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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. Well, friends,
if you're ready to pick any apple or enjoy maybe
a glass of wine, what does USDA's production outlook on
some of those harvested products look like? Well, Rod Bain
(00:20):
starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Late summer and early fall are a great period to
enjoy the harvest from various seasonal fruit trees and vides,
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 3 (00:42):
Production is estimated at eleven point five billion pounds.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
That is up five.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Point seven percent in last season.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
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 (00:54):
Year, with production up seven percent year over year. Number
two apple productions state, New York, is also up in
production from twenty twenty four. Turning to Apple's palm cousin pears,
the pair.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Production in twenty twenty five is expected to be the
twenty two point four percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
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 paar production in 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 cleakstone 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 3 (01:44):
Production is forecast to be down three point eight percent
from last year.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
With both southeastern peach growing states reporting year over year
decldes in production for their crops. Turning to grape production.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Production is estimated at five point five nine million tons
that is up three point twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
California is far and away the Asia's largest grape growing state.
While table grape production forecast did not change year over
year and raising great production numbers were lowered by ten
thousand tons at increase, and wine grape production was a
significant driver in total US grape production being higher in
twenty twenty five. Finally, ad outlook on US crabberry production
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for this year.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Franbury production is estimated to be down on 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 idea of
growing conditions in that state.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, Friends, a little later on a report about beef
on dairy cattle that's coming up on today's edition of Baglife.
Bob Quinn, here were some farm news this morning, friends.
The farm economy not doing well. That's the theme for
many come on of these this year. Andrew Eddie is
president of the Washington State Hay Growers Association.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Money's kind of hanging out there and you know, kind
of with a little asterisk next to it, saying, okay,
well maybe I'll get you know, maybe I'll get some
money here in the next three months. Maybe it'll be
a six months, I you know, maybe it won't be
at all. So things are definitely tight in the ag economy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Eddie says that what makes this soft farm economy even
more challenging is the length of the downturn. He said,
the overall agricultural economy in general has been struggling, not
for months, but for years.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It's not just one downturn year. You can weather one,
you know, maybe two, and now we're on our third
year of you know, low prices and high cough and
a lot of money hanging out there. So overall, I
think hopefully we kind of get in a little better
situation as a whole, but we'll kind of see what
see what shakes out in the next little while.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Andrew Eddie, President Washington State Hay Growers Association, well friends
the USDA predicts a huge corn crop coming in this fall,
which means a lot of extra bushels to use. Jan
ten Benzil, chair of the Nebrass Ethanol Board, said year
round ethanol would be a way to use up that
extra corn. However, the benefit doesn't stop there. Year round
E fifteen would also be great for the nation's fuel retailers.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
You know, the year round benefit is really really specifically
for the terminals, the larger companies that have to have
that a surety that we don't have to change the
stickers on our pumps twice a year. And I understand
there's a lot going on in the fuel business, and
when you are having to go out and change your
signage and change your labeling by the date and your
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label that you have on your E fifteen, dispenser doesn't
say the right thing. Just purely a bureaucratic issue. And
this is a complete bureaucratic issue from the beginning. The
only reason that we don't have E fifteen sales in
the summertime is because of two words in the Clean
Air Act E ten and more is what they should
have said and said that they didn't even have E
fifteen back then. They didn't even really know what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
A change in the Clean Air Act has been needed
for many decades and would open many opportunities.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
By not allowing that twenty thirty years ago in the
thinking ended up in our situation where we are now.
Of course, with the patrolling competitor does not want to
lose that five percent market share, and you know they
want to fight tooth and nail for that, which I understand.
If I was a CEO of x ON, I'd feel
the same way. But I'm not coo of x on.
I'm a corn farmer from Nebraska. My concerned lives with
my friends and my neighbors. And how can we keep
more young farmers in business by having the fifteen year round.
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That would give this certainty to our retailers that they
wouldn't have to go out and change their labels. That
would allow for more airmax replacement, a different blens of
fuel to come down the pipeline, just a lot of
really good things.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jan ten Benzil, Nebraska Ethanol Board with US well friends,
US Meat Export Federation putting on another product showcase, this
time in Latin America. As we hear in this.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Report, representatives from more than eighty US red meat exporters
joined buyers from eighteen countries across Central and South America
and the Caribbean at the thirteenth edition of the Latin
American Product Showcase in Guatemala. According to US Meat Export
Federation chair Steve Hanson, a rancher from Nebraska, the showcase
brought new customers to US red meats.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
We have people that are wanting the top of the line,
and we have people that are maybe wanting that mid
and also the cuts that we don't necessarily use in
the United States. There's a lot of demand for that
and these people are really interested in that good product.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
They also want that middle meat and they want that higher.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
In so it's a win win situation for the US cattleman.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
The Latin American Product Showcase also gave US producers a
chance to connect directly with buyers. According to Iowa pork
producer Kevin Rasmussen, who serves on the National Pork Board,
Central America loves port.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
They eat a lot of it, and we really appreciate
them as a customer.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
They're a huge fan of the pork line.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
They say it's very versatile and they're cooking.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to come
to an event like this and promote our product. Talk
to the buyers that are here.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
And ask them what do they want to know?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
From a producer from North central Iowa, it's a rare
opportunity to make deals with buyers from across Latin America.
For exporters like Bob Garrettovidiana Packers Corporation.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
In two days, you have an opportunity to meet people
from all the way from Chile through Puerto Rico, through Caribbean,
the Dominican Republic in one location. We do a lot
of business into Central and Latin America and the Caribbean areas,
and this draws a large customer base that we do
currently business with, but also gives us an opportunity to
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meet face to face with new customer opportunities and develop
our business further because we're trying to develop our further
processed area.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
The Latin American Product showcase was made possible through funding
support from USDA, the National Pork Board, the Beef Checkoff Program,
the Nebraska Beef Council, and the Indiana Soil Alliance for
the US Meat Export Federation. I'm John Harris farm US
this morning. You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 14 (07:33):
It's another agnews update. Ethanol production climbs while exports surge Midsummer.
