Farm
Locally produced food finds a place at the table
posted: 05/20/2012 3:50 a.m. Discuss
Locally produced foods are finding their way into more and more restaurants and retail stores across the state.
Farmers advised to curb antibiotics
posted: 05/20/2012 3:27 a.m. Discuss
After decades of debate, federal regulators have condemned the practice of using antibiotics on healthy farm animals, trying to stem the rise in so-called super bugs that pose a dire threat to human health.
Grasshoppers get a jump on chewing on state’s gardens
posted: 05/15/2012 2:40 a.m. Discuss
Some Arkansas gardeners have been caught off guard this year by the early arrival of grasshoppers because of the mild winter and warm spring, experts say.
Cattle prices jump after drought
posted: 05/10/2012 4:04 a.m. Discuss
A cow runs circles in a small pen, her calf close by her side. Ranchers, their brows wrinkled, scribble in a glossy catalog while high on a podium the auctioneer slams his gavel, taking bids as the price of the pair rises rapidly.
Cow’s illness revives debates
posted: 05/06/2012 3:20 a.m. Discuss
America’s beef industry and federal agriculture officials have spent more than a week reassuring the public that the nation’s meat supply is safe since the April 24 announcement that a California dairy cow tested positive for mad- cow disease.
Biofuel debate remains divisive
posted: 04/23/2012 2:42 a.m. Comments 7
As one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s hottest biofuel businesses, Solazyme exemplifies to many everything that is right — or wrong — with the federal government’s efforts to wean the nation off foreign oil.
With Starbucks deal, rooibos tea keeps up steam
posted: 04/22/2012 4:11 a.m. Discuss
Business is brisk these days for the 600 or so growers of rooibos, a caffeine-free herbal tea unique to South Africa’s Western Cape province, with Starbucks Corp. among the major customers.
Entrepreneurs on rise in Cuba but change slow
posted: 04/22/2012 4:08 a.m. Discuss
Sergio Luis Suarez, 24, is among the new faces of Cuba’s budding business class. He cut hair for profit before it was legal, but now he’s licensed by the government and has transformed the front of his mother’s apartment into a makeshift salon. His monthly profit: about $25, at 50 cents a cut.
Senate panel: Reduce farm aid
posted: 04/21/2012 2:13 a.m. Discuss
A Senate panel recommended $23 billion in cuts to agricultural programs over a decade to reduce the U.S. deficit, the first broad reductions in farm programs in 16 years.
Veterinarians warned of horse disease outbreak
posted: 04/17/2012 8:01 a.m. Discuss
Agriculture officials in Arkansas and Louisiana have warned veterinarians to watch for signs of a potentially fatal horse disease if there’s another drought this year.
Farmers have till May 1 to settle
posted: 04/17/2012 2:52 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas dairy farmers have until May 1 to agree to a $145 million settlement with cooperatives across the Southeast and Dean Foods of Dallas, the country’s largest processor of milk.
COTTON GROWERS IN LIMBO: World will be watching as U.S. tackles farm subsidies
posted: 04/16/2012 4:12 a.m.
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As Congress prepares to craft a new farm bill in the coming weeks, Arkansas cotton growers are bracing for tens of billions of dollars in cuts in the cash payments and taxpayer backed loans that they have received for years.
With no money to fight U.S., 4 took cotton case to WTO
posted: 04/16/2012 4:11 a.m. Discuss
In 2002, Brazil took the United States to international trade court, using its muscle as a large trading partner to force U.S. concessions.
Fish now in Chicago stockyard
posted: 04/16/2012 2:35 a.m. Discuss
They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city that once was filled with acres and acres of stockyards.
Restaurant chain planning to put in a crop of lobsters
posted: 04/15/2012 3 a.m. Discuss
Darden Restaurants plans to create the world’s largest lobster farm in Malaysia, allowing it to sell the crustaceans in Asia and supply them to its chains such as Red Lobster.
