Pig Tales Issue 3 2016

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IG TALES Issue 3 2016

The Official Publication of the Kansas Pork Industry

Farm Food Tour Dietitians and bloggers learn more about food & farming.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: KNC Restaurant Crawl, Celebrating 60 Years, Industry News and more!

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contents Pig Tales • Issue 3 • 2016

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Farm Food Tour Dietitians and bloggers learn more about food & farming

<<< 6 KPA Celebrates 60 Years A look at producer events over the years

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Senate Ag Committee Staffers Staffers visit Springer Family Foods

10 KNC Restaurant Crawl Nutrition professionals, chefs & farmers connect

10 KPA Briefs Swine Club trip, virtual farm tours and more

11 ProStart Kansas Competition highlights student chefts

13 KSAND Conference KPA sponsors closing keynote speaker

in every issue 4 President’s Message 12 Industry News 14 Recipe

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stop on the Farm Food Tour on the cover: One included the Monsanto Research Center, Chesterfield, Mo.

Kansas Pork Association 2601 Farm Bureau Road Manhattan, KS 66502 Phone: 785-776-0442 Fax: 785-776-9897 www.kspork.org kpa@kspork.org

President-CEO Tim Stroda tims@kspork.org Director of Consumer Outreach Jodi Oleen jodio@kspork.org Director of Communications Kim Hanke kimh@kspork.org

2015 KPA Board of Directors Chairman: Jim Crane - Guymon Mark Crane - Chapman Kevin Deniston - Scott City Jeff Dohrman- Bushton Daniel Gerety - Seneca Jason Hall- Elkhart Scott Pfortmiller - St. John Art Sauder- Great Bend Chuck Springer- Independence Jim Nelssen - Kansas State University

Pig Tales is the official publication of the Kansas Pork Association. The publisher cannot guarantee the correctness of all information or absence of errors and omissions, nor be liable for content of advertisements. We reserve the right to edit or refuse all materials. KPA does not guarantee or endorse the performance of any products or services advertised within the publication. All Pig Tales inquiries should be director to the Kansas Pork Association, 2601 Farm Bureau Road, Manhattan, KS 66502; www.kspork.org.

President’s Message Tim Stroda, President-CEO

‘GIPSA’ Rule, TPP Could Affect Producers Two issues that have been part of agricultural debate for several years are still at work. Your state and national organizations have provided input on the GIPSA rule and the Trans-Pacific Partnership many times.

The NPPC press release below from May 26th provides a summary of the latest effort.

The significant benefits that would accrue to the U.S. pork industry from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement would be wiped out if the Obama administration implements pending rules related to the buying and selling of livestock, the National Pork Producers told the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry.

“Pork producers are very concerned about the so-called GIPSA Rule,” said NPPC past president Dr. Howard Hill, a pork producer and veterinarian from Iowa who today testified before the agriculture panel.

“The livestock industry will be fundamentally and negatively changed, and the increased exports and jobs created from TPP will be negated” if the rule is implemented.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is reproposing parts of the GIPSA Rule, which first was proposed in 2010 to implement provisions included in the 2008 Farm Bill. The regulations, however, went well beyond the Farm Bill provisions and would have had a significant negative effect on the livestock industry, according to analyses. A November 2010 Informa Economics study of the rule found it would have cost the pork industry more than $330 million annually.

Tens of thousands of comments, including 16,000 from pork producers, were filed in opposition to the rule, and Congress several times included riders in USDA’s annual funding bill to prevent it from finalizing the regulation. But no rider was included in USDA’s fiscal 2016 bill, and USDA earlier this year indicate it would move forward with new GIPSA rules.

On the TPP Agreement, Hill told the committee that NPPC strongly supports the Asia-Pacific trade deal, pointing out that its benefits will exceed all past U.S. free trade agreements and that it represents a tremendous opportunity for U.S. pork producers and for the entire U.S. economy.

