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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. We
start off today looking at the Florida orange crop and
orange production. What's the outlook for the twenty four to
twenty five production totals regarding the Sunshine States orange crop
(00:21):
and in turn it's orange juice volumes. Well. Rod Bain
starts us off this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Many consumers of US oranges, no Florida is one of
the major production states in sub months. The only state
reporting production forecast to the US Department of Agriculture last month.
Within USDA's latest forecast for Florida is all orange crop.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Forecast for twenty twenty four five marketing the year is
five hundred and twenty two thousand tons, down thirty five
percent from last season presented.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
According to Catherine Webber of the Economic Research Service, this possibility,
if realized.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
This Florida orange crop would be the smallest in ninety
five years.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What is behind this latest decrease of the Sunshine State's
orange crops.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
In October twenty twenty four, Hurricane Milton caused millions of
dollars of damage in Florida's prime citrus producing counties. The
storm dealt a further blow to the Florida citrus industry,
already be set with challenges from the devastating botanical disease
known as citrus greening MADI.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Consumers of US oranges also know the importance of Florida
oranges to the nation's orange juice supply.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Florida oranges continued to play a major role in the
US orange juice industry, accounting for about fifty percent of
oranges used in domestic production last season. Historically, Florida oranges
have dominated the US Florida orange juice industry, with Florida
oranges accounting for around ninety percent of domestic orange juice
production as recently as the twenty sixteen twenty seventeen season.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So the ha what does this season look like? Regarding
both Florida's orange juice production and the impacts of Hurricane
Milton and citrus greening to that production.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
With fewer oranges, this year, US orange juice production forecast
is expected to fall to its lowest since the early
nineteen seventies. Beginning orange juice stocks are lower the season
domestic orange juice prices have continued to climb, and ers
expects orange juice imports to rise higher this year than
last year.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
USDA's latest Fruit and tree Nut Outlook also offered a
look at our nation's grapefruit production for twenty twenty four
to twenty five, including those grown in Florida.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
For grepefruit, and twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five
productionists forecast at two hundred and ninety nine tons, the
lowest level since nineteen twenty two. Great fruit production is
expected to fall year every year in California and Florida.
Texas is forecast to account for one third of US
great fruit production this season. At one hundred thousand times.
Texas greapefruit forecast is four percent higher than last year.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Broad main reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well Friends coming up will look at potato production in
the Pacific Northwest and some of the challenges that predato
producers are facing, and also some insight on energy production
and energy production possibilities moving forward over the next few
months all across the country. You're listening to ag Life
(03:12):
Bob Quinn. Here were some farm news this morning. Friends,
potato growers in Washington State know the challenges that come
with a job, especially in recent years with expenses soaring.
Matthew blew Up, director of industry Outreach at the Washington
State Potato Commission, says, this past season wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think we had a really good season. No specific
protestulis to speak of that was particularly damning. The things
seem to go very well. I know that some of
our processors are having some issues, but I'm pretty sure
we'll recovered from that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Fortunately, says potatoes are one of the more stable crops
grown in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Right now, we're having concerns about the price of nitrogen.
Fertilizer is a very expensive thing, and certainly potatoes use
a lot of nitrogen. That would be one of our
challenges going forward.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And losses like that, Blewis says, are always a concern.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We're concerned about EPA's response to Endangered Species Act and
how that's going to impact this going forward. You realize
that the way we read labels will change in the future,
and that is we'll have to go to a website
to get all the information that we're required to get.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If he's a Pest Society, but Blewa says, overall, it's
not so bad.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Tatas are one of the more stable things that we
produced in the Columbia Basins, so every year seemed to
be a pretty good year.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Matthew Bleua, director of Industry Outreach at the Washington State
Potato Commission, well friends. While most farmers have their spring
energy needs locked in, what's ahead for the rest of
the growing season. David Holt, president of the Consumer Energy Alliance,
says there may be some relief ahead from the high
cost of energy.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Gasoleene diesel prices have already come down quite a bit
from their high over the previous administration, which we had
kind of historic highs, and gasoline and diesels, we're seeing
some relief there. Natural gas prices are kind of normalized
here a little bit. They came down a little bit,
but then they've come back up, so it's got a
little bit of a swing back and forth. But overall,
I think we're seeing a better trend, and most forecasters,
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including us, the kind of a flat rest of the year.
So over this year compared to previous couple of years,
already seen some relief and we expect to continue to
see some relief.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Steps are being taken to open up more energy production
to hopefully bring down cost.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We had a significant kind of overreach over regulation, too
many regulations, redundant regulations, unnecessary on the refining sector, flowing
down or preventing pipelines, transmission lines, exploring and developing offshore
US energy, onshore US energy. The whole energy sector was
under assault in some way, which obviously rippled into prices.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Holt says deregulating the industry can help keep energy prices
from rising out of control due to tariff pressure.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
In relating back to tariffs, While most forecasters saying there's
going to be short term increases in prices in tariffs,
the flip side of that from a policy standpoint, as
you relax these regulatory hurdles that were artificially created and
increased prices may energy less reliable and didn't really do
much to clean up the environment. As you start rolling
those back, you're going to see price relief. You know,
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this administration is going to walk a little bit of
a balance here over the next six nine months. Tariffs,
as we let that work itself out, is going to happen.
It's maybe be some short term price increases. But as
the rags get relaxed and removed and industry no longer
has to comply with redundant regulations, you will see more
prices come down, even more and more relaxation in the price.
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So that's potentially a really good part of the whole
overall equation. As we factor in more and more of
these regulations that will be getting away.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
David Holt of the Consumer Energy Alliance Well, friends, spring
means planting and farmers are itching to get into the fields. However,
weather can often make turning the soil tricky. Matt Bennett,
co founder of agmarket dot net, says, the weather has
been a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It is an odd spring. I think the concerning thing
for me, I go back to my buddy Eric Snagress.
We talk a lot. He's actually a guy that's on
retainer with US market because we value his information so much.
But he's still predicting, you know, like a sixty percent
chance and this is a scientific prediction. It's not just
throwing it out there. But he's saying a sixty percent
chance of a drought that would impact national yield.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's most likely to show up in the western corn Belt.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
He's very concerned about the western corn Belt, I think
more so than the whole corn Belt. You know, a
lot of it has to do is just the fact
that subsoul morsters is so low. You know, you look
at last September and October very statistically significantly dry, and
there's not very many years that were as dry as that,
and would that be in the case you got to
go back and ask what do those other four years
look like? Which is all there was that were as
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dry as we were last September October. Three of those
four years had yield affecting drought.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
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USDA releasing their prospective plantings report for twenty twenty five,
and for corn, if realized, will be the third highest
ever ninety five point three million acres of corn planet
this year. That would be a five point two percent
increase year over year, and it's higher than the average
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trade guests of ninety four point three million acres. Now,
the trade had guessed eighty three point seven million acres
of soybeans. The USDA came in below that at eighty
three point four million acres, a four point one percent
year over year decline, a slight decline for wheat acres
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at forty five point three million, and a sizeable reduction
for cotton down eleven point eight percent nine point eight
million acres in twenty twenty five. Sorga makers up four
point two at six point five barley acres down two
point four percent two point three million acres.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
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Speaker 7 (09:31):
Lowest on record oats a new record low, and sunflowers
of forty eight percent. It's another AGEWS update.
