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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. USDA
Research is incorporating satellite imagery to map water use by
California crops. Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A limited resource water needed to grow a wide variety
of crops in the Golden State.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hunter is really important out here, specifically for the agricultural community.
California is producing two thirds of fruit and nuts. I
think eighty percent of the world's almonds come from California.
It's a really big agricultural state, and a lot of
that agriculture is being irrigated with our limited water resources.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As USDA agricultural researcher Kyle Nipper explades irrigation water madge
bent methods and tools in California at several instances, looks
something like this.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Historically, they've been using weather stations that are either run
by the state or they might put up their own
weather stations in some of their and then using some
past work with crop coefficients and using those crop coefficients
and reference et values to prescribe irrigation. But a lot
of those values. They're based on point measurements. They're based
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on historical data sets.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That focus led Nipper and colleagues to study more efficient
ways to capture irrigation data at eve apple transparration rates
and crops to produce greater irrigation efficiencies. The approach developed
satellite based models to better understand irrigation practices and typing.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
This research isn't terribly new. We've had incredible researchers, particularly
at ARS, developing this technology over the last few decades.
But I think what we've been able to do in
more recent years is kind of co opt this cooperative
research partnership with private industry, with universities, and with the
federal government, particularly ARS.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the case of Nipper's research, satellite imagery.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Specifically thermal imagery to map how much water the crop
is using in real time, with.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That tech picking up both Platt and sell eve apple transpiration.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Once we're able to measure that out from a satellite
point of view, we can do that over the entire
field and entire ranch and over the entire.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
State, providing real time information what Nipper calls another tool
in a grower's toolbox.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So they can make a more informed decision when it
comes to irrigation and understanding how much the plants need
when they need it to produce not only optimal.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yield, but a high quality.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Product is really important to the growers out here.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Friends, coming up. Pressure has eased on developing and passing
a new farm bill just a little bit. We'll talk
about that. You're listening to Waglife. Bob went back with
some farm news this morning. Friends. Pressure to renew the
farm Bill and not having to live within twenty eighteen
boundaries has been eased a little bit with the passage
of the Reconciliation Bill and other pieces of research legislation.
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Northwest Horticultural Council Vice President Riley Bushe says, the One
Big Beautiful Bill delivered some important help for agriculture.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
We were pleased to see increased funding for market access
program kind of for market development programs overseas. So that's
been a long running priority for US. Bolstering special crop
research and some of those other priorities are important because
it's a valuable asset for growers, especially on the trade side.
And then research is a perennial thing, so meaning to
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continue those sorts of projects and work is important for growers.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So that was certainly good news to see.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Asked if you thought a new farm build could get
done this fall, Bushu is hopeful could be.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
We're involved in those conversations and we'll see where hopefully
Congress can kind of finish it out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Given all the uncertainty of the day, Busho says, don't
be afraid to reach.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Out regardless of their commodity, but certainly for apple cherries
and pairs which we're focused on, should just touch base
directly with their county FSA office. The daff there do
yeoman's work going on all their stuff together and know
the in and out of all these programs best and
can help kind of get growers through and get information
from growers that they need to make this all happen.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Riley Bushu, Vice President, Northwest Horticultural Council. This morning, well friends,
several small refinery exemptions wait for a ruling from the
Environmental Protection Agency, and the US renewable fuels industry is
watching to see what the agency will do. Jackie Vodka,
lead economist for Farm Supply and Biofuels at Coobank talks
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about where the situation is right now.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
We are waiting to see what EPA will do with
some of these small refinery exemptions, and the question is
do they eliminate it or do they require additional larger
facilities to absorb some of those smaller refinery exemptions. Looking
back in previous years, when the Trump administration did approve
some of these sres in twenty seventeen, it did create
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a little bit of shift. The market is waiting to
see what's going to happen and how this might impact them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She talks about when the EPA will make a decision
on the sres.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
We do know that EPA is likely to make a
decision on these sres ahead of its final rule on
the Renewable Volume Obligation, which is supposed to go into
effect by November first, so we'll get a little bit
more clarity here. That is one of the wild cards
we're waiting to see. I've been calling it an X
factor on how EBA treats these historical sres and what
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they do and how they allocate those potential exemptions. On
the overall demand for biofuels.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Jackie vodka Cobank this morning. With low cotton prices, high
production expenses, and economic stressors, cotton farmers face extra uncertainty
this year. Mike Davis reports.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Cotton prices are often cyclical in nature, but Delta Pine
technical agronomist Zach Webb says this year is not business
as usual.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
In my career, I've never seen us being in a
situation like this, and talking with our growers they realize
it as well, and this is a this is a
very different situation. It's not like it is when we
have the two and three year cycles. I don't think, well,
we're at a cross roads right now with cotton production.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
One of the elements making this year tougher on cotton
growers is the high cost of inputs.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Price is not rebounding that we hope to see. Input
cause that you said, are an all time high and
we're selling the cotton. The profit of cotton now is
what it was in the seventies, you know, and but
the input prices have definitely risen tremendously since the seventies,
and so it's a tough time for our cotton farmers.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Another factor is the loss of Dikemba as an over
the top herbicide. The biden EPA vacated the registration for
di camba herbicide products in twenty twenty four, and Web
says cotton growers who relied on die camba have been
gradually shifting technologies.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
The guys who are planning, whether it's still to pine
or whatever, die canna based cotton that they have pretty
much what they what they had. They went out and
went back to some old school things with making sure
they're putting down a good residual program up front, which helps,
and then they've come back to these product like around
up and Liberty. Liberty's got a lot of play this
year to help control you know, pig weeds, a big
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one for us over here, and being timely with Liberty,
they've done a pretty good job controlling pigweed this year.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
That's Delta Pod technical agronomist Zach Webb. I'm Mike Davis
farm US.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
This morning. You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
It's another agnews update today. Farm production costs dip slightly
in twenty twenty four. More after this, here's farmer and
businessman James Wood.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
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The contractor working on my property did not have the
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Speaker 9 (08:05):
Farm production expenditures in the US totaling four hundred seventy
seven point six billion in twenty twenty four, down nearly
one percent from the previous year. That's according to USDA's
annual Farm Production Expenditures Report. Feed, farm services, labor, and
livestock related expenses the top four categories, accounting for nearly
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half of all costs. Feed led at seventy three point
two billion, followed by farm services at fifty five point
five billion, labor fifty one and a half billion, livestock
and poultry forty nine point six billion. Average spending per
farm declined to two hundred fifty four thousand, forty three dollars.
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Diesel remains the largest fuel expense at nine point nine billion,
but it did fall nine percent year over year. Now,
by region, the Midwest led all others with one hundred
and forty nine point one billion in total expenses, followed
by the Planes at one hundred eleven point six billion,
the West at one hundred and seven point five billion,
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But California top state level spending at forty eight point
six billion despite a nearly eight percent drop year over year.
It's another Agnews update, Dad, what are you doing cramming
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American Cattle News what's ahead for this fall? Especially for
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Doctor Daryl Peel is Oklahoma State livestock Marketing Economists, takes
a look at what's coming this fall.