More after this, here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 15 (07:45):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, would have been much worse.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
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Speaker 14 (08:11):
Ethanol production rose to a six week hi for the
week that ended July twenty fifth, reaching one point one
million barrels per day. That's one point seven percent higher
than the previous week and two point one percent above
the three year average, and that's according to EIA data
analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Though output slightly below
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last year's level, the four week average now stands at
an annualized rate of sixteen point seven to one billion gallons.
Stocks climbed the twenty four point seven million barrels, highest
since mid May, while gasoline supplied used to measure fuel
demand rose two point one percent to nine point one
five million barrels per day. Blender inputs ticked up slightly,
(08:59):
as did all exports, which jump forty two point six percent,
now an estimated one hundred and fifty four thousand barrels
per day. For contexts US ethnol exports topping one billion
gallons just halfway through the new marketing year. USDA expects
a record one point eight five billion gallons in exports
by year end. Meanwhile, no ethanol imports recorded for over
(09:24):
a year. It's another Agnews update.
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We'll have more after this.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 15 (10:09):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light cruded pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
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Speaker 14 (10:35):
What could you do with four billion dollars? What could
USDA do for four billion dollars? USDA's Deputy Secretary Stephen
Vaden before the Senate ad Committee on their reorganization plan.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We do have an estimate, Senator, regarding how much, at
a minimum, we expect to save once costs are taken
into account, and that's a proximately four billion dollars. How
did we get to that number. We got to that
number by looking into account the head count reductions as
a result of the deferred resignation program. Those alone will
save the Department of Agriculture approximately one point nine billion
(11:14):
dollars net. You've mentioned the state of our buildings, and
you are unfortunately correct, particularly when it comes to the
National Capital Region, and you're looking at the four buildings
that the Secretary's memorandum proposes to vacate the value of
the deferred maintenance on those buildings. The liability on USDA
is two point two billion, with a B dollars hard
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to conceive, but that is the calculation when you add
those four buildings together of how much maintenance they need
to bring them up to modern standards. And so when
you add those two sums together of expected savings, you're
starting out with more than four billion dollars. That is
before we take into account the lower cost of living
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for employees, the lower lease rates that we will have
to pay the five hubs. Of course, the full value
of that we'll only know when the plan is finalized
after consultation with Congress, but we start out at a
baseline of four billion dollars worth of savings.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Many will relocate to Raleigh, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Sport Collins,
and Salt Lake City. American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
This is Dairy Radio. Now it's time for our feed
for on Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from
the University of Illinois.
Speaker 17 (12:32):
Hello Mike, Well, welcome to today's feed form and our
topic is it's corn silege time. Many parts of the
United States farmers will begin corn SiGe harvest. Of course,
some parts of the southern part of the USA already
been harvesting cornsidge for a couple of weeks as well.
I kind of captured this is to control the controllables,
the things that we can't control too much, which our
challenges with such things that we heard in the news.
(12:53):
Tassel rap for our listeners as simply means that some
of the leaves wrap up the tassel and therefore cannot
allow the power and to be distributed, and that appears
to be doing to growing conditions. And also hybrid tar
spot has been located in six to eight different states
here in the Midwest, which really reduces the yield in
the crop. Rusts will occur in the southern parts of
the United States heat stress. It can always be a
(13:14):
problem both the crop whereas growing and producing nutrients, but
also for pollination risk as well. And it looks like
we could have a big crop this year. We'll find
out more in another week or so when the people
are out in the field, but we're projecting one hundred
and eighty five bushels potentially here with huge quality of
possibilities as well. But then the unknown we can't control.
We'll be tears. What might that do to the price
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of corn? And certainly what yield's coming from Brazil and ARGENTEU.
But what can we control build and the answers what
when do we want to harvest? And we want to
harvest somewheres around a thirty five percent of dry matter
That usually is about two thirds of a milk line,
which means for those who are listening that if you
take a kernel of corn, take your fingernail or jackknife,
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and if you start, we'll filled in from the tip
of the kernel two thirds milk line is I'm calling
it that starts line will move on down two thirds
in the length of the kernel, which is an optimal
point as well. We also want to be looking at
a good kernel processor. In the field of kernel processors,
is the unit on the new field choppers that will
crush the kernel so that it doesn't become too hard
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to pass through the dairy cow and increase the start adjustability.
Another thing we should be doing in the field is
using the Penn state particle box, and that allows us
to estimate the length of chop in that corn silence
a bill. It will not go once we've chopped it.
So generally we'd like to see somewhere is around five
percent of the top box over fifty perhaps approaching sixty
percent in the second box, and the next two boxes
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or one box would have the remaining forty eight to
fifty percent in it as well. When we're chopping, we're
going to put on a research based a knock gland
to control the fermentation profile, and that will increase the
feed value of about five to eight percent in terms of
return on investment. We should be putting an oxygen barrier
if we have a bunker or pit, that we stricts
oxygen penetration in the top two to three feet of
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the bunker, reducing a dry meatter loss as well, and
of course do an excellent job of packing at the
same time. Ideally we'd like to store this corn slide
for three to four months after we insil it because
during the fermentation process, over time the starts becomes more
available as some of the proteins that surround the stars
breakdown and form and release the starts for availability as well.
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Certainly it's a valuable crop. You can look at two
guidelines we use. One is take ten times the price
of corn at the time of been siling, so currently
corns around four dollars the bushels. That means cornside is
valued about forty dollars per ton on a wet basis
at thirty five percent drymare. If the crop is drier
than that, or higher in starch content than thirty five percent,
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then we need to adjust that price up slightly. Another
way to do that is to look at the price
of corn times eight. So let's do that eight times
four dollars and thirty two dollars. Adding the cost of chopping, processing, transporting,
and seeling anywhere is from five to eight dollars per ton.
That adds another six to seven dollars to it, and
not cutting one to three dollars a ton and then
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five percent shrink. So putting all those variables into play,
we recover at a value around forty four dollars a ton,
very close to our thumbile as well. So our TAKEO
message on that would be well aware that cornside would
be variable in starts content due to the uncontrollable factors here,
and cornsides will be a very economical crop in twenty
twenty five twenty six. That completes the program for day.
