Press Notice from USDA To Date, USDA Has Issued $112.5 Million in Emergency Relief Program Payments to Arkansas Agricultural Producers Deadline to Submit Applications is Friday, July 22 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, July 1, 2022 – Agriculture Secretary Tom V
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Jon Dean Lambi, a former Ag Council of Arkansas president, passed away on July 7th as a result of health issues. He was 77 years old. Jon served as president of the Ag Council in 2008-2009. After retiring from his agricultural businesses in Pickens he mov
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On July 6th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will take another six months to determine whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct, and it will allow for the public to make additional comments on the status of its listing for anoth
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The Ag Council of Arkansas will hold its upcoming board of directors meeting on August 18th in Jonesboro at the Embassy Suites Redwolf Convention Center. The meeting will be closed to Ag Council board of directors only. Meeting will begin at 9:30am and co
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On July 6th, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced the appointment of Bill Jones of Pine Bluff to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. He replaces Commissioner Bennie Westphal. Jones is the CEO of Sissy's Log Cabin, a well known jewelry retail company in Ar
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USA Rice held its annual summer meeting in Dallas, Texas, July 6-9. At the meeting, representatives from all segments of the U.S. rice industry from various rice producing states converged to discuss issues and conduct business for the organization. Ag Co
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After closing out the 2022 fiscal year on June 30th with a $1.6 billion surplus, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that he has reached agreement with the General Assembly on tax cuts to implement through a special session to be held in early Augu
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On July 5th, the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) released final fiscal year 2022 budget numbers for the State of Arkansas. The state closed out the fiscal year, which ended June 30th, with a net surplus of $1.63 billion for the fis
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On Monday, July 11th, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) issued an updated Crop Progress and Condition Report. The report for Arkansas indicated additional slippage of crop condition due to lack of rainfall and excessive heat that has ca
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On Tuesday, July 12, USDA issued updated Crop Production reports as well as a new World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) report. The latest WASDE report showed increased corn acres and decreased soybean acres from the June report. The WASDE
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Jean-François Meullenet, director of the experiment station and senior associate vice president for agriculture-research, was recently recognized by the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Stations Directors (SAAESD) by receiving the Experimen
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According to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, new "pitless tailwater recovery units" designed by associate professor and water management engineer for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. Chris Henry, offer new promi
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