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Winter 2019 Vol 50635 FCB PROOF_LoResPDF 1 10_29_2019 TM La portraitA of livingND & working in ruralS AmericaC APEwinterS 2019 50635 FCB PROOF_LoResPDF 1 10_29_2019 LANDSCAPES Winter 2019 Vol. 22, No. 2 Ag New Mexico Brett Valentine, CEO Contributing Editor: agnewmexico.com Chi Robb AgTexas FCS Tim McDonald, CEO Contributing Editor: agtexas.com Carolyn Brand Alabama Ag Credit Douglas Thiessen, CEO Contributing Editors: alabamaagcredit.com Amber Pratt/Brooklyn George Alabama Farm Credit Mel Koller, CEO Contributing Editors: alabamafarmcredit.com Wendy Tysinger Samantha Southerland Capital Farm Credit Ben R. Novosad, CEO Contributing Editor: capitalfarmcredit.com Tanya Foerster Central Texas Farm Credit Boyd Chambers, CEO Contributing Editor: ranchmoney.com Jennifer Spraberry Legacy Ag Credit Derrell Chapman, CEO Contributing Editor: legacyaca.com Amy Rayzor Lone Star Ag Credit William Melton, Interim CEO Contributing Editor: lonestaragcredit.com Karen Doskocil Louisiana Land Bank Stephen Austin, CEO Contributing Editor: louisianalandbank.com Tyra Knight Mississippi Land Bank Craig B. Shideler, CEO Contributing Editor: mslandbank.com Jessica Smith Plains Land Bank Gregg Lloyd, CEO Contributing Editor: plainslandbank.com Shandi Russell Southern AgCredit Joe Hayman, CEO Contributing Editor: southernagcredit.com Lylla Joe Texas Farm Credit Mark Miller, CEO Contributing Editors: texasfcs.com Ivory Good/Kacy Land CONTRIBUTORS Writers: Katrina Huffstutler, Mark Johnson, Sheryl Smith- Rodgers Photographers: Gary Clark, Larry Ditto, Debra Ferguson/ Southern Images, Brooklyn George, Mark Johnson, Al Key, Terry O’Neal, Shannon Richardson, Zach Ryall, Patty Stewart, Jeff Tesney, Laurie Tolboom-Martin Landscapes is distributed free to Texas Farm Credit District Gary Clark customers and friends. To change your address, send your old address label and your new address to Landscapes, Farm Credit MAGAZINE STAFF Bank of Texas, P.O. Box 202590, Austin, Texas 78720-2590. VP Corporate Design/Production Communications Lynette Alcorn Texas Farm Credit District lending cooperatives finance rural Kimm Fromm Foster Kanokwalee Pusitanun real estate, agriculture, agribusiness and country homes in Editor Sallie Yeager Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. These Janet Hunter Administration/ financing co-ops are owned by their customers. Writers Circulation Christine Forrest Kristin Stanley ON THE COVER: Soybean harvesting at twilight. Photo by Sarah Harris Debra Ferguson/Southern Images Tina Jackson 50639 FCBOT WINTER 1 10_29_2019 Seizing New Opportunities Agriculture today is more than cattle, corn and cotton production. It’s hops, muscadines and satsumas. Poinsettias, wine grapes and bok choy. Even homemade ice cream and unpasteurized milk. Farmers and ranchers are responding to con- sumer demand for specialized products like these. They’re tapping into niche markets and finding new uses for traditional commodities. And they’re doing so with the latest technology and new marketing approaches. Turn the pages of Landscapes and meet pro- ducers and processors who are seizing new opportunities in agriculture – with the backing of Farm Credit. 50639 FCBOT WINTER 2 10_29_2019 Jeff Tesney Larry Ditto Zach Ryall 14 22 8 CONTENTS FEATURES 25 A Nutritious Punch in Every Bunch Antioxidants make these Mississippi muscadine Growing the Colors of Christmas 4 grapes popular for juices and supplements. Alabama’s Richardson family markets over 250,000 poinsettias across the Southeast every year. 26 The Grape Plains Adding a vineyard helps a Texas High Plains row High Desert Hops 8 crop farm diversify. Good news for craft brewers — a horticulturist is proving hops can grow in West Texas. 28 After-Hours Cowboy Louisiana schoolteacher Jody Higgins recovers 12 A Business Built on Ice Cream from cancer and wins a national roping event. A family-run Texas dairy finds creative ways to market its milk. DEPARTMENTS 14 Sugar-Sweet Satsumas Farm Credit News Satsumas, a type of mandarin orange, thrive on 3 an Alabama Gulf Coast farm. Farm Management 30 Homegrown Jeans Looking for ag equipment? Factors to consider 17 before you shop. The Newby family partners with Wrangler to make jeans from their own Alabama cotton. 32 Postcards 18 Cotton on the Move Farm Credit Marketplace Lonestar Gin opens in the Texas Panhandle as cotton acreage expands northward. Find Landscapes articles online at FindFarmCredit.com. 22 Texas Meets Asia Asian vegetables are a growing niche market for farmer Tommy Hanka. Part of the Farm Credit System 50639 FCBOT WINTER 3 10_29_2019 farm credit news NEWS Farm Credit Helps Young, New and Small Farmers The number of young, beginning and Report highlights include: small (YBS) Farm Credit borrowers held • Nearly 20% of Farm Credit loans were strong in 2018 despite the downturn in the made to young farmers, 30% to begin- economy. ning farmers and just over 50% to small That’s the finding of a survey of farmer farmers. customers and prospects by the Farm • New loan dollar volume to young farm- Credit Administration (FCA). ers increased 7.6% in 2018. Survey results show new YBS loan volume • Loans to beginning