May 6, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, valley, This is iglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley, in all across the country. Well friends.
A recent event at USDA Headquarters recognized the ninetieth anniversary
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Rod Main has our.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Story a celebration of ninety years of service of conservation
at USDA Headquarters recently.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
In what other place in the world has an agency
of the federal government dedicated ninety years to this effort?
And how amazing in what all we have accomplished.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
For the Natural Resources Conservation Service and our Cschief Aubrey
Bettencourt recognized the agency from a historical perspective, both if
it's role the conservation nationwide and on her family farm
over the years.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
My first encounter with NRCS was working with my father
to do a restoration project for the Pacific Flyway in California,
and the level of agila and partnership that we have
on the ground in that local connection is truly part
of our strength and one that is a tenant of
who we are as an agency and what we can
accomplish together.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
The chief noted the importance of public private partnership on
a multitude of levels.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Financial the need to provide farmers and ranchers and economic
cushion when trying new conservation practices innovating out on the landscape,
and we share that risk with them through these financial
assistance programs that we provide. Technical science based conservation practices
is a core tenant of who and what we are.
Farmers and ranchers depend on the conservation practices that we recommend,
and they depend on them working and delivering for them

(01:35):
that the outcomes pay off and that they come as
they are expected. There's not a lot we control in agriculture,
so when we have good technical assistance that can help
us know what to expect, we can make better plans
at locally driven.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Priorities and out on the field and landscape.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Since nineteen thirty seven, we've worked very closely with local
soil and water conservation districts that partner with us at
the county level to support farmers and ranchers, and we
will continue to build on this close relationship and this
alliance on local knowledge. Those closest to the problem are
closest to the solution, and that is such a core
part of the NRCS identity and.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
What we are and what we do.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins also emphasized an important tenet of
in OURCS voluntary conservation efforts.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Voluntary conservation is nothing new.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
It's a generation's old practice that has greatly benefited American
agriculture and natural resources. And RCS was born in a
time of despair and uncertainty. The descpol through conservation, farmers
were able to confirm and overcome those challenges, just as
they continue to do today.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, Friends, the EPA is rolling out a new pesticide
plan aimed at protecting endangered species. That story is coming
up on Naglife. Bob Quinn herres some farmer US this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Friends.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
National Farmers' Union is hosting a Week of action this week.
Chad Smith has a report.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
True, President of the National Farmers Union, says the historic
levels of uncertainty facing farmers and ranchers is why they're
taking this step.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
We all know the markets have been vital, a lot
of commodities are at historic lows. Input costs never seem
to go down. They're going up, and federal support is shrinking,
as well as staff that help support farmers. And on
top of all this, we also have global trade wars.
All of these things are putting family farmers' ability to
stay on the land and continue to produce food for
this country in the world at risk. And so that

(03:31):
is really what this Week of Action is all about,
telling Congress that it is time to act for farmer's sake.
Congress has a real opportunity to ease the burden, to
provide more certainty out there, and that's by passing a
strong five year farm bill. It's been pushed aside too
long and farmers quite frankly, can't wait any longer.

Speaker 8 (03:49):
This has to be a top priority.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
The Roue talks about what Farmers Union wants in a
new and updated farm.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Bill, talking to Congress and telling them that in order
to get more certainty for a FAMI farmers and ranchers,
we need a number of things. First of all, we
need a modern, updated farm bill for today's times, and
that means strengthening the farm safety net, to provide more
stability to build on very popular voluntary conservation programs, and
to restore some of the balance in the marketplace against

(04:16):
the kind of monopoly powers out there. All of this
is with fast and reliable crop insurance and other risk
management programs. Quite frankly, we need a strong, broad farm
bill that provides for both farmers and consumers.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
There is so much at stake for US farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
We hear too many stories these days about young producers,
new and beginning farmers who are saying the risk are
too high, the uncertainty is too much, and we can't
continue down this path. We're also hearing of well established
farmers who are looking at continued low prices and lack
of support, and who are looking at getting out. This
is bad news for not only farm country and rural America,

