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Tracie Kitchens is one of our outstanding YF&R Achievement Award finalists.

She and husband Jeremy grow soybeans and corn and raise cattle and pigs.

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Better days through better waysMollie Dykes | Page 6

Be preparedGregg Patterson | Page 14

F E A T U R E S

FALL 2015 Edition 39

Farm Bureau PerspectiveJosh Cureton | Page 3

Policy UpdateMichelle Kitchens | Page 22

Rural Reflections PhotoPage 28

C O L U M N S


As you read these words, fall is well upon us. e cool crisp mornings we have longed for have fought back summers salty sting. Beautiful oranges, yellows and reds paint the countryside, and spring seems a distant memory. With each passing year, the seasons rush by faster than the last. I think this is even truer for those who make their livelihood from the land. We live in tune with the seasons, each bringing new tasks and opportunities, as well as challenges. We watch as a seed emerges or a calf is born. We are charged with caring for that life for what is such a short time compared to our own lives. And then, we gladly do it again and again. A college professor of mine, Dr. Brinkley, once told me time seems to pass quicker as a person ages, because one year becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of a persons life as the years go by. His theory is rearmed to me each year as I watch my crops and children grow.

I was a mere 20 years old when my wife Melissa and I attended our rst Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers event held in a little restaurant in our home county. e late Stanley Reed was our speaker that night. He spoke of Farm Bureaus rich history in our state and of the work yet to be done, along with the need for young leaders to do the work for this noble cause. His words still ring true and maybe now more than ever. Farm Bureau is not only the leading voice for agriculture in our state but also for the rural way of life. Its this rural

life that we as Arkansans hold so dear. Its one of the many foundations that make Arkansas a wonderful place to live and raise a family.

Unfortunately we cant sit idle while taking these foundations for granted. We must be vigilant in our task to protect and improve life for all Arkansans, and we need bright new leaders to accomplish this work. rough the YF&R programs, seeds of leadership are being sown. Young men and women are being cultivated to play an ever-increasing role in Farm Bureau for this is an organization like any other. It cannot be stagnant and expect to thrive or even survive. e good news is I see young leaders on a regular basis stepping forward and taking on this great responsibility. ey are contributing new ideas and keeping the organization adapting to new challenges and opportunities.

I am 34 now, and our involvement in the YF&R programs has been an incredible experience. We have met people from Alaska to Louisiana from Maryland to California. It never ceases to amaze me how diverse agriculture is within the United States. rough these programs, weve gained leadership skills we use every day. And we will use these skills throughout our lives not only in Farm Bureau but in our jobs, community and state. Fortunately, other young leaders are also gleaning these same skills. eyre the future of our organization, and the future looks very bright. May God bless you and your family. *

Farm Bureau Perspectiveby Josh Cureton | YF&R Chairman, Arkansas Farm Bureau

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Written by E.M. Tiany, the FFA Creed has inspired generations of agriculturists. e rst paragraph states achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways. is years three Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award nalist families are doing just that building upon the achievements of the generations that preceded them in hopes of beneting both themselves and future generations who farm the land. ese couples continuously seek better, more ecient ways of doing things to ensure theyre contributing to the safe, aordable and abundant food supply farmers and ranchers work to provide.

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Jamey and Sara Allen, Grant CountyJamey and Sara Allen, along with two other family

members, own and operate Allen Brothers Farm, which consists of a 1,200 cow breeding operation, Allen Gate and Panel, as well as AGP Transport. All three of the businesses within Allen Brothers Farm benet the others and were created to improve upon existing operations.

e panel company started in 1981, which has allowed us to grow considerably faster than we have before. But parts of this farm have been in the family for over 200 years, Jamey said. ey kind of paved the way, as well as my ancestors that showed up here who settled this land and started acquiring more of it, clearing it and making it basically what it is today. All we can do is hope to improve on that and make it better.

Jameys main role is to manage the farming operation while his brother and brother-in-law manage the gate and panel company. When he took over management of the farm in 2008, he wanted to continue using some of the practices and land management strategies past generations had used. But he also realized new practices were needed to ensure sustainability of the farm. is included adding multiple barns and feed storage facilities, feedlot-style feed bunks, feed mixers and updated equipment. e farm has grown from 180 cattle on 1,150 acres to 1,200 cattle on 4,200 acres.

