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<umbBlogPost id="75344" key="ba2bb4cc-fc87-42a1-ae26-4669293c7318" parentID="75346" level="6" creatorID="8" sortOrder="1" createDate="2018-05-15T13:46:56" updateDate="2018-06-20T13:42:53" nodeName="Shredded BBQ Beef" urlName="shredded-bbq-beef" path="-1,1069,1057,72426,75280,75346,75344" isDoc="" nodeType="1053" creatorName="NS" writerName="Administrator" writerID="0" template="1046" nodeTypeAlias="umbBlogPost" isPublished="true"><PostDate>2018-05-15T00:00:00</PostDate><blogHeadline>Shredded BBQ Beef Sandwich Recipe</blogHeadline><bodyText>
(Makes 6 to 8 servings)&nbsp;

For a smoky flavor, add a drop or two of liquid smoke to the
ingredient list. This beef is also very good spooned over mashed
potatoes or rice.

1 tablespoon canola oil

2 pounds boneless rump roast

½ cup low sodium beef broth

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 cup finely chopped onion

½ cup tomato paste

¼ cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon prepared mustard

½ teaspoon hot sauce

¼ cup cider vinegar

6 to 8 bagels or hamburger buns&nbsp;

Pour the oil in the slow cooker pot or a frying pan on the
stove. Brown the beef on all sides in the slow cooker according to
the manufacturer's instructions or in the frying pan over
medium-high heat.

In a bowl, combine the beef broth, garlic powder, chopped onion,
tomato paste, brown sugar, prepared mustard, hot sauce, and
vinegar. Pour the mixture over the beef in the slow cooker. Cover
and slow cook on low for 7 hours or until the beef is tender.

Remove the beef from the sauce in the slow cooker. Place the
beef in a large bowl. Trim any excess fat.&nbsp; Shred the beef
with 2 forks. Return the shredded beef to the sauce in the slow
cooker. Cover.&nbsp; Turn the heat to high. Cook for 1 hour.

With a slotted spoon, pile the shredded beef on toasted buns.
Serve immediately.

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This slow cooker recipe from The Cooking Ladies...
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<h2>Women in Ag</h2>

Women in agriculture are leaders in the agricultural industry
and are paving the way for a better future in farming. From cattle
ranchers to homestead managers, women in agriculture make up a
significant portion of those who are working America's
farmlands.

According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, almost 1 million
women are actively working in farms. That equates to almost
one-third of the farmers in America. Every year, women in ag are
generating over $12.9 billion dollars in agricultural sales
annually, and women don't only tend to farmland either. Women in
agriculture also include the agricultural scientists, foresters,
veterinarians, business owners, property owners, managers, and
more. As you can see, women are very much involved in all aspects
of agriculture and farming.

<h2>Women in Agriculture Resources</h2>

Many organizations exist to help women in ag improve their
quality of life by offering resources and farming tips to help
women find the balance between family farm life and other personal
obligations. These agricultural resources can range from localized
groups to regional or national, and offer excellent networking
opportunities and educational value.&nbsp; Check out our <a
href="/farming-smarts/resources.aspx">women in farming
resources</a> to find agricultural conferences and other
farm-related events that may be of interest.

