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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. We're talking about I
grew cultural production here in the valley and all across
the country. We start off with a hunt for Asian
longhorned beetles with.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Rod Bain Asian loghorn beetle.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You have most likely heard of this invasive pest at
the various quarantined areas in place across parts of the
country to protect trees.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It kills hardwood trees like staple, birch, elm, forcechesta. There's
twelve genera of hardwood trees that this beetle attacks, and
it does that through the larva stage. So the larva
grows inside trees and it feeds on the living tissues
that carry nutrients to the tree. And it can attack
trees anywhere in the United States, and once a tree
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is infested, there is no cure for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Katherine Brodsky of USDA's Addible and plat Health Inspection Service
says damaged trees can become safety hazards ranches dropping add
trees a greater chance of falling over in severe storms.
What to do in addition to a eradication programs and
quarantined areas. You can play a vital role at keeping
Asian log horn beetle in check.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How check your trees.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
By looking at your trees and reporting any signs of
suspicious tree damage. If you see perfectly round holes about
the size of a pencil in your tree, that could
be a sign of an exit hole where an adult
beele emerged from the tree. There's also egg niches and
other site where the female lays the egg on the
outside of the tree.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
On the park Aphis also declares August Tree Check buff
for alb as adult beetles usually emerge from trees and
other nearby items this time of year. And what does
Asian log horn beetle look like? Ronsky describes this critter
as having a long, shiny black body with white spots,
about an inch to an inch and a half long,
six legs, and antenna that are longer than its body.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
If you can try to photograph the beetle that you
found or the tree damage, and that way it'll help
our inspectors to know if that is Asian longhorn beetle,
or if you can capture the beetle in a dirle
container and put it in the freezer, and that way
you can help preserve the insect for identification.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
If you do come across an Asian loghorn beetle or
suspect tree damage from this evasive pest.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You can report it by calling the ALB hotlines. That
number is one eight sixty six seven zero, two nine
nine three eight. Is also a way to submit an online.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Report by going to www. Dot aphis dot USDA dot gov.
Click the plant tab on the home page that the
link to Plant Pest and Diseases to find the page
with content on Asian longhorn beetle, including photos to help
you better identify this pest what other thing. If you
find a beetle or live at a current ALB quarantined area, make.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Sure to follow state and federal laws that limit the
movements of tree material and untreated firewood to new areas
just in case Asian longhorn beetle is inside and you
can help prevent spreading Asian longhorn beetle from your backyard
to new areas.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Broadbane Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Farm, US coming up. You're listening to wag Life. Bob
Quinn back with some farm mews This morning friends. Well,
best practices and animal livestock handling have evolved through the years.
Doctor Temple Grandon, renowned animal behavior expert and Colorado State
University professor, talks about the number one thing producers must
do when handling their animals.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
First of all, people need to calm down, because when
cattle get all scared and excited, it takes twenty minutes
to calm down. The next step is you need to
learn some of the basic behavioral principles, like how the
flight zone works, point of balance works, working on the
edge of the flight zone them when they move where
you want them to go back off. Also, removing distractions
from facilities. You bring cattle in and they stop halfway
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up to shoot. They might be seeing a reflection on
a vehicle's bumper. Well, then move that vehicle or a
little piece of string something like that will stop them.
Take those distractions out of facilities. Those are just two
very very simple things.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
She said. The way producers move around their animals is
also important.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
A little movement pattern when you walk back by the
cattle in the opposite direction to get them go forward.
That can really help on getting them to move forward.
And shoots. Those are just some real simple things people
can start to do and no yelling. Calm down, stop
the yelling.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Grand And discussed some of the biggest changes in animal
handling over the years.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Oh, people have gotten a lot better, a lot less
broad use, calming everything down. They're sending the people out
for training. There's a lot of workshops that are being
put on on low stress handling. There's been a lot
of improvements in the last twenty years of handling. That's
the thing that's really improved. That's the bright spot.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
There are still some things to work on.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
People of awareness is one of them. Also, I think
you need to be measuring things. I'm very concerned about
this lameness that's slowly gotten worse that has a very
strong genetic component. The heart failure problems that I've discussed
in my talk used to just be high altitude sickness
at ten or twelve thousand feet. Now it's happening a
much lower altitudes. There's been a number of researchers that
have shown that it has a genetic basis. Anecdotally, feed
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yards that do beef on dari, which is an angus
by cross, have traced late stage debts, which are congestive
heart failure deads.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Doctor Temple Grandon with US this morning, Well, friends, Raising
beef in the US comes with a one dollar per
head checkoff, and it has for some time. Commercial operations
factor it in as a cost of doing business, But
the checkoff also charges fees to four H and FFA
members selling their cattle at county or state fairs. Roger McCowen,
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an agricultural law professor at Washburn University with US, wonders
if that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
The beef Checkoff program imposes a mandatory dollar per head
fee on all cattle sold in the US. While its
application to large scale commercial sales is well known, its
extension to county fair and four H youth livestock auctions
has sparked debate. The Beef Checkoff ensures all beef producers
contribute equally to the industry's promotion and development. Funds raised
even from small scale or one time sales, help finance
marketing campaigns, nutrition research, and efforts to expand beef's market share.
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To the surprise of some, the checkoff includes four H
and FFA sales, but should it. Critics claim that applying
the checkoff County Fair and youth sales is misguided and unfair.
These animals are often sold in charity style auctions where
buyers overpay to support local youth not to make a profit.
Forcing young participants to surrender part of their proceeds seems punity,
especially when they may only sell one or two animals
a year. Additionally, many argue that these sales don't benefit
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directly from national marketing efforts that the checkoff supports. As
a result, some states have pursued refunds or exemptions for
youth sales, but policies vary among states. Ultimately, applying the
beef checkof at youth sales raises a fundamental question of
whether an industry funded program should treat young, first time
participants the same as commercial operations. The rules allow it,
but should they.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Roger mccohan Washburn University with US Well Friends. The US
agricultural trade deficit hit a record high in the first
half of this year. Bloomberg said that only highlights American
farmers longtime dominant role in world exports, which is hurt
by President Donald Trump's trade wars. Agricultural export value trailed
the import value by four point one billion dollars in June,
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a gap that's fourteen percent larger than a year ago.
The AG sector's trade deficit to twenty eight point six
billion dollars through the first half of this year. For
fifty years, the USAGG sector has consistently had major trade surpluses,
but the growing deficit signals a historic reversal for this
sector now. The trend shift began and Trump's first term
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during the trade war with China. Recent data from the
US Commerce Department showed that US exported only five point
five billion dollars worth of farm goods to China during
the first six months of the year, compared to eleven
point eight billion at the same point last year. Farm
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It's another agnews update. Well the lower clothes across the
board for row crops Friday. More after this.
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Read by members of the WYE Oliver's Slope with blue
line futures.
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At the closed.
