Where’s the beef coming from?

BY JOHNNY GUNSAULIS UA Cooperative Extension Service

Probably most of us who remember watching Gilligan’s Island on TV also remember a commercial with a short-statured senior lady who demanded to know, “Where’s the Beef?” As of Oct. 1, she might be asking not where it is, but where is it from. As of that date, several products on the grocery store shelf will be required to be labeled with information regarding the origin of the product. - Monday, October 6, 2008

Ag Notes

Report: State farm production expenditures up from 2006 Arkansas farm production expenditures totaled $5.94 billion last year — an 8 percent increase from 2006, according to information released by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, cooperating with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. It was released Sept. 23. - Monday, October 6, 2008