Arkansas Agriculture Department

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 >

Bobby Coy and his son, Richard Coy, owners of Crooked Creek Bee Co., in Jonesboro, began noticing a decline in bee pollination after nearby farmers began using the pesticide dicamba on nearby crops during the past three years. read more >

Wes Ward hails from Lake City, and he has degrees in agriculture and agriculture and food law. He served on U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford’s staff. read more >

Applications are being accepted for a program that honors Arkansas families who have owned and farmed the same land for at least 100 years. read more >

State agriculture agencies are floating draft legislation that would require grain buyers to be licensed in the state before conducting business. read more >

The Arkansas Agriculture Department has announced the retirement of Secretary of Agriculture Butch Calhoun. Calhoun's retirement becomes effective Dec. 31. read more >

Farmers markets have mushroomed in Arkansas in the last couple of decades. "The whole buying local concept was just starting to take off," says Zachary Taylor of the Arkansas Agriculture Department. "Now, it’s really grown by leaps and bounds." read more >

Farms that have been worked by members of the same family for more than 100 years are, however, being documented and recognized by the Arkansas Agriculture Department’s Century Farms Project. read more >