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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,
agriculture has many stresses and many ways of dealing with those.
Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stress, whether it comes from one or several sources life, home, health, work, relationships, finances, certainty, messages, well,
you get the idea. Most of us have sub level
of stress we deal with occasionally, if not regularly. That's
why David Brown of Iowa State University Extension suggest.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's really really important for everyone to really start thinking
a little bit more about what they need to do
to take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
A further explanation of why self care is needed involves.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We're all pretty good at maybe helping others or maybe
helping a friend or family member. We've forget about ourselves sometimes,
So there's some really great research based strategies out there
that we can do and make part of that really
help us take care of ourselves as well.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Brown says perhaps the best way to help reduce stress
is increase physical activity.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
If you're not getting one hundred and fifty minutes a
week of good aerobic activity. You might want to look
at buying a treadmill, joining a gym, things like that,
because there's so many great benefits of physical activity. You
approves sleep quality, reduces blood pressure, reduces risk of developing dementia.
It actually reduces eight different types of cancers or risk
great different type of cancers.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
More aerobic activity, as Brown just mentioned, can be one
contributor to another's stress reduction technique. A good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now, I know there's certain times of the year that
that may not be possible, but we really recommend getting
seven to nine hours of sleep. The benefits of doing that.
It improves mood, helps with memory, talking to thinking, helps
to manage stress. So I can't really emphasize the importance
of getting a good night's sleep to some.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Improving social connectiveness may seem counterintuitive in reducing specific stresses
in their lives, but as Brown explayed.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Spending time with family, friends, volunteering a different site, working
with the church's schools, volunteering different places. We need to
belong to different groups to get our social connectedness because
that's one of the primary ways to reduce risk of
societal behavior is being connected with other people.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Possessing and expressing a positive attitude also is a stress reducer.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That means pressing gratitude not only to others, but also
we need to be grateful for ourselves, keep our perspective
about all the good things that we do and we're.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
About, and not what Brown calls catastrophizing, worry about the
worst case scenario of a situation that most likely never occurs.
What other self care tip implement relaxation strategies.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It could be having a hobby that we simply enjoy,
maybe doing some deep breathings and mindfulness meditation and repetitive prayer.
What do we do that we can utilize that helps
us to relax, kind of lower blood pressure, relax our
body a little bit because that reduces the levels of
frustration and proof folks mood and improved and muscle catching,
all those things.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
D C.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, Friends, will have a report from one congressman stressing
the importance of continuing work on a new farm bill
that's ahead on aglife. Bob Quinn, here was some farm
use this morning. Friends. Farmers and ranchers need more efficient
programs for supplying labor. Chad Smith has a first hand
account from an Alabama grower to share with us this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Difficulty finding adequate labor is a common challenge for farmers
across the US. Philip Hunter, a wholesale tree grower from Alabamas,
his hired help is vital to his business's success.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
There's very little automation in the inertship business, so we
had to have labor to do almost everything we do.
We grow landscape trees, so.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Planting, running, steaking, we have equipment to run that we
need when we're harvesting, when we're shipping, we'll have multiple
crews working on me any different things at one time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Hunter's nursery uses the H two, a guest worker program
to find labor. While the program has no doubt been helpful,
he says the system still needs some updates.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's a good program, but it's been around forty years
and it needs to be updated. It needs to be streamlined,
particularly the adverse effect wage rate which we must pay.
It has gone up in Alabama thirty four percent since
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hunter says farmers can and should get involved in advocating
for changes to the labor program.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
We've been advocating three different approaches, executive action to the
Trump administration, legislative action through our congressman, and then action
through the agency, so like Department of Labor, Department of
Home Lay Security, USDA get involved there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You can learn more at fb dot org, forward Slash Labor,
Chad Smith, Washington, Well friends.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Some important parts of a typical farm bill were passed
in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Senate I
Committee Chair John Boseman of Arkansas says there's still a
lot of work to do to finish the rest of
the farm bill.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well, reconciliation is about taxing and spending. There's a lot
of things that are just pure policy decisions that need
to be made. We need to increase the loan limits.
