by - November 16, 2017 4:52 am
Agriculture is Arkansas’ most dominant economic sector, and the harvest in the Natural State is nearly complete. Cotton and soybean crop production is up this year, while corn and rice…
by - November 13, 2017 1:31 pm
Wichita, Kan.-based Cargill Protein announced Monday (Oct. 13) the donation of 120,000 pounds of turkeys to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank, Arkansas Food Bank and River Valley Regional Food Bank….
by - November 13, 2017 7:17 am
Tyson Foods posted record per share earnings of $5.31 for fiscal year 2017 thanks in no small part to a 155% operating income increase in the company’s beef segment. Per…
by - November 9, 2017 5:27 pm
Plumes of smoke fill the autumn skies in the Delta as farmers burn row crop field refuse, and many complain about the side-effects of the smoke. Arkansas rice industry leaders…
by - November 9, 2017 4:59 pm
Tyson Foods is having another record year as its chicken, beef and pork segments are well into the black and improvements continue on the turnaround of the meat giant’s prepared…
by - November 8, 2017 3:17 pm
Arkansas State Plant Board members voted Wednesday (Nov. 8) during a public hearing and board meeting to ban dicamba in Arkansas during a bulk of the 2018 growing season. Dicamba is used…
by - November 6, 2017 4:28 pm
President Donald Trump has appointed David Branscum to serve as Arkansas Rural Development Director and David Curtis as Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.,…
by - November 6, 2017 4:23 pm
A coalition of 85 agriculture-related organizations have drafted a letter warning U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross about the negative impacts of withdrawing from North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)….
by - November 1, 2017 4:14 pm
Northeast Arkansas skies are filled each fall with plumes of smoke rising from row crop fields set on fire intentionally by farmers. Motorists and residents complain about the smoke, and…
by - October 31, 2017 4:48 pm
Farmer Jacob Hartz had a problem many farmers in Arkansas faced in the 1920s. Rice had been introduced in the state, and it depleted nutrients in the soil. Extension agents…
by - October 30, 2017 9:03 pm
Arkansas Rice showcased a new mural in downtown Little Rock on Monday. The art illustrates a field during harvest on the exterior wall of Besser Ace Hardware on Main Street….
by - October 24, 2017 7:22 pm
Arkansas became a peanut growing state once again six years ago, and this year was one of the largest crops planted. Peanut farmers planted about 30,000 acres this year in…
by - October 23, 2017 7:54 pm
The Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) has moved from its former location on Roosevelt Road to join other agencies of the Arkansas Agriculture Department (AAD) at the AAD headquarters complex at…
by - October 23, 2017 12:25 am
After staving off an investor-led push to be put on the auction block for nearly nine months, El Dorado-based Deltic Timber Corp. has succumbed to an all-stock deal to be…
by - October 18, 2017 8:07 pm
Arkansas will receive $302,776 from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)Specialty Crop Block Grant program to fund eight specialty crop projects this year. A list of the eight Arkansas…
by - October 16, 2017 8:28 pm
About half the state’s cotton acres have been harvested and the rest could be out of the ground by Nov. 1. Arkansas cotton acreage leaped when compared to 2016 as…
by - October 16, 2017 8:27 pm
By this stage in the growing season, the Arkansas’ Soybean Association’s contest “Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge,” would be settled, but the state’s soybean farmers continue to over…
by - October 13, 2017 12:55 pm
The Arkansas Biosciences Institute will hold its fall research symposium Oct. 25 at the just-opened Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences in Fayetteville. The Arkansas Biosciences Institute, or ABI, was…
by - October 10, 2017 6:53 pm
Arkansas soybean farmers had to whither springtime floods, dicamba drift, and even the remnants of two hurricanes late in the season. Despite those obstacles, about 62% of the 3.5 million…
by - October 9, 2017 7:02 pm
A full generation has passed since the U.S. beef industry launched its “Beef. It’s What For Dinner” campaign, but the sector’s largest trade group — the National Cattlemen’s Association —…
