by - July 10, 2018 5:55 pm
Soybean prices have plummeted this year, and the price is approaching a threshold that could make the agri product unprofitable for some farmers, according to University of Arkansas agriculture economist…
by - July 9, 2018 4:55 pm
Flooded rice paddies, protected by a series of levees, have been the norm in the Arkansas Delta for many years. During the 1980s farmers experimented with systems that allowed rice…
by - July 9, 2018 4:24 pm
Arkansas State University’s history is steeped in agriculture, and the school’s first endowed academic position in the school’s College of Agriculture has been filled. Dr. Aaron Shew becomes the inaugural…
by - July 3, 2018 3:30 pm
Greenway Equipment has established an additional two scholarships in the Arkansas State University College of Agriculture. The scholarships were created following a commitment of $115,000 from Greenway, the second such commitment…
by - July 2, 2018 6:08 pm
An anonymous reporting system has also been established to help measure feral hog removal efforts taking place in Arkansas and to help better estimate the state’s feral hog population, according…
by - July 2, 2018 2:08 pm
Farmers in the Natural State have planted 650,000 more acres this year than in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). A total of…
by - July 2, 2018 11:28 am
The nation’s largest business trade group on Monday (July 2) issued its strongest rebuke of trade tariffs recently imposed by the Trump administration on China and U.S. allies in the…
by - June 29, 2018 5:48 pm
Congress is one step closer to passing a new farm bill. The U.S. Senate passed its version of the bill by an 86-11 vote on Thursday (June 28). The bill…
by - June 25, 2018 7:41 pm
Cotton prices are on the rebound and more cotton acres will be planted in Arkansas in 2018. The agriculture commodity was selling for 86 cents per pound on Monday (June…
by - June 22, 2018 5:25 pm
It’s now up to the U.S. Senate to move on a farm bill after the U.S. House narrowly passed a farm bill that would remove millions from the Supplemental Nutrition…
by - June 22, 2018 9:46 am
Nathan Slaton, head of the Arkansas Soil Testing Lab, has been appointed assistant director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the statewide research component of the University of Arkansas System’s Division…
by - June 20, 2018 4:59 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods and Merck Animal Health together granted a $500,000 research gift to the poultry science department at Texas A&M University to help build a new research facility in…
by - June 19, 2018 6:53 pm
Arkansas is commonly referred to as the Natural State, but it could also be called the rice state. Rice farmers in the state planted 1.161 million acres last year, about…
by - June 13, 2018 4:27 pm
The Arkansas Rice Research Promotion Board has dedicated $4 million toward the construction of a rice research center in Poinsett County, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture spokesman Ryan…
by - June 6, 2018 6:48 pm
With Congress failing to pass a Farm Bill for the next five years, Arkansas farmers are teetering toward limbo with future farm policy. In mid-May, the U.S. House of Representatives…
by - June 5, 2018 6:12 pm
Powerful storms swept through Northeast Arkansas Saturday night (June 2) destroying crop land in several counties and causing extensive damage to the Delta Regional Airport in Colt. At 11:21 p.m….
by - June 4, 2018 4:41 pm
The Tyson Foods buying spree continues. The Springdale-based company announced Monday (June 4) the acquisition of Tecumseh Poultry, a company that touts its humane methods of processing all organic “Smart…
by - June 1, 2018 5:27 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and other Arkansas trade officials awoke Friday (June 1) to fears of a possible international trade war after President Donald Trump moved forward Thursday with his threat…
by - May 29, 2018 4:35 pm
Despite an unusually cold spring, and inconsistent weather, Arkansas row crop farmers have planted nearly all of their corn, soybean, and rice crops, according to the University of Arkansas System…
by - May 20, 2018 3:21 pm
Dirt. Nutrient-rich, alluvial-plain soil. It’s the foundation of Arkansas’ row crop agri industry. Rice, soybeans, cotton and other profitable plants have for generations risen from millions of eastern Arkansas acres….
