NYTIMES (Kevin Draper) - Hard Times in the Mississippi Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot
Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.
AI:Falling rice prices, alongside a general trend of crop values dropping below production costs, are creating significant economic hardship for farmers in the Mississippi Delta.Open