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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. Start
off this morning with an introduction to the elderberry.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Perhaps a memory you share with family members, a drive
to a locale rule even remote, to pick wild elderberries.
Mom or Grandmam would make elderberry jams and jellies, syrups
from the harvest.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We get asked loud about wine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
One of the many questions about elderberries received by Chase
Kennedy about other inquiries for this Florida elderberry producer, what's
an elderberry?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Anyway, far as ripening goes, The berries are green that
will turn red. But once they turn black, they'll.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Have a sean.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And once they lose that sean, that's the perfect time
to harvests. Press that berry. If it looks like red wine,
it's ready to harvest.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Kennedy himself did not know what an elderberry was until
twenty seventeen. That is, wed like some other consumers, he
was introduced to this berry for some of its new
tripe and perceived health benefits.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Kids were in elementary school. They were sick, so we
were like, there's got to be something that we can
give them. Went down to the health food store, got
some elderberry, sirup.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It helped them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
They were healthy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
With a background in farming, Kennedy and his family decided
to learn as much about elderberry as possible for a
purpose of growing it and making product from it. The
Sabagas genus elderberry has several varieties growing wild in much
of North America, particularly subtropical regions. So how did Chase
Kennedy go about establishing his operation North Florida Elderberry.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We bought four well known varieties from around the country.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
We brought them to Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We're about six years from planning all of our elderberry
is American elderberry to sam Bucas canadensis.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
With few elderberry commercial operations and growing resources available. With
starting out, Kennedy admits.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's been a lot of trial in era, lightwood, pruning,
feeding water. We do trial in era. You prout them
this way this year and see how they respond next year.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
One lesson lur smaller sized elder bushes and trees for
ease of harvest.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Like down in Florida, they'll get ten fifteen feet tall.
We don't want to pull our ladders out to harvest,
so these varieties they produce fruit around five or six feet.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And as for the taste of a ripe elderberry.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Elderberry naturally is very low in sugar, so it has
very low bricks. It's not a real sweet juice. Sometimes
it may have a little tartness to it. It tastes
good in a natural form. It's just not as sweet
as blueberry.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Or other fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So subtimes sweetener, sugar, honey, blue agavi can be added
with making elderberry product to improve taste and Chase Kennedy's case.
No elderberry wine. It is product live, however, from juice
concentrate with Hodey added.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You would take a tablespoon of that daily and you
could add it into water. You can add it into lemonade,
ice creams, yogurt, so it's kind of like a food additive.
We're using the elderberry must to make balsamic vinegar. We
also make elderberry jelly.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Broad Ban Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Farm Use Ahead This is Agglife, Bob Quinn, here were
some farm us this morning, friends. Allowing Seattle officials to
have the authority to wipe out thirteen hundred acres of
productive farmland adjacent to the Skaggott River dams in Washington
State would be a gut punch to farmers under the
guise of a salmon recovery plan, save family farming. Dylan
(03:18):
Hankoop says, that's what could happen under the dam Relicnsing
settlement proposed by Seattle's City Light.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
From what we understand, they are acquiescing and saying we
will do fish passage, but they haven't completely closed the
door to continuing to take farmland.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But Hankoop says, the way it's currently written is the
real problem.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The city of Seattle, via its utility Seattle City Lights,
could use the power of eminent domain, the authority of
the government. Mind you, a government eighty miles away coming
to this gadget valley and say we're going to quote
unquote condemn the technical term condemn that farmland, and we're
going to take it for our habitat mitigation projects, and
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the farming community.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Saying no way that comes without any input from the
farmers or landowners who would be directly impacted.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
That needs to be done and decided at the local level,
and done in line with the local STAMON recovery plans
already in play.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Again, no farmers have been asked for input.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
There are folks who have wanted to weigh in on
this that at different points have been shut out of
this process. It hasn't gone well, and that's why this
continues to be a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Say family Farming is urging Mayor Bruce Harrald and the
Seattle City Council to reject what they call a reckless overreach. Well,
friends of the USDA announced several new steps in combating
the threat from New World screwworm marching through Mexico and
closer to the southern US border. AG Secretary brook Wallins
paused cattle imports from Mexico and talks about when that
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may get lifted after implementing the new steps.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
First, the pause will be as long as it is
necessary until we get this under control. As it began
to move northward. This was one of the first briefings
I had. I was announced on November twenty third of
last year as President Trump's selection. I had my hearing
January twenty first, twenty second or twenty third, I believe,
and then sworn in on February thirteenth. This particular issue
has been at the top of the list from the
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very moment that I was announced.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's all about taking extra steps to protect the US
food supply and the country's national security.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
We expect with these announcements in the aggressive strategy to
begin to push back the screwworm. But when it was
even at eleven hundred miles from the Texas border, which
is where we believed it had stopped, until we got
the report about four weeks ago that it was within
three hundred and seventy miles, even then we were shutting
the ports down. So we've got a lot of data
to collect. We've got a lot of work to do,
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but we have to protect our cattle industry and our
beef industry in this country, and in so doing protect
our food supply and in so doing protect our national security.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Secretary of Agriculture Brook rawlins this morning, well, friends, it
seems impossible to talk about most commodity markets and not
mentioned volatility, and the cattle market is no exception. Market
analysts Brad Koima said, volatility is something producers have to
adapt to.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
The volatility is off the charts. I took a day
off and went down to the Iowa State Fair, and
I'm watching the markets on my phone right and I'm
not even on the roller coaster, and it feels like
I'm on the ride right. I was saying to the
other brokers this morning. I remember when I first started,
we had the dairy buyout, and I thought, holy smokes.
I mean we went down the limit, which was a
dollar fifty three days in a row we lost four
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and a half dollars. We lose four and a half
dollars a one hundred dollar Go get a cup of cors.
The volatility is, it is what it is, and either
you adapt or you get run over.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What are some of the reasons driving that volatility.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
It's because of AI, It's because of algorithms, It's because
of HFTs. It's because of these chunks of money that
are driven and seemed to be able to sense where
these spaces are in the market where all of a
sudden you sell enough of it, and all of a
sudden you break two and a half three dollars, and
then you know, then the catch and then. So that's
part of the reason why. I think it's just because
of the nature of the participants in the marketplace.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
While there is steady activity in most sale barns, he said,
the packers may begin pulling back somewhat on their bids.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
If they can.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
That's what they're doing. You've got a pretty big kill
cuts here last week, pretty big kill cuts again this week.
There's certainly more than one major packer that's down to
thirty two hours as four days a week. Their margins
are poor, obviously, and that's what they're trying to do.
And there's not enough cattle to go around. Who's kidding who?
So there's that If the producer the feed lock stands
firm like he has for months and months and months,
and cash firms back up here like it's done how
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many times, then the market will priority respond favorably.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Analyst Brad Koima with US Farm News you're listening to.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It's another agnews update. There's a new law expanding base
acres for more farms. More after this.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky thanks to a local farmer.
