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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/business/mississippi-delta-farmers-rice-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVA.4HXG.xDc6ck8YRQ5F&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Across the country, farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Much attention has been paid to Midwestern soybean growers, whose crop was at the heart of the trade war between the United States and China. But farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying.