Arkansas legislators listen to a presentation on farming economics from the University of Arkansas’ Cooperative Extension Service in Stuttgart on Sept. 23, 2025. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
STUTTGART — Arkansas agriculture industry leaders warned again Tuesday of a need for aid to mitigate a crisis that has reached a breaking point for family farmers.
“If something is not done very quickly and substantially, I’m afraid people are going to go ahead and make decisions that they can’t change back,” Kirk Vansandt, the chief agriculture lending officer for Farmers and Merchants Bank, told a legislative panel in Stuttgart…