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December corn futures down one and three quarter cents, settling
at four nineteen before the week that was eight and
three quarters cents lower New Krop November soybeans slid three
and a quarter cents on Friday, settling at ten twenty one,
extending losses for the week to fourteen cents. Lastly, September
Chicago week futures down three and a quarter cents to
five thirty in a quarter that was seven cents lower
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on the week. On the bright spot, there were three
separate flash sales this morning from the USCA, two of
those for corn and then one for soybeans. The first
corn sale was for one hundred and three thousand metric
tons that was four delivery to Mexico, and then the
other one hundred and forty thousand metric tons for delivery
to South Korea, and then on the soybean side, the
flash sale of one hundred and forty two thousand metric
tons was four delivery to Mexico. Hotter temperatures across much
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of the corn belt are expected to work their way
further south next week, with near normal temperatures across the
Midwest back and the forecasts and then precipitation forecast look
near normal as well. The weekly drought monitor, when compared
to where we started the month, does show some improvement
throughout the corn belt, most notably in parts of Iowa
and Nebraska. However, there are still some isolated stress pockets
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in Indiana and Illinois.
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Oliver's slope is with blue Line Futures takes a look
at how markets closed the week last Friday.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Features got hit hard on Thursday, but found their footing
and Friday's training at the closed.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
October live cattle features were fifty.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Two cents hire to two twenty seven to sixty seven
and coincidentally, that's how much higher we were.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
On the week fifty two cents.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
September feeder cattle features today two dollars and thirty seven
cents hire, settling at three thirty three ninety two. That
was a dollar seventy two higher on the week, and
over on the outside. October lean hogs forty seven cents
higher to ninety ozh five, which was fifty five cents
lower on the week. This morning's wholesale box beef report
was mixed. We saw Choice cuts two dollars and eighty
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three cents higher to three sixty four fifteen and Select
cuts seventy seven cents lower to three forty sixty. Yesterday's
five area average price for five steers was reported at
two thirty seven eleven. That was on lighter trade volume
Slaughter on Thursday afternoon was reported at one hundred and
eleven thousand head That is six thousand head less than
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last week, but only three thousand head less than the
same day last year. And the usca's weekly export sales report,
we saw net sales of beef at just eight thousand,
five hundred metric tons. That was down forty nine percent
from the previous week and thirty percent from the prior
four week average. Japan was the primary buyer there, followed
by Canada and South Korea. Like cattle, Sea reached nineteen
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point twenty six today. That is the highest level of
the year. Volatility in the outside markets following a softer
than expected jobs report today may have played a role
in some.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Of that rise.
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That's oliver slope with blue line futures. This is American
Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
On our Producer Tuesday, brought to you by the professional
dairy producers. Opening up your farm to the outside world
and what you should know about liability. On a recent
PDP dairy Signal, attorney Troy Schneider discussed some of the
protections to consider when giving farm tours or many aggritourism
activities on your farm.
Speaker 15 (12:44):
Most people don't really understand necessarily the law behind these
liability risks when hosting farm tours. I thought a good
place to start is what's called Wisconsin's Recreational Use Statue.
They specifically added agricultural tourism activity that's governed by the
Recreational Use Immunity Statue. In Layman's terms, what that statue
does is, if this person is on your property doing
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this specific activity, you're immune from liability.
Speaker 12 (13:12):
He says.
Speaker 14 (13:12):
Who you invite on the farm is also important.
Speaker 15 (13:15):
You have to be prepared. I think that people don't
think like farmers, okay, and there are there is actually
we all think that we're good people. Well there's actually
not so good people in the world sometimes that are
actually looking to suit people, okay, And so you have
to really have to think of you have to change
your mindset of you know, well, you know that you're invincible,
you know, I think you have to set yourself up
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to be vulnerable rather than invincible. So I think that
I think that's just as a different sort of mindset.
So the bottom line when it comes to the aggritourism
immunity statue is review who does the law protect from liability,
So there are certain farmers and operations that are not protected,
and what type of risk does the law apply to,
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and what are the exceptions to the immunity as well too,
be careful to review those even though there is the
recreational Immunity Statute out there. I highly recommend to my
clients that if they are in the business, that they
also have their people who visit their farm sign a liability.
It's always good to keep your pants up with both
belted suspenders to have the ultimate protection. Statutes provide one
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sort of belt, but the suspenders could be a written
waiver and they enforce those. And again it's just an
acknowledgment of there are risks when you step into a
farm of potentially getting hurt. Any good liability waiver, it
should identify who the parties are, acknowledge it to some
of the risks that are involved, and that also should
be clear about what the parties are waving. And then
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your last line of defense is making sure that you
have good insurance in case there is something that SIPs
the acts. It's important that you have an insurance covered protection. Really,
in order to find a good insured that's willing to
ensure this type of activity on your farm. Different insurance
companies are rated. Check out your insurance insurance providers rating,
and then have your insurance agent review your operation so
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they understand specifically what kind of things you're going to
be offering to the public. Keep records of what you
have done, Keep good records of what type of conversations,
emails and things you had with your agent to make
sure that good documentation between the communications between you and
your agent as you explained what kind of specific activities
you're doing on your farm, so that again there's no
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avoiding coverage of your insurance policy. So those are just
I guess some of the protections. I see what you
could do too if you do want to give farm
tours and have agricultural tourism type of activities on your
farm to protect yourself.
Speaker 14 (15:36):
And that's Attorney Troy Schneider, partner and attorney at towig Rybrock,
Schneider and Halbach Law Offices on a recent PDP Dairy
signal that you can hear in its entirety for free
simply by going to pdpw dot Org. Are thanks to
the Professional Dairy Producers for today's sponsorship of Producer Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
USDA's annual look at farm land values and cash reds,
according to chief and Cottabis seth Meyer, indicates of cooling
and year over year growth.
Speaker 16 (16:01):
Where we're seeing the farmer's assessed value of their agriculture
real estate increasing by four point three percent. The land
value is essentially what do you think the value of
your land is, and then on the other side of
that is what did you actually spend on cash rent
And those cash rents were largely determined in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
The fall of last year. As we went.
Speaker 17 (16:21):
Through say twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and even
twenty twenty three, with very high commodity prices, we saw
really strong growth in both cash rents and land values.
I think we have a cooling, but the cooling is
interestingly much more on the cash rent side in terms
of year over year growth than it is on our
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producers view the value of their land, so assessing the
crop land is increasing at a greater rate than overall,
ad land and pasture land showing an even larger increase,
hitting one nine and twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Farm real estate value by state reflected year over year
increases at all forty eight dates broad Bane reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
D C.
Speaker 18 (17:10):
Those spider mites would wreck havoc on almon orchards, particularly
back thirty years ago, but that six spot at Thrip,
the big main predator is taking its.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Toll on them.
Speaker 18 (17:20):
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vast ag Information Network. David Havlin is a UCA
and R farm advisor Kerrent County, specializing in anymology.
Speaker 19 (17:32):
To see an orchard that's you know, a third half
three quarters affoliated for mites, you just don't see that anymore,
does not happen, you know, unless the grower has to
do something to control stink bugs that maybe kills the
biological control. Unfortunately, sometimes that has to be done. But
generally speaking, you know, in the old days, you could
just drive up and down any road in the South
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Valley in the middle of August and see trees that
were brown losing their leaves.
Speaker 18 (17:57):
And I've definitely seen it over thirty years as as
anagg journalist.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
Nowadays to see that extremely extremely extremely rare mites are
just under incredible biological control. And again because of shifts
the growers have made in how they control santose scale,
how they control peach twig bore, how they control the mice,
how they control naval orangeworm, how they control ants. All
of those changes combined are now creating a very sustainable
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environment where biological control is just thriving. It's great to
see the transition that the industry's made.
