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SUMMER 2015

Edition 38

FEATURES

The Bee Man

Keith Sutton | Page 6

New grain marketing opportunities Ethan Branscum | Page 12

COLUMNS

Farm Bureau Perspective

Randy Veach | Page 3

Faces of Agriculture – Julie Hathcote Ken Moore | Page 18

Policy Update

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ON THE COVER

James Rhein of Mountain Home appears lost in thought as he works with his honeybees, a pastime that has earned him the nickname “The Bee Man.” Photo by Keith Sutton

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Farm Bureau Perspective

by Randy Veach | President, Arkansas Farm Bureau

WTO says COOL not so hot

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ountry of origin labeling (COOL), which requires many meat products sold in the United States to list information on where animals were born, raised and slaughtered, has our trading partners from Mexico and Canada hot under the collar.

Whenever considering an issue of significances throughout agriculture, I find it helps to turn to Farm Bureau policy. In this case, we have policy supporting COOL labeling that complies with World Trade Organization (WTO) standards. As is most often the case, we can count on Farm Bureau policy to cut straight to the heart of the matter.

Based on appellate action taken on complaints filed

by Mexico and Canada, the WTO ruled that the process of separating herds by origin was too cumbersome to permit free trade.

The WTO ruling has paved the way for Mexico and Canada to impose harsh trade tariffs – as much as $3.6 billion – on U.S. products unless we eliminate the current COOL program by mid-November.

To address that issue, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed HR 2393, which repeals the COOL requirements for beef, pork and chicken. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure before its August recess. Each of our four members of the House of Representatives voted for HR 2393. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton have expressed support for repeal of the COOL requirements.

You may recall Farm Bureau was supportive of voluntary COOL when it was first proposed in the 2002 farm bill. We believed at the time such information could benefit consumers and differentiate U.S. products from those imported from other countries.

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The most recent WTO decision has forced us to reconsider that position. The American Farm Bureau board of directors held a special meeting to consider our stance on this issue, and the state presidents were strongly supportive of efforts to repeal COOL requirements.

Farm Bureau believes our hands are tied by the WTO ruling. If we are going to continue to engage in free trade with our neighbors to the north and south, we must change our law to be compliant with the WTO ruling.

I have written before about the WTO, having visited with the organization’s Director General, Roberto Azevedo, and other trade leaders last year at WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. I questioned then the WTO’s effectiveness in regulating international trade.

While recent decisions involving our farm policy seem to routinely side against the U.S., my concerns don’t stem from my displeasure with those rulings. However, I don’t believe the WTO has been effective in its charter to stimulate fair and equitable trade around the globe.

Many countries are increasingly frustrated with the WTO because of its inability to come up with trade agreements that would ensure its future relevance. I share that frustration but believe world trade could tumble into chaos without the WTO in place.

With the shaky situation surrounding the WTO, it is imperative that the United States forge ahead with bilateral and multilateral trade agreements to help ensure valuable trading markets are available for the American farmer and rancher.

God bless you and your families. God bless our farmers and ranchers. God bless Arkansas Farm Bureau. 

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Bee Man The

And his not-so-secret life Words & photos Keith Sutton

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hould you have the opportunity to meet James Rhein of Mountain Home, two things are certain: you’ll laugh, and you’ll learn lots of interesting things about honeybees.

This jovial 72-year-old is constantly joking with the people around him. But when James is not keeping you in stitches with his one-liners, he’ll amaze you with a constant stream of fascinating facts about America’s favorite pollinators.

“The average bee hive contains 50,000 to 60,000 worker bees, 200 to 500 drone bees and one queen,” he tells Lindsey Triplett and me when we visit Baxter County to see his hives. “The average life span of a worker bee is only six weeks, but a queen in the wild might live five to six years. During warm months, the queen lays 1,000 to 2,000 eggs each day.”

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He drones on about bees (pun intended) throughout our visit, sharing a deep-seated interest in these important insects that developed almost 40 years ago.

“It started with a friend who kept honeybees,” he said. “He kept telling me I should get bees, too, and when I did, I got really interested in them. Unfortunately, back then, there were few local beekeepers, no beekeeping clubs and no beekeeping classes, so I had to teach myself about bees by reading books and through trial and error.”

