Farms have long been the life-blood of Region 8 and KAIT documented numerous moments in the lives of farmer from seed to harvest.
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Farmer Expresses Concern Over Beans Caught in Storage Bankruptcy
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Farmers are concerned about the status of their beans stored in bean elevators facing bankruptcy. The bank wishes to take them as collateral, but the farmers want them back.
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Farmers Blockade Grain Elevator in Protest
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Missouri farmers resort to locking bean elevators storing their beans to prevent confiscation amidst Ristine Grain Elevator and other companies' bankruptcy.
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Attendees Talk About Irrigation Issues Irrigation Conference
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Two attendees at an irrigation conference speak with KAIT8 reporter Kathy Miller on changes to irrigation. The first person talks about how rice can be added to the crop rotation with sprinkler irrigation. The second person talks about the effects increased irrigation will have on an already depleting aquifer.
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Cotton Processing Plant Footage
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Footage appears to be from a cotton processing plant or cotton gin.
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Eagleton Speaks About the Energy Crisis, Agriculture, and World Peace
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U.S. Senator Tom Eagleton discusses the effects of the energy crisis and international turmoil on farmers.
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Exports of Agricultural Goods Increase Five Percent
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A man reports that the exportation of agricultural goods, like soybeans, have increased by five percent.
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Farmer Inspect Soybean Crop
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A farmer inspects his soybean crop. Some of the crop appear to show signs of pests.
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Farmers Discuss Rice Market and Allotment During Meeting
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Numerous farmers attend a meeting pertaining to rice production, markets, and allotment. A major concern is there is a high surplus of rice and the effect it has on farmers. Another issue concerns rice allotments and the considerations which need to be addressed in a possible new rice bill.
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Farmers Hesitant About New Pesticide Application Program
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A man talks about a new pesticide application program and how they need to convince farmers resistant to it. A farmer expresses his concern on how the pesticide could harm fish and other wildlife though is not worried about damage to his crops.
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Farmer Tends to Fields
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A farmer tends to their rice, cotton, and soybean fields on a tractor.
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Farmer Tends to Soybean Field
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A farmer tends to their soybean field, using a tractor to till the land.
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Footage of a Combine Harvester
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Footage shows a combine harvester harvesting grain in a field.
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State Senator Bearden Speaks at Cache River Project Public Hearing
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State Senator John Bearden speaks at a public hearing regarding the continuation of the Cache River-Bayou DeView Channelization Project. He talks about how discontinuing this project would be a breach of moral commitment made when the project was first authorized.
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USDA Research to Improve Quality of Meat
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The US Department of Agriculture investigates germ plasm theory to improve the quality of meat for consumption. Germ plasm theory states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells in the gonads (ovaries and testes).
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42nd Annual White River PCA Meeting
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The White River Production Credit Association (PCA) holds their 42nd annual meeting at Newport High School. One of the participates talks with KAIT8 reporter on expediting rice milling.
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APFES Awards Craighead County Agricultural Extension Staff
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Arkansas Plant Food Education Society (APFES) presents the Craighead County Agricultural Extension staff with the Soil Fertility Education Award for 1972 through 1975.
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Arkansas Farmers Attend Sunflower Meeting
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National Cottonseed Product Association agronomist and representative of the Sunflower Growers Organization representative Dalton E. Gandy speaks to Northeast Arkansas farmers at A-State about the possibility of growing sunflowers.
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A Tractor Plows a Field and Scenes From a Butcher Shop
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Footage of a tractor in a field followed by some scenes from a butcher shop.
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Buck Hurley Mill Footage
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Footage contains several shots of the Buck Hurley Mill that is closed. This is one of the few Hurley properties closed due to the company going bankrupt. [no audio]
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Cal Wasson Reports on Winter Wheat Harvest
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KAIT8 reporter Cal Wasson reports on the winter wheat harvest. While the yields are at a near record, it has caused the price of wheat to drop.
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Cotton Gin Manager Discusses Current Cotton Market
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A cotton gin manager discusses the current cotton market, indicating farmers who produce cotton efficiently will do fine.
