Agriculture and its supporting businesses employ 27 percent of Arkansas workers. Arkansas grows 40 percent of the world's rice, and is the number two producer of commercial broiler chickens. Our farmers grow soybeans, wheat, corn, cotton and even Christmas trees. They raise everything from cattle and pork to catfish and ostrich. Most importantly, they pass on values like faith, family and respect for the land to their children.
Farmers take a plot of dry ground and produce the foods that wind up on our kitchen tables.
They do it because it is a decent, honorable and fulfilling way of making a living. And they do it knowing full well that by holding on to their roots, they give themselves and their children wings. Until next week, this is Gov. Mike Huckabee.