Arkansas Farm Bureau issued the following announcement on March 23.
Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security designated food and agriculture one of 16 critical sectors in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, and said that workers in those industries should stay on the job. Arkansas Farm Bureau and a consortium of agriculture industry groups have come together to thank Arknasas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for his response to the COVID-19 crisis so far and request that he designate agriculture as essential at the state level. In the event that stricter COVID-19 measures must be invoked and more work stoppages be requiried, we must ensure that agriculture and agriculture-related businesses can continue to operate in order to provide the food, fiber and shelter the nation and world requires. To maintain a safe and abundant food supply, work must continue across the agricultural spectrum, from input businesses to farmers and ranchers to transportation and food processing operations.
The groups that came to together to sign on to this letter are:
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Arkansas Cattlemen’s Association
Livestock Marketing Association
Arkansas Forestry Association
Catfish Farmers of Arkansas
Agricultural Council of Arkansas
Arkansas Pork Producers Association
Producers Rice Mill
Arkansas Soybean Association
The Poultry Federation
Riceland Foods
AgHeritage Farm Credit Services
Farm Credit of Western Arkansas
Farm Credit MidSouth
Delta ACA Farm Credit Services
Arkansas Rice Federation
A copy of the letter from these organizations to Gov. Hutchinson is downloadable below.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Arkansas Farm Bureau
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