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Stacy Harris, author of Happy Healthy Family, makes this great vegetable soup with venison for her hungry family, who loves it.

Harris says: “When I eat this soup I am taken back in time to my sweet granny’s quaint kitchen. I have such fond memories of sitting at her table with the plastic tablecloth and the ancient refrigerator within arms reach from the table.

“She would bring me a grilled cheese sandwich with this perfect vegetable soup and potato salad on the side. It is hard to think of a warmer memory than this. I have used her recipe, but with my twist, adding venison and pesto! How could it get any better than this?”

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1 lb. venison, stew meat
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 onions, minced
1 celery stalk, finely sliced
2 carrots, finely diced
1½ cups butter beans
1½ cups corn
2 small potatoes
2 small zucchini, finely diced
6 tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and finely diced
1 cup shelled or frozen peas
2 quarts water, or just above vegetables
A handful of spinach leaves, cut into thin ribbons
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Sprigs of fresh basil, to garnish
1 lemon

Pesto Ingredients
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup (packed) basil leaves
8 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
8 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 tablespoons pine nuts

Hint:  If you need dinner in a hurry and have a pressure cooker, cover the stew meat about 1½ inch with beef stock, onions, and ½ tablespoon of salt. Once the pressure cooker reaches a boil, turn it down to simmer and cook for about 15 minutes. Release the pressure and add to the soup.

1. Place garlic, basil, Parmesan cheese, and pine nuts in a food processor and process until smooth, scraping down the sides once. With the machine running, slowly add the olive oil through the feed tube.
2. In a stew pot, brown venison stew meat. Remove from pot.
3. Heat oil in a large saucepan. Add the onions and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until they are beginning to soften.
4. Add butter beans, corn, potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, peas, and meat to the pot with 2 quarts of water. Bring to a boil then lower to a sim- mer for one hour or until the vegetables and meat are tender.
5. Add the spinach leaves and cook 5 more minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add lemon juice of 1 lemon. Serve with pesto and Rustic Bread. Garnish with  a sprig of basil.

Serves 8

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Sixteen Arkansas Game and Fish Commission-owned wildlife management areas recently were designated as the Sweet Sixteen, a name for a new program designed to help provide more diverse deer hunting on the WMAs.

The 16 WMAs are located throughout the state and were selected based on their location and deer management potential.

AGFC deer biologist Cory Gray says a free permit will be required on the 16 WMAs.

“In order to capture hunter-use information on the WMAs, a free Sweet Sixteen Area Use Permit is required prior to any hunting activities,” Gray said. “These permits will be available by Sept. 15 and can be found only on our (AGFC) website. Hunters will visit our website, enter their contact information, select the WMAs they plan to hunt, and then print their free use permit.”

Gray said deer management will focus on male and female segments of the deer herd, and target deer populations will correspond with the available habitat present.

“Females will be managed to ensure a productive, balanced deer herd,” he said. “The number of fawns recruited into the population annually is a crucial component in deer management.”

Gray said in buck management, several different ways can be used to reach a desired outcome: limit hunter-days, limit harvest methods, reduce bag limits or apply antler restrictions.

“The first three are the easiest, and certainly the most simple; however, antler restrictions have proven to be the most effective at shifting buck harvest pressure into target age classes,” he said. “Using these methods, biologists are able to develop antler restriction criteria that will focus harvest on age specific bucks. This type of management will be incorporated into the Sweet Sixteen where peak buck harvest will consist of 3½-year-olds and older.”

Each of the Sweet Sixteen will have a management plan outlining deer management activities. This plan will be incorporated into the area’s master plan that details all management on the property. Plans will outline harvest objectives, management strategies, and monitoring.

Data will be gathered to ensure initiated management strategies are successfully working, Gray said.

“Biologists will collect a wide range of data from each of the Sweet Sixteen including: harvest totals, biological indices from harvest deer, thermal imagery surveys to provide deer density estimates, browse surveys to determine plant species diversity, abundance, and deer utilization, and summer disease monitoring to ensure parasite loads are within acceptable levels,” he said. “All data collected will be analyzed to monitor management practices. Management strategies can be modified depending on data analysis results.”

Harvest data and biological indices will be collected annually, but the other forms of monitoring (thermal imagery, browse surveys, and summer disease monitoring) will be collected on a three-year rotation. This schedule will result in a full comprehensive data collection from each WMA every third year.

The following is a listing of Sweet Sixteen WMAs and their monitoring rotation.

Year One

Ed Gordon Point Remove WMA

Hope Upland WMA

Mike Freeze Wattensaw WMA

Moro Big Pine Natural Area WMA

Bayou Meto WMA

Year Two

Freddie Black Choctaw Island Deer Research WMA

Harold E. Alexander Spring River WMA

Shirey Bay Rainey Brake WMA

Dr. Lester Sitzes, III Bois D’Arc WMA

Sheffield Nelson Dagmar WMA

Year Three

Rick Evans Grandview Prairie WMA

Scott Henderson Gulf Mountain WMA

Trusten Holder WMA

Henry Gray Hurricane Lake WMA

Dave Donaldson Black River WMA

McIlroy Madison County WMA

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced new flexibility and assistance in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s major conservation programs to get much-needed help to livestock producers and landowners as the most widespread drought in seven decades intensifies in the United States.