We recently received a twenty five hundred dollar donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the mon Sando Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(08:12):
I encourage all farmers general for a chance to direct
a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit,
visit Growcommunities dot com.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Whilemakers recently passing HR one, also known as the One
Big Beautiful Bill, it includes a major change for producers
with land not fully covered by existing farm program based
acres now. According to the Agricultural Food Policy Center at
Texas A and M, the new provision allows up to
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thirty million additional base acres nationwide, effective for the twenty
twenty six crop year. Farms are eligible if they're twenty
nineteen through twenty twenty three average planted or prevented plan
in acre of covered commodities exceeds the current base acres,
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or if they planted eligible non covered commodities within the
fifteen percent limit of total farm acreage. New base acres
assigned proportionately based on historical plantings, and if eligible acres
nationwide exceed thirty million, USDA will apply and across the
board reduction landowners will be notified automatically through USDA's Farm
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Service Agency, though they may opt out. It's another agnews update.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
We f farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
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Speaker 6 (10:07):
American Cattle News Today. How far will the consumer go
with higher prices? More after this?
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
Americans Farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Bear As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(10:37):
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Oklahoma State livestock Economist, Doctor Darryl Peel.
Speaker 14 (10:49):
It's pretty typical that grilling kind of slows down a
little bit in midsummer. I would expect to see this
market stabilize and probably you know, tick back up just
slightly as we have a last summer surge of buying
for the Labor Day weekend for the summer grilling season.
So we'll see. I'm looking for this market to stabilize
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a little bit going forward. I don't see any indication
yet that we've got any fundamental unraveling of beef demand
at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
But isn't it all about, at the end of the day,
the consumer.
Speaker 14 (11:20):
High prices will consumers push back, And we always think about, well,
when you know, when beef prices get high, ground beef
is kind of the go to market. It's a favorite anyway,
and it's usually our you know, our value product to
go to. But when you look at how cosslaughter has
decreased the last two years, and so that the the
tightness of supply for beef trimmings has pushed that ground
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beef market market up. And I recently took a look
at how do wholesale trimmings markets compare to say, steak markets,
and so if you look at you know, ninety percent
lean trimmings compared to RIBBI wholesale values. Over well, since
twenty twenty three, the trimmings price has gone up about
forty percent, while the RIBBI price at the wholesale level
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has gone up about thirteen percent. So ground beef is
is you know, it's still going to be a cheaper
product in absolute terms, but relatively speaking, ground beef is
not as much of a value as it often is.
Those trimmings prices are running about thirty eight percent of
the wholesale value of Ribby's right now, and that's exactly
what you would expect given how much those ground beef
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market components have decreased in the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Agriculture Today, This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 15 (12:37):
Now.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
I'm John Clark, traveling on the countryside for Feedwick's USA.
Today we're with Kelly Reynolds of Rencrest Farms and Corefew,
New York. Kelly, tell us a little bit about your farm.
Speaker 16 (12:47):
Hi, John, We're at Rendcrest's farm. We milk eighteen hundred
Holsteins in western New York and the farm is owned
by my mother and father in law, John and Jolly
Reynolds and their three children, Tyler Andrew mc kenzi. And
I'm married to Tyler and we have two girls that
we enjoy raising on the farm.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Hey, this is a large commercial theory farm, but you
also have a very strong genetics component to it, which
means you know you're gonna merchandise at c How does
that fit in for you guys?
Speaker 16 (13:15):
Well, we always kind of joke that the show barn
is four H project that never left, So we all
started showing through four H. I grew up in Wisconsin
and was very active in junior breed associations and things
like that, and we just all really enjoy having show
cattle and doing a little bit of IVF work and flushing,
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and it's just something that kind of keeps us all engaged.
We joke some people have a boat and we.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
Have a show barn, nothing wrong with that. And you
have several judges here on the farm.
Speaker 16 (13:46):
Yes, we're all pretty active judges, Tyler. My husband has
quite a few judging gigs this summer. My brother in
law Andrew just finished judging in OHM and he has
a more judging jobs as well. And then I'm judging
four or five shows this year. And my sister Lawa Mackenzie,
she actually judges a little bit, but I think she
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prefers showmanship to type classes.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
It's all good. So and you have a really interesting
legacy as well that you want to pass on, and
you really have a passion for working with young people.
Speaker 16 (14:20):
Yeah, my mom, Katie Coin, she had a business Millwheel
Show clinics, and that was an in person clinics kind
of business that she did, traveling to different areas. And
I'm trying to continue her legacy and do a little
bit more on social media, just helping kids where I can.
(14:40):
I don't think I'll do any in person clinics this year,
but just sharing, you know, tips to make showmanship and
showing cattle easier for beginner members or people that want
to really hone in their skills.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
So really it's important for you to encourage that next generation.
So we have a vibrant industry for tomorrow.
Speaker 16 (14:59):
Yes, and I think that showing, judging, quiz bowl, junior
breed programs, and things like that are just such a
great way to engage not only youth that grow up
on a farm, but people that might have a connection
to agriculture but don't necessarily have a farm that they
live on. It's just a great way to keep those
people connected and involved in the industry and gain new
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followers in the industry as well.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
That's an interesting point. I was just talking to Jason
Lloyd the other day about that while we've lost dairy
farms in numbers, we still have a lot of enthusiasts
who are involved in showing. May not be on a
farm that's milking cows currently, but they're still engaged and
that's so important for our industry.
Speaker 16 (15:37):
Yeah, certainly, And I just think that that foot in
the door that youth programs provide is just so important.
A few years ago, Kendra Lam and I talked about
the starting a judging clinic for our youth in Western
New York through our local Holsting Club, and our Holsting
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Club sponsors a judging clinic that we travel to two
different farms and look at some cattle, and it's just
a great entry level way for young judges to kind
of get a feel for a contest before they go
to those bigger contests in the fall.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
That's a great way to keep them involved, keep them engaged.
And there's kind of a gap in this time of
year for those judging clinics, so there's truly a need, right.
Speaker 16 (16:18):
Yeah, certainly, And we don't want kids to go to
State Fair and not you know, kind of fly blind.
We want them to be adjusted to the feel of
a contest, so we try to run it very similarly
and just kind of get them warmed up for a
real contest. We try to have a learning experience kind
of going through play scenes and giving reasons on classes
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and things like that.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
And you just completed one here last week and it
was really a great clinic and the weather cooperated as well.
Speaker 16 (16:45):
Yes, certainly, when you're planning an outdoor event, you're just
praying for the weather, and in western New York that
can be a little spotty. Well, in the Northeast really
can be a little touch and go. So we had
a great day and we had I think over forty
youth judge and about ten other coaches and parents join us,
and it was just a really great event.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
And from across the state too, Yeah.