The TPP, negotiations on which were initiated in late 2008 and concluded last October, is a regional trade agreement that includes the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, which combined have more than 800 million consumers and account for nearly 40 percent of global GDP. “The agreement has become the de facto global trade vehicle, and other countries in the region already are lining up to get into it,” testified Hill. “The United States cannot afford either economically or geopolitically to walk away from the fastest growing region in the world. Congress must pass the TPP, and it must do so soon.”

Hill also addressed a potential challenge to pork producers: an outbreak in the United States of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). He called on Congress to appropriate funds to set up an FMD vaccine bank to deal with an outbreak, which would close U.S. export markets.

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Farm Food Tour connects consumers to agriculture The Farm Food Tour hosted a group of dietitians and bloggers in a continued effort to help consumers understand farming and agriculture.

The three-day tour included stops at Merck Animal Health, Monsanto and a small processing facility, Central Missouri Meat and Sausage.

“This was an amazing experience to learn more about the food I eat and feed my family,” said lifestyle blogger Cynthia Wright.

“One thing that I never realized about farming is that it has always included a lot of science.”

Registered dietitian Cara Harbstreet said she returned from the tour feeling empowered, educated and excited, and she hopes to better connect her clients and patients with the food they eat every day.

“Nothing saddens me more than seeing someone struggle with food choices because they struggle with fear,” Harbstreet said. “Skepticism has its place, mistrust may even have a place, but debilitating fear in my opinion does not.”

Attendees were given surveys before and after the tour to determine how informed they were on these the topics of antibiotics, hormones and GMOs. “We saw favorable shifts in the level of knowledge of our attendees,” said Jodi Oleen, KPA Director of Consumer Outreach. “Survey analysis provided us with information showing this tour created a higher level of confidence in today’s farming methods.”

Harbstreet encourages consumers to keep an open mind, but to ask the tough questions and seek answers from knowledgeable sources.

“At the end of the day the overwhelming message from the farm tours I’ve attended is that we are all in this together and these invaluable conversations bring us closer together, rather than driving more distance between us,” Harbstreet said.

You can find out more about what they learned by following the hashtag #farmfoodtour on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

The tour was a collaboration between the Kansas Pork Association, Kansas Soybean Commission, United Soybean Board and Kansas Farm Bureau.

Top: After touring the Monsanto Research Center, the group had a question and answer session with a panel of farmers.

Middle: At Monsanto, the group learned about the company’s chipping process, which takes a small “chip” from a seed in order to analyze its DNA, while also preserving the seed’s future ability to grow.

Bottom: The group visited Central Missouri Meat and Sausage to learn how meat is processed.

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1973: H.E. Eshelman, Sedgwick, readies a pen of pigs at the Mid-Kansas Feeder Pig Association sale.

1975: Champion Hampshire gilt exhibited by John Weir at an All Breeds Show.

1976: Paul Etherton and his son selling their York barrow at a barrow sale.

1979: Mike Quillin of Tri-Pork showed the reserve champion pen of gilts at a feeder pig show. Also pictured is Pork Queen Carol Schlesener.

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1. 1980: Clarence Wilson & family, Hutchinson, at the Spring Kansas Feeder Pig Show & Sale.

2. 1982: Champ Berkshire gilt; Mavers Berkshires, Independence, shown by Dan Mavers. Also pictured is Pork Queen Michelle Mertens.

3. 1985: Grand Champion Hampshire Boar at the Kansas State Fair with Warren Lee Ploeger, Morrill.

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1. 1991: Fall All Breeds Show.

2. 1994: Over 120 producers attended the “A.I, A Tool for Profitable Pork Production” seminar in Manhattan.

3. 1998: Environmental Field Day at Prairie View Farms, owned by Melvin and Gary Stanford.

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4. 1999: Participants at the Pork Chop Open pose for a photo. The PCO debuted in 1993 and has been an annual fundraiser for the KPA ever since.

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1. 2000: Members of the press and state regulatory personnel toured Henry Creek Farms, owned by the Claassen family, to promote the On-Farm Environmental Assistance Program.

2. 2004: The Kansas Gold program was established as a pilot program. In 2006, the KPA approved the formation of Kansas GOLD Inc., as an environmental consulting firm.