(04:52):
but also for the country for our food security out there.
So for a lot of reasons, the fact is is
that without action, we risk los a generation of family
farmers and rangers. The stakes really couldn't be higher. You
can learn more about the week by visiting nf you
dot org slash for Farmer's Sake.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Once again, that's National Farmers Union President Rob LaRue Chad
Smith reporting well.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Friends. Investing in farmland over the long run is usually
a good thing to do. Todd Gleeson has more on tariffs,
the value of farmland, and the American farmer.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
History tells us a trade war will be hardest on
products produced in reasonable amounts for export. In the case
of US agriculture, that's corn, soybeans, and red meat, says
University of Illinois agricultural economist Bruce Sherrick.

Speaker 9 (05:39):
If you move upstream to the agricultural input industries, and
you know the John Deeres and the cases and so on,
so that's a huge concern, will probably create exemptions or
cutouts for most of the higher value to the higher
cost elements in agriculture. But I think it's really straightforward.
It's corn and soybeans, it's apples, it's almonds, it's pistachios,

(06:00):
it's some versions of processed and can and easily ship things.

Speaker 10 (06:04):
Shrek is the director of the TIA Center for Farmland
Research on the u of i's Urbana Champaign campus, so
he's always thinking about how the marketplace impacts the value
of farmland. Here he puts it into historical context.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
What asset would you rather own? And in the eighties
we had an ag focused crisis and we didn't have
to talk about it as though there was somebody to blame,
but we can observe what happened afterward. And then in
two thousand and eight we had a financial crisis, and
there may be people to blame, but we had an
outcome and it was very bought stuff with money. And
in COVID we had a crisis and we printed money.

(06:40):
And each of three, each of those created really great
natural experiments. If you print money, you get inflation. If
you buy assets that appreciate, the government doesn't lose money.
If you change the size of the FEDS balance sheet,
and in this case the tariffs, we have some precedent,
but we don't have the precedent in the environment that
we're in right now. But the answer is what asset
would you rather own? I think it's a pretty clear

(07:03):
and compelling argument that the farmland is a pretty good ACCT.

Speaker 10 (07:06):
Because even when farmland lost substantial value as it did
during the nineteen eighties, of long term it has continually
posted positive returns. I'm University of Illinois Extensions, Todd Gleison,
farm US.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
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Speaker 11 (07:25):
It's another agnews update. Preparing for another week of trade,
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Ha Oliver's slope is with blue line futures in Chicago
takes a look back and how markets closed Friday.

Speaker 14 (08:02):
Higher day in grain markets, with the exception of July corn,
which settled three and a quarter cents lower to four
sixty nine. The next two contract months finished the day higher,
with December leading the way, settling at four to fifty
in a quarter, which was three cents higher on the session.
July soybean futures gained seven and three quarter cents is
settling at ten fifty eight, and the new crop November

(08:23):
contract tacked on three and a quarter six, settling at
ten thirty and a half. July Chicago wee futures twelve
cents higher on the day, settling at five forty three.
Weekly export sales for corn this week were reported just
over one million metric tons, which was largely in line
with expectations. Mexico was a primary buyer there, accounting for
nearly half of the total, followed by Columbia and Israel.

(08:45):
Net sales of soybeans at four hundred and twenty eight
thousand metric tons were up fifty five percent from the
previous week and twenty seven percent from the prior four
week average. China was the primary buyer there, followed by
Germany and the Netherlands. With planting continued to pick up
pace across the Midwest at tension on the usca's weekly
crop progress reports will continue to grow. Those are released

(09:06):
Monday afternoons after the market closes. Now, with the crop
going in the ground, weather and weather forecasts will have
an increasingly important role in the market. Most recent drought
monitor shows few high stress areas across the Midwest.

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Oliver's Slope is with blue line. Futures recaps the markets
from last week.

