George Jared / Talk Business & Politics
Jonesboro-based reporter for Talk Business & Politics-
An Arkansas State University professor in the College of Agriculture is part of a team that has received a grant of almost $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). -
The sale of the proposed Little Rock-based campus for the about-to-be-formed dental and veterinary schools at Lyon College in Batesville has fallen apart. -
Avian influenza has infiltrated at least one farm in Arkansas, according to the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. -
Gov. Sarah Sanders has appointed Dalaney Thomas to serve as director of tourism at the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism.
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Commercial barge traffic on the Arkansas River has been shuttered due to the Mississippi River’s historic low water levels. -
Weeks of little to no rain are compounding barge problems on the Mississippi River, and drought-like conditions are predicted to worsen.
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Funding for the federal government runs out Sept. 30 unless Congress passes a continuing resolution or finds some other means to keep funds flowing. -
A company that intends to produce 1.7 million gallons of environmentally-friendlier motor fuel has selected a contractor to build a massive facility 13 miles north of Pine Bluff. -
Data collected since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests Arkansas’ largest economic sector, agriculture, has rebounded from its impacts. -
Growers had planted 33% of their 1.2 million planned rice acres as of mid-April, about two-thirds better than the five-year average of 20% for this point in the season.
