JEROME - Belts are being tightened throughout the U.S. catfish industry. As soaring feed costs have outpaced catfish prices, many farmers have abandoned ponds, and consolidation among processors is ...
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The announcement by one of the nation's largest catfish processors laying off employees because of a "shortage of live catfish" has raised some concerns. Shortage of catfish? In the ...
MOORHEAD, Miss. – Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head — another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will ...
WASHINGTON – The Agriculture Department was faulted Wednesday for donating $20 million in powdered milk to a Mississippi feed mill that sold it as catfish food.The department’s inspector general said ...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2016 – USDA was ordered to look into the possibility of creating a catfish insurance program and the result is disappointing to many of the nation’s catfish farmers. After ...
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to $5 million worth of domestic farm-raised catfish for school lunches and other programs in an agreement producers say could give the ...