Perhaps it’s this experience — having to learn beekeeping on his own — that led Rhein on a path to teaching others. He keeps no secrets when it comes to bees. Every day he answers several cellphone calls from people needing assistance. He teaches five beekeeping classes annually, a service for which he never charges. And he does all this while keeping 40 to 50 bee hives himself and being active in his church, the local Farm Bureau and other organizations. He served seven years as president of the Arkansas Beekeepers Association, 11 years as president of Baxter County Farm Bureau and 10 years as a state board member for Arkansas Farm Bureau.

“People call me from all over the state for advice,” he said.

“They don’t always understand what’s going on with their bees, and they need a source to go to. I think the best information is from a beekeeper, not on the Internet. So I help them all as best I can.”

Triplett, a summer intern at Arkansas Farm Bureau, joined me to see James and his wife Linda extract honey produced by their bees. It was a wonderful learning experience for us as the pair explained each step, from using a heated knife to remove wax caps from honey cells to spinning frames in an extractor to remove the rich raw honey that becomes Rhein’s Golden Treasure. One hive produced about 3 gallons of delicious honey.

“We don’t sell our honey from a roadside stand or farmers market,” James said. “We sell mostly to people who have bought honey from us for years. We have no trouble selling all we can produce — hundreds of quarts each year.”

James maintains his hives in Mountain Home, but in summer, many are moved to crop fields in Delta counties where the bees help pollinate everything from pumpkins to cotton and soybeans.

“Everyone knows bees are important, because they give us honey,” James said. “But many don’t realize bees’ primary importance is pollination. Without pollination, we wouldn’t have a third of the food we have today. Many plants can’t reproduce without pollination, and while there are other pollinators out there, too, honeybees are the best. If we were to lose our honeybees, we’d lose much of our food and fiber, everything from soybeans and cotton to fruits and vegetables like blackberries, blueberries, squash and tomatoes. We’d even have to do without pickles, because bees pollinate the cucumbers we use to make them.”

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They don’t call him The Bee Man for nothing. James Rhein became a beekeeper almost 40 years ago and now spends hundreds of hours each year teaching others how to enjoy the pastime, too.

Vanna Eddington and I accompanied James last summer as he worked with hives in a pumpkin field near England.

Eddington, a beginning beekeeper from Benton, wanted to benefit from James’ extensive knowledge, which she did. I wanted to shoot photos of the bees, the hives and The Bee Man himself. I was leery of being stung, however, particularly when I could see tens of thousands of honeybees zooming around.

“You have nothing to worry about,” James said. “As long as you stand behind the hives so you don’t block the entrance, they won’t bother you. They’re really very docile.”

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Linda Rhein uses a special heated tool to remove wax caps sealing honey cells in a comb. The bees raised by Linda and her husband James produce hundreds of quarts of Rhein’s Golden Treasure honey each year.

To my relief, he was right. I didn’t get a single sting, even though we didn’t wear protective clothing. But James got stung — intentionally — when Triplett and I visited him.

“Want to see a bee sting me?” James asked. Although taken aback by such an unusual request, we said yes. James then held a bee and agitated it until it stung his hand. We could see the stinger pumping venom into his flesh, but there was no redness, swelling or pain.

“I’ve been stung so often I’m immune to bee venom,” he said. “In fact, I let the bees sting my hands to ward off arthritis. I used to have it real bad. Now it’s gone.”

Linda noted that bee venom also helped cure her plantar fasciitis, a painful foot problem. “It hurts letting bees sting my feet,” she noted, “but it’s not nearly as painful as the cortisone shots I took before. My feet are much better now.”

“And you can’t believe how much fun it is stinging your wife’s feet with bees,” James said, chortling. Linda rolled her eyes.

James’ phone rang again, and he stepped aside to help a stranger who called for assistance with a honeybee problem.

When he finished, I asked why he does it — why he takes all

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those phone calls, teaches all those classes, to help people he hardly knows.

“With problems like colony collapse disorder and habitat loss, we need more bees,” he said. “Ironically, there’s this big interest in bees now, because they’re disappearing. More and more people want to have bees, even though they may never rob the hives of honey, because they want to help. And I want to help them be successful.”

He notes, however, his reasons for devoting so much time to fellow bee lovers goes much deeper than that. He relates the story of a shop owner who spent two days machining a special part for James’ tractor. When James went to pick it up, the man refused payment. “You don’t owe me a penny,” he said.

