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4 Food for Thought Ewell Welch

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24 In the Kitchen Gregg Patterson

26 Health & Safety Keith Sutton

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Farm Bureau Matters

by RANDY VEACHPresident, Arkansas Farm Bureau

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I toured the Panama Canal, one of

the 7 Wonders of the World, while on

an agricultural trade mission in 2009.

So I understand the need for the United

States to ready its ports and waterways

in advance of completion of an expan-

sion project that will enable the Panama

Canal to accept significantly larger ves-

sels.

Builders of the canal in the early

1900s never imagined the massive ships

that now travel the world, some more

than 1,000 feet long. To rectify that, a

third set of locks is being constructed

to make the transportation of goods

through this route more efficient once

completed in late 2014.

While Panama races to finish this

$5.25 billion project, the U.S. needs to be

working to ensure our ports and water-

ways are ready to handle the increased

traffic, tonnage and shear mass of the

vessels that will connect commerce

around the world. Agricultural products

are moved frequently through the canal,

and Arkansas farmers rely on these trade

routes to move their products around the

globe.

Of the 20 major U.S. ports handling

international traffic, just two are ready

for “post-Panamax” vessels, the largest

ships that make up this massive transpor-

tation network. Other countries are more

prepared than the U.S. The deficiencies

in our port systems threaten to isolate us

from world trade.

Deepening the Port of New Orleans

is necessary, and work has also begun at

the in-land port of Memphis, both criti-

cally important to continued economic

growth in the mid-south. Unfortunately,

most major port expansions require

Congressional approval, studies by the

Army Corps of Engineers and a significant

amount of federal funding – all time-con-

suming processes. The U.S. government

needs to fast-track these improvements.

In our state, we need to ensure the

Arkansas River has a certified shipping

channel depth of 12 feet. This will allow

the most heavily loaded barges to use the

waterway throughout the length of our

state. While most of the river currently

meets that standard, there are sections

(totaling 45 miles) that need to be deep-

ened from 9 to 12 feet. This project will

cost roughly $160 million, no small sum

but a worthy investment.

Estimates suggest the 12-foot channel

would add 40 percent to the load capacity

of the river’s shipping system, with the

same number of tows, fuel expense, etc.

This is the definition of efficiency, which

helps us stay competitive in world trade.

Agricultural products shipped on the

Arkansas River now approach $4 billion

annually. These include soybeans, rice,

corn and other feed grains as well as fuels

and petroleum products. In fact, of the 11

billion tons of products shipped on the

Arkansas River, more than 3 billion tons

(or 30 percent) is related to agriculture.

A similar figure applies to the Mississippi

River, too.

Efficient transportation of goods

through our waterways helps contain the

costs of many of the products we consume

daily, food being at the center of those

costs. And that impacts everyone.

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Food for Thought

by EWELL WELCHExecutive Vice President, Arkansas Farm Bureau

The development in Congress of a

new farm bill will be in the news for the

remainder of this year and on into next

year if an approved bill isn’t signed into law

by year end. With it being a major election

year, it wouldn’t be surprising if the process

bleeds into next year.

As always, some organizations want

greater environmental regulation of farming

written directly into the farm bill. So it’s

probably necessary to remind folks just

what good caretakers of the land farmers

and ranchers already are and how effi cient

they’ve become in providing more food and

using less resources to get the job done.

• While farm and ranch productivity has

increased dramatically since 1950, the use

of resources (labor, seeds, feed, fertilizer,

etc.) required for production has declined

markedly.

• America’s farmers and ranchers are

doing their part to feed a growing world.

Total U.S. crop yield (tons per acre) has

increased more than 360 percent since

1950.

• Dairy cow milk production has become

more effi cient since 1980. The pounds of

feed (grain, forage, etc.) a cow needs to

consume to produce 100 pounds of milk

has decreased by more than 40 percent

on average in the last 30 years.

• Since 1982, U.S. land used for crops

has declined by 70 million acres.

Conservation tillage, a way of farming

that reduces erosion (soil loss) on

cropland while using less energy, has

grown from 17 percent of acreage in 1982

to 63 percent currently.