3. 2007: Livestock producers from across the state attended a field day to learn how to implement their Nutrient Management Plans.

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1. 2013: At Swine Day, Steve Henry DVM, Dr. Dick Hesse DVM presented on disease challenges to the pork industry.

2. 2015: Michael Springer presented on changes that could be important to the future of the pork industry at the Swine Profitability Conference.

3. 2016: Producers and allied industry professionals participated in PQA Plus training in Manhattan.

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Senate Ag Committee staffers tour Kansas pig farm Seventeen staff members from the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture toured Springer Family Foods in May to gain a better understanding of modern pig farming practices.

Michael Springer, part owner and operator, gave the group a history of his family’s farrowto-finish farm, located in rural Sycamore. Started in the late 1940’s by his grandparents, Lee and Dorothy, the farm has grown to also raise wheat, corn and soybeans.

Staffers toured the farrowing, nursery and finishing barns, and were able to ask questions on industry practices such as antibiotic use, gestation stalls and environmental regulations.

Above: Staff members from the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture pose with the “Ham Tram,” which is used to move weaned piglets to the nursery.

Left: Staff members were able to hold and take photos with the piglets. Pictured is Will Stafford, Senator Roberts’ agriculture legislative assistant.

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Restaurant crawl highlights farming The Kansas Pork Association sponsored a restaurant crawl that brought together nutrition professionals, chefs and farmers to talk about food and farming. The event preceded the Kansas Nutrition Council’s annual meeting, which gathers up to 150 Kansas professionals actively involved in nutrition education and health promotion. Their work takes place in colleges and universities, government agencies, cooperative extension, communications and public relations firms, the food industry, voluntary and service organizations and with other reliable places of nutrition and health education information.

“The attendees at this event were such an important group of people for us to reach,” said Jodi Oleen, Director At 4 Olives, guests enjoyed a savory Duroc pork belly over grits of Consumer Outreach. “These are professionals who are and heard from pork producers Amy and Craig Good. d educating people about food and it’s so important that they understand how food is grown and raised.”

About 65 participants visited three restaurants to sample a pairing of spirits and cuisine representing the Kansas farmers and ranchers who help produce it. Each group was escorted by Kansas farmers, including Michael and Christy Springer, who raise pork and row crops near Sycamore; Bob and Mary Mertz, who raise beef and row crops near Zeandale; and Jeff Grossenbacher, who raises row crops near Bern.

At 4 Olives, guests enjoyed red wine with a savory Duroc pork belly over grits and heard from farmers Craig and Amy Good, who raised the meat near Olsburg. Chef Benjamin Scott discussed his restaurant’s relationship with the Goods and the inspiration behind the dish.

At Harry’s Restaurant, guests sampled wine and a prime strip loin with baguettes. They heard from executive chef Cadell Bynum, managing partner Evan Grier and farmers Glenn and Jennifer Brunkow, who raise crops and livestock near Westmoreland.

At 4 Olives, guests enjoyed a savory Duroc pork belly over grits.

Tallgrass Taphouse featured pretzel breadsticks with a cheesy beer dipping sauce with a sample of a fruit-infused wheat beer. Brewmaster Brandon Gunn discussed the brewery’s history and rapid rise to success and wheat farmer Ken Wood shared how he raises wheat near Chapman.

The groups reunited at the Tallgrass Taphouse Firkin Room for door prizes, beer flights and conversation to conclude the evening.

Funding Partners included the Kansas Pork Association, Kansas Farm Bureau and Kansas Wheat. Planning Partners included Midwest Dairy, Kansas Beef Council, Kansas Soybean Commission and CommonGround Kansas.

KPA Briefs • In February, KPA helped sponsor a KSU Swine Club trip to the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Annual Conference in New Orleans.

• To celebrate National Ag Month in March, KPA teamed up with The Kansas Department of Agriculture and Kansas Foundation for Ag in the Classroom (KFAC) to produce Kansas’ first virtual tour of a pig farm. Over 200 fourth- and fifth-grade students from five Kansas schools were a part of the tour, which visited Roy Henry’s farm near Longford.