Speaker 18 (18:28):
That's David havilin UCA and r Farm Advisor Kerrent County.
Speaker 20 (18:33):
For the last forty years, the AG Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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gives you worldwide updates from local producers to regional organizations,
from major crops like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture,
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on stories that mean the most to you online at
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journalism lasting for the next generation.
Speaker 18 (19:30):
For the ag Information Network, this is Patrick Cavanaugh with
the California Tree Nut Report.
Speaker 21 (19:35):
The US Bureau of Land Management recently held what some
may consider an unusual livestock auction. They hosted their online
Kraal auction featuring wild horses and donkeys. Chase and Letterman
of the National Wild Horse and Buaugh program says, it's
a chance to provide a good home for a wild
horse or a donkey.
Speaker 22 (19:56):
A lot of forces go on to win major prizes.
A lot of people use animals to show. We've had
a lot of burrows go on to also win different
livestock shows. They're really just great all around animals. You
can do anything. Some of the best stories that I
hear about our horses are used for therapy. Actually, a
lot of people who suffer from PTSD or other mental
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illnesses have found a lot of help in working with
the wildhorse or wild borrow. Just something about coming from
the same place of uncertainty that gives a lot of
people help with their mental struggles.
Speaker 21 (20:32):
The program ensures that animals range land and ten western
states are healthy and not over crowded.
Speaker 22 (20:38):
It our responsibility is to just allow the horses to
be horses out on public lands. The main thing that
we pay attention to is to make sure they have
enough food and water. And because these herds, these horses
and burrows, they thrive so well on public lands that
their populations actually double every four to five years. And
so what our adoption program does is it helps us
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find homes for those animals that are that might run
out of food or water on the range. And so
this is really important part of our program to help
help us keep the animals healthy and the land healthy.
Speaker 21 (21:10):
Wild horses can be trained to perform several different tasks.
Speaker 22 (21:14):
So typically a lot of people use wild horses for
a wide variety of uses. A lot of people trail
ride with them. They are very hardy animals, They're very
sure footed, and so they make great companions for the trails.
A lot of people use them for ranch work. They
are really trainable for a variety of dispense. Because you're
getting a horse that doesn't have any bad habits already,
they don't have any previous training. They're really a blank
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slate feed to train the horse for whatever you might
need a horse to do.
Speaker 21 (21:40):
Burrows can be surprisingly useful on farms and ranches.
Speaker 22 (21:44):
So a lot of people use them as guard animals.
Burrows make great guard animals. They'll run off coyotes or
other predators that might threaten your herd. A lot of
people just keep them as pets. I mean, you look
at take one look at one of those burrows and
you'll see why. They're very cute animals and a lot
of people have them around as pets or lifestyle guardians.
Some people take them on the trails as well. They
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can be used as pack animals. Basically anything you could
you want a donkey to do. That's what this burrow
is for.
Speaker 21 (22:10):
For more information on the National Wild Horse and Burro Program,
log on to b LM dot gov forward slash WHB
Again BLM dot gov forward slash w HB.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowan.
A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act specifies
that it qualified past their entity will have the number
of farm program payment limits based on the number of owners.
I'll be back in a moment with the details.
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Join me in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on August four and five
for two days of farm income tax as well as pharma,
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Law dot edu backslash walter. That's Washburn Law dot edu
backslash waltr The One Big Beautiful Bill Act modifies the
payment limitation rules to allow a pass through entity that
limits liability to not automatically be restricted to a single
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payment limit. Under the provision, pass through entity such as LLCs, LPs, LPs,
and S corporations will be treated as a general partnership
for payment limitation purposes. Historically, any entity that limited liability
only qualified for a single payment limit, with the members
of the entity splitting the payment amount amongst them in
accordance with their ownership percentages. However, this provision removes the
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entity level limitation for such entities. Thus, if the entity
qualifies for multiple payment limits based on the amount of
ARC or PLC payments received, for example, it won't be
restricted to a single limit. The change takes on even
more significance because the payment limit is increased from one
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars to one hundred and
fifty five thousand dollars per person, effecting beginning with the
twenty twenty five crop year, and then is adjusted annually
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for inflation. Now, USDA will need to update its current
AGI calculations to include all items of income and loss
reported on Schedule K. This has been the Agricultural Law
and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowan, Thanks for being with us.
You're listening to ag LIE if I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 24 (24:22):
It's time for California AGG today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. Well, we are getting into technology
here on today's program. Scientists at UC Davis are now
sharing some exciting developments that they say could revolutionize crop protection.
Using artificial intelligence. They have enhanced plants immune systems, allowing
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them to recognize a wider range of bacterial threats. This
breakthrough may help crops like tomatoes and potatoes from devastating diseases. Now, plants,
like animals, have immune systems with receptors that help them
detect harmful bacteria. One such receptor is FLS two. It
recognizes flagellan and a protein bacteria, but bacteria evolve quickly,
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often finding ways to bypass those defenses. That is where
UC Davis scientists came in. Led by Professor Geta. Coker,
they used AI specifically alpha fool, the tool that predicts
protein structures, to re engineer that FLS two, upgrading it
to recognize more bacterial invaders. In a recent news release,
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Coker explained that this research opens the door to developing
broad spectrum disease resistance in crops using predictive design. One
of the targets is a major crop threat, bacterial wilt.
Speaker 20 (25:45):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Oh on how receptive is this age group to your
sales pitch? During non work social time maybe the best
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place to reach a farmer with a farming solution message
is when they are well quite frankly farming, you know
it's easy for us to find them during the day
as most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup
truck or farm equipment with the radio on. Listening to
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I am Hatley's ship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Bob gwenback with some farmer us this morning, friends will
best practices in animal livestock handling have evolved through the years.
Doctor Temple Grandin, renowned animal behavior expert and Colorado State
University professor, talks about the number one thing producers must
do when handling their animals.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
First of all, people need to calm down, because when
cattle get all scared and excited, it takes twenty minutes
to calm down. The next step is you need to
learn some of the basic behavioral principles like how the
flight zone works, point of balance works, working on the
edge of the flight zone, then when they move where
you want them to go back off. Also removing distractions
from facilities. You bring cattle in and they stop halfway
(27:26):
up the shoot. They might be seeing a reflection on
a vehicle's bumper. Well, then move that vehicle or a
little piece of string something like that will stop them.