<h2>Pink Tractor Magazine</h2>

Pink Tractor Magazine is a bimonthly publication dedicated to
women in farming and agriculture.&nbsp; We support and empower
women farmers from all over the world. Our magazine is geared
towards women in ag, and offers glimpses into the lives of female
farmers. Pink Tractor magazine is mailed every other month to
subscribers throughout North America. Subscribe to <a
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Women in agriculture are leaders in the agricultural industry
and are paving the way for a better future in farming.
</introduction><articleImage>75352</articleImage><pageTitle>Women in Ag: Leaders in the Agricultural Industry </pageTitle><metaDescription>Women in agriculture are leaders in the agricultural industry and are paving the way for a better future in farming. Pink Tractor discusses the roles of women in ag.</metaDescription></umbBlogPost><umbBlogPost id="75368" key="96d4d971-7db1-4f71-8d39-cbbba2bef091" parentID="75367" level="6" creatorID="0" sortOrder="0" createDate="2018-07-06T11:42:48" updateDate="2018-07-09T13:06:18" nodeName="Gnat Bites in Your Family Business" urlName="gnat-bites-in-your-family-business" path="-1,1069,1057,72426,75366,75367,75368" isDoc="" nodeType="1053" creatorName="Administrator" writerName="NS" writerID="8" template="1046" nodeTypeAlias="umbBlogPost" isPublished="true"><PostDate>2018-07-06T00:00:00</PostDate><blogHeadline>Gnat Bites in Your Family Business</blogHeadline><bodyText>"Hi there Jolene Brown here. I have to tell you something. Here in Eastern Iowa we are in the midst a black gnat season. It'll last about two weeks and these little buggers drive me absolutely nuts. I can step out my kitchen door or I can be in the middle of a cornfield and there they are swarming around me. They bite and they hurt. It makes me change my behaviors. So this week as the family business phone calls kept rolling in, I realized there's a lot of gnats out there buggin these family businesses at well, and if you don't take care of these little things it could amount into a very big problem. So here's an example of some of this week's gnat bites. Here is the first one..."
See more in the video below...
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Jolene Brown is a farmer, professional speaker, author and champion for the family owned business. She's from West Branch, Iowa, USA, and travels worldwide sharing leading-edge best practices that have the power to increase productivity, profitability and peace of mind. Her passion combined with her fun-filled spirit and valuable information brings humor, hope and helpful ideas to the people of agriculture. Jolene's books, "Holy Crap! I Married a Farmer!" Joy-filled Lessons Connecting Our Sisters in Agricultureand Sometimes You Need More Than a 2x4! How-to-tips to successfully grow a family business are available online at <a href="http://www.jolenebrown.com/">www.JoleneBrown.com</a>.  For more information and to check out her speaking availability, contact her at <a href="mailto:Jolene@JoleneBrown.com">Jolene@JoleneBrown.com</a>.
Full Rights Consent.  Jolene Brown LLC, West Branch, Iowa, USA, maintains full rights to utilize the content and/or format of all materials submitted by her for the www.PinkTractor.com website in any future speaking, writing, audio, video or electronic format.
Copyright © 2018 Jolene Brown, LLC. All Rights Reserved</bodyText><tags>featured</tags><seoTags>family business,Jolene Brown,Dr Phil of Agriculture</seoTags><closeComments>0</closeComments><introduction>Avoid gnat bites in the family business. Here's an example of some of this week's gnat bites...</introduction><articleImage>75370</articleImage><articleImageCaption>Avoid Gnat Bites</articleImageCaption><pageTitle>Gnat Bites in Your Family Business - Things to Avoid</pageTitle><metaDescription>Drawing parallels between gnat bites and a family business, Jolene Brown lays examples of things to avoid.</metaDescription></umbBlogPost><umbBlogPost id="75378" key="c9e2d233-f129-4dad-a0e4-4c2166ec7718" parentID="75367" level="6" creatorID="8" sortOrder="1" createDate="2018-07-11T15:53:08" updateDate="2018-07-11T16:09:25" nodeName="2018 State Fair Fun Facts" urlName="2018-state-fair-fun-facts" path="-1,1069,1057,72426,75366,75367,75378" isDoc="" nodeType="1053" creatorName="NS" writerName="NS" writerID="8" template="1046" nodeTypeAlias="umbBlogPost" isPublished="true"><PostDate>2018-07-11T00:00:00</PostDate><blogHeadline>Fun at the State Fair 2018</blogHeadline><bodyText>More things fried and on a stick than you can imagine. Cakes, quilts, art, fish tanks and livestock competitions. All of these things could only cross paths in one setting…the state fair. New York hosted the first state fair in Syracuse in 1841. It’s the longest running fair in the country. 46 states continue the tradition by showing off their best at the state fair each year. Each fair offers something unique, and even thought provoking, like why did anyone want to start a race where competitors carry a buttered watermelon? Or who wants to be the judge in Utah’s Rotten Sneaker Contest? But that’s why we go, to see and experience the things that only exist once a year at the state fair. 