Thanks Hey, I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois,
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To say there will be plenty of feed cord harvested
this year might be a significant understatement.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It represents a record high for the.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
US, with athonte prelibment of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
adding this year's harvest will be far and away a
record cord crop at that. There are various reasons why
this is the case, but now comes the bigger question
what to do with all that cord could find its
way to consumers in the form.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Of ethanol use praise about one hundred million bushels this month, while.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
More is forecast to be sold in the export market.
I'm broad Bay, USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski,
and others joined us as we look at a potential
cord conundrum in this edition of Agriculture USA. There were
indeed indications through the suburb that this year's US cord
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crop could be a bumper one due to favorable weather
conditions at much of the cord belt through the growing season.
As USDA be urologist Brad Rippey noted in the August
tenth Crop Progress Report for corn.
Speaker 22 (20:43):
Crop conditions holding up pretty nicely. We saw a very
small week over week net declining condition, losing a point
in the good to excellent ratings now seventy two percent,
but we could go that with seventy three percent. But
perhaps more importantly, we're not adding any very poor to
poor numbers. Steady this week at seven percent. This year's
crop still coming in quite a bit better than last year,
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this time when the corner was rated sixty seven percent
good to excellent and ten percent very poor to poor.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So with the Agriculture Department later in the week release
their August crop production report for cord, the first of
the year based on farmers surveys, while not surprising that
forecast at production at yield was record setting, looking.
Speaker 23 (21:22):
At a production number of over sixteen point seven billion
bushels a yield of one hundred and eighty eight point
eight bushels an acre.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
To USDA Chief economist Seth Meyer and others, what perhaps
was of shock was just how much cord have been
planted this year. This is Anthony Prilimin of the National
Agricultural Statistic Service.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Planet acreage at ninety seven point three million acres was
raised two point two percent from what was estimated in
the June Anchorage report harvested area that is also up
two point two percent from the previous forecast.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
So why did USDA's August report reflect such a significant
increase on cord acres? Prillman says this is a good
part to efforts to improve statistical accuracy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Starting last year, NAS began reviewing planted and harvested acreage
in August to determine if updates need to be made
to the previous published estimates instead of waiting until later
in the season as we had historically done, to ensure
that the published acreage estimates are as accurate as possible
as early as possible to help forecast final production.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
To do that, Certified Farm Service Agency planted crop acreage
data is incorporated along with farmer surveys add satellite information
in the August forecast. That revised acreage outlook, added to
favorable growing conditions and record yield means not just a
high mark for feed cord production. Forecasting cord production this
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year is over one point four billion, with a bee
bushels more that the record set in twenty twenty three,
while the twenty twenty five projected cord yield record would
be over nine bushels an acre more that twenty four's
record total. So how does USDA project the added supply
of corn to be used in its domestic ballot sheets.
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World Agricultural Outlook Board chair Mark Jacketowski says there will
be plenty of feed cord available for livestock.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
We raised feed and residual by two hundred and fifty
million bushels.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
More feed stock via cord will be available for ethanol
production that can find its way to fuel pumps, with
USDA forecasting a one hundred million bushel increase. Also, our
export forecasts we raised by two hundred million bushels, with
Jackatowski noting strong US cord export demand based on a
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slow marketing start by global competitor Brazil and competitive prices.
As chief economist Seth Meyer observes.
Speaker 23 (23:47):
A lot of extra corn, putting some downward pressure on
prices and making a downward adjustment of thirty cents to
three dollars and ninety cents for the twenty five twenty
six marketing year price.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
As even with use of cord allocated, there is still
plenty more in supply in the form of balance sheet
and big stocks. This has been Agriculture USA. I'm Rod
Baine reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
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Bob Quinn, here were some farm news this Morning Friends.
The farm economy not doing well. That's the theme for
many commodities this year. Andrew Eddie is president of the
Washington State Hay Growers Association.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Money's kind of hanging out there and you know, kind
of with a little gasterisk next to it, saying, okay,
well maybe i'll get you know, maybe it's some money
here in the next three months. Maybe it'll be a
six months I you know, maybe it won't be at all.
So things are definitely tight in the ag economy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Eddie says that what makes this soft farm economy even
more challenging is the length of the downturn. He said,
the overall agricultural economy in general has been struggling, not
for months, but for years.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It's not just one downturn year. You can weather one,
you know, maybe two. And now we're on our third
year of you know, low prices and high cough and
a lot of money hanging out there. So overall, I
think hopefully we kind of get in a little better
situation as a whole, but we'll kind of see what
see what shakes out in the next little while.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Andrew Eddie, President Washington State Hay Growers Association, Well, friends.
The USDA predicts a huge corn crop coming in this fall,
which means a lot of extra bushels to use. Jan
ten Bensil, chair of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said year
round ethanol would be a way to use up that
extra corn. However, the benefit doesn't stop there. Year round
E fifteen would also be great for the nation's fuel retailers.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
You know, the year round benefit is really really specifically
for the terminals, the larger companies that have to have
that a surety that we don't have to change the
stickers on our pumps twice a year. And I understand
there's a lot going on in the fuel business, and
when you are having to go out and change your
signage and change your labeling by the date, and your
(28:20):
label that you have on your E fifteen dispenser doesn't
say the right thing. Just purely a bureaucratic issue. And
this is a complete bureaucratic issue from the beginning. The
only reason that we don't have E fifteen sales in
the summertime is because of two words in the Clean
Air Act E ten and more is what they should
have said and said that they didn't even have E
fifteen back then. They didn't even really know what it was.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Jan ten, Benzil Nebraska Ethanol Board with us Well, friends,
there's more talk than ever about beef on dairy cattle.
Purina has just released its second Beef on Dairy report.
Chad Smith has details.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Beef cattle numbers are down across the US to record
load levels, and some producers around the country are considering
beef on dairy cattle. Lawrence Williams of Purina Dairy talks
about the company's initiatives in the beef on dairy sector
and how the company is leading the charge in nutrition
for this group of cattle.