Speaker 16 (17:08):
All across New York, Western, Eastern Central.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Kelly Reynolds with Rencrest Farms, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 16 (17:15):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
John.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for feedback to USA.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
California being the largest producers of olmits is strength. I'm
Patrick Cavda with the California Tree Nut Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. Clarice Turner is president and CEO
of the almed Border, California.
Speaker 18 (17:38):
We are the largest producers still eight percent of the
world's supply. And even though you know, people will talk
about while Australia has favorable tariffs in these countries and
they only have a limited supply of moments that they
can sell, right, so there's always a willing seller for
a willing buyer, and there's lots of them around the world.
So again, I think all of those things kind of
underpin the strength of what we are going to be
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seeing in the future. We're about it break even right now,
so that's great. Still got a long way to go
to be able to help our farmers kind of get
back on their feet again. And not everybody, of course,
is in the same place, but in general, on average,
still tough, and we very well recognize that in terms
of opportunities, you know, where do we see white space?
We mentioned the Deloitte study several times that again, our
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growers had the wisdom to invest in and I think
the last time that they did that was twenty eleven,
and it gave us great insights then, and it's given
us great insights in this last go around too, somewhat
reinforcing that the markets that we're in are the right markets,
and then also identifying several more that are really worthwhile exploring.
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In some cases it's pretty obvious that they're worthwhile going after.
Speaker 17 (18:48):
That's Clarice Turner.
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Friday at the Texas State Capitol at Austin.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
We are announcing USDA will invest and build a domestic
sterile fly production facility in Edinburgh, Texas, which is situated
about twenty miles from the southern border.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins announcing the latest efforts to prevent
the entry of livestock threat new World screwworm within our border.
The new site will complement the.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Dispersal facility we have already begun production.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On Texas far Bureau Radio with the Audio Secretary rawlins
ads at additional one hundred million dollar investment will.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Identify and deploy cutting edge technologies that can accelerate our response.
While the construction of the facility is underway.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Threat of infected wildlife crossing it to the US for
Mexico meads increased border surveillance through use of USDA TICK
writers and Beagle Brigade. In addition US Mexico collaboration and
combat again WS will be heightened road bane reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
With a capacity to produce three hundred million sterile screwworm
flies per week, and that's how we eradicate the parasite.
This facility will triple our current output and eliminate our
our sole reliance on Panama and Mexico for sterile fly supply.
It's a tactical move that ensures we are prepared and
not just reactive, which is to date what we have
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really been working through. We will invest the federal government
up to seven hundred and fifty million dollars on this
facility and it will also create about three hundred jobs
right here in Texas. Second, we are launching up to
one hundred million dollars in addition to the seven hundred
and fifty million cutting edge technologies that can accelerate our
response from novel traps and lures to modular sterile fly units.
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I am calling on the brightest minds in the country
to build on our existing tools and help us outpace
this pest quickly and in the most innovative way possible.
Because of the migration of infected wildlife over the US border,
we are ramping up the hiring of USDA employed mounted
patrol officers known as the Tick Riders or the Tick Crew,
which will be the cornerstone of our surveillance program. The
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Tick Riders are mounted on horseback and will provide the
first line of defense against a new World screen outbreak
along the US Mexico border. We're also training our beagles
of the Bigle Brigade to detect screw worm infections and
will be significantly ramping up our border surveillance program. Because
pests don't care where the border is, we are working
directly with Mexico, perhaps in a way never seen before.
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My counterpart, Secretary Julio Berdage and I are in contact
almost daily on this issue. At this point, we are
working with Mexico to boost the surveillance, training and oversight
inside Mexico to ensure real time tracking and reaction time,
while the US works to verify Mexico's reported results and
to help them improve their systems south of the border.
Mexico has agreed to halt animal movement in affected zones,
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which will help push screworm back towards the dairien gap
and away from our doorstep.
Speaker 20 (22:49):
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sustainability certifications are becoming de facto requirements to remain competitive
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Ranchers who don't comply risk losing buyers or access to
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Speaker 22 (26:59):
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Speaker 1 (27:06):
Bob Quinn back with some farm used this morning, friends
who we are in the middle of crop tour season
and going on in the Midwest is the pro farmer
crop tour. Todd Gleeson has some background.
Speaker 23 (27:16):
The roundtable discussion. In the heartland of America. It is
often a source of information, a way for farmers to
keep up on crop conditions in their neighbors field. But
in a world where agricultural trade encompasses the globe that
falls far short of any real value, these people are
in search of a broader perspective. They are floor traders
from the Futures Exchange in Chicago, grain merchandisers from the
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United States, Japan and Germany. US Department of Bag officials,
agricultural meteorologists, and journalists. The one common thread they share
as a desire for more information on the American corn crop.
They are Agrivisor Crop tour scouts and have spent the
day on the road and in the cornfield gathering vital
statistics on a nineteen eighty nine corn crop.
Speaker 15 (27:55):
Or starting spot with that where we won't cat that
where we'll start with this plot. You'll hold that tape,
I'll sing out when we got seventeen five.
Speaker 23 (28:04):
Tour host and aggravisor market analyst Jim Quinton is making
corn yield calculations to endure randomness. The calculations are made
the same distance into the field each stop thirty six
paces in from the edge. He lays off a one
row strip equal to one to one thousands of an acre.
In this particular case, the test drip is seventeen and
one half feet long. The number of plants in the
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strip are counted and multiplied by one thousand to obtain
a total plant count for the entire acre.
Speaker 15 (28:30):
Thirteen eighteen nineteen ears and one one thousands of an acre,
So that's like a nineteen thousand plant population. For a
random selection, we'll take the seventh, the eleventh, and the
thirteenth ear one two, three, four, five, sixty seven. Feel
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that down. Look at the grain in that cub.
Speaker 23 (28:56):
The number of ears on the plants are counted, and
then once again to ensure randomness, the same air numbers
from each strip are taken for the final counts in
the yield calculations.
Speaker 15 (29:05):
Eight nine, ten, number eleven.
Speaker 23 (29:07):
In this case, the ear numbers are the seventh, eleventh,
and thirteenth ears in the test drip.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
Those are three randomly selected ears in the center and
this one is two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen eighteen.
We got eighteen, eighteen and sixteen. It's an average is
seventeen point three, and the length the kernels on the
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cob here one, two, three, four folds.
Speaker 23 (29:39):
For the final calculation, the number of kernels around each
and the length of each of the three airs are
counted in average. Then all of the calculations are translated
onto the corn yield calculators. It is actually a slide
rule through.
Speaker 15 (29:51):
One, two, three, four, thirty five or six or seven
thirty eight call it thirty eight and on the calculator.
Then if we use number of rows of kernels around
the cobb at average seventeen point three and the length
of kernels will call thirty eight. So we'll set thirty
eight on about seventeen to three. Who sits down there
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there we go, and we had nineteen thousand plants. That's
one hundred and thirty nine bushels the acre, assuming kernel
weight will be normal weight. That's what this corneral calculator
cannot do is tell you whether the kernel size itself
is going to be bigger than, smaller than or about normal.
