Lance Fritz, the head of Union Pacific Railroad, said last week during a Q&A panel celebrating the Little Rock Port Authority's 60th anniversary that he had cautionary words for President Trump regarding the country's trade war with China.
Investing in the marijuana business these days doesn't require bags of cash or secret handoffs, but there are still risks, and experts advise looking before leaping into the new medical cannabis industry.
For Bold Team LLC, the state's first medical marijuana producer and cannabis edibles manufacturer, business so far has been grape.
A pair of apartment complexes in west Little Rock, retail space in North Little Rock, agri acreage in Lonoke County and a trio of upscale homes in Pulaski County form this week's conga line of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an awards luncheon in September. read more >
Cannabis advocate Melissa Fults says her nonprofit will file two ballot petitions with the Arkansas secretary of state on Wednesday, including one that would legalize recreational use of cannabis. read more >
A growing number of startups are making cell-based or cultured meat. They want to offer an alternative to traditional meat production that they say is damaging the environment and causing unnecessary harm to animals, but they are far from becoming mainstream and face pushback from livestock producers. read more >
After two months and $2 million in sales, Arkansas' spanking new medical marijuana industry is poised to break a supply logjam. read more >
A $70 million investment in the peanut industry in Arkansas is expected to usher in a new era for farmers. The operation will feature the first peanut-shelling plant in Arkansas and create between 125 and 130 jobs. read more >
Terisa C. Riley assumed the position of chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith on July 1, succeeding Paul Beran. read more >
In his new position as director of the Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Poinsett County, Tim Burcham wants to help improve production of Arkansas' top crop. He also gets to play in the dirt. read more >
This spring's rain and flooding have already taken a heavy toll on the farming sector. The trade war with China is only adding to farmers' pain. And because the agriculture industry is Arkansas' No. 1 industry, that pain can quickly be felt by other sectors of the state's economy. read more >
President Trump's trade war with China is creating casualties in Arkansas. Soybean farmers have seen their exports to China plummet as prices have dropped 15%. read more >
Transportation equipment accounted for nearly $2 billion in exports in 2017, according to World Trade Center Arkansas. read more >
An investor group, through Legacy Land & Timber LLC, purchased the 1,787-acre tract that wraps around the western and southern perimeter of the Alotian Golf Club. read more >
Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward was elected vice president of the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture at the annual conference in Fort Worth, Texas. read more >
Yang Luo-Branch, president of the Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses, says her organization seeks to bridge Arkansas and Asia. read more >
A legal advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a state law that farm organizations have used to shield themselves from undercover investigations by animal rights groups. read more >
The U.S. government is investigating allegations of price-fixing against the country's biggest poultry companies, including Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale. read more >
A former Arkansas banker who received a lifetime ban from the banking industry has been accused of hiding income to avoid paying creditors. read more >
Tree of Life Seeds Inc. will use a $500,000 injection to consolidate its locations across the country to its Little Rock headquarters. read more >
An eternal battle over hog waste and the Buffalo does no one any good, and the long-term cost could easily be more than the $6.2 million price of settling the dispute. read more >
Insured losses stemming from natural disasters in the United States in 2018 totaled $52.3 billion, down from $78 billion in 2017. read more >
Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of highly contagious African swine fever, with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million dead in an unprecedentedly huge epidemic some fear is out of control. read more >
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission will meet Wednesday to discuss company name, location and floor-plan changes, as well as four requests for ownership changes in the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry. read more >
The sale of a 384-unit apartment complex in North Little Rock leads off this week's lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday that the state reached an agreement with C&H Hog Farms Inc. to end its operation in the Buffalo River watershed. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson makes appointments to state boards and commissions. read more >
Tommy Jumper's Delta Peanut LLC, which would process an estimated 90,000 tons of peanuts, would be a bright spot for the local farm economy in the wake of low commodity prices and a trade war. read more >
Private-sector employers in Arkansas need to be aware of what the National Labor Relations Board is doing, because not knowing exposes them to litigation from employees or former employees and to costly disruptions that can come from NLRB investigations. read more >
New Age Hemp LLC's leadership wants to make two things starkly clear: Grandma's hemp-based CBD oil is legal, and it won't make her high. read more >
Cheryl Schluterman has been named director of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority in Little Rock, a division of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, effective July 1. read more >
Amy Tu, the EVP and general counsel at Tyson Foods, says there's growing global demand for all forms of protein. read more >
