Labor Shortage Drives Innovation in Poultry Industry
Securing reliable, seasonal labor, as well as maximizing efficiency using technology as just a couple of ways Arkansas poultry is seeing improvements. read more >
Securing reliable, seasonal labor, as well as maximizing efficiency using technology as just a couple of ways Arkansas poultry is seeing improvements. read more >
A $1 million grant will help University of Arkansas researchers design robotics for use in poultry processing plants. read more >
Terry Alexander has been appointed to the board of directors of the University of Arkansas at Monticello Foundation Fund. read more >
Nathan Reed has been elected chairman of the American Cotton Producers of the National Cotton Council for 2022. read more >
Many farmers, and wannabe farmers, in Arkansas were excited when the federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 made hemp farming legal, but the early rush into hemp farming in Arkansas has proved problematic. read more >
Tim Chatman will join his alma mater, Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, as dean of students, effective in October. read more >
Alton Johnson, the University of Arkansas’ new rice research leader, studies new crop strains and technology to help farmers succeed. read more >
John Lovett, an eight-year fixture at the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, has joined a parade of journalists giving up daily newspaper work. read more >
Trent Roberts has been appointed endowed chair in soil fertility research at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. read more >
Andrew Watson and Angela Flippo have been assigned new roles at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge. read more >
Amy Hopper has been hired as program manager by the Arkansas Research Alliance in Conway. read more >
Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis. read more >
Bryan Mader has been promoted to assistant professor and health specialist at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture-Cooperative Extension Service in Little Rock. read more >
The owners of Fayetteville’s Dromborg Castle are still grinding away trying to sell their 8,825-SF creation in south Fayetteville. read more >
The FBI has been asking questions about the planned sale of 6,300 acres by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, a deal that has drawn allegations that bid manipulation produced a lower sale price and a higher broker commission. read more >
Bridget Fortenberry has accepted a position as the director of human resources at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture in Little Rock. read more >
The Arkansas Discovery Farms Program is giving farmers data to help them farm sustainably, which, in turn, increases profitability, participating farmers and other state agriculture experts say. read more >
Guolei “Jason” Zhou of Jonesboro, associate professor of cell and cancer biology at Arkansas State University, and his research group have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work. read more >
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission is coordinating cybersecurity assessments and providing cybersecurity training to help employers square off against cybercrime, because falling prey to it can cause them to fold or lose big bucks. read more >
Joseph E. Steinmetz, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the board of directors of the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities as a member at large. read more >