Speaker 14 (10:40):
Well, yeah, so it's you know, it's early August. Now,
if those producers in the southern plains that like to
graze wheat, we'll start thinking about planning by you know,
certainly by late August we'll think about it. So, you know,
one of the questions just conditions, are the soil temperatures
too high or not to plan weed? Do we have
moisture conditions and so on. So we'll be watching those
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conditions going forward and so you know, planning weed for that. Again,
the stocker operation is one of those margin operations that
we talked about, and so producers from a budget standpoint
really need to pencil out how those stocker margins, you know,
pencil out for them depending on what time of the
fall they might get started with a stocker operation when
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they would be purchasing cattle relative to you know, the
end of that period next spring sometimes, so there's a
need for them to approach this pretty carefully because those
margins are a little bit tricky right now.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
So while we're looking ahead to fall, are there some
seasonal tendencies within the market?
Speaker 14 (11:46):
KEF prices normally show some seasonal decline. We haven't seen
much of that this summer. It's still a possibility to
see a little bit. But probably what it means is
that CAF prices might be more inclined to move sideways
rather than to a seasonal low. As we go into
the fall, it looks like we're going to continue to
see very strong prices there and so you know, I
think producers will.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Want to take advantage of that in terms of the timing.
Speaker 14 (12:10):
As well as you know other marketing considerations for those caves.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This fault.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Doctor Darryl Peel, American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
This is Dairy Radio Now, with Bill Baker.
Speaker 15 (12:25):
Joining us on our Wellness Wednesday. Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of technical Services with Crystal Creek and Ryan. Last month
you emphasize the importance of keeping our young calves cool
during these hot summer days. And this week's Ask the
Vet segment, when it comes to heat and humidity, we
talk about the impact of the calf's immune system.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So when a calf or any animal is suffering from
heat stress again for baby calves that's seventy five fair
and height and above, that heat stress will decrease the
function of their immune system to become more susceptible to
diseases like diarrhea or respiratory disease. Now we can help
try to some of those calves with obviously offering free
choice water, lots of it, clean, fresh, free choice water.
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But another thing we can use is we can go
back to our high school physics class and think about
the three laws of how thermal properties move between masses.
And we have our good friends conduction, convection, and radiation,
and while we're not really going to do a whole
lot with conduction or radiation, we can certainly lean on convection.
And convection is the process by which as air moves
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over an object, it can strip heat off of it.
And so if we can get fans on calves to
blow air speeds greater than two miles an hour, we
can start to have a convective heat loss over these
caves and start to cool the calves. So research shows
we start to gain some benefits when air speeds hit
hit two miles per hour, and anywhere from two miles
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an hour up to five or six miles an hour,
we see some very nice benefit in cooling on calves,
and then there starts to become a law of diminishing returns.
The air speeds much more than six or seven miles
per hour don't really provide a whole lot more cooling
effect than air speeds of say five miles an hour.
So if we can get the air speeds on caves
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between two and five miles an hour, we start to
have some of that cooling effect also help keep the
betting dryer. Sometimes we can struggle with wet betting in
these high humid days in the summer, and that high
humidity keeping that betting dryer, keeping the air moving, keeping
some of this moisture out of the barn. It's very
helpful in pathogen control. So bacteria viruses that are either
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excreted out of the body and then land in the environment.
Typically the number one way that they die is called desiccation.
It means to just dry out well in a high
humid barn where the betting is wet and the humidity
is high. These pathogens can build up in the environment.
Because they don't dry out and they don't die, they
land in a nice wet spot on the betting, they
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can grow multiply and a lot of times. My experience
of the last dozen years or so is a veterinarian,
some of the worst salmonilla outbreaks I've ever seen have
always seemed to come in August because it's high heat,
high humidity, The barns are wet, the barns are warm,
and that salmonilla that gets excreted just explodes in the environment.
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And so that's another thing we're getting. These high air
speeds moving on calves, helps keep the betting dryer, helps
get moisture out of the barn, and it just helps
with pasage and control as well. I do think it's
important to note too, if ever was a time where
sanitation is the most critical in a calf barn. It's
critical twelve months a year, but it's most critical during
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the warmer months, probably the three or four months of
summer and high heat and humidity where we have this
pathogen load build up. Things like cleaning out your betting
more frequently, sanitizing more frequently, all of these things help
kind of keep this pathogen load that is growing and
flourishing in the environment, keep that down as low as possible.
To reduce the exposure to the calves is another important
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thing that we can do. With the summer heats.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Ran.
Speaker 15 (16:01):
What you're talking about is so important because really the
bottom line in all of this is cow and calf comfort.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, And as calves get bigger and that rumen starts
to develop, keep in mind too that the rooman As
the room in develops, it becomes more and more of
a fermentation. That fermentation process of those bacteria digesting fibers
and forages and turning them into someday melk and meat.
That process of fermentation is extremely exothermic another high school
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chemistry term there, meaning that it makes a lot of heat.
Those roumans in a cow or like little furnaces, And
so imagine you walking around all day it's ninety degrees
out in the summer, and you've got a heater strapped
to your stomach. That's basically what a ruminant feels. That
process of fermentation creates a lot of access heat and
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so that's why a lot of ruminants are even more
susceptible to heat stress than other non ruminant mammals, because
that fermentation is just adding heat to the body at
a time when it's best really trying to cool itself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of technical services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 16 (17:10):
Walnuts in India, big market. In fact, the culture in
India is that walnuts are brain food. They give them
to their kids before school. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the vast At Information Network.
Robert Verloop is the executive director and CEO of the
California Walnut Board and Commission.
Speaker 17 (17:29):
It definitely is, although you know, capital consumption is still
very low in India. Yeah, obviously a lot of people,
and the middle class is three hundred and fifty million,
which is similar to the US entire populations. The economic
growth within India leads you to want to look at
that market very closely and see how we can capitalize
on that growth. Middle class contains a lot of younger
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people that are very well educated, the very knowledgeable. They
seek out information and make a lot of decisions from that.
But to your point, nut culture within India is very high,
and it's just as if you were looking at Turkey
or even a lot of parts of Europe and the Mediterranean,
it's not unusual to have a bowl of mixed nuts
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inshell sitting on the table. Likewise, as what you said is,
people have come to know that having some walnuts in
the morning is a good way to start to day.
And those are cultural practices that you don't see everywhere,
but where you do see them can certainly work in
our favor.
Speaker 16 (18:29):
That's Robert Verloop, the executive director and CEO the California
Walnut Boarding Commission.
Speaker 18 (18:35):
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Speaker 21 (19:47):
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Speaker 2 (19:49):
The Agriculture Department's July Cattle Reports was about various National
Agricultural Statistics Service monthly reports, suspended in twenty twenty four
for reasons, then restored earlier this year. USDA Livestock Aalys
Michael McConnell explains the significance of the bi annual cattle reports.
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What in January followed by the second in July.