Allen Gate and Panel, Inc. got its start when Jameys uncles purchased pipe from a local mill to build a corral for the farm. Today, corral panels and gates are sold across the U.S. and Canada, and the majority of the corrals and panels used

on the farm come from AGP. e cattle operation is also used for the research and development of new ideas to ensure their customers receive high-quality products.

Jamey and Sara hail from farm families and knew they wanted to create the same lifestyle for their family. ey attended Southern Arkansas University, where Jamey earned an agriculture business degree and Sara one in early childhood education. Sara is an elementary school teacher at Sheridan where she incorporates agriculture lessons into her everyday curriculum.

A lot of them have never been on the farm, she said of her students. So I take pictures and show them the farm. eres a nutrition unit we do toward the middle of the year and I tie in a lesson on where their food comes from.

Jamey is always looking for ways to improve the farm to ensure its success for future generations. Hes seen a steady increase in his weaning weights due to improved genetics and improved nutrition. However, hell continue looking for new and ecient ways of increasing those weights. He also plans to improve the overall eciency of the land through proper soil and grass management and improve genetics through increased use of articial insemination.

Its denitely my duty as a steward of this land to maintain it and make it better for the next generation, he said. eyll have something to call their own and use if they choose to make a career out of it. e land will be here waiting for them, and it will be better than it was whenever I started.

Jamey and Sara Allen with son Kaden and

daughter Kylee.


Derek and Shannon Haigwood, Jackson County

Derek and Shannon Haigwood are fourth-generation farmers who understand the commitment that farming takes to guarantee the longevity and sustainability of the operation. In 2003, Derek, along with his brother and cousin, bought an existing wheat crop from older family members, but continued to supplement their income by working on his dads farm. In 2005, the time was right to expand when some nearby land became available for rent and the new partnership began.

We took our very little bit of money and started a partnership, and now weve expanded that into a business growing cotton, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans and corn. Were rm believers in not putting all our eggs in one basket, Derek said.

In 2007, they did away with a smaller farm farther away and rented a 1,500-acre farm closer to the land they began farming in 2005. ey focused on improving and sustaining the two farms, which included leveling and adding pivots and electric wells. Not only will Derek and his family reap the benets from these improvements, but so will future generations. Other sustainability practices include the use of cover crops, crop rotation, poly pipe irrigation and a tailwater recovery system. e tailwater recovery system enabled them to water two rice elds without pumping any groundwater, saving money, time and equipment.

We take responsibility for the land that we farm. Were not wasteful, and we conserve and sustain, which takes a lot of work and we try to show that, Shannon said.

Shannon and Derek have one son, Judah, who is already learning about the farm at a young age. Shannon and Judah will visit the farm to deliver Dereks lunch. Judah enjoys seeing the machinery and learning about the crops Derek is planting or harvesting at the time.

Were just integrating him into that life. Even at the young age that he is, we still want him to develop a love for it early, Shannon said.

Goals for future development include purchasing more farm land, improving irrigation practices even further and borrowing less money each year. Derek has improved the farm more than what his father and grandfather did, but he knows achieving these more during his lifetime will be crucial to ensuring his son and future generations can farm the land, too.

When I pass the torch, so to speak, to my son, this farm will be better than when I got it, because its better than when my dad transferred it to me, Derek said.

Derek Haigwood is a fourth-generation row crop farmer growing soybeans, cotton, rice, sorghum and corn.

Derek and Shannon Haigwood are working to improve their farm for the possibility of son Judah one day wanting to carry on the family farming tradition.


Jeremy and Tracie Kitchens, Lafayette CountyA historic ood that destroyed half of their farm, battling

disease on the farm and one person away working as a lineman, the journey of Jeremy and Tracie Kitchens has been nothing shy of an adventure. Today, Jeremy and Tracie are both working full time on their row crop and livestock operation and are learning from their struggles. Because farming is in their blood, they take pride in what they do and couldnt imagine doing anything else.