Take those distractions out of facilities. Those are just two
very very.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Simple things, she said. The way producers move around their
animals is also important.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I showed a little movement pattern when you walk back
by the cattle in the opposite direction to get them
go forward. That can really help on getting them to
move forward and shoots. Those are just some real simple
things people can start to do and no yelling. Calm down,
stop the.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yelling, grand and discuss some of the biggest changes in
animal handling over the years.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh, people have gotten a lot better, a lot less
broad use, calming everything down. They're sending the people out
for training. There's a lot of workshops that are being
put on on low stress handling. There's been a lot
of improvements in the last twenty years of handling. That's
the thing that's really improved. That's the bright spot.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
There are still some things to work on.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
People awareness is one of them. Also, I think you
need to be measuring things. I'm very concerned about this
lameness that's slowly gotten worse, that has a very strong
genetic component. The heart failure problems that I've discussed in
my talk used to just be high altitude sickness at
ten or twelve thousand feet. Now it's happening a much
lower altitudes. There's been a number of researchers that have
shown that it has a genetic basis. Anecdotally, feedyards that
(28:41):
do BEEFONDERI, which is an angus by Holstein Cross, have
traced late stage deads, which are congestive heart failure deads.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Doctor Temple Grandon with us this morning. Friends of new
partnership was formed to get GMO wheats over the finish
line here in the US. Laurie Boyer has our story.
Speaker 25 (28:58):
Coloretta Wheat has recently announce that the Colorado Wheat Research
Foundation and Bio Series Crop Solutions have entered into an
agreement to advance climate resilient hbfour wheat in the US.
Colorado Wheat Executive Director Brad Erger with more on the
new GMO wheat.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
HB four is a trade that has been put into
wheat in South America by bio series, So it's been
grown now in Argentina for a few years. So it's
a GMO trade because what's been done is a scientist
took a gene from a sunflower plant, which is known
to be a pretty drought tolerant plant. They took a
(29:36):
gene from a sunflower plant and put it into wheat.
Within wheat, it's a gene that affects several hundred other
genes to make the plants more stress tolerant.
Speaker 25 (29:46):
Erger says it could be several years before farmers are
able to plant this HB four wheat due to regulatory
approval processes.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
We committed here to all of these preconditions that have
been set out by the farmers in the United States
that we would meet before we start growing GMO wheat,
and one of the most important ones of those is
export market approvals.
Speaker 25 (30:08):
Berger says there are seven countries making up over five
percent of US wheed exports that have yet to approve
gm O wheat.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Last Friday marked the twentieth anniversary of the Energy Policy Act.
Todd Gleeson reports.
Speaker 26 (30:22):
The landmark legislation in the United States promoted the use
of renewable fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. Former CEO of
the National Cornydorers Association, John Doggett, was VP of Public
Policy in its Washington office at the time.
Speaker 27 (30:37):
You know, looking back to all the time and all
the effort it took to finally enact legislation that required
ethanol to be in our fuel supply, it was an
amazing time. It was a huge effort, and I think,
as I think that got it done was the fact
that the entire industry was united. Everybody made an effort
to get those votes. And I remember sitting at my
(30:57):
desk in our Washington office and getting calls from Capitol Hill,
from offices saying, would you please have your farmers quick calling.
We're going to vote with you.
Speaker 26 (31:05):
The Energy Policy Act of two thousand and five led
to the two thousand and seven RFS, or Renewable Fuel Standard,
legislation that requires ten percent of the nation's gasoline supply
be made from a renewable feed stock. Today, the United
States produces more than fifteen billion gallons of ethanol made
from corn to fulfill the goal of creating a stable
(31:25):
renewable fuel supply. I'm Todd Gleason.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Farm Use this morning. You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 28 (31:33):
From the Edge Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
With wildfire conditions in California expected to increase in coming months,
state officials express concern about staff and funding cuts at
the US Forest Service, a division of the USDA. The
proposed federal budget for twenty twenty six includes a reduction
in Forest Service spending, including fire suppression. Patrick Wright of
(31:55):
the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force says this
creates concern in the fedsibility to step up and meet
our targets. Tariff uncertainty continues to weigh on US grain
prices and it's causing a lot of countries to take
a step back and reevaluate, either at getting more negotiations
done or a look at other routes to meet their needs.
(32:16):
Canada has a new tariff rate of thirty five percent.
Products included in the US Mexico Canada Agreement, though are exempt.
Mexico has a deadline extension of ninety days before their
tariffs go into effect for the first time in more
than two decades, Australia will accept shipments of fresh and
frozen US beef. National Cattleman's Beef Association Kent Baca says
(32:37):
this is a huge win. He says Australia isn't likely
to be a huge export market, but it's really about opportunities.
While the US has an exported beef to Australia since
two thousand and five, Australia has sold more than twenty
eight point seven billion dollars worth of its beef to
the US.
Speaker 25 (32:53):
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Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the
same space, whether behind the wheel of a tractor or
a car. Here's what you need to remember. Tractors move slower,
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From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob Queen back to wrap up AGLIE for
today friends well. A newly modernized labub facility, and a
five part food safety plan are among USDA's latest efforts
to boost food safety regarding meat, poultry, and egg products.
Rod Main wraps us up today a.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
New modernized USDA Midwestern Food Safety Lab dedicated at Norman Dy, Missouri,
recently among those in attendance, Agriculture Secretary Brook rawlins.
Speaker 29 (34:22):
Here at the fsis our food safety and Inspection service
for USDA. These employees work three hundred and sixty five
days a year to ensure that our meat, our poultry,
and our eggs are safe and that we are protecting
American consumers from.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
All food born illness Brownfield ag News with the dedication
of that audio the importance of modernizing the Normandy facility.
Speaker 29 (34:44):
Opening this modernized Midwestern Lab expands the FSIS capacity to
detect food born pathogens and chemical residues, strengthening our nationwide
safety monitor and to keep the food supply safe. Our
Midwestern Field Service Laboratory has been a cornerstone of Food
Safe fifty for over four decades, but by twenty nineteen,
facility issues and aging infrastructure prompted us to reimagine its future,
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and plans for this new facility were put in motion.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
The Midwestern Food Safety Lab and other USDA Food Safety
and INSPECTIONED service facilities in twenty twenty four analyzed over
ninety seven thousand inspector collected samples, which produced about two
point two million test results.
Speaker 29 (35:26):
The state of the art equipment at this lab will
enhance our ability to continue developing highly efficient testing, which
means safer food for American families at the dinner table
thanks to the incredible team here in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
The Secretary additionally announced.
Speaker 29 (35:40):
A five point food Safety Plan, which will serve as
the department's roadmap for an even safer, more robust food supply.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Moving forward a comprehensive meat and poultry food safety plan,
which the modernized Normandy Facility and companion FSIS Labs play
a role in.
Speaker 29 (35:58):
First, we are enhancing microbiological testing and oversight number two,
equipping our inspectors with advanced tools and training, including new
data collection on listeria risk factors, and empowering inspectors to
spot emerging problems early in preventing outbreaks. We're also enhancing
our training at USDA for these inspectors.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Part three of the plan involves a focus on Salvadela.
Speaker 29 (36:21):
We've instructed FSIS to launch a new practical approach to
salmonella control that focuses on effective and achievable strategies to
truly reduce those illnesses.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
With the remaining prongs of the comprehensive plan focused on.
Speaker 29 (36:35):
Strengthening state and local partnerships and finally empowering inspectors across
the USDA to enforce compliance with confidence we will deter
repeat violators and insure establishments maintain rigorous food safety procedures.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I'm Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that friends, out of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad Life.