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Doctor darryl'peel is an Oklahoma state livestock economist. On whether
we'll see movements based more now on seasonality.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
It's certainly possible, because I do expect, on average to
see higher prices as we go through the year. So
if the market is trending up, the seasonality that we
normally talk about is based on a stable market. So
if the market is otherwise not trending anywhere you see
that kind of seasonal pattern. If you have an up
trend in place, then the seasonal loaves that might happen
in the middle of the year or later may be
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muted somewhat with that uptrend offsetting part of that.
Speaker 14 (11:22):
What are we seeing for box beef.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Across the central and southern plains. Producers will put cattle
out on wheat pasture, well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
First of all, on wheat.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
If there are cattles still out on wheat now, at
least in Oklahoma, we're passed first hall of stem, so
that means that that wheat is for grays out. I
do think that's happening. The numbers were not large. We
never did get a lot of cattle out on wheat
last fall. We had so much strougle getting it started.
But there are some cattle out there, so they'll be
coming off in mid to late May, and so there'll
be that, But again, I don't think they're going to
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show up as a big run of wheat pasture cattle,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That might have been part of.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
What we saw in March with the bigger volumes, was
some cattle coming off of wheat.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's not unusual to see that. So but as we
go forward, you.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Know, the bottom line, and really the question that's been
out there for many months and still is is are
we retaining heifers. If we start holding back effers, then
those feeder volumes are going to drop pretty sharply, pretty quickly,
and that'll show up then in the cattle on feed inventories.
It'll pull those down in just a few months time.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Oklahoma State Livestock Economists, Dary o'peel, American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
This is Dairy Radio. Now.
Speaker 11 (12:34):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for feedber at
USA and today Professor Chris Wolfe of Cornell College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Speaker 15 (12:41):
He is the E. V.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Thanks for having me, John, A lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
I think you'd have to agree that right now is
one of the most dynamic times in milk marketing. It's
a fluid, fluid situation, right, no pun intended.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (12:55):
The first reform of the Federal Blog Marketing Owners that
we've had that was national in scope since two thousand
and eight, and by far the biggest amount of adjustments
that have been made to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders
are going into effecta this year since the year two thousand.
Speaker 11 (13:08):
It's the first one since we've had some new tools
to implement.
Speaker 14 (13:11):
Right.
Speaker 16 (13:11):
That's true really if you think about it, in the
last twenty five years, we've seen a whole lot of
changes in the industry, but two of the big ones
that came into account in this set of hearings was
one twenty five years ago. We had futures and options
for dairy products, but they weren't widely used, and we
didn't have the Dairy Revenue Protection Program. We didn't have
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past range land forage. We didn't have the LGM Dairy
program and we you know, things of that nature, so
that risk management is much more common now and that
matters when we're making changes to the underlying price instruments.
The other thing that's changed is we were not net
exporters twenty five years ago and now we are. And
now you know, roughly one day of milk a week
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equivalent gets exported and we're in the international markets, and
that also matters for when we make these changes.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
That's great information to have. So dairy processor capacity is
something very exciting, particularly in New York State. Why do
you think dairy processors are so bullish on New York
as evidenced by the incredible increase in capacity.
Speaker 16 (14:12):
You know, that's a really good question. And you know,
one thing about the dairy industry is that it's really
good for the economy in the area that it's located. Right,
Dairy farmers buy a lot of inputs, They spend a
lot of money on feed, machinery, equipment, fertilizer, seed, They
hire people locally, and so they tend to be drivers
of local economies. And for that reason, a lot of
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places want to see the dairy industry. New York's no
exception to that. And as you mentioned, New York has
had several expansions that are either recently completed or are
currently underway Cheese Fluid and other expansions in New York.
And so you know, kind of why has that happen here?
I think there's several reasons. A couple of them are
natural advantages that New York has, which is to say,
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New York State is located within fairly easy days drive
of most of the population of these stern seaboard is
you know, particularly the big metropolitan areas in the northeast right,
so there's a lot of consumers there and that's a
good thing. Second is we have water. You got to
have forages to feed cows. You got to have at
least some forg Just this is a place where, thankfully located,
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where we're near a lot of fresh water, where we
get a lot of rainfall. And you know, turns out
cows don't mind this climate. In fact, high producing dairy
cows tend to like the climate that we have in
this part of the world. So I think it's a
good place to milk cows. The other thing I would
say is that New York State made some efforts to
attract some of this and encouraged it, which was, you know,
a good thing, although other places have tried that too,
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But I think mostly it's actually a testament to the
fact that these companies have confidence in the New York
dairy farmer managers to supply the milk that they need.
Right because the first thing you got to have if
you're going to build a new processing plan is you
got to run it. All that stainless steel does nothing
for you if you don't put milk through it. And
I think that New York has progressive, high quality dairy
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farm managers, and I think this is a real testament
to the fact that these companies believe that they can
get the supply that they need from the New York
dairy farmers.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Fantastic. Now the million dollar question your current all milk
forecast for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (16:17):
Well, two months ago I was forecasting it to be
a little bit lower than last year, but not dramatically lower.
And part part of the deal of John is telling
me how long we're going to have trade disruptions. And
I'll tell you where we're at right now. We're looking
at milk prices this month for farmers probably being a
dollar lower than last month, and next month in May
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made that being a dollar lower than this month. You know,
I think hopefully we're going to have all milk prices
in that eighteen nineteen dollar range. Earlier I thought we
would be twenty or above. But a lot of it
depends on kind of how quickly we work through the
current set of issues to make certain that we have
a good outlet for that sixteen to eighteen percent of
the milk that we need to explore.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Chris wolf The Eed Baker, Professor of Agricultural Economics at
Cornell University, Thanks for being with us today. It's great
to have you here.
Speaker 16 (17:07):
Hey, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for Fever at USA.
Speaker 17 (17:12):
Marketing US almonds into India, the number one export market.
I'm Patrick Cabana with the California Tree Nut Report, part
of the Vast Egg Information Network. Clarice Turner as President
and CEO of the Almored Border California. She said, the
industry's working hard to get as much as they can
into India and the many parts of India.
Speaker 18 (17:34):
We also are looking at going into the Tier two
cities with some of our advertising activity, which we've not
done before. So we're in the process of selecting those
right now. There's a lot you could go to because
India is a huge country and it has you know,
massive population, so we actually that's part of the India
Task Force role is not only to understand what the
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potential is, but understand how should the dominoes fall right
because it's a tricky market, we really want to make
sure that we go about in the correct way. So
we're going after data right now, working with the Indian government,
working with our own foreign egg service, to try to
understand what's the total picture, how do we break it down,
and then how do we sequence what we're going to
do over the next three to five years. A little complicated, Patrick,
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not straightforward in terms of let's go invest in this
because it's a complex country, and it's huge country, and
every different part of the country is almost like its
own country itself, right has a different language, different culture,
different customs, different religions. So it's complex and we love
it and they love almonds, so we're all in.
