Arkansas Department of Agriculture

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for schools to participate in the Arkansas Farm to School Institute.

This year the state of Arkansas is updating its water plan to better reflect issues around water, quality, usage and infrastructure. Stakeholders in Northwest Arkansas explain what water issues they believe the natural state will face.

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is holding public meetings to get input on updates to the state's renewed water plan.

At the end of last year, a crisis arose amongst the state’s poultry growers. Cooks Venture, a company that contracted many farms to grow their chickens across northern Arkansas, suddenly went out of business- with no warning- leaving many farmers with thousands of chickens that weren’t theirs. What’s more, a deadly poultry virus was sweeping the nation, causing the state of Arkansas to euthanize over a million birds. But they were never cleaned up. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis spoke with an affected farmer to learn more about this calamity.

On today's show, an app to report controlled burns, local music and Filmland's "House of Darkness" screening. Plus, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal's report.

To check burning conditions and report prescribed fires, the Arkansas Department of Agriculture released the Arkansas FireSMART app.

A&A Orchard in Carroll County, which delivers seasonal apples, peaches and pears to two public school districts is part of a blossoming “Farm to School”…

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has launched a new multiplatform website connecting schools engaged in gardening and agriculture to local farmers…

To mark the one year anniversary of the coronavirus arriving in Arkansas last month, the Arkansas Department of Agriculture donated 10,000 oak tree…