farmers jumped and share of new loans increased from 7.1% last year. 2017 to 2018. Glen R. Smith • Small-farmer loans increased 6.8%. There was a positive increase in quality and Designated FCA quantity of YBS programs and services. In These numbers demonstrate Farm Credit addition, FCA reported more Farm Credit associations’ ongoing strong support for Chairman and CEO lending associations are tailoring their their customers during challenging times. outreach to a diverse mix of producers. Glen R. Smith was designated chair- man and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), the Farm Credit Texas District Young Leaders Join Farm Credit Fly-in System’s regulator, effective July 17. Smith has served on the FCA board since December 2017, when he was appointed by President Trump. His term on the board will expire on May 21, 2022. As board chairman, he succeeds Dallas Tonsager, who died in office in May. As CEO, he succeeds Jeffery Hall, who became acting CEO when Tonsager was incapacitated by illness. Hall continues to serve as a member of the FCA board. Smith is a native of Atlantic, Iowa, and is founder and co-owner of Smith Land Service Co., an agricultural service com- pany specializing in farm management, land appraisal and farmland brokerage. His family’s 2,000-acre farm is devoted to corn, soybeans, hay and a small beef cow Twenty Texas Farm Credit District customers from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico herd. He is an Accredited Rural Appraiser. and Texas joined the Farm Credit Fly-in held in July. They were participating in the district’s Young Leaders Program. The group met with USDA and elected officials in Washington, D.C., FCA has examination and regulatory then traveled to New Jersey, above. There, they went to the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding authority over the Farm Credit System, Corporation to learn how the Farm Credit System is funded. with oversight by Congress. WINTER 2019 3 50639 FCBOT WINTER 4 10_29_2019 Photos by Gary by Photos Clark 4 LANDSCAPES 50639 FCBOT WINTER 5 10_29_2019 Growing THEof ChristmasCOLORS From a humble start in the greenhouse business, an Alabama farm family has emerged as a leading poinsettia producer. hristmastime at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is a feast for the eyes. And one of the most memorable sights is the sea of red, white and green poinsettia plants lining the streets of Disney’s famous Epcot Theme Park and The Magic Kingdom. CTo help create this botanical show, the tourist attraction relies on a north Alabama farm family. Every year, Hank Richardson and his family, owners of Dixie Green Inc. in Centre, Alabama, provide thousands of poinsettias for the famous tourist attraction. The Richardsons are one of the leading producers of poinsettias in the southeastern United States. Support from Alabama Farm RICHARDSON FAMILY Credit has helped them expand in recent years. Dixie Green Inc. Greenhouse Business Supports Whole Family Centre, Alabama Yet the family never set out to cater to the likes of Disney. Alabama Farm Credit helps When they entered the greenhouse business, they were simply fund the day-to-day produc- three brothers looking for another source of farm income. tion costs of this high-volume “It’s kind of hard to believe, even for me,” says Hank Richardson, greenhouse business. the patriarch of the operation. “It seems like yesterday we were peddling flowers out of the back of a pickup truck.” In 1974, a family friend talked Richardson and his brothers, Harlan and Jerry, into trying the greenhouse business. Until Come November and December, the greenhouses at Dixie Green in Centre, Alabama, are ablaze with over 250,000 poin- settias. The company also grows spring annuals and fall mums. WINTER 2019 5 50639 FCBOT WINTER 6 10_29_2019 Two generations of the Richardson family keep Dixie Green operating year-round. From left are Daniel, Hank, Jerry (now retired) and John. “… there just wasn’t a way that year, the family raised livestock and Richardson says. “Then we were still farmed traditional row crops — corn, Richardson Greenhouse. We were pretty for that farm to support us. soybeans and wheat. good at growing things, and people seemed to like what we brought them.” We had to get creative, and “That was my parents’ farm,” Richardson the greenhouse business says. “The problem was that we had a large After a few years, the brothers narrowed family and all wanted to work and live their focus to a handful of species, includ- “allowed us to do that.” around here. There just wasn’t a way for ing caladiums, calla lilies, sunpatiens, that farm to support us. We had to get cre- chrysanthemums and poinsettias, and – Hank Richardson ative, and the greenhouse business allowed their wholesale business began to grow. us to do that.” “We just kept chipping away at it,” Demand From Wholesalers Richardson recalls. “People seemed to Drives Expansion really like the stuff we grew — especially the poinsettias — and we just kept adding The brothers pooled their money, built greenhouses to keep up with the demand.” a 28-by-96-foot greenhouse and began growing flowers.
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