Agricultural Organizations & Programs

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES)
The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is the statewide research component of the University of A...
Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA)
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA) is an amalgam of various agriculture-related state agencies estab...
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation (AFB) is a private agricultural advocacy group composed of more than 230,0...
Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program
The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program was started in 1947 to recognize the importance of the farm famil...
Arkansas Farmers Union
aka: Arkansas Farmers Educational Cooperative Union
The Arkansas iteration of the Farmers Union—founded as the Farmer...
Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center
The Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center is located on 2,214 acres in Booneville (Logan County). The cente...
Home Demonstration Clubs
Home demonstration clubs were an integral part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Ser...
Military Farm Colonies (Arkansas Delta)
As the Federal army moved across Arkansas during the Civil War, thousands of newly freed slaves attached thems...
Military Farm Colonies (Northwestern Arkansas)
During the Civil War, thousands of Arkansas civilians became displaced and relied on either the Federal or Con...
Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie
The Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie in Stuttgart (Arkansas County)—also known as the Stuttgart Agricult...
Ozark Institute [Organization]
From 1976 until its end in 1983, the Ozark Institute (OI) created job programs, provided advocacy for a dwindl...
Plum Bayou Project
The Plum Bayou Project was part of a New Deal plan designed to help rural residents receive federal relief and...
University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (UACES)
The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (UACES), an arm of the University of Arkansas Divisio...
University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center
The University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center (RREC), one of five research and extension cente...
Winrock Farms
As the brainchild of Winthrop Rockefeller, who was governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971, Winrock Farms holds...