Speaker 17 (18:33):
That's Clarice Turner with the almond Border California.
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Speaker 15 (19:36):
You're listening to focus on ag I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The importance of plant germplasm repositories such as USDA's Plant
Genetic Research Unit in New York State. Is not lost
are those involved in cataloging and preserving varieties and species
or developing new ones. Eric Galerno is the Great germ
plasm curator.
Speaker 14 (19:58):
We're conserving ten resources for others to use, and these
are resources that could be lost due to a number
of different factors over time. As far as a resource
for researchers, they have that resource or new flavors for
resistance various diseases if they're looking for something with more
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which is huge and will help be more sustainable, reduce
our fungicide uses. But this is us so where you
can find new traits like getting larger yields or better growth,
and that's going to really help us stay in a
sustainable agricultural setting for the long term.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
USDA Agricultural Research stations at New York and California can
take thousands of what is known as accessions, different from
cultivars in that a cultivar.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Is basically something with a name, an accession is something
that is unique but may not have a name because
it never went through the official naming and marketing process.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Over fourteen hundred accessions in the New York Ars Grape
germ Plasm collection focused primarily odd, cold hardy grapevines. The
California Collection holds thirty eight hundred accessions with genetic material
focused on heat tolerate grape varieties and those growed in
the Mediterranean climates of Europe.
Speaker 14 (21:19):
Utilizers of both of our collections are people looking to integrate,
so take traits from one vine and move it into
a desirable vine.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That needs the genetic cross breeding of wild grape cultivars
with already established germ plasm to create varieties with desirable traits.
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I'm Rod Baane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
The proposed actions by the US Trade Representative and Forum
built in foreign flagships entering US ports has raised concerns
among farmers. Fees up to one and a half million
dollars on ships arriving at US ports if the ships
are Chinese built, operated, or flagged, would hit US agg
in the wallet. Mike Steinhook is the executive director of
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the Sey Transportation Coalition and says the issue is with
how the program would be implemented.
Speaker 21 (22:22):
This is not a complex mathematical exercise. This will easily
price US out of much of the international marketplace. And
so that's the real concern is that in the effort
to try to promote a made in American industry US shipbuilding,
they're going to have negative consequences on other made in
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American industries like agriculture and others.
Speaker 15 (22:48):
The American Soybean Association estimates vessels going from the Pacific
Northwest to China would see a cost increase up to
twelve dollars and twenty nine cents a bushel on soybeans.
Speaker 21 (23:00):
You drop a significant cost on that. Those costs will
get passed onto in our case, farmers and agriculture. You know,
someone could say, well, just pass those costs onto your customers.
If we tried to do that, what our customers would
say is today's an excellent day to buy more sobeans
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from Brazil or Argentina.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Steinhook is quick to point out the farmers are the
ultimate Made in America constituency, but they could not withstand
an economic blow like this.
Speaker 21 (23:33):
Things like barges and towboats, dredges, those all have to
be built in the United States. There's a law that
stipulates that. It's called the Jones Act, and we've been
long supportive of that. So we have this track record
of supporting the domestic shipbuilding industry. We think that certainly
has room to improve over time, and we applaud the
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administration for pursuing that. Again, it's all about the time
for execution and doing it in a way that doesn't
harm other maid in American industries.
Speaker 15 (24:05):
Again. That is Mike Steinhook, executive director of the Soy
Transportation Coalition, and he says the reaction to the US
Trade Representative proposal has been overwhelmingly negative. This is focus
on AG. Thank you for beginning with US today.
Speaker 22 (24:21):
It's time for California AG Today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter
of appeal late last week to US Department to Agriculture,
urging a reversal of the termination of forty seven million
dollars in funding meant to support California farmers who grow
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produce for food banks, schools, and community centers. The money
had been awarded to California through the Local Food Purchase
Assistance or LFPA and Local Food for Schools programs. According
to USDA dot gov, the LFPA Cooperative Agreement program provides
funding to state, tribal, and territorial governments to buy food
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grown locally, either within the state or within four hundred
miles of the delivery point. It's designed to support local, regional,
and underserved producers while helping communities in need. From Governor
Newsom's website, since twenty twenty two, California has used over
eighty eight point five million dollars in LFPA funding to
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strengthen its food supply system, connect small farmers to new markets,
and distribute nutritious food to food and secure families. Newsome
called the USDA's sudden cancelation irrational and malicious, warning it
will hurt both growers and families who depend on fresh
food access.
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Speaker 1 (26:43):
Here were some farm news this morning. Friends. Potato growers
in Washington State know the challenges that come with the job,
especially in recent years with expenses soaring. Matthew blew Up,
director of industry outreach at the Washington State Potato Commission
says this past season wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I think we had a really good season. No specific
pestilence to speak of that was particularly damning. Things seem
to go very well. I know that some of our
processors are having some issues, but I'm pretty sure we'll
recovered from that fortunately.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Blua says potatoes are one of the more stable crops
grown in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Right now, we're having concerns about the price of nitrogen.
Fertilizer is a very expensive thing, and certainly potatoes use
a lot of nitrogen. That would be one of our
challenges going forward.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And losses like that, Bluis says, are always a concern.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We're concerned about EPA's response to Endangered Species Act and
how that's going to impact us going forward. You realize
that the way we read labels will change in the future,
and that is we'll have to go to a website
to get all the information that we're required to get
to use a pest socie.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But Bleua says, overall, it's not so bad.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Potatoes are one of the more stable things that we
produced in the Columbia Basin. So every year seemed to
be a pretty good year.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Matthew Bleua, director of industry Outreach at the Washington State
Potato Commission, Well, Frans spring means planting and farmers are
to get into the fields. However, weather can often make
turning the soil tricky. Matt Bennett, co founder of agmarket
dot net, says, the weather has been a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
It is an odd spring. I think the concerning thing
for me, I go back to my buddy Eric Snudgrass.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We talk a lot.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
He's actually a guy that's on retainer with us at
the bag Market because we value his information so much.
But he's still predicting, you know, like a sixty percent
chance and this is a scientific prediction. It's not just
throwing it out there. But he's saying a sixty percent
chance of a drought that would impact national yield.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's most likely to show up in the western corn belt.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
He's very concerned about the western corn belt, I think,
more so than the whole corn belt. You know, A
lot of it has to do is just the fact
that SubSol moistures is so low. You know, you look
at last September October very statistically significantly dry, and there's
not very many years that were as dry as that,
and would that be in the case you got to
go back and ask what those other four years look like,
which is all there was that were as dry as
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we were last September October. Three of those four years
had yield affecting.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Matt Bennett Agmarket dot Net well friends. Weeds have been
springing up with warmer weather all across a road crop country.
It means farmers will need to take care as they
finalize their weed control plans. Aaron Hager, an extension weed
scientist out of the Midwest, says producers need to keep
track of what's in a field and understand how each
weed grows and reacts to the herbicide being used well.
