By the U of A System Division of Agriculture
LITTLE ROCK — More than a dozen land-grant institutions, including the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, have collaborated with three other entities to launch Southern Ag Today, a digital platform aimed at providing timely, concise and insightful analysis facing Southern agriculture.
Collaborators include the Southern Extension Economics Committee, the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M, and the Southern Risk Management Education Center at the Division of Agriculture, as well as land grants from across the South.
Homepage of Southern Ag Today, a digital platform featuring analysis of challenges facing southern agriculture.
The platform offers daily peer-reviewed articles on topics including crop marketing, livestock marketing, farm management, agricultural policy, trade, and agricultural law. The platform features more than 100 contributors.
“Farmers of every size and background across the South continue to adapt to the challenging agriculture environment made worse by the pandemic, current macroeconomic trends, climate variability, and disrupted supply chains,” said Ron Rainey, assistant vice president for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Southern Risk Management Education Center director.
“We hope Southern Ag Today is a valuable tool for all of our southern producers including socially disadvantaged, small, and beginning farmers, so they can feel confident in the decisions they’re making about their operations,” Rainey said.
The land grant partners are:
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, part of the Division of Agriculture
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension
Alabama A&M and Auburn as the Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension
University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture — Extension
University of Georgia Extension
Clemson Cooperative Extension
North Carolina State University Extension
Oklahoma State University Extension
Mississippi State University Extension
Extension University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension
Louisiana State University Ag Center Extension
Alcorn State University Extension
University of Maryland College of Ag and Natural Resources
Virginia Cooperative Extension — Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
To learn about extension programs in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.uada.edu. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @AR_Extension. To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website: https://aaes.uada.edu/. Follow us on Twitter at @ArkAgResearch. To learn more about the Division of Agriculture, visit https://uada.edu/. Follow us on Twitter at @AgInArk.