As I said earlier, things like that just don't work
anymore because of the way that the economy has changed
since twenty eighteen. So those are the kind of things
that we'll be looking at. We've got a great partnership
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with Center Klobashow. Traditionally, agriculture farm bills aren't about Democrats
or Republicans, are about different areas of the country.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
There's a lot to balance because no two areas of
the country farm in the same way.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Southern agriculture is different than the Midwest, Midwest, it's different
in California, and the Great Plains were all different. Putting
all of that together and then the various commodities, making
sure everybody's represented, everybody is taken care of. But it's
not about Democrats or Republicans. So we've got a great
relationship with our counterparts on the committee. It's a very
serious committee. So we're looking forward to getting the individual
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members on the committee continuing to be out and about
throughout the country, listing to people that are undergoing all
the adverse effects that are in farm country.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right now, many farmers are on the verge of losing
their farm. So time is of the essence.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
We definitely have to get it done by the end
of the year, certainly at the center of the better.
It is very, very difficult, as you describe it, and
Congress has acted. If you remember at the end of
last year, it was a very difficult time then, and
we were able to provide ten billion dollars worth of
economic aid, which was kind of unheard, along with that
twenty billion dollars of disasterate thirty billion dollars total, which
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is a tremendous amount of money. And that was because
farmers made the case. The landers made the case that
without doing that, we were going to have a very
very difficult situation. Now we're into this year and sadly
things have not gotten any better.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Senator John Boseman joining us this morning. The mission is
to same, but there's a new name for the US
Grains Council. After sixty five years, it's now to be
the US Grains and Bioproducts Council. Nebraska corn grower Jay
Reiners is vice chair of the organization and said it's
about positioning the Council to get recognized as a leader
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in more than grains.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Not only are we producing ethanol out of these ethanol plants,
but we're gaining so much more products that are being
derived from ethanol and corn products, you know, like for example,
we're getting plastics, we're getting chemical biochemicals being made. Now,
that's what we changed their name, so it just kind
of flows in with what our mission.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Is again, the new name US Grains and Bioproducts Council.
Farmer News this morning, you're listening to ag.
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have pushed for greater access to India's ag, ethanol, dairy,
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markets to subsidized US farm goods the livelihoods of millions
of small farmers. US farm exports like corn, soybeans, cotton,
and ethanol excluded from recent talks. India's average terrif rate
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on ag imports thirty nine percent, US imports five percent.
Some farm duties are as high as fifty percent according
to the White House, and the Trump administration has repeatedly
cited the barriers as an obstacle to deeper trade ties.
With trade talk stalled, Indian exporters now face rising levees
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American cattle news packer margins are in the red. What's next?
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Speaker 14 (10:56):
Last week's slaughter five hundred and forty nine thousand head.
That's down fourteen thousand week on week, and down substantially
from the same week last year, which was six hundred
and five thousand, so again kind of reinforcing the supply
side tightness. We'll see where cash wants to trade this week.
Last week generally higher about one to four bucks depending
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on the region, even though the five area waited average
ended up a little bit lower. Box beef prices settled
lower about three sixty six seventy ish. That was down
from about three seventy three and a half the prior week,
and that just kind of indicates at the moment a
bit slower beef demand at the higher prices. We'll see
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if that continues as a pattern. Packers I believe are
working in the red still, so you know, there's only
so long that that can happen until some kind of
market adjustment needs to occur, either with higher box beef
prices or lower cash in order to bring things back
into the green for them. So we'll see how that
plays out. Other impacts in the cattle market, we're watching
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export competition. I guess it's leaning slightly bearish at the moment.
Argentina just lowered its beef export tax from six and
a half percent to five percent. That could make them
a little bit more competitive in the global market. And
being that there hasn't been any really new news to
clearly associate any kind of tariff for trade talks to
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beef in any wide fashion, I don't see that the
export market is going to be doing any better than
we already expected to do, so we'll see how that
plays out.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 15 (12:42):
This is Dairy Radio Now, a rundown of the latest
dairy news across America.
Speaker 16 (12:53):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for Feedbrick's USA with
Professor Tom Overton, who is Department chair at Animal Science.
We're glad to be with you at the Corner Electrition Conference.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Hey, John, great to with you too, So tell us a.
Speaker 16 (13:04):
Little bit about the conference because this is one of
the crown jewels of animal science.
Speaker 17 (13:07):
Yeah, this has been going I think about eighty five
years now, cornerleutritiony conference We've got I would say we're
one of the leading conferences in the country, if not
the leading. We attract an international audience, so folks do
live from the Northeast, but also across the country and
across the globe.
Speaker 16 (13:19):
That's interesting, and they come here for various reasons, Right,
what are some reasons people really want to be at
CNC And.