Speaker 25 (29:23):
As most people are probably aware, with the recent couple
of weeks where we've had some fairly moderate to warm temperatures,
a lot of green is now starting to show up
in fields predominantly.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
These are many of our winter.
Speaker 25 (29:34):
Annual weed species, and it's always a good idea for
folks to try to get all vegetation under control before
anything is planted in that field. We always can say
our intention is we're going to plant, we'll take care
of controlling the weeds at some point after we plant.
But as we typically relearn every year and that is
that the weather really controls what we're able to do,
and so those established weeds can actually be fairly competitive
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with an emerging foreign cropper and emergence being cropped. So
trying to get weeds managed before we put any seed
in the ground is always a very very good first step.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To that end, Hager says, the utility of a pre
emergent service side has increased over time as weeds like
water hemp have developed resistance.
Speaker 25 (30:16):
We went through an ara course back in the late
nineteen nineties as the glycisate resistant technology came into the
marketplace where we really moved away from utilizing residual herbicides.
But given the resistance issues that we now face predominantly
with our water hip populations in the state, it's really
of paramount importance that we use a good foundation herbicide
program close to planting time in order to try to
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reduce the number of whether a guinness giant rag weed
or water hemp plants that will have to try to
control in the post emergence application.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Glyphosate resistance is one of the biggest issues, and Hager
says it's the application rate that really matters.
Speaker 25 (30:51):
The application rate is really going to depend on a
couple of things. Number one, of course, the spectrum of
weeds that you have. Number two, what is the size
of those weeds, and then thirdly, what is the particular
to life estate formulation that you're using. So most every
herbicide label, especially the ones for the fully applied products,
will have weed sizes on the label. They'll list the
species they control, and then typically the maximum growth stage
at which they can still remain effacted. So, as we
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always say, the best information is going to be to
read the.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Label talking weeds. This morning, farm US, you are listening
to ag Life.
Speaker 26 (31:23):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins will visit six international markets this
year to boost American agricultural exports at a time when
the egg trade deficit is nearly fifty billion dollars. Following
the previous administration's little to Know action in the international marketplace,
the USDA is working to diversify and strengthen global markets
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and hold existing trading partners accountable. This year, Secretary Rawlins
will visit Vietnam, Japan, India, Peru, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
There have been over twenty million commercial tableshell egg laying
hens lost already in twenty twenty five to the bird flu,
impacting eggs supply and prices. As a stopgap measure to
boost egg supplies, it's been suggested that surplus broiler hatchery
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eggs could be transferred to the egg products market that
could then be sold as fresh, helping lower prices. They
are currently used for animal feed products and often disposed of.
US beef sales to China have taken a dive after
Beijing allowed the expiration of registrations that permitted exports from
hundreds of American meat facilities. The tit for tat tariff
dispute has also raised duties on US meat and other
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goods shipped to China, making them less attractive to Chinese buyers.
China has not renewed export registrations for US beef facilities
that expired on March sixteenth, though at updated registrations for
pork and poultry plants.
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Speaker 1 (33:51):
Bob Quin back to wrap up baglife for Today. Friends Washington, DC.
Cherry blossoms an annual tradition and celebration in the nation's capital.
Have this theorical connections with the US Agriculture Department. Rod
Bain has our final report.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Springtime visits to the Nation's capital include timing such trips
to see the Title Basin cherry trees in bloom.
Speaker 27 (34:13):
It's spring. Everyone around the north temperate world is great
to be leaving winter behind. Summers around the corner. We're
all getting up, we're getting excited, and the flowering cherries
just offering a tremendous, graceful beauty to matching sort of
that energy we have here in the springtime.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's the director of the US National Arboretum in Washington, D. C.
Richard Olsen. The National Park Service oversees and maintains the
title Basin as part of the system of the National
Mall at monument parks in the district. Yet Olsen is
quick to point out regarding the title based cherry trees.
Speaker 27 (34:49):
It wouldn't have been possible without the United States Department
of agriculture.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It was the work of doctor David Fairchild that provided inspiration.
As head of the then Plant Exploration Office in the
early twentieth century, which later became part of what is
now the National Germplasm System within the Agricultural Research Service.
Speaker 27 (35:08):
Doctor Fairchild was instrumental in arranging for and inspiring people
to do the gift. He had a garden here in Washington,
d C. He had planet flower and cherries. Without the
attention of First Lady Helen Taft.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That introduction of a traditional Japanese custom to the First
Lady of the United States.
Speaker 27 (35:24):
The viewing of cherries as a long tradition, it's been
adopted specifically for cherry blossoms, it's called haname.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Coincided with Helen Taft's vision for a music park in
what was previously the Mudflat areas of Washington, d C.
And further advocacy for cherry blossoms in a new park
by National Geographic Society board member Eliza Skidmore.
Speaker 27 (35:45):
The result nineteen twelve, the original gift of several thousand
flowering cherry trees from the people of Japan. The Mayor
of Tokyo, with the First.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Lady and wife of the Japanese ambassador planting the first
two trees in March of that year. Of the trees
led to eventual full bloom and along the way ornamental
cherry trees planted at the White House, and in nineteen
thirty four the first Cherry Blossom Festival, now held annually.
Richard Olsen notes the long standing relationship between the National
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Park Service and National Arboretum regarding the title basin cherry trees.
Speaker 27 (36:21):
The National Park Service recognizes they have a cherished treasure
of cherry trees down on the title basin, so when
they need help in our assistance, we're glad to help. We
have a long history goes back decades working with the
National Park Service. We have botanists that help identify the trees,
we have horticultures that help propagate. We definitely land our
hand to botany and propagation and sharing of cherry trees
that we think could be adaptable.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
This year's National Cherry Blossom Festival continues through April thirteenth.
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that friends amount of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife,
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. We
start off today looking at the Florida orange crop and
orange production. What's the outlook for the twenty four to
twenty five production totals regarding the Sunshine States orange crop
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and in turn it's orange juice volumes. Well. Rod Bain
starts us off this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Many consumers of US oranges, no Florida is one of
the major production states in sub months. The only state
reporting production forecast to the US Department of Agriculture last month.
Within USDA's latest forecast for Florida is all orange crop.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Forecast for twenty twenty four five marketing the year is
five hundred and twenty two thousand tons, down thirty five
percent from last season presented.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
According to Catherine Webber of the Economic Research Service, this possibility,
if realized.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
This Florida orange crop would be the smallest in ninety
five years.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What is behind this latest decrease of the Sunshine State's
orange crops.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
In October twenty twenty four, Hurricane Milton caused millions of
dollars of damage in Florida's prime citrus producing counties. The
storm dealt a further blow to the Florida citrus industry,
already be set with challenges from the devastating botanical disease
known as citrus greening MADI.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Consumers of US oranges also know the importance of Florida
oranges to the nation's orange juice supply.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Florida oranges continued to play a major role in the
US orange juice industry, accounting for about fifty percent of
oranges used in domestic production last season. Historically, Florida oranges
have dominated the US Florida orange juice industry, with Florida
oranges accounting for around ninety percent of domestic orange juice
production as recently as the twenty sixteen twenty seventeen season.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So the ha what does this season look like? Regarding
both Florida's orange juice production and the impacts of Hurricane
Milton and citrus greening to that production.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
With fewer oranges, this year, US orange juice production forecast
is expected to fall to its lowest since the early
nineteen seventies. Beginning orange juice stocks are lower the season
domestic orange juice prices have continued to climb, and ers
expects orange juice imports to rise higher this year than
last year.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
USDA's latest Fruit and tree Nut Outlook also offered a
look at our nation's grapefruit production for twenty twenty four
to twenty five, including those grown in Florida.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
For grepefruit, and twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five
productionists forecast at two hundred and ninety nine tons, the
lowest level since nineteen twenty two. Great fruit production is
expected to fall year every year in California and Florida.