“But why not?” James asked. “You spent two days of your time making that part.”

“You probably don’t remember,” the man said, “but years ago I was a beginning student in one of your beekeeping classes. You spoke very passionately about bees, telling us what a relaxing hobby beekeeping could be. So, I decided to give it a try, and I, too, became a beekeeper. The relaxation and enjoyment beekeeping has given me has no doubt added

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many years to my life. Sending you home with that part is my way of showing you how grateful I am.”

James gets a little choked up as he tells this story and says, “That’s why I do this for people — because beekeeping is like that. When I work with my bees, I don’t hear anything around me. I’m just there in my own world. It’s relaxing and peaceful. You get engrossed with it. You get involved. I go to my bee hives and before I know it, hours have passed. It’s my relaxation. It’s helped me in important ways.

“If I can help a few other people experience that same joy and relaxation, then all the hours I spend on the phone, teaching classes and showing people my hives will have been worthwhile.” 

(left) Vanna Eddington of Benton looks on as James Rhein searches for a queen bee among the thousands of honeybees in a hive. Teaching others about honeybees brings great joy to the 72-year-old Rhein, who often leads classes on beekeeping in Mountain Home and Jasper. (below) James Rhein strains raw honey to remove tiny bits of wax and other debris. The finished honey is then ready to be placed in jars for sale.

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Arkansas’ new grain marketing world

by Ethan Branscum

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very spring, farmers plant seeds hoping for a bountiful harvest. Farmers take proper measures protecting crops from harmful insects, diseases and drought. Summer flies by and, God willing, a crop is harvested. But what do farmers do now with the harvest? One critical part of the supply chain remains — selling the crop. Every business wants to maximize profits. In agriculture, farmers’ profits are made through timely and often difficult decisions on how and when to market their crops.

This year brings a new grain marketing environment for Arkansans. New state laws and regulations will change how crops can be marketed. New and unique companies have also entered the marketplace aiming to change the way grain is sold. These dynamic changes in Arkansas agriculture make it vital to introduce Arkansas’ new grain market to Farm Bureau’s membership.

New rules to an old game

For many farmers checking the rearview mirror in tractor cabs this season, the infamous Turner Grain bankruptcy is likely looming behind them. Devastating many farmers across the state, this incident is enveloped in rumors of tens of millions of farmers’ dollars lost. Although uncertain of the exact practices leading to this devastation last summer, Farm Bureau and other agricultural groups responded this legislative session by helping to draft the Arkansas Grain Dealers Act sponsored by Sens. Ron Caldwell and Bruce Maloch and Reps.

Michael John Gray, Dan Douglas and David Hillman.

Dealers in Arkansas now must register with the State Plant Board to obtain a license to sell grain. They must also meet bonding requirements and pay registration fees — both based on annual grain volume sold. Annual audits conducted by the State Plant Board will ensure that grain dealers are operating in a fiscally responsible manner to protect farmers. One other new program is the “slow-pay hotline,” which allows farmers to report businesses not paying farmers in a timely manner. Jeff Pitchford, director of Public Policy, State Affairs for Arkansas Farm Bureau, worked with legislators and agriculture groups to ensure a useful bill was passed.

“While not a perfect law, it’s a good start toward providing common sense regulation to this marketplace. This works to

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minimize the risk of another Turner Grain from happening and provide protection for the farmer,” Pitchford said.

According to him, more work on this law may be necessary in the future, but he’s pleased with the outcome.

As one company falls, others rise. Demand by farmers for marketing options brings new companies to supply that demand — many offering innovative ideas for how farmers sell crops in the future. Included here are examples of new marketing opportunities Arkansas farmers can now consider.

Southern Growers Marketing

“At the end of the day, it’s about getting farmers higher prices for their crop,” said Jeff Rutledge, president of Southern Growers Marketing. Rutledge understands every farmer’s goal in marketing their crop – a high price.

Southern Growers began by Arkansas famers seeing a need for more marketing opportunities for corn, sorghum and soybeans. The company takes the traditional model of a marketing cooperative, which has proven successful in the state with Riceland setting the standard of success for Arkansas cooperatives, but offers a unique twist to the co-op.

