University of Arkansas

Earlier this month, the Department of Agriculture announced funding for two outreach and education efforts for farmers and ranchers.  FSA is investing $10 million for agriculture-oriented taxpayer education as well as $4.5 million in outreach for the Conservation Reserve Program's Transition Incentives Program.  Bo...

Can U.S. agriculture become carbon neutral by the year, 2050? And if so, how will it be accomplished? "The answer is, we don't know but we're gonna try, and we're goonna find out," said University of Arkansas's Marty Matlock. "There are many sectors of society that actually really need to go net zero because they are fossil fuel based, agriculture is not," added Frank Mitloe

Ag economists say boosting resiliency in the meat supply chain after the shocks of the coronavirus pandemic won’t be easy, but they have some ideas. The challenge is efficiency versus resilience, cost versus capacity, as consumers found out when processing plants closed, forcing livestock owners to euthanize millions of animals nationwide. “T ...