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you for the next hour. We're talking about I
grew cultural production here in the valley and all across
the country. We start off with a hunt for Asian
longhorned beetles with.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Rod Bain Asian loghorn beetle.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You have most likely heard of this invasive pest at
the various quarantined areas in place across parts of the
country to protect trees.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It kills hardwood trees like staple, birch, elm, forcechesta. There's
twelve genera of hardwood trees that this beetle attacks, and
it does that through the larva stage. So the larva
grows inside trees and it feeds on the living tissues
that carry nutrients to the tree. And it can attack
trees anywhere in the United States, and once a tree
(00:43):
is infested, there is no cure for it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Katherine Brodsky of USDA's Addible and plat Health Inspection Service
says damaged trees can become safety hazards ranches dropping add
trees a greater chance of falling over in severe storms.
What to do in addition to a eradication programs and
quarantined areas. You can play a vital role at keeping
Asian log horn beetle in check.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How check your trees.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
By looking at your trees and reporting any signs of
suspicious tree damage. If you see perfectly round holes about
the size of a pencil in your tree, that could
be a sign of an exit hole where an adult
beele emerged from the tree. There's also egg niches and
other site where the female lays the egg on the
outside of the tree.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
On the park Aphis also declares August Tree Check buff
for alb as adult beetles usually emerge from trees and
other nearby items this time of year. And what does
Asian log horn beetle look like? Ronsky describes this critter
as having a long, shiny black body with white spots,
about an inch to an inch and a half long,
six legs, and antenna that are longer than its body.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
If you can try to photograph the beetle that you
found or the tree damage, and that way it'll help
our inspectors to know if that is Asian longhorn beetle,
or if you can capture the beetle in a dirle
container and put it in the freezer, and that way
you can help preserve the insect for identification.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
If you do come across an Asian loghorn beetle or
suspect tree damage from this evasive pest.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You can report it by calling the ALB hotlines. That
number is one eight sixty six seven zero, two nine
nine three eight. Is also a way to submit an online.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Report by going to www. Dot aphis dot USDA dot gov.
Click the plant tab on the home page that the
link to Plant Pest and Diseases to find the page
with content on Asian longhorn beetle, including photos to help
you better identify this pest what other thing. If you
find a beetle or live at a current ALB quarantined area, make.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Sure to follow state and federal laws that limit the
movements of tree material and untreated firewood to new areas
just in case Asian longhorn beetle is inside and you
can help prevent spreading Asian longhorn beetle from your backyard
to new areas.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Broadbane Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Farm, US coming up. You're listening to wag Life. Bob
Quinn back with some farm mews This morning friends. Well,
best practices and animal livestock handling have evolved through the years.
Doctor Temple Grandon, renowned animal behavior expert and Colorado State
University professor, talks about the number one thing producers must
do when handling their animals.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
First of all, people need to calm down, because when
cattle get all scared and excited, it takes twenty minutes
to calm down. The next step is you need to
learn some of the basic behavioral principles, like how the
flight zone works, point of balance works, working on the
edge of the flight zone them when they move where
you want them to go back off. Also, removing distractions
from facilities. You bring cattle in and they stop halfway
(03:43):
up to shoot. They might be seeing a reflection on
a vehicle's bumper. Well, then move that vehicle or a
little piece of string something like that will stop them.
Take those distractions out of facilities. Those are just two
very very simple things.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
She said. The way producers move around their animals is
also important.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
A little movement pattern when you walk back by the
cattle in the opposite direction to get them go forward.
That can really help on getting them to move forward.
And shoots. Those are just some real simple things people
can start to do and no yelling. Calm down, stop
the yelling.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Grand And discussed some of the biggest changes in animal
handling over the years.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Oh, people have gotten a lot better, a lot less
broad use, calming everything down. They're sending the people out
for training. There's a lot of workshops that are being
put on on low stress handling. There's been a lot
of improvements in the last twenty years of handling. That's
the thing that's really improved. That's the bright spot.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
There are still some things to work on.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
People of awareness is one of them. Also, I think
you need to be measuring things. I'm very concerned about
this lameness that's slowly gotten worse that has a very
strong genetic component. The heart failure problems that I've discussed
in my talk used to just be high altitude sickness
at ten or twelve thousand feet. Now it's happening a
much lower altitudes. There's been a number of researchers that
have shown that it has a genetic basis. Anecdotally, feed
(04:57):
yards that do beef on dari, which is an angus
by cross, have traced late stage debts, which are congestive
heart failure deads.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Doctor Temple Grandon with US this morning, Well, friends, Raising
beef in the US comes with a one dollar per
head checkoff, and it has for some time. Commercial operations
factor it in as a cost of doing business, But
the checkoff also charges fees to four H and FFA
members selling their cattle at county or state fairs. Roger McCowen,
(05:24):
an agricultural law professor at Washburn University with US, wonders
if that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
The beef Checkoff program imposes a mandatory dollar per head
fee on all cattle sold in the US. While its
application to large scale commercial sales is well known, its
extension to county fair and four H youth livestock auctions
has sparked debate. The Beef Checkoff ensures all beef producers
contribute equally to the industry's promotion and development. Funds raised
even from small scale or one time sales, help finance
marketing campaigns, nutrition research, and efforts to expand beef's market share.
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To the surprise of some, the checkoff includes four H
and FFA sales, but should it. Critics claim that applying
the checkoff County Fair and youth sales is misguided and unfair.
These animals are often sold in charity style auctions where
buyers overpay to support local youth not to make a profit.
Forcing young participants to surrender part of their proceeds seems punity,
especially when they may only sell one or two animals
a year. Additionally, many argue that these sales don't benefit
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directly from national marketing efforts that the checkoff supports. As
a result, some states have pursued refunds or exemptions for
youth sales, but policies vary among states. Ultimately, applying the
beef checkof at youth sales raises a fundamental question of
whether an industry funded program should treat young, first time
participants the same as commercial operations. The rules allow it,
but should they.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Roger mccohan Washburn University with US Well Friends. The US
agricultural trade deficit hit a record high in the first
half of this year. Bloomberg said that only highlights American
farmers longtime dominant role in world exports, which is hurt
by President Donald Trump's trade wars. Agricultural export value trailed
the import value by four point one billion dollars in June,
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a gap that's fourteen percent larger than a year ago.
The AG sector's trade deficit to twenty eight point six
billion dollars through the first half of this year. For
fifty years, the USAGG sector has consistently had major trade surpluses,
but the growing deficit signals a historic reversal for this
sector now. The trend shift began and Trump's first term
(07:16):
during the trade war with China. Recent data from the
US Commerce Department showed that US exported only five point
five billion dollars worth of farm goods to China during
the first six months of the year, compared to eleven
point eight billion at the same point last year. Farm
use This morning, you're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
It's another agnews update. Well the lower clothes across the
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Read by members of the WYE Oliver's Slope with blue
line futures.
