
Action Alerts
Application Season for Grow for Green Soybean Challenge
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information In the 2017 growing season, 118 Arkansas soybean producers entered the annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge. The challenge, which awards growers from eight divisions, added nine producers to the state’s 100 Bushel Club last year. This year, the stakes are higher than ever. Sponsored by the Arkansas soybean checkoff, the Arkansas Soybean […] Read more...Senate Advances Agriculture Spending Bill
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On Wednesday, August 1, the United States Senate approved its fiscal year 2019 agriculture appropriation bill as part of a larger package of appropriations bills that included federal funding for the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Financial Services and General Government; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies; and Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and […] Read more...Bayer and BASF Complete Exchange of Assets
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On Wednesday, August 1, BASF completed its acquisition of certain assets from Bayer that were shed as part of Bayer’s plans to purchase Monsanto. The purchase price of these assets, which included Liberty Link technology, vegetable seeds, seed treatments and farm operation software systems, and other Bayer assets totaled an estimated $9 billion. In addition, […] Read more...U.S. Ups Ante Against China on Tariffs
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information On Wednesday, August 1, the United States through the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer announced that planned 10 percent tariffs on a long list of Chinese imports would be raised to 25 percent. This move represents a significant escalation to the ongoing trade dispute that was already significant. More below: https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/august/statement-us-trade-representative https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-administration-confirms-plan-to-raise-china-import-tariff-to-25-percent-idUSKBN1KM63U Read more...Boozman Makes Cut for Farm Bill Conference
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 | Categories: Action Alerts, Membership Information Arkansas Senator John Boozman will join Arkansas Congressmen Rick Crawford and Bruce Westerman on the conference committee that will resolve the differences between the House and Senate approved farm bill. Boozman, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was selected to serve as one of nine Senators on the committee. The first official meetings will […] 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 >