by - June 30, 2017 8:13 am
Sam’s Club in Beijing began selling U.S. beef to its members on Tuesday (June 27), becoming the first retailer in the country to do so since the market opened following…
by - June 27, 2017 8:42 pm
The final mile might be what’s on everyone’s mind when it comes to Amazon and its move to purchase Whole Foods Market, but the point of origin might be just…
by - June 27, 2017 4:39 pm
There’s hope that a farmer in Arkansas will produce 120 bushels of soybeans on one acre this year. “Grow for the Green,” the perennial competition that challenges the state’s soybean…
by - June 25, 2017 9:48 am
Although President Donald Trump is advocating a hard-line stance with Cuba, Arkansas’ First District Congressman Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, thinks legislation he is pushing has a narrow window to pass. A…
by - June 25, 2017 8:27 am
The Arkansas State Plant Board issued an emergency ban Friday preventing the use and sale of the herbicide dicamba. The ban comes after more than 240 filed damage complaints, according…
by - June 24, 2017 9:16 am
Tyson Foods recently added a position for a chief integration officer to support acquisitions that help drive the company’s strategic growth. George Chappelle, COO at AdvancePierre Foods, was selected for…
by - June 23, 2017 11:50 am
On Tuesday (June 20), I introduced the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017. The bill, originally introduced in 2015, has one overriding goal – to make our federal forests healthy…
by - June 21, 2017 6:08 am
The Arkansas State Plant Board has received more than 50 complaints about drift from the dicamba herbicide in 2017, and the board voted 11-3 to severely restrict its use but…
by - June 16, 2017 2:54 pm
President Donald Trump on Friday rolled back executive orders by then President Barack Obama that allowed expanded travel and trade with Cuba. The new order restricts travel and returns the…
by - June 16, 2017 10:08 am
The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as of June 9 were down slightly from the previous month. Global meat production estimates are 100,435…
by - June 15, 2017 9:00 pm
While the news is good that China has agreed to open its markets to U.S. beef, don’t expect products from meat packers like Tyson Foods and local cattlemen to enter…
by - June 15, 2017 8:21 pm
President Donald Trump has declared 13 Arkansas counties as disaster areas after powerful floods and tornadoes ripped through the state in late April and early May. Individual residents in Benton,…
by - June 14, 2017 5:41 pm
Seven farmers across the country – four in Arkansas – received the first carbon credit issued to rice farmers Wednesday, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The credit…
by - June 12, 2017 6:05 pm
The Trump administration announced Monday (June 12) it has reached agreement with China on final details of a protocol to allow U.S. companies to ship beef exports to China, a…
by - June 12, 2017 4:29 pm
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores said Monday (June 12) it has teamed up with the Arkansas Agriculture Department to support the agency’s “Arkansas Grown” program that kicked off in Little Rock…
by - June 7, 2017 11:13 am
Tyson Foods announced Wednesday morning (June 7) it completed the acquisition of AdvancePierre with 87.27% of the shares tendered at $40.25 per share. Officials with Springdale-based Tyson Foods announced the…
by - June 6, 2017 4:33 pm
Former Vice President for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, James “Jim” Martin, died Saturday (June 3) at his home in Decatur, Ala. He was 84 years old….
by - June 6, 2017 6:37 am
Torrential floods devastated Northeast Arkansas earlier this spring and the damage could top hundreds of millions of dollars in agriculture and other losses. Gov. Asa Hutchinson has submitted a formal…
by - June 5, 2017 4:09 pm
Any move by President Donald Trump to rollback a series of executive orders signed by then President Barack Obama lifting trade and travel restrictions with Cuba would be a mistake,…
by - June 2, 2017 3:01 pm
Steven C. Ricke, director of the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture’s Center for Food Safety, received the W.C. Frazier Memorial Lecture award from the Food Research Institute at…
