Most of what is farmed in Mississippi and the rest of the country isn’t food that goes on Americans’ tables. It is soybeans grown for animal feed, corn grown for ethanol, rice grown to export to Central America and so on. The fruits and vegetables that Mississippians eat are probably grown in California or in other countries.
amerikkkan small producer farmers are the modern capitalism equivalent of when kings would pay a guy to be a hermit and live in their garden as part of the decor. they’re aesthetic set-dressing to maintain the mythologized terrain.