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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.
In United States federal agriculture legislation, the Agricultural Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-524) initiated a significant change in commodity support policy. [1]This 3-year farm bill replaced some of the more restrictive and mandatory features of previous law (acreage allotments, planting restrictions, and marketing quotas) with voluntary annual cropland set-asides and marketing certificate ...
On February 15, 1882, during a period of depressed farm prices and drought, a group of nine Arkansas farmers led by W. W. Tedford, W. A. Suit and W. Taylor McBee met at the McBee Schoolhouse eight miles south of Des Arc in Prairie County in eastern Arkansas and formed the Wattensas Farmers' Club. The club vowed to improve the lives of farmers ...
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110–246 (text), H.R. 6124, 122 Stat. 1651, enacted June 18, 2008, also known as the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill) was a $288 billion, five-year agricultural policy bill that was passed into law by the United States Congress on June 18, 2008.
The Cooperative Development Authority, shortened as CDA, is a government agency attached to the Department of Trade and Industry in charge to promote the viability and growth of cooperatives as instruments of equity, social justice and economic development.
Riceland Foods, Inc. is the largest farmer-owned rice and soybean marketing cooperative in the world with headquarters in Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States.The cooperative was founded in 1921 and has become a major rice and grain miller and a global marketer of the same.
Cherokee Nation Entertainment on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging a constitutional amendment Arkansas voters approved this week that revokes its license for a planned casino in the state. The ...
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 ...