• Careful stewardship by America’s food

producers spurred a nearly 50 percent

decline in erosion of cropland by wind

and water since 1982.

• Farmers have voluntarily enrolled

30 million acres in the voluntary

Conservation Reserve Program to date,

making it the largest public-private

partnership for conservation and wildlife

habitat in the U.S.

• America’s farm and ranch families are

dedicated to caring for our planet. They

are ethical caretakers of the land and

water resources that help make our

nation’s bounty possible.

• In addition to their ethical dedication to

protecting the land, it is in the economic

interest of farmers and ranchers to care

for natural resources. America’s farmers

and ranchers take their commitment to

land stewardship very seriously.

• Through modern conservation and

tillage practices, farmers and ranchers are

reducing the loss of soil through erosion,

which protects lakes and rivers.

• Today, it is possible for farmers and

ranchers to produce more food, fi ber and

fuel than ever before on fewer acres with

fewer inputs.

• Such modern production tools as global

positioning satellites, biotechnology,

conservation tillage and integrated

pest management enhance farm and

ranch productivity while reducing the

environmental footprint.

• Farmers and ranchers are proven and

committed environmental stewards,

but they are justifi ably concerned

about the regulatory overreach of the

Environmental Protection Agency. At the

very time agriculture’s environmental

footprint is shrinking, EPA has ramped

up its regulatory force.

Farmers and ranchers work the land

every day. It’s a part of who they are. And

their good stewardship is evident in their

care for our natural resources.

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Want to make delicious camp

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cakes and other favorites in a Dutch

oven. Cooks have used this versatile

cooking utensil for centuries to

prepare delectable meals for hungry

campers.

Dutch ovens as we know them

today were developed in the early

18th century. They sometimes

were called “bake kettles” or “bake

ovens,” but “Dutch oven” (a name of

uncertain origins) became the title of

choice long ago. By the mid-1700s,

nearly all American families were

cooking in Dutch ovens on home

hearths and campfi res.

Today’s Dutch ovens differ little

from early models. Each is a large

deep pot with a tightly fi tting lid.

Three short legs support the whole

affair over coals on the ground. The

lid has a raised rim to retain coals

placed on the lid and to keep ashes

from falling into the oven when the

lid is lifted. With this arrangement —

coals on top and coals beneath — the

oven can be evenly heated for better

cooking.

A fi xed handle on top of the lid

provides for lifting the lid. A bail of

steel wire is permanently attached to

the pot portion for lifting and moving

the whole oven. Old-time ovens were

heavy cast iron, as are many modern

versions, but now you can get lighter

aluminum ones, too. I prefer cast-

iron ovens, however. Cast iron heats

slowly and evenly, and retains the

heat long after the pot leaves the fi re.

Aluminum ovens don’t have these

characteristics, and are tricky to work

with. Food often burns and sticks.

The newest cast-iron cookware

now comes pre-seasoned from the

factory. Having a properly seasoned

cast-iron Dutch oven is very

important. Older models or ones that

have suffered from neglect or misuse

need re-seasoning. This is done by

fi rst cleaning the oven in hot, soapy

water using a stiff brush to remove

any rust spots on the metal (the only

time you should use soap on cast

iron). Then rub melted shortening

or cooking oil on all surfaces of the

oven. Place it in an oven preheated

to 350-400 degrees F for a hour.

After heating, allow the Dutch oven

to cool slowly in the oven. (Never

try and cool a hot Dutch oven with

cold water.) Then cover the whole

metal surface with a light coating

of cooking oil to protect the metal

from rusting. Your Dutch oven will

form a black patina, or fi nish, with

continued use.

Aluminum ovens won’t rust and

don’t need any preparation before or

after use. Simply wash and dry; no

need to oil.

Preheat the Dutch oven before

baking food. Do this by placing a few

coals on top and a few underneath for

several minutes. This helps keep food

from sticking in the oven.