Speaker 25 (29:10):
We started on this journey five six, seven years ago
when we saw that there were going to be a
lot of these beef on dairy caves in this space,
and we knew that they're different genetically with the beef
influence sire and the dairy dam and we said, you know,
these cattle different genetically, so they're going to need a
different nutrition platform to work from. So we went about
(29:31):
researching on these caves and done a lot of trials
in this group, and sure enough, they needed a formula
that is different, and that's exactly what we created. And
then we said, well, how do we really hold value
in these cattle and how do we make this population
as good as they should be, And so we started
looking across the supply chain and trying to connect people
(29:52):
all the way from the dairy clear to the packer
and onto the consumer. Great group of cattle, somebody just
seeds to help tell their story.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
He talked about why beef on dairy cattle have become
so important to the sector.
Speaker 25 (30:04):
They're a quality group of cattle, and right now, with
a native herd being as soft as they are, not
a lot of people retaining heifers. These cattle are filling
an important need for the consumer. They're about fifteen percent
of fed cattle right now, which is significant, and they
bring a lot of quality to the equation. They're short
on red meat yield compared to native beef, but they
(30:27):
certainly have some quality attributes and they're year round supply,
so they're a good group for the packer to look at.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Purina launched its second Beef on Dairy Industry Report and
Williams talks about the topics and experts included in the report.
Speaker 25 (30:42):
From Patrick Linnell at Cattle Facts talking about the economics
of this group of cattle to doctor Ruth Wowodie at
University Nebraska Lincoln speaking to welfare issues and how we
raise these calves with intention. And then our own internal experts,
Tom Earlywine talking about calf trition and that difference we
(31:02):
can make and really the difference we can make feeding
them all the way to slaughter. And then our good
friends at Sertifet Angus Beef contributed to this as well.
They've been involved in this Beef on Dairy journey with
us a little bit, working with us at some of
our industry meetings that we put on. And this cattle
right if they're black and they tick all the boxes
for CAAB, they're an important part of the quality supply
(31:24):
in general, so they've been engaged with us. Just excited
really again it speaks to the work we're doing across
the industry to connect these dots.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
To view the second Beef on Dairy Report, go to
Purinamills dot com, forward slash dairy Dash Beef Chad Smith
reporting farm US.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
From theag Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. Land
use concerns and areas dominated by agricultural production are fueling
much of the local resistance to utility scale solar installations.
A new Cobank reports as solar or expansion could deliver
the fastest, most affordable means for increasing the nation's razor
thin energy reserves, but adds concerns around the pace of
(32:07):
solar development and agricultural regions are warranted. USA Today found
the fifteen percent of US counties have some form of
solar energy restrictions. This year's US wheat exports are forecast
to increase by twenty five million bushels this month, the
highest since twenty twenty twenty one, Based on a strong
exports sales and competitive pricing, hardred winter wheat exports are
(32:28):
forecast a rise by three hundred million bushels, almost double
from a year ago. Thanks to competitive pricing, hardred winter
wheat sales have expanded to a wide variety of markets,
most notably to Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, and Bangladesh. Recent Beef
Checkoff funded research adds to a growing body of evidence
reinforcing the important role fresh beef plays in a healthy,
sustainable diet. Texas Tech University researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis
(32:52):
of available research on the relationship between unprocessed red meat
and obesity, finding no significant effect on weight gain or
related in metabolic issues and adults. Researchers found beef contains
high quality protein and other essential nutrients, and people enjoy it.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Bob quin back to wrap up ag life for today friends,
a USDA scientist has spent sixty plus years of his
career at the forefront of protecting our nation's cotton crop.
Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Regarded historically as the most threatening pest to our nation's
cotton industry.
Speaker 26 (34:36):
The reason why the vote we were such a voracious
past as it feeds on the verge of the cotton
fans that lad who become the vote, and so when
it feeds on that bird is going to fall off
the lot.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
At USDA research geneticist Johnny Jacobs says, since its invasion
into the US at the turn of the twentieth century
and subsequent spread across the cotton belt in a matter
of years.
Speaker 26 (34:57):
In this way at Bank Rups's Book and Farms, it
was just a devastating past for the cotton producers, and
cotton was the big in the economy at that time.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The US cotton industry remains a multi billion with a
B dollar industry currently free of the threat of bowl
weavil and other threatening cotton pest at. Jacob's research over
a remarkable sixty four year career with the Agriculture Department
is a key part of that success. At the time
he joined USDA in nineteen sixty one, bow weevil developed
(35:29):
resistance to insecticides. He began studying various technologies to eradicate
the pests.
Speaker 26 (35:35):
The technique coach sterle male whether sterloser views or insects,
sterzer radiation and plug the perier with these sterle males
and late with the navy females offering sterles in eradicate
and di sect that way.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
While this approach failed to eradicate bowl weavil, further efforts
by Jakins and fellow USDA federal and Landgrat University researchers
led to the eventual erratic of this pest so.
Speaker 26 (36:01):
Agin eradication program in North Carolina and started moving west.
It took about thirty colts from North Carolina to South
Texas in that period of time. We had a raticude
the bowl we were from the US.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
His research and advocacy in developing safe and reliable biotech
cotton varieties in a timely manner resulted in quick commercialization
and use by growers, resulting in successful control the various pests,
especially cotton bulworm bow.
Speaker 26 (36:29):
Worms, such way every five to seven days now maybe
once a year or maybe two phrases to most ancis
all season long for bow worm.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Additional research by Jenkins includes development of cotton lines for
cottonseed oil used in food production, lines with higher amounts
of healthier olaic fatty acid on broadband reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that, friends, arount of time for today, thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition of Aglife
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. Well, friends,
if you're ready to pick any apple or enjoy maybe
a glass of wine, what does USDA's production outlook on
some of those harvested products look like? Well, Rod Bain
(00:20):
starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Late summer and early fall are a great period to
enjoy the harvest from various seasonal fruit trees and vides,
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 3 (00:42):
Production is estimated at eleven point five billion pounds.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
That is up five.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Point seven percent in last season.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
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 (00:54):
Year, with production up seven percent year over year. Number
two apple productions state, New York, is also up in
production from twenty twenty four. Turning to Apple's palm cousin pears,
the pair.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Production in twenty twenty five is expected to be the
twenty two point four percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
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 paar production in 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 cleakstone and free stone varieties from
(01:36):
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 3 (01:44):
Production is forecast to be down three point eight percent
from last year.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
With both southeastern peach growing states reporting year over year
decldes in production for their crops. Turning to grape production.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Production is estimated at five point five nine million tons
that is up three point twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
California is far and away the Asia's largest grape growing state.
