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News - June 2025
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June 6, 2025 |
Upcoming high tunnel production workshops offer insight for veteran growers, newbies alike LITTLE ROCK — The Cooperative Extension Service will host a series of high tunnel workshops beginning in June, helping growers get a running start on the summer production season. |
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June 6, 2025 |
Arkansas 4-H team world champs in junior stock class at 2025 International SeaPerch Challenge COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The Hydro Rappers, one of Grant County’s 4-H SeaPerch teams, defeated 74 other teams to become world champions in the junior stock class of the International SeaPerch Challenge. |
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June 5, 2025 |
Arkansas State 4-H president Connor Henry inducted into Arkansas 4-H Hall of Fame LITTLE ROCK — Scores of 4-H members strive to earn a place in the Arkansas 4-H Hall of Fame, but the annual award goes to just one person who has achieved at the very highest level. |
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June 5, 2025 |
State’s longest-running leadership program announces new LeadAR Class LITTLE ROCK — Members of the newest LeadAR class live in rural and urban areas, work in various industries, and have diverse backgrounds, but they share a goal: They all want to be better leaders so they can make a difference in their communities. |
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June 5, 2025 |
Cooperative Extension Service welcomes 2025 summer interns for hands-on learning experience LITTLE ROCK — John Anderson, head of the Cooperative Extension Service in Arkansas, offered words of advice to the organization’s 2025 summer interns: “Start thinking of yourself as professionals and begin to figure out where your deep interests lie.” |
| June 4, 2025 |
'What's wrong with my lawn?' Research points toward possible answer FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With spring rains, warm-season turfgrasses such as bermudagrass and zoysiagrass are at risk of a fungal disease called large patch that can leave a lawn marked with large brown areas of dead and dying grass. |
| June 4, 2025 |
Western conference session will tackle how SCOTUS’ Chevron decision impacts ag FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Federal agencies have a significant impact on agriculture in the Western United States, and the effects of a landmark Supreme Court decision on the scope of agency authority will be highlighted at the Western Water, Ag, and Environmental Law Conference. |
| June 3, 2025 |
Extension offers mental health tips for farmers, farm families facing unique stressors LITTLE ROCK — With the uncertainties of weather and global economics, compounded by geographic isolation, farmers and their families are often immersed in high-stress situations that people in other walks of life don’t understand. |
| June 3, 2025 |
Food Safety School teaches fundamentals, regulatory compliance to small businesses FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Food safety basics and regulatory compliance are the focus of Food Safety School, an all-day workshop that will be held on June 17 at the Fayetteville Public Library by food scientists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Viriginia Tech. |
| June 2, 2025 |
Soybeans, rice, cotton and BRICS LITTLE ROCK — The global trading landscape is shifting as Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa — along with countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia — create
their own trading bloc which will have implications for global competitiveness of
soybeans, rice and cotton from the United States. |
| June 2, 2025 |
Chinese demand for soybeans drops in 2025 LITTLE ROCK — The world’s biggest customer for soybeans isn’t quite as hungry for
them in 2025. |
| June 2, 2025 |
Endangered Species Act may be redefined in post-Chevron environment FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A proposal to rescind the definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act has people talking — to the tune of more than 300,000 public comments. |