Since launching in 2019, Fayetteville farmland investing service AcreTrader has placed “well over” $100 million into more than 60 farms in a dozen states, according to Founder and CEO Carter Malloy.
The Lonoke Business Academy-Carver Campus, which will see its first students in a few weeks, aims to retain agricultural talent in the rural community and neighboring areas by offering hands-on career learning opportunities to teenagers.
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.
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.
| Rank | Name | County |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deline Farms Partnership | Phillips |
| 2 | Deline Farms South | Phillips |
| 3 | Delta Peanut LLC | Craighead |
| 4 | 3m Planting Co. | Mississippi |
| 5 | Deline Farms North | Phillips |
Winrock International is packing up to move, having sold its gleaming 25,000-SF headquarters on Riverfront Drive in Little Rock for $5.3 million this month.
The thought that the federal government is reaching down, via the OSHA and other mechanisms, to put this amount of pressure on employers to vaccinate their employees is remarkable.
Kernel Corn has overtaken King Cotton as Arkansas' third most popular crop by land use, and the state now has more acres producing corn than it has had at almost any time in the past 70 years.
Alton Johnson, the University of Arkansas' new rice research leader, studies new crop strains and technology to help farmers succeed.
iDatafy of Little Rock has launched its SmartResume Certified Job Talent Marketplace, designed to connect employers to white- and blue-collar job seekers who actually have the skills they're looking for.
An intellectual property attorney notes a rise of copyright infringement lawsuits, which can be costly to companies.