Speaker 14 (10:39):
Markets were very green to round out the week. At
the closed June Live Cattle futures a dollar forty high
hire settling at two eleven ten and that was good
enough for new contract closing high for the week two
dollars and eighty five cents higher. August Feeder Cattle features
posted a new contract high intra day and settled two
forty five higher to two ninety six nine. That was

(11:01):
two dollars and sixty cents higher for the week and
over on the outside June Leen hoggs were dollars seventeen higher,
settling at ninety nine to thirty five. That trimmed losses
for the week to just a dollar eighty. This morning's
wholesale box beef report was mixed. We saw choice cuts
twenty three cents lower to three forty two ninety four
and select cuts a dollar thirty six higher to three

(11:22):
twenty five sixty four. Slaughter on Thursday afternoon was reported
at one hundred and twenty thousand head, which put the
week to day total at four hundred and sixty five thousand.
That was in line with the same period last week,
but about fourteen thousand head less than the same.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
Period last year.

Speaker 14 (11:39):
The five area average price for live series Thursday afternoon,
two twenty seventy one. Weekly export sales of beef this
week were reported at twelve thousand, nine hundred metric tons.
That was up twenty five percent from the previous week
and six percent from the prior four week average. Japan
the primary buyer there, followed by South Korea.

Speaker 11 (11:59):
In Mexico well cash trade in the South two eighteen
but according to the AGG Center, price spreads between the
northern and southern plains deceiving. They say cash trade in
the South consists of lower grade cattle with higher quality
selling it over the top prices not reported American Cattle News.

Speaker 18 (12:21):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.

Speaker 19 (12:26):
On this Producer Tuesday, brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. We look at the long term effect on
the trade war with China with Ben Buckner, chief Grains
and Dairy analysts at agg Resource, who' said on a
recent PDP dairy signal.

Speaker 20 (12:40):
Lots of things happening, of course, especially over the last
thirty days, mathematically contracting US economy trade issues. Maybe the
US provided some kind of olive branch to China that
has no concrete confirmation of that. So we're all just
kind of waiting to see how this trade war is.
Trade negotiations of all other than that kind of prevailing
theme is the dominant, I think factor in the markets today,

(13:03):
and then those are the trade war after everything has
been sorted out. I think, you know, from tariffs forty
five percent East Asia to now just ten percent reciprocation
across the world, and now there's very little retaliatory terraft
is placed on the US except from China. That's kind
of where we are administration. I think the US and China.
We are at war with each other. We're doing it

(13:25):
through economic issues, but it's clearly because of China's kind
of resurgents over the last two decades in the US
trying to maintain dominance, and that's where we are, and
that's I think the concern over the next two five,
ten years. But just wanted to communicate that after everything
that's happened since about the early part of February, it
is the US against China, and that's I think how
this thing evolves, at least through the rest of twenty

(13:47):
twenty five. The second most important thing, though, is the
world dairy markets are very tight. They're probably going to
get tighter, and so fundamentally, I think both grains and
dairy markets for now at least, and this is odd
given all the k we've seen the last couple of months.
I think we are trading fundamentals. The dairy markets and
grain markets is trading supply and demand, and the terarriffs
aren't terribly relevant to price discovery. Let's say in the

(14:12):
medium term, you know, China's of course going to buy
all of South American soybeans, You're not going to buy
any from the US, so that's the risk to the
soybean farmer. In the US, grain flows are pretty normal,
and I think dairy flows today at least are pretty normal.
So it's all weather, it's all supplying demand, and so
we're not negative dairy That's.

Speaker 7 (14:29):
I think that the overarching message.

Speaker 20 (14:31):
I don't think we're going to see the heights that
we've seen in the markets during the summer and autumn
the last two years. I think there may be upside
a twenty dollars class three, not twenty four dollars class three.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
But again we're not negative dairy.

