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6 D-R-O-U-G-H-T Everyone’s pocketbook will feel its lingering effects

Gregg Patterson

3 Farm Bureau MattersRandy Veach

4 Food for ThoughtEwell Welch

14 Taste Arkansas Tara Johnson

18 Land & People Gregg Patterson

22 Building Wealth Allyson Hamlin

24 In the Kitchen Tara Johnson

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On the cover — When it comes to the year’s top stories, it’s hard to argue against the longest-running media saga being that of the drought. Everybody loves to talk about the weather — especially farmers.

Farm Bureau Matters

by RANDY VEACHPresident, Arkansas Farm Bureau

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I was fortunate to be among several

dozen farmers and ranchers who took

part in a mid-October USDA workshop

to outline resources available to assist

with drought recovery efforts, one of

four regional hearings held around the

country.

There was broad dialogue, including

some creative thinking and discussion

from farmers and ranchers about things

that could help them crawl out of the

deep hole so many were left in by the

Drought of 2012 (and its predecessors,

the almost-as-bad Drought of 2011 and a

not-so-pleasant 2010).

But, frankly, for all the positive

rhetoric from the workshop, there has

been very little action. The hour is

late, too late for some of our farmers

and ranchers, and a show of force at

workshop doesn’t necessarily help those

who fought this drought on the ground.

The over-arching sense from the day

seemed to be that the meeting needed

to have been two months earlier, when

the drought had a death-grip around the

throat of livestock and row-crop farmers

alike.

It could be that farmers and ranchers

are still stung from the blow they

had been dealt by Congress’ inaction

on a new farm bill, which expired

Oct. 1. This federal legislation is the

backbone of our country’s farm and

agricultural policy and, without it, a

number of important programs are

in danger, including dairy programs,

disaster assistance, crop insurance,

commodity support, food stamps and

programs that support conservation

and environmental protection, rural

economic and community development

and agricultural research.

We have hope that Congress will

take up the issue when they return

after the Nov. 6 election, but with a

lame duck session, who knows what is

likely to occur.

Let me say very clearly that

Arkansas’ Congressional delegation

was not the problem during the farm

bill discussion. Each member of our

delegation worked diligently to get a

meaningful piece of legislation passed

before the expiration of the farm bill.

They just couldn’t get enough help.

This leaves our farmers and

ranchers in limbo, unclear how to plan

and arrange for the lending critical to

our day-to-day operations. It leaves

planting decisions unmade. Signup

for conservation programs is now

frozen, as is export assistance. Disaster

assistance doesn’t exist currently,

on the heels of this terrible drought.

USDA is not providing any additional

assistance to the Beginning Farmer and

Rancher Development program. All

these issues, and more, are causalities

of Congressional inaction.

A fair question to ask, particularly

by those who participated in

the drought workshop, is ‘What

support will be there for our farmers

and ranchers?’ While seeing the

governmental resources that could be

stockpiled for the drought workshop

was impressive, the farmers and

ranchers I talk to every day would

all feel a lot better if Congress would

pass a workable farm bill. That will

also have the most meaniful impact to

consumers, as well.

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Food for Thought

by EWELL WELCHExecutive Vice President, Arkansas Farm Bureau

Election Day.

I may be old school, but I still believe

Election Day is one of the most important

days in America. This time, of course, it’s a

presidential election, so the stakes are a little

higher. But no matter if it’s a spring primary;

a local school board or city council seat;

county sheriff; mayor or that proverbial butt

of political jokes, the offi ce of dog catcher,

there is something uniquely American about

Election Day. It’s the opportunity to freely

express one’s preference for everything from

the lowliest village offi ce to the highest

offi ce in the free world.

I have a co-worker who tells the story

of a situation we’ve all faced at one time or

another, that of being dissatisfi ed with the

available choices for an elected position.

My friend used the power of the write-in

vote and voted for his father, who he said

was a man of great character and moral

endurance, the most honest man he knew.

A wasted vote you might think?

Think again.

Voting is a duty — a responsibility —

an act of service to the community, the

state, the nation and even the world. Few

things you can do resonate to that level of

importance.

Voting is an expression of honor to

those who fought for that freedom. What

better way to thank all of the veterans who

served and to honor those who died since

this country was birthed, than by voting?

