Out past the last streetlight the country opens up: pine on one side, field on the other, and yards that run clear to the tree line with no fence to stop them. Hodges Farms & Services LLC mows that kind of ground, the wide acreage where every pass has to be straight because the whole of it is visible from the porch. Midsummer here is heat and horseflies and grass that puts on inches after every storm. The work is mowing, trimming close around outbuildings and posts, and knocking the edges back before they creep inward. When it's finished the place sits level and green under a big southeast Arkansas sky.