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A herd of cows finds shade under a tree Tuesday on Old Wire Road in Bethel Heights.
Photo by Sarah Bentham
LONG, HOT SUMMER Cows, Farmers Feel Heat
CALVES DYING FROM DEHYDRATION
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Drought and sweltering heat have dried up nearly one-third of the ponds on Vernon Smiegelow’s Gravette farm. Much of his pasture has fried and aside from already feeding hay, he’s scrambling to keep eight newborn calves comfortable. The livestock were born three weeks early because of heat-related stress. Read More »
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CAMPUS UAMS Renovation Continues
WORK ON COLLEGE OF PHARMACY TO BE COMPLETED IN DECEMBER
FAYETTEVILLE — “Northwest Arkansas pharmacists have been teaching our students for a long time, we just didn’t have the fulltime faculty in place.” -- DR. JON WOLFE UAMS College of Pharmacy associate dean for development Read More »
Fayetteville Shale approaches crossroad
LITTLE ROCK — Natural gas production in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale has grown steadily during the five years of extraction, and so far 2010 does not look to be an exception. Read More »
Hog farmers seeing higher market prices
Demand driving sales up; producers cut inventory
LITTLE ROCK — After years of low sale prices for their animals and high cost of utilities and feed grains whittling away any profits, hog farmers are finally seeing demand drive retail prices to where they can make money on every pig produced. Read More »
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Farms’ exports bolster sector
Rebound seen in agriculture
LITTLE ROCK — Even as the broader economy falters amid signs of a weakening recovery, the nation’s agriculture sector is going strong, bolstered in part by a surge in exports, according to federal estimates of farm trade and income released last week. Read More »
Nuclear-reactor goal: Standardized designs
Safe, cheap, quick, industry says
ATLANTA — Power utilities are trying to buy the next wave of nuclear reactors much like a consumer buys a light bulb: right off the shelf. Read More »
Houston port seeks $2 billion upgrade
LITTLE ROCK — The Port of Houston Authority needs to spend about $2 billion in the next decade to handle increased trade from Asia, take advantage of the Panama Canal expansion and rehabilitate aging facilities, managers told port commissioners last week. Read More »
Study finds fishing fatalities highest on Northeast coast
LITTLE ROCK — King-crab fishing in the Bering Sea is dangerous business, but contrary to what a popular cable television show suggests, it is not the deadliest catch. Read More »
Risk rises with complexity of deep-water oil rigs
LITTLE ROCK — In a remote reach of the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 200 miles from shore, a floating oil platform thrusts its tentacles deep into the ocean like a giant steel octopus. Read More »
Chrysler dealers hear Fiat plan
Carmaker to sell one 2011 model from Italian brand in U.S.
DETROIT — Fiat is coming back to the U.S. after a 30-year absence, and Chrysler Group dealers have to decide whether they want to sell the Italian brand that initially will offer just one model, the tiny Fiat 500. Read More »
Canada’s growth in 2nd quarter less than forecast
OTTAWA — Canada’s economy grew at a slowerthan-projected 2 percent rate in the second quarter, almost one-third the pace of the January-March period, amid a widening trade gap and slower household spending. Read More »
Gold rallying, expected to rise whatever economy does
LONDON — Investors are accumulating enough bullion to fill Switzerland’s vaults twice over as gold’s most accurate forecasters say the longest rally in at least nine decades has further to go no matter what the economy holds. Read More »
