Arkansas AgCast

We explore efforts by Arkansas farmers and ranchers to market directly to consumers and the challenges and opportunities in this space. To get some perspective on the issue, we talked to Karen Reynolds from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture and Logan Duvall, owner of Me & McGee Market in North Little Rock.

After returning from an eventful American Farm Bureau Convention in Atlanta, our policy experts sit down to discuss how the event went and what to expect from national Farm Bureau policy in 2022.

In this special edition, we put together some of our favorite interviews from a very busy 2021, including our conversations with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, retired University of Arkansas Professor Andrew Sharpley and more.

This week, we talk to newly elected American Soybean Association president Brad Doyle and we get to hear from Dustin Cowell about direct to consumer marketing.

This week, we talk to an expert about agriculture estate planning, we get details on the Arkansas state meat inspection program and we hear about how a project related to Beaver Dam could impact farmers along the White River.

This week, we hear from the 2021 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. We also hear about the problems caused by snow geese and the unique opportunity one farmer has found in growing yellow peas.

This week, we talk about the price of Thanksgiving dinner, along with personal Thanksgiving traditions and memories. We also catch up with Pulaski County Farm Bureau President Debbie Moreland about policy development and Farm Bureau’s upcoming annual convention, and we get the latest on November rice and cotton markets.

This week, we talk about Arkansas Soybean Month and the 50th anniversary of the soybean checkoff program in Arkansas. We also get to know Chris Colclasure, recently appointed director of the Dept. of Agriculture's Natural Resources Division, and we hear about Arkansas Farm Bureau's annual resolutions meeting, an important part of the organization's grassroots policy development process.

This week, we talk cotton and learn about harvest progress in Northeast Arkansas, and we hear about the art, etiquette and ethics of photo shoots on the farm. We also discuss problems caused by the invasive Egyptian Goose.