farmer

Mayor

‘Building Ozark together’ focus for city’s mayor | Local News

MICHELLE MANN OZARK — “Love where you live” and “Building Ozark together” are more than mottos printed on car tags and coffee mugs for the mayor of the city billed as the “Heart of the Wiregrass.” “It’s our focus,” Ozark Mayor Mark Blankenship said. “We’ve got a great council that works as a team, great […]

Read More
Alabama

Best Bets | News | dothaneagle.com | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

What’s happening in and around Enterprise. Hoobler Music and the Enterprise Music Club presents “Beautiful Noise, The Album” concert on Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at Hoobler Music. The four-piece band features local musicians. The concert includes other music of Neil Diamond as well. It is free […]

Read More
Arkansas

Drought disaster relief available for north Arkansas farmers

HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) – An additional 20 Arkansas counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced this week. Hutchinson said that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack had responded to his request for more drought assistance in Arkansas. As of Wednesday, counties designated primary natural disaster areas in north Arkansas […]

Read More
Arkansas

Ongoing drought poses threat to $16 billion Arkansas industry | Arkansas

(The Center Square) – Heavy spring rains followed by weeks of dry weather is threatening Arkansas’s largest industry. So much rain fell in the spring that farmers were “at or flirting with the slowest planting progress in decades,” said Jarrod Hardke, the statewide rice extension agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. […]

Read More
Mayor

Mayor’s Minute By Ashley Curry – July 2022

I hope you are enjoying your summer and that you were able to attend our 40th annual “I Love America Night” on Thursday, June 23, at Wald Park. Thank you to all of our city employees, the Chamber of Commerce, and our corporate sponsors. Our citizens always enjoy this event and the newly renovated Wald […]

Read More
Arkansas

Hearing highlights challenges for Arkansas farmers, food supply | Arkansas

(The Center Square) – Arkansas’ largest crop is being disproportionately affected by steep input costs that are not reflected in its price, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry were told Friday. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican and the committee’s ranking member, hosted a hearing on the 2023 U.S. […]

Read More
Arkansas

Hearing highlights challenges for Arkansas farmers, food supply | National News

(The Center Square) – Arkansas’ largest crop is being disproportionately affected by steep input costs that are not reflected in its price, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry were told Friday. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican and the committee’s ranking member, hosted a hearing on the 2023 U.S. […]

Read More