On Monday, November 15th, USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) issued a new Crop Progress and Condition Report. The report showed harvest in Arkansas nearing its end with only cotton, peanuts and soybeans left to harvest. So far 94 percent
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On Monday, November 15th, President Biden held a virtual summit with China President Xi to discuss a range of matters of interest to each nation. Matters ranged from trade and climate policy to avoiding war and maintaining peaceful competition and coopera
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On Tuesday, November 9th, USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) issued Crop Production Reports. For Arkansas, most production estimates were unchanged from the October report, however, estimates for rice production were increased from the Oc
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On Tuesday, November 9th, USDA issued a new World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) report. The report provides supply and demand estimates for most major commodities. More below: https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/wasde1121.pdf https:
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On Tuesday, November 16th, the United States Senate confirmed Robert Bonnie to serve as undersecretary for farm production and conservation. Bonnie will oversee the Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Managem
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On November 10th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was issuing $668,100 in penalties to Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc. for illegal applications of dicamba in 2020. According to EPA, the company allegedly made multiple off-label
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The Arkansas Department of Agriculture recently inducted a new class of Arkansas farms into the Century Farm program, which recognizes Arkansas’s rich agricultural heritage and honors families who have owned and farmed the same land for at least 100 years
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On Monday, November 15th, President Biden signed into law the bipartisan infrastructure legislation approved by Congress on November 5th. The measure provides roughly $1 trillion in supplemental funding for infrastructure related to transportation, broadb
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The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a farm level, science-based program led by the National Cotton Council and its producer members to promote, market, and improve U.S. cotton, recently celebrated its first year in official operation. The sustainability initi
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Officials with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service and Jackson County broke ground Oct. 28 at the site just southeast of Newport where a new 4,800-square-foot center will be built. Construction is expect
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For the third month in a row, agricultural producer sentiment weakened in October as the Ag Economy Barometer declined. The decline in the overall sentiment index occurred as a result of producers’ weaker perceptions regarding both current and future cond
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According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, tax revenue in the first four months of Arkansas’ fiscal year (July-October) was $2.589 billion,up 1.2% compared to a record period in 2020, with fiscal year-to-date collections in major
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