***

The Arkansas Farm Bureau board of

directors recently voted to support and

encourages you to vote FOR Issue #1 when

you go to the polls this Nov. As you’re

likely aware, Issue #1 would fi nance a $1.3

billion bond issue for the construction of

four-lane highways throughout the state.

Additionally, it would divide more than

$700 million between all 75 counties and

every incorporated town and community to

repair streets and fi x county roads.

One of the primary functions of

government, from my standpoint, is

to provide the infrastructure needed to

conduct business on a day-to-day basis. I

believe good, safe roads are important for

the citizens, and the economy, of this state.

From agriculture’s standpoint, our products

can’t get to market without good roads. It’s

as simple as that.

Arkansas Farm Bureau’s member-defi ned

policy supports funding for a road program

that includes a combination of bonds and

sales taxes. Issue #1 seems to be created to

match that requirement. The ballot issue

was put in front of voters by the 2011

General Assembly, in a bipartisan vote that

now allows you to decide on the measure.

The temporary half-cent sales tax will last

only for 10 years. When the bonds are

repaid the tax is automatically abolished.

The temporary sales tax will be shared

by consumers and road users statewide,

and will not apply to groceries, medicine,

gasoline or diesel. The temporary tax has an

automatic end once the bonds have been

paid off. Additionally, this money can only

be spent on roads and can’t be re-designated

for other uses. And 40,000 jobs statewide

will be supported by the activity that

surrounds the expanded highway program. I

encourage you to vote FOR Issue #1.

Election Day is a special day. Make sure

you exercise your right to vote.

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TEveryone’s pocketbook will feel its lingering effects

The year’s top story was the

drought. It was the worst drought

in Arkansas since 1988 as it was

nationally. To put it in sharper

perspective, the drought of 2012 is

the third costliest natural disaster

— $77 billion according to Purdue

University economist Chris Hurt

— in our country’s history. Only

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the

drought of 1988 wreaked more

economic havoc.

Correspondingly, the summer of

2012 was the third hottest in U.S.

weather record keeping, and July

was the hottest this country has

ever recorded. Arkansas’ farmers and

ranchers suffered to varying degrees.

However, those with access to water

and the ability to place it efficiently

on their crops when needed were

able to successfully bring off a crop

and take advantage of this year’s

high corn and soybean prices.

by Gregg Patterson


Beef ranchers hit hardThe drought certainly adversely affected

those in the livestock business, particularly cattle

ranchers. The University of Arkansas Division of

Agriculture studied the drought’s impact on cow/

calf operations in the state. A cow/calf operation

breeds cows and sells the calves, usually when the

calf is seven or eight months old. The calves graze

on grass in a pasture or eat hay when pasture forage

is insuffi cient. The study was done by agriculture

economics and agribusiness professor Michael Popp

along with Nathan Kemper, the trade adjustment

assistance program coordinator for the Southern Risk

Management Education Center. They found that

Arkansas cattle ranchers lost $128 million because

of the drought. Major factors in that overall loss

included increased hay costs, reduced hay sales and

decreased revenue in calf sales due to lighter-weight

calves being sold.

The drought was devastating to the hay crop so

necessary to cattle ranchers for feeding their stock

and damaged and destroyed pastures. Travis Justice,

a senior economist for Arkansas Farm Bureau (ARFB)

and its Beef Cattle Division coordinator says the

inconvenience cattle ranchers faced due to reduced

capacity of pasture and availability of hay seriously

hindered them. “Not only were they constantly trying

to fi nd hay but in the areas of most extreme drought,

they were losing pasture that will have to be replaced,

because the grass died off completely,” he said.

“It will take time for the soils to fully recover in

those areas,”

Justice said.

“And some

pastures need

complete

restoring.”

Popp and

Kemper found

that cattle

ranchers lost

an average of

$141 per bred cow because of the drought. Popp says

almost half of those losses resulted from spending

for extra feed and the other half was what ranchers

weren’t paid, because they had to sell their calves

earlier and at a lower weight. “We found that most

operations had to buy another $65 of hay per cow,”

Popp said in a report released by the UofA Division of

Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service.

Not a blade of grass worth eating The drought wiped out this Pope County pasture of Bermuda grass leaving cattleman Gary Rowlands

to contemplate its total loss. Rowlands (left) and Pope County Extension Service Chair Phil Sims assess the damage.

