Uncertain Future for Poultry Farmers as Tyson Foods Ends Contracts
The cuts left 59 farmers left with unrenewed contracts with Tyson Foods Inc. after it announced multiple plant closures this year. read more >
The cuts left 59 farmers left with unrenewed contracts with Tyson Foods Inc. after it announced multiple plant closures this year. read more >
Hoelzeman has nearly 20 years of experience in media relations, nonprofit communications, multimedia content strategies and crisis communications. read more >
Pistole most recently served as creative director for the federation. read more >
He is now the self-employed president of Statehouse Advisors of Little Rock. read more >
Oxner, a Marvell native, comes to the organization after working with Scott Agri Crop Marketers. read more >
The program will open up new markets for cattlemen to sell their cattle. read more >
The group said Hooten will work as a "multimedia storyteller," supporting the organization’s efforts to promote agriculture policy and heighten industry awareness. read more >
In the ongoing nationwide outbreak, avian influenza has been detected in half the states that border Arkansas. read more >
Lyon College, a small school with big ambitions, has more work to do to get its plans off the ground. But it presents an exciting new vision for Little Rock and health care in Arkansas. read more >
He succeeds Warren Carter, whose previously announced retirement took effect at the end of April. read more >
Brown will be responsible for communicating Farm Bureau policy positions across all media channels. read more >
Rich Hillman of Carlisle was also re-elected as the agriculture advocacy nonprofit’s president. read more >
Crenisha Wright has been named chief administrative and information officer for Arkansas Foodbank in Little Rock. read more >
Kanika Davis, a graduate of Pine Bluff High School and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was recently named a national outreach specialist by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency. read more >
Trade war repercussions with China and Trump administration spending to keep farmers solvent in a commodities price crash propelled federal farm subsidy payments in Arkansas to a record $828 million in 2019. read more >
China remains a viable market for investment in and trade with Arkansas, including the state’s farmers, despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, trade officials say. read more >
If Congress approves legislation to alter federal estate taxes, it will likely mean the end of many Arkansas family farms. read more >
Jeff McClure has been hired as events director at Arkansas Farm Bureau of Little Rock. read more >
Jeremy Horpedahl, an associate professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, has been recognized by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University of Fairfax, Virginia. read more >
Alicia Wilmoth has been named director of economic development for the city of Cabot. read more >