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At the closed.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
December corn futures down one and three quarter cents, settling
at four nineteen before the week that was eight and
three quarters cents lower New Krop November soybeans slid three
and a quarter cents on Friday, settling at ten twenty one,
extending losses for the week to fourteen cents. Lastly, September
Chicago week futures down three and a quarter cents to
five thirty in a quarter that was seven cents lower
(08:35):
on the week. On the bright spot, there were three
separate flash sales this morning from the USCA, two of
those for corn and then one for soybeans. The first
corn sale was for one hundred and three thousand metric
tons that was four delivery to Mexico, and then the
other one hundred and forty thousand metric tons for delivery
to South Korea, and then on the soybean side, the
flash sale of one hundred and forty two thousand metric
tons was four delivery to Mexico. Hotter temperatures across much
(09:00):
of the corn belt are expected to work their way
further south next week, with near normal temperatures across the
Midwest back and the forecasts and then precipitation forecast look
near normal as well. The weekly drought monitor, when compared
to where we started the month, does show some improvement
throughout the corn belt, most notably in parts of Iowa
and Nebraska. However, there are still some isolated stress pockets
(09:22):
in Indiana and Illinois.
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Oliver's slope is with blue Line Futures takes a look
at how markets closed the week last Friday.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Features got hit hard on Thursday, but found their footing
and Friday's training at the closed.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
October live cattle features were fifty.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Two cents hire to two twenty seven to sixty seven
and coincidentally, that's how much higher we were.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
On the week fifty two cents.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
September feeder cattle features today two dollars and thirty seven
cents hire, settling at three thirty three ninety two. That
was a dollar seventy two higher on the week, and
over on the outside. October lean hogs forty seven cents
higher to ninety ozh five, which was fifty five cents
lower on the week. This morning's wholesale box beef report
was mixed. We saw Choice cuts two dollars and eighty
(11:17):
three cents higher to three sixty four fifteen and Select
cuts seventy seven cents lower to three forty sixty. Yesterday's
five area average price for five steers was reported at
two thirty seven eleven. That was on lighter trade volume
Slaughter on Thursday afternoon was reported at one hundred and
eleven thousand head That is six thousand head less than
(11:37):
last week, but only three thousand head less than the
same day last year. And the usca's weekly export sales report,
we saw net sales of beef at just eight thousand,
five hundred metric tons. That was down forty nine percent
from the previous week and thirty percent from the prior
four week average. Japan was the primary buyer there, followed
by Canada and South Korea. Like cattle, Sea reached nineteen
(12:00):
point twenty six today. That is the highest level of
the year. Volatility in the outside markets following a softer
than expected jobs report today may have played a role
in some.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Of that rise.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
That's oliver slope with blue line futures. This is American
Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
On our Producer Tuesday, brought to you by the professional
dairy producers. Opening up your farm to the outside world
and what you should know about liability. On a recent
PDP dairy Signal, attorney Troy Schneider discussed some of the
protections to consider when giving farm tours or many aggritourism
activities on your farm.
Speaker 15 (12:44):
Most people don't really understand necessarily the law behind these
liability risks when hosting farm tours. I thought a good
place to start is what's called Wisconsin's Recreational Use Statue.
They specifically added agricultural tourism activity that's governed by the
Recreational Use Immunity Statue. In Layman's terms, what that statue
does is, if this person is on your property doing
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this specific activity, you're immune from liability.
Speaker 12 (13:12):
He says.
Speaker 14 (13:12):
Who you invite on the farm is also important.
Speaker 15 (13:15):
You have to be prepared. I think that people don't
think like farmers, okay, and there are there is actually
we all think that we're good people. Well there's actually
not so good people in the world sometimes that are
actually looking to suit people, okay, And so you have
to really have to think of you have to change
your mindset of you know, well, you know that you're invincible,
you know, I think you have to set yourself up
(13:37):
to be vulnerable rather than invincible. So I think that
I think that's just as a different sort of mindset.
So the bottom line when it comes to the aggritourism
immunity statue is review who does the law protect from liability,
So there are certain farmers and operations that are not protected,
and what type of risk does the law apply to,
(13:58):
and what are the exceptions to the immunity as well too,
be careful to review those even though there is the
recreational Immunity Statute out there. I highly recommend to my
clients that if they are in the business, that they
also have their people who visit their farm sign a liability.
It's always good to keep your pants up with both
belted suspenders to have the ultimate protection. Statutes provide one
(14:21):
sort of belt, but the suspenders could be a written
waiver and they enforce those. And again it's just an
acknowledgment of there are risks when you step into a
farm of potentially getting hurt. Any good liability waiver, it
should identify who the parties are, acknowledge it to some
of the risks that are involved, and that also should
be clear about what the parties are waving. And then
(14:42):
your last line of defense is making sure that you
have good insurance in case there is something that SIPs
the acts. It's important that you have an insurance covered protection. Really,
in order to find a good insured that's willing to
ensure this type of activity on your farm. Different insurance
companies are rated. Check out your insurance insurance providers rating,
and then have your insurance agent review your operation so
(15:04):
they understand specifically what kind of things you're going to
be offering to the public. Keep records of what you
have done, Keep good records of what type of conversations,
emails and things you had with your agent to make
sure that good documentation between the communications between you and
your agent as you explained what kind of specific activities
you're doing on your farm, so that again there's no
(15:24):
avoiding coverage of your insurance policy. So those are just
I guess some of the protections. I see what you
could do too if you do want to give farm
tours and have agricultural tourism type of activities on your
farm to protect yourself.
Speaker 14 (15:36):
And that's Attorney Troy Schneider, partner and attorney at towig Rybrock,
Schneider and Halbach Law Offices on a recent PDP Dairy
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
USDA's annual look at farm land values and cash reds,
according to chief and Cottabis seth Meyer, indicates of cooling
and year over year growth.
Speaker 16 (16:01):
Where we're seeing the farmer's assessed value of their agriculture
real estate increasing by four point three percent. The land
value is essentially what do you think the value of
your land is, and then on the other side of
that is what did you actually spend on cash rent
And those cash rents were largely determined in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
The fall of last year. As we went.
Speaker 17 (16:21):
Through say twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and even
twenty twenty three, with very high commodity prices, we saw
really strong growth in both cash rents and land values.
I think we have a cooling, but the cooling is
interestingly much more on the cash rent side in terms
of year over year growth than it is on our
(16:41):
producers view the value of their land, so assessing the
crop land is increasing at a greater rate than overall,
ad land and pasture land showing an even larger increase,
hitting one nine and twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Farm real estate value by state reflected year over year
increases at all forty eight dates broad Bane reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
D C.
Speaker 18 (17:10):
Those spider mites would wreck havoc on almon orchards, particularly
back thirty years ago, but that six spot at Thrip,
the big main predator is taking its.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Toll on them.
Speaker 18 (17:20):
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vast ag Information Network. David Havlin is a UCA
and R farm advisor Kerrent County, specializing in anymology.
Speaker 19 (17:32):
To see an orchard that's you know, a third half
three quarters affoliated for mites, you just don't see that anymore,
does not happen, you know, unless the grower has to
do something to control stink bugs that maybe kills the
biological control. Unfortunately, sometimes that has to be done. But
generally speaking, you know, in the old days, you could
just drive up and down any road in the South
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Valley in the middle of August and see trees that
were brown losing their leaves.
Speaker 18 (17:57):
And I've definitely seen it over thirty years as as
anagg journalist.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
Nowadays to see that extremely extremely extremely rare mites are
just under incredible biological control. And again because of shifts
the growers have made in how they control santose scale,
how they control peach twig bore, how they control the mice,
how they control naval orangeworm, how they control ants. All
of those changes combined are now creating a very sustainable
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environment where biological control is just thriving. It's great to
see the transition that the industry's made.
