University of Arkansas

“Holiday gift gifting can be a major stressor that time of year,” noted Laura Hendrix of University of Arkansas Extension specialist. “I think people put a lot of pressure on themselves.”

Senator Tom Cotton has introduced the Biothreat Prevention Act, legislation that would ban federal funding to any lab or university conducting agricultural research involving nationals from China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea...

The USDA has launched the Distressed Borrowers Assistance Network, an initiative designed to provide support to financially distressed farmers and ranchers across the nation.  Through a series of Cooperative Agreements, this national network will connect distressed borrowers with individualized assistance to help them stabilize and regain financial footing.   “...

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 ...