Bobby Fisher Inc. | Mississippi Farmland Investments

About Our Area

The Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is a remarkable river. Together with the Missouri, its main branch, it is the longest river in the world - four thousand three hundred miles. The Mississippi discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty-five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty-eight times as much as the Thames. No other river has so vast a drainage-basin; it draws its water supply from twenty-eight states. The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi Delta is exceptionally so.

Much of the land that our company invests in consists of farms along the Tallatchie River (a tributary of the Mississippi) and the Bayous feeding into it. This river has deposited vast amounts of silty loam soils which are among the most fertile and productive in the world. In addition, this entire area sits atop the alluvial aquifer, an amazing source of irrigation water. The aquifer is recharged by the Mississippi and its tributaries.

Our company is located in Greenwood, Mississippi where the Tallatchie and the Yalobusha Rivers unite to form the Yazoo which feeds directly into the mighty Mississippi. One of our real estate investments composes the river bank where the rivers join.

The river system, together with its fertile alluvial deposits, massive drainage capacity, unique water fowl flyway and abundant irrigation supplies, is the story of the Mississippi Delta. Contact us and come see it first hand.