Department of Agriculture

Fourteen senators are pushing back against a potential reclassification of potatoes from vegetables to grains by the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services. The senators submitted a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday,...

With about 44,000 farms stretched across 14.5 million acres of farmland, Arkansas ranks No. 16 in the U.S. for cash receipts, with soybeans and rice bringing in nearly $2.63 billion of the total $8.9 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So, when the state’s crops began to...