Vilsack also announced plans to encourage crop insurance companies to provide a short grace period for farmers on unpaid insurance premiums, as some farming families can be expected to struggle to make ends meet at the close of the crop year.

“President Obama and I are committed to getting help to producers as soon as possible and sustaining the success of America’s rural communities through these difficult times,” said Vilsack. “Beginning today, USDA will open opportunities for haying and grazing on lands enrolled in conservation programs while providing additional financial and technical assistance to help landowners through this drought. And we will deliver greater peace of mind to farmers dealing with this worsening drought by encouraging crop insurance companies to work with farmers through this challenging period.”

The assistance announced uses the Secretary of Agriculture’s existing authority to help create and encourage flexibility within four USDA programs: the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), and the Federal Crop Insurance Program.

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
To assist farmers and ranchers affected by drought, Vilsack is using his discretionary authority to allow additional acres under CRP to be used for haying or grazing under emergency conditions. CRP is a voluntary program that provides producers annual rental payments on their land in exchange for planting resource conserving crops on cropland to help prevent erosion, provide wildlife habitat and improve the environment.

CRP acres can already be used for emergency haying and grazing during natural disasters to provide much needed feed to livestock. Given the widespread nature of this drought, forage for livestock is already substantially reduced. The action will allow lands that are not yet classified as “under severe drought” but that are “abnormally dry” to be used for haying and grazing. This will increase available forage for livestock.

Haying and grazing will only be allowed following the local primary nesting season, which has already passed in most areas. Especially sensitive lands such as wetlands, stream buffers and rare habitats will not be eligible.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
To assist farmers and ranchers affected by drought, Vilsack is using his discretionary authority to provide assistance to farmers and ranchers by allowing them to modify current EQIP contracts to allow for prescribed grazing, livestock watering facilities, water conservation and other conservation activities to address drought conditions.

EQIP is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers on their land to address natural resource concerns on agricultural and forest land. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will work closely with producers to modify existing EQIP contracts to ensure successful implementation of planned conservation practices.

Where conservation activities have failed because of drought, NRCS will look for opportunities to work with farmers and ranchers to re-apply those activities. In the short term, funding will be targeted towards hardest hit drought areas.

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
To assist farmers and ranchers affected by drought, Vilsack is using his discretionary authority to authorize haying and grazing of WRP easement areas in drought-affected areas where such haying and grazing is consistent with conservation of wildlife habitat and wetlands.

WRP is a voluntary conservation easement program that provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers to restore and protect valuable wetland resources on their property. For producers with land currently enrolled in WRP, NRCS has expedited its Compatible Use Authorization (CUA) process to allow for haying and grazing.

The compatible use authorization process offers NRCS and affected producers with the management flexibility to address short-term resource conditions in a manner that promotes both the health of the land and the viability of the overall farming operation.

Federal Crop Insurance Program
To help producers who may have cash flow problems due to natural disasters, USDA will encourage crop insurance companies to voluntarily forego charging interest on unpaid crop insurance premiums for an extra 30 days, to Nov. 1, 2012, for spring crops.

Policy holders who are unable to pay their premiums in a timely manner accrue an interest penalty of 1.25 percent per month until payment is made. In an attempt to help producers through this difficult time, Vilsack sent a letter to crop insurance companies asking them to voluntarily defer the accrual of any interest on unpaid spring crop premiums by producers until November. In turn, to assist the crop insurance companies, USDA will not require crop insurance companies to pay uncollected producer premiums until one month later.

Thus far in 2012, USDA has designated 1,297 counties across 29 states as disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators in the areas eligible for low-interest emergency loans. Increasingly hot and dry conditions from California to Delaware have damaged or slowed the maturation of crops such as corn and soybeans, as well as pasture- and range-land.

Vilsack has instructed USDA subcabinet leaders to travel to affected areas to augment ongoing assistance from state-level USDA staff and provide guidance on the department’s existing disaster resources. To deliver assistance to those who need it most, the Secretary recently reduced the interest rate for emergency loans from 3.75 percent to 2.25 percent, while lowering the reduction in the annual rental payment to producers on CRP acres used for emergency haying or grazing from 25 percent to 10 percent. Vilsack has also simplified the Secretarial disaster designation process and reduced the time it takes to designate counties affected by disasters by 40 percent.

USDA agencies have been working for weeks with state and local officials, as well as individuals, businesses, farmers and ranchers, as they begin the process of helping to get people back on their feet. USDA offers a variety of resources for states and individuals affected by the recent disasters. For additional information and updates about USDA’s efforts, visit http://www.usda.gov/drought

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