Arkansas Forestry Association

Simmons Bank stands accused of mishandling trusts a Pine Bluff tree farmer established for his daughter and granddaughter. read more >

Once little more than a nuisance in loblolly pines, the blight has become recurrent enough that some trees are damaged or killed by disease. read more >

The lumber industry appears to be settling into a new normal after a frenetic spring that saw lumber prices surge to an all-time high — so high that executives were often at a loss for words to explain it. read more >

South Arkansas has been fertile ground for the wood pellets industry this year, as three manufacturers have recently started or completed projects. read more >

Kent Nation has been promoted to sales manager by Keith Smith Co. of Hot Springs. read more >

The coronavirus pandemic has boosted lumber demand throughout the United States, a surge that has pushed prices to record heights, raising the average price of a new single-family home by more than $16,000. read more >

The U.S.-China trade war is being fought in the forests and mill towns of Arkansas as tariffs take their toll on the hardwood lumber industry. So far, state lumbermen say, they’ve been able to absorb most of the losses, but a day of reckoning is coming. read more >

The RAISE Act that U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton introduced in February would slash permanent legal immigration, but it doesn’t address at all the immigration issue that may be most pressing back home in Arkansas: temporary workers. read more >

A native of Florence, Mississippi, Neely most recently served as the communications director at the Arkansas Environmental Federation. read more >

After historically low prices kept loggers from removing hardwoods from Arkansas forests for many years, something of a hardwood rebirth began recently. However, at least one timber expert has predicted that market pressures may reverse that trend soon. A significant threat to the industry, however, is an old one — insect infestation. read more >

As she pulled into one of her soybean fields during last year’s harvest, Crystal Lewis could see something from the height of her combine that she hadn’t been able to see from pickup level. In the middle of the field, the soybeans were gone. Missing. Vanished. read more >