Southern Growers is a “virtual” elevator, using farmers’ existing on-farm storage to store and move member’s grain. According to Rutledge, Arkansas farmers have an abundance of on-farm grain storage that can be used.

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“We’re at a point in Arkansas agriculture where there is a large amount of on-farm infrastructure which hasn’t been used in a cooperative model,” Rutledge said, “Our goal is to take advantage of the on-farm storage that our membership has already invested in so costs stay low, and we give them a higher price in the end.”

Farmers marketing with Southern Growers pay a onetime fee of $2,500 allowing them the right to sell unlimited quantities of grain through the cooperative. The cooperative has partnered with INTL FCStone, a diversified Fortune 500 compnay (ranked #66 in 2014), to handle the grain marketing and logistic functions of the cooperative. Rutledge says Southern Growers wanted to make sure the company financially backing the cooperative was secure and stable.

Grainster

Based in Conway, Grainster, LLC hopes to change the way farmers have traditionally marketed their grain to end-users.

According to CEO Layne Fortenberry, Grainster wants to open up farmers’ marketing options to the world through an online grain marketplace called Grainster.com.

“Instead of selling to the three to five buyers in the three to five surrounding counties, we’re hoping to open farmers’ horizons up to international buyers,” Fortenberry said. This will hopefully keep prices high for the farmers and provide transparency in the marketplace.”

Grainster aims to connect buyers from around the world to local farmers with crops to sell. Buyers and sellers pay a $500 annual membership to use Grainster’s services.

Farmers enter an online bid stating where the grain is coming from, how many bushels they want to sell, and the price they want to receive. End-users can list bids for how much grain they want to buy and what price they want to pay for it. The website allows the farmer and the end-user to negotiate terms of the price and make a transaction.

Presently, payments to farmers for grain sold on Grainster are paid directly from the international or domestic buyer. Grainster doesn’t offer financial backing or logistic solutions although Fortenberry says they’re working to provide a “… financial engine similar to PayPal…” that collects money from buyers and distributes money to farmers. His goal is to have this service running by 2016. But for now, farmers should do their research on people they sell to on Grainster. “Do your due diligence, and make sure you trust that person and have a contract with them,” he said.

Integrity Grain

One new grain buying company isn’t looking to reinvent the wheel in the grain marketplace, but instead, provide farmers with a comfortable and reliable marketing option.

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Based out of Moro, Integrity Grain operates a business model that facilitates every aspect of grain marketing for the farmer from the field to the market.

“Whether it involves working directly with FSA offices to get government loan releases for rice or coordination of the grading and sampling of crops, we handle every detail for farmers, so they can focus on farming,” said Mark Waldrip, principal with Integrity Grain. “Farmers need a sense of security when marketing their grain, and we are proud to offer them that.”

Farmers work directly with one of the company’s grain merchandisers for daily price quotes for crops. Once farmers get the price they desire, Integrity Grain coordinates all necessary logistics getting the crop to the next marketplace.

Transportation of grain to end-users, grain sampling and grading and coordination with farmers’ financial institutions are services that Integrity Grain brings to farmers.

“We believe the biggest asset that Integrity Grain has to offer the grower is the financial stability of their transaction.

We will do whatever is needed to guarantee payments to farmers for their grain,” Waldrip explained. “Through competitive pricing and our commitment to ensure timely and secure payments to our clients, we’re excited to offer growers a risk-free option to market their crops.”

AgMobile by AgriCharts

Farmers are increasingly using mobile apps which make the farming industry more efficient and profitable.

AgriCharts, a division of Barchart.com, believes its “AgMobile” app will do that for farmers marketing crops to local elevators. Through AgMobile’s grain offer system, farmers can market grain to local elevators directly from mobile devices.

“The app allows for producers to use their phone to make offers to local elevators. Elevators then accept, decline or negotiate using our system,” said Tyler Bottoms, support team manager for AgriCharts. Local elevators possessing the AgriChart system can offer bids directly to the farmer. Once a price is confirmed, the elevator contacts the farmer with payment and logistic information. Bottoms says this technology is fully-integrated for all devices including tablets, smartphones and computers.

“Farmers can also use the website grains.com to market their grain from their desktop,” Bottoms said.

What is the cost for farmers for this technology? Nothing.

