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The5thannualBeef'n Brew will be sponsored by the Downtown Red Bluff Business Association and Tehama County Cat- tleWomen starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 20. There will be sam- pling of 64 craft beers and 29 beef appetizers on Walnut, Washington, Pine, Oak and Main streets with tickets $20 in advance at The Loft, the Gold Ex- change, Plum Crazy and www.redbluffbeefnbrew. com. We would like to thank these businesses for their generous donations: Hawes Ranch & Farm Supply provides the fenc- ing around the outside of Cone Kimball Plaza. The Walkers supply the bales of hay for seating. Mercy High School loans their bleachers for more seating. Walker Printing prints the colorful tickets for the event. Dales Carpet & Design allows us to store the cow boards for beef appetiz- ers, the banners and sup- plies in their basement, and use their dumpster for all the beer cups. Cold- well Banker — C&C Prop- erties allows us to use their parking lot. Reynolds Ranch & Farm Supply furnishes the water troughs for ic- ing the bottled water. En- joy the Magazine gave us a complimentary quar- ter page ad in the Septem- ber issue. Every year during the Beef 'n Brew a group of celebrity pourers are cho- sen to serve beer at Cone Kimball Plaza. These in- dividuals are political figures, business own- ers, organization lead- ers and community lead- ers. They will be pouring craft beers thanks to our major beer sponsors, Red- ding Distributing and Si- erra Nevada. Your choice of Pale Ale, Old Chico, Hex IPA, Kilty, Liars dice and 530 Ale. Among those pour- ing will be Steve McCar- thy, rancher, attorney and president of Tehama County Cattlemen Asso- ciation; Mike Growney, third generation busi- ness owner and Red Bluff Round-Up Director; Corky Kramer, Red Bluff Round- Up Director; Tehama County Supervisors, Burt Bundy, Sandy Bruce and Steve Chamblin and Chief Administrator Bill Good- win; Members of Red Bluff City Council, Dani- elle Jackson, Clay Parker and Rob Schmid and Planning Director Scot Timboe. Inmemoriam We were sorry to learn that Tehama County Cat- tleman Ken Heiber passed away Aug. 24th. Tehama County CattleWomen lost Kay Richardson on July 21. Intermountain Fair Granddaughter Callie Borror and I enjoyed the Intermountain Fair in McArthur over the Labor Day weekend. The flow- ers were colorful in the beds between the street and lawns, the large tubs and wheel-barrows. Ei- ther the 2,000 firefight- ers on the Eiler and Day Fires were careful when they made the fair- grounds a base camp, or there was much replant- ing of the beds. We came home by way of Highways 89 and 44, and saw all the burned areas along the highway and where it had jumped over to the east side. This fire was more northern than the fire that went through a couple years ago. District 1 California High School Rodeo con- testant Steel Humphry of McArthur had the Grand Champion Steer. Sept. 20-21 will be the first rodeo of the new sea- son, 2014-2015, for the District 1 CHSRA Junior and High School contes- tants at the Bob Jones Arena in Cottonwood. Junior Round-Up This Saturday and Sunday, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., is the annual Red Bluff Jr. Round-Up at the Tehama District Fair- ground. Local boys and girls competing in Pee Wee events of Dummy Rop- ing and Mutton Bustin are Kid Carl Norton, Jace Miller of Red Bluff. Jor- dyn Staley of Cottonwood. Jessie Wilson and Jax Cuny of Los Molinos. Cat- ion Richardson of Corn- ing. Youth Events competi- tors from Red Bluff: Hank Bunting, Kamish Wagner; Logan Darst — Gerber; Cottonwood: Parker Heit- man, Paisley Heitman, Jayda Staley, Raci Rogue- more, Riata Roquemore. Los Molinos: Maia Mayer, Dancia Wagner, Hunter Maxwell. Youth will compete in Pole Bending, Single Stake, Goat Tying, Barrel Racing, Calf Riding, Sack Roping, Junior event competi- tors from Red Bluff: Cole Bunting, Kolton King, Caleb Carpenter, Miley Bunting, Jordan Shank, Madison Norton, Han- nah Wade, Marlee Mead- ows, Ashtin Lopeman, Kaylee King. Gerber — Tanner Darst. Los Moli- nos — Reghan Shannon. Proberta — Shelby Dun- ning. Cottonwood - Tay- lor O'Reilly, Tana O'Reilly. Corning — Hunter Hughes. Juniors will compete in team roping, pole bend- ing, single stake, goat ty- ing, barrel racing, calf roping, chute dogging, steer riding, breakaway roping. Senior event competi- tors from Red Bluff: Cara Hencratt, Alyssa Shank, Meghan Aisenbrey, Brit- tany Manner, Wyatt Brown, Casey Moore. Ger- ber - Bailey Bean, Kay- lee Loewen, Shylie Sedita. Cottonwood — Sabrina Cantu, Scotti Murphy, Nicole Tomasello, Shelby Adams, Kristin Loverin, Caleb Heitman, Cameron Jones, James Banister, Mason Meadows, Jr. Corning - Gianna Esteve, Wyatt Spencer, Chase Wimer. Seniors will compete in pole bending, goat ty- ing, breakaway roping, barrel racing, team rop- ing, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, bareback rid- ing, chute dogging, calf roping. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbar- ton2013@gmail.com. JEANBARTON Event to feature celebrity beer pourers The clock is ticking for farmers and ranchers whose 5-year Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) enrollment contracts expire this year. Re-enrolling land for an- other 5 years requires a re- newal application to the U.S. Department of Agri- culture's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and the end of the re-enrollment period is rap- idly approaching — farmers and ranchers who enrolled land in CSP in 2010 have un- til Sept. 12 to initiate the re- enrollment process. "We have been notified that as of Aug. 21, 5,328 CSP renewal applications had been processed, out of the approximate 20,000 farms and ranches that are up for potential renewal," said Traci Bruckner, Senior Policy Associate at the Cen- ter for Rural Affairs. "While renewal applications have dramatically increased in the second half of August, we still have a ways to go. And we