Speaker 22 (20:13):
One report coming out reflecting where the cattle herd is
on January first, and then the second one reflecting where
the cattle herd is on July first, to kind of
a midjor year sort of check up. And while the
July report isn't quite as comprehensive as the January report is,
the January report is the one that we often use
the kind of benchmark where we are in the cattle cycle, which,
for those that aren't familiar, the cattle and beef industry
works along the cattle cycle, which should take a full
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ten years, So it's an industry, and the inventories of
cattle can move in very kind of gradual year by
year sort of increments. And so while the January report
we look at is kind of being the benchmark to
see where we are and where the market is in
terms of supply of cattle. The July report provides a
good insight in terms of where we are midway through
the year. We kind of get a sense from producers
whether or not they're retaining females to be entered into
the breeding herd, or get a sense of what our
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calf crop is for the year. All these types of
things that that gives a really important insight into the
direction of the overall supply of the cattle view market.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So what were the findings from the first USDA July
Cattle Report in two years? According to Travis Averl of
the National Agricultural Statistics Service, July first.
Speaker 23 (21:12):
The United States, all cattle and calves are at ninety
four point two million head, down one point three percent
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Over thirty eight billion head of cows and heifer's work
calve this year, down one percent from twenty twenty three.
By species, cows.
Speaker 23 (21:28):
Are at twenty eight million, six hundred and fifty thousand head,
down one point two percent from twenty twenty three. Milk
cows are up fifty thousand head from twenty twenty three
at nine million pointdred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The Agriculture Department provided not one but two perspectives on
cattle and calves at feed lots in July. Along with
the monthly Cattle on Feed Report, USDA also issued at
semi annual Cattle Report in July, which also offered insight
into feed lot activity. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell both
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the similarities and differences of these two offerings.
Speaker 22 (22:04):
The Cattle Report, which is a survey that encompasses basically
all feed lots. The report estimated there's about thirteen million
even head of cattle in feed lots. That compares to
thirteen point one million head of cattle in twenty twenty three,
so about one percent less than two years ago. By comparison,
the Cattle on Feeder Report, which also came out that survey,
is just relatively larger feed lots.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So, in other words, while the annual July Cattle Report
provides a comprehensive look at number of cattlid feed lots
for beef production, the monthly Cattalog Feed Report looks at
feed lots with over one thousand head of cattle and
regarding the numbers for the July edition of Cattle on Feed.
Speaker 22 (22:39):
As of July first, that report estimated that we have
eleven point one million head of cattle, which is about
two percent less than what we had this time last year.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
As for the wis behind the fewer ahead of cattal
on feed lots, a lot of is.
Speaker 22 (22:51):
Due the fact that we had relatively slower placements during
the month of June as feeder cattle outside the feed
lots right now are getting relatively tight and pretty expensive
for feedbuts to replay, and that combined with the fact
that we're at a relatively low point in our cattle cycle,
so just overall, we're looking at relatively tight supplies of
cattle both outside the feedlock coming in for placement, as
well as inside the feed lock being marketed for preproduction bycattle.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Provides a further breakdown of the cattle at calves on
feed numbers as of July first.
Speaker 22 (23:19):
During the month of June, one point four million head
of cattle were placed into feedlots, which is eight percent
lower than a year ago, and one point seven million
head of cattle were marketed from those feedlots, was about
four percent lower than last year.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Rob Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
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When it comes to mortgage foreclosures, state law grants farmers
more time than it does non farmers to save the
property from a creditor, but the rules must be close followed.
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In one recent case, farmland was foreclosed on and the
buyer at the foreclosure sale took the property subject to
the farmer's right to redeem the property within the next year.
The farmer assigned his redemption rights to another farmer, who
then paid the county clerk the principal amount paid by
the buyer. The clerk gave the farmer a receipt showing
a balance due of zero, but that turned out not
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That's a really tough result. This has been the Agricultural
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Speaker 19 (24:33):
It's time for California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
I am Haley's Ship. Earlier this year, eight US cotton
industry members were selected to participate in the National Cotton
Council's Emerging Leaders Program. The program gives participants a behind
the scenes look at how the NCC works to ensure
that all seven segments of the US cotton industry can
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compete and thrive, both here at home and around the globe.
One of those participants is a familiar face to California's
cotton industry, Kirktich Sarah from Fresno.
Speaker 25 (25:07):
I applied to the Emerging Leaders Program because I would
like to develop a more comprehensive understanding of all the
aspects of the cotton industry, with the goal of one
day becoming a knowledgeable leader and an advocate for cotton farmers.
Speaker 19 (25:20):
The first session focused on professional development and communications. Next,
the group will dive into policy development at the NCC
annual meeting in February, and then eventually take a trip
to DC to explore how those policies are put into action.
Speaker 25 (25:35):
I think my favorite part from the first session was
just connecting with the fellow cotton farmers across the country.
Gained valuable insights into how they integrate cotton into their
diverse farming operations, and I really enjoyed talking with all
of them and learning from them as well.
Speaker 19 (25:50):
Now in its tenth year, the NCC's Emerging Leaders Program
is supported by a grant to the Cotton Foundation from
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Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bob Quin, Backers and farm use this morning. Friends. Pressure
to renew the farm Bill and not having to live
within twenty eighteen boundaries has been eased a little bit
with the passage of the Reconciliation Bill and other pieces
of recent legislation. Northwest Horticultural Council Vice President Riley Bushu
says the One Big Beautiful Bill delivered some important help
(27:22):
for agriculture.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
We were pleased to see increased funding for market access
program kind of for market development programs overseas. That's been
a long running priority for US. Bolstering special crop research
and some of those other priorities are important because it's
a valuable asset for growers, especially on the trade side.
And then research is a perennial thing, so meaning to
(27:43):
continue those sorts of projects and work is important for growers.
So that was certainly good news to see.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Asked if you thought a new farm bill could get
done this fall, Bushu is hopeful could be.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
We're involved in those conversations and we'll see where it goes.
Hopefully Congress can kind of finish it out.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Given all the uncertainty of the day, Buschu says, don't
be afraid to reach.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Out regardless of their commodity, but certainly for apple cherries
and Paris, which we're focused on, should just touch base
directly with their county FSA office. The staff there do
yeoman's work pulling all this stuff together and know the
in and outs of all these programs best and can
help kind of guide growers through and get information from
growers that they need to make this all happen.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Riley Buschu, Vice President, Northwest Horticultural Council. This morning, well friends,
several small refinery exemptions wait for a ruling from the
Environmental Protection Agency, and the US renewable fuels industry is
watching to see what the agency will do. Jackie Vodka,
lead economist for Farm Supply and Biofuels at Kobank, talks
(28:43):
about where the situation is right now.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
We are waiting to see what EPA will do with
some of these small refinery exemptions, and the question is
do they eliminate it or do they require additional larger
facilities to absorb some of those smaller refinery exemptions. Look
back in previous years. When the Trump administration did approve
some of these sres in twenty seventeen, it did create
(29:07):
a little bit of shift. The market is waiting to
see what's going to happen and how this might impact demand.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She talks about when the EPA will make a decision
on the sres.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We do know that EPA is likely to make a
decision on these sres ahead of its final rule on
the Renewable Volume Obligation, which is supposed to go into
effect by November first, So we'll get a little bit
more clarity here. That is one of the wild cards
we're waiting to see. I've been calling it an X
factor on how EPA treats these historical sres and what
(29:37):
they do and how they allocate those potential exemptions on
the overall demand for bio fuels.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Jackie Vodka, Cobank This Morning, Well Friends. This week, August
third through the ninth marks the twenty sixth National Farmers
Market Week, celebrating the work or farmers and market venues
that support local economies and healthy communities. Mike Davis takes
a lot look at the importance of farmers markets.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Farmers' markets are a treasured resource for growers and consumers alike.
