Benton County Farm Bureau helped coordinate and promote the first Ag-Abilities event at the Benton County Fair this year. The event brought together 4-H exhibitors and students from the Siloam Springs school district, allowing students with disabilities to learn and experience showmanship firsthand.
It’s Arkansas State Fair time, which means it’s time to try some of the fair’s weirdest and most delicious foods! Join ArFB staff members Addie Stamps and Matthew Magdefrau as they don blindfolds and taste-test pesto pizza, french fry funnel cakes and more. Will these fair food creations be a hit or miss?
On this episode of Arkansas AgCast we discuss food cost inflation numbers related to food costs, trade updates with China and the state of the rice industry with Riceland CEO Kevin McGilton.
The Arkansas State Fair is rooted in agriculture. As the gates open this week, take time to explore the barns and learn more about Arkansas’ largest industry. Stop by the FFA Ag in Action building, catch a show and meet the youth exhibitors who’ve worked all year preparing their animals for the show ring.
Meet a blonde-haired homecoming princess and her snow-white wether dam breeding doe Pearl. They rocked the runway last Friday at the Arkansas Youth Expo in Texarkana, but kindergartner Jodie Crangle’s big day was just getting started.
It’s remote, just 2 miles west of the Missouri bootheel, but Pumpkin Hollow annually draws about 25,000 visitors. It’s Arkansas’ longest running pumpkin patch and claims the state’s first corn maze. Live music and “professional grade” haunted attractions, friendly animals and family fun at the farm continue through Oct. 31.
It’s Arkansas State Fair time, which means it’s time to try some of the fair’s weirdest and most delicious foods! Join ArFB staff members Addie Stamps and Matthew Magdefrau as they don blindfolds and taste-test pesto pizza, french fry funnel cakes and more. Will these fair food creations be a hit or miss?
This week we discuss the latest news on federal tax deferral for red-dye diesel use in equipment, USDA’s latest crop report and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Deer Management Assistance Program with Jeremy Brown.
Joe Mencer of Lake Village explains how dry weather has pushed harvest into high gear, but the lack of moisture could affect crop quality. Despite the demands of harvest, Mencer recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for Arkansas farmers and ranchers as the federal farm bill moved through the Senate Agriculture Committee.
