Over the next few weeks leading up to our Farm Family of the Year Luncheon, we will be showing a glimpse at all eight district winners. Starting off with the Western District winners, meet the Foshee’s of Conway County and learn about their Pecan Orchard.
The Arkansas State Fair’s annual Junior Livestock Auction highlighted the top junior exhibitors. Showing veteran Jack Hoyle tells us what it means to raise and show livestock and ArFB President Rich Hillman talks about supporting the young people involved in the event.
Delta Dirt Distillery is a family-owned craft distillery in the Arkansas Delta, making spirits from the family’s fifth-generation farm in Phillips County. We talked with founder Harvey Williams about the journey of growing up on a farm and finding a unique and creative way to secure the future of the family’s premiere crop, sweet potatoes. Watch our story to learn about the Williams family journey and how you could try their farm-to-bottle spirits.
When autumn's harvest begins, there's little time for words. We listen instead to the sounds of the combines, tractors and trucks as they gather the crops and work to bring another farm year to a close.
It’s Arkansas State Fair time and our PR team took a field trip to try out all the food up for grabs this year. Arkansas Farm Bureau is again a major sponsor of the Arkansas State Fair.
Arkansas Farm Bureau Secretary-Treasurer Dan Wright attended the Arkansas Youth Expo, one of the state’s largest livestock shows, and congratulated all the youth and parents involved.
ArFB President Rich Hillman presented him with the Friend of Farm Bureau Award during a visit to Camp Couchdale in Hot Springs and we caught up with him after a meeting with row crop, catfish and produce farmers in Ashley County.
