Application period for Arkansas Rice scholarship now open
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/TBP) – Arkansas students expected to graduate in 2025 are now eligible to apply for up to $17,500 in scholarship funding. According to our content partner Talk Business and Politics, Arkansas Rice’s “Rice Reps” is a five-month program aimed at educating students about the rice industry, all while preparing them to act […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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