Poultry science department head Mike Kidd (left) discusses research support for the state's poultry industry with a group of visiting legislators. Mississippi House of Representative members (second from left to right) Mac Huddleston, Greg Ward, Preston Sullivan, and House Speaker Billy McCoy--all MSU alumni--are this week touring facilities on the Starkville campus and branch experiment stations. Huddleston, Sullivan and Ward are either House committee chairs or vice chairs.