North Carolina AD Commissioner Steve Trusler says they provide a
valuable interface.
Speaker 26 (30:12):
Our local farmers markets stimulate the local economies and support
healthy communities by providing us face for farmers and consumers
to come together, and they give us consumers' access to
the pressure's products available, and farmers are market for their products,
so it's a win win all around.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
The COVID pandemic brought farmers markets into even clearer focus
for many consumers.
Speaker 26 (30:39):
You can't taste the difference. There's no no two ways
about it. The freshest produce you can get is always
the best. And people did figure out during the pandemic that,
you know, they could go to the farmers' markets and
buy directly from the farmer. And even when we had
shortages of different products in our growth chain, we had
(31:01):
these products at the farmer's market and people could go
purchase some, and we certainly hope that that habit is
permanent now.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Truckxler also emphasizes the importance of knowing where your food
comes from.
Speaker 26 (31:16):
Many years ago when I had my own produce stan
Many of the customers would come by and said, you know,
I'll stop here to buy my PROVIEUS because I knew
you're growing and you feed it to your family and
you eat it, so it must be safe. So yes,
that's very important.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
To know that farm happy National Farmers Market Week. I'm
Mike Davis farm US.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
This morning. You are listening to wag Life.
Speaker 27 (31:43):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
The July Cattle on Feed report offered little relief to
customers paying higher prices for beef, despite the cycle of
herd liquidation that seems to be slowly ending. There were
ninety four point two million cattle in cabs in the
US as of July first, the lowest midyear number since
nineteen seventy three. Bloomberg says the shortage has sent cattle
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cost soaring, wiping out billions in profits for packers and
driving record high beef prices for consumers. Numerous stakeholders, like farmers,
extension services, researchers, and policy makers all rely on the
data that USDA has collected for more than one hundred
and fifty years, But decreasing responses to USDA's farmer surveys
are beginning to put the integrity of that data at risk.
(32:26):
A Farm Bureau Market Intel page says usdas should examine
ways to increase participation in reliability without imposing more burdens
on the already busy growers whom the data serves. US
farm production expenditures were estimated by the USDA at four
hundred and seventy seven point six billion dollars in twenty
twenty four, down from four hundred and eighty one point
nine billion in twenty twenty three. The four largest expenditures
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in the US accounted for forty eight point one percent
of total expenses. They include feed at fifteen percent, farm
services at eleven percent, labor at ten point eight percent,
and livestock, poultry, and related expenses at ten point four
percent total farm expenditures perform in twenty twenty four, we're
just over two hundred and fifty four thousand, downero point
four percent.
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
With your agribusiness update, I'm Bob Larson Bob Quinn back
to wrap up aglie for today. Friends. Elast Thursday, US
President Donald Trump announced that he is reimposing reciprocal tariffs
on products from dozens of foreign countries entering the US market.
This was just another move infuriating Canadian leaders. Dennis Guy
(34:27):
has our final report today.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
On Thursday evening, US President Trump announced that he is
reimposing reciprocal tariffs on products from dozens of foreign countries
entering the US market. Trump also announced that he is
increasing tariffs on certain Canadian goods from twenty five percent
to thirty five percent, while once again accusing Canada of
(34:51):
failing to cooperate in curbing a flood of fentanyl into
the US. Ottawa has repeatedly proven that only very tiny
any amounts of fentanyl entering the United States originate from Canada,
while at the same time, a number of measures to
strengthen the border have been taken, with those measures confirmed
by US border officials. Stuart True with the Canadian Center
(35:15):
for Alternative Policies is a Canadian trade advisor. True says
that Canadian negotiators have been increasingly frustrated with Washington discussions
and Trump's continued blame game of Canadian origin fentanyl just
adds to those frustrations.
Speaker 28 (35:32):
It's economic coercion of the worst kind. That's what's happening here.
They're making things up. We know that there's no real
major border issue. Canada still doesn't have a very good
idea of what the Trump administration wants. This is a
non issue. This is coercion. We simply don't know what
they want.
Speaker 12 (35:46):
Earlier this week, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke
to the Midwestern Legislative Conference held in Saskatoon.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
This year.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Along with four provinces, eleven US states were represented there. Harper,
speaking directly to the American representatives, said that Canada must
diversify much of its trade away from the US as
Canada cannot continue to have its economy and its sovereignty
threatened by the current Washington administration.
Speaker 21 (36:17):
Canada must be seized with the necessity of making sure
that we do not export only to you.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
This really is a wake.
Speaker 21 (36:24):
Up call for this country to truly diversify its export markets.
We just cannot be in a position in the future
where we can be threatened. That's really critical for us
going forward.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
And just the day before President Trump's latest tariff announcement,
he put up a post on his truth social platform
that infuriated Canadian officials. Trump posted that Canada's backing of
statehood for Palestine would make it very difficult for the
US to make a trade deal with Canada. Tom Mulkair,
former federal New Democrat Party leaders, stated that with that statement,
(37:00):
once again, Donald Trump has made a direct attack on
Canada's sovereignty.
Speaker 29 (37:05):
This is an attempt to use a trade negotiation as
a way to control Canada's independent foreign policy. Recognition of
a Palestinian state has been part of Canadian foreign policy
for decades. Trump thinks that he can use these trade
negotiations as a hammer to break Canada's will on this
quite the contrary.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis Guy and with
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That, friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining
us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife.
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. USDA
Research is incorporating satellite imagery to map water use by
California crops. Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A limited resource water needed to grow a wide variety
of crops in the Golden State.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hunter is really important out here, specifically for the agricultural community.
California is producing two thirds of fruit and nuts. I
think eighty percent of the world's almonds come from California.
It's a really big agricultural state, and a lot of
that agriculture is being irrigated with our limited water resources.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As USDA agricultural researcher Kyle Nipper explades irrigation water madge
bent methods and tools in California at several instances, looks
something like this.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Historically, they've been using weather stations that are either run
by the state or they might put up their own
weather stations in some of their and then using some
past work with crop coefficients and using those crop coefficients
and reference et values to prescribe irrigation. But a lot
of those values. They're based on point measurements. They're based
(01:13):
on historical data sets.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That focus led Nipper and colleagues to study more efficient
ways to capture irrigation data at eve apple transparration rates
and crops to produce greater irrigation efficiencies. The approach developed
satellite based models to better understand irrigation practices and typing.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
This research isn't terribly new. We've had incredible researchers, particularly
at ARS, developing this technology over the last few decades.
