Agriculture

A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...
Agricultural Wheel
The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...
Agriculture
Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more ...
American Wine Society - Arkansas Chapter
The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of k...
Anthony Timberlands, Inc.
Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
Aquaculture
Aquaculture—the farming of aquatic plants and animals—includes private sector, commercial fish farms, stat...
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES)
The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is the statewide research component of the University of A...
Arkansas Black Apple
The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...
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...
Arkansas Forestry Association
The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) is a private association of firms and individuals in the forestry indu...
Arkansas Forestry Commission
The Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) was established by Act 234 of 1931 and amended by Act 48 of 1939. Its i...
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission State Fish Hatcheries
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission State Fish Hatcheries were built between 1928 and 1940 for spawning and ...
Arkansas Historic Wine Museum
The Arkansas Historic Wine Museum in Paris (Logan County) was the only museum in the United States dedicated t...
Arkansas Livestock Show Association
The Arkansas Livestock Show Association (ASLA) is the umbrella organization that owns much of the Arkansas Sta...
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Arkansas ranks in the top ten of U.S. states for soybean production. Products made from soybeans can be found ...
Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS)
The Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS) is a horticultural crop producers’ organization whose primar...
Joseph Bachman (1853–1928)
Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...
Baitfish Industry
Arkansas leads the nation in the farming of bait and feeder fish, providing sixty-one percent of the value of ...
Beef Industry
aka: Cattle Industry
The raising of beef cattle has been carried out in Arkansas since b...
Beekeeping
By 2010, more than 1,500 Arkansas beekeepers had registered with the Arkansas State Plant Board, the vast majo...
Carpenter's Produce
Carpenter’s Produce is an agricultural enterprise based in Grady (Lincoln County) that supplies produce for ...
Catfish Industry
aka: Ictalurus punctatus
The catfish industry is the largest component of aquaculture in the...
Cattle Drives
Arkansas was the source for many cattle drives westward following the California gold rush, and some later cat...
Caviar
Arkansas caviar, which is distributed nationally, consists of eggs from certain freshwater fish caught in the...
Coleman Dairy
Coleman Dairy in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is the oldest continuously operating dairy by the same family we...
Cotton Gins
The cotton gin (from the word “engine”) is a device that separates cotton fibers or lint from the seeds an...
Cotton Industry
Cotton is a shrub known technically as gossypium. Although modest looking and usually no higher than a medium-...