Speaker 18 (18:28):
That's David havilin UCA and r Farm Advisor Kerrent County.
Speaker 20 (18:33):
For the last forty years, the AG Information Network has
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Speaker 18 (19:30):
For the ag Information Network, this is Patrick Cavanaugh with
the California Tree Nut Report.
Speaker 21 (19:35):
The US Bureau of Land Management recently held what some
may consider an unusual livestock auction. They hosted their online
Kraal auction featuring wild horses and donkeys. Chase and Letterman
of the National Wild Horse and Buaugh program says, it's
a chance to provide a good home for a wild
horse or a donkey.
Speaker 22 (19:56):
A lot of forces go on to win major prizes.
A lot of people use animals to show. We've had
a lot of burrows go on to also win different
livestock shows. They're really just great all around animals. You
can do anything. Some of the best stories that I
hear about our horses are used for therapy. Actually, a
lot of people who suffer from PTSD or other mental
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illnesses have found a lot of help in working with
the wildhorse or wild borrow. Just something about coming from
the same place of uncertainty that gives a lot of
people help with their mental struggles.
Speaker 21 (20:32):
The program ensures that animals range land and ten western
states are healthy and not over crowded.
Speaker 22 (20:38):
It our responsibility is to just allow the horses to
be horses out on public lands. The main thing that
we pay attention to is to make sure they have
enough food and water. And because these herds, these horses
and burrows, they thrive so well on public lands that
their populations actually double every four to five years. And
so what our adoption program does is it helps us
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find homes for those animals that are that might run
out of food or water on the range. And so
this is really important part of our program to help
help us keep the animals healthy and the land healthy.
Speaker 21 (21:10):
Wild horses can be trained to perform several different tasks.
Speaker 22 (21:14):
So typically a lot of people use wild horses for
a wide variety of uses. A lot of people trail
ride with them. They are very hardy animals, They're very
sure footed, and so they make great companions for the trails.
A lot of people use them for ranch work. They
are really trainable for a variety of dispense. Because you're
getting a horse that doesn't have any bad habits already,
they don't have any previous training. They're really a blank
(21:37):
slate feed to train the horse for whatever you might
need a horse to do.
Speaker 21 (21:40):
Burrows can be surprisingly useful on farms and ranches.
Speaker 22 (21:44):
So a lot of people use them as guard animals.
Burrows make great guard animals. They'll run off coyotes or
other predators that might threaten your herd. A lot of
people just keep them as pets. I mean, you look
at take one look at one of those burrows and
you'll see why. They're very cute animals and a lot
of people have them around as pets or lifestyle guardians.
Some people take them on the trails as well. They
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can be used as pack animals. Basically anything you could
you want a donkey to do. That's what this burrow
is for.
Speaker 21 (22:10):
For more information on the National Wild Horse and Burro Program,
log on to b LM dot gov forward slash WHB
Again BLM dot gov forward slash w HB.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowan.
A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act specifies
that it qualified past their entity will have the number
of farm program payment limits based on the number of owners.
I'll be back in a moment with the details.
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Speaker 6 (22:59):
Join me in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on August four and five
for two days of farm income tax as well as pharma,
state and business planning. Learn more and register at washburn
Law dot edu backslash walter. That's Washburn Law dot edu
backslash waltr The One Big Beautiful Bill Act modifies the
payment limitation rules to allow a pass through entity that
limits liability to not automatically be restricted to a single
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payment limit. Under the provision, pass through entity such as LLCs, LPs, LPs,
and S corporations will be treated as a general partnership
for payment limitation purposes. Historically, any entity that limited liability
only qualified for a single payment limit, with the members
of the entity splitting the payment amount amongst them in
accordance with their ownership percentages. However, this provision removes the
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entity level limitation for such entities. Thus, if the entity
qualifies for multiple payment limits based on the amount of
ARC or PLC payments received, for example, it won't be
restricted to a single limit. The change takes on even
more significance because the payment limit is increased from one
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars to one hundred and
fifty five thousand dollars per person, effecting beginning with the
twenty twenty five crop year, and then is adjusted annually
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for inflation. Now, USDA will need to update its current
AGI calculations to include all items of income and loss
reported on Schedule K. This has been the Agricultural Law
and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowan, Thanks for being with us.
You're listening to ag LIE if I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 24 (24:22):
It's time for California AGG today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. Well, we are getting into technology
here on today's program. Scientists at UC Davis are now
sharing some exciting developments that they say could revolutionize crop protection.
Using artificial intelligence. They have enhanced plants immune systems, allowing
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them to recognize a wider range of bacterial threats. This
breakthrough may help crops like tomatoes and potatoes from devastating diseases. Now, plants,
like animals, have immune systems with receptors that help them
detect harmful bacteria. One such receptor is FLS two. It
recognizes flagellan and a protein bacteria, but bacteria evolve quickly,
(25:09):
often finding ways to bypass those defenses. That is where
UC Davis scientists came in. Led by Professor Geta. Coker,
they used AI specifically alpha fool, the tool that predicts
protein structures, to re engineer that FLS two, upgrading it
to recognize more bacterial invaders. In a recent news release,
(25:30):
Coker explained that this research opens the door to developing
broad spectrum disease resistance in crops using predictive design. One
of the targets is a major crop threat, bacterial wilt.
Speaker 20 (25:45):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Oh on how receptive is this age group to your
sales pitch? During non work social time maybe the best
(26:06):
place to reach a farmer with a farming solution message
is when they are well quite frankly farming, you know
it's easy for us to find them during the day
as most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup
truck or farm equipment with the radio on. Listening to
this station for the AG Information Network of the West News.
(26:26):
If you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
or service, give us a call and we'll connect you
directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners. Reach real
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On the AG Information Network.
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I am Hatley's ship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Bob gwenback with some farmer us this morning, friends will
best practices in animal livestock handling have evolved through the years.
Doctor Temple Grandin, renowned animal behavior expert and Colorado State
University professor, talks about the number one thing producers must
do when handling their animals.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
First of all, people need to calm down, because when
cattle get all scared and excited, it takes twenty minutes
to calm down. The next step is you need to
learn some of the basic behavioral principles like how the
flight zone works, point of balance works, working on the
edge of the flight zone, then when they move where
you want them to go back off. Also removing distractions
from facilities. You bring cattle in and they stop halfway
(27:26):
up the shoot. They might be seeing a reflection on
a vehicle's bumper. Well, then move that vehicle or a
little piece of string something like that will stop them.
Take those distractions out of facilities. Those are just two
very very.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Simple things, she said. The way producers move around their
animals is also important.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I showed a little movement pattern when you walk back
by the cattle in the opposite direction to get them
go forward. That can really help on getting them to
move forward and shoots. Those are just some real simple
things people can start to do and no yelling. Calm down,
stop the.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yelling, grand and discuss some of the biggest changes in
animal handling over the years.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh, people have gotten a lot better, a lot less
broad use, calming everything down. They're sending the people out
for training. There's a lot of workshops that are being
put on on low stress handling. There's been a lot
of improvements in the last twenty years of handling. That's
the thing that's really improved. That's the bright spot.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
There are still some things to work on.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
People awareness is one of them. Also, I think you
need to be measuring things. I'm very concerned about this
lameness that's slowly gotten worse, that has a very strong
genetic component. The heart failure problems that I've discussed in
my talk used to just be high altitude sickness at
ten or twelve thousand feet. Now it's happening a much
lower altitudes. There's been a number of researchers that have
shown that it has a genetic basis. Anecdotally, feedyards that
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do BEEFONDERI, which is an angus by Holstein Cross, have
traced late stage deads, which are congestive heart failure deads.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Doctor Temple Grandon with us this morning. Friends of new
partnership was formed to get GMO wheats over the finish
line here in the US. Laurie Boyer has our story.