Food can be placed directly in

the oven, or placed in a pan or

aluminum foil wrapper in the oven. I

like to cook large cuts of meat, soups

and stews, and boiled or steamed

vegetables directly in the oven. Foil

cups are good containers for muffi ns

and breads. When making a cake

or pie that needs to be removed for

cutting and serving, I use a pan in

the oven, elevated above the bottom

to allow heated air to circulate all

around and protect the dish from

overheating by the coals beneath. A

couple of metal tent pins or nails, or

a few pebbles, placed in the bottom of

the oven support the pan.

Coals are placed under the oven,

and on top, when cooking. Generally,

when making dishes with large liquid

content, such as stews and soups, you

place two-thirds of the coals beneath

and one-third on top. This transmits

higher heat to the liquid. When

baking, reverse these proportions:

one-third beneath and two-thirds on

top. Too many on the bottom may

overcook the baking food. More coals

on top give high heat to the baking

air space in the oven and directly

down to your food.

Charcoal briquettes also work

well for heating. I usually place six

or seven under a 12-inch oven and

12 to 15 on top, replenishing these

with new briquettes when preparing

dishes with long cooking times. If

the ground is damp, place a piece of

aluminum foil on it to protect your

coals or briquettes and get maximum

heating.

It’s sometimes tricky maintaining

the proper heat while cooking.

Regulate it by adding or taking

away coals on top or beneath,

experimenting a bit if necessary. It’s a

good idea to build a small fi re beside

the oven and keep shoveling the

fresh-made wood coals from there to

the oven. Check the progress of your

cooking by lifting the lid with tongs

or a hook and testing.

Remember, Dutch ovens are not

just for baking. They work well for

making soups and stews, pan frying,

broiling and deep frying as well.

The lid can be inverted and used as

a griddle, with some rocks, or three

metal tent pegs driven in the ground,

as supports.

Dutch ovens are naturals for one-

pot meals, but if you want to get

spoiled, try the luxury of a whole

battery of ovens: one for meat, one

for vegetables, others for bread, pie,

cake, cobbler, you name it. This is real

living!

Here are some excellent recipes to

try next time you go camping.

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Let’s go Dutch Dutch ovens are incredibly versatile cooking utensils used to prepare everything from baked goods and meats to scrumptious stews like this.

Dutch Oven Brunswick StewIngredients

2 cups cooked, diced chicken

3 quarts water

1/4 cup diced bacon

2 teaspoons fresh-ground black

pepper

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon salt

1 cup pearl onions

2 cups peeled, whole tomatoes

2 cups diced potatoes

1 cup lima beans

2 cups whole-kernel corn

Instructions

Add all the ingredients to the Dutch

oven, mix well, cover, and coals above

and beneath, and simmer until everything

is bubbly and heated through. Serve

hot with thick wedges of fresh-made

cornbread. Yield: 10 to 12 servings.


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Melt-in-Your-Mouth BiscuitsIngredients

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1 cup sour cream

1 stick (1/2 cup) melted margarine

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Instructions

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ingredients until smooth. Spoon dough

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Bake approximately 15 minutes.

Easy Dutch Oven CobblerIngredients

3/4 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup flour

2/3 cup milk

1 large can sliced fruit

Instructions

Pour butter into the Dutch oven.

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Baked ApplesIngredients

Several apples

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Kingsford tonight Dutch ovens are great for preparing a wide variety of delicious foods using campfire coals or charcoal briquettes as the heating source. Note the raised lid rim on this Dutch oven. It holds hot coals for baking and helps prevent ashes from getting into the food.

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Beanhole BeansIngredients

1/2 pound sliced salt pork

8 cups cooked navy beans

4 tablespoons tomato paste

1 cup molasses

1/2 cup brown sugar

2-1/2 teaspoons dry mustard

1 teaspoon black pepper

1/2 teaspoon thyme

A pinch or two of ground cloves

2 quarts water

2 small onions, peeled

Instructions

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remaining ingredients, except the onions

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pot. Bury the whole onions in the center

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the single largest segment of American

agriculture. Annual sales of beef top

more than $49 billion. In fact, per

person consumption of beef tops 60

pounds annually.