 Fair facts:
<ul>
<li>The 2015 Texas State Fair is the largest ever with 3.5 million visitors over 24 days.</li>
<li>The Alaska State Fair is known for its Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off. Scott Robb’s 2012 red cabbage holds the record weighing 138.25 pounds.</li>
<li>Sarah Pratt sculpts the famous Butter Cow for the Iowa State Fair. It weighs in at 600 pounds. The butter cow would butter about 19,200 slices of toast.</li>
<li>The Kentucky State Fair hosts the World’s Championship Horse Show. More than 2000 horses compete for world champion titles and over $1 million in prize money.</li>
<li>The Montana State Fair hosts speed-crafting. Competitors try their hand for the title of “Fastest Crochet Hook in Montana” and “Fastest Needle in Montana.” The North Carolina State Fair hosts a tobacco stringing contest.</li>
<li>Is food sculpting your passion? The Ohio State Fair hosts a food carving contest. Each competitor is given specific fruits and three hours to make a masterpiece.</li>
<li>In 2014, a woman ate one of every single food on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair— totaling 93 skewered treats. She did this to raise awareness for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.</li>
<li>One of the main attractions at the Georgia State Fair is the Banana Derby. With a name like that, it could be many things, but it’s actually a touring show of monkeys who race on dogs.</li>
<li>Spectators can watch animals being born at the Maryland State Fair’s birthing center.  </li>
</ul>
2018 State Fair Dates
<img style="width: 416.6666666666667px; height:500px;" src="/media/316089/funatthefair-dates.jpg?width=416.6666666666667&amp;height=500" alt="2018 State Fair Dates_Pink Tractor" data-udi="umb://media/7628450e2629454792842bc8ac723d64" /></bodyText><tags>farm gal,Family farming,fun</tags><closeComments>0</closeComments><introduction>More things fried and on a stick than you can imagine. Here are some fun State Fair Facts! </introduction><articleImage>75376</articleImage></umbBlogPost><umbBlogPost id="75374" key="fdf77e84-f2ba-4be8-9e6d-ac7b465dc5f2" parentID="1057" level="3" creatorID="8" sortOrder="50" createDate="2018-07-11T09:08:29" updateDate="2018-07-11T09:18:30" nodeName="Amazing Woman in Ag: Janel" urlName="amazing-woman-in-ag-janel" path="-1,1069,1057,75374" isDoc="" nodeType="1053" creatorName="NS" writerName="NS" writerID="8" template="1046" nodeTypeAlias="umbBlogPost" isPublished="true"><PostDate>2018-07-12T00:00:00</PostDate><blogHeadline>Amazing Woman In Ag: Janel</blogHeadline><bodyText>This article was originally seen in the July/August issue of Pink Tractor magazine. <a rel="noopener" href="http://www.pinktractor.com/subscribe" target="_blank">Get your subscription HERE</a>.
Janel Schemper spent her childhood summers different from most of the kids in Holdrege, Nebraska. She couldn’t wait to get out of school for summer to go harvesting. While other kids her age were at summer camp or hanging out at the pool, she found herself in the driver’s seat of a combine, with a coffee can of nuts and bolts on her armrest for added weight to make sure it wouldn’t shut off because of “light weight”. That was over twenty years ago, and she still sits in the seat of a combine every May-November.
Janel is a third generation custom harvester. In the 1950’s, her grandfather left his family farm to hit the road and make a living in the custom harvesting business. Her dad, LaVern Schemper, carried on the tradition with his wife, Carlene, Janel and her three older siblings Julie, JC and Jared. They all grew up on combines. LaVern ran combines while Carlene drove trucks.  
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Janel went south for her first harvest at five- months-old. During school-age years, the family would head down when school ended in May. They’d follow the harvest trail all summer long harvesting crops for farmers across Great Plains states of America. Then when school would start back up in August they’d head back home the night before school started.
Dad’s Crew
