Article: The catfish are jumping, and so is the lending.(Agriculture)

Squirming in a mesh basket as they're scooped from a murky pond, hundreds of catfish are about to be trucked off to a local processor.

Watching some of the 60,000 live catfish being hauled from the ponds at the Roberts Brothers' 250-water-acre Sunflower County catfish farm, Tim Mood, vice president of $129 million-asset Community Bank, Indianola, has a rare opportunity to see the product he's financed.

But Mr. Mood and other Mississippi Delta aquacultural lenders don't have to see a catfish to believe in it.

"This is a part of the portfolio that we are aggressively trying to grow," Mr. Mood said from the white Chevy truck he has steered down a thin ...

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