Agriculture

Rusted machinery on a concrete block and a historical sign in the middle of a field
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...
Farmer and boy using a horse drawn plow in a field with hills in the background
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...
The "Preamble" page from the "Constitution of the Grand Agricultural Wheel of the State of Arkansas."
Agricultural Wheel
The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...
Chickens in cages from egg to adult with advertisements for an electric hatchery device
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...
Industrial buildings and bull dozers on gravel with water tower
Anthony Timberlands, Inc.
Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...
People picking "Ozark apples" on "W. E. Brown's Farm" in Rogers
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
Aerial view of building campus and various sized ponds
Aquaculture
Aquaculture—the farming of aquatic plants and animals—includes private sector, commercial fish farms, stat...
white man using laptop stands at back of utility truck labeled "Arkansas Biodiesel Project"
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES)
The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is the statewide research component of the University of A...
Round advertisement with text on wrinkled paper
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...
Group of African-American men and women in formal clothing standing together on grass
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation (AFB) is a private agricultural advocacy group composed of more than 230,0...
White man in suit handing award to white man in suit standing next to white women in dresses on stage under "Farm Family of the Year" banner
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...
"Will ask Bowers to act at once " newspaper clipping
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...
African-American man with tools and hard hat in forest
Arkansas Forestry Commission
The Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) was established by Act 234 of 1931 and amended by Act 48 of 1939. Its i...
Sign with wooden posts for the "State Fish Hatchery"
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 ...
Two flat agricultural trailers filled with growing hemp inside building
Arkansas Hemp Program
After almost eight decades of prohibition, hemp farming in Arkansas is reclaiming its place in the state’s a...
two-story wooden building with stone pillars and grape arbor alongside it
Arkansas Historic Wine Museum
The Arkansas Historic Wine Museum in Paris (Logan County) was the only museum in the United States dedicated t...
Older white man wearing glasses in suit and tie signing a piece of paper with a pencil
Arkansas Livestock Show Association
The Arkansas Livestock Show Association (ASLA) is the umbrella organization that owns much of the Arkansas Sta...
Farmers on tractors pulling harvester trailers in field
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...
Paper label "Bachman Port"
Joseph Bachman (1853–1928)
Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...
Group of white men using a large seine in a pond
Baitfish Industry
Arkansas leads the nation in the farming of bait and feeder fish, providing sixty-one percent of the value of ...
Large group of people milling about on the downtown square with storefronts
Beef Industry
aka: Cattle Industry
The raising of beef cattle has been carried out in Arkansas since b...
Stacks of bee hives on wooden pallets with swarm of bees
Beekeeping
By 2010, more than 1,500 Arkansas beekeepers had registered with the Arkansas State Plant Board, the vast majo...
Two African-American men in suits and woman in hat and dress
Carpenter's Produce
Carpenter’s Produce is an agricultural enterprise based in Grady (Lincoln County) that supplies produce for ...
Catfish types with corresponding letters
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...
Lamb chop with caviar and pesto on dinner plate
Caviar
Arkansas caviar, which is distributed nationally, consists of eggs from certain freshwater fish caught in the...
African-American man in overalls and white woman in white western wear with hat with Coleman dairy truck
Coleman Dairy
Coleman Dairy in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is the oldest continuously operating dairy by the same family we...
Small log structure with door and hatch
Corn Industry
As an important subsistence crop in Arkansas for centuries, corn was cultivated by both Native Americans and s...