But I think what we've been able to do in
more recent years is kind of co opt this cooperative
research partnership with private industry, with universities, and with the
federal government, particularly ARS.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the case of Nipper's research, satellite imagery.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Specifically thermal imagery to map how much water the crop
is using in real time, with.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That tech picking up both Platt and sell eve apple transpiration.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Once we're able to measure that out from a satellite
point of view, we can do that over the entire
field and entire ranch and over the entire.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
State, providing real time information what Nipper calls another tool
in a grower's toolbox.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So they can make a more informed decision when it
comes to irrigation and understanding how much the plants need
when they need it to produce not only optimal.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yield, but a high quality.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Product is really important to the growers out here.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Friends, coming up. Pressure has eased on developing and passing
a new farm bill just a little bit. We'll talk
about that. You're listening to Waglife. Bob went back with
some farm news this morning. Friends. Pressure to renew the
farm Bill and not having to live within twenty eighteen
boundaries has been eased a little bit with the passage
of the Reconciliation Bill and other pieces of research legislation.
(03:01):
Northwest Horticultural Council Vice President Riley Bushe says, the One
Big Beautiful Bill delivered some important help for agriculture.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
We were pleased to see increased funding for market access
program kind of for market development programs overseas. So that's
been a long running priority for US. Bolstering special crop
research and some of those other priorities are important because
it's a valuable asset for growers, especially on the trade side.
And then research is a perennial thing, so meaning to
(03:31):
continue those sorts of projects and work is important for growers.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So that was certainly good news to see.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Asked if you thought a new farm build could get
done this fall, Bushu is hopeful could be.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
We're involved in those conversations and we'll see where hopefully
Congress can kind of finish it out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Given all the uncertainty of the day, Busho says, don't
be afraid to reach.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Out regardless of their commodity, but certainly for apple cherries
and pairs which we're focused on, should just touch base
directly with their county FSA office. The daff there do
yeoman's work going on all their stuff together and know
the in and out of all these programs best and
can help kind of get growers through and get information
from growers that they need to make this all happen.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Riley Bushu, Vice President, Northwest Horticultural Council. This morning, well friends,
several small refinery exemptions wait for a ruling from the
Environmental Protection Agency, and the US renewable fuels industry is
watching to see what the agency will do. Jackie Vodka,
lead economist for Farm Supply and Biofuels at Coobank talks
(04:30):
about where the situation is right now.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
We are waiting to see what EPA will do with
some of these small refinery exemptions, and the question is
do they eliminate it or do they require additional larger
facilities to absorb some of those smaller refinery exemptions. Looking
back in previous years, when the Trump administration did approve
some of these sres in twenty seventeen, it did create
(04:54):
a little bit of shift. The market is waiting to
see what's going to happen and how this might impact them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She talks about when the EPA will make a decision
on the sres.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
We do know that EPA is likely to make a
decision on these sres ahead of its final rule on
the Renewable Volume Obligation, which is supposed to go into
effect by November first, so we'll get a little bit
more clarity here. That is one of the wild cards
we're waiting to see. I've been calling it an X
factor on how EBA treats these historical sres and what
(05:24):
they do and how they allocate those potential exemptions. On
the overall demand for biofuels.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Jackie vodka Cobank this morning. With low cotton prices, high
production expenses, and economic stressors, cotton farmers face extra uncertainty
this year. Mike Davis reports.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Cotton prices are often cyclical in nature, but Delta Pine
technical agronomist Zach Webb says this year is not business
as usual.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
In my career, I've never seen us being in a
situation like this, and talking with our growers they realize
it as well, and this is a this is a
very different situation. It's not like it is when we
have the two and three year cycles. I don't think, well,
we're at a cross roads right now with cotton production.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
One of the elements making this year tougher on cotton
growers is the high cost of inputs.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Price is not rebounding that we hope to see. Input
cause that you said, are an all time high and
we're selling the cotton. The profit of cotton now is
what it was in the seventies, you know, and but
the input prices have definitely risen tremendously since the seventies,
and so it's a tough time for our cotton farmers.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Another factor is the loss of Dikemba as an over
the top herbicide. The biden EPA vacated the registration for
di camba herbicide products in twenty twenty four, and Web
says cotton growers who relied on die camba have been
gradually shifting technologies.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
The guys who are planning, whether it's still to pine
or whatever, die canna based cotton that they have pretty
much what they what they had. They went out and
went back to some old school things with making sure
they're putting down a good residual program up front, which helps,
and then they've come back to these product like around
up and Liberty. Liberty's got a lot of play this
year to help control you know, pig weeds, a big
(07:13):
one for us over here, and being timely with Liberty,
they've done a pretty good job controlling pigweed this year.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
That's Delta Pod technical agronomist Zach Webb. I'm Mike Davis
farm US.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
This morning. You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
It's another agnews update today. Farm production costs dip slightly
in twenty twenty four. More after this, here's farmer and
businessman James Wood.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
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The contractor working on my property did not have the
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a strike on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
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Speaker 9 (08:05):
Farm production expenditures in the US totaling four hundred seventy
seven point six billion in twenty twenty four, down nearly
one percent from the previous year. That's according to USDA's
annual Farm Production Expenditures Report. Feed, farm services, labor, and
livestock related expenses the top four categories, accounting for nearly
(08:28):
half of all costs. Feed led at seventy three point
two billion, followed by farm services at fifty five point
five billion, labor fifty one and a half billion, livestock
and poultry forty nine point six billion. Average spending per
farm declined to two hundred fifty four thousand, forty three dollars.
(08:49):
Diesel remains the largest fuel expense at nine point nine billion,
but it did fall nine percent year over year. Now,
by region, the Midwest led all others with one hundred
and forty nine point one billion in total expenses, followed
by the Planes at one hundred eleven point six billion,
the West at one hundred and seven point five billion,
(09:11):
But California top state level spending at forty eight point
six billion despite a nearly eight percent drop year over year.
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Doctor Daryl Peel is Oklahoma State livestock Marketing Economists, takes
a look at what's coming this fall.
Speaker 14 (10:40):
Well, yeah, so it's you know, it's early August. Now,
if those producers in the southern plains that like to
graze wheat, we'll start thinking about planning by you know,
certainly by late August we'll think about it. So, you know,
one of the questions just conditions, are the soil temperatures
too high or not to plan weed? Do we have
moisture conditions and so on. So we'll be watching those
(11:04):
conditions going forward and so you know, planning weed for that. Again,
the stocker operation is one of those margin operations that
we talked about, and so producers from a budget standpoint
really need to pencil out how those stocker margins, you know,
pencil out for them depending on what time of the
fall they might get started with a stocker operation when
(11:26):
they would be purchasing cattle relative to you know, the
end of that period next spring sometimes, so there's a
need for them to approach this pretty carefully because those
margins are a little bit tricky right now.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
So while we're looking ahead to fall, are there some
seasonal tendencies within the market?
