A forum to bring all members of the Arkansas equine industry together to address priority issues facing horse ownership has been scheduled for later this year. Steve Jones chairs the ArFB Equine Division and in this conversation says the forum is needed to help unify the equine community in the state.
A second Veterans 4 Ag Summit has been scheduled for Feb. 22 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, designed to educate and prepare military veterans for potential careers in the agriculture field. This session follows a successful kickoff event last October at Arkansas State University.
The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas, a charitable foundation established and funded by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, made a donation of more than $65 thousand to the Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation to support the Medical Applications of Science for Health (M*A*S*H) program, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
The state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission voted in an emergency meeting Wednesday, Jan. 17, to grant a stay that will enable C&H Hog Farms to continue to operate.
Listen to our interview with Arkansas Farm Bureau State Board Member Jon Carroll of Moro as he discusses the work of the Voluntary Smoke Management Guidelines Task Force recently formed by the state’s rice industry. Task force members are working together to find ways farmers can voluntarily manage this smoke from field burning to reduce the possibility of any associated health and environmental impacts.
ArFB President Randy Veach joined Governor Asa Hutchinson and representatives of Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart and Riceland Foods for a special "Arkansas and NAFTA" discussion at the World Trade Center Arkansas in Rogers. Watch his comments.
Subfreezing temperatures the past two weeks may actually be a blessing to Arkansas soybean producers and some other growers. The cold weather has helped reduce the troublesome redbanded stink bug population in the state. In this conversation, Dr. Gus Lorenz, University of Arkansas Extension entomologist, says that while mild winters the past couple of years has allowed the stink bug to thrive in the state, that shouldn’t be the case in 2018.
Arkansas farmers and ranchers were among more than 7,000 attendees at the American Farm Bureau’s 99th annual convention in Nashville, January 6-10. See how Arkansas Young Farmers & Ranchers performed in competition, hear from attendees and learn what they heard from the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and President Donald Trump.