While table grape production forecast did not change year over
year and raising great production numbers were lowered by ten
thousand tons at increase, and wine grape production was a
significant driver in total US grape production being higher in
twenty twenty five. Finally, ad outlook on US crabberry production
(02:25):
for this year.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Franbury production is estimated to be down on 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 idea of
growing conditions in that state.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, Friends, a little later on a report about beef
on dairy cattle that's coming up on today's edition of Baglife.
Bob Quinn, here were some farm news this morning, friends.
The farm economy not doing well. That's the theme for
many come on of these this year. Andrew Eddie is
president of the Washington State Hay Growers Association.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Money's kind of hanging out there and you know, kind
of with a little asterisk next to it, saying, okay,
well maybe I'll get you know, maybe I'll get some
money here in the next three months. Maybe it'll be
a six months, I you know, maybe it won't be
at all. So things are definitely tight in the ag economy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Eddie says that what makes this soft farm economy even
more challenging is the length of the downturn. He said,
the overall agricultural economy in general has been struggling, not
for months, but for years.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It's not just one downturn year. You can weather one,
you know, maybe two, and now we're on our third
year of you know, low prices and high cough and
a lot of money hanging out there. So overall, I
think hopefully we kind of get in a little better
situation as a whole, but we'll kind of see what
see what shakes out in the next little while.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Andrew Eddie, President Washington State Hay Growers Association, well friends
the USDA predicts a huge corn crop coming in this fall,
which means a lot of extra bushels to use. Jan
ten Benzil, chair of the Nebrass Ethanol Board, said year
round ethanol would be a way to use up that
extra corn. However, the benefit doesn't stop there. Year round
E fifteen would also be great for the nation's fuel retailers.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
You know, the year round benefit is really really specifically
for the terminals, the larger companies that have to have
that a surety that we don't have to change the
stickers on our pumps twice a year. And I understand
there's a lot going on in the fuel business, and
when you are having to go out and change your
signage and change your labeling by the date and your
(04:31):
label that you have on your E fifteen, dispenser doesn't
say the right thing. Just purely a bureaucratic issue. And
this is a complete bureaucratic issue from the beginning. The
only reason that we don't have E fifteen sales in
the summertime is because of two words in the Clean
Air Act E ten and more is what they should
have said and said that they didn't even have E
fifteen back then. They didn't even really know what it was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
A change in the Clean Air Act has been needed
for many decades and would open many opportunities.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
By not allowing that twenty thirty years ago in the
thinking ended up in our situation where we are now.
Of course, with the patrolling competitor does not want to
lose that five percent market share, and you know they
want to fight tooth and nail for that, which I understand.
If I was a CEO of x ON, I'd feel
the same way. But I'm not coo of x on.
I'm a corn farmer from Nebraska. My concerned lives with
my friends and my neighbors. And how can we keep
more young farmers in business by having the fifteen year round.
(05:18):
That would give this certainty to our retailers that they
wouldn't have to go out and change their labels. That
would allow for more airmax replacement, a different blens of
fuel to come down the pipeline, just a lot of
really good things.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jan ten Benzil, Nebraska Ethanol Board with US well friends,
US Meat Export Federation putting on another product showcase, this
time in Latin America. As we hear in this.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Report, representatives from more than eighty US red meat exporters
joined buyers from eighteen countries across Central and South America
and the Caribbean at the thirteenth edition of the Latin
American Product Showcase in Guatemala. According to US Meat Export
Federation chair Steve Hanson, a rancher from Nebraska, the showcase
brought new customers to US red meats.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
We have people that are wanting the top of the line,
and we have people that are maybe wanting that mid
and also the cuts that we don't necessarily use in
the United States. There's a lot of demand for that
and these people are really interested in that good product.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
They also want that middle meat and they want that higher.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
In so it's a win win situation for the US cattleman.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
The Latin American Product Showcase also gave US producers a
chance to connect directly with buyers. According to Iowa pork
producer Kevin Rasmussen, who serves on the National Pork Board,
Central America loves port.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
They eat a lot of it, and we really appreciate
them as a customer.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
They're a huge fan of the pork line.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
They say it's very versatile and they're cooking.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to come
to an event like this and promote our product. Talk
to the buyers that are here.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
And ask them what do they want to know?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
From a producer from North central Iowa, it's a rare
opportunity to make deals with buyers from across Latin America.
For exporters like Bob Garrettovidiana Packers Corporation.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
In two days, you have an opportunity to meet people
from all the way from Chile through Puerto Rico, through Caribbean,
the Dominican Republic in one location. We do a lot
of business into Central and Latin America and the Caribbean areas,
and this draws a large customer base that we do
currently business with, but also gives us an opportunity to
(07:11):
meet face to face with new customer opportunities and develop
our business further because we're trying to develop our further
processed area.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
The Latin American Product showcase was made possible through funding
support from USDA, the National Pork Board, the Beef Checkoff Program,
the Nebraska Beef Council, and the Indiana Soil Alliance for
the US Meat Export Federation. I'm John Harris farm US
this morning. You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 14 (07:33):
It's another agnews update. Ethanol production climbs while exports surge Midsummer.
More after this, here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 15 (07:45):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, would have been much worse.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start work a message from the pipeline
operators for egg safety campaign.
Speaker 14 (08:11):
Ethanol production rose to a six week hi for the
week that ended July twenty fifth, reaching one point one
million barrels per day. That's one point seven percent higher
than the previous week and two point one percent above
the three year average, and that's according to EIA data
analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Though output slightly below
(08:34):
last year's level, the four week average now stands at
an annualized rate of sixteen point seven to one billion gallons.
Stocks climbed the twenty four point seven million barrels, highest
since mid May, while gasoline supplied used to measure fuel
demand rose two point one percent to nine point one
five million barrels per day. Blender inputs ticked up slightly,
(08:59):
as did all exports, which jump forty two point six percent,
now an estimated one hundred and fifty four thousand barrels
per day. For contexts US ethnol exports topping one billion
gallons just halfway through the new marketing year. USDA expects
a record one point eight five billion gallons in exports
by year end. Meanwhile, no ethanol imports recorded for over
(09:24):
a year. It's another Agnews update.
