
Action Alerts
Barge Traffic on Arkansas River Remains Steady Despite Spring Rains
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information According to a transportation report published by TalkBusiness, barge traffic on the Arkansas River has picked up some steam since heavy spring rains impacted barge traffic. The report showed that through the first eight months of 2017, 7.60 million tons were shipped, which was only down 1% from the 7.67 million tons during the same […] Read more...USDA Nominees Moving Quickly in Senate
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue is finally getting his top level staff in place at the department thanks to a break in the confirmation logjam in the U.S. Senate. Key posts were filled earlier this month starting with Steve Censky for deputy agriculture secretary and Ted McKinney for undersecretary for trade and […] Read more...USDA Announces Safety Net Payments for 2016 Crop Year
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that payments from farm bill commodity title safety net programs would be delivered to farmers very soon. USDA estimates a total of $8 billion in payments under the ARC and PLC programs for the 2016. Payments are being made to producers who […] Read more...October 2nd Crop Progress and Condition Report
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On October 2nd, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) released a new Crop Progress and Condition Report for Arkansas. The report shows that harvest is well underway for most Arkansas farmers. The corn crop is 96 percent harvested, rice is 88 percent harvested, soybeans are 47 percent harvested, sorghum is […] Read more...USDA Announces Marketing Loan Rate for Cotton
Monday, October 2nd, 2017 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On September 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation today announced that the marketing assistance loan rate for 2018-crop base quality upland cotton is 52.00 cents per pound. Marketing assistance loans provide interim financing to producers so that commodities can be stored upon harvest when market prices are typically low and sold […] Read more...< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 >