Speaker 20 (14:42):
Markets, and that's because the US is very very competitive,
the global market is less volatile, and the trend there
is still pretty clear to us, so kind of moving higher,
slowly but steadily, two steps forward, one step back. The
global dairy market has been tight, stays tight, and we're
getting a little concern that it gets tighter because of

(15:03):
what's happening in terms of shrinking col numbers in Europe,
which is the second largest exporter of dairy products on Earth.
So again, a lot going on, but the message, as
you know, not negative dairy markets. Feed market's going to
be volatile, but we think there's a lot of evidence
to support lower corn price the second half of this year,
and I think the geopolitical headlines will continue to come

(15:25):
pretty fast and loose indefinitely. So the long term effects,
I think that the biggest concern that we've got is
economic growth. So I think it's going to be challenging
for the two largest economies on Earth to really have
a lot of growth. So paying more for things on
both sides of the trade war and just kind of

(15:46):
being forced to resort market ideas is going to kind
of hinder certainty hinder growth. That's I think the number
one thing. The second thing I think, and since it
is with China specifically other countries maybe collateral damage, is
it's the soybean market. And then again lay mentioned that
the biggest risk here is just fundamental. If the trade
war continues, the price of soybeans in Brazil is going

(16:07):
to go up quite a bit.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
Then you have the incentive.

Speaker 20 (16:10):
Then they're going to grow more soybeans, and we're probably
not going to get that market share back unless there
is just pretty crippling.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Drought in Argentina and Brazil. So two things.

Speaker 20 (16:19):
One, global economic growth will be curtailed because of the
trade war, and number two dot soybeans.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Just more is going to be produced in South America.

Speaker 19 (16:26):
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Speaker 2 (19:47):
Merley celebrating a milestone in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 26 (19:51):
This year actually is the ninetieth anniversary of the USDA's
and Natural Resources Conservation Service, which before was the Natural
Resources Conservation Services SOCIL Conservation Service, and before that it
was the Soil Erosion Service over in the Department of
Interior for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's an RCS historian Shelby Callaway, and while a significant anniversary,
he explains.

Speaker 26 (20:11):
That ninety year anniversary is important. That's a useful number,
but it doesn't really give the full picture because it's
a longer history than that.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Why that is the case is.

Speaker 26 (20:21):
A lot of times we date the agency to nineteen
thirty five because that's when it became a permanent agency
in the USDA, and we say that it's kind of
born out of the dust bowl, but that's not entirely accurate.
I think it's better to say, maybe it's born during
the dust Bowl, but it's conceived much earlier than that.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
April twenty seventh, nineteen thirty five, is the date that
Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act that created nrcs's permanent
agency status. Yet Callaway says soil conservation efforts and earnest
begin in the late nineteenth early twentieth century period, whether
the US Census Bureau proclaimed America's Front Tier over and

(20:57):
with the first glimpses of lab based limits appeared.

Speaker 26 (21:00):
Back when land was cheap and sometimes even free thanks
to the Homestead Act, and labor was expensive, it didn't
always make a lot of economic sense for farmers to
spend time improving or conserving their land. Instead, you can
kind of do what you want, and then if your
farm isn't very productive anymore, move on, And you can't
really do that anymore when there's nowhere to move on
to left.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
A realization that gave birth to natural resource entities such
as the US Forest Service at National Park System, while
for soil conservation.

Speaker 26 (21:26):
Eighteen ninety four is when the USDA created a Division
of Agricultural Soils to kind of examine the nation's soil
resources more closely.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
With the first soil surveys initiated five years later. Fast
forward to the year nineteen to oh three and the
hiring at the Soil Bureau of perhaps the nation's foremost
soil conservationist, Hugh ham Embedded due to travels here at abroad.

Speaker 26 (21:49):
He began to sort of notice alarming trends and became
convinced that accelerated soil erosion brought on by inappropriate farming methods,
was a major problem all over the country, not just
for farmers, but for the national economy and like the
longevity of the nation itself, if it hoped to endure.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
That led to decades of increased soil research and soil
management planning.