They were her dad’s crew. He taught them a lot. Janel says, “The combine cab was where I spent my time with my dad or siblings riding along with them and learning all about operating a combine. Otherwise, my time was spent riding with my mom in a truck hauling many loads of grain to the elevators or grain storage sites.”
When they moved from location to location across the Great Plains states following the wheat belt, she would ride with her dad in a truck hauling a combine, and would always feel better riding along with him. He always found a way to include her and taught her that part of being boss is keeping your eyes on everyone and double-checking everything. He’d say, “Janel, look in the mirror and tell me who you see behind us.” She went down the line first to last saying something like, “white top, red top, #3, junior, the pickup and trailer house.”
At the time, she never thought that one day she’d be the one taking the lead and driving a truck and hauling a combine down the road. She says, “I have always enjoyed getting to be a part of the harvest crew! Some things just never change!”
What does she do?
In one short answer, Janel does it all. Janel not only drives the combine, but she is the business website coordinator and hires Schemper Harvesting employees. She also has a Class A CDL with endorsements including doubles/triple trailers as well as tanker and hazardous materials. She hauls her combine and header when they move from one location to the next on the harvest route. She also hauls grain.
Schemper Harvesting operates eight combines, four tractor grain carts and twenty plus trucks. Their run starts in the Frederick, Oklahoma area. Then they journey up the central Midwest states, harvesting wheat fields in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. They’ll also harvest chickpeas, lentils and canola in the northern states. The fall harvest is at home in Nebraska where they harvest corn and soybeans. Wheat is her slight favorite crop to harvest.
Work Ethic, Responsibility and Patience
She learned work ethic as she traveled during those harvest seasons, “Each season has been a great learning experience and I continue to learn and polish my skills every single day.” It takes a lot of work to be a harvester. Typical days in the field are 12-18 hours.
Janel’s dad stressed responsibility at a young age, “My dad taught me to accept and do what was expected of me and to not ever complain about work, but be glad for the opportunity and ability to work.” It wasn’t only her dad who taught her this, but also the harvest, “We count on the farmers for the work probably just as much as they count on us to get the crops harvested on time.” And it’s not only the responsibility to the farmers; she goes on to say, “We harvest the grain that feeds the world.”
One of the most important traits of a custom harvester is patience. Janel explains, “It seems that we are in the ‘hurry and wait’ business. We may push hard to get to our next job or field and start cutting only to find that the crop is not ready yet or where a rain shower beat us to it. Sitting and waiting for grain to dry is sometimes what we have to do. Heat and wind are often what it takes to get appropriate harvesting conditions we need to make progress.”
Why she loves it
Her favorite part of custom harvesting is combine time. She says, “It’s what I enjoy. I like to stay busy and running a combine keeps me very busy. I like production agriculture. I like the challenge of doing my job to the very best of my ability. I work hard for our customers.”
Overall, she loves a standing crop. She says, “Harvesting in tough conditions including damaged crops and muddy conditions is what makes you a good operator.” She loves the ability to make progress.
She has seen a lot of the country and traveled many miles, “I do believe that during summer and fall harvest is when our country’s true beauty really shines. I have a phone full of harvest pictures and can’t believe how many beautiful sights and sunsets I consistently get to see through the windshield.”
Janel feels fortunate to be able to go to harvest with her family year after year. It’s a unique occupation and she knows that it’s not for everyone. She says, “It takes an exceptional work ethic, excellent work habits, honesty, responsibility, a grown up attitude and serious business professionalism and dedication to fulfill a harvest season year after year. The future of agriculture will always be exciting in my opinion. I want to be a part of the continuous excitement.”
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Janel attended college at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. A few years later she earned her Masters of Agribusiness (MAB) degree from Kansas State University.
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