• Civil War agriculture in Mississippi was dominated by a plantation based cotton production system which relied on enslaved labor. Mississippi's rank as...
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  • Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research...
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    Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce abbreviates to MDAC. For all other references see MDAC. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and...
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  • Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". Archived from the original on 2004-06-06. Retrieved 2007-08-14. Portals: Agriculture Business History Mississippi...
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    plantation agriculture, which led to its wealth pre-Civil War, but entrenched slavery and racial segregation. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the...
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    Cindy Hyde-Smith (category Mississippi Commissioners of Agriculture and Commerce)
    States senator from Mississippi since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and...
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    The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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    connecting waterways. The Mississippi River is the largest drainage basin in the United States. In the United States, the Mississippi drains about 41% of the...
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  • Departments of Agriculture. The agriculture commissioner is elected in 12 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina...
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  • Mississippi College (MC) is a private university affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention and located in Clinton, Mississippi, United States...
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    Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds...
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    Bill Hawks (category United States Under Secretaries of Agriculture)
    (born November 22, 1944, near Oxford, Mississippi), is an American politician, former civil servant, agricultural businessman, and founder and CEO of AgWorks...
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    Mark Keenum (category Mississippi State University alumni)
    an agricultural economist who is the 19th and current university president of Mississippi State University. He served as a professor at Mississippi State...
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    slavery in Mississippi began when the region was still Mississippi Territory and continued until abolition in 1865. The U.S. state of Mississippi had one...
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    Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161...
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    Shad White, Mississippi state auditor (2018–present) Lynn Fitch, attorney general of Mississippi (2020–present) Andy Gipson, agriculture and commerce...
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    Jackson Volcano. In addition to the Coliseum, the Mississippi State Fairgrounds includes: The Mississippi Trade Mart, the A & I agricultural complex and the...
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    Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the four U.S. representatives from the State of Mississippi, one each of the state's...
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  • Southwest Mississippi Community College is a public community college in unincorporated Pike County, Mississippi,in Summit, MS The college's district...
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    city in the mid-19th century when he established a timber mill and business. Clarksdale is in the Mississippi Delta region and is an agricultural and trading...
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    The 2023 Mississippi House of Representatives election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, to elect all 122 members of the Mississippi House of Representatives...
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  • boundaries of the town. Mississippi State University and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) maintain an agriculture research station at Stoneville...
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    13.15% of the total population). Poverty rates were highest in the states of Mississippi (19.58%), Louisiana (18.65%), New Mexico (18.55%), West Virginia...
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    Mike Espy (category African-American people in Mississippi politics)
    support for cutting the federal budget and protecting Mississippi's defense and agricultural industries. In 2018, Espy said that he wanted to cut the government's...
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    Homer Wilkes (category United States Department of Agriculture officials)
    government official from Mississippi. In 2021, Wilkes was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as under secretary of agriculture for natural resources...
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    The flag of Mississippi consists of a white magnolia blossom surrounded by 21 stars and the words "In God We Trust" written below, all put over a blue...
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    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
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    Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms...
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    The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial...
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