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virtual field trips to pig farms, which will start this fall. KPA staff will present the program to teachers at this summer’s KFAC conference.

• KPA staff attended the Center for Food Integrity’s National Leaders Conference on behalf of Kansas Soybean, and presented regarding KPA’s consumer outreach programs.

• KPA staff is working to utilize Facebook live to provide cooking tips and recipes to consumers.

KPA’s first live videos in May had a combined reach of over 30,000 without promotion.

ProStart highlights student chefs in Kansas The 14th annual Kansas ProStart Invitational was held March 1-2 in Wichita and hosted 16 high schools from across the state. The KPA supported the event as both an event sponsor and a management judge.

The ProStart Invitational is a premier high school competition focused on restaurant management and culinary arts. It offers students an opportunity to showcase industry skills they learn in the classroom, network with industry leaders and learn the skills necessary for a longterm career.

The first place teams in the culinary and management competitions earn the right to represent Kansas at the National ProStart Invitational in Dallas, Texas, from April 29 through May 1. The Kansas ProStart Invitational is a highlight of the Restaurant Management Program curriculum sponsored by the Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association Educational Foundation.

Winners of the 2016 Kansas ProStart Invitational: Culinary Competition: First Place: Olathe Public Schools - Team Amalgamation Second Place: Maize High School Third Place: Olathe Public Schools - Team Phoenix Fourth Place: Garden City High School Management Competition: First Place: Olathe Public Schools Second Place: Garden City High School Third Place: Wichita Heights High School Fourth Place: Eudora High School Edible Centerpiece First Place: Olathe Public Schools - Oscar Second Place: Wichita Southeast High School - Shad Third Place: Olathe Public Schools - Tristen Fourth Place: Wichita Southeast High School - Kendra Additional Awards Best Beef Dish: Maize High School Best Pork Dish: Wichita North High School Best Rookie Team: Eisenhower High School

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industry news FDA ending use of swine drug due to cancer concern

USDA approves annual payment for pork trademark

The Food and Drug Administration is moving to withdraw approval for the swine drug carbodox, citing the potential cancer risk to consumers.

The drug, manufactured by Phibro, is used to treat bacterial illness. The company “has failed to provide sufficient scientific data to demonstrate the safety of this drug given evidence that carbadox may result in carcinogenic residues,” said Michael Taylor, FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.

Phibro, which markets the drug as Mecadox, said it is confident in the safety of the product.

“Mecadox is not used in human medicine and the class of drug is not considered a medically important antimicrobial,” the company said. “The approved Mecadox label requires a 42-day withdrawal period pre-harvesting, and to date we have not seen any hazardous residues of carbadox being detected from pig meat treated in accordance with the approved label.”

The company said it is using new technologies to test for residues in tissue longer than previously possible, and it expects the results of those studies to be available within 90 days. “We expect that the remaining evidence will support the continued safe use of Mecadox,” the company said.

Carbadox was originally approved in the early 1970s for treatment of swine dysentery and bacterial swine enteritis, but the FDA said it has also been used for weight gain and feed efficiency.

According to a 2012 report from the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, more than 40 percent of nurseries used carbadox in feed for 23 days, on average.

Under the approval withdrawal process, FDA must file a Notice of Opportunity Hearing. The company then has 30 days to request a hearing over the drug’s withdrawal. Phibro has announced intentions to pursue a hearing and says it will continue to market and sell Mecadox for the time being.

FDA said the cancer risk was based on an “assumed lifetime of consuming pork liver or other pork products containing carbadox residues.” Pork liver is used to make liverwurst, hot dogs, lunchmeat and some types of sausage.

Based on its review of the value of the four trademarks that were the subject of the 2006 asset purchase agreement between the National Pork Board (NPB) and the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is approving continuing annual payments by NPB to NPPC under the terms of the 2006 agreement.

AMS’s review arose out of a 2012 lawsuit filed by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) challenging USDA’s approval of the agreement and annual payments.

In December, 2015, HSUS and USDA entered into a stipulation agreement whereby HSUS dismissed the parts of its complaint seeking that USDA recover the funds already paid to NPPC under the agreement. USDA agreed to review the agreement and payments consistent with its own independent judgment and authority.