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Consumer prices to riseJustice says the effects of this summer’s

drought on beef prices in the grocery store

will begin to be seen sometime in early 2013.

“The higher beef prices in the grocery store

already seen this year are a result of last

year’s drought,” he said.

Cattle ranchers have actually been selling

off more of their herds since 2009. That

continued reduction in overall herd size

has Arkansas with less cattle than at any

time in the last 40 years. The trend is worse

nationwide with the overall U.S. herd at its

lowest level since the 1950s. Supply is down

and won’t recover for a while. Popp says

pastures must recover and hay has to be

readily available for ranchers to rebuild their

herds.

Justice says it takes about three years

before the fi rst pound of fi nished beef

reaches the supermarket. It takes 15 months

before a female calf can be bred, nine

months to successfully bring off a pregnancy,

then seven months before that calf is ready

to go to the feedlot and, fi nally, six to eight

more months for that animal to be ready

as fi nished meat in the grocery store. If

everything in that process began today and

went perfectly, that’s the fall of 2015 before

the fi rst pound of additional beef is ready for

you to buy.

Overall, Justice says consumers will

not only pay a higher price for beef but

also for all animal protein, including dairy

products, eggs, pork, poultry and fi sh raised

in confi nement. Confi ned animals eat

predominantly a corn-based feed diet, and

record corn prices — another result of the

drought — have driven up the cost for those

animal feeds.

Mixed bag for row-crop farmers

While beef producers and other

livestock growers took it on the chin

from the drought, crop farmers in

Arkansas fared somewhat better — if

they could irrigate their crops. Matt

King is an economist for ARFB and keeps


Irrigate or die Arkansas row-crop farmers learned a hard lesson during the drought-stricken decade of the 1980s and committed to develop the irrigation necessary to make it through dry times. Those who had water did well, though their costs to get their crop through harvest increased dramatically.

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his fi nger on the pulse of row crop

production. He says farmers learned

a valuable lesson during the drought

of 1980 about the need for irrigated

cropland and began making sure they

had access to water from then on.

“Our farmers made the investment

to put irrigation in for their crops other

than rice,” he said. “Now, 85 to 90

percent of our crops are irrigated.”

That irrigation made corn growing

in Arkansas a winner this year while

corn burned up from the intense

heat, drought and lack of irrigation

in traditionally strong Midwest corn

states. With record corn prices, farmers

bringing in big yields got big returns.

But the drought still exacted a toll on

them. The cost to irrigate was expensive

this year.

“Instead of irrigating a fi eld fi ve times,

you might have to irrigate it 12 times,”

King said. “It’s not unlike a homeowner

watering their lawn. During a normal

summer, you might water that lawn one

or two times a week. This summer required

watering it every day. You realize the

impact when you get your water bill at the

end of the month.”

For farmers, that bill wound up being

the cost for diesel fuel to pump the water.

The UofA Cooperative Extension Service

pegged the cost for one or two extra rounds

of irrigation for corn and soybeans at $4

to $8 an acre, and for rice at $20 to $41 an

acre more than normal.

Even though consistent fall rains are

helping alleviate the drought around most

of the state, the drought is still causing

shipping problems on the Mississippi River.

Low water is stalling barge traffi c. To get

a barge through, it can only be loaded to

70 to 75 percent capacity. Smaller barge

capacity and slower movement on the river

has grain storage elevators and on-farm

grain bins near capacity and no place to

adequately store the crops coming out of

the fi elds right now. In some cases, grain is

simply being dumped on the ground and is

being exposed to the elements. Or farmers

are paying extra to have it trucked farther

distances to an adequate storage facility.

In the heat of the night A cattle sale barn in Glenwood operates to a near capacity crowd. Sale barns statewide often stayed open well past midnight as ranchers raced to sell off stock that was increasingly diffi cult to feed due to lack of hay and pastureland damaged by the drought.

Beans big too Soybeans like these near Wynne also did well

on irrigated land.

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Lingering costs from this year’s near-

record drought will continue affecting

ranchers and farmers who are already

working on restoring pastures, and

planning and preparing the ground for

next year’s crops. And there’s no doubt

that consumers will be reminded of it,

too, every time they go to the grocery

store.


