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Jonesboro, the largest city in the delta region. The Arkansas Delta economy is still dominated by agriculture. The main commodity crop is soybeans; other crops include rice, cotton, and corn. Catfish farming has been developed as a new source of revenue for Arkansas Delta farmers, along with poultry production.
Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers is an extension of a national program by the same name. Young Farmers & Ranchers is program designed to increase the participation of young men and women, between 18 and 35, in county and state level Farm Bureau Organizations, programs and events.
This is a locator map showing the w:Arkansas Delta in Arkansas. The Arkansas Delta is not a well-defined region, so this map shows universally-accepted delta counties in solid red, and counties sometimes reffered to as delta counties or partial delta counties in lighter red. User:Brandonrush created this image, using the original from David ...
The economy of Arkansas produced $176.24 billion of gross domestic product in 2023. [1] Six Fortune 500 companies are based in Arkansas, including the world's #1 corporation by revenue, Walmart. [8] Arkansas's per capita income for 2023 was $54,347, and the median household income was $55,432, which ranked 47th among U.S. states. [2] [9]
Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton. Wilson started as a company town in 1886 by Robert E. Lee Wilson, who would build a cotton empire and run it
One such method that is being adopted more and more by rice farmers in Arkansas is straight-levee rice cultivation. [8] Other common methods of irrigation include flood/ levees , of which 1,089,036 acres of rice (74.9% of total acreage) were irrigated with in the year 2003, as well as flood/multiple inlets, of which 361,168 (24.8% of total ...
Note: Unlike most Arkansas counties, Clark County has only one township. That township encompasses the entire county. Townships in Arkansas are the divisions of a county. Each township includes unincorporated areas; some may have incorporated cities or towns within part of their boundaries. Arkansas townships have limited purposes in modern times.
Newton County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,225. [1] The county seat is Jasper. [2] Newton County is Arkansas's 46th county, formed on December 14, 1842, and named for Thomas W. Newton, an Arkansas Congressman. Newton County is part of the Harrison, AR Micropolitan Statistical Area.