Arkansas Neighbors

On the outskirts of Fayetteville, Ark., is a 5-acre show pig operation known as HogWild Showpigs owned and operated by Jeremy and Dawn Mabry. Jeremy teaches elementary PE in Fayetteville while Dawn, a University of Arkansas employee for 15 years, currently works as a records analyst in the Office of Development.

The Sampsons raise beef from their Wagyu-influenced herd for direct sales to customers GROVE, OKLA. - A piece of “perfect” property in Delaware County, Okla.,...

Husband and wife team Tom Huls and Dr. Diane Balich, DVM, don't ever stay still for long, but that's just the way they like it. The couple owns the 350-acre Sugar Springs Angus Ranch in Lincoln, Ark.  In 1983,  the pair moved to Arkansas from Yankton, S.D. They decided on Lincoln when Diane saw an advertisement for a job opening with a new vet clinic in Lincoln. “They were looking for a veterinarian with an interest in dairy, and I have my master's degree in dairy science, so I came down and he offered me the job. I wasn't really sure I wanted to leave yet, but he kept calling me and calling me and talked me into it," shared Diane.

When 68-year-old Hartsel Hankins of Dover, Ark., was a tyke, he used to follow his dairyman grandfather, Chester Higgs, everywhere, helping with chores and watching him milk or plow with horses.

Rancher continues family’s cattle operation GORE, OKLA. - When the Circle R Farms Cattle Co., first began operating in 1902, Oklahoma was still five years...

Jared and Alisen Anderson have diverse farming backgrounds Jared and Alisen Anderson have been farming in Miami, Okla., for seven years. They own 900 acres...

Twenty-five cows, 205 acres of land and a vegetable garden – That’s how the King family got by in the old days. Gerald King, patriarch of the King family of Green Forest, Ark., said, “I don’t know how they (his dad and mom) raised five kids here, but they did.” They just managed to get by with less back then. Gerald said he milked 25 dairy cows a day with “milking machines” – then looked down at his hands.

When it comes to cattle and hay farming for Brian Davis and his wife Lee, time management is a major challenge. Both work off the...

Underneath bustling traffic on Interstate 540 sits a piece of Eden in rural West Fork, Ark.

Family overcomes a rough start to build their farming operation in White County, Ark. Larry Shook of McRae, Ark., knew he wanted to be a...