Mississippi Farmer's Marketplace created to connect farmers directly to consumers.
Commissioner of Agriculture Andrew Gipson is holding a press conference right now about the food chain in Mississippi. It is streamed below. He is not wearing a hat.
Commissioner Gipson said "We do not have a food shortage in the United States although there are strains on the processing capacity." He said he was taking steps to ensure no shortages took place in Mississippi.
He said the greatest threat is not a food shortage due to the pandemic but because of panic buying. He said there is an oversupply of food that is not being processed.
The Commissioner is changing the guidelines for custom meat processing. The new rules will allow farmers to sell cattle directly to consumers. The rule will expire in 120 days. It allows people to buy shares of cattle and swine. The consumer can pick up his share at a custom processing facility.
He also announced the launch of the Mississippi Farm Marketplace, an online marketing portal, that connects farmers and consumers. The online portal provides farmers a place to advertise commodities they have for sale, while providing consumers a location to easily source local products. The website address is www.msfarmmarketplace.com.
37 comments:
I don't understand why people aren't already stocked up? The warnings have been on the internet since January. We really saw mainstream news about it in February. By March we knew it was serious. And you even had the entire month of April. How can you people be so damn dumb?
This is definitely a novel solution -- I'm not entirely sure how someone living in a food desert is going to be able to actually get the locally grown/raised food from the farm to the table. Are farms ready to get into the food shipping game?
EVERYONE PANIC BUY TOILET PAPER AND BEEF JERKY
-Team Chaos
Guys this is epic. He ain't all hat. This is big brain out-of-the box thinking. I am not kidding or being ironic. It's about 2 months late. But better late than never. Because Coronavirus hasn't finished killing or disrupting our way of life.
I am interested in investing in a slightly used Angus, with options for T Bones. However, I need a small loan, and I am wondering if financing at 28% daily interest from a payday lender is available?
I feel this is the new normal, instead of actually having store shelves stocked.
And, do we have to wear a cowboy hat is we are now actually cow co owners?
How will I know if I am getting the rump roast instead of the beef selections I paid for?
And, can we invest in future steak fries with this?
There may not be a food shortage, but if the supply chain is broken and stores can't keep shelves stocked, it has the same effect. Shortage or not, if food is not available for purchase, there is a problem.
@10:14
Food deserts are created by crime and stupidity. The people who cause them are so short sighted that they defecate their own beds. Any efforts to help them are like casting pearls before swine.
People that hunt and fish and get called rednecks by people who live "in the Fondren" and other places sitting back and not worrying about a damn thing.
I don't know shit about butchering animals by I have a Dewalt reciprocating saw and a big smoker. Count me in
The Department of Defense just instituted a PERMANENT disqualification for those who have had a previous Caronavirus infection. Did you get that, all you "true patriots" and constitutional scholars refusing to wear masks and demanding we reopen Cracker Barrel? People who have had caronavirus are banned from joining the military. Your selfish behavior directly undermines our military, and you are now more of a threat to this country than any foreign adversary.
If you want to protest something, protest the fact that our federal government is spending OUR MONEY to protect billionaires and their corporations from the harmful effects of the pandemic instead of using the money to actually fight the pandemic. They are letting this thing roll over us while they sit back, sheltered by our tax dollars. If you want to make demands, demand that the feds properly support all the workers who keep this country going who can't work right now BECAUSE IT IS COMPLETELY IDIOTIC TO REOPEN THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW.
Anonymous at 11:30 AM,
What are you talking about and to whom are you talking?
The topic is whole animal shares and custom butchering guidelines on the state level.
What's the best recipro blade to cut meat with?
The ones like for green wood? Or the fine tooth metal cutters?
In the past I have seen they all chew skin fine when you don't want them to!
Well he has a real podium not a little battery operated one.
My husband shoots a deer every year here on our land and we have @ 60+ pounds of venison left in the freezer right now. He field-dresses it (removes organs and skin) and takes it to a deer processor to make tenderized steaks and hot link sausage although we are quite capable of butchering the meat ourselves and have done so in the past. If you know how to cut up a whole chicken, then you should be able to figure out how to butcher a deer or a steer. It is good, clean, low fat meat. We love venison stroganoff, chili, and red beans and rice made with venison sausage, among other dishes.
We fish in our lake - fresh bass and bream for the taking - and have a half dozen layer hens for fresh eggs every day. I have so many eggs now, despite giving them away to neighbors and family, that I'll make brioche bread tomorrow, which also can be frozen.
Our container gardens are full of growing tomatoes, peppers, onions, eggplant, okra, lettuce, sugar snap peas, bush beans, radishes, and all kinds of herbs. We'll plant corn and squash soon. Our blueberry, peach, apple, pear and persimmon trees are full of young fruit which we will freeze or make into jelly and other products.
My sister, niece, and I can, preserve, pickle, and freeze our garden produce throughout the summer and fall. We do it not because we can't afford to buy food, but because we enjoy raising and eating our own food. I love not being dependent on grocery stores for everything we eat and it has sure paid off over the past 3 months.