Speaker 16 (09:28):
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Speaker 14 (09:56):
Deals, American Cattle News May what's your changes coming to USDA.
We'll have more after this.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 15 (10:09):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light cruded pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start work. A message from the pipeline
operators for egg safety campaign.
Speaker 14 (10:35):
What could you do with four billion dollars? What could
USDA do for four billion dollars? USDA's Deputy Secretary Stephen
Vaden before the Senate ad Committee on their reorganization plan.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We do have an estimate, Senator, regarding how much, at
a minimum, we expect to save once costs are taken
into account, and that's a proximately four billion dollars. How
did we get to that number. We got to that
number by looking into account the head count reductions as
a result of the deferred resignation program. Those alone will
save the Department of Agriculture approximately one point nine billion
(11:14):
dollars net. You've mentioned the state of our buildings, and
you are unfortunately correct, particularly when it comes to the
National Capital Region, and you're looking at the four buildings
that the Secretary's memorandum proposes to vacate the value of
the deferred maintenance on those buildings. The liability on USDA
is two point two billion, with a B dollars hard
(11:35):
to conceive, but that is the calculation when you add
those four buildings together of how much maintenance they need
to bring them up to modern standards. And so when
you add those two sums together of expected savings, you're
starting out with more than four billion dollars. That is
before we take into account the lower cost of living
(11:55):
for employees, the lower lease rates that we will have
to pay the five hubs. Of course, the full value
of that we'll only know when the plan is finalized
after consultation with Congress, but we start out at a
baseline of four billion dollars worth of savings.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Many will relocate to Raleigh, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Sport Collins,
and Salt Lake City. American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
This is Dairy Radio. Now it's time for our feed
for on Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from
the University of Illinois.
Speaker 17 (12:32):
Hello Mike, Well, welcome to today's feed form and our
topic is it's corn silege time. Many parts of the
United States farmers will begin corn SiGe harvest. Of course,
some parts of the southern part of the USA already
been harvesting cornsidge for a couple of weeks as well.
I kind of captured this is to control the controllables,
the things that we can't control too much, which our
challenges with such things that we heard in the news.
(12:53):
Tassel rap for our listeners as simply means that some
of the leaves wrap up the tassel and therefore cannot
allow the power and to be distributed, and that appears
to be doing to growing conditions. And also hybrid tar
spot has been located in six to eight different states
here in the Midwest, which really reduces the yield in
the crop. Rusts will occur in the southern parts of
the United States heat stress. It can always be a
(13:14):
problem both the crop whereas growing and producing nutrients, but
also for pollination risk as well. And it looks like
we could have a big crop this year. We'll find
out more in another week or so when the people
are out in the field, but we're projecting one hundred
and eighty five bushels potentially here with huge quality of
possibilities as well. But then the unknown we can't control.
We'll be tears. What might that do to the price
(13:35):
of corn? And certainly what yield's coming from Brazil and ARGENTEU.
But what can we control build and the answers what
when do we want to harvest? And we want to
harvest somewheres around a thirty five percent of dry matter
That usually is about two thirds of a milk line,
which means for those who are listening that if you
take a kernel of corn, take your fingernail or jackknife,
(13:56):
and if you start, we'll filled in from the tip
of the kernel two thirds milk line is I'm calling
it that starts line will move on down two thirds
in the length of the kernel, which is an optimal
point as well. We also want to be looking at
a good kernel processor. In the field of kernel processors,
is the unit on the new field choppers that will
crush the kernel so that it doesn't become too hard
(14:18):
to pass through the dairy cow and increase the start adjustability.
Another thing we should be doing in the field is
using the Penn state particle box, and that allows us
to estimate the length of chop in that corn silence
a bill. It will not go once we've chopped it.
So generally we'd like to see somewhere is around five
percent of the top box over fifty perhaps approaching sixty
percent in the second box, and the next two boxes
(14:40):
or one box would have the remaining forty eight to
fifty percent in it as well. When we're chopping, we're
going to put on a research based a knock gland
to control the fermentation profile, and that will increase the
feed value of about five to eight percent in terms of
return on investment. We should be putting an oxygen barrier
if we have a bunker or pit, that we stricts
oxygen penetration in the top two to three feet of
(15:03):
the bunker, reducing a dry meatter loss as well, and
of course do an excellent job of packing at the
same time. Ideally we'd like to store this corn slide
for three to four months after we insil it because
during the fermentation process, over time the starts becomes more
available as some of the proteins that surround the stars
breakdown and form and release the starts for availability as well.
(15:24):
Certainly it's a valuable crop. You can look at two
guidelines we use. One is take ten times the price
of corn at the time of been siling, so currently
corns around four dollars the bushels. That means cornside is
valued about forty dollars per ton on a wet basis
at thirty five percent drymare. If the crop is drier
than that, or higher in starch content than thirty five percent,
(15:46):
then we need to adjust that price up slightly. Another
way to do that is to look at the price
of corn times eight. So let's do that eight times
four dollars and thirty two dollars. Adding the cost of chopping, processing, transporting,
and seeling anywhere is from five to eight dollars per ton.
That adds another six to seven dollars to it, and
not cutting one to three dollars a ton and then
(16:08):
five percent shrink. So putting all those variables into play,
we recover at a value around forty four dollars a ton,
very close to our thumbile as well. So our TAKEO
message on that would be well aware that cornside would
be variable in starts content due to the uncontrollable factors here,
and cornsides will be a very economical crop in twenty
twenty five twenty six. That completes the program for day.
Thanks Hey, I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here on our feed for on Friday
on Dairy Radio.
Speaker 18 (16:37):
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See in the past that so many times people were
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losing weight. But what we're seeing now is just this
huge rise globally of the idea of wellness.
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Many people are not just thinking of surviving but thriving today.
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Binga and what are those smaller changes that you can
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About seventy nine percent of them reported that wellness is
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Every year.
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Accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the same space,
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The AGG Information Network gives you worldwide updates from local
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We report on stories that mean the most to you
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With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
To say there will be plenty of feed cord harvested
this year might be a significant understatement.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It represents a record high for the.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
US, with athonte prelibment of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
adding this year's harvest will be far and away a
record cord crop at that. There are various reasons why
this is the case, but now comes the bigger question
what to do with all that cord could find its
way to consumers in the form.
