Forage expert and UA professor John Jennings updates us on the continued wet weather and what livestock producers are facing in their pastures.

Farmer Derek Helms, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Clark County Staff Chair Amy Simpson and John David Farabough of the UA Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service discuss how many farmers in the state are experiencing delays in planting, loss of yields and rushed field prep times due to excessive rains.

A new Arkansas FFA Officer Team has been elected and installed to lead the organization for the next year. Anna Mathis of Valley Springs in Boone County was elected president during the recent annual convention in Hot Springs. In this edition of Arkansas Agcast, she shares her feelings about receiving the support of FFA student delegates across the state and her goals for the organization going forward.

Rain has created serious problems for many Arkansas farmers, putting many substantially behind on spring planting. Monroe County Farm Bureau President Bo Mason discussed how wet weather has caused delays of a month or more on his 2,500-acre row-crop farm near Brinkley.

Pigweed problems led Adam and Seth Chappell to to experiment with cover crops and no-till farming techniques on their family farm near Cotton Plant. Hear Adam discuss how they went about the process and the results of these new approaches.

Do you know how important the timber industry is to Arkansas? Forests cover 19 million acres, or about 56 percent of the state, and contain 11.8 billion trees. Learn more in our new Rows & Ranches series on timber in the Natural State. In this introduction, you'll hear about reforestation and the planting process from Tony Cummings of Arkansas Forestry Management Service.

County farm families for the 72nd annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program have been selected.

Arkansas Farm Bureau has promoted Ashley Wallace to the role of social media specialist and hired Matthew Magdefrau as visual production specialist.

April has been National Pecan Month, and April 14 was National Pecan Day. We visited with Conway County grower Robert "Crash" Carruthers, who talked all things pecans, including the ongoing trade and tariff war with China, how weather affects pecan nut development and the increasing acreage of pecan groves in Conway County.

Read the spring issue of Front Porch to learn why soybeans have become such an important crop for Arkansas and the nation, take a "Rural Road Trip" to the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum and learn how to make a delicious deli sandwich and homemade pie just like they do it at the Olde Crow General Store in Saline County.