So, no, there is not a food shortage in Mississippi as long as you know how to hunt, fish and garden. Any fool with a sunny window or a yard can grow something edible. Also, there is plenty of food in the stores if you know how to cook or prepare it. I agree for the Commish on this issue.
12:58,
You are putting up a mighty big target by bragging about what you've got during hard times. I know you posted anonymously, but it is still unwise.
BTW what you are saying isn't remarkable. We all wish we could have that. Many of us are working toward having that. And some inherited that. You aren't superior because you have it.
A lot of Okies had that before the dust bowl and the great depression took it from them.
Never believe anything until it is officially denied.
i’m vegan. stores have plenty for me to eat.
sounds like 12:58 and her family got what they have through hard work. Only an imbecile would criticize someone for working hard (looking at you, 1:58).
Old Cellmate: ..and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I.: You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: We ate sand.
[pause]
H.I.: You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: That's right!
@3:32, udder Genious
No food shortage but people on the internet are claiming Gipson is a few fries short of a Happy Meal!
Since Tater has made peace with the Leg he will have time to look into Gipson's missing fries.
Well,
If the Commissioner says we don't have a shortage ... than ok.
But there is no chicken beef or pork at:
Kroger on HWY 51 Madison
Kroger at Colony Crossing Madison
Fresh Market at Ridgeland
Sam's in Madison
Costco in Ridgeland
Dollar General Market in Canton
Mack's Fresh Market in Ridgeland
Schwan's delivery
So if there is no shortage where is the damn meat?
There is no shortage of food at the production level. In many cases, quite the opposite.
However, the problem is coming at the processing level. When plants close, it affects distribution. Saw no steaks for sale at Kroger I-55 today or at Sams Madison Tuesday. Sam's Tuesday was completely out of meat. K55 had meat today but running low on ground beef. Plenty of pork products as well as chicken. However, the frozen breasts and beef products in frozen food section were almost cleaned out. Same for Sam's.
Pretty similar to what happens in oil business when refineries go down. Oil can run $25 a barrel but if a few refineries go down at the same time, the price goes up because there is less gasoline.
So technically there is not a shortage of meat, chicken, or pork. THere is a shortage of finished products for the consumer.
@4:49, in the 3 freezers in my garage. Preppers live like kings while normies eat catfood. Theres "meat" on the pet food aisle.
The meat is still on the farm. I hear they might be fixin to be harvesting these here chops and burgers at the packing plants and then dumping it in the landfills according to some reports on the internet.
It's jest like Mr Gipson says, aint none of it gone missing yet- so how can anyone say there's a shortage?
@4:59 The supply chain getting it from the farmer to the consumer is broken. Processing facilities are closing because of sickness. The restaurants don’t need their usual orders but the system can’t reconfigure to packaging for consumer use fast enough. Farmers are dumping milk, plowing crops under, and killing pigs & chickens because there isn’t a way to get the product to the stores you mention.
If you want meat you need to line up when the store opens. I found that out. They get their normal shipment each day. Which is not enough to fill the shelf. In the morning they put the meat out. 20 or so people can clean them out.
Isn't this a press release about the Ag Com facilitating direct consumer-to-farmer purchases of meat, vegetables and other farm products, bypassing big box stores?
All you folks who failed to foresee and prepare for this pandemic by early March need to take advantage of this opportunity immediately. Of course, you may have to get your hands dirty and sweat in the sun when you visit the farm. I recommend sensible shoes and sunscreen.
This is large and long-awaited by many.
That being said, God bless the middle-man.
dear mr. ag commish................please be advised that in a state that has an obesity rate of over 40%, it is reasonable to assume there is no food shortage. tell me, how many degrees from SEC universities did you need to figure that one out?
I think the State will be safer when this guy leaves politics for good.
Is Andy saying that under current law it is a criminal act for a farmer to sell a cow to a consumer?
Can a chicken farmer sell a chicken, or a pig?
I'll just go down off Hwy 25 and see ole Mr. Ziffle. He will sell me a hog. I can google or contact my MSU Extension service Hank Kimbell on how to clean it. I think I have to scald the hair off of it or something after gutting it. Mr. Haney can sell me a scalding pot and a gambrel.
@10:12 - I appreciate what you're saying but hog-killing should be done in cold weather. I'd love to come help you do it. Use every part of the hog except the squeal. Maybe you should get the farmer to reserve a hog for you to be butchered in the fall?
You know the brown has done hit the fan and American inginuity is taking over when the walkin coolers start getting appropriated for hanging and dressin meat insted of coolin the beers and wine coolers!
You can bet there wont never be a beer shortage! Not unless they run out of corn.
Before this shit started, our Legislature was fighting each other about something regarding selling goat meat.
And After reading 12:58's Epistle, I've been listening to Hank Jr.'s classic " A Country Boy Can Survive".
More power to 12:58 !
She can skin buck and run a trout line.
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