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Hunters and harvesters

Stability for Stuttgart comes from being a prime destination for duck hunters and a focus of the state’s extensive rice industry.

June 30, 2024 at 2:06 a.m.

by Rex Nelson

Ducks swim and fly at Halowell Reservoir near Stuttgart, Ark., in this Oct. 26, 2006, photo. Rain, sleet and cold air that hit the state recently will help attract more ducks a spokesman for the state Game and Fish Commission said Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Ducks swim and fly at Halowell Reservoir near Stuttgart, Ark., in this Oct. 26, 2006, photo. Rain, sleet and cold air that hit the state recently will help attract more ducks a spokesman for the state Game and Fish Commission said Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Like most towns in the eastern half of Arkansas, Stuttgart has experienced population loss for the past four decades. In the 1980 census, the city that's considered the capital of the Grand Prairie had 10,941 residents.

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