Membership Benefits

• News and Information - The Association newsletter, Emerging Trends, is printed quarterly. It contains educational and informative articles on a number of issues to related to the poultry industry. These articles concentrate on how to save the producer money, law compliance issues and promotional activities of the industry. More importantly, Emerging Trends provides an "Upcoming Events" section to announce various activities and functions of the Association such as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) technical training opportunities to other seminars ranging from money management to computers.
  
  
• Federal and State Governmental Relations - The Association is active on both the state and federal level governmental relations activities. This includes all statewide and local elected officials. The administering of MPA-PAC (political action committee) ensures support to those candidates that support the pro-business stance of the Mississippi poultry industry. The Association is also active in working with state and federal agencies that interact with the poultry industry from environmental issues to economic development.
  
  
• Money Saving Opportunities - The Association searches for methods to save its members money through various opportunities. Research is being done to structure a propane buying cooperative and various discounts are given to participating vendors who sell products.
  
  
• Grower Advisory Committee - This committee serves as a sounding board of grower issues and challenges from within the industry. The committee also provides guidance and input to seminar topics, makes available information on various on a wide array of insurance opportunities, and chooses scholarship participants to children or grandchildren of Association members. The committee meets quarterly to discus any of these issues or others that may arise and receive feedback from anyone in the poultry industry.
  
  
• Scholarships - The Association awards two scholarships each year to a child or grandchild of an Association member. We have two $1,000 scholarships that are awarded once a year to a full-time student majoring in Poultry Science with the other going to a student of any major.
  
  
• Promotion - The Association works hard to promote the state's number one agricultural commodity, poultry. Working with various outlets, we strive to use facts and figures to display the industry's importance the state's economy. We also work with other like-interest groups and events to help promote the industry.