Three ounces of lean beef is a mere

154 calories. The calories in a three-

ounce serving of lean beef contributes

to less than 10 percent of calories to a

2,000-calorie diet while providing 51

percent of the protein, 38 percent of

the zinc and 37 percent of the vitamin

B12 a person needs daily.

Beef is one of

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million U.S. children

are iron deficient. Beef

proteins, unlike plant

proteins, provide the

most readily available

and easily absorbed

source of iron. With

iron deficient children,

beef is an important

part of a healthy diet.

The beef industry

is being criticized

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finely textured beef.

Detractors call it “pink

slime.” However, lean

finely textured beef is

100 percent beef. The

USDA inspects and

strictly regulates all beef products.

It’s made from trimmings which

are leftovers from popular meat cuts.

They are pieces of fat that contain small

portions of beef. The trimmings go

through a spinning process similar to

separating cream from milk. The result

is a 97 percent lean beef product called

lean finely textured beef.

Nearly half of all beef consumption

is hamburger and other ground beef

products. Hamburger that contains lean

finely textured beef is a sustainable

product. Processing trimmings into

lean finely textured beef recovers lean

meat that, otherwise, would be wasted.

If the beef industry stops processing

trimmings into lean finely textured

beef, an additional 1.5 million head of

cattle will be needed annually to make

up the difference.

In a world where farmers are feeding

more people with fewer resources,

products like lean finely textured beef

keep our production system viable. May

is National Beef Promotion Month.

Celebrate by trying these tips for

cooking hamburgers:

• Work with very cold hamburger.

Form your patties, then put them

back in the fridge for 30 minutes

to cool down even more.

• Be generous with the salt and

pepper.

• Get the grill really hot.

• Let the burger rest for a couple

minutes after you take it off

the grill. This way it won’t

immediately lose its juices the first

bite.

Taste Arkansas From farm to table

compiled by Tara Johnson

Where’s the beef? If the beef industry stops using lean finely textured beef in ground beef products, an additional 1.5 million head of cattle will have to make up the difference annually.


Turkey Lovers’ MonthJune is Turkey Lovers’ Month. During

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industry has grown from single-

product, holiday oriented production

to a fully integrated industry with

diversified products. Since 1970, turkey

consumption has grown 102 percent.

Last year, Americans ate 18 pounds of

turkey per person.

Some thought turkey was only for

the holidays or sandwiches. Turkey is

now competing with other proteins

year-round, and turkey products

are gaining popularity in American

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regularly eating turkey. Ground turkey,

turkey sausage, turkey breast, turkey

tenderloins and turkey bacon are all

popular products.

Like U.S. turkey consumption, turkey

exports continue to grow. The top five

export markets for U.S. turkey meat are

Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Canada and

the Dominican Republic.

If you saw my article, “Raising

Thanksgiving,” in the 2011 November/

December issue of Front Porch you know

my parents raise turkeys. Even though

I have a lot of experience with turkey,

I was skeptical of products like turkey

sausage. How would that taste anything

like the smoked sausage I normally

buy? I finally bought some, and it was

fantastic. There was all the flavor of a

beef or pork sausage without the grease.

Nutritionally, turkey is an excellent

source of protein. In one three-ounce

serving of turkey breast there is 117

calories, 0.64 total fat grams and 26.2

grams of protein. In a comparable

serving of chicken breast, there are 140

calories, 3.1 total fat grams and 26.7

grams of protein.

A healthy diet is full of variety.

Turkey has a naturally mild taste

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NNed Ray Purtle, of Hope (Hempstead

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business. Being a livestock “trader” seems

to be a family legacy, part of the family

bloodline. His grandfather and his father

traded mules and cattle, providing mules

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business. In 1927, brothers Ned (Ned

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raising cattle in Nevada County. Later,

after moving to Clark County, his dad

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business.

In discussing a lifetime devoted to

the ranching business, Ned Ray seems

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legacy is. “I guess I’ve never thought

about it in that way. I’ve always lived on

a farm and always had cattle,” he replied.

“I never had an option. It’s always what I

wanted to do.”