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No corny joke A cornfi eld dependant on rain near Scott lies burnt by the drought. Corn states in the Midwest that predominantly depend on rain as the way to water crops suffered a similar fate as the drought was especially hard there. Corn prices shot above $8 a bushel, providing Arkansas corn farmers with irrigation a silver lining to help offset high irrigation costs.

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TFive common misconceptions about your holiday bird

It’s no secret that my parents raise

turkeys for Butterball. Last year in this

magazine, I shared a behind-the-scenes

look at how your holiday turkey is

raised. As an insider, my friends that

don’t have access to the farm lifestyle

ask me tons of questions. I’m happy

to share about our family farm and

what I’ve learned about agriculture. I

thought this year I should share fi ve

misconceptions that I’m asked about on

a regular basis.

1. Turkeys are given

hormones. The Food and Drug

Administration does not approve

hormone use in poultry. Despite

packaging that claims some

poultry products are hormone

free, by law, all poultry products

are raised hormone free.

2. All free-range poultry live

outside and roam freely.

By law, poultry products can

be labeled as “free-range” if the

birds had access to the outdoors

in some form, not that they

ever used it.

3. Free-range poultry is

safer than conventionally

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meat and poultry are subject

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One dough, five ways. When I hear about a great idea, I

can’t wait to share it with everyone

I know. In fact, writing for “Taste

Arkansas” gives me the opportunity

to share ideas with people I don’t

know personally. So, when I found

out people use one “mother dough” to

make multiple holiday cookie recipes, I

couldn’t wait to share it right here. Now,

there are a lot of dough recipes out there

that could serve as the mother dough,

but I like this one. Anything with cream

cheese in it has my vote every time. Pick

one of the variations listed below or

come up with your own. This recipe has

me excited to experiment this holiday

season.

Ingredients

1 package cream cheese, softened

1-½ sticks butter, softened

1 cup granulated sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2-¼ cups fl our

½ teaspoon baking soda

Directions

1. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar

and vanilla until well blended.

Add fl our and baking soda; mix

well. Cover.

2. Refrigerate for at least 30

minutes. Prepare and bake

cookies after performing a

variation listed below.

Variations

Sugar cookies: Preheat oven to

350 degrees. Roll dough to 1/8-inch

thickness on lightly fl oured surface.

Cut into assorted shapes using 3-inch

cookie cutters. Place on foil-covered

baking sheets. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes

or until edges start to lightly brown.

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Cool and decorate with colored frosting.

Makes about 3-½ dozen.

Mosaic cookies: Preheat oven to

350 degrees. Roll dough to 1/8-inch

thickness on lightly fl oured surface.

Cut into assorted shapes using 3-inch

cookie cutters. Place on foil-covered

baking sheets. Sprinkle each cookie

with 1 teaspoon crushed ring-shaped

hard candies. Press gently into dough.

Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until edges

start to lightly brown. Makes about 3-½

dozen.

Choco-Orange cookies: Add 1

tablespoon grated orange peel to dough.

Shape into two 8-inch by 1-½-inch logs;

wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unwrap

logs; cut into ¼-inch-thick slices. Place

2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake

12 to 15 minutes or until edges begin to

brown. Cool on wire racks. Drizzle with

4 melted squares of semi-sweet baking

chocolate; let stand until set. Makes fi ve

dozen.

Spiced cookies: Add 1 teaspoon each of

ground cinnamon, ground ginger and

ground nutmeg. Refrigerate 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, combine ¼ cup granulated

sugar and ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon;

set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Shape dough into balls. Roll dough

in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place

on baking sheets. Flatten to ¼-inch

thickness with bottom of glass dipped in

the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Repeat with remaining dough. Bake 10

to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

Makes about 3-½ dozen.

Almond crescents: Add ½ teaspoon

almond extract and 1 cup fi nely

chopped slivered almonds to dough.

Refrigerate 30 minutes. Preheat oven to

350 degrees. Shape balls of dough into

crescent shapes; place 2 inches apart on

baking sheets. Flatten slightly. Bake 10

to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

Cool slightly on wire racks; sprinkle with

sifted powdered sugar. Makes fi ve dozen.

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Farm Bureau’s Taste Arkansas blog. For

recipes, videos and farmer profi les visit

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2. Don’t try to please everyone. Everyone has a

favorite dish, but you shouldn’t try to make

them all. Make the dishes that the most

people will enjoy and one or two favorites.