Speaker 14 (11:46):
KEF prices normally show some seasonal decline. We haven't seen
much of that this summer. It's still a possibility to
see a little bit. But probably what it means is
that CAF prices might be more inclined to move sideways
rather than to a seasonal low. As we go into
the fall, it looks like we're going to continue to
see very strong prices there and so you know, I
think producers will.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Want to take advantage of that in terms of the timing.
Speaker 14 (12:10):
As well as you know other marketing considerations for those caves.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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Speaker 1 (12:19):
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Speaker 15 (12:25):
Joining us on our Wellness Wednesday. Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of technical Services with Crystal Creek and Ryan. Last month
you emphasize the importance of keeping our young calves cool
during these hot summer days. And this week's Ask the
Vet segment, when it comes to heat and humidity, we
talk about the impact of the calf's immune system.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So when a calf or any animal is suffering from
heat stress again for baby calves that's seventy five fair
and height and above, that heat stress will decrease the
function of their immune system to become more susceptible to
diseases like diarrhea or respiratory disease. Now we can help
try to some of those calves with obviously offering free
choice water, lots of it, clean, fresh, free choice water.
(13:07):
But another thing we can use is we can go
back to our high school physics class and think about
the three laws of how thermal properties move between masses.
And we have our good friends conduction, convection, and radiation,
and while we're not really going to do a whole
lot with conduction or radiation, we can certainly lean on convection.
And convection is the process by which as air moves
(13:29):
over an object, it can strip heat off of it.
And so if we can get fans on calves to
blow air speeds greater than two miles an hour, we
can start to have a convective heat loss over these
caves and start to cool the calves. So research shows
we start to gain some benefits when air speeds hit
hit two miles per hour, and anywhere from two miles
(13:52):
an hour up to five or six miles an hour,
we see some very nice benefit in cooling on calves,
and then there starts to become a law of diminishing returns.
The air speeds much more than six or seven miles
per hour don't really provide a whole lot more cooling
effect than air speeds of say five miles an hour.
So if we can get the air speeds on caves
(14:12):
between two and five miles an hour, we start to
have some of that cooling effect also help keep the
betting dryer. Sometimes we can struggle with wet betting in
these high humid days in the summer, and that high
humidity keeping that betting dryer, keeping the air moving, keeping
some of this moisture out of the barn. It's very
helpful in pathogen control. So bacteria viruses that are either
(14:34):
excreted out of the body and then land in the environment.
Typically the number one way that they die is called desiccation.
It means to just dry out well in a high
humid barn where the betting is wet and the humidity
is high. These pathogens can build up in the environment.
Because they don't dry out and they don't die, they
land in a nice wet spot on the betting, they
(14:54):
can grow multiply and a lot of times. My experience
of the last dozen years or so is a veterinarian,
some of the worst salmonilla outbreaks I've ever seen have
always seemed to come in August because it's high heat,
high humidity, The barns are wet, the barns are warm,
and that salmonilla that gets excreted just explodes in the environment.
(15:15):
And so that's another thing we're getting. These high air
speeds moving on calves, helps keep the betting dryer, helps
get moisture out of the barn, and it just helps
with pasage and control as well. I do think it's
important to note too, if ever was a time where
sanitation is the most critical in a calf barn. It's
critical twelve months a year, but it's most critical during
(15:36):
the warmer months, probably the three or four months of
summer and high heat and humidity where we have this
pathogen load build up. Things like cleaning out your betting
more frequently, sanitizing more frequently, all of these things help
kind of keep this pathogen load that is growing and
flourishing in the environment, keep that down as low as possible.
To reduce the exposure to the calves is another important
(15:59):
thing that we can do. With the summer heats.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Ran.
Speaker 15 (16:01):
What you're talking about is so important because really the
bottom line in all of this is cow and calf comfort.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, And as calves get bigger and that rumen starts
to develop, keep in mind too that the rooman As
the room in develops, it becomes more and more of
a fermentation. That fermentation process of those bacteria digesting fibers
and forages and turning them into someday melk and meat.
That process of fermentation is extremely exothermic another high school
(16:29):
chemistry term there, meaning that it makes a lot of heat.
Those roumans in a cow or like little furnaces, And
so imagine you walking around all day it's ninety degrees
out in the summer, and you've got a heater strapped
to your stomach. That's basically what a ruminant feels. That
process of fermentation creates a lot of access heat and
(16:50):
so that's why a lot of ruminants are even more
susceptible to heat stress than other non ruminant mammals, because
that fermentation is just adding heat to the body at
a time when it's best really trying to cool itself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of technical services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 16 (17:10):
Walnuts in India, big market. In fact, the culture in
India is that walnuts are brain food. They give them
to their kids before school. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the vast At Information Network.
Robert Verloop is the executive director and CEO of the
California Walnut Board and Commission.
Speaker 17 (17:29):
It definitely is, although you know, capital consumption is still
very low in India. Yeah, obviously a lot of people,
and the middle class is three hundred and fifty million,
which is similar to the US entire populations. The economic
growth within India leads you to want to look at
that market very closely and see how we can capitalize
on that growth. Middle class contains a lot of younger
(17:51):
people that are very well educated, the very knowledgeable. They
seek out information and make a lot of decisions from that.
But to your point, nut culture within India is very high,
and it's just as if you were looking at Turkey
or even a lot of parts of Europe and the Mediterranean,
it's not unusual to have a bowl of mixed nuts
(18:12):
inshell sitting on the table. Likewise, as what you said is,
people have come to know that having some walnuts in
the morning is a good way to start to day.
And those are cultural practices that you don't see everywhere,
but where you do see them can certainly work in
our favor.
Speaker 16 (18:29):
That's Robert Verloop, the executive director and CEO the California
Walnut Boarding Commission.
Speaker 18 (18:35):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road. Every year, 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 remember.
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves. Farmers,
make sure your slow moving vehicles, signs and lights are visible,
and everyone sailor, especially on rural roads.
Speaker 19 (18:56):
One moment of.
Speaker 18 (18:57):
Caution can save alife. Let's work together to keep our
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Speaker 20 (19:05):
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Speaker 16 (19:34):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh, I'm Dwayne
Murley with your farm news at Anticipation, shared last spring
by USDA Chief Economist Seth Bayer to farm broadcasters.
Speaker 21 (19:47):
I'm glad I have my JLIG report now because that's
the one I'll be looking at.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
The Agriculture Department's July Cattle Reports was about various National
Agricultural Statistics Service monthly reports, suspended in twenty twenty four
for reasons, then restored earlier this year. USDA Livestock Aalys
Michael McConnell explains the significance of the bi annual cattle reports.
(20:10):
What in January followed by the second in July.
