by - January 31, 2018 6:16 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board (ASPB) held its first Industrial Hemp Committee on Tuesday (Jan. 30) after 80 years of prohibition. Committee members drafted a series of proposed regulations. These…
by - January 30, 2018 3:12 pm
Sun Paper announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) plans to boost its investment in a proposed Arkansas mill from around $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion. The new plans also include projected employment…
by - January 29, 2018 4:34 pm
More than 12,700 heads of lettuce in two years have been harvested from the University of Arkansas Freight Farm, a hydroponic vegetable farm contained in a 40-foot-long freight shipping container….
by - January 29, 2018 2:53 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods said its venture capital segment has made an undisclosed investment in Memphis Meats, a startup that focuses on producing meat protein from animal cells in a laboratory,…
by - January 29, 2018 12:55 pm
The University of Arkansas has signed an agreement to create a poultry science student and faculty exchange program with a Malaysian university. Leadership at the UA, its Dale Bumpers College…
by - January 25, 2018 3:13 pm
Arkansas had record soybean and cotton yields in 2017, and corn yields were significantly higher, according to the United States Agricultural Department. Information about these farms and farmers in the…
by - January 25, 2018 7:00 am
Texas native Erin McCarroll Williams has been hired as the communications coordinator for the Arkansas Forestry Association. She studied communications and graphic design at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville,…
by - January 23, 2018 5:20 pm
Four Arkansas counties will host a conference Feb. 27 at the Salem High School to help farmers prepare their herds for the upcoming spring season. The North Central Arkansas Beef…
by - January 20, 2018 10:25 am
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Friday that he is confident that the U.S., Canada and Mexico will come to a resolution on a new North American Free Trade…
by - January 19, 2018 4:36 pm
The controversial herbicide dicamba cannot be used by Arkansas farmers during the bulk of the 2018 growing season. The Arkansas Legislative Council voted Friday (Jan. 19) to invoke an Arkansas…
by - January 16, 2018 6:30 pm
Arkansas is one step away from banning the controversial herbicide dicamba for virtually all of the 2018 growing season. Members of the Administrative Rules and Regulations Subcommittee of the Arkansas…
by - January 12, 2018 5:54 pm
Two days after the director of the state Department of Environment Quality (ADEQ) denied C&H Hog Farms a permit to operate in the Buffalo River watershed, attorneys for the Newton…
by - January 9, 2018 5:09 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board has decided to keep its April 15 deadline for dicamba use in Arkansas, and now it will be up to the Arkansas Legislative Council’s Administrative…
by - January 9, 2018 2:35 pm
Wal-Mart and its major egg supplier Cal-Maine Foods were sued Monday (Jan. 8) in the U.S. District Court of Northern California by a shopper claiming unlawful and fraudulent business practices…
by - January 8, 2018 5:25 pm
The Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame will have six new members after an induction ceremony March 2 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock. Once the new class is…
by - January 8, 2018 1:08 pm
In 2017, 1,566 wildfires burned 27,549 acres in Arkansas. It’s the highest number of wildfires and acres burned since 2012 when 2,148 wildfires burned 34,434 acres. Overall, wildfires were larger…
by - January 5, 2018 9:39 am
Monroe County farmer Jim Carroll has been elected secretary of the United Soybean Board (USB). Carroll, a fourth-generation farmer, previously served the board as a director and chair of the…
by - January 4, 2018 4:18 pm
Poultry scientist Walter Bottje wanted to know what impact mitochondrial activity in chicken cells had on a bird’s ability to convert food into muscle. That scientific curiosity led Bottje, professor…
by - January 4, 2018 12:15 pm
The poultry industry enjoyed a profitable 2017, but profits could be harder to come by in 2018 according to Jefferies analyst Akshay Jagdale who said chicken prices could drop 10%…
by - January 2, 2018 7:45 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board will hold a special meeting Wednesday (Jan. 3) in Little Rock to discuss potential regulation changes for the use of the herbicide dicamba during the…
