by - July 17, 2019 1:55 pm
Tropical Storm Barry slung bands of rain in Arkansas on Saturday (July 13) and continued to inundate the state through Tuesday, dropping more than eight inches of rain in parts…
by - July 17, 2019 11:57 am
A federal judge in a U.S. District Court of Minnesota has consolidated three lawsuits filed against the nation’s beef packing industry into one case entitled “In re Cattle Antitrust Litigation.”…
by - July 16, 2019 6:10 pm
Bad weather has hampered cotton growers in 2019, the growing stages vary greatly from field to field, and bollworm problems loom. But, the state is on pace to hit its…
by - July 16, 2019 2:42 pm
Market watchers with Stephens Inc. have a positive outlook on Tyson Foods’ poultry segment despite rising feed costs and lower prices for consumers. Analysts with the Little Rock-based investment firm…
by - July 13, 2019 9:36 pm
Arkansas’ rice crop, delayed by a wet spring and bludgeoned by high heat, is now facing a triple threat from Tropical Storm Barry, whose remnants are expected to drop heavy…
by - July 10, 2019 2:13 pm
The frozen food aisle is no longer the place where shoppers just pick up ice cream and pot pies. The segment of the grocery store business has been revamped over…
by - July 9, 2019 7:51 pm
Siloam Springs-based broiler breeder Cobb-Vantress announced Tuesday (July 9) the appointment of Shane Sutton as managing director of South American operations and the promotion of Joe Emmanual to chief financial…
by - July 9, 2019 9:09 am
Randy Veach, who has led the Arkansas Farm Bureau as its president for the last 11 years, will not seek another term. Veach plans to bring his tenure to a…
by - July 4, 2019 1:34 pm
Farmers in Arkansas are facing some of the worst conditions experienced in the sector in decades and new ones could emerge even as the floodwaters that have besieged many producers…
by - July 3, 2019 1:15 pm
Celebrations around friends and family on the July 4th holiday that involve cookouts this year will be fairly easy on wallets, according to estimates from the American Farm Bureau Federation…
by - July 1, 2019 4:05 pm
The planned Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center has hired Tim Burcham as its first director. Burcham was previously dean of the Agriculture College at Arkansas State University and held…
by - June 27, 2019 6:59 pm
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) got clearance from a federal judge this week to intervene in the ongoing lawsuit against some of the largest poultry processing companies in the…
by - June 25, 2019 4:03 pm
The cold storage reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the weekly commodity report from Stephens Inc., indicate chicken, beef and eggs are seeing lower cold storage levels…
by - June 25, 2019 6:34 am
The new realities of hemp and the hard realities of a down farm economy are among the issues speakers brought to the sixth annual Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference…
by - June 24, 2019 1:12 pm
A scholarship program started 30 years ago by Siloam Springs-based Simmons Foods has surpassed the $1 million mark. The M.H. “Bill” Simmons Scholarship recently awarded $134,000 in scholarships to 72…
by - June 21, 2019 4:21 pm
John Marcy, extension specialist and professor at the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science at the University of Arkansas, was named the 2019 Industry Leader of the Year by multi-state…
by - June 20, 2019 1:26 pm
Tyson Foods continues to reinvent its business model at 84 years old. Company executives were in New York this week along with several board members holding an investor conference on…
by - June 18, 2019 7:45 pm
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service (USFS) released proposed changes to modernize how the agency complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Revising the rules will improve…
by - June 18, 2019 10:19 am
Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward has been elected vice president of the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (SASDA) for 2019-20. The elections were held at the organization’s…
by - June 17, 2019 7:03 pm
When Van Buren Original formed a few years ago to help make Van Buren’s downtown a viable center of Van Buren, one of its goals was to have a thriving…
