Stories by Stephen Steed

  • UA says land sale to fund research

    Mark Cochran, vice president of the University of Arkansas System's Agriculture Division, on Thursday defended the planned sale of a portion of its research st…

  • State board reduces 3 dicamba settlements

    The state Plant Board on Wednesday approved, without debate or discussion, a reduction in settlement offers sent to three farmers suspected of violating state …

  • Files show settlement offers over dicamba

    Settlement offers for farmers who may have violated the state's ban on spraying dicamba have reached nearly $1.5 million at the same time three farmers have se…

  • PATENTS AWARDED

    Patents awarded to Arkansans

  • Fair losses echo on silent midways

    Most county fairgrounds in Arkansas are all but silent this year, with their midways clear of carnival rides and food trailers, their exhibition halls void of …

  • Plant Board's makeup to get look by panel

    The composition of the state Plant Board -- with its longtime mix of members appointed by the governor and others by private agriculture groups -- will get the…

  • Offers to settle dicamba fines reach $1.1M

    Settlement offers this spring and summer on fines for farmers believed by Plant Board staff members to have violated the state's ban on spraying dicamba in 201…

  • 2Q profit $168.9M for fuel retailer

    Murphy USA on Tuesday reported a profit of $168.9 million for the second quarter of 2020, shattering the $32.7 million profit reported for the same period a ye…

  • Fordyce man settles in check-cashing suit

    Customers of Dennis Bailey's check-cashing businesses in Fordyce have been hauled into hot-check court, forced to pay court fees they shouldn't have had to pay…

  • Murphy USA posts record second quarter profit

    Murphy USA on Tuesday reported a profit of $168.9 million for the second quarter of 2020, shattering the $32.7-million profit reported for the same period a ye…

  • PATENTS AWARDED

    Patents awarded to Arkansans

  • Arkansas vendor sued over data breach

    A lawsuit filed Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court says the security breach of a new state computer program this spring led to identity theft of those se…

  • Jobless Arkansans get $1B in U.S. aid

    The state has disbursed more than $1.1 billion in federal unemployment aid to the jobless in just four months, including millions of dollars in weekly federal …

  • State notes 'uptick' in jobless-aid fraud

    The state Division of Workforce Services said Wednesday that it has found an "uptick" in fraudulent unemployment claims but gave no details.

  • Group looking for dicamba damage

    Volunteers and staff with Audubon Arkansas will return to farm country this summer to search for possible dicamba damage to trees and other vegetation on publi…

  • Eudora uniform business to grow

    Florida-based Superior Group of Companies will move its distribution operations from Georgia to Eudora, where it already employs about 200 people.

  • Patents

    Patents awarded to Arkansans

  • Court vacates dicamba approval

    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday night halted the sale of three in-crop dicamba formulations, a decision of little consequence in Arkansas, w…

  • Bid to add dicamba-use days rejected

    The state Plant Board on Tuesday rejected efforts to set aside the state's current ban on in-crop use of dicamba and allow farmers to spray the herbicide deep …

  • State pursues 18 herbicide settlements

    The state Plant Board is seeking $592,000 from 18 farmers to settle claims that they violated the state's 2018 and 2019 seasonal bans on spraying dicamba, a he…

  • Persistent rain adds to worries for farms

    Persistent rainfall has kept the state's largest commercial grower of organic vegetables out of the fields this spring, but his crop of organic sweet potatoes …

  • After 1st year, state hemp set to grow a bit

    Undaunted by mixed results of last year's inaugural industrial hemp crop, Arkansas growers and processors are returning to hemp fields and greenhouses this yea…

  • No 'murder hornet' in Arkansas, expert says

    The Asian giant hornet -- aka the "murder hornet" -- isn't in Arkansas, where residents have confused it with other hornets that have been in the state for at …

  • Arkansans in line for farm aid

    Arkansas farmers, ranchers and others in a food chain disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have received a few more details on agriculture aid approved last m…

  • Murphy USA reports $89.3M profit

    Murphy USA on Friday reported a profit of $89.3 million for the first quarter of 2020, or $2.92 per share, exceeding analysts' expectations for an earnings per…

  • Producer of blades giving up Little Rock plant

    The nearly 500 workers at LM Wind Power's wind-blade manufacturing plant in Little Rock will lose their jobs as the company closes its operations because of de…

  • Huckabee-involved suit closed off

    A federal court hearing Monday in a Florida lawsuit filed in part by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is closed to the public, according to media outlets in …

  • Huckabees join lawsuit over beach's closure

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife Janet are among 15 parties in a federal lawsuit claiming they can't use their "backyards" because of a county g…

  • Mill jobs idled as business slowed

    A paper manufacturer in Ashdown said Monday it will idle 142 workers because of "unforeseeable business conditions" brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Losses cap 1Q for state stocks

    Arkansas-based stocks on Tuesday ended their worst quarter since the recession of 2008-2009 and, like then, financial experts don't know when the bleeding will…

  • Baptist Health tells staff of job cuts

    An undetermined number of people will lose their jobs at Baptist Health because of a financial crunch brought on by a focus on treating only the most serious i…

  • Chairman of state Plant Board resigns

    Greg Hay, chairman of the state Plant Board, resigned this week, citing his employer's concerns of a "conflict of interest."

  • Fee plan in hemp program gets OK

    The state Plant Board on Tuesday approved a fee schedule to fund the state's industrial hemp program for this year and denied a petition to set a stricter cuto…

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