Cargill, the nation’s largest privately held company, announced in late January that it would shut down its turkey production plant in Springdale on Aug. 1. This closing will throw about 1,000 ...

In the not-so-distant future, the stretch in yoga pants will come from Midwestern corn. Qore, a Cargill joint venture, opened a $360 million plant in Eddyville, Iowa, this month that can turn corn ...

Tom Sissom. Tom Sissom has worked at newspapers in Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas for more than 40 years. Beginning as a police beat reporter in Pine Bluff, he has covered law ...

The lawsuit accuses major poultry-industry players – such as Tyson Foods and Cargill – of polluting the Illinois River watershed, which covers parts of northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas, ...