Agri-Pulse recently made available video from its 2022 Ag and Food Policy Summit held in Washington, DC, on March 21. The summit featured a myriad of speakers covering agricultural and food policy matters, including the farm bill, which is scheduled to be
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On Thursday, March 31, the U.S. Senate approved its version of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which is aimed at relieving congestion at U.S. ports and improving efficiencies in trade related to ocean shipping. The House has previously approved a similar v
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On Friday, March 25th, the Arkansas Ag Hall of Fame recognized a new class of 6 inductees at its awards luncheon. The 34th class of inductees included Rick Cartwright; Joe Don Greenwood; Russell Roy Reynolds; Randy Veach; Mark Waldrip; and Andrew Wargo II
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The Ag Council of Arkansas will hold its next board of directors meeting May 10th in Helena at the Beth El Heritage Hall. The meeting will feature a range of guest speakers who will cover various topics of current interest. Included in the list of speaker
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On March 30th and 31st, the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee hosted hearings that featured U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai who presented the Biden Trade Policy Agenda for 2022. The meetings included discussion on China a
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The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board recently announced that Robert Petter of De Valls Bluff was appointed by the USDA to serve on the United Soybean Board (USB). Petter will represent Arkansas during a three-year term as a newly appointed farmer-leader o
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On Monday, April 4th, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a response to requests seeking to expand agricultural production in the United States by opening acreage currently reserved under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). In the response, Secretary Vi
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A new sake brewery is set to begin operations in Hot Springs, Arkansas, using locally grown rice from Lonoke County. The brewery, named Origami Sake, is a project that has been in the works for many years guided by Ben Bell a trained sake brewer and princ
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According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, state tax collections in March continued to exceed estimates and show strong economic growth for Arkansas. After nine months into the fiscal year, net available revenue for Arkansas is 9.
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On March 29th, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a registration amendment to allow use of Enlist One and Enlist Duo in 128 additional counties that Corteva did not originally propose for use and six counties that EPA originally
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On Thursday, March 31, USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) issued its 2022 prospective plantings report. Nationally, USDA estimates corn acreage to be down 4 percent from 2021 and soybean acreage up 4 percent. In addition, the report estim
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USDA's March 31 Rice Stocks Report showed a decline in rice stocks from 2021. According to the report, Arkansas rough rice stocks in all positions on March 1, 2022, totaled 48.8 million hundredweight (cwt), down 5 percent from March 1, 2021. Stocks held o
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