Speaker 23 (30:29):
From here, it's another twenty miles on the road to
the next stop. The car talk centers on one thing,
crop conditions. Jim Quinton.
Speaker 15 (30:36):
Dry matter accumulates in the corn kernel at the rate
of ten percent or one percent per day for the
first ten days, two percent per day for the next
forty after pollination, and then one percent per day for
the final ten days. That'd be sixty day spent to
have one hundred percent dry matter accumulation from pollination to
black layer permission. If this carn is pollinated in August
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twenty eighth and you got a killing three on September thirtieth,
you would be at the seventy percent tile of drymatter
accumulation when the day of the corn plant died. If
that calculated, you know, for that spot with one hundred.
Speaker 24 (31:11):
And ninety two bushels, that cuts you down to one
hundred and thirty bushels of yield right then and there overnight,
that's all that field would have, and it'd be one
hundred and thirty bushels of some of the most ungodly
crap you ever took to an elevator.
Speaker 23 (31:24):
Twenty miles later, it's out of the car and into
the field again where we find just such a situation.
Speaker 15 (31:29):
Depending on how these latest stocks pollinate, it could make
almost thirty bushels difference in the yield of this particular field.
And it's very, very late, and I think we have
to question where the eason when the late stalks will
make it before frost.
Speaker 23 (31:42):
As you come up on a field from the road
in here, this field looks like a good field if
you just drive and buy it. I mean, it's probably
twelve feet tall or better, and green as can be,
and there's plenty of moisture out here.
Speaker 15 (31:58):
Throw you well, that's the old winch shield method, and
the old windshield method is okay for vegetative matter, but
it's not okay for counting green.
Speaker 23 (32:06):
Just over forty participants rode in eight cars on this
six to eight three day crop tour.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I'm Todd Gleeson, Todd Gleeson with US This morning, farm US.
You're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Well.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
President Trump signed an executive order extending a deadline for
higher tariffs on Chinese imports from last Tuesday until November tenth.
Officials from the US and China first ended tariff tit
for cat in May after duty rates on both sides
reach triple digits. The order reads through these discussions, China
continues to take significant steps toward remedying non reciprocal trade
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agreements and addressing the concerns of the United States after
years of litigation. The National Cattleman's Beef Association notch day
legal victory, affirming protections for cattle farmers and ranchers when
it comes to air emissions reporting requirements. NCBA and other
farm groups say having to file complex, overreaching reports is
r Public Lands Council Executive director Caitlin Glover says the
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decision affirms that family cattle producers shouldn't have to file
reports for a natural biological process under a law meant
for chemical contaminants. Mexico has set minimum export prices for
its fresh tomatoes to protect domestic production and insure internal
supply after a bilateral agreement with the US expired. Mexico's
egg ministries have made announcements after Washington withdrew from a
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twenty nineteen deal between the two countries which regulated Mexico
tomato exports to the US. The new pricing rules apply
exclusively to definitive exports, but don't restrict export volumes or
impose maximum prices.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
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?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Oh, and how.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Receptive is this age group to your sales pitch during
non work social time. Maybe the best placed 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
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Baglive for today, friends.
We wrap up with a look at some fall harvested
produce numbers.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Late summer at early fall are a great period to
enjoy the harvest from various seasonal fruit trees and vines,
even bogs. What then, does potential production for some of
these crops look like this year? Per USDA's outlook for
these crops, Anthony Preliment of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
starts with apples.
Speaker 25 (35:19):
Production is estimated at eleven point five billion pounds, so
that is up five point seven percent in last season.
I do want to point out that production in Washington,
the largest apple producing state, is expected to be a
record high for that state this.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Year, with production up seven percent year over year. Number
two Apple production state, New York is also up in
production from twenty twenty four. Turning to Apple's palm cousin pears.
Speaker 25 (35:44):
The pair production in twenty twenty five is expected to
be the twenty two point four percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Pairs are grown in the three Pacific coast states, and
while Washington and Oregon both report higher production than the
previous year, California's rise in pair production two twenty twenty
five represents a rebound from lower production totals last year.
Now peaches, while there has been previous indication of slightly
less production of California clingstone and free stone varieties from
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the prior year. When add together peach production states such
as Georgia and South Carolina. In USDA's latest forecast for
that fruit, peach.
Speaker 25 (36:22):
Production is forecast to be down three point eight percent
from last year.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
With both southeastern peach growing states reporting year over year
declines in production for their crops. Turning to grape production.
Speaker 25 (36:33):
Production is estimated at five point five nine million tons
that is up three twenty four.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
California is far and away the ation's largest grape growing state,
while table grape production forecast did not change year over
year and raising grape production numbers were lowered by ten
thousand tons, and increase in wine grape production was a
significant driver in total US grape production being higher in
twenty twenty Fively an outlook on US crabberry production for
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this year.
Speaker 25 (37:03):
Franburry production is estimated to be down nine point one
percent compared with last year. Production in Wisconsin is expected
to be down a little over three percent from last season,
while production in Massachusetts is expected to be down twenty
two percent due to less than ideal of growing conditions
in that state.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm rod Bane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, out of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition A 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. Start
off this morning with an introduction to the elderberry.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Perhaps a memory you share with family members, a drive
to a locale rule even remote, to pick wild elderberries.
Mom or Grandmam would make elderberry jams and jellies, syrups
from the harvest.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We get asked loud about wine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
One of the many questions about elderberries received by Chase
Kennedy about other inquiries for this Florida elderberry producer, what's
an elderberry?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Anyway, far as ripening goes, The berries are green that
will turn red. But once they turn black, they'll.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Have a sean.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And once they lose that sean, that's the perfect time
to harvests. Press that berry. If it looks like red wine,
it's ready to harvest.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Kennedy himself did not know what an elderberry was until
twenty seventeen. That is, wed like some other consumers, he
was introduced to this berry for some of its new
tripe and perceived health benefits.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Kids were in elementary school. They were sick, so we
were like, there's got to be something that we can
give them. Went down to the health food store, got
some elderberry, sirup.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It helped them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
They were healthy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
With a background in farming, Kennedy and his family decided
to learn as much about elderberry as possible for a
purpose of growing it and making product from it. The
Sabagas genus elderberry has several varieties growing wild in much
of North America, particularly subtropical regions. So how did Chase
Kennedy go about establishing his operation North Florida Elderberry.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We bought four well known varieties from around the country.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
We brought them to Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We're about six years from planning all of our elderberry
is American elderberry to sam Bucas canadensis.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
With few elderberry commercial operations and growing resources available. With
starting out, Kennedy admits.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's been a lot of trial in era, lightwood, pruning,
feeding water. We do trial in era. You prout them
this way this year and see how they respond next year.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
One lesson lur smaller sized elder bushes and trees for
ease of harvest.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Like down in Florida, they'll get ten fifteen feet tall.