Speaker 25 (28:58):
Coloretta Wheat has recently announce that the Colorado Wheat Research
Foundation and Bio Series Crop Solutions have entered into an
agreement to advance climate resilient hbfour wheat in the US.
Colorado Wheat Executive Director Brad Erger with more on the
new GMO wheat.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
HB four is a trade that has been put into
wheat in South America by bio series, So it's been
grown now in Argentina for a few years. So it's
a GMO trade because what's been done is a scientist
took a gene from a sunflower plant, which is known
to be a pretty drought tolerant plant. They took a
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gene from a sunflower plant and put it into wheat.
Within wheat, it's a gene that affects several hundred other
genes to make the plants more stress tolerant.
Speaker 25 (29:46):
Erger says it could be several years before farmers are
able to plant this HB four wheat due to regulatory
approval processes.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
We committed here to all of these preconditions that have
been set out by the farmers in the United States
that we would meet before we start growing GMO wheat,
and one of the most important ones of those is
export market approvals.
Speaker 25 (30:08):
Berger says there are seven countries making up over five
percent of US wheed exports that have yet to approve
gm O wheat.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Last Friday marked the twentieth anniversary of the Energy Policy Act.
Todd Gleeson reports.
Speaker 26 (30:22):
The landmark legislation in the United States promoted the use
of renewable fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. Former CEO of
the National Cornydorers Association, John Doggett, was VP of Public
Policy in its Washington office at the time.
Speaker 27 (30:37):
You know, looking back to all the time and all
the effort it took to finally enact legislation that required
ethanol to be in our fuel supply, it was an
amazing time. It was a huge effort, and I think,
as I think that got it done was the fact
that the entire industry was united. Everybody made an effort
to get those votes. And I remember sitting at my
(30:57):
desk in our Washington office and getting calls from Capitol Hill,
from offices saying, would you please have your farmers quick calling.
We're going to vote with you.
Speaker 26 (31:05):
The Energy Policy Act of two thousand and five led
to the two thousand and seven RFS, or Renewable Fuel Standard,
legislation that requires ten percent of the nation's gasoline supply
be made from a renewable feed stock. Today, the United
States produces more than fifteen billion gallons of ethanol made
from corn to fulfill the goal of creating a stable
(31:25):
renewable fuel supply. I'm Todd Gleason.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Farm Use this morning. You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 28 (31:33):
From the Edge Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
With wildfire conditions in California expected to increase in coming months,
state officials express concern about staff and funding cuts at
the US Forest Service, a division of the USDA. The
proposed federal budget for twenty twenty six includes a reduction
in Forest Service spending, including fire suppression. Patrick Wright of
(31:55):
the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force says this
creates concern in the fedsibility to step up and meet
our targets. Tariff uncertainty continues to weigh on US grain
prices and it's causing a lot of countries to take
a step back and reevaluate, either at getting more negotiations
done or a look at other routes to meet their needs.
(32:16):
Canada has a new tariff rate of thirty five percent.
Products included in the US Mexico Canada Agreement, though are exempt.
Mexico has a deadline extension of ninety days before their
tariffs go into effect for the first time in more
than two decades, Australia will accept shipments of fresh and
frozen US beef. National Cattleman's Beef Association Kent Baca says
(32:37):
this is a huge win. He says Australia isn't likely
to be a huge export market, but it's really about opportunities.
While the US has an exported beef to Australia since
two thousand and five, Australia has sold more than twenty
eight point seven billion dollars worth of its beef to
the US.
Speaker 25 (32:53):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on road.
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the
same space, whether behind the wheel of a tractor or
a car. Here's what you need to remember. Tractors move slower,
be patient, don't pass on hills or curves. Farmers make
sure your slow moving vehicles, signs and lights are visible
and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads, One moment.
Speaker 12 (33:15):
A caution can save a life.
Speaker 25 (33:16):
Let's work together to keep our roads and our farm safe.
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Speaker 13 (33:51):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob Queen back to wrap up AGLIE for
today friends well. A newly modernized labub facility, and a
five part food safety plan are among USDA's latest efforts
to boost food safety regarding meat, poultry, and egg products.
Rod Main wraps us up today a.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
New modernized USDA Midwestern Food Safety Lab dedicated at Norman Dy, Missouri,
recently among those in attendance, Agriculture Secretary Brook rawlins.
Speaker 29 (34:22):
Here at the fsis our food safety and Inspection service
for USDA. These employees work three hundred and sixty five
days a year to ensure that our meat, our poultry,
and our eggs are safe and that we are protecting
American consumers from.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
All food born illness Brownfield ag News with the dedication
of that audio the importance of modernizing the Normandy facility.
Speaker 29 (34:44):
Opening this modernized Midwestern Lab expands the FSIS capacity to
detect food born pathogens and chemical residues, strengthening our nationwide
safety monitor and to keep the food supply safe. Our
Midwestern Field Service Laboratory has been a cornerstone of Food
Safe fifty for over four decades, but by twenty nineteen,
facility issues and aging infrastructure prompted us to reimagine its future,
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and plans for this new facility were put in motion.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
The Midwestern Food Safety Lab and other USDA Food Safety
and INSPECTIONED service facilities in twenty twenty four analyzed over
ninety seven thousand inspector collected samples, which produced about two
point two million test results.
Speaker 29 (35:26):
The state of the art equipment at this lab will
enhance our ability to continue developing highly efficient testing, which
means safer food for American families at the dinner table
thanks to the incredible team here in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
The Secretary additionally announced.
Speaker 29 (35:40):
A five point food Safety Plan, which will serve as
the department's roadmap for an even safer, more robust food supply.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Moving forward a comprehensive meat and poultry food safety plan,
which the modernized Normandy Facility and companion FSIS Labs play
a role in.
Speaker 29 (35:58):
First, we are enhancing microbiological testing and oversight number two,
equipping our inspectors with advanced tools and training, including new
data collection on listeria risk factors, and empowering inspectors to
spot emerging problems early in preventing outbreaks. We're also enhancing
our training at USDA for these inspectors.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Part three of the plan involves a focus on Salvadela.
Speaker 29 (36:21):
We've instructed FSIS to launch a new practical approach to
salmonella control that focuses on effective and achievable strategies to
truly reduce those illnesses.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
With the remaining prongs of the comprehensive plan focused on.
Speaker 29 (36:35):
Strengthening state and local partnerships and finally empowering inspectors across
the USDA to enforce compliance with confidence we will deter
repeat violators and insure establishments maintain rigorous food safety procedures.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I'm Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that friends, out of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad Life.
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