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Charted: Arkansas farm busts
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Arkansas led the U.S. in farm bankruptcies last year, per data compiled by Farm Bureau.
- That's about 10% of all farm bankruptcies.
Why it matters: It signals the severe economic pressure on the state's agricultural community, even before President Trump's tariffs and the Iran war squeezed margins and raised input costs even more.
- In September, both Ag Sec. Brooke Rollins and Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a crowd in Rogers that family farms are facing their worst crisis since the 1980s.
Flashback: The Trump administration revealed a $12 billion farmer bailout in December.
The latest: USDA on Tuesday announced a national ag-tech testing network to evaluate farm technologies under real-world U.S. conditions, aiming to help farmers use data to help increase profitability.