We don't want to pull our ladders out to harvest,
so these varieties they produce fruit around five or six feet.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And as for the taste of a ripe elderberry.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Elderberry naturally is very low in sugar, so it has
very low bricks. It's not a real sweet juice. Sometimes
it may have a little tartness to it. It tastes
good in a natural form. It's just not as sweet
as blueberry.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Or other fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So subtimes sweetener, sugar, honey, blue agavi can be added
with making elderberry product to improve taste and Chase Kennedy's case.
No elderberry wine. It is product live, however, from juice
concentrate with Hodey added.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You would take a tablespoon of that daily and you
could add it into water. You can add it into lemonade,
ice creams, yogurt, so it's kind of like a food additive.
We're using the elderberry must to make balsamic vinegar. We
also make elderberry jelly.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Broad Ban Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Farm Use Ahead This is Agglife, Bob Quinn, here were
some farm us this morning, friends. Allowing Seattle officials to
have the authority to wipe out thirteen hundred acres of
productive farmland adjacent to the Skaggott River dams in Washington
State would be a gut punch to farmers under the
guise of a salmon recovery plan, save family farming. Dylan
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Hankoop says, that's what could happen under the dam Relicnsing
settlement proposed by Seattle's City Light.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
From what we understand, they are acquiescing and saying we
will do fish passage, but they haven't completely closed the
door to continuing to take farmland.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But Hankoop says, the way it's currently written is the
real problem.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The city of Seattle, via its utility Seattle City Lights,
could use the power of eminent domain, the authority of
the government. Mind you, a government eighty miles away coming
to this gadget valley and say we're going to quote
unquote condemn the technical term condemn that farmland, and we're
going to take it for our habitat mitigation projects, and
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the farming community.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Saying no way that comes without any input from the
farmers or landowners who would be directly impacted.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
That needs to be done and decided at the local level,
and done in line with the local STAMON recovery plans
already in play.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Again, no farmers have been asked for input.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
There are folks who have wanted to weigh in on
this that at different points have been shut out of
this process. It hasn't gone well, and that's why this
continues to be a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Say family Farming is urging Mayor Bruce Harrald and the
Seattle City Council to reject what they call a reckless overreach. Well,
friends of the USDA announced several new steps in combating
the threat from New World screwworm marching through Mexico and
closer to the southern US border. AG Secretary brook Wallins
paused cattle imports from Mexico and talks about when that
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may get lifted after implementing the new steps.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
First, the pause will be as long as it is
necessary until we get this under control. As it began
to move northward. This was one of the first briefings
I had. I was announced on November twenty third of
last year as President Trump's selection. I had my hearing
January twenty first, twenty second or twenty third, I believe,
and then sworn in on February thirteenth. This particular issue
has been at the top of the list from the
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very moment that I was announced.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's all about taking extra steps to protect the US
food supply and the country's national security.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
We expect with these announcements in the aggressive strategy to
begin to push back the screwworm. But when it was
even at eleven hundred miles from the Texas border, which
is where we believed it had stopped, until we got
the report about four weeks ago that it was within
three hundred and seventy miles, even then we were shutting
the ports down. So we've got a lot of data
to collect. We've got a lot of work to do,
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but we have to protect our cattle industry and our
beef industry in this country, and in so doing protect
our food supply and in so doing protect our national security.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Secretary of Agriculture Brook rawlins this morning, well, friends, it
seems impossible to talk about most commodity markets and not
mentioned volatility, and the cattle market is no exception. Market
analysts Brad Koima said, volatility is something producers have to
adapt to.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
The volatility is off the charts. I took a day
off and went down to the Iowa State Fair, and
I'm watching the markets on my phone right and I'm
not even on the roller coaster, and it feels like
I'm on the ride right. I was saying to the
other brokers this morning. I remember when I first started,
we had the dairy buyout, and I thought, holy smokes.
I mean we went down the limit, which was a
dollar fifty three days in a row we lost four
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and a half dollars. We lose four and a half
dollars a one hundred dollar Go get a cup of cors.
The volatility is, it is what it is, and either
you adapt or you get run over.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What are some of the reasons driving that volatility.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
It's because of AI, It's because of algorithms, It's because
of HFTs. It's because of these chunks of money that
are driven and seemed to be able to sense where
these spaces are in the market where all of a
sudden you sell enough of it, and all of a
sudden you break two and a half three dollars, and
then you know, then the catch and then. So that's
part of the reason why. I think it's just because
of the nature of the participants in the marketplace.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
While there is steady activity in most sale barns, he said,
the packers may begin pulling back somewhat on their bids.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
If they can.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
That's what they're doing. You've got a pretty big kill
cuts here last week, pretty big kill cuts again this week.
There's certainly more than one major packer that's down to
thirty two hours as four days a week. Their margins
are poor, obviously, and that's what they're trying to do.
And there's not enough cattle to go around. Who's kidding who?
So there's that If the producer the feed lock stands
firm like he has for months and months and months,
and cash firms back up here like it's done how
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many times, then the market will priority respond favorably.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Analyst Brad Koima with US Farm News you're listening to.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
It's another agnews update. There's a new law expanding base
acres for more farms. More after this.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky thanks to a local farmer.
We recently received a twenty five hundred dollar donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the mon Sando Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
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I encourage all farmers general for a chance to direct
a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit,
visit Growcommunities dot com.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Whilemakers recently passing HR one, also known as the One
Big Beautiful Bill, it includes a major change for producers
with land not fully covered by existing farm program based
acres now. According to the Agricultural Food Policy Center at
Texas A and M, the new provision allows up to
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thirty million additional base acres nationwide, effective for the twenty
twenty six crop year. Farms are eligible if they're twenty
nineteen through twenty twenty three average planted or prevented plan
in acre of covered commodities exceeds the current base acres,
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or if they planted eligible non covered commodities within the
fifteen percent limit of total farm acreage. New base acres
assigned proportionately based on historical plantings, and if eligible acres
nationwide exceed thirty million, USDA will apply and across the
board reduction landowners will be notified automatically through USDA's Farm
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Service Agency, though they may opt out. It's another agnews update.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
We f farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work and it resulted on
a strake on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
Never assume the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore youdig dot com
before you start work. A message from the pipeline operators
for agg safety campaign.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
American Cattle News Today. How far will the consumer go
with higher prices? More after this?
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
Americans Farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Bear As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(10:37):
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Oklahoma State livestock Economist, Doctor Darryl Peel.
Speaker 14 (10:49):
It's pretty typical that grilling kind of slows down a
little bit in midsummer. I would expect to see this
market stabilize and probably you know, tick back up just
slightly as we have a last summer surge of buying
for the Labor Day weekend for the summer grilling season.
