Plant Culture

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...
American Wine Society - Arkansas Chapter
The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of k...
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
Arkansas Black Apple
The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...
Arkansas Historic Wine Museum
The Arkansas Historic Wine Museum in Paris (Logan County) was the only museum in the United States dedicated t...
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...
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-...
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center
Arkansas has more than 1.2 million acres of farmland used for rice production and is the largest producer of r...
Farkleberry
Farkleberry is a common name for the shrub species Vaccinium arboreum of the family Ericaceae and is sometimes...
Jacob Hartz Sr. (1888–1963)
Jacob Hartz Sr. was a pioneer in the soybean industry. His vision of the use of the soybean plant as a rotatio...
Lavacaberry
The Lavacaberry is a hybrid variety of berry that takes its name from the town of Lavaca (Sebastian County), w...
Jesse W. Mason Sr. (1912–1990)
Jesse W. Mason Sr. was the first African American hired in Arkansas for the Farm Security Administration (FSA)...
Carl Avriette Moosberg (1905–1990)
Cotton breeder Carl Avriette Moosberg demonstrated that advances in the early maturing of cotton were possible...
Muscadine
aka: Vitus rotundifolia
Muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) are grapes native to Arkansas and o...
Official State Grape
aka: Cynthiana Grape
Approximately 150 commercial vineyards and wineries have operated i...
Peach Industry
Peaches are grown throughout the state of Arkansas with the highest concentrations being in central Arkansas ...
Rice Industry
Rice, the most popular grain in the world, is Arkansas’s leading agricultural product. Although it was only ...
Riceland Foods
Riceland Foods, Inc., headquartered in Stuttgart (Arkansas County), is the world’s largest rice miller and r...
John Daniel Rust (1892–1954)
John Daniel Rust invented the first practical spindle cotton picker in the late 1930s. The Rust cotton picker ...
Strawberry Industry
The strawberry industry arose in Arkansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the advent...
Tomato Industry
The tomato industry has a long history in Arkansas and is particularly known in the northwestern and southeast...
Wheat and Small Grain Industry
Wheat and other small grain crops have been important to Arkansas since the first European settlers arrived. A...
Virginia Anne Rice Williams (1919–1970)
Biochemist Virginia Anne Rice Williams helped develop more nutritious grains through her pioneering studies of...