Winrock International announced that it is the recipient of a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to address barriers experienced by farmers in the mid-South when consideri
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On Monday, October 25, the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) issued an updated crop progress report. According to the report, Arkansas farmers have harvested 100 percent of corn, 58 percent of cotton, 70 percent of soybeans, 94 percent o
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On Monday, October 18, the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) issued an updated crop progress report. According to the report, Arkansas farmers have harvested 99 percent of corn, 34 percent of cotton, 56 percent of soybeans, 89 percent of
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Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers have worked in the lab and in the field to learn more about an emerging pathogen identified in 2014 as the prime culprit of soybean taproot decline — Xylaria necrophora.Researchers with the experiment s
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A unique public private partnership has created a unique education and research opportunity in the area of land management and wildlife habitat. The initiative, which was led by former Ag Council President George H. Dunklin, Jr., offers new education oppo
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The National Ag Law Center will host a webinar on October 20th to consider state and federal laws related to foreign ownership of farmland in the United States. In recent years, this issue has come more into focus both at the state level and federal level
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The Rural Investment to Protect our Environment (RIPE) group, a coalition of agricultural organizations supported with funding by private foundations, is seeking new conservation policy to address climate change that offers farmers incentives of a minimum
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On October 7th, USDA announced a new climate adaptation and resilience plan describing various ways in which the agency will prepare for current and future impacts of climate change. The plan was USDA's response to Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Clim
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Supply chain disruptions are expecting to significantly impact the crop input market in the 2022 crop year. Fertilizer prices are certainly an indicator of the effect of shortages of supply and challenges to move products. The same is expected for many cr
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On Friday, October 8th, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai met with her Chinese counterparts to elaborate on recently expressed concerns regarding the “phase one” trade pact and “state-led, non-market policies and practices that harm American workers
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson is expected to soon call an extraordinary session of the Arkansas General Assembly for purposes of considering additional tax cuts for individual income taxes. While the Governor alluded to an outline of desired tax cuts e
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A perfect storm of events has led to a dramatic increase in fertilizer prices that is expected to last well into next year. Supply chain disruptions across the board due to the Covid-19 pandemic, recent storms, and other factors have disrupted production
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