So we'll see. I'm looking for this market to stabilize
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a little bit going forward. I don't see any indication
yet that we've got any fundamental unraveling of beef demand
at this point.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
But isn't it all about, at the end of the day,
the consumer.
Speaker 14 (11:20):
High prices will consumers push back, And we always think about, well,
when you know, when beef prices get high, ground beef
is kind of the go to market. It's a favorite anyway,
and it's usually our you know, our value product to
go to. But when you look at how cosslaughter has
decreased the last two years, and so that the the
tightness of supply for beef trimmings has pushed that ground
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beef market market up. And I recently took a look
at how do wholesale trimmings markets compare to say, steak markets,
and so if you look at you know, ninety percent
lean trimmings compared to RIBBI wholesale values. Over well, since
twenty twenty three, the trimmings price has gone up about
forty percent, while the RIBBI price at the wholesale level
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has gone up about thirteen percent. So ground beef is
is you know, it's still going to be a cheaper
product in absolute terms, but relatively speaking, ground beef is
not as much of a value as it often is.
Those trimmings prices are running about thirty eight percent of
the wholesale value of Ribby's right now, and that's exactly
what you would expect given how much those ground beef
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market components have decreased in the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Agriculture Today, This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 15 (12:37):
Now.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
I'm John Clark, traveling on the countryside for Feedwick's USA.
Today we're with Kelly Reynolds of Rencrest Farms and Corefew,
New York. Kelly, tell us a little bit about your farm.
Speaker 16 (12:47):
Hi, John, We're at Rendcrest's farm. We milk eighteen hundred
Holsteins in western New York and the farm is owned
by my mother and father in law, John and Jolly
Reynolds and their three children, Tyler Andrew mc kenzi. And
I'm married to Tyler and we have two girls that
we enjoy raising on the farm.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Hey, this is a large commercial theory farm, but you
also have a very strong genetics component to it, which
means you know you're gonna merchandise at c How does
that fit in for you guys?
Speaker 16 (13:15):
Well, we always kind of joke that the show barn
is four H project that never left, So we all
started showing through four H. I grew up in Wisconsin
and was very active in junior breed associations and things
like that, and we just all really enjoy having show
cattle and doing a little bit of IVF work and flushing,
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and it's just something that kind of keeps us all engaged.
We joke some people have a boat and we.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
Have a show barn, nothing wrong with that. And you
have several judges here on the farm.
Speaker 16 (13:46):
Yes, we're all pretty active judges, Tyler. My husband has
quite a few judging gigs this summer. My brother in
law Andrew just finished judging in OHM and he has
a more judging jobs as well. And then I'm judging
four or five shows this year. And my sister Lawa Mackenzie,
she actually judges a little bit, but I think she
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prefers showmanship to type classes.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
It's all good. So and you have a really interesting
legacy as well that you want to pass on, and
you really have a passion for working with young people.
Speaker 16 (14:20):
Yeah, my mom, Katie Coin, she had a business Millwheel
Show clinics, and that was an in person clinics kind
of business that she did, traveling to different areas. And
I'm trying to continue her legacy and do a little
bit more on social media, just helping kids where I can.
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I don't think I'll do any in person clinics this year,
but just sharing, you know, tips to make showmanship and
showing cattle easier for beginner members or people that want
to really hone in their skills.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
So really it's important for you to encourage that next generation.
So we have a vibrant industry for tomorrow.
Speaker 16 (14:59):
Yes, and I think that showing, judging, quiz bowl, junior
breed programs, and things like that are just such a
great way to engage not only youth that grow up
on a farm, but people that might have a connection
to agriculture but don't necessarily have a farm that they
live on. It's just a great way to keep those
people connected and involved in the industry and gain new
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followers in the industry as well.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
That's an interesting point. I was just talking to Jason
Lloyd the other day about that while we've lost dairy
farms in numbers, we still have a lot of enthusiasts
who are involved in showing. May not be on a
farm that's milking cows currently, but they're still engaged and
that's so important for our industry.
Speaker 16 (15:37):
Yeah, certainly, And I just think that that foot in
the door that youth programs provide is just so important.
A few years ago, Kendra Lam and I talked about
the starting a judging clinic for our youth in Western
New York through our local Holsting Club, and our Holsting
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Club sponsors a judging clinic that we travel to two
different farms and look at some cattle, and it's just
a great entry level way for young judges to kind
of get a feel for a contest before they go
to those bigger contests in the fall.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
That's a great way to keep them involved, keep them engaged.
And there's kind of a gap in this time of
year for those judging clinics, so there's truly a need, right.
Speaker 16 (16:18):
Yeah, certainly, And we don't want kids to go to
State Fair and not you know, kind of fly blind.
We want them to be adjusted to the feel of
a contest, so we try to run it very similarly
and just kind of get them warmed up for a
real contest. We try to have a learning experience kind
of going through play scenes and giving reasons on classes
(16:39):
and things like that.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
And you just completed one here last week and it
was really a great clinic and the weather cooperated as well.
Speaker 16 (16:45):
Yes, certainly, when you're planning an outdoor event, you're just
praying for the weather, and in western New York that
can be a little spotty. Well, in the Northeast really
can be a little touch and go. So we had
a great day and we had I think over forty
youth judge and about ten other coaches and parents join us,
and it was just a really great event.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
And from across the state too, Yeah.
Speaker 16 (17:08):
All across New York, Western, Eastern Central.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Kelly Reynolds with Rencrest Farms, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 16 (17:15):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
John.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for feedback to USA.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
California being the largest producers of olmits is strength. I'm
Patrick Cavda with the California Tree Nut Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. Clarice Turner is president and CEO
of the almed Border, California.
Speaker 18 (17:38):
We are the largest producers still eight percent of the
world's supply. And even though you know, people will talk
about while Australia has favorable tariffs in these countries and
they only have a limited supply of moments that they
can sell, right, so there's always a willing seller for
a willing buyer, and there's lots of them around the world.
So again, I think all of those things kind of
underpin the strength of what we are going to be
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seeing in the future. We're about it break even right now,
so that's great. Still got a long way to go
to be able to help our farmers kind of get
back on their feet again. And not everybody, of course,
is in the same place, but in general, on average,
still tough, and we very well recognize that in terms
of opportunities, you know, where do we see white space?
We mentioned the Deloitte study several times that again, our
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growers had the wisdom to invest in and I think
the last time that they did that was twenty eleven,
and it gave us great insights then, and it's given
us great insights in this last go around too, somewhat
reinforcing that the markets that we're in are the right markets,
and then also identifying several more that are really worthwhile exploring.
(18:44):
In some cases it's pretty obvious that they're worthwhile going after.
Speaker 17 (18:48):
That's Clarice Turner.
Speaker 19 (18:49):
Farm work is tough, and so it's staying safe on
the road.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Every year.
