by - March 24, 2025 9:00 am
Agriculture’s ‘perfect storm’
I find myself thinking about agriculture a lot lately. I’m not a farmer, but I know enough about farming from the stories I’ve heard over the years from friends and…
Tag: agriculture
by - March 23, 2025 10:00 am
Riceland Foods COO on the urgency for a Farm Bill
It’s no secret that farmers across the nation face a number of challenges heading into the new planting season. From rising input costs, low commodity prices, inflation, tariffs, severe weather…
by - February 12, 2025 5:29 pm
Agriculture chief outlines farm issues at A-State conference
The farming community is facing a multitude of problems from weak commodity prices, higher input costs, potential trade wars, and other problems as the planting season creeps nearer. Arkansas Agriculture…
by - January 27, 2025 9:00 am
Plant scientists continue to study ‘phantom pathogens’
German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco leaves when he noticed that if sap from the leaves touched…
by - December 30, 2024 8:00 am
Drought app seeks to measure, help predict trends for agri sector
When the peanut industry returned to Northeast Arkansas in 2010, the rationale for the companies investing in buying points was simple. Disease and a lack of water ravaged many parts…
by - December 4, 2024 1:00 pm
Major crops on pace for high yields; peanut acres set new record
Corn, soybeans, squash and other crops have been grown in the Arkansas Delta for at least a thousand years and yield numbers for some of those row crops could set…
by - September 11, 2024 12:26 pm
State of the State Mid-Year 2024: Arkansas farmers facing ‘pretty rough’ conditions
Financial viability for some farmers is becoming an increasing concern for agriculture stakeholders and public officials as the harvest season draws near, according to Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward….
by - March 2, 2023 8:30 am
Farm bills seek to steer younger Arkansans into agriculture
Rep. Julie Mayberry, R-Hensley, and Rep. Denise Garner, D-Fayetteville, have introduced a bill aimed at addressing the challenges young farmers face entering the profession. According to House Bill 1003, an…
by - February 7, 2021 10:00 am
Agri leaders point to specifics for optimism in 2021
Like nearly every other industry in 2020, the state’s agricultural community had a rough ride. The pandemic may have been the least of its worries. Weather conditions, low commodity prices…
by - January 10, 2021 5:00 am
All Arkansas ag sectors hurt by COVID-19 pandemic; impacts may continue into 2021
The agriculture sector in Arkansas has faced many brutal challenges in recent years before the COVID-19 pandemic enveloped the world. Relatively low commodity prices fueled by a more than two-year…
by - March 23, 2020 5:05 pm
UA System Division of Agriculture makes changes to continue aid to farmers
Even as many private businesses and public spaces close their doors in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, staff and faculty with the University of Arkansas System Division…
by - January 20, 2020 4:14 pm
Pakko, Ward among featured speakers for ASU’s annual Agribusiness Conference
Arkansas State University’s annual Agribusiness Conference, slated for Feb. 12, will provide information and agricultural policy education to farmers, agribusiness professionals, students and educators across the Mid-South. This year’s conference…
by - December 4, 2019 8:21 am
Carbon-friendly: Farmers adopt regenerative practices to save money and the environment
The agriculture sector can at times be the most volatile economic sector in the country. Prices for a broad range of crops can vary by wide margins each growing season,…
by - September 25, 2019 5:33 pm
Farm Bureau’s Veach represents state, U.S. at the North American/EU ag conference
Randy Veach, president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau, was among the farm and ranch leaders representing the United States at the 39th biennial North American/European Union Agriculture Conference in Copenhagen,…
by - July 21, 2019 6:12 pm
Arkansas Farm Bureau leader says farmers will rebound from tariffs, rains and floods
Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach announced earlier this month that he won’t seek a new term as the agriculture voice’s top leader. Veach said it is time for new…
by - April 7, 2019 1:56 pm
Ag industry set to boom during the next century
The world’s rapidly growing population and the push of many people from the poverty ranks into the middle class will fuel significant growth in the agriculture industry, according to one…
by - April 2, 2019 4:43 pm
USDA releases acreage estimates for Arkansas
The ongoing trade war with China is now impacting what Arkansas farmers will plant this spring. Corn and cotton acres are expected to increase, while soybean acres, the state’s top…
by - February 18, 2019 4:25 pm
State rice and corn harvest numbers up; soybean and peanuts down
Arkansas farmers managed to pull enough rice from the land to mark a 30% increase over 2017’s lower numbers, which was a result of flooding during that year’s spring. Not…
by - February 4, 2019 8:38 am
Arkansas farmers hope to fare better in the coming year after brutal 2018
A perfect storm of problems ranging from the ongoing trade war with China, lower commodity prices, and bad weather plagued Arkansas farmers in 2018. Arkansas Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward told…
by - March 22, 2018 12:09 pm
Trade, technology are topics to watch for state’s agri sector
Earlier this week, Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a proclamation declaring Tuesday (March 20) as “Agriculture Day in Arkansas.” He met with state employees from the Arkansas Agriculture Department, which encompasses…