Public records indicate Olivet International, a Walmart supplier, is tied to a property the state is investigating for ties to China.
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Feathers ruffled over Arkansas’ handling of mass chicken euthanization
Northwest Arkansas chicken growers are still cleaning up the mess left after the state euthanized a million chickens late last year.
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Chicken company closure results in dead birds, fight over responsibility
What do you do with a million dead chickens? Seriously, we’re asking.
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Arkansas AG investigating two companies with China connections
Arkansas’ attorney general is investigating two companies with foreign connections that may be in violation of a 2023 state law, including one business that was supported by former Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
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Arkansas enacts trade war with China (just kidding, it’s 160 acres of farmland in Craighead County)
Gov. Sanders, AG Tim Griffin and Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward announced that state officials are giving the boot to a Chinese state-owned company and fining it $280,000.
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Sanders to keep Wes Ward as agriculture secretary; also continuing family grudge against Arkansas Times UPDATES
Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward will continue in the new administration. Also continuing: Huckabee family animus toward the Arkansas Times.