by - August 2, 2017 6:39 pm
Riceland Foods Inc. Senior Vice-President Corporate Communications and Public Serve Bill Reed retired from the Stuttgart-based company on Monday and received a rare honor Wednesday. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.,…
by - August 2, 2017 5:48 pm
Tyson Foods said Wednesday (Aug. 2) that Andy Callahan, president of North American Foodservice & International, and Monica McGurk, chief growth officer, are exiting the company amid restructuring around the…
by - August 2, 2017 7:56 am
Tyson Foods has agreed to a $5.8 million settlement with roughly 3,900 of its workers, past and present, at the meat giant’s pork processing plant in Storm Lake, Iowa. The…
by - August 1, 2017 12:35 pm
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service has named associate vice-president Rick Cartwright as its new director. Cartwright’s appointment will begin Aug. 1. He served as interim…
by - July 27, 2017 6:34 pm
U.S. rice production is expected to decline during the next year, and markets in China will not boost U.S. rice exports in 2018. Overall world-wide rice production is expected to…
by - July 25, 2017 11:18 am
Tyson Foods subsidiary Cobb-Vantress of Siloam Springs announced this week it has upped its stake in Broiler Budeshego, a large supplier of breeding stock for the Russian broiler meat industry….
by - July 24, 2017 4:51 pm
Arkansas farmers planted 425,000 cotton acres this year, nearly double the number planted in 2015. Low prices, Chinese cotton surpluses, and surging input costs could cause the number of acres…
by - July 20, 2017 2:37 pm
After years of posturing, the Chinese government agreed Thursday (July 20) to allow U.S. rice farmers to export their crops to the largest rice consuming nation on Earth. An agreement…
by - July 19, 2017 9:33 am
American consumers may eat almost 92 pounds of chicken per person this year, which would best the 91 pound per capita record set in 2016, according to the latest research…
by - July 17, 2017 11:36 am
During the past few weeks, Cuba has been on most every news outlet and media report in the nation, and for crucial reasons. On June 16, the president of the…
by - July 17, 2017 10:43 am
Chris Ward was working for the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service in Afghanistan when he realized he needed to do something different on his livestock farm near…
by - July 14, 2017 12:27 pm
Agricultural uses of water will be a central topic of discussion at this year’s Arkansas Water Resources Center conference. The theme for year’s conference, scheduled for July 25-26 in Fayetteville,…
by - July 13, 2017 6:44 pm
Powdered milk in Spain more than 70-years ago may change the modern farming culture in Arkansas. Dan West, an American farmer who volunteered to help fight hunger during the Spanish…
by - July 13, 2017 8:11 am
Bentonville-based Hanna Family Ranch recently received third-party certifications for its treatment of livestock and for its grass-fed sheep. A Greener World, which certifies farms in North America, gave the ranch…
by - July 12, 2017 8:50 pm
Tyson Foods and its poultry competitors keep one eye on the grain markets at all times and in recent weeks the two main feed ingredients for chickens — corn and…
by - July 7, 2017 3:48 pm
Farmers may no longer use the herbicide dicamba following a decision Friday (July 7) by the Arkansas Legislative Council Executive Subcommittee to take no action on a ban implemented by…
by - July 6, 2017 6:23 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board and Gov. Asa Hutchinson have decided that dicamba, a substance used to fight pigweed in cotton crops, has damaged thousands of acres of soybean crops…
by - July 6, 2017 9:43 am
Tyson Foods Inc. will invest nearly $60 million to expand its distribution center in Pottsville, Penn. The project will “add jobs, improve efficiency and support the company’s plans for growth,”…
by - July 5, 2017 5:49 pm
Arkansas rice farmers will still likely harvest a little more than 1 million acres this fall despite damaging flood waters earlier this spring that impacted much of Northeast Arkansas. But…
by - July 5, 2017 12:25 pm
At least one company that isn’t authorized to sell dicamba in Arkansas after April 15 thinks the governor and the state’s Plant Board are wrong to ban its sale and…
