By Mary Hightower
Arkansas soybean and a good-looking cotton harvest are in the homestretch, with peanut not far behind, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
NASS, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reported that the state’s soybean harvest was 94 percent complete. Cotton was close at 92 percent while peanuts were at 78 percent harvested.
In 2026, Arkansas producers increased soybean acres by 33 percent to 3.45 million. Cotton acres increased about 8 percent to 560,000. However, peanut acres fell this year by 17 percentto 40,000 planted acres.
“Producers have been taking large chunks out of both cotton and peanuts week to week,” said Zachary Treadway, extension cotton and peanut agronomist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
“I do believe that will end, at least temporarily, this week with the rainfall last Saturday,” he said on Tuesday. “We look fairly dry for the 10 days after today, so that should allow us to finish up.”
Scott Stiles, extension economist for UADA, said “yield reports on cotton have been mostly favorable. The dry fall has provided not only a fast, efficient harvest, but good grades.
Source : uada.edu