Dirt rich, cash poor: As economic pressures mount, some Delta farmers hoe their last row

Dirt rich, cash poor: As economic pressures mount, some Delta farmers hoe their last row

As fall sets in, farmers across the Arkansas Delta are reaping their harvest. For the first time in 30 years, Shannon Hall won’t be one of them.  After three decades of farming soybeans, rice, corn and other commodities in Poinsett, Craighead, Jackson and Cross counties, Hall, a 10th-generation farmer, harvested his last crop in 2024. At the height of his operation, he and his father and uncles were farming 10,000 acres across Northeast Arkansas…