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Year-Round Grazing

Many farmers are looking for ways to enhance their operations through increased efficiency and decreased cost of feed. Grazing annual forages may be the ticket producers need to achieve both these goals.
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Week in Review

This week, the House passed the Strategic Production Response Act to ensure that the President has a plan to increase domestic production following any non-emergency draining of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
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DecARcerate and AJRC Call for Effective Criminal Justice Reform

Little Rock - DecARcerate and Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition joined several legal organizations, non-partisan policy organizations, and local criminal justice reform advocates to call on Governor Sanders to invest our taxpayer’s dollars in modern, proven means to address the needs of our families and communities, rather than waste those taxpayer dollars on the same-old systems that simply do not work.
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Private Applicator Training

Local farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural producers who wish to renew an expiring pesticide license or receive a first time private pesticide applicator license will have the opportunity to receive the required training February 6.
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AR-BIC 2023 to Explore the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Public Health

Little Rock – The Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium (AR-BIC) is hosting its annual meeting on March 13 and 14, 2023, at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock, AR. The ninth meeting of the AR-BIC is expected to draw hundreds of researchers, data scientists, students, and academic leaders to central Arkansas.
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J.B. Hunt Provides Nearly $9m in Appreciation Bonuses

LOWELL – J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT), one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, announced that for the second consecutive year its subsidiary J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. will award appreciation bonuses to full-time company drivers and full-time hourly maintenance and office employees. The total amount awarded will exceed $8.8 million.
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