Speaker 17 (13:25):
I think I think they would be here at CNC
because this is really really where the leading in science
is presented, and so you know, they come here kind
of the sea things. First, we attract not only our
own speakers in Cornell, but kind of leading folks from
around the country and around the world. And again it's
really a heavy feed industry, nutrition based audience. And again
the nutritions here to learn new ideas and then take
back to work with their farms.
Speaker 16 (13:46):
Let's just talk a little bit about that, because truly,
there are a lot of nutritionists who attend this conference,
a lot of research being presented here, but it does
get back to those dairy farms.
Speaker 17 (13:54):
Right absolutely, that's the whole point, you know, it's the
whole point with what we do here. And again this
morning was about you know, new things is related to
to you know, such a feed add as is used
to enhance fermental function. We talked a lot about hepocalcemia
or a little bout calcium this afternoon and vitamin D
aspects of that not only for the cow, but also
for the human. And so we also spend not only
the you know, bring in some topics really to human
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health as.
Speaker 16 (14:15):
Well multi species. So as a researcher, you get hit
with a lot of request to your research. How do
you set out which projects you want to pick?
Speaker 17 (14:22):
Well, I think again, you know, it really kind of
comes back to our landgrad mission, right, So the things
that we think are going to bring most value to
our farms, and that's really what comes down to, you know,
if we can't see in a project that where it
might bring value to our dairy farmers, to our nutritionists,
to others in the in the in the dairy industry,
and we're just not interested.
Speaker 16 (14:38):
And CNC is also a great place for networking, right absolutely.
Speaker 17 (14:42):
I think as you saw this year the halls are loud, right,
people are interacting a lot. I think people are super
excited again to be back doing life is normal.
Speaker 16 (14:49):
Yeah, post pandemic. We're back to almost normal levels where
you were before.
Speaker 17 (14:53):
Right, Yeah, we are. Numbers are just slightly down, you know.
I think that also reflects too, We've got, you know,
some some demographic changes in the industry and different ways.
But you know, we feel really good where we're at
compared to what we hear about some other conferences that
are actually down a fair amount.
Speaker 16 (15:05):
And companies come and sponsor the pre conference symposium too, fair.
Speaker 17 (15:08):
Yeah, absolutely, And again you know, we we have multiple
companies each year that that essentially they apply for the
opportunity to be the pre conference sponsor, so they have
to put forth a proposal and then we as an
organized committee choose which one that we think is it
will bring most value.
Speaker 16 (15:22):
And again, for you, you heard a lot of great
topics today, and just just go back over that just
a little bit. Which ones highlighted, which ones you really
trip your triggers?
Speaker 17 (15:30):
Yeah, you know, again, the the you know, a couple
of things right, you know, the environmental stuff is still
you know, let to be played out in a lot
of ways we're going to be strong in that area.
I think that that that clearly the greenhouse gas space,
you know, finding wins for the for for not only
the environment, but also for the farmer and that's really
important to us as well. And so having that capacity
at Cornell where we can do that and kind of
laying that out today, and it's really neat to kind
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of come together. It's been something that that we we've
kind of been been forecasting in the last several years.
But it's nice see it come together.
Speaker 16 (15:58):
And as department chair, we've got to get a little
plug for the department and students coming in there. Yeah,
you know, students are a lifeblood, right and so you know,
the animal science major continues to grow at Cornell. The
dairy programs the strongests in the country. From my perspective,
of course, I play for the home team. Okay, you
got to forgive me on that, John, But again, you know,
we we're all about bringing in great students and helping
them have a great experience. Just a little bit about
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the day fellows program because that's pretty unique.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (16:21):
Again, it's continued to be kind of the you know,
really the only program is kind of the country and
and it's sort of a capstone program where our students
put together the whole, the whole banana from from the
production management, through business management, through family transition, through business transitions,
through strategy. You know, all those things come into play.
Speaker 16 (16:36):
And also a strong Dairy Science.
Speaker 17 (16:37):
Club absolutely, you know, we have I have almost one
hundred members of the club. You know, the club does
a sale every year. We go international trips to Italy
and last year to Germany as well, you know, depending
on what where students are in the program. And so
the trips trips are great experience for students see things
that they wouldn't see otherwise.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
Professor Tom Overton at the Cornell Nutrition Conference, Thanks for
being with us today.
Speaker 13 (16:57):
Thanks John.