Farmers pay no fee to use AgMobile’s grain offer system, but elevators pay a one-time $100 fee for the AgriChart system technology. Both the farmer and the elevator must have the AgriChart system for this marketplace to work.

Based in Des Moines, Iowa, AgriChart believes its service will make grain marketing easier and more efficient for farmers and elevators. 

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ulie Hathcote, a theme specialist at Chenal Elementary School in Little Rock, is Arkansas Farm Bureau’s 2015 Ag in the Classroom Outstanding Teacher. Hathcote was recognized during a special ceremony at the school April 7. Farm Bureau established the award in 2006 to recognize teachers who have exemplary programs which integrate agricultural concepts into their curricula.

Hathcote graduated from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville in 2007 with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. She taught one year at Baker Elementary in Little Rock, then joined the faculty as a kindergarten teacher at Chenal. Named the school’s theme specialist last year, Hathcote

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teaches all of the school’s students on a weekly basis.

“My position as the theme specialist is to incorporate the school’s theme into each child’s educational experience,” Hathcote said. “Each week I teach a lesson to every teacher’s class that integrates one or more elements of science, creativity, language arts, math or engineering.” The school’s theme this year was, “A world of creative expression and environmental awareness for educational excellence.”

She explained how she hopes to blend the teaching styles of her theme specialist predecessors into a successful approach.

“Prior to becoming theme specialist, I was

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able to see how the program functioned differently under two different specialists,” Hathcote said. “One teacher had a deep passion for enhancing students’ creativity, while the other had a passion for the environmental awareness aspect and my goal bridged these passions to meet the true theme of our school.”

Hathcote wants to make each of her lessons hands-on, engaging and memorable. An example of this was her trail camera project where she installed a camera in the woods surrounding the school to capture photographs of wildlife out at night or when people weren’t around.

“Through this project, we were able to encompass many academic areas including science, environment and social studies,” Hathcote explained.

Some of the ag-related activities Hathcote taught included lessons on the food chain, ecosystems, water cycles, and plants and gardening.

She also integrated agricultural concepts into her lessons by having Matt Jackson of Arkansas Farm Bureau bring the Mobile Ag Experience trailer and life-size milk cow model to the school to teach students about Arkansas crops and animal agriculture. The school grew a raised-bed garden where children planted lettuce, radishes and a variety of flowers. She also taught them about poultry by incubating eggs, so her students could watch and learn the embryonic development of baby chicks.

“I believe my classroom is one in which all students can thrive, participate and experience learning in an innovative way,” Hathcote said. “I have aspired to become a teacher since I was in the second grade. I feel teaching is my passion. Adapting the curriculum to the teachers and students needs is why I feel this program is successful.

“At Chenal Elementary we take pride in assuring our students receive environmental and agricultural experiences to better equip them with a lifelong knowledge of and appreciation for the world around them.”

Hathcote received an expense-paid trip to Louisville, Kentucky. and represented Arkansas at the National Ag in the Classroom Conference in June. 

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This Congress and administration are set to consider multiple trade deals and other trade-related legislation. Before any of these items can proceed in a meaningful way,

Congress must authorize the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). TPA allows Congress to have a “yes” or “no” vote on trade agreements, includes negotiating objectives for the administration and provides for consultation between Congress and the administration during negotiations. This is viewed by other governments as a signal of serious Congressional interest in moving ahead with trade negotiations. TPA establishes the political support for and understanding of trade goals necessary for the administration

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Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations are the major trade issue in the Asia-Pacific region. There are a dozen nations, including Japan, in Trans Pacific Partnership talks, and it represents the opportunity to gain new access by eliminating tariffs and by reducing non-tariff barriers with all the countries in the Trans Pacific Partnership. The Asia-Pacific region holds great promise for U.S. agriculture.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations aim to expand the world’s largest commercial relationship between the European Union and the U.S. with $1 trillion of trade in goods and services annually and $3.7 trillion in two-way direct investment.

Approval of TPA is a critical step forward for all trade endeavors and needs approval before either of these negotiations can be completed.

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Farm Bureau policy supports the renewal of TPA and continued negotiation for trade agreements. Around the world, countries are competing to gain more market share.

Without trade promotion authority, Arkansas agriculture will lose. Arkansas farmers should unite around passage of TPA. 

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