State Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Thursday October 31, 2024 ( 4 items ) |
MDAC Accepting Applications for Garden Grant Programs
JACKSON, Mississippi, Oct. 31 -- The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce issued the following news release:
As part of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce's (MDAC)
Freshly Picked campaign, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced that MDAC is now accepting applications for the school and community garden grant programs. The Freshly Picked campaign, funded through the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Specialty Crop Block Gr
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Miss. A.G. Fitch Praises Supreme Court Decision Allowing Virginia to Remove Noncitizens From Voter Rolls
JACKSON, Mississippi, Oct. 31 -- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024:
On Monday, Attorney General Fitch joined attorneys general from 25 states in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Virginia to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Virginia.
"It is critical that we uphold state authority to determine voter qualifications and ensure the integrity of our elections," sai
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MSU's Landscape Architecture Department Changes Name to Encompass Environmental Design
STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Oct. 30 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news:
Mississippi State's landscape architecture department marks a new era with a name change, now known as the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design.
Anne Spafford, landscape architecture and environmental design professor and department head, said the name change aligns more succinctly with the department's mission.
"Often people outside the profession incorrectly assume we only d
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MSU, John Deere Partner for Research to Move Agricultural Autonomy Forward
STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news:
Mississippi State is partnering with John Deere through a master research agreement, establishing a framework for the university's Agricultural Autonomy Institute to help develop technology to automate critical steps in the production of cotton and other crops.
"There has been a lot of interest in automating a variety of farming processes because the skilled labor needed to carefully operate mo
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