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Of ethanol use praise about one hundred million bushels this month, while.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
More is forecast to be sold in the export market.
I'm broad Bay, USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski,
and others joined us as we look at a potential
cord conundrum in this edition of Agriculture USA. There were
indeed indications through the suburb that this year's US cord
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crop could be a bumper one due to favorable weather
conditions at much of the cord belt through the growing season.
As USDA be urologist Brad Rippey noted in the August
tenth Crop Progress Report for corn.
Speaker 22 (20:43):
Crop conditions holding up pretty nicely. We saw a very
small week over week net declining condition, losing a point
in the good to excellent ratings now seventy two percent,
but we could go that with seventy three percent. But
perhaps more importantly, we're not adding any very poor to
poor numbers. Steady this week at seven percent. This year's
crop still coming in quite a bit better than last year,
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this time when the corner was rated sixty seven percent
good to excellent and ten percent very poor to poor.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So with the Agriculture Department later in the week release
their August crop production report for cord, the first of
the year based on farmers surveys, while not surprising that
forecast at production at yield was record setting, looking.
Speaker 23 (21:22):
At a production number of over sixteen point seven billion
bushels a yield of one hundred and eighty eight point
eight bushels an acre.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
To USDA Chief economist Seth Meyer and others, what perhaps
was of shock was just how much cord have been
planted this year. This is Anthony Prilimin of the National
Agricultural Statistic Service.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Planet acreage at ninety seven point three million acres was
raised two point two percent from what was estimated in
the June Anchorage report harvested area that is also up
two point two percent from the previous forecast.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
So why did USDA's August report reflect such a significant
increase on cord acres? Prillman says this is a good
part to efforts to improve statistical accuracy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Starting last year, NAS began reviewing planted and harvested acreage
in August to determine if updates need to be made
to the previous published estimates instead of waiting until later
in the season as we had historically done, to ensure
that the published acreage estimates are as accurate as possible
as early as possible to help forecast final production.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
To do that, Certified Farm Service Agency planted crop acreage
data is incorporated along with farmer surveys add satellite information
in the August forecast. That revised acreage outlook, added to
favorable growing conditions and record yield means not just a
high mark for feed cord production. Forecasting cord production this
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year is over one point four billion, with a bee
bushels more that the record set in twenty twenty three,
while the twenty twenty five projected cord yield record would
be over nine bushels an acre more that twenty four's
record total. So how does USDA project the added supply
of corn to be used in its domestic ballot sheets.
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World Agricultural Outlook Board chair Mark Jacketowski says there will
be plenty of feed cord available for livestock.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
We raised feed and residual by two hundred and fifty
million bushels.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
More feed stock via cord will be available for ethanol
production that can find its way to fuel pumps, with
USDA forecasting a one hundred million bushel increase. Also, our
export forecasts we raised by two hundred million bushels, with
Jackatowski noting strong US cord export demand based on a
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slow marketing start by global competitor Brazil and competitive prices.
As chief economist Seth Meyer observes.
Speaker 23 (23:47):
A lot of extra corn, putting some downward pressure on
prices and making a downward adjustment of thirty cents to
three dollars and ninety cents for the twenty five twenty
six marketing year price.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
As even with use of cord allocated, there is still
plenty more in supply in the form of balance sheet
and big stocks. This has been Agriculture USA. I'm Rod
Baine reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 24 (24:19):
It's time for California agg today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. The California Agricultural Leadership Foundation has
just announced Class fifty five of the California Agricultural Leadership
Program and let me tell you, it's a pretty impressive group. Now,
I'd love to sit here and read off all of
the names of those selected, but I've only got about
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ninety seconds with you and there's just not enough time.
So if you'd like to see that full list, I've
got it waiting for you at aginfo dot net. What
I can share is what these folks are stepping into.
This program is a seventeen month journey that's designed to
shape leaders who will guide California agriculture into the future.
That means seminars, hands on projects, and even national and
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international travel opportunities, all meant to challenge them, stretch their perspectives,
and sharpen their ability to lead with purpose. And the
new class truly covers the state from MacArthur in the
north to Oceanside in the south. Class fifty five represents
the wide breadth of California agriculture, their workspan's, production, government associations,
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and egg services, carrying forward a tradition of leadership that's
been growing strong for more than fifty five years. Again,
to take a look at all of the members that
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Speaker 1 (26:42):
Bob Quinn, here were some farm news this Morning Friends.
The farm economy not doing well. That's the theme for
many commodities this year. Andrew Eddie is president of the
Washington State Hay Growers Association.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Money's kind of hanging out there and you know, kind
of with a little gasterisk next to it, saying, okay,
well maybe i'll get you know, maybe it's some money
here in the next three months. Maybe it'll be a
six months I you know, maybe it won't be at all.
So things are definitely tight in the ag economy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Eddie says that what makes this soft farm economy even
more challenging is the length of the downturn. He said,
the overall agricultural economy in general has been struggling, not
for months, but for years.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
It's not just one downturn year. You can weather one,
you know, maybe two. And now we're on our third
year of you know, low prices and high cough and
a lot of money hanging out there. So overall, I
think hopefully we kind of get in a little better
situation as a whole, but we'll kind of see what
see what shakes out in the next little while.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Andrew Eddie, President Washington State Hay Growers Association, Well, friends.
The USDA predicts a huge corn crop coming in this fall,
which means a lot of extra bushels to use. Jan
ten Bensil, chair of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said year
round ethanol would be a way to use up that
extra corn. However, the benefit doesn't stop there. Year round
E fifteen would also be great for the nation's fuel retailers.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
You know, the year round benefit is really really specifically
for the terminals, the larger companies that have to have
that a surety that we don't have to change the
stickers on our pumps twice a year. And I understand
there's a lot going on in the fuel business, and
when you are having to go out and change your
signage and change your labeling by the date, and your
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label that you have on your E fifteen dispenser doesn't
say the right thing. Just purely a bureaucratic issue. And
this is a complete bureaucratic issue from the beginning. The
only reason that we don't have E fifteen sales in
the summertime is because of two words in the Clean
Air Act E ten and more is what they should
have said and said that they didn't even have E
fifteen back then. They didn't even really know what it was.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Jan ten, Benzil Nebraska Ethanol Board with us Well, friends,
there's more talk than ever about beef on dairy cattle.
