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Conway FFA Career Development Event
Roughly 2,800 FFA students traveled to Conway to compete Thursday in the Central Arkansas Classic Career Development Event. Quitman ag teacher Justin Wiedower tells why his school hosts the largest event of its kind in the region. Also hear from ...
John Philpot | Radio, TV, Speaking and 64 Years with Farm Bureau
John Philpot of Little Rock has been an active Farm Bureau member for 64 years. He recently sat down with us and described the importance of Farm Bureau in his life and the path he's followed during a long career ...
Caddo Career Consortium | Show Barn Dedication
The Olds Farm in Rosboro, Arkansas is a place for students in the region to experience true hands-on learning. Now with the help of the Caddo Career Consortium they've dedicated a new Show Barn that enhances the ways agriculture is ...
Arkansas AgCast | May 6, 2021
On this week’s edition, we sit down for a chat with the recently retired crop, soil and environmental expert Dr. Andrew Sharpley about his distinguished academic career and his experience working on the Discovery Farms Program and with Arkansas farmers. ...
AgCast: Tell Tells All About STEM Event
Leslee Tell teaches Advanced Nutrition & Dietetics at the Conway Area Career Center in Conway High School. She spoke to us about attending the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s "On The Farm STEM Experience" in May and how it ...
M*A*S*H Makes a Difference
It's almost M*A*S*H season, so we set out to learn more about the challenges of rural healthcare and the importance of this unique program designed to expose rising high-school juniors and seniors to healthcare-related careers. We spoke to Dr. Mark ...
Ag Youth Leadership Summit
Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Ag Youth Leadership Summit is an immersive leadership camp for juniors and seniors in high school and was hosted this year at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. Students learned about in-depth leadership commonly utilized in careers across ...
Spotlight on Veteran Farmers
Across America, military veterans are returning to the land, digging in, and creating new lives as farmers and caretakers, feeding their families and the world. Programs like Homegrown By Heroes and Vets4Ag are helping cultivate a new generation of farmers, ...
PODCAST: Barrett Baber at ArFB Annual Convention
Marion, Arkansas native Barrett Baber has gone from accountant executive at a Little Rock radio station to launching what he hopes will be a successful country music career after finishing third on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2015. Following that success ...
A Conversation with Farmer Dewayne Goldmon
Dewayne Goldmon of Pine Bluff grows corn, rice and soybeans on 1,400 acres. He worked full-time for Bayer Crop Sciences in technology development and research while farming “part-time” for more than 20 years. He and his wife Debra were the ...