Corbin Brown, past president of Cross County Farm Bureau, continues an active leadership role on a state and local level. We recently visited with him on his farm near Wynne, where he told us about his 3,000-acre rice-and-soybean farming operation and shared thoughts on how his participation in two unique programs — LeadAR and Arkansas […]
Justin Blackburn works with USDA’s Farm Service Agency and farms 1,700 acres with his brother, Britt, in Greene County. He’s an eighth-generation farmer and grows corn, soybeans, milo, wheat, rice and other crops. Justin and his brother farmed for years with their father, Jimmy Pat Blackburn, who served on the Greene County Farm Bureau board […]
Dean Wall of Walcott raises a few cattle and farms 3,800 acres of rice, soybeans and corn, primarily in Greene County. Wall has served as president of the Greene County Farm Bureau and, along with his brother, Steve, was named Greene County Farm Family of the Year in 2011. Wall took a few minutes […]
Jim Carroll is an Arkansas farmer in Monroe County, member of the United Soybean Board and Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board, and Monroe County Farm Bureau Board Member. Mr. Carroll was a speaker at the Bean2Blog event I blogged about here. He was an inspiration to listen to and I thought he would be perfect to profile for the Faces of Agriculture series. I caught up with him after the event for a quick interview.
Growing up in Horatio, Brian Walker had no idea where his food came from. “I just took it for granted that chicken nuggets came from McDonalds,” he said. He didn’t know anything about farming either, coming from a non-farming family. Now, Walker and his wife, Elizabeth, raise more than nine million pounds of chicken meat […]