Keo News

Cotton gin operators in Arkansas are in a tight spot. Since 1.2 million acres were planted in 2006, cotton acreage has declined steadily to 500,000 acres this year - a drop of 57 percent.

Arkansas farmers must 'go back to scouting beans, back to program approaches in beans and paying more attention to what the fields look like from year to year and anticipating what we need to use for the following season.' The storm arrived at Dee Henderson's farm east of Keo, Ark., just as a tour of LibertyLink soybean plots and treatments began.

A journalist, an AIDS researcher, a gospel recording artist and a late civil rights leader will be among this year's inductees into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.

I believe this is the latest soybean crop Arkansas has seen in at least the last 10 years.

Have you ever wondered what to do if you had a weed resistance problem on your farm? The University of Arkansas Lonoke County Extension office, in conjunction with Extension specialists and industry representatives, have established weed control plots in a field of glyphosate-resistant pigweed.

Have you ever wondered what to do if you had a weed resistance problem on your farm? The University of Arkansas Lonoke County Extension office, in conjunction with Extension specialists and industry representatives, have established weed control plots in a field of glyphosate-resistant pigweed.

Every year since 2000, on the Thursday before the second Friday after the first of the year, I travel down Highway 165 through Scott, Keo, England, Allport Humnoke and Stuttgart.