Texas is forecast to account for one third of US
great fruit production this season. At one hundred thousand times.
Texas greapefruit forecast is four percent higher than last year.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Broad main reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well Friends coming up will look at potato production in
the Pacific Northwest and some of the challenges that predato
producers are facing, and also some insight on energy production
and energy production possibilities moving forward over the next few
months all across the country. You're listening to ag Life
(03:12):
Bob Quinn. Here were some farm news this morning. Friends,
potato growers in Washington State know the challenges that come
with a job, especially in recent years with expenses soaring.
Matthew blew Up, director of industry Outreach at the Washington
State Potato Commission, says, this past season wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think we had a really good season. No specific
protestulis to speak of that was particularly damning. The things
seem to go very well. I know that some of
our processors are having some issues, but I'm pretty sure
we'll recovered from that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Fortunately, says potatoes are one of the more stable crops
grown in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Right now, we're having concerns about the price of nitrogen.
Fertilizer is a very expensive thing, and certainly potatoes use
a lot of nitrogen. That would be one of our
challenges going forward.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And losses like that, Blewis says, are always a concern.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We're concerned about EPA's response to Endangered Species Act and
how that's going to impact this going forward. You realize
that the way we read labels will change in the future,
and that is we'll have to go to a website
to get all the information that we're required to get.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If he's a Pest Society, but Blewa says, overall, it's
not so bad.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Tatas are one of the more stable things that we
produced in the Columbia Basins, so every year seemed to
be a pretty good year.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Matthew Bleua, director of Industry Outreach at the Washington State
Potato Commission, well friends. While most farmers have their spring
energy needs locked in, what's ahead for the rest of
the growing season. David Holt, president of the Consumer Energy Alliance,
says there may be some relief ahead from the high
cost of energy.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Gasoleene diesel prices have already come down quite a bit
from their high over the previous administration, which we had
kind of historic highs, and gasoline and diesels, we're seeing
some relief there. Natural gas prices are kind of normalized
here a little bit. They came down a little bit,
but then they've come back up, so it's got a
little bit of a swing back and forth. But overall,
I think we're seeing a better trend, and most forecasters,
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including us, the kind of a flat rest of the year.
So over this year compared to previous couple of years,
already seen some relief and we expect to continue to
see some relief.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Steps are being taken to open up more energy production
to hopefully bring down cost.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We had a significant kind of overreach over regulation, too
many regulations, redundant regulations, unnecessary on the refining sector, flowing
down or preventing pipelines, transmission lines, exploring and developing offshore
US energy, onshore US energy. The whole energy sector was
under assault in some way, which obviously rippled into prices.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Holt says deregulating the industry can help keep energy prices
from rising out of control due to tariff pressure.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
In relating back to tariffs, While most forecasters saying there's
going to be short term increases in prices in tariffs,
the flip side of that from a policy standpoint, as
you relax these regulatory hurdles that were artificially created and
increased prices may energy less reliable and didn't really do
much to clean up the environment. As you start rolling
those back, you're going to see price relief. You know,
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this administration is going to walk a little bit of
a balance here over the next six nine months. Tariffs,
as we let that work itself out, is going to happen.
It's maybe be some short term price increases. But as
the rags get relaxed and removed and industry no longer
has to comply with redundant regulations, you will see more
prices come down, even more and more relaxation in the price.
(06:28):
So that's potentially a really good part of the whole
overall equation. As we factor in more and more of
these regulations that will be getting away.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
David Holt of the Consumer Energy Alliance Well, friends, spring
means planting and farmers are itching to get into the fields. However,
weather can often make turning the soil tricky. Matt Bennett,
co founder of agmarket dot net, says, the weather has
been a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It is an odd spring. I think the concerning thing
for me, I go back to my buddy Eric Snagress.
We talk a lot. He's actually a guy that's on
retainer with US market because we value his information so much.
But he's still predicting, you know, like a sixty percent
chance and this is a scientific prediction. It's not just
throwing it out there. But he's saying a sixty percent
chance of a drought that would impact national yield.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's most likely to show up in the western corn Belt.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
He's very concerned about the western corn Belt, I think
more so than the whole corn Belt. You know, a
lot of it has to do is just the fact
that subsoul morsters is so low. You know, you look
at last September and October very statistically significantly dry, and
there's not very many years that were as dry as that,
and would that be in the case you got to
go back and ask what do those other four years
look like? Which is all there was that were as
(07:37):
dry as we were last September October. Three of those
four years had yield affecting drought.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
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USDA releasing their prospective plantings report for twenty twenty five,
and for corn, if realized, will be the third highest
ever ninety five point three million acres of corn planet
this year. That would be a five point two percent
increase year over year, and it's higher than the average
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trade guests of ninety four point three million acres. Now,
the trade had guessed eighty three point seven million acres
of soybeans. The USDA came in below that at eighty
three point four million acres, a four point one percent
year over year decline, a slight decline for wheat acres
(09:09):
at forty five point three million, and a sizeable reduction
for cotton down eleven point eight percent nine point eight
million acres in twenty twenty five. Sorga makers up four
point two at six point five barley acres down two
point four percent two point three million acres.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
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Speaker 7 (09:31):
Lowest on record oats a new record low, and sunflowers
of forty eight percent. It's another AGEWS update.
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Doctor darryl'peel is an Oklahoma state livestock economist. On whether
we'll see movements based more now on seasonality.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
It's certainly possible, because I do expect, on average to
see higher prices as we go through the year. So
if the market is trending up, the seasonality that we
normally talk about is based on a stable market. So
if the market is otherwise not trending anywhere you see
that kind of seasonal pattern. If you have an up
trend in place, then the seasonal loaves that might happen
in the middle of the year or later may be
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muted somewhat with that uptrend offsetting part of that.
Speaker 14 (11:22):
What are we seeing for box beef.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Across the central and southern plains. Producers will put cattle
out on wheat pasture, well.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
First of all, on wheat.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
If there are cattles still out on wheat now, at
least in Oklahoma, we're passed first hall of stem, so
that means that that wheat is for grays out. I
do think that's happening. The numbers were not large. We
never did get a lot of cattle out on wheat
last fall. We had so much strougle getting it started.