Purina has just released its second Beef on Dairy report.
Chad Smith has details.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Beef cattle numbers are down across the US to record
load levels, and some producers around the country are considering
beef on dairy cattle. Lawrence Williams of Purina Dairy talks
about the company's initiatives in the beef on dairy sector
and how the company is leading the charge in nutrition
for this group of cattle.
Speaker 25 (29:10):
We started on this journey five six, seven years ago
when we saw that there were going to be a
lot of these beef on dairy caves in this space,
and we knew that they're different genetically with the beef
influence sire and the dairy dam and we said, you know,
these cattle different genetically, so they're going to need a
different nutrition platform to work from. So we went about
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researching on these caves and done a lot of trials
in this group, and sure enough, they needed a formula
that is different, and that's exactly what we created. And
then we said, well, how do we really hold value
in these cattle and how do we make this population
as good as they should be, And so we started
looking across the supply chain and trying to connect people
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all the way from the dairy clear to the packer
and onto the consumer. Great group of cattle, somebody just
seeds to help tell their story.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
He talked about why beef on dairy cattle have become
so important to the sector.
Speaker 25 (30:04):
They're a quality group of cattle, and right now, with
a native herd being as soft as they are, not
a lot of people retaining heifers. These cattle are filling
an important need for the consumer. They're about fifteen percent
of fed cattle right now, which is significant, and they
bring a lot of quality to the equation. They're short
on red meat yield compared to native beef, but they
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certainly have some quality attributes and they're year round supply,
so they're a good group for the packer to look at.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Purina launched its second Beef on Dairy Industry Report and
Williams talks about the topics and experts included in the report.
Speaker 25 (30:42):
From Patrick Linnell at Cattle Facts talking about the economics
of this group of cattle to doctor Ruth Wowodie at
University Nebraska Lincoln speaking to welfare issues and how we
raise these calves with intention. And then our own internal experts,
Tom Earlywine talking about calf trition and that difference we
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can make and really the difference we can make feeding
them all the way to slaughter. And then our good
friends at Sertifet Angus Beef contributed to this as well.
They've been involved in this Beef on Dairy journey with
us a little bit, working with us at some of
our industry meetings that we put on. And this cattle
right if they're black and they tick all the boxes
for CAAB, they're an important part of the quality supply
(31:24):
in general, so they've been engaged with us. Just excited
really again it speaks to the work we're doing across
the industry to connect these dots.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
To view the second Beef on Dairy Report, go to
Purinamills dot com, forward slash dairy Dash Beef Chad Smith
reporting farm US.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
From theag Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. Land
use concerns and areas dominated by agricultural production are fueling
much of the local resistance to utility scale solar installations.
A new Cobank reports as solar or expansion could deliver
the fastest, most affordable means for increasing the nation's razor
thin energy reserves, but adds concerns around the pace of
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solar development and agricultural regions are warranted. USA Today found
the fifteen percent of US counties have some form of
solar energy restrictions. This year's US wheat exports are forecast
to increase by twenty five million bushels this month, the
highest since twenty twenty twenty one, Based on a strong
exports sales and competitive pricing, hardred winter wheat exports are
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forecast a rise by three hundred million bushels, almost double
from a year ago. Thanks to competitive pricing, hardred winter
wheat sales have expanded to a wide variety of markets,
most notably to Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, and Bangladesh. Recent Beef
Checkoff funded research adds to a growing body of evidence
reinforcing the important role fresh beef plays in a healthy,
sustainable diet. Texas Tech University researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis
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of available research on the relationship between unprocessed red meat
and obesity, finding no significant effect on weight gain or
related in metabolic issues and adults. Researchers found beef contains
high quality protein and other essential nutrients, and people enjoy it.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
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,
and how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
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to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know, it's
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Bob quin back to wrap up ag life for today friends,
a USDA scientist has spent sixty plus years of his
career at the forefront of protecting our nation's cotton crop.
Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Regarded historically as the most threatening pest to our nation's
cotton industry.
Speaker 26 (34:36):
The reason why the vote we were such a voracious
past as it feeds on the verge of the cotton
fans that lad who become the vote, and so when
it feeds on that bird is going to fall off
the lot.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
At USDA research geneticist Johnny Jacobs says, since its invasion
into the US at the turn of the twentieth century
and subsequent spread across the cotton belt in a matter
of years.
Speaker 26 (34:57):
In this way at Bank Rups's Book and Farms, it
was just a devastating past for the cotton producers, and
cotton was the big in the economy at that time.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The US cotton industry remains a multi billion with a
B dollar industry currently free of the threat of bowl
weavil and other threatening cotton pest at. Jacob's research over
a remarkable sixty four year career with the Agriculture Department
is a key part of that success. At the time
he joined USDA in nineteen sixty one, bow weevil developed
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resistance to insecticides. He began studying various technologies to eradicate
the pests.
Speaker 26 (35:35):
The technique coach sterle male whether sterloser views or insects,
sterzer radiation and plug the perier with these sterle males
and late with the navy females offering sterles in eradicate
and di sect that way.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
While this approach failed to eradicate bowl weavil, further efforts
by Jakins and fellow USDA federal and Landgrat University researchers
led to the eventual erratic of this pest so.
Speaker 26 (36:01):
Agin eradication program in North Carolina and started moving west.
It took about thirty colts from North Carolina to South
Texas in that period of time. We had a raticude
the bowl we were from the US.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
His research and advocacy in developing safe and reliable biotech
cotton varieties in a timely manner resulted in quick commercialization
and use by growers, resulting in successful control the various pests,
especially cotton bulworm bow.
Speaker 26 (36:29):
Worms, such way every five to seven days now maybe
once a year or maybe two phrases to most ancis
all season long for bow worm.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Additional research by Jenkins includes development of cotton lines for
cottonseed oil used in food production, lines with higher amounts
of healthier olaic fatty acid on broadband reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that, friends, arount of time for today, thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition of Aglife
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