Speaker 19 (18:52):
Accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the same space,
whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor or a car.
Here's what you need to remain 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.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
One moment of.
Speaker 19 (19:11):
Caution can save alife. Let's work together to keep our
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(19:40):
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Speaker 17 (19:48):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Friday at the Texas State Capitol at Austin.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
We are announcing USDA will invest and build a domestic
sterile fly production facility in Edinburgh, Texas, which is situated
about twenty miles from the southern border.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins announcing the latest efforts to prevent
the entry of livestock threat new World screwworm within our border.
The new site will complement the.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Dispersal facility we have already begun production.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
On Texas far Bureau Radio with the Audio Secretary rawlins
ads at additional one hundred million dollar investment will.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Identify and deploy cutting edge technologies that can accelerate our response.
While the construction of the facility is underway.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Threat of infected wildlife crossing it to the US for
Mexico meads increased border surveillance through use of USDA TICK
writers and Beagle Brigade. In addition US Mexico collaboration and
combat again WS will be heightened road bane reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
With a capacity to produce three hundred million sterile screwworm
flies per week, and that's how we eradicate the parasite.
This facility will triple our current output and eliminate our
our sole reliance on Panama and Mexico for sterile fly supply.
It's a tactical move that ensures we are prepared and
not just reactive, which is to date what we have
(21:10):
really been working through. We will invest the federal government
up to seven hundred and fifty million dollars on this
facility and it will also create about three hundred jobs
right here in Texas. Second, we are launching up to
one hundred million dollars in addition to the seven hundred
and fifty million cutting edge technologies that can accelerate our
response from novel traps and lures to modular sterile fly units.
(21:32):
I am calling on the brightest minds in the country
to build on our existing tools and help us outpace
this pest quickly and in the most innovative way possible.
Because of the migration of infected wildlife over the US border,
we are ramping up the hiring of USDA employed mounted
patrol officers known as the Tick Riders or the Tick Crew,
which will be the cornerstone of our surveillance program. The
(21:55):
Tick Riders are mounted on horseback and will provide the
first line of defense against a new World screen outbreak
along the US Mexico border. We're also training our beagles
of the Bigle Brigade to detect screw worm infections and
will be significantly ramping up our border surveillance program. Because
pests don't care where the border is, we are working
directly with Mexico, perhaps in a way never seen before.
(22:17):
My counterpart, Secretary Julio Berdage and I are in contact
almost daily on this issue. At this point, we are
working with Mexico to boost the surveillance, training and oversight
inside Mexico to ensure real time tracking and reaction time,
while the US works to verify Mexico's reported results and
to help them improve their systems south of the border.
Mexico has agreed to halt animal movement in affected zones,
(22:40):
which will help push screworm back towards the dairien gap
and away from our doorstep.
Speaker 20 (22:49):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger Mcowen.
The push for sustainability in cattle ranching has gained momentum
off and backed by government policies, environmental groups and corporate
supply chains. Human is framed is necessary to address climate change,
improve land use, and ensure long term productivity. It also
raises serious concerns about the erosion of private property rights.
I'll be back in a moment to discuss for.
Speaker 21 (23:10):
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business planning. For your operation, subscribe to mcowenag Lawantax dot
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Speaker 20 (23:41):
Sustainability initiatives frequently rely on regulatory frameworks or incentive based
programs that tide land use decisions to environmental benchmarks. Ranchers
are often required to meet vague or shifting standards regarding
soil health, water useage, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity. These requirements
can limit how landowners use or manage their property, effectively
placing bureaucratic or third party oversight above property rights. In addition,
(24:02):
sustainability certifications are becoming de facto requirements to remain competitive
in beef markets increasingly dominated by large processors and retailers.
Ranchers who don't comply risk losing buyers or access to
certain programs. Also, climate mitigation agreements can lock land into
specific use for decades, transferring long term control from private
owners to NGOs or government agencies. If sustainability goals are
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to be met without infringing on rights. Policymakers must recognize
and respect the role of private property not treated as
an obstacle to environmental progress. This has been the Agricultural
Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger mccoa.
Speaker 22 (24:41):
It's time for California AGG Today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. The National f FA organization is
celebrating a new milestone. The School based Student Leadership Group
now counts more than one million members nationwide, including students
in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Membership for
(25:02):
the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year totals
one million, forty two thousand, two hundred and forty five
students across nine thousand, four hundred and seven chapters. Now,
that is a one and a half percent increase from
the previous year, when FFA actually broke that million member
mark for the first time. California continues to be one
(25:24):
of the biggest contributors to that total, with more than
one hundred and eight thousand students enrolled in FFA programs
across the state. Now, there is also a first for
California FFA leadership. The California Association FFA has announced the
appointment of Jill Spurling as the new State Supervisor of
(25:44):
Agricultural Education and State FFA Advisor. Her selection by the
California Department of Education follows the retirement of Charles Parker.
Spurling is the first woman to ever serve in this
role in the organization's nearly one hundred year history.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
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
news that farmers receive comes from the AG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
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of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations. The best place to reach a farmer with
a farming solution message is when they're well farming. It's
easy to find them during the day, as most farmers
are behind the wheel of their pickup truck or farm
equipment with the radio on listening to this station for
the AG Information Network of the West, news so reach
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real farmers right here, right now as they listen to
what's important to their farm operation. Give us a call
and we'll connect you with our local farming community. They
trust us, so they'll trust you.
Speaker 22 (26:59):
This is California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
Finds more agricultural news at egginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Bob Quinn back with some farm used this morning, friends
who we are in the middle of crop tour season
and going on in the Midwest is the pro farmer
crop tour. Todd Gleeson has some background.
Speaker 23 (27:16):
The roundtable discussion. In the heartland of America. It is
often a source of information, a way for farmers to
keep up on crop conditions in their neighbors field. But
in a world where agricultural trade encompasses the globe that
falls far short of any real value, these people are
in search of a broader perspective. They are floor traders
from the Futures Exchange in Chicago, grain merchandisers from the
(27:37):
United States, Japan and Germany. US Department of Bag officials,
agricultural meteorologists, and journalists. The one common thread they share
as a desire for more information on the American corn crop.
They are Agrivisor Crop tour scouts and have spent the
day on the road and in the cornfield gathering vital
statistics on a nineteen eighty nine corn crop.
Speaker 15 (27:55):
Or starting spot with that where we won't cat that
where we'll start with this plot. You'll hold that tape,
I'll sing out when we got seventeen five.
Speaker 23 (28:04):
Tour host and aggravisor market analyst Jim Quinton is making
corn yield calculations to endure randomness. The calculations are made
the same distance into the field each stop thirty six
paces in from the edge. He lays off a one
row strip equal to one to one thousands of an acre.
In this particular case, the test drip is seventeen and
one half feet long. The number of plants in the
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strip are counted and multiplied by one thousand to obtain
a total plant count for the entire acre.
