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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