It's taken nearly 30 years, but Layton Phelps and his wife are finally seeing on the ground what they had envisioned when they bought the 1,486 acres in Mississippi in 1976. The 80 year old Layton is spending his retirement years raising rice and soybeans in the Mississippi Delta....
Jim and Hazel Gammill grew up on farms in Choctaw and Webster Counties in Mississippi, but after college they ended up in the "city." However, their love of the land and country living pushed them to accumulate several farms ending up with a total of 614 acres. While living in town, they have been able to spend much of their time on their farms. Much of their land was considered...
"While still in high school at Ackerman, Mississippi, I purchased 200 acres of row crop and grazing land in Choctaw County not far from where my grandparents' farm was," explained Eric B. Chambers, "It had been a dream of mine all through my childhood - to buy some land and farm it." ...
Billie and Harley Craven, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) producers in Newton County, Mississippi, let their love for the Earth speak for them. A lot of effort and time is utilized in making sure everything is just as it should be. Craven is quoted as saying "I want to leave the land a little bit better than I found it." Their concern for the soil, environment, and trees is...
The Lower Mississippi Valley, or Mississippi Delta, has long offered its residents the most fertile farmlands. But farming and other improvements in the Delta have also contributed to problems like loss of forested wetlands and impaired water quality....