Speaker 16 (16:58):
I'm John Clark, traveling the country side for Feedworks USA.
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When it comes to tree nuts being exported, and many
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It's a big driving factor right now. We are, you know,
when it comes to what's going on the administration side,
we're supportive of the concept of you know that the
administration really wants to protect American farmers. They want to
make sure that American farmers aren't forgotten about that. We
are at the top of the priority list and so
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Result, Jacobson did say, you know, that's not going easy,
and there is a little pain out there.
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You know, we're seeing some pain, potentially some additional pain,
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Welcome to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley with your farm news.
Speaker 24 (20:03):
Mostly good news on the drought front, unless you're in
the Western United States.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The submary from the latest edition of the US Drought Monitor.
USDA burologist Brad Rippey says, month over a month.
Speaker 24 (20:14):
As of July twenty ninth, we have just a shade
over thirty one percent of the continental United States in
drought thirty one point zero two percent. That is down
about one point four percentage points from what we saw
at the beginning of July four weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
However, deteriorating conditions occurred in the West during July.
Speaker 24 (20:32):
By July twenty ninth, more than two thirds of the
eleven state Western Region sixty seven percent experiencing drought. That
is up from sixty four and a half percent, an
increase of almost three percentage points from the first of July.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That deterioration most noted in the Pacific Northwest Rippyad's Western drought, though,
has been offset by shrinking drought in several regions of
the country.
Speaker 24 (20:56):
We are seeing our highest end drought D three and
D four extreme exceptional drought in ten of our eleven
Western state So if you look at those eleven Western states,
the only one that is completely free of D three
and D four at the end of July is Wyoming.
The other ten have at least a sliver of extreme
and or exceptional drought, led by in the southwest Arizona
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thirty seven percent of the state reporting extreme or exceptional
drought at the end of July, followed by New Mexico
at thirty two percent. Other Western states with double digit
D three to D four numbers or coverage at the
end of July, we see Idaho seventeen percent, Washington State
fourteen percent with D three and D four coverage, along
with Colorado at twelve percent, Nevada eleven percent, and Montana
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ten percent. To certainly drought an issue as we head
through the rest of the wildfire season in the West,
and also a concern with respect to the planting of
winter grains that will be coming up before we know
it here in a few weeks.
Speaker 23 (21:52):
Thanks for being with us. You're listening to Aglai if
I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Little drought concerned in the Midwest, the middle of crop
growing season that has.
Speaker 24 (22:02):
Gotten even better during the month of July with ample
moisture across many of our key production areas.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
With USDA b urologists Brad Ripby noting for US cord
and soybeans and drought coverage for the period ending July
twenty ninth, we.
Speaker 24 (22:16):
Are looking at some pretty incredibly low numbers for drought
coverage in the Midwest. Specifically for corn, only seven percent
of the US corn production area experiencing drought one July
twenty ninth. Soybeans even lower, just five percent of the
overall US production.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Area compared to twelve percent of corn production area and
eight percent of b production area in drought at the
beginning of July. Meanwhile, drought impacts in the northern plains
at Pacific Northwest are behind drought coverage increases for spring
planted crops in our country.
Speaker 23 (22:50):
Thanks for being with us, you're listening to ag Live.
