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⋅ By John Lovett ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture The Center for Arkansas Farms and Food will hold a fundraising event 5-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 to support the Farmers for Tomorrow fund, a new program to help Farm School and Apprenticeship...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Peanuts again proved to be a popular, if somewhat niche, investment for Arkansas growers in 2021. Andy Vangilder, agriculture and natural resources Extension educator for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said that as...

• By Ryan McGeeeney • In a year of stops and starts, the Arkansas peanut harvest is not immune. The harvesting process for peanuts is, at a minimum, a two-step process — the legumes must first be unearthed, then allowed to...

• By Travis Faske • Based on U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency reports, there were approximately 34,000 acres of peanut planted in Arkansas. This is 8% fewer acres than planted in 2020 (37,000). Some of this had to do...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...

• By Mary Hightower • May’s dark parade of rain has provided frustration aplenty for Arkansas farmers trying to get a crop in the ground, however, “this past week could’ve been much worse,” said Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist for...

• By Ryan McGeeney • As world markets slowly unfurl from the global knot of the COVID-19 pandemic, futures markets for both soybean and corn responded in a powerfully positive manner March 31 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual...

Frank McGill’s love for the University of Georgia started long before his career with them began. In the early 1930s and in the middle of the Great Depression, the university gave his brother, James Millard McGill, an opportunity for...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Despite a year dominated by major weather systems run amuck and a global pandemic, most of Arkansas’ major crops came out ahead in 2020, according to a Jan. 12 report from the U.S. Department of...