strongly encour- age farmers and ranch- ers that are eligible for re- newal to get to their local NRCS office before the Sept. 12 deadline to file their re- enrollment application pa- perwork." According to Bruckner, the Conservation Stew- ardship Program is a vol- untary stewardship incen- tives program, adminis- tered by NRCS, designed to reward farmers, ranchers, and foresters for maintain- ing existing conservation, as well as for the adoption of additional conservation measures that provide mul- tiple environmental bene- fits that run beyond the farm or ranch. This pro- gram pays producers for clean water, better soil management, improved habitat, energy efficiency, and other natural resource benefits. The program rewards ad- vanced conservation across an entire farming or ranch- ing operation and supports the continual improvement of such conservation sys- tems through the contract renewal process. In taking the renewal option, produc- ers agree to continue to in- tegrate conservation ac- tivities across their entire operation, as well as un- dertake additional conser- vation measures. CSP con- tracts last for five years, at which time they are eligi- ble for renewal. Producers may be able to renew a con- tract if they have success- fully fulfilled the initial con- tract and agree to achieve additional conservation ob- jectives. "Renewing an expiring contract is optional, and producers who do not do so can always re-apply and compete for funding in fu- ture annual CSP signups," Bruckner said. "But there are real benefits to re-en- rolling now. The renewal process is non-competitive because producers already received competitively awarded contracts and the re-enrollment process is much simpler than the full application process." According to USDA, let- ters were mailed to all CSP participants with contracts set to expire this year. "We want to be clear about one potentially con- fusing fact, the group of contacts that are eligible for this renewal period include both the 2009 and 2010 en- rollment classes," cautioned Bruckner. CONSERVATION Stewardship program renewal deadline looms By M.L. Johnson Associated Press VERONA, WIS. There's a good chance that many of the suddenly trendy vege- tables that foodies latch on to in the next decade will benefit from research at the University of Wiscon- sin-Madison. While plant breeders at many public universities fo- cus on improving field corn, soybeans and other crops used in food manufactur- ing or livestock feed, those in Madison want to produce better-tasting vegetables. The university has long had ties to the vegetable processing industry, as Wis- consin is among the top two or three states in produc- ing canned or frozen sweet corn, green beans and peas. But vegetable breeders say the local food movement has created additional op- portunities with a boom in organic farms, farmers mar- kets and farm-to-table res- taurants. The challenge is coming up with varieties consum- ers like, even if they can't al- ways articulate what makes one ear of corn better than another. "Apples are almost the only fruit or vegetable that when you go to the grocery store, you see 30 different apples all by name," said Bill Tracy, a sweet corn breeder who chairs the university's Department of Agronomy. "We could do the same thing for corn, and I'm not saying we need 30, but we could have a corn that's per- fect for roasting, or soup use." Horticulture professor Julie Dawson is leading a project in which vegetable breeders work with local farmers and chefs to figure out what makes vegetables taste great and then pro- duce easy-to-grow variet- ies with outstanding flavor. Participating chefs receive weekly deliveries of pro- duce that they evaluate on a 5-point scale for qualities like sweetness and texture. Dan Bonanno, the chef at A Pig in a Fur Coat, es- timated he's tasted 80 vari- eties of tomatoes — "I never knew there were so many different tomatoes" — since mid-July. For him, the big find has been a sweet corn bred to have a less sugary taste and firmer texture than most popular variet- ies. "I ripped open the husk, took a bite, and it was like eating a pear," Bonanno said. "It was so juicy ... I'm like, wow, you can make a very nice sauce or gelato with it because it's already naturally sweet and buttery and it had so much water." Very sweet corn, which most Americans have be- come accustomed to, be- comes mushy when stirred into a dish like risotto, Tracy said, and the sug- ary taste may conflict with other ingredients. "If we understand what chefs want, we can produce it," he said. And, Tracy is confident chefs will be able to sell those new varieties to the public, given how they have popularized ramps, broccolini and other once- obscure fruits and vegeta- bles. On Wednesday, chefs, farmers and members of the public sampled and rated Tracy's corn, along with multiple varieties of toma- toes, peppers and melon at a university farm in Verona. Dawson will use the infor- mation to see how closely the chefs' opinions match that of regular eaters and develop an evaluation sys- tem that can be used early in the breeding process to select the best-tasting pros- pects from hundreds of cul- tivars. RESEARCH Chefs, breeders pair up to produce tastier vegetables Jean Barton COURTESYPHOTO Three palomino horses pulled the Corder Farms Moonshiners hay wagon with the Border Collie on top of the hay in the Intermountain Fair parade. RUNNINGS ROOFING SheetMetalRoofing ResidentialCommercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane Ownerisonsiteoneveryjob ServingTehamaCounty 530-527-5789 530-209-5367 NoMoney Down! "NoJobTooSteep" " No Job Too Flat" FREE ESTIMATES CA. LIC#829089 STOVEJUNCTION The TheNorthState'spremiersupplierofstoves 22825 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff 530-528-2221 • Fax 530-528-2229 www.thestovejunction.com Over 25 years of experience Tues-Sat9am-5pm• ClosedSun&Mon Now Carrying! 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