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 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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To aid with enrollment in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, growers can now authorize account access for their crop consultant who can enter information on their behalf and ensure data accuracy. Consultants can input as much as 80% of the required informati
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On Monday, March 28th, President Biden released to Congress a budget proposal for the upcoming 2023 fiscal year, which begins October 1. The proposal sets the stage for Congress to begin its work on establishing its own budget proposal and setting funding
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On Wednesday, March 16th, Nutrien, the world's largest provider of crop inputs and services, announced plans to ramp up potash production in response to supply disruptions caused by the Russian war against Ukraine. According to Nutrien, 2022 potash produc
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On Tuesday, March 15th, Senator John Boozman (R-AR), the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Nutrition sent a letter urging President Biden to take action to address rising input costs facing farmers, particularly fer
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Trade officials from the United States and the United Kingdom are scheduled to meet in Baltimore, MD, next week to open a new dialogue seeking opportunities of mutual benefit in trade. The meeting is the first of two scheduled meetings, which has increase
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This week, a federal appeals court denied multiple requests by agricultural groups for a stay of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling on food residue tolerances related to chlorpyrifos insecticide. The court ruling allowed the effective ban, w
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