Speaker 26 (22:09):
You have to have this whole suite of tools, and
they need to be really adapted to where you are.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
And advocacy for a national agency to address soil erosion
and its impacts. The culmination of this effort approached the
same time as the Great Depression and the disaster of
the dust Bowl, leading to formation of the Interior Department's
Soil Erosion Service in nineteen thirty three, before morphig into
the Soil Conservation Service under USDA purview two years later.

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I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 27 (22:48):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowen.
Federal jurisdiction over waters of the United States has been
an issue in the courts for a long time. In
twenty twenty three, the US Supreme Court set that the
text of the Clean Water Act allows the EPA to
regulate only tributaries that would be identifiable to a reasonable person,
that have flowing or standing water most days of the year,

(23:09):
and that have a continuous connection to a traditional navigable
water like a river or sea. The decision is viewed
as a big wind for agriculture, but the EPA hasn't
necessarily applied it properly. I'll be back in a moment
to discuss.

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Sacket decision involving wetlands. The case has been ongoing for
over fifteen years. The EPA claims that he illegally filled
in four natural dips that occasionally channeled rain or snowmil
After the Sacket decision, the trial court reversed its earlier
ruling as to three of the alleged waters, but still
held that one was a navigable water, and the court
left in place almost the entire civil and mitigation penalty

(24:18):
that it had originally ordered. The Court's decision is on
appeal concerning the correct legal standard for identifying waters of
the United States. Keep an eye on the outcome of
the case on appeal. It's an important one for agriculture
concerning how the Sacket opinion is applied. This has been
the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger Mcowen.

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It's time for California ag Today on the AG Information Network,
I am Haley's ship. Motion activated cameras, GPS colors, scat analysis,
and cattle hair are helping researchers better understand how California's
protected gray wolf popular is impacting ranchers and the costs

(25:03):
are steep. From twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four,
scientists tracked wolf and cattle interactions across northeastern rangelands. They
found one wolf can cause sixty nine to one hundred
and sixty two thousand dollars in direct and indirect losses
through lowered pregnancy rates and decreased calf weight gains. Total

(25:23):
indirect losses could reach up to three point four million dollars.
SCAT samples showed that seventy two percent contained cattle DNA
and hair cortisol levels confirmed that cattle and wolf areas
were more stressed. Trail cameras even caught wolves chasing cattle
at night, offering rare visual confirmation of the stress events.
The research was funded by the USDA, the California Cattle Council,

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and others. Experts say the work helps inform conversations as
the state shifts to a new phase of wolf management.
From a UC Davis press release, rangeland scientist Can Tate
is quoted as saying, we do need to get towards
some kind of coexistence. We don't know what that looks
like yet, but it's not what we're doing now.

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Speaker 13 (27:05):
With California AGG Today on the AG Information Network, I
am Haley's ship.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Bob Quinn. Here are some farm us this morning, friends,
the Environmental Protection Agency released a new plan to protect
endangered species from insecticides. Chad Smith has this story.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft of its plan
to protect endangered species while still allowing farmers the flexibility
to use insecticides to protect their crops. John Walt Boatwright,
director of Government Affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation,
talks about the announcement.

Speaker 31 (27:40):
So, the administration has been developing a ESA work plan,
which was mandated by court order for EPA to expedite
their compliance with the Endangered Species Acts in terms of
pesticide registrations. So they have been releasing these strategies to
comply with the Endangered Species Acts by classes of pestis.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Boat Right says farmers and ranchers should keep an eye
out for impacts to pesticides and pesticide application practices.

Speaker 31 (28:08):
It could impact farmers and ranchers as chemistries are being
reviewed by EPA, they will pull from this strategy this
document to potentially apply new mitigation measures to pesticide applications
based on their chemistry. The good news is that we
won't see these new requirements immediately.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Boat Right says. This is an ongoing process.