I grew up on this place. is was my grandpas farm and his daddys before that. Its what Ive always done and what Ive always known, Jeremy said.

Jeremy grew up on a cattle, chicken and hay farm, while Tracie grew up on a row crop and swine farm in Tennessee. e two married in 2008 and agreed that Jeremy would continue his work as a lineman for Southwest Arkansas Electric until they felt their farm was protable enough for them to farm full time.

It was our goal to be where we could both stay at home and work on the farm. Weve now reached that goal and were enjoying every day of our life doing what we want to do, Jeremy said.

During that time, Jeremy and Tracie rented 30 acres and added an additional 60 in 2009. Jeremy began farming full time two years ago, and they are now working on a 440-acre operation raising soybeans, corn, silage corn, hay, cattle and swine. A majority of the crops are grown for

livestock feed while the excess goes to market. Livestock is presently their main market. ey own close to 150 cows and 50 pigs.

In 2015, disaster struck when the Red River ooded farms all across southwest Arkansas. ey lost about 100 acres of crops and a hayeld that was just days from being ready to cut.

Its just something I never thought I would see, Tracie said. I hope I never see it again, because it was a disaster. Its something you never think would happen and then overnight, there it is and it took everything youve got.

As for planning for the next generation, Jeremy and Tracie are both proud to be following in the footsteps of their parents and carrying on the tradition of farming from both families. eyre working to develop their land to benet generations to come, including installing irrigation and using more ecient equipment.

We would like to give our future children the chance to farm and love it just as much as we do, Jeremy and Tracie both said.

Not a belief unlike the next line of the FFA creed. It reads even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years. Even though theyre young, the work and struggles of these couples already is a true testament to the undying passion of the agriculture industry and their desire to nd new ways of operating that will benet the next generation of farmers and ranchers. *

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Ascoutmaster I know weekly reminds the young men under his charge of the Boy Scout motto, Be Prepared.Prepared for what? he will ask. And in unison, the scouts always respond, Prepared for anything.

So should be the rally cry of the poultry community as we head into colder weather, and the threat of avian inuenza (AI) reemerges. You may recall last spring when AI hit hard in Minnesota and Iowa. Iowa, then the nations leading egg-producing state, had to euthanize almost 48 million chickens and turkeys due to 202 conrmed AI detections. Minnesota had 101 conrmed detections resulting in the loss of nearly 9 million chickens. Arkansas escaped relatively unscathed. Only one of the states 6,089 poultry farms had a conrmed AI detection, resulting in 40,020 turkeys being destroyed.

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A combination of factors led to the deadly AI virus making it into ocks of turkeys, egg-laying chicken hens or broiler (meat producing) chickens. It seems the number 1 carriers of the virus are wild waterfowl, primarily ducks and geese. e birds are presently already well into their fall migration down the corridor waterfowl biologists refer to as the Mississippi Flyway, so named because the wild birds follow the Mississippi River from its origin in Minnesota to its outow into the Gulf of Mexico in south Louisiana. at migration corridor is a waterfowl hunters dream, and Arkansas is one of the nations most prolic duck hunting states. More wild mallards overwinter in Arkansas than any state in the U.S.

Combine the wild waterfowl with colder temperatures that allow the virus to survive for an extended period of time and you have the carrier of the virus and the conditions necessary for it to survive. Direct contact with infected waterfowl or contact with, primarily, excrement from infected waterfowl creates the transmission bridge from wild waterfowl to domestic poultry ocks.

e most eective way to stop the transmission of AI into domestic poultry ocks is strict adherence to biosecurity protocols by the companies transporting birds to and from the farms and the growers raising the birds. Eective adherence to biosecurity measures was something federal investigators found lacking when looking into last springs deadly AI outbreak.

e economic stakes are high for Arkansas if the virus gains a stronghold here. Arkansas ranks number 2 nationally in broiler production (nearly $3 billion annually); number 3 in turkey production ($416 million annually); and number 10 in egg production ($439 million annually). Poultry production accounts for one in four agriculture jobs in the state. Some 40,000 Arkansas-based workers work directly for the poultry industry.