Speaker 22 (20:13):
One report coming out reflecting where the cattle herd is
on January first, and then the second one reflecting where
the cattle herd is on July first, to kind of
a midjor year sort of check up. And while the
July report isn't quite as comprehensive as the January report is,
the January report is the one that we often use
the kind of benchmark where we are in the cattle cycle, which,
for those that aren't familiar, the cattle and beef industry
works along the cattle cycle, which should take a full
(20:34):
ten years, So it's an industry, and the inventories of
cattle can move in very kind of gradual year by
year sort of increments. And so while the January report
we look at is kind of being the benchmark to
see where we are and where the market is in
terms of supply of cattle. The July report provides a
good insight in terms of where we are midway through
the year. We kind of get a sense from producers
whether or not they're retaining females to be entered into
the breeding herd, or get a sense of what our
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calf crop is for the year. All these types of
things that that gives a really important insight into the
direction of the overall supply of the cattle view market.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So what were the findings from the first USDA July
Cattle Report in two years? According to Travis Averl of
the National Agricultural Statistics Service, July first.
Speaker 23 (21:12):
The United States, all cattle and calves are at ninety
four point two million head, down one point three percent
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Over thirty eight billion head of cows and heifer's work
calve this year, down one percent from twenty twenty three.
By species, cows.
Speaker 23 (21:28):
Are at twenty eight million, six hundred and fifty thousand head,
down one point two percent from twenty twenty three. Milk
cows are up fifty thousand head from twenty twenty three
at nine million pointdred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The Agriculture Department provided not one but two perspectives on
cattle and calves at feed lots in July. Along with
the monthly Cattle on Feed Report, USDA also issued at
semi annual Cattle Report in July, which also offered insight
into feed lot activity. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell both
(22:00):
the similarities and differences of these two offerings.
Speaker 22 (22:04):
The Cattle Report, which is a survey that encompasses basically
all feed lots. The report estimated there's about thirteen million
even head of cattle in feed lots. That compares to
thirteen point one million head of cattle in twenty twenty three,
so about one percent less than two years ago. By comparison,
the Cattle on Feeder Report, which also came out that survey,
is just relatively larger feed lots.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So, in other words, while the annual July Cattle Report
provides a comprehensive look at number of cattlid feed lots
for beef production, the monthly Cattalog Feed Report looks at
feed lots with over one thousand head of cattle and
regarding the numbers for the July edition of Cattle on Feed.
Speaker 22 (22:39):
As of July first, that report estimated that we have
eleven point one million head of cattle, which is about
two percent less than what we had this time last year.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
As for the wis behind the fewer ahead of cattal
on feed lots, a lot of is.
Speaker 22 (22:51):
Due the fact that we had relatively slower placements during
the month of June as feeder cattle outside the feed
lots right now are getting relatively tight and pretty expensive
for feedbuts to replay, and that combined with the fact
that we're at a relatively low point in our cattle cycle,
so just overall, we're looking at relatively tight supplies of
cattle both outside the feedlock coming in for placement, as
well as inside the feed lock being marketed for preproduction bycattle.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Provides a further breakdown of the cattle at calves on
feed numbers as of July first.
Speaker 22 (23:19):
During the month of June, one point four million head
of cattle were placed into feedlots, which is eight percent
lower than a year ago, and one point seven million
head of cattle were marketed from those feedlots, was about
four percent lower than last year.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Rob Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 24 (23:38):
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When it comes to mortgage foreclosures, state law grants farmers
more time than it does non farmers to save the
property from a creditor, but the rules must be close followed.
(24:00):
In one recent case, farmland was foreclosed on and the
buyer at the foreclosure sale took the property subject to
the farmer's right to redeem the property within the next year.
The farmer assigned his redemption rights to another farmer, who
then paid the county clerk the principal amount paid by
the buyer. The clerk gave the farmer a receipt showing
a balance due of zero, but that turned out not
to be good enough because he hadn't paid interest and fees.
(24:23):
That's a really tough result. This has been the Agricultural
Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McGowen.
Speaker 19 (24:33):
It's time for California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
I am Haley's Ship. Earlier this year, eight US cotton
industry members were selected to participate in the National Cotton
Council's Emerging Leaders Program. The program gives participants a behind
the scenes look at how the NCC works to ensure
that all seven segments of the US cotton industry can
(24:56):
compete and thrive, both here at home and around the globe.
One of those participants is a familiar face to California's
cotton industry, Kirktich Sarah from Fresno.
Speaker 25 (25:07):
I applied to the Emerging Leaders Program because I would
like to develop a more comprehensive understanding of all the
aspects of the cotton industry, with the goal of one
day becoming a knowledgeable leader and an advocate for cotton farmers.
Speaker 19 (25:20):
The first session focused on professional development and communications. Next,
the group will dive into policy development at the NCC
annual meeting in February, and then eventually take a trip
to DC to explore how those policies are put into action.
Speaker 25 (25:35):
I think my favorite part from the first session was
just connecting with the fellow cotton farmers across the country.
Gained valuable insights into how they integrate cotton into their
diverse farming operations, and I really enjoyed talking with all
of them and learning from them as well.
Speaker 19 (25:50):
Now in its tenth year, the NCC's Emerging Leaders Program
is supported by a grant to the Cotton Foundation from
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Speaker 1 (26:58):
Bob Quin, Backers and farm use this morning. Friends. Pressure
to renew the farm Bill and not having to live
within twenty eighteen boundaries has been eased a little bit
with the passage of the Reconciliation Bill and other pieces
of recent legislation. Northwest Horticultural Council Vice President Riley Bushu
says the One Big Beautiful Bill delivered some important help
(27:22):
for agriculture.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
We were pleased to see increased funding for market access
program kind of for market development programs overseas. That's been
a long running priority for US. Bolstering special crop research
and some of those other priorities are important because it's
a valuable asset for growers, especially on the trade side.
And then research is a perennial thing, so meaning to
(27:43):
continue those sorts of projects and work is important for growers.
So that was certainly good news to see.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Asked if you thought a new farm bill could get
done this fall, Bushu is hopeful could be.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
We're involved in those conversations and we'll see where it goes.