Speaker 15 (28:30):
Thirteen eighteen nineteen ears and one one thousands of an acre,
So that's like a nineteen thousand plant population. For a
random selection, we'll take the seventh, the eleventh, and the
thirteenth ear one two, three, four, five, sixty seven. Feel
(28:54):
that down. Look at the grain in that cub.
Speaker 23 (28:56):
The number of ears on the plants are counted, and
then once again to ensure randomness, the same air numbers
from each strip are taken for the final counts in
the yield calculations.
Speaker 15 (29:05):
Eight nine, ten, number eleven.
Speaker 23 (29:07):
In this case, the ear numbers are the seventh, eleventh,
and thirteenth ears in the test drip.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
Those are three randomly selected ears in the center and
this one is two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen eighteen.
We got eighteen, eighteen and sixteen. It's an average is
seventeen point three, and the length the kernels on the
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cob here one, two, three, four folds.
Speaker 23 (29:39):
For the final calculation, the number of kernels around each
and the length of each of the three airs are
counted in average. Then all of the calculations are translated
onto the corn yield calculators. It is actually a slide
rule through.
Speaker 15 (29:51):
One, two, three, four, thirty five or six or seven
thirty eight call it thirty eight and on the calculator.
Then if we use number of rows of kernels around
the cobb at average seventeen point three and the length
of kernels will call thirty eight. So we'll set thirty
eight on about seventeen to three. Who sits down there
(30:12):
there we go, and we had nineteen thousand plants. That's
one hundred and thirty nine bushels the acre, assuming kernel
weight will be normal weight. That's what this corneral calculator
cannot do is tell you whether the kernel size itself
is going to be bigger than, smaller than or about normal.
Speaker 23 (30:29):
From here, it's another twenty miles on the road to
the next stop. The car talk centers on one thing,
crop conditions. Jim Quinton.
Speaker 15 (30:36):
Dry matter accumulates in the corn kernel at the rate
of ten percent or one percent per day for the
first ten days, two percent per day for the next
forty after pollination, and then one percent per day for
the final ten days. That'd be sixty day spent to
have one hundred percent dry matter accumulation from pollination to
black layer permission. If this carn is pollinated in August
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twenty eighth and you got a killing three on September thirtieth,
you would be at the seventy percent tile of drymatter
accumulation when the day of the corn plant died. If
that calculated, you know, for that spot with one hundred.
Speaker 24 (31:11):
And ninety two bushels, that cuts you down to one
hundred and thirty bushels of yield right then and there overnight,
that's all that field would have, and it'd be one
hundred and thirty bushels of some of the most ungodly
crap you ever took to an elevator.
Speaker 23 (31:24):
Twenty miles later, it's out of the car and into
the field again where we find just such a situation.
Speaker 15 (31:29):
Depending on how these latest stocks pollinate, it could make
almost thirty bushels difference in the yield of this particular field.
And it's very, very late, and I think we have
to question where the eason when the late stalks will
make it before frost.
Speaker 23 (31:42):
As you come up on a field from the road
in here, this field looks like a good field if
you just drive and buy it. I mean, it's probably
twelve feet tall or better, and green as can be,
and there's plenty of moisture out here.
Speaker 15 (31:58):
Throw you well, that's the old winch shield method, and
the old windshield method is okay for vegetative matter, but
it's not okay for counting green.
Speaker 23 (32:06):
Just over forty participants rode in eight cars on this
six to eight three day crop tour.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I'm Todd Gleeson, Todd Gleeson with US This morning, farm US.
You're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Well.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
President Trump signed an executive order extending a deadline for
higher tariffs on Chinese imports from last Tuesday until November tenth.
Officials from the US and China first ended tariff tit
for cat in May after duty rates on both sides
reach triple digits. The order reads through these discussions, China
continues to take significant steps toward remedying non reciprocal trade
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agreements and addressing the concerns of the United States after
years of litigation. The National Cattleman's Beef Association notch day
legal victory, affirming protections for cattle farmers and ranchers when
it comes to air emissions reporting requirements. NCBA and other
farm groups say having to file complex, overreaching reports is
r Public Lands Council Executive director Caitlin Glover says the
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decision affirms that family cattle producers shouldn't have to file
reports for a natural biological process under a law meant
for chemical contaminants. Mexico has set minimum export prices for
its fresh tomatoes to protect domestic production and insure internal
supply after a bilateral agreement with the US expired. Mexico's
egg ministries have made announcements after Washington withdrew from a
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twenty nineteen deal between the two countries which regulated Mexico
tomato exports to the US. The new pricing rules apply
exclusively to definitive exports, but don't restrict export volumes or
impose maximum prices.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
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?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Oh, and how.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Receptive is this age group to your sales pitch during
non work social time. Maybe the best placed 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
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deliver information about your terrific product or service, give us
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Baglive for today, friends.
We wrap up with a look at some fall harvested
produce numbers.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Late summer at early fall are a great period to
enjoy the harvest from various seasonal fruit trees and vines,
even bogs. What then, does potential production for some of
these crops look like this year? Per USDA's outlook for
these crops, Anthony Preliment of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
starts with apples.
Speaker 25 (35:19):
Production is estimated at eleven point five billion pounds, so
that is up five point seven percent in last season.
I do want to point out that production in Washington,
the largest apple producing state, is expected to be a
record high for that state this.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Year, with production up seven percent year over year. Number
two Apple production state, New York is also up in
production from twenty twenty four. Turning to Apple's palm cousin pears.
Speaker 25 (35:44):
The pair production in twenty twenty five is expected to
be the twenty two point four percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Pairs are grown in the three Pacific coast states, and
while Washington and Oregon both report higher production than the
previous year, California's rise in pair production two twenty twenty
five represents a rebound from lower production totals last year.
Now peaches, while there has been previous indication of slightly
less production of California clingstone and free stone varieties from
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the prior year. When add together peach production states such
as Georgia and South Carolina. In USDA's latest forecast for
that fruit, peach.
Speaker 25 (36:22):
Production is forecast to be down three point eight percent
from last year.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
With both southeastern peach growing states reporting year over year
declines in production for their crops. Turning to grape production.
Speaker 25 (36:33):
Production is estimated at five point five nine million tons
that is up three twenty four.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
California is far and away the ation's largest grape growing state,
while table grape production forecast did not change year over
year and raising grape production numbers were lowered by ten
thousand tons, and increase in wine grape production was a
significant driver in total US grape production being higher in
twenty twenty Fively an outlook on US crabberry production for
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this year.
Speaker 25 (37:03):
Franburry production is estimated to be down nine point one
percent compared with last year. Production in Wisconsin is expected
to be down a little over three percent from last season,
while production in Massachusetts is expected to be down twenty
two percent due to less than ideal of growing conditions
in that state.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm rod Bane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, out of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition A Baglife
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