# Presentation: 042690

## USDA-ARS, USDA-CSREES

- Stakeholder Workshop

- Chip Morgan, Exec. Vice President
- Delta Council

## *Broaden understanding of opportunities & problems facing aquaculture industry

- *Role of research & education in global competitiveness
- *How to get research out to the field

_**Issues of Presentation:**_

## ISSUES OF ORIGIN

***Agriculture***
***Highway Development***
***Flood Control***

_**ISSUES OF ORIGIN**_

**Founded 1935**

## The Delta

-   6.5 m total acres
-   200 miles long and 65 miles wide
-   Gently slopes 1/2 foot per mile
-   $1.3 billion in annual Ag production
-   $400 million cotton production
-   $140 million rice production
-   $240 million catfish production
-   $340 million soybean production
-  $821.3m in manufacturing wages
-  28,286 jobs in manufacturing
-  41,000 jobs in farming & allied ag businesses

## “Not everyone is lucky enough 

**41% of land surface of U.S.,**
**31 states & 2 provinces of**
**Canada**

**“****Not everyone is lucky enough **
**to live upstream.”**
**	****- Mark Twain**

## Slide 6

## May 1991

**May 1991**

## 1997

- School Bus

-      **MS River **
**Levee**

## Slide 9

## 621 well tested

**621 well tested**
**600 wells with no detectable contaminant        concentrations**
**21 wells with detectable contaminant concentrations**
**Only 1 well found to contain contaminant concentrations exceeding safe levels established for drinking water by EPA (resampling of this well has indicated levels are now within safe drinking water standards)**

**Delta Wells Tested**
**1988-2007**

## Aquifer Declines

**Delta Water Level Change from**
**October 1997 to October 2007**

**Aquifer Declines**

## F C W I 

- F C W I
- Federal Compress and Warehouse, Inc.

- PYCO Industries, Inc

- Source: MSU

## December 2009 Corn CBOT

- 2001-2006 Average  $2.30/bu.

## November 2009 Soybeans CBOT

- 2001-2006 Average  $5.85/bu.

## July 2009 Wheat CBOT

- 2001-2006 Average  $3.47/bu.

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## Frozen U.S. Catfish v. Imported Catfish-like Fillet Sales in the U.S. 2000 - October 2007

**Million lb**

**7%**

**16%**

**8%**

**4%**

**8%**

**24%**

**64%**

**80%**

**Less than 10% of U.S. market share for beef, poultry, eggs, hogs, and milk is imported, according to Mississippi State University sources.**

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- Imported “Catfish”  Frozen Fillets (million pounds)

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- 04

- 05

- 06

- 07

- 20

- 40

- 60

- 80

- 100

## 100

- 01

- Imported Tilapia
- Frozen Dressed and Fillets (million pounds)

- 02

- 03

- 04

- 05

- 06

- 200

- 300

- 400

## Slide 20

## STONEVILLE RESEARCH COMPLEX

**USDA-Agricultural Research Service**
**MSU-Delta Research & Extension Center**
**USDA-Forest Service (Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research)**
**Yazoo MS Delta Joint Water Management District**
**USDA-Southern Regional Aquaculture Center**
**USDA-Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center**
**USDA-Wildlife Services**
**USDA-Weather Center**
**Delta Council**
**Delta Wildlife/Delta F.A.R.M.**

## STONEVILLE RESEARCH COMPLEX

**Notes:**
With over 500 employees, 125 ph.d.’s, and an annual budget of almost $50 million, it is one of the largest payrolls in our region.
Also, the presence of Stoneville, has drawn dozens of private companies all over the world to locate near the center of row crop agricultural research in the company. These companies, with household names like Bayer, Delta and Pine Land, Monsanto, and BASF, employ hundreds more of highly-educated, highly-paid people who contribute a tremendous amount to the Mississippi Delta region.

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