As part of its review, AMS directed NPB to contract for an independent expert to provide a current valuation of the trademarks. Stout Risius Ross conducted the valuation and accepted input from both HSUS and NPPC, ultimately finding that the value of the trademarks far exceeded the purchase price for the trademarks and the remaining principal balance under the agreement. Therefore, AMS is approving the continuing payments under the agreement.

Separately, USDA’s General Counsel sent a letter to NPB’s chief operating officer regarding the NPB Delegate Body’s advisement to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, which it says violates pork checkoff laws.

During the March 3-5 National Pork Industry Forum, 145 pork checkoff delegates representing 43 states and importers unanimously joined the North Carolina Pork Council in support of an advisement to Vilsack asking USDA to defend its original decision supporting the trademark transaction.

In the letter, USDA’s General Counsel informed NPB’s COO that the advisement and the letter forwarding it were in violation of the Pork Promotion, Research & Consumer Information Order and AMS guidelines forbidding AMS research and promotion boards from using mandatory assessment funds to engage in lobbying for governmental action and was in direct contradiction to counsel provided

by AMS during the Delegate Body meeting.

As such, the General Counsel directed that the board, within 30 days, must account for and reimburse all pork checkoff funds related to the Delegate Body action and suggested that the COO, board officers and any other critical staff attend remedial training on the proper use of pork checkoff funds.

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KPA sponsors KSAND conference speaker The Kansas Pork Association sponsored the closing keynote speaker, Leah McGrath, RD, LDN, at the Kansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Conference last month.

McGrath’s address was entitled “Nutrition Doesn’t Have to Be Boring: How to Frame the Message to Engage the Public.”

McGrath has been a registered dietitian with the Academy of Nutrition of Dietetics since 1996. In the past few years she has become well known for her work in social media and is currently the most followed supermarket dietitian (@InglesDietitian) in the U.S on Twitter. She coordinates both the Facebook and Twitter accounts for Ingles Markets and has developed innovative strategies to connect brands and products to consumers and inform customers about health and Photo courtesy of Leah McGrathFacebook nutrition.

“We were excited to sponsor this session because we have seen the power of social media,” said Jodi Oleen, KPA Director of Consumer Outreach. “In today’s online food conversations, it’s easy for the voices of nutrition professionals to get drown out by the misinformation that’s out there. We think Leah did a great job of helping these dietitians create a plan to make their voices more prominent on social media.”

Kansas Farm Food Connection (KFFC), of which KPA is a member, sponsored a pre-conference event which included a screening of the documentary “Farmland,” followed by a panel discussion with farmers, ranchers and scientists.

KPA also had a booth at the conference with nutritional information about pork, as well as a sign up sheet for dietitians interested in attending the Farm Food Tour or Real Pig Farming Tour.

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Bacon BBQ New York Pork Chops Ingredients

• 4 boneless ribeye pork chops (3/4”-1” thick) • 1/4 c soy sauce • 1/4 c cilantro, chopped or 1 T dried cilantro • 3 cloves garlic, crushed (about 3 T)

• 3 T brown sugar • 1 T vegetable oil • 1 lime, juiced

Preparation • Whisk together the soy sauce, cilantro, garlic, brown sugar, vegetable oil and lime juice in a bowl.

• In a large baking dish, arrange the ribeye pork chops in an even layer. Pour the marinade over the pork chops, reserving about 1/4 cup of the marinade in the refrigerator for later use.

• Marinate the pork chops for 20 to 30 minutes.

• Heat an indoor grill pan or outdoor grill to medium-high heat. Remove pork chops from the marinade, discarding the excess marinade. Place pork chops on the hot grill for 4 minutes on each side, flipping once until the internal temperature of the pork measures between 145 degrees F. (medium rare) and 160 degrees F. (medium) on a meat thermometer.

• Transfer the grilled pork chops to a cutting board and let rest for 3 minutes before slicing against the grain.

• Pour the reserved marinade over the sliced pork before serving.

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