Speaker 24 (22:53):
We still see some drought impacts for the northern planes
into the Northwest, and that has pushed the numbers higher
for some of our northwestern and northern plains springstone, small grains,
and I specifically want to mention spring wheat. We do
see at the end of July. Obviously that crop has
been hurt to some degree in some of the western
production areas Montana westward. Thirty eight percent of the US
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spring wheat production area in drought at the end of July,
and that is a market increase from what we saw
earlier in the season. So as recently as early June,
we saw just nineteen percent of the US spring wheat
production area and drought and that has doubled now by
the end of July. And that's one of the reasons
we've seen that decline and condition from Montana wester It
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has taken a bit of a toll in the crop,
a much worse looking crop for spring wheat and other
small grains in the Northwest including barley than compared to
what we saw last year. Cattle and hay numbers four
the month of July. First of all, with the diminishing
drought across the Great Plains that has really put a
dent in the amount of cattle inventory that is experiencing drought. Obviously,
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we're still seeing impact in the cattle industry from drought
that lasted for much of twenty twenty through twenty twenty four,
but at present, cattle inventory in drought for the US
only fourteen percent at the end of July, and then
HATE production area in drought at eighteen percent, So really
we are at multi year lows. You really have to
go back into the late twenty ten, specifically twenty nineteen
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to find a time when we have seen consistently low
numbers for several months during the growing season. And if
you look at that compared to what we have seen
in previous weeks, not much change overall, HATE production area
in drought down two percentage points during the month of
July from twenty to eighteen percent, and then the US
cattle inventory in drought going from eighteen percent of the
inventory in drought on July first down to fourteen percent
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of the US cattle inventory in drought toward the end
of July.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 25 (24:51):
It's doing for California agg today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. California agriculture is a major player
on the world stage, but the impact of trade goes
well beyond farmers and ranchers. A new market Intel reports
from the American Farm Bureau Federation breaks down what usag
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exports mean for the entire national economy. In twenty twenty three,
US agricultural exports totaled one hundred and seventy five point
five billion dollars. Those exports supported more than one point
zero five million full time jobs across the country, and
over half of those weren't on the farm. About five
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hundred and eighty thousand jobs were in sectors like trucking, warehousing, processing,
and shipping. These are the workers who keep the supply
chain moving and connect US agriculture to global markets. Now,
while these are national numbers, the story, of course, hits
home here in California, where ag exports move through ports, trucks,
and warehouses every single day. These jobs and transportation, logistics
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and processing are part of a much bigger picture, and
that is that agricultural trade is fueling in time higher
sectors of the economy that don't start on the farm
but wouldn't exist without it. For a look at these
latest numbers. Just to add on over to our website
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Speaker 1 (27:17):
Bob Quen, here was some farm us this morning. Friends,
Farmers and ranchers need more efficient programs for supplying labor.
Chad Smith has a first hand account from an Alabama
grower to share with us this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Difficulty finding adequate labor is a common challenge for farmers
across the US. Philip Hunter, a wholesale tree grower from
Alabamas's hired help is vital to his business's success.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
There's very little automation in the nortship business, so we
had to have labor to do almost everything we do.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
We grow landscape trees, so planting, pruning, steaking. We have
equipment to run that we need when we're harvesting, when
we're shipping, we'll have multiple crews and on many different
things at one time.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hunter's nursery uses the H two a guest worker program
to find labor. While the program has no doubt been helpful,
he says the system still needs some updates.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
It's a good program, but it's been around forty years and.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
It needs to be updated.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It needs to be streamlined, particularly the adverse effect wage
rate which we must pay. It has gone up in
Alabama thirty four percent since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Hunter says farmers can and should get involved in advocating
for changes to the labor program.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
We've been advocating three different approaches, executive action to the
Trump administration, legislative action to our congressman, and then action
through the agency, so like Department of Labor, Department of
Home Lay Security, USDA get involved there.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You can learn more at fb dot org, forward slash Labor.
Chad Smith, Washington, Well friends.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Some important parts of a typical farm bill were passed
in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Senate That
I Committee chair John Boseman of Arkansas says there's still
a lot of work to do to finish the rest
of the farm bill.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Well, reconciliation is about taxing and spending. There's a lot
of things that are just pure policy decisions that need
to be made. We need to increase the loan limits.
As I said earlier, things like that just don't work
anymore because of the way that the economy has changed
since twenty eighteen, so those are the kind of things
that we'll be looking at. We've got a great partnership
(29:30):
with Enter Klobashow. Traditionally, agriculture farm bills aren't about Democrats
or Republicans, are about different areas of the country.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
There's a lot to balance because no two areas of
the country farm in the same way.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Southern agriculture's different than the Midwest, Midwest, it's different in California,
and the Great Plains were all different. Putting all of
that together and then the various commodities, making sure everybody's represented,
everybody is taken care of. But it's not about Democrats
or Republicans. So we've got a greater relationship with our
counterparts on the committee. It's a very serious committee. So
(30:04):
we're looking forward to getting the individual members on the
committee continuing to be out and about throughout the country,
listing to people that are undergoing all the adverse effects
that are in farm country.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Right now, many farmers are on the verge of losing
their farm. So time is of the essence.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
We definitely have to get it done by the end
of the year. Certainly, the center of the Better it
is very very difficult as you describe it, and Congress
is active.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Senator John Boseman joining us this morning. Well friends, it
appears rural Americans are not as healthy as they once were.
Lori Boyer has a report.
