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Creating Life to Sustain Life Ben E. Keith Helps Connect the Dots Standing the Test of Time Farmer’s Markets and Food Trucks Straight from Grandma’s Kitchen Service and Sustainability Projects Today, Purpose Tomorrow Ranch Raised Raising the Steaks Simmons Foods Four Generations of Fish Farming Bringing an Industry Back Keeping Arkansas Natural Arkansas’s Keeping it in the Family Project Think of a Farmer AAD Provides Livestock Market News Reporting AGFC Turns to AAD Lab for CWD Testing Task Force Combating Feral Hog Problem Table of Contents 22 26 28 32 36 50 54 58 64 68 72 76 80 82 84 86 88 89 ON THE COVER Photo courtesy of ArkansasTravelChannel.com. 14 18 40 46 60 Labor of Love Pecans, Weddings and Bed & Breakfast All Offered at the Charlotte Teresa Plantation From Seed to Shelf A Rice Mill in Cattle Country The Tomato Legacy: From the Ground Up Cotton’s Return is a Royal Story Wilson Serves as the Delta Cotton Empire Calling THE Hog Raising the University of Arkansas Mascot Arkansas GROWN A guide to the state’s farms, food & forestry ARKANSAS GROWN 5

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