Be Prepared. Its worked for the Boy Scouts for more than 100 years, and its important for Arkansas poultry industry to be prepared for anything relating to avian inuenza.

Minimum Biosecurity Standards for Arkansas Poultry Growers1. Growers and farm workers should wear farm-dedicated,

clean clothing and footwear.2. A designated entry and exit point for each house should

be identied, and foot pans with fresh disinfectant and hand sanitizer must be provided at each.

3. Footwear should be cleaned and free of organic material, and then disinfected prior to entering each poultry house.

4. Use hand sanitizer prior to house entry and upon exit.5. Growers and farm workers should not have contact with

other birds.

6. Bird hunting is discouraged. Company personnel should be notied of hunting activities and refer to company specic policy regarding those activities.

7. Visitors to poultry farms should be discouraged (including family and friends). Company personnel and essential contract service providers must follow visitor guidelines when a service call is needed (see attached visitor guidelines).

8. Do not allow pets, livestock, wild animals or birds to enter poultry houses.

9. Implement eective vegetation, rodent, wild bird and insect control. e area around the poultry houses should be well maintained and free of debris. Feed spills should be cleaned up immediately.

10. Keep workrooms clean. 11. When poultry are present, sharing of equipment between

farms is not recommended. Sharing of equipment between farms must be preapproved by company personnel. Eective cleaning and disinfection of equipment must take place between farms.

12. Observed biosecurity violations should be immediately corrected and reported to company personnel.

13. Growers should have a designated farm vehicle that does not leave the immediate poultry house area and is used only for work on the poultry houses, not for other farm work or recreation. If a designated vehicle is not in use, the external surfaces (tires, wheel wells, etc.) of all vehicles should be cleaned and disinfected prior to entering the farm. Vehicles should be disinfected upon exit of the farm.

14. Biosecurity/Disease Control Area/Keep Out signs will be posted at farm entrance.

15. Keep poultry house doors locked and secure during o hours.

ese standards are a baseline of biosecurity that should be in place on all poultry farms in Arkansas. Please refer to company and/or premises biosecurity plans for additional biosecurity requirements specic for the farm.

Minimum Biosecurity Standards for Visitors/Contractors/Service Techs

All poultry farms are biosecure areas, and all trac must be kept to a minimum. If any business can be conducted over the phone, please do so. If a visit MUST be made to a farm, coordinate it with the grower and/or the appropriate poultry company contact listed, and follow the steps below at all times.1. Contractors should maintain regular communication with

complex live production managers regarding current disease issues/risks specic for the complex and region.

2. All equipment, tools, etc., must be cleaned and disinfected prior to use in the poultry house.


3. All vehicle drivers must thoroughly clean and disinfect their tires, wheel wells and oor mats before entering and leaving a poultry farm. Remember, surfaces must be adequately cleaned in order for disinfectants to work. Vehicles should be parked away from fans.

4. Personnel driving or riding in a vehicle that goes on the farm must have protective boots or boot covers. Either rubber or plastic boots must be put on before getting out of the vehicle. Foot pans must be used prior to entering each poultry house. Boot covers must be worn the entire time on the farm, and be discarded or cleaned on-site before re-entering your vehicle.

5. Vehicle windows should be rolled up at all times while on the poultry farm in order to prevent ies from getting into the vehicle.

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8. When exiting the farm, disposable boots and coveralls should be put in a receptacle provided at the farm. en spray shoes with disinfectant before entering your vehicle. Hands, rubber boots and any tools used on the farm must be cleaned and disinfected.

9. Unusual circumstances or observations (excessive mortality, clinical signs, wild birds, etc.) should be reported to the complex live production manager.

10. Service techs and contractors should maintain a log of premises visited including premises name, address, time and date of visit.

11. Vendor vehicles must be kept clean at all times.

ese standards are a baseline of biosecurity that should be in place on all poultry farms in Arkansas. Please refer to company and/or premises biosecurity plans for additional biosecurity requirements specic for the farm. *

During last springs multi-state AI outbreak, Arkansas had only one confirmed case requiring the elimination of some 40,000 turkeys. However, a major outbreak here could be devastating to a major sector of Arkansas ag economy.

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