Press Releases – News
Arkansas Farm Bureau Sets 81st Convention
				
					Convention program available here   LITTLE ROCK — Farmers, ranchers and agricultural leaders from across the state will come together for Arkansas Farm Bureau’s 81st annual convention, set for Dec. 2-4 at Little Rock’s Marriott Hotel and the Statehouse Convention Center.Gov. ...
				
			
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		Traditional Thanksgiving dinner to cost less this year
				
					Lower turkey and milk prices lead drop in cost of holiday feast
				
			
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		Arkansas Farm Bureau Promotes Wood
				
					LITTLE ROCK — Autumn Wood of Cabot has been promoted to membership marketing specialist at Arkansas Farm Bureau, where she will be responsible for managing and expanding marketing strategies to promote membership development for the organization.Wood’s new duties also include ...
				
			
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		PODCAST: Hunger Relief
				
					The Thanksgiving holiday will soon be here and it is a time when many organizations share meals and the bounty produced by farmers and ranchers with those in need. Hunger and food insecurity is real in Arkansas and the Arkansas ...
				
			
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		Trans Pacific Partnership
				
					   Quote from Randy Veach, president, Arkansas Farm Bureau regarding the Trans Pacific Partnership.   We are pleased the negotiations about the Trans Pacific Partnership have concluded. As a member of the USDA/USTR trade advisory committee, I know how challenging this process ...
				
			
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		Ark. Agriculture Hall of Fame solicits nominations
				
					LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame is seeking nominations from the public for its class of 2015. The nomination deadline is Nov. 6.The Agriculture Hall of Fame recognizes Arkansans who are or have contributed significantly to the ...
				
			
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		Trade Mission to Cuba
				
					   Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach, a cotton, soybean, rice and corn farmer from Manila (Mississippi County) is among the business leaders who joined Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on a trade mission to Cuba. Below is a brief discussion ...
				
			
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		Arkansas Farm Bureau Promotes Bradley
				
					LITTLE ROCK — Zac Bradley of Bryant has been promoted to director of public policy at the Arkansas Farm Bureau, where he will help manage the organization’s lobbying and advocacy efforts. Bradley has spent the past year and a half ...
				
			
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		Lambert joins Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Commodity and Regulatory Affairs Team
				
					LITTLE ROCK -- Mark Lambert has been hired as assistant director of commodity activities and economics in the commodity and regulatory affairs department at Arkansas Farm Bureau. Lambert will coordinate the activities of the wheat and feed grains and forestry ...
				
			
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