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News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Friday December 26, 2025 ( 3 items )  

USDA Trims U.S. Rice Export Outlook as Global Supplies and Trade Hit Records
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service has issued 'Rice outlook: December 2025' (Report No. RCS-25K), coordinated by Nathan Childs with contributor Vidalina Abadam and approved by USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board. The report, released December 11, 2025, revises U.S. and global rice supply, use, and price projections for the 2025/26 marketing year. The document lowers the 2025/26 U.S. rice export forecast by 2.0 million hundredweigh  more

USGS Estimates Vast Undiscovered Oil and Gas in Haynesville Formation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Geological Survey has released a fact sheet titled 'Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Haynesville Formation Within the Onshore United States and State Waters of the Gulf Coast Basin, 2024,' authored by Rand Gardner, Jason A. Flaum, Justin E. Birdwell and colleagues as part of U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2025-3054. The assessment, issued in December 2025, evaluates undiscovered, technically recoverable petroleum resources in th  more

USGS Maps Sand-Rich Seafloor to Support Mississippi Coast Restoration
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Geological Survey has published Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5100 titled 'Shallow geologic framework of the Mississippi Sound and the potential for sediment resources,' authored by James Flocks and Arnell Forde. Produced in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, the document, issued in 2025 from the agency's Reston, Virginia, headquarters, outlines the geologic setting and sediment resource potential of the Mississip  more