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Young Ned Ray started showing steers at

the Arkansas State Fair when he was 10

years old. He lived and breathed raising

cattle. By age 13, he had a champion

steer. When it came time to go to

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excellent livestock judging team. So he

headed to Stillwater, Okla. to pursue a

degree in animal science.

That led to another lifetime love –

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and state fairs. He eventually became the

livestock superintendent for the Arkansas

State Fair and has spent the last 52 years

on the state fair’s board of governors.

As health concerns have recently

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to manage his 1,000-acre ranch near

Hope, he turned to his 40-year-old son

Mike to see if he wanted to carry on

the Purtle livestock legacy. (Ned’s other

son, Steve, works as a Honda ATV and

motorcycle dealer in Russellville.)

“The hardest thing to do is to step

back when you know you can’t do it

anymore,” Ned Ray said.

Mike had always enjoyed working

on his dad’s farm and had even farmed

fulltime for a couple of years before

leaving to establish his own business as

an excavating contractor. Mike says the

“time was right” to come back to the

cattle-raising business.

“It’s something I wanted to do,” he

said. “Now I can do it the way I want to.”

Mike also has 320 acres of his own where

he runs cattle and still maintains his dirt-

moving business.

The way he wanted to do it included

managing some of the farm for wildlife

in the Wetlands Reserve Program. Mike

loves to hunt ducks and deer. He also

decided to grow wheat haylage. The

sweet-smelling feed really came in handy

during last year’s drought-caused hay

shortage.

Looks like the multi-generational

cattle business will continue.

“I’m really proud of him,” said Ned

Ray, a satisfied smile settling across his

face.

Father to son Ned Ray Purtle (right) and his son Mike raise cattle on more than 1,300 acres.

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8-ounce container of spreadable cream cheese

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2 tablespoons Louisiana Hot Sauce

⅔ cup mayonnaise

Lawry’s Seasoned Salt, or similar seasoning, to taste

3-4 fresh dill sprigs, chopped

4 green onion sprouts or one small mild onion, chopped

Paprika

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Cucumber

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before causing illness.

A circular rash at the bite site indicates

a possible Lyme disease infection. This may

grow to 12 inches across and usually has a

bull’s-eye appearance. Victims experience

fatigue, chills, fever, aches and swollen

lymph nodes. Untreated, the infection may

spread, causing facial palsy, shooting pains,

heart palpitations and dizziness. After several

months, about 60 percent of untreated

patients experience arthritis, with severe

joint pain and swelling. Some develop

chronic neurological complaints months to

years after infection, including numbness in

hands or feet and short-term memory loss.

Antibiotics usually cure Lyme disease

if treatment starts early. However, some

patients have symptoms lasting years even

after treatment.

Fortunately, there are several ways to

prevent tick bites and reduce risk of tick-

borne illnesses.

• Use a DEET or permethrin-based

insect repellent when outdoors.

Repellents containing DEET repel

ticks several hours and are safe

for use on skin and clothing if

you follow label directions and

precautions. Permethrin products

such as Permanone and Duranon

kill ticks on contact for several days

when used to treat clothing, shoes,

tents, sleeping bags and chairs, but

don’t use permethrin products on

the skin. Follow label directions.

• In areas likely to harbor ticks, wear

long pants with the cuffs tucked in

socks to prevent ticks from crawling

up inside pant legs. Consider

wrapping duct tape around your

ankles, over the top of your socks.

Keep your shirt tucked in your

waistband, too. Wear light-colored

clothing, so it’s easier to see ticks

crawling on you.

• When possible, avoid brushing

against vegetation or traipsing

through leaf litter.

• Inspect for ticks after being

outdoors. Check pets, too. Remove

ticks you find, paying special

attention to armpits, groin, waist,

ears, belly button, backs of knees

and scalp.

While tick bites can cause problems,

those problems are relatively rare. Don’t

stop enjoying the outdoors, because you’re

fearful of tick bites. Just protect yourself

with tick repellents, and check for ticks after

being outside.

An ounce of prevention The black-legged tick, or deer tick, is responsible for the spread of Lyme disease in Arkansas and other parts of the U.S. Insect repellents containing DEET or permethrin effectively ward off ticks for several hours.

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