Speaker 31 (28:32):
The next step in the process is for those insecticides
moving forward to have the strategy applied to them at
the normal link to the process. Another next step to
be watching is that we also expect a fungicide anderodenticide
strategy to be finalized.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Chad Smith, Washington.

Speaker 28 (28:49):
Well Friends.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Many governors in the Midwest are weighing in on the
renewable volume obligations Riley Smith.

Speaker 16 (28:56):
As a report, several Midwest governors, including Governor's Kim Reynolds
from Eye, Iowa, Larry road In from South Dakota, Jim
Pillen from Nebraska, and Mike Keyho of Missouri, sent a
letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zelden urging the
EPA to establish a twenty twenty six RVO of no
less than fifteen billion gallons for conventional SNOL and five
point twenty five billion gallons for biomass based diesel. These

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are the same volumes that the Clean Fuels Alliance and
other allied farm groups asked for in March. Paul Winters CFA,
director of Public Affairs and Federal Communications, said it's great
to see the support from that group of governors.

Speaker 21 (29:30):
They explicitly asked EPA to establish the twenty twenty six
RFS volumes with fifteen dollars billion gallons for conventional fanol
and five point twenty five billion gallons for biomass based diesel,
which is consistent with what clean fuels. The Farm Bureau,
American Soybing, the Oil Feed Processor Association, and other feedstock

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and farm groups have asked for and recommended the EPA.
So that letter was organized by Iowa Governor Kim Rutt
Reynolds and you know, congratulations to her on her retirement plans.
It was signed on by Nebraska Governor Jim Pillin, Southcota
Governor Larry Roden, and Missouri Governor Mike Keyhoe.

Speaker 16 (30:17):
Winter said this ties in nicely with the CFA's upcoming
advertising and social media campaign, which aims to ensure that
the EPA and other policy influencers understand why it's so
important for those fuel volumes to be sent at the
proper levels.

Speaker 21 (30:29):
We are going to be launching an ad campaign this week.
It's a six figure advertising campaign. The primary aspect of
it is going to be asking our member companies, other
stakeholders in the industry, and you know, people in the
Midwest whose jobs and economic livelihoods are tied to the

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success of the US biodiesel and renewable diesel industry. We're
asking them to encourage EPA administrator LESE. Elden too to
set the volumes where everyone is agreeing they should be set.
The should be you know, an easy to ask for him, right,
And even the American Petroleum Institute degrees that the biomass
based DEFIL volumes should be five point two five billion

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gallons next year.

Speaker 16 (31:15):
Winter said they will also soon be releasing another study
that shows the impact that bile fields have on the
entire US economy.

Speaker 21 (31:21):
It is an economic benefit to everyone. We are preparing
to release an economic impact study. Just from the preliminary data,
we're seeing our industry sports more than one hundred and
seven thousand jobs across country. And those jobs are you know,
everything from fuel producers to seat stock collectors, to soybean

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farmers to oil seed processors, and you know the truck
drivers who transport all these materials from one place to another.
And the you know, the overall economic impact is more
than forty three billion dollars per year. That's is going
to be coming out in a few weeks. And that
yet another one of our supporting points for boosting the

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volumes to five point two five billion gallons.

Speaker 16 (32:09):
That again was Paul Winter's Clean Field's Alliance Director of
Public Affairs and Federal Communications. I'm Riley Smith reporting.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Farm US this morning. You are listening to ag Life.

Speaker 32 (32:22):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.

Speaker 21 (32:25):
Well.

