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Former Arkansas Farmer Hallie Shoffner Lost Her Family Farm. Now She’s Running to Unseat Sen. Tom Cotton.

Shoffner says farm closures and rising costs show Arkansas’s economic strain as she challenges Sen. Tom Cotton and criticizes federal policy.

Summary by Ms. Magazine
Hallie Shoffner grew up in the Arkansas Delta, left to earn a bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt, then came home to become a farmer. She followed her parents into a business that had been in the family for 150 years. In 2025, she was forced to close the farm. Now Shoffner, 38, is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, mounting a long-shot bid to unseat two-term Republican Tom Cotton. Her experience in agriculture is central to a campaign focused o…

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette broke the news on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
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