Hopefully Congress can kind of finish it out.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Given all the uncertainty of the day, Buschu says, don't
be afraid to reach.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Out regardless of their commodity, but certainly for apple cherries
and Paris, which we're focused on, should just touch base
directly with their county FSA office. The staff there do
yeoman's work pulling all this stuff together and know the
in and outs of all these programs best and can
help kind of guide growers through and get information from
growers that they need to make this all happen.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Riley Buschu, Vice President, Northwest Horticultural Council. This morning, well friends,
several small refinery exemptions wait for a ruling from the
Environmental Protection Agency, and the US renewable fuels industry is
watching to see what the agency will do. Jackie Vodka,
lead economist for Farm Supply and Biofuels at Kobank, talks
(28:43):
about where the situation is right now.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
We are waiting to see what EPA will do with
some of these small refinery exemptions, and the question is
do they eliminate it or do they require additional larger
facilities to absorb some of those smaller refinery exemptions. Look
back in previous years. When the Trump administration did approve
some of these sres in twenty seventeen, it did create
(29:07):
a little bit of shift. The market is waiting to
see what's going to happen and how this might impact demand.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She talks about when the EPA will make a decision
on the sres.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We do know that EPA is likely to make a
decision on these sres ahead of its final rule on
the Renewable Volume Obligation, which is supposed to go into
effect by November first, So we'll get a little bit
more clarity here. That is one of the wild cards
we're waiting to see. I've been calling it an X
factor on how EPA treats these historical sres and what
(29:37):
they do and how they allocate those potential exemptions on
the overall demand for bio fuels.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Jackie Vodka, Cobank This Morning, Well Friends. This week, August
third through the ninth marks the twenty sixth National Farmers
Market Week, celebrating the work or farmers and market venues
that support local economies and healthy communities. Mike Davis takes
a lot look at the importance of farmers markets.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Farmers' markets are a treasured resource for growers and consumers alike.
North Carolina AD Commissioner Steve Trusler says they provide a
valuable interface.
Speaker 26 (30:12):
Our local farmers markets stimulate the local economies and support
healthy communities by providing us face for farmers and consumers
to come together, and they give us consumers' access to
the pressure's products available, and farmers are market for their products,
so it's a win win all around.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
The COVID pandemic brought farmers markets into even clearer focus
for many consumers.
Speaker 26 (30:39):
You can't taste the difference. There's no no two ways
about it. The freshest produce you can get is always
the best. And people did figure out during the pandemic that,
you know, they could go to the farmers' markets and
buy directly from the farmer. And even when we had
shortages of different products in our growth chain, we had
(31:01):
these products at the farmer's market and people could go
purchase some, and we certainly hope that that habit is
permanent now.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Truckxler also emphasizes the importance of knowing where your food
comes from.
Speaker 26 (31:16):
Many years ago when I had my own produce stan
Many of the customers would come by and said, you know,
I'll stop here to buy my PROVIEUS because I knew
you're growing and you feed it to your family and
you eat it, so it must be safe. So yes,
that's very important.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
To know that farm happy National Farmers Market Week. I'm
Mike Davis farm US.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
This morning. You are listening to wag Life.
Speaker 27 (31:43):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
The July Cattle on Feed report offered little relief to
customers paying higher prices for beef, despite the cycle of
herd liquidation that seems to be slowly ending. There were
ninety four point two million cattle in cabs in the
US as of July first, the lowest midyear number since
nineteen seventy three. Bloomberg says the shortage has sent cattle
(32:05):
cost soaring, wiping out billions in profits for packers and
driving record high beef prices for consumers. Numerous stakeholders, like farmers,
extension services, researchers, and policy makers all rely on the
data that USDA has collected for more than one hundred
and fifty years, But decreasing responses to USDA's farmer surveys
are beginning to put the integrity of that data at risk.
(32:26):
A Farm Bureau Market Intel page says usdas should examine
ways to increase participation in reliability without imposing more burdens
on the already busy growers whom the data serves. US
farm production expenditures were estimated by the USDA at four
hundred and seventy seven point six billion dollars in twenty
twenty four, down from four hundred and eighty one point
nine billion in twenty twenty three. The four largest expenditures
(32:48):
in the US accounted for forty eight point one percent
of total expenses. They include feed at fifteen percent, farm
services at eleven percent, labor at ten point eight percent,
and livestock, poultry, and related expenses at ten point four
percent total farm expenditures perform in twenty twenty four, we're
just over two hundred and fifty four thousand, downero point
four percent.
Speaker 18 (33:06):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road. Every year, 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
remember tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills
or curves. Farmers, make sure your slow moving vehicles, signs
and lights are visible and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads.
(33:27):
One moment of caution can save a life. Let's work
together to keep our roads and our farm safe. This
message was brought to you by the ag Information Network.
Speaker 20 (33:36):
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providing news and information for the most important industry in
the world, agriculture. The Egg Information Network gives you worldwide
updates from local producers to regional organizations, from major crops
like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture to specially crops
like apples, almonds, and cherries. We report on stories that
(33:57):
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The Egg Information Network trusted in transparent journalism, lasting for
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
With your agribusiness update, I'm Bob Larson Bob Quinn back
to wrap up aglie for today. Friends. Elast Thursday, US
President Donald Trump announced that he is reimposing reciprocal tariffs
on products from dozens of foreign countries entering the US market.
This was just another move infuriating Canadian leaders. Dennis Guy
(34:27):
has our final report today.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
On Thursday evening, US President Trump announced that he is
reimposing reciprocal tariffs on products from dozens of foreign countries
entering the US market. Trump also announced that he is
increasing tariffs on certain Canadian goods from twenty five percent
to thirty five percent, while once again accusing Canada of
(34:51):
failing to cooperate in curbing a flood of fentanyl into
the US. Ottawa has repeatedly proven that only very tiny
any amounts of fentanyl entering the United States originate from Canada,
while at the same time, a number of measures to
strengthen the border have been taken, with those measures confirmed
by US border officials. Stuart True with the Canadian Center
(35:15):
for Alternative Policies is a Canadian trade advisor. True says
that Canadian negotiators have been increasingly frustrated with Washington discussions
and Trump's continued blame game of Canadian origin fentanyl just
adds to those frustrations.
Speaker 28 (35:32):
It's economic coercion of the worst kind. That's what's happening here.
They're making things up. We know that there's no real
major border issue. Canada still doesn't have a very good
idea of what the Trump administration wants. This is a
non issue. This is coercion. We simply don't know what
they want.
Speaker 12 (35:46):
Earlier this week, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke
to the Midwestern Legislative Conference held in Saskatoon.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
This year.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Along with four provinces, eleven US states were represented there. Harper,
speaking directly to the American representatives, said that Canada must
diversify much of its trade away from the US as
Canada cannot continue to have its economy and its sovereignty
threatened by the current Washington administration.
Speaker 21 (36:17):
Canada must be seized with the necessity of making sure
that we do not export only to you.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
This really is a wake.
Speaker 21 (36:24):
Up call for this country to truly diversify its export markets.
We just cannot be in a position in the future
where we can be threatened. That's really critical for us
going forward.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
And just the day before President Trump's latest tariff announcement,
he put up a post on his truth social platform
that infuriated Canadian officials. Trump posted that Canada's backing of
statehood for Palestine would make it very difficult for the
US to make a trade deal with Canada. Tom Mulkair,
former federal New Democrat Party leaders, stated that with that statement,
(37:00):
once again, Donald Trump has made a direct attack on
Canada's sovereignty.
Speaker 29 (37:05):
This is an attempt to use a trade negotiation as
a way to control Canada's independent foreign policy. Recognition of
a Palestinian state has been part of Canadian foreign policy
for decades. Trump thinks that he can use these trade
negotiations as a hammer to break Canada's will on this
quite the contrary.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis Guy and with
Speaker 1 (37:23):
That, friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining
us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife.
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