Speaker 32 (32:26):
California wine grape growers continue to tear out vineyards in
an effort to balance the state's grape supply with a
historic drop in wine demand. Grower Joe Valente says he's
seen more vineyards removed in one year than he's ever seen,
adding other growers of stop necessary vineyard maintenance. The decline
in wine sales has been attributed to shifting consumer attitudes
around the health benefits or risks of consuming low levels

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of alcohol. PepsiCo ceo Ramon Laguarta says they will accelerate
its transition to natural ingredients amid pressure from the White
House to remove artificial colors from foods. The Cheetos and
Doritos maker plans to transition to all natural or natural
color options within a couple of years. This comes after
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior announced Health and Human Services

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wants food companies to voluntarily remove or replace synthetic colors
by the end of next year, and America urgently needs
immigration reform to support US farmers, according to Landa Lakes
CEO Beth Ford, who says immigrants make up roughly half
of America's farm laborers. She says farmers want to support
President Trump's economic agenda, but there's real concern over possible

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labor shortages and loss profits. With Trump's tariffs now threatening exports,
Ford says she's most worried about twenty twenty six and
how duties will reshape the trade landscape.

Speaker 15 (33:43):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
in the origin theories colors.

Speaker 24 (33:48):
Hey, yeah, it's Seva fund aside from BASF, a category
leader in disease control.

Speaker 15 (33:53):
How do you explain these healthy crops.

Speaker 24 (33:55):
Well, longer lasting residual Plus it's built for current regulatory
standards and there for what's to come, which improves crop
marketing flexibility.

Speaker 15 (34:03):
So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it Sevia fungicide from BASF for is it always
reading only bresos.

Speaker 25 (34:12):
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Speaker 4 (34:42):
From the AGG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Bob went back to wrap up AGLI for today. Friends. Well,
The Liberal Party has claimed a fourth consecutive victory in
Canada's federal election. Dennis Guy reports from Canada for US
this morning, but they returned to Ottawa as a minority,
four seats short of a majority government. The returning Liberals,
this time under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney,

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seemed to have received assistance from US President Trump. Trump's
remarks of Canada being legitimate only as a fifty first
state provoked anger within the Canadian electorate and created a
patriotic backlash. Mark Carney largely focused on Trump's threats during
his campaign. Carney also acknowledged that not everyone voted for

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him and his Liberals, but that he intends to lead
a government that represents all Canadians.

Speaker 33 (35:37):
One of the responsibilities of government is to prepare for
the worst, not hope for the best. President Trump is
trying to break us so that America can own us.
That will never ever happen. And my message to every
Canadian is this, no matter how you voted, I will
always do my best to represent everyone who calls Canada.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
The Liberal win is consistent with more recent Polster projections,
but still saw an extreme turnaround in political fortunes. Just
three months ago, the Liberals under Justin Trudeau were near
an all time low in popularity, while the opposition Conservatives
were thirty points ahead. Nick Nanos, president of Nanos Research

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in one of Canada's major polling firms, said this election
campaign was one of the most polarized in Canadian history,
with strong US overtones in the way it morphed into
a very American style two party race.

Speaker 34 (36:31):
We knew that there was going to be a close race,
highly polarized captured the shape of the campaign. Mark Karney
brought the Liberals back from their deathbed. Peer paulyub did
hit record levels for Conservative support. All the other parties
got crushed so consolidation to a two party race sounds
kind of American, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Atlantic Canada and Ontario voters remained strongly behind the Liberals,
who also got support from normally NDP and Green Party supporters.
Even the hardline province of Quebec saw some cultural voter
support move away from the block Quebecois into the Liberal column. However,
the Prairie provinces, especially Alberta and Saskatchewan, largely maintained their

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conservative status. Preston Manning, founder of the right wing Reform
Party which merged with the Conservatives twenty years ago, says
that many Westerners are not happy to see the return
of the Liberal Party to Ottawa.

Speaker 35 (37:22):
This is far broader than Alberta Saskatchewan. Incidentally, it is
the same sentiment parts of Manitoba and British Columbia and
the territories desire not to have another four years of
misrule to the resource sectors which are fundamental building blocks
of the economy energy, agriculture, forestry, mining, and desire not

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to be subjected to that for another four years.

Speaker 8 (37:45):
But Canadians have returned the Liberals again as a minority
government to Ottawa. Reporting from Canada, I'm Denis guy with that.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition, A Bad Life