3. Call in reinforcements. If you really want a

lot of family favorites, ask the guests to bring

their favorite sides. No one ever said that

one person has to cook the whole meal.

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preparation before the big day as possible,

even if that’s just chopping, mincing and

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OOptimism is meted out in various

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know things will work out for the best

no matter the odds. The late Bill Lindsey,

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measure of it along with a stout work

ethic. In 1965, he opened Bill Lindsey’s

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Little Red River near Heber Springs.

Only ... there were no trout in the

Little Red River at the time — at least not

yet.

In fact, there were no other fi shing

resorts along the river. That is if you can

call a dock with only fi ve boat slips and

two cabins for rent a “resort.”

“Using the term resort back then

was probably pretty generous,” said

Billy Lindsey, Jr., who now oversees the

family-run business that will celebrate its

50th anniversary in 2015. “Most people

thought Dad was crazy to do what he was

trying to do.”

The trout eventually came because of

the completion of Greers Ferry Dam in

1962 along with Greers Ferry National

Fish Hatchery that annually stocks the

Little Red River with more than a quarter

of a million rainbow trout.

Now, with remodeling of the 46

overnight lodging units, including

riverside cabins; an RV and tent camping

park; a remodeled marina; the start of a

vacation home community; the recently

remodeled Pot ‘o’ Gold restaurant; and

the opening this year of a new offi ce

and retail store, the present-day version

of Lindsey’s Rainbow Resort probably

exceeds anything Bill Lindsey, Sr. dreamed

of in 1965.

Like any successful small, family

business with a long history, there have

been lean times for Lindseys. A buyout/

partnership deal to create a timeshare

resort fell through just hours before

signing the fi nal paperwork, leaving the

business with signifi cant debt. Then the

economy went into an extended recession

in 2007. Two years later, Billy and his

wife Carol each lost their father within

a month. The loss of resort founder

and mentor Bill, Sr. left Billy, Jr. and

the extended Lindsey family seriously

questioning whether they wanted to

continue running a fi shing resort. In June

2010, the resort went on the auction block

but failed to attract a bidder to meet the

minimum price.

“It’s during times like those that I

have to wonder how anyone can possibly

doubt God or even whether there is a

God,” Lindsey said. “I’m here to tell

you that there is, and He is good all the

time.”

Lindsey says the family “rolled up our

sleeves, spent some time on our knees

and went to work as a family to fi gure

out what to do.”

The result was securing funding from

the Small Business Administration and the

bank, resulting in a complete makeover

of the facilities and the new offi ce and

riverfront store.

“The family, staff and fi shing guides

here have never been more excited

about any change that has taken place

at Lindseys than we are right now,” Billy

Lindsey said. “We’re a family-run business,

and we’re all about providing a great

experience for families that come to fi sh

here or attend our outdoors seminars.”

Oh yeah, the trout fi shing on the river

is great, too.

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WWhile families benefi t from saving

money all year, the holidays are a time

when saving money can be diffi cult.

Black Friday spending should never

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busiest shopping season with some

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• Bake some cookies — That’s

right. If you can’t afford to

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Handmade gifts are a special

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• Use credit wisely — Your

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be a complete surprise when

you open your statement in

January. Take only the credit

cards you need when holiday

shopping, and try to use the

card with the lowest interest

rate.

• Save your receipts — Keep

track of your expenses, and

add them up weekly to be sure

you’re sticking to your budget.

If you’re getting close to your

spending limit, reevaluate your

list and bake more cookies!

• Shop around and shop

early — Start your holiday

shopping early to give yourself

time to comparison shop.

Take time to do some research

before you hit the stores by

going online or looking at

your local newspaper circulars.

Also, check to see if free

shipping is available. Not only

is last-minute shopping nerve

racking, but the best bargains

are usually gone. You may

have to settle on a different gift

than you planned at possibly a

higher price by waiting.

• Give your time — Dad

already has socks and ties from

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Just spending more time

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mean more than another gift

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Chocolate Chip Cookies in a JarIngredients

1-⅔ cups all-purpose fl our

¾ teaspoon baking soda

½ cup white sugar

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

½ cup packed brown sugar

Instructions1. Combine the fl our, baking soda, white sugar and the

chocolate chips. Place ½ of the mixture in a clean quart-

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The holidays are stressful. Family

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