But there are some cattle out there, so they'll be
coming off in mid to late May, and so there'll
be that, But again, I don't think they're going to
(11:53):
show up as a big run of wheat pasture cattle,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That might have been part of.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
What we saw in March with the bigger volumes, was
some cattle coming off of wheat.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's not unusual to see that. So but as we
go forward, you.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Know, the bottom line, and really the question that's been
out there for many months and still is is are
we retaining heifers. If we start holding back effers, then
those feeder volumes are going to drop pretty sharply, pretty quickly,
and that'll show up then in the cattle on feed inventories.
It'll pull those down in just a few months time.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
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Speaker 1 (12:31):
This is Dairy Radio. Now.
Speaker 11 (12:34):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for feedber at
USA and today Professor Chris Wolfe of Cornell College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Speaker 15 (12:41):
He is the E. V.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Thanks for having me, John, A lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
I think you'd have to agree that right now is
one of the most dynamic times in milk marketing. It's
a fluid, fluid situation, right, no pun intended.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (12:55):
The first reform of the Federal Blog Marketing Owners that
we've had that was national in scope since two thousand
and eight, and by far the biggest amount of adjustments
that have been made to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders
are going into effecta this year since the year two thousand.
Speaker 11 (13:08):
It's the first one since we've had some new tools
to implement.
Speaker 14 (13:11):
Right.
Speaker 16 (13:11):
That's true really if you think about it, in the
last twenty five years, we've seen a whole lot of
changes in the industry, but two of the big ones
that came into account in this set of hearings was
one twenty five years ago. We had futures and options
for dairy products, but they weren't widely used, and we
didn't have the Dairy Revenue Protection Program. We didn't have
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past range land forage. We didn't have the LGM Dairy
program and we you know, things of that nature, so
that risk management is much more common now and that
matters when we're making changes to the underlying price instruments.
The other thing that's changed is we were not net
exporters twenty five years ago and now we are. And
now you know, roughly one day of milk a week
(13:52):
equivalent gets exported and we're in the international markets, and
that also matters for when we make these changes.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
That's great information to have. So dairy processor capacity is
something very exciting, particularly in New York State. Why do
you think dairy processors are so bullish on New York
as evidenced by the incredible increase in capacity.
Speaker 16 (14:12):
You know, that's a really good question. And you know,
one thing about the dairy industry is that it's really
good for the economy in the area that it's located. Right,
Dairy farmers buy a lot of inputs, They spend a
lot of money on feed, machinery, equipment, fertilizer, seed, They
hire people locally, and so they tend to be drivers
of local economies. And for that reason, a lot of
(14:32):
places want to see the dairy industry. New York's no
exception to that. And as you mentioned, New York has
had several expansions that are either recently completed or are
currently underway Cheese Fluid and other expansions in New York.
And so you know, kind of why has that happen here?
I think there's several reasons. A couple of them are
natural advantages that New York has, which is to say,
(14:54):
New York State is located within fairly easy days drive
of most of the population of these stern seaboard is
you know, particularly the big metropolitan areas in the northeast right,
so there's a lot of consumers there and that's a
good thing. Second is we have water. You got to
have forages to feed cows. You got to have at
least some forg Just this is a place where, thankfully located,
(15:16):
where we're near a lot of fresh water, where we
get a lot of rainfall. And you know, turns out
cows don't mind this climate. In fact, high producing dairy
cows tend to like the climate that we have in
this part of the world. So I think it's a
good place to milk cows. The other thing I would
say is that New York State made some efforts to
attract some of this and encouraged it, which was, you know,
a good thing, although other places have tried that too,
(15:37):
But I think mostly it's actually a testament to the
fact that these companies have confidence in the New York
dairy farmer managers to supply the milk that they need.
Right because the first thing you got to have if
you're going to build a new processing plan is you
got to run it. All that stainless steel does nothing
for you if you don't put milk through it. And
I think that New York has progressive, high quality dairy
(16:01):
farm managers, and I think this is a real testament
to the fact that these companies believe that they can
get the supply that they need from the New York
dairy farmers.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Fantastic. Now the million dollar question your current all milk
forecast for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (16:17):
Well, two months ago I was forecasting it to be
a little bit lower than last year, but not dramatically lower.
And part part of the deal of John is telling
me how long we're going to have trade disruptions. And
I'll tell you where we're at right now. We're looking
at milk prices this month for farmers probably being a
dollar lower than last month, and next month in May
(16:40):
made that being a dollar lower than this month. You know,
I think hopefully we're going to have all milk prices
in that eighteen nineteen dollar range. Earlier I thought we
would be twenty or above. But a lot of it
depends on kind of how quickly we work through the
current set of issues to make certain that we have
a good outlet for that sixteen to eighteen percent of
the milk that we need to explore.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Chris wolf The Eed Baker, Professor of Agricultural Economics at
Cornell University, Thanks for being with us today. It's great
to have you here.
Speaker 16 (17:07):
Hey, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for Fever at USA.
Speaker 17 (17:12):
Marketing US almonds into India, the number one export market.
I'm Patrick Cabana with the California Tree Nut Report, part
of the Vast Egg Information Network. Clarice Turner as President
and CEO of the Almored Border California. She said, the
industry's working hard to get as much as they can
into India and the many parts of India.
Speaker 18 (17:34):
We also are looking at going into the Tier two
cities with some of our advertising activity, which we've not
done before. So we're in the process of selecting those
right now. There's a lot you could go to because
India is a huge country and it has you know,
massive population, so we actually that's part of the India
Task Force role is not only to understand what the
(17:55):
potential is, but understand how should the dominoes fall right
because it's a tricky market, we really want to make
sure that we go about in the correct way. So
we're going after data right now, working with the Indian government,
working with our own foreign egg service, to try to
understand what's the total picture, how do we break it down,
and then how do we sequence what we're going to
do over the next three to five years. A little complicated, Patrick,
(18:16):
not straightforward in terms of let's go invest in this
because it's a complex country, and it's huge country, and
every different part of the country is almost like its
own country itself, right has a different language, different culture,
different customs, different religions. So it's complex and we love
it and they love almonds, so we're all in.
Speaker 17 (18:33):
That's Clarice Turner with the almond Border California.
Speaker 19 (18:36):
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providing news and information for the most important industry in
the world, agriculture. The Egg Information Network gives you worldwide
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like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture to specially crops
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Speaker 10 (19:05):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin theories callers, Oh.
Speaker 20 (19:10):
Hey, yeah, it's Sevia fungicide from BASF, a category leader
in disease control.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
How do you explain these healthy crops.
Speaker 20 (19:17):
Well, longer lasting residual. Plus, it's built for current regulatory
standards and prepared for what's to come, which improves crop
marketing flexibility.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
So a fungicide that is out of this world.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I knew it.
Speaker 20 (19:27):
Sevia fungicide from BASF for is it always reading for Holy.
Speaker 17 (19:32):
Pressions with the ag Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 15 (19:36):
You're listening to focus on ag I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The importance of plant germplasm repositories such as USDA's Plant
Genetic Research Unit in New York State. Is not lost
are those involved in cataloging and preserving varieties and species
or developing new ones. Eric Galerno is the Great germ
plasm curator.