Speaker 21 (30:39):
This is Lori Boyer for the IG Information Network. Before
World War Two, rural Americans actually had longer life expectancies
than those in urban areas thanks to active lifestyles, clean water,
and time spent outdoors, but that trend has reverse over time.
Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, explains
how and why this has shifted.
Speaker 26 (30:57):
What we've seen is slowly over time, while life expectancy
increases in urban area, it's steadily decreased in rule and Wow,
after COVID it really decreased. So it's not unusual to
see life expectancy in a rural area to be as
much as twenty years less than in a suburban area.
Speaker 21 (31:17):
And why are life expectancies lower in rural areas.
Speaker 26 (31:20):
Lack of access to healthcare first and foremost. And if
you can't get to your doctor for preventive care or
a checkup, you wait until things get really bad, and
then you go into the emergency room.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Environmental issues.
Speaker 26 (31:31):
You know, for our ranchers and farmers, that's a tough,
difficult profession to be in by itself. Then you get
into lifestyle choices, a lot of process fast food which
is easy to get and let cost less. Well, that
impacts your health. And then on top of that, you
just have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer across the board.
Speaker 21 (31:53):
Leading to small towns with high health needs and the
inability to seek care due to lack of providers and
or affordability factor.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Farm us. This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
A harvest of Gala apples has started in California's Central Valley,
with the fruit hitting store shelves last week. Because California
starts picking apples several weeks before Washington State, the nation's
leading apple producer, providing the first fresh apple of the
year is a key selling point. Unlike the Evergreen State,
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which keeps its apples in cold storage and sells them
long after harvest, Golden State apples are picked, packed and
shipped fresh. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
announced it will no longer conduct a national Environmental Policy
Act Analysis when approving genetically engineered seeds. APHIS regulates genetically
engineered organisms, and those regulations allow them to grant unregulated
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status to a ge seed if the plant grown from
it would not pose a greater pest risk than a
similar organism. That means it could be easier to bring
new ge seeds to the market. The USDA's National agg
Statistics Service and partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
is reaching out to farmers, ranchers, and agricultural landowners to
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gather in depth information about the conservation practices they use.
Nearly twenty three thousand operators nationwide will receive the twenty
twenty five Conservation Effects Assessment Project Survey. Eligible farmers and
landowners may be contacted between November and March of twenty
twenty six and asked to participate.
Speaker 21 (33:25):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on road.
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffics share the
same space, whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor
or a car.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
Here's what you need to remember.
Speaker 21 (33:36):
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves.
Farmers make sure your slow moving vehicles. Signs and lights
are visible and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One
moment 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.
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Speaker 15 (34:24):
From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob quin here to wrap up AGG Live
for today. Friends Well symptoms of red crown rot now
appearing in commercial soybean fields. Todd Gleeson has our final report.
Speaker 27 (34:39):
Tell me about red crown rot as a disease. What
is it so?
Speaker 28 (34:43):
Red conrody is a new and emerging disease here in
the Midwest is a soilbone disease. It's causing some ear
reductions in commercial fields. Is spreading was first detected in
twenty eighteen in Pike County, but now it's spread throughout
the states and every season we report new counties with
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the disease. And once you have the disease in a field,
it's a pathrogen that can produce some resistant structors called
my croatia that will remain in the soil and we
will cause infections the photowing seasons. And this is why
when we highlight a county in our maps to keep
track of the disease, we just keep it highlighted because
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there are high chances that you will hit the problem
again the following seasons.
Speaker 27 (35:32):
When I took a look at that map on Crop
Protection Network dot org, it showed Illinois as primarily the
place in the Midwest that has red crown rot. Do
we know why that's the case?
Speaker 28 (35:46):
Yeah, no, Actually we don't. What you see in the
map is how we were able to keep track of
the disease. So this disease can cause symptoms that can
be very similar to those caused by others. This is
that is called sudden syndrome. Which is a very well established.
This is in solvents in the Midwest, so there is
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a chance that for years this disease has been dianosed
as a sudden the syndrome.
Speaker 27 (36:18):
It is called red crown rot for a reason. Can
you give me that how farmers and others might be
able to identify it in the field.
Speaker 28 (36:26):
Yeah, So it's called redcround rod because it will go
a red disk coloration at the base, at the stem base,
and this discoloration can be noticed or observed even during
the vegetative stages. Then more close to R one you
can start seeing the foilier symptoms, although they are more
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common between our three and R five. So we need
to be very careful with the dinos and we always
encourage everybody to send samples to our plant clinic that
in just a couple of days can give the right diagnose.
