Cover crops have seized the spotlight. After an active year in 2021, where input prices soared, carbon programs multiplied, and millions of dollars were invested in climate-smart practices, the surge of interest in cover crops isn’t subsiding soon. Last week we discussed using cover crops to lessen the use of insecticide. This week we will discuss more advantages of cover crops to consider.
LITTLE ROCK — Col. Brad Young isn’t just chief of law enforcement for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, he’s a dyed-in-the-wool hunter who was introduced to the turkey woods by his grandfather when he was 7 years old. During more than 30 years in the turkey woods, he’s learned quite a few tricks through trial-and-error and has seen many faces frustration when they wear a turkey vest for the first time. While he’s not about to give up the goods on his favorite turkey hunting locations, Young does have some great advice for everyone as we begin to see people heading to the woods in search of their first Arkansas gobbler.
The Marion County Nursing Home Auxiliary has presented the Marion County Arkansas Heritage Society with a $2000.00 donation to purchase a fireproof file cabinet. The fireproof cabinet has been a need for the Heritage Society for many years and will be used to store photos, Bibles, diaries, and other irreplaceable documents.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (April 7, 2022) – Arvest Bank announced today that its credit card division generated record sales volume in merchant services for 2021.
Little Rock – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Arkansas in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will provide $2 million in fiscal year 2022 to benefit waterfowl through the implementation of Conservation Practice Standard (CPS) 646-Shallow Water Development and Management to counties within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial valley.
You know how sometimes you go to visit your parents, but you don’t want to stay with them because, you know, they’re your parents? So, you decide to stay nearby, but not that nearby because, well, they’re your parents? But it’s also spring break for the kiddos so you dish out a little more scratch than usual and stay not just at a hotel but a resort with a full-on water park, with lots of pools and water slides galore? And you know how the first few days are good, clean family fun, swimming during the days, seeing the folks in the evening but then you learn that the resort offers something else and that something else is… golf? And you know how halfway through your stay, the PGA walks in like they own the joint? I hate it when that happens.
My campaign to become a social media influencer failed. I don’t have the dance moves for TikTok, the wit for Twitter or patience for the mendacious garbage on Facebook. I thought you just popped off about your favorite restaurant or made a snarky comment about skinny jeans – wait, those aren’t a thing anymore, right? – and the world’s adulation and riches were laid at your feet. I was mistaken.
2022 Seniors . . . Well, here you are about to graduate. I’m sure you’re pinching yourself at the prospect of reaching your goal of the last 12 years. I think of you all as caterpillars. You’re about to leave your cocoons; your high school and homes, to emerge as butterflies and fly away to your futures.
Does your Twitter knowledge need tweaking? Birds twittering in springtime means the return of many birds but if you have trouble telling which bird is which, Bull Shoals Library can help. Beginner’s Guide to Birds by Donald and Lillian Stokes is a great beginner’s guide to bird identification.
Estelle Nussbaum was born in Manhattan on April 22, 1928 and died on April 2, 2022. The younger of two daughters of Isaac (“Ira”) and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy store.