Speaker 14 (19:58):
We're conserving ten resources for others to use, and these
are resources that could be lost due to a number
of different factors over time. As far as a resource
for researchers, they have that resource or new flavors for
resistance various diseases if they're looking for something with more
color or specific type of color. In addition, diversity is
(20:22):
where we're going to find things that give us disease resistance,
which is huge and will help be more sustainable, reduce
our fungicide uses. But this is us so where you
can find new traits like getting larger yields or better growth,
and that's going to really help us stay in a
sustainable agricultural setting for the long term.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
USDA Agricultural Research stations at New York and California can
take thousands of what is known as accessions, different from
cultivars in that a cultivar.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Is basically something with a name, an accession is something
that is unique but may not have a name because
it never went through the official naming and marketing process.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Over fourteen hundred accessions in the New York Ars Grape
germ Plasm collection focused primarily odd, cold hardy grapevines. The
California Collection holds thirty eight hundred accessions with genetic material
focused on heat tolerate grape varieties and those growed in
the Mediterranean climates of Europe.
Speaker 14 (21:19):
Utilizers of both of our collections are people looking to integrate,
so take traits from one vine and move it into
a desirable vine.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That needs the genetic cross breeding of wild grape cultivars
with already established germ plasm to create varieties with desirable traits.
Speaker 14 (21:39):
We have a lot of university collaborators. We have industry
company readers who are coming through looking for something that
can be a resource.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm Rod Baane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
The proposed actions by the US Trade Representative and Forum
built in foreign flagships entering US ports has raised concerns
among farmers. Fees up to one and a half million
dollars on ships arriving at US ports if the ships
are Chinese built, operated, or flagged, would hit US agg
in the wallet. Mike Steinhook is the executive director of
(22:15):
the Sey Transportation Coalition and says the issue is with
how the program would be implemented.
Speaker 21 (22:22):
This is not a complex mathematical exercise. This will easily
price US out of much of the international marketplace. And
so that's the real concern is that in the effort
to try to promote a made in American industry US shipbuilding,
they're going to have negative consequences on other made in
(22:45):
American industries like agriculture and others.
Speaker 15 (22:48):
The American Soybean Association estimates vessels going from the Pacific
Northwest to China would see a cost increase up to
twelve dollars and twenty nine cents a bushel on soybeans.
Speaker 21 (23:00):
You drop a significant cost on that. Those costs will
get passed onto in our case, farmers and agriculture. You know,
someone could say, well, just pass those costs onto your customers.
If we tried to do that, what our customers would
say is today's an excellent day to buy more sobeans
(23:21):
from Brazil or Argentina.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Steinhook is quick to point out the farmers are the
ultimate Made in America constituency, but they could not withstand
an economic blow like this.
Speaker 21 (23:33):
Things like barges and towboats, dredges, those all have to
be built in the United States. There's a law that
stipulates that. It's called the Jones Act, and we've been
long supportive of that. So we have this track record
of supporting the domestic shipbuilding industry. We think that certainly
has room to improve over time, and we applaud the
(23:56):
administration for pursuing that. Again, it's all about the time
for execution and doing it in a way that doesn't
harm other maid in American industries.
Speaker 15 (24:05):
Again. That is Mike Steinhook, executive director of the Soy
Transportation Coalition, and he says the reaction to the US
Trade Representative proposal has been overwhelmingly negative. This is focus
on AG. Thank you for beginning with US today.
Speaker 22 (24:21):
It's time for California AG Today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter
of appeal late last week to US Department to Agriculture,
urging a reversal of the termination of forty seven million
dollars in funding meant to support California farmers who grow
(24:42):
produce for food banks, schools, and community centers. The money
had been awarded to California through the Local Food Purchase
Assistance or LFPA and Local Food for Schools programs. According
to USDA dot gov, the LFPA Cooperative Agreement program provides
funding to state, tribal, and territorial governments to buy food
(25:03):
grown locally, either within the state or within four hundred
miles of the delivery point. It's designed to support local, regional,
and underserved producers while helping communities in need. From Governor
Newsom's website, since twenty twenty two, California has used over
eighty eight point five million dollars in LFPA funding to
(25:23):
strengthen its food supply system, connect small farmers to new markets,
and distribute nutritious food to food and secure families. Newsome
called the USDA's sudden cancelation irrational and malicious, warning it
will hurt both growers and families who depend on fresh
food access.
Speaker 23 (25:41):
Desert growers know just how much damage aphs can do
to leafy vegs, coal, and parssica crops, but versus insecticide
from BASM makes all visible aphs disappear thanks to a unique,
single and targeted mode of action. Let's get the aphids
response to this simple, effective solution. Taking calls now to
hear from those unhappy aphids. Hello, anyone making aphids disappear
(26:03):
from leafy vad's cole and brashka crops is easy versus insecticide.
Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 24 (26:10):
Today we're talking with aphids and wife flies about sefena
insecticide from basf.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us, how
are you feeling.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Really really weird.
Speaker 24 (26:20):
And you still wanted to devour this field?
Speaker 7 (26:22):
No way, bro. There you have it, folks.
Speaker 24 (26:25):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 10 (26:32):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 22 (26:38):
With California AGG Today on the AG Information Network, I
am Haley's ship mob Quinn.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Here were some farm news this morning. Friends. Potato growers
in Washington State know the challenges that come with the job,
especially in recent years with expenses soaring. Matthew blew Up,
director of industry outreach at the Washington State Potato Commission
says this past season wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I think we had a really good season. No specific
pestilence to speak of that was particularly damning. Things seem
to go very well. I know that some of our
processors are having some issues, but I'm pretty sure we'll
recovered from that fortunately.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Blua says potatoes are one of the more stable crops
grown in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Right now, we're having concerns about the price of nitrogen.
Fertilizer is a very expensive thing, and certainly potatoes use
a lot of nitrogen. That would be one of our
challenges going forward.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And losses like that, Bluis says, are always a concern.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We're concerned about EPA's response to Endangered Species Act and
how that's going to impact us going forward. You realize
that the way we read labels will change in the future,
and that is we'll have to go to a website
to get all the information that we're required to get
to use a pest socie.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But Bleua says, overall, it's not so bad.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Potatoes are one of the more stable things that we
produced in the Columbia Basin. So every year seemed to
be a pretty good year.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Matthew Bleua, director of industry Outreach at the Washington State
Potato Commission, Well, Frans spring means planting and farmers are
to get into the fields. However, weather can often make
turning the soil tricky. Matt Bennett, co founder of agmarket
dot net, says, the weather has been a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
It is an odd spring. I think the concerning thing
for me, I go back to my buddy Eric Snudgrass.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We talk a lot.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
He's actually a guy that's on retainer with us at
the bag Market because we value his information so much.
