date:May 14, 2013
Nostalgic prints of cotton farming scenes hang from the walls of Danny and Jo Anne Murphy's farm home outside of Canton, Mississippi. In one, families crowd a country road to watch a crop duster swoop over the growing crop. In another, mule-drawn wagons with cotton bales gather at a cotton gin.
The view from the Murphy home is hardly nostalgic. Wheat has headed out in their fields along Pisgah Bottom Road, next to some corn struggling in waterlogged soil. Danny Murphy is the current president o