Hunter Biram and Ryan Loy are joined by Jennifer James, a fourth-generation rice and soybean farmer from Newport, Arkansas, part owner of H&J Land Company, and host of the Field Good Life podcast. Jennifer shares her path back to the family’s Century Farm and discusses the realities of operating a diversified row crop operation in today’s economic environment.
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Week 74: The National Cotton Profit & Loss Tool
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Week 73: December 2025 WASDE Lowers Rice Price by 9% and the Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) Program is Announced
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Week 72: Senator John Boozman
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Week 71: November 2025 WASDE report is relatively quiet despite surprises in production and exports
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Week 70: The 2025 Arkansas State Net Farm Income Projection is Adjusted $850 Million Downward in its Fall Revision
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Week 69: Developing a Market Plan in the Post-Harvest Window
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Week 68: Prevented Planting: When (if ever) is it a good business decision to take the PP indemnity?
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Week 67: The State of the Arkansas Crop Economy in 2025
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Week 66: Optimizing PRF Insurance for Southern Forage Producers: Lessons from Arkansas
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Week 65: 2025/26 Rice Market Outlook
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Week 64: Estimating County-Level Farm Program Payments in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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Week 63: Short-Term Interest Rates and Identifying Financial Stress
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Week 62: USDA September 12th Reports Highlight Record Corn Production and Downward Revision in Rice Price
Week 61: Margin Protection (MP) and Margin Coverage Option (MCO) Sales Closing Date for Corn and Soybeans is September 30, 2025
Week 60: Prevented Planting: Historical Impacts to Indemnities and Acreage
Week 59: The Mississippi River is Set to Fall to Severe Levels for the Fourth Year in a Row
Week 58: Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends
Week 57: USDA’s August Crop Forecasts Point to Record Corn and Soybean Yields
Week 56: July 2025 Short-term Interest Rate Update
Week 55: Do Daily Large Export Sales Reports Move Markets?
Week 54: Prevented Planting: Coverage Levels, Payments, and Rules
Week 53: July WASDE: Heavy Stocks Keep Pressure on 2025 Price Outlook
Week 52: Stronger farm safety net included in the OBBB Act, “Skinny” Farm Bill, and SDRP disaster payments
Week 51: USDA’s June 30 Acreage Report a Non-Event for Corn and Soybeans
Media Contact
Mary Hightower
U of A System Division of Agriculture
(501) 671-2006 | mhightower@uada.edu