Hallie Shoffner

Hallie Shoffner says she made six different spreadsheets to examine the family farm’s finances and could not find a profitable scenario.¹ She closed the farming operation in 2025 after nine years running it.²³ A mother of a young son, she grew up in the Arkansas Delta community of Shoffner, working alongside her farmer parents.³

She studied literature at Vanderbilt and earned a Master of Public Service at the Clinton School.⁴ Her earlier work included a North Little Rock nonprofit serving the Hispanic community.⁵ In 2016, she returned to the family business, SFR Seed, which her parents had started as a soybean and rice research farm.⁵

Her farming work included cover crops and reducing tillage, practices she discussed publicly as ways to improve soil and respond to climate pressures.⁵ She also founded Delta Harvest, a business connecting smaller farmers, including specialty rice growers, with food buyers.¹ Her community service includes a seat on the Arkansas Foodbank board.³

Against Republican Senator Tom Cotton, Shoffner proposes tax cuts for working families and restoring Medicaid funding.⁶² She supports more crop variety, regional food production, telehealth investment and higher Medicaid reimbursements.⁷ Cotton backed the 2025 tax and spending law that reduces Medicaid spending, making health coverage a substantive difference between their approaches.²