Winter Weather Watch: Arkansas Farm Bureau offers update on current conditions following last week’s storm

“As of right now, conditions are returning back to normal, but we still got some people that are recovering from these winter storms.”

A winter storm made its way across the country late last week, impacting ag operations from Texas to Tennessee.

Jared Garrett with the Arkansas Farm Bureau spoke with RFD-TV’s own Tammi Arender on current conditions, preparing for the storm, and what to expect moving forward.

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