Speaker 27 (37:02):
Is there a reason to treat for this, whether it
be in the field already or prior to its existence
in the field.
Speaker 28 (37:12):
So this is for this disease without have any folier
fundicize so far that can help you to control the disease.
So there is no match that we can do in
season with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends, arount of time for today. Thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition, A Bad Life
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,
agriculture has many stresses and many ways of dealing with those.
Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stress, whether it comes from one or several sources life, home, health, work, relationships, finances, certainty, messages, well,
you get the idea. Most of us have sub level
of stress we deal with occasionally, if not regularly. That's
why David Brown of Iowa State University Extension suggest.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's really really important for everyone to really start thinking
a little bit more about what they need to do
to take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
A further explanation of why self care is needed involves.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
We're all pretty good at maybe helping others or maybe
helping a friend or family member. We've forget about ourselves sometimes,
So there's some really great research based strategies out there
that we can do and make part of that really
help us take care of ourselves as well.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Brown says perhaps the best way to help reduce stress
is increase physical activity.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
If you're not getting one hundred and fifty minutes a
week of good aerobic activity. You might want to look
at buying a treadmill, joining a gym, things like that,
because there's so many great benefits of physical activity. You
approves sleep quality, reduces blood pressure, reduces risk of developing dementia.
It actually reduces eight different types of cancers or risk
great different type of cancers.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
More aerobic activity, as Brown just mentioned, can be one
contributor to another's stress reduction technique. A good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now, I know there's certain times of the year that
that may not be possible, but we really recommend getting
seven to nine hours of sleep. The benefits of doing that.
It improves mood, helps with memory, talking to thinking, helps
to manage stress. So I can't really emphasize the importance
of getting a good night's sleep to some.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Improving social connectiveness may seem counterintuitive in reducing specific stresses
in their lives, but as Brown explayed.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Spending time with family, friends, volunteering a different site, working
with the church's schools, volunteering different places. We need to
belong to different groups to get our social connectedness because
that's one of the primary ways to reduce risk of
societal behavior is being connected with other people.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Possessing and expressing a positive attitude also is a stress reducer.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That means pressing gratitude not only to others, but also
we need to be grateful for ourselves, keep our perspective
about all the good things that we do and we're.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
About, and not what Brown calls catastrophizing, worry about the
worst case scenario of a situation that most likely never occurs.
What other self care tip implement relaxation strategies.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It could be having a hobby that we simply enjoy,
maybe doing some deep breathings and mindfulness meditation and repetitive prayer.
What do we do that we can utilize that helps
us to relax, kind of lower blood pressure, relax our
body a little bit because that reduces the levels of
frustration and proof folks mood and improved and muscle catching,
all those things.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Broadbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
D C.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, Friends, will have a report from one congressman stressing
the importance of continuing work on a new farm bill
that's ahead on aglife. Bob Quinn, here was some farm
use this morning. Friends. Farmers and ranchers need more efficient
programs for supplying labor. Chad Smith has a first hand
account from an Alabama grower to share with us this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Difficulty finding adequate labor is a common challenge for farmers
across the US. Philip Hunter, a wholesale tree grower from Alabamas,
his hired help is vital to his business's success.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
There's very little automation in the inertship business, so we
had to have labor to do almost everything we do.
We grow landscape trees, so.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Planting, running, steaking, we have equipment to run that we
need when we're harvesting, when we're shipping, we'll have multiple
crews working on me any different things at one time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Hunter's nursery uses the H two, a guest worker program
to find labor. While the program has no doubt been helpful,
he says the system still needs some updates.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's a good program, but it's been around forty years
and it needs to be updated. It needs to be streamlined,
particularly the adverse effect wage rate which we must pay.
It has gone up in Alabama thirty four percent since
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hunter says farmers can and should get involved in advocating
for changes to the labor program.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
We've been advocating three different approaches, executive action to the
Trump administration, legislative action through our congressman, and then action
through the agency, so like Department of Labor, Department of
Home Lay Security, USDA get involved there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You can learn more at fb dot org, forward Slash Labor,
Chad Smith, Washington, Well friends.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Some important parts of a typical farm bill were passed
in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Senate I
Committee Chair John Boseman of Arkansas says there's still a
lot of work to do to finish the rest of
the farm bill.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well, reconciliation is about taxing and spending. There's a lot
of things that are just pure policy decisions that need
to be made. We need to increase the loan limits.
