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Greenway Equipment of Newport has donated $2 million to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Poinsett County.
Half the money will be used to buy agricultural equipment for the station, which is about 8 miles south of Jonesboro on State Highway 1; the other half will go toward construction of the NERREC exhibition hall, which will house new research into rice production practices.
When complete, the hall will have "research labs, facilities for community and industry meetings, and importantly, a learning space dedicated to educating grade school children and the general public on rice production in Arkansas," Tim Burcham, director of the NERREC, said in a news release.