in total Congressionally approved disaster relief. FSA is now accepting applications for assistance through the second stage of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) from agricultural producers who suffered eligible non-indemnified, uncovered or quality crop losses due to qualifying natural disasters in 2023 and 2024.
By Madison Parish USDA Service Center on
3 months 2 weeks ago
U.S. District Judge Kristi Johnson has sentenced former Canton Municipal Utilities engineer Rudy Warnock to 12 years in prison for charges related to bribery and wire fraud.
Warnock was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2021 alleging at the time that Warnock directed cash payments in the thousands of dollars as well as event tickets to concerts and football games to former Canton Aldermen Andrew Grant and Eric Gilkey and Canton Municipal Utilities Commissioner Cleve Anderson in exchange for lucrative government contracts.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Mississippi’s multi-million-dollar corporate investment wins just keep piling up.
The Mississippi Development Authority announced Thursday that TerraForge Biocarbon Solutions, a metallurgical biocarbon manufacturer, is locating operations in Magnolia.
The company is investing over $100 million in the Pike County project that is expected to create 36 jobs.
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Reminders for the Farm Service Agency
Dec. 15, 2025 Deadline to Certify Wheat and Oats
Dec. 25, 2025 Office Closed for Christmas Day
Jan 01, 2026 Office Closed for New Years Day
Jan. 19, 2026 Office Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Feb. 02, 2026 COC Election Date for LAA 3 (Mound Community)
Apr. 30, 2026 Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) Deadline
Update Your Records
By Madison Parish USDA Service Center on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
By Patrick Taylor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
By Patrick Taylor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
It’s not Christmas at my house until you put up the tree. The big living room with tall ceiling out at Strayhorn Heights that is perfect for our tree.
Yes, we’ve made the transition to an artificial tree. I was told it is cleaner, not a fire hazard and decorations go on it more evenly, by the Chief Cleaner/Fire Marshal/Home Decorator at my house.
But yearning for a real Christmas tree, that smells of cedar, is inherited. The toys of my childhood were always found under a real tree.
By Floyd Ingram on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I only recently learned what a “groyper” is - you may or may not be familiar with the term?
From what I can tell, a groyper is a hardline white nationalist. Often anti-Semitic, groypers are hostile to mainstream conservatives. To the extent they have a coherent agenda, groypers seem more national socialism than free-market capitalism.
Having been involved in the conservative movement for three decades, I’d hesitate to call anyone with such views conservative. Indeed, I’d argue people that think like that are essentially hardline leftists.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
3 months 2 weeks ago
My grandmother lived on Cloverleaf Circle in my early years. Her home was located just a few blocks west of Bailey Avenue, just off Palmyra Street. Homes on her street were wood- framed, simply- built houses of no more than 1,000 square feet.
My family would go for an obligatory visit each Sunday, following lunch at Morrison’s cafeteria in the old Milner Building on South Lamar Street. My brother and I quickly became bored with the small talk and heavy cigarette smoke from the adults in the tiny living room and would retreat to her backyard.
By Kendall Smith on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I thought retirement meant no more corporate meetings, no more trade shows, no more deadlines, etc. However, last week I found myself in Baton Rouge doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. Before I continue, Coach Kiffin was not part of the equation even though he was still “talk” of the town in tiger land. I suppose old habits are hard to break as I helped old colleagues with the booth preparation at the annual Louisiana Mosquito Control Association meeting.
By Jeff North on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I thought retirement meant no more corporate meetings, no more trade shows, no more deadlines, etc. However, last week I found myself in Baton Rouge doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. Before I continue, Coach Kiffin was not part of the equation even though he was still “talk” of the town in tiger land. I suppose old habits are hard to break as I helped old colleagues with the booth preparation at the annual Louisiana Mosquito Control Association meeting.
By Jeff North on
