Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...

The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of k...

Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...

The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...

After almost eight decades of prohibition, hemp farming in Arkansas is reclaiming its place in the state’s a...

The Arkansas Historic Wine Museum in Paris (Logan County) was the only museum in the United States dedicated t...

Arkansas ranks in the top ten of U.S. states for soybean production. Products made from soybeans can be found ...

The Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS) is a horticultural crop producers’ organization whose primar...

Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...

As an important subsistence crop in Arkansas for centuries, corn was cultivated by both Native Americans and s...

The cotton gin (from the word “engine”) is a device that separates cotton fibers or lint from the seeds an...

Cotton is a shrub known technically as gossypium. Although modest looking and usually no higher than a medium-...

Arkansas has more than 1.2 million acres of farmland used for rice production and is the largest producer of r...

Farkleberry is a common name for the shrub species Vaccinium arboreum of the family Ericaceae and is sometimes...

Jacob Hartz Sr. was a pioneer in the soybean industry. His vision of the use of the soybean plant as a rotatio...

The Lavacaberry is a hybrid variety of berry that takes its name from the town of Lavaca (Sebastian County), w...

Jesse W. Mason Sr. was the first African American hired in Arkansas for the Farm Security Administration (FSA)...

Cotton breeder Carl Avriette Moosberg demonstrated that advances in the early maturing of cotton were possible...

Peaches are grown throughout the state of Arkansas with the highest concentrations being in central Arkansas ...

Rice, the most popular grain in the world, is Arkansas’s leading agricultural product. Although it was only ...

Riceland Foods, Inc., headquartered in Stuttgart (Arkansas County), is the world’s largest rice miller and r...

John Daniel Rust invented the first practical spindle cotton picker in the late 1930s. The Rust cotton picker ...

The strawberry industry arose in Arkansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the advent...

Tobacco is a plant with wide leaves that are dried and used in a variety of forms, such as smoking in cigarett...

The tomato industry has a long history in Arkansas and is particularly known in the northwestern and southeast...

Wheat and other small grain crops have been important to Arkansas since the first European settlers arrived. A...

Biochemist Virginia Anne Rice Williams helped develop more nutritious grains through her pioneering studies of...