Little Rock — Arkansas Farm Bureau has hired Bryan Pistole as graphic design and editorial coordinator and Mollie Dykes as social media and public relations specialist. Both positions are within the organization’s Public Relations Department. 

Pistole has 23 years' experience in print, video, web and related areas. He has run his own graphic design, video and events production company for the past 10 years and has worked in a variety of corporate positions, including branding specialist with Alltel/Fidelity Information Services, marketing and corporate communications specialist with Alltel and art director for Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods. He earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Harding University in 1991. His wife Starr works in administration for River City Church in North Little Rock. They live in Little Rock and have three grown children.

A Hot Springs native, Mollie Dykes has spent the past eight months as public relations assistant at Arkansas Farm Bureau, where she coordinated the online Arkansas Agvocates program, provided content for social media distribution and assisted with the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program. She previously worked as marketing associate for HungerU, a traveling exhibit that educates college students on the global food crisis and agriculture’s role in reversing it. She is a 2013 graduate of the University of Arkansas, where she earned a degree in agricultural communications. She spent two years as a National Collegiate Agriculture Ambassador, presenting workshops on a variety of agriculture topics, and is a former state FFA officer. She interned with ArFB in 2012. 

“We are excited to have Bryan and Mollie working on our staff,” said Steve Eddington, Farm Bureau’s vice president of public relations. “Both possess strong skill sets and experience that will significantly strengthen our efforts to tell the story of Arkansas agriculture.”

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Bryan Pistole

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Mollie Dykes

Arkansas Farm Bureau is a nonprofit, private advocacy organization of more than 190,000 families throughout the state working to improve farm and rural life.