But he's still predicting, you know, like a sixty percent
chance and this is a scientific prediction. It's not just
throwing it out there. But he's saying a sixty percent
chance of a drought that would impact national yield.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's most likely to show up in the western corn belt.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
He's very concerned about the western corn belt, I think,
more so than the whole corn belt. You know, A
lot of it has to do is just the fact
that SubSol moistures is so low. You know, you look
at last September October very statistically significantly dry, and there's
not very many years that were as dry as that,
and would that be in the case you got to
go back and ask what those other four years look like,
which is all there was that were as dry as
(28:56):
we were last September October. Three of those four years
had yield affecting.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Matt Bennett Agmarket dot Net well friends. Weeds have been
springing up with warmer weather all across a road crop country.
It means farmers will need to take care as they
finalize their weed control plans. Aaron Hager, an extension weed
scientist out of the Midwest, says producers need to keep
track of what's in a field and understand how each
weed grows and reacts to the herbicide being used well.
Speaker 25 (29:23):
As most people are probably aware, with the recent couple
of weeks where we've had some fairly moderate to warm temperatures,
a lot of green is now starting to show up
in fields predominantly.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
These are many of our winter.
Speaker 25 (29:34):
Annual weed species, and it's always a good idea for
folks to try to get all vegetation under control before
anything is planted in that field. We always can say
our intention is we're going to plant, we'll take care
of controlling the weeds at some point after we plant.
But as we typically relearn every year and that is
that the weather really controls what we're able to do,
and so those established weeds can actually be fairly competitive
(29:57):
with an emerging foreign cropper and emergence being cropped. So
trying to get weeds managed before we put any seed
in the ground is always a very very good first step.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To that end, Hager says, the utility of a pre
emergent service side has increased over time as weeds like
water hemp have developed resistance.
Speaker 25 (30:16):
We went through an ara course back in the late
nineteen nineties as the glycisate resistant technology came into the
marketplace where we really moved away from utilizing residual herbicides.
But given the resistance issues that we now face predominantly
with our water hip populations in the state, it's really
of paramount importance that we use a good foundation herbicide
program close to planting time in order to try to
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reduce the number of whether a guinness giant rag weed
or water hemp plants that will have to try to
control in the post emergence application.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Glyphosate resistance is one of the biggest issues, and Hager
says it's the application rate that really matters.
Speaker 25 (30:51):
The application rate is really going to depend on a
couple of things. Number one, of course, the spectrum of
weeds that you have. Number two, what is the size
of those weeds, and then thirdly, what is the particular
to life estate formulation that you're using. So most every
herbicide label, especially the ones for the fully applied products,
will have weed sizes on the label. They'll list the
species they control, and then typically the maximum growth stage
at which they can still remain effacted. So, as we
(31:14):
always say, the best information is going to be to
read the.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Label talking weeds. This morning, farm US, you are listening
to ag Life.
Speaker 26 (31:23):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins will visit six international markets this
year to boost American agricultural exports at a time when
the egg trade deficit is nearly fifty billion dollars. Following
the previous administration's little to Know action in the international marketplace,
the USDA is working to diversify and strengthen global markets
(31:44):
and hold existing trading partners accountable. This year, Secretary Rawlins
will visit Vietnam, Japan, India, Peru, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
There have been over twenty million commercial tableshell egg laying
hens lost already in twenty twenty five to the bird flu,
impacting eggs supply and prices. As a stopgap measure to
boost egg supplies, it's been suggested that surplus broiler hatchery
(32:06):
eggs could be transferred to the egg products market that
could then be sold as fresh, helping lower prices. They
are currently used for animal feed products and often disposed of.
US beef sales to China have taken a dive after
Beijing allowed the expiration of registrations that permitted exports from
hundreds of American meat facilities. The tit for tat tariff
dispute has also raised duties on US meat and other
(32:29):
goods shipped to China, making them less attractive to Chinese buyers.
China has not renewed export registrations for US beef facilities
that expired on March sixteenth, though at updated registrations for
pork and poultry plants.
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Speaker 23 (33:10):
Desert growers know just how much damage aphits can do
the leafy vegs, coal and brassica crops, but versus insecticide
from BASF makes all visible aphits disappear thanks to a unique,
single and targeted mode of action. Let's get the aphis
response to this simple, effective solution taking calls now to
hear from those unhappy aphids. Hello, anyone. Making aphits disappear
(33:32):
from leafy vegs, coal and brassica crops is easy with
versus insecticide. Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 26 (33:38):
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heavy equipment at the Richie Brothers Los Angeles Auction April
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Speaker 1 (33:51):
Bob Quin back to wrap up baglife for Today. Friends Washington, DC.
Cherry blossoms an annual tradition and celebration in the nation's capital.
Have this theorical connections with the US Agriculture Department. Rod
Bain has our final report.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Springtime visits to the Nation's capital include timing such trips
to see the Title Basin cherry trees in bloom.
Speaker 27 (34:13):
It's spring. Everyone around the north temperate world is great
to be leaving winter behind. Summers around the corner. We're
all getting up, we're getting excited, and the flowering cherries
just offering a tremendous, graceful beauty to matching sort of
that energy we have here in the springtime.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's the director of the US National Arboretum in Washington, D. C.
Richard Olsen. The National Park Service oversees and maintains the
title Basin as part of the system of the National
Mall at monument parks in the district. Yet Olsen is
quick to point out regarding the title based cherry trees.
Speaker 27 (34:49):
It wouldn't have been possible without the United States Department
of agriculture.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It was the work of doctor David Fairchild that provided inspiration.
As head of the then Plant Exploration Office in the
early twentieth century, which later became part of what is
now the National Germplasm System within the Agricultural Research Service.
Speaker 27 (35:08):
Doctor Fairchild was instrumental in arranging for and inspiring people
to do the gift. He had a garden here in Washington,
d C. He had planet flower and cherries. Without the
attention of First Lady Helen Taft.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That introduction of a traditional Japanese custom to the First
Lady of the United States.
Speaker 27 (35:24):
The viewing of cherries as a long tradition, it's been
adopted specifically for cherry blossoms, it's called haname.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Coincided with Helen Taft's vision for a music park in
what was previously the Mudflat areas of Washington, d C.
And further advocacy for cherry blossoms in a new park
by National Geographic Society board member Eliza Skidmore.
Speaker 27 (35:45):
The result nineteen twelve, the original gift of several thousand
flowering cherry trees from the people of Japan. The Mayor
of Tokyo, with the First.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Lady and wife of the Japanese ambassador planting the first
two trees in March of that year. Of the trees
led to eventual full bloom and along the way ornamental
cherry trees planted at the White House, and in nineteen
thirty four the first Cherry Blossom Festival, now held annually.
Richard Olsen notes the long standing relationship between the National
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Park Service and National Arboretum regarding the title basin cherry trees.
Speaker 27 (36:21):
The National Park Service recognizes they have a cherished treasure
of cherry trees down on the title basin, so when
they need help in our assistance, we're glad to help. We
have a long history goes back decades working with the
National Park Service. We have botanists that help identify the trees,
we have horticultures that help propagate. We definitely land our
hand to botany and propagation and sharing of cherry trees
that we think could be adaptable.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
This year's National Cherry Blossom Festival continues through April thirteenth.
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that friends amount of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife,
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