As I said earlier, things like that just don't work
anymore because of the way that the economy has changed
since twenty eighteen. So those are the kind of things
that we'll be looking at. We've got a great partnership
(05:30):
with Center Klobashow. Traditionally, agriculture farm bills aren't about Democrats
or Republicans, are about different areas of the country.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
There's a lot to balance because no two areas of
the country farm in the same way.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Southern agriculture is different than the Midwest, Midwest, it's different
in California, and the Great Plains were all different. Putting
all of that together and then the various commodities, making
sure everybody's represented, everybody is taken care of. But it's
not about Democrats or Republicans. So we've got a great
relationship with our counterparts on the committee. It's a very
serious committee. So we're looking forward to getting the individual
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members on the committee continuing to be out and about
throughout the country, listing to people that are undergoing all
the adverse effects that are in farm country.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right now, many farmers are on the verge of losing
their farm. So time is of the essence.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
We definitely have to get it done by the end
of the year, certainly at the center of the better.
It is very, very difficult, as you describe it, and
Congress has acted. If you remember at the end of
last year, it was a very difficult time then, and
we were able to provide ten billion dollars worth of
economic aid, which was kind of unheard, along with that
twenty billion dollars of disasterate thirty billion dollars total, which
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is a tremendous amount of money. And that was because
farmers made the case. The landers made the case that
without doing that, we were going to have a very
very difficult situation. Now we're into this year and sadly
things have not gotten any better.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Senator John Boseman joining us this morning. The mission is
to same, but there's a new name for the US
Grains Council. After sixty five years, it's now to be
the US Grains and Bioproducts Council. Nebraska corn grower Jay
Reiners is vice chair of the organization and said it's
about positioning the Council to get recognized as a leader
(07:18):
in more than grains.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Not only are we producing ethanol out of these ethanol plants,
but we're gaining so much more products that are being
derived from ethanol and corn products, you know, like for example,
we're getting plastics, we're getting chemical biochemicals being made. Now,
that's what we changed their name, so it just kind
of flows in with what our mission.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Is again, the new name US Grains and Bioproducts Council.
Farmer News this morning, you're listening to ag.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Life it's another agnews update, President Trump ordering twenty five
percent tariffs on Indian imports more after this.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
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Speaker 9 (08:25):
Today, President Trump announcing a twenty five percent tariff on
Indian goods, citing India's high farm tariffs and trade barriers.
Reuters reporting AG remains a core issue that's derailling progress
toward bilateral trade deals between the two countries. US negotiators
(08:47):
have pushed for greater access to India's ag, ethanol, dairy,
and medical markets. India, though resisting, arguing that opening its
markets to subsidized US farm goods the livelihoods of millions
of small farmers. US farm exports like corn, soybeans, cotton,
and ethanol excluded from recent talks. India's average terrif rate
(09:11):
on ag imports thirty nine percent, US imports five percent.
Some farm duties are as high as fifty percent according
to the White House, and the Trump administration has repeatedly
cited the barriers as an obstacle to deeper trade ties.
With trade talk stalled, Indian exporters now face rising levees
(09:36):
across a broader range of goods. I'm totally Saint Shames.
It's another AGEWS update.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
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me on a roller coaster? Well, we do have a
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Speaker 9 (10:13):
American cattle news packer margins are in the red. What's next?
More after this?
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Speaker 9 (10:52):
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Speaker 14 (10:56):
Last week's slaughter five hundred and forty nine thousand head.
That's down fourteen thousand week on week, and down substantially
from the same week last year, which was six hundred
and five thousand, so again kind of reinforcing the supply
side tightness. We'll see where cash wants to trade this week.
Last week generally higher about one to four bucks depending
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on the region, even though the five area waited average
ended up a little bit lower. Box beef prices settled
lower about three sixty six seventy ish. That was down
from about three seventy three and a half the prior week,
and that just kind of indicates at the moment a
bit slower beef demand at the higher prices. We'll see
(11:38):
if that continues as a pattern. Packers I believe are
working in the red still, so you know, there's only
so long that that can happen until some kind of
market adjustment needs to occur, either with higher box beef
prices or lower cash in order to bring things back
into the green for them. So we'll see how that
plays out. Other impacts in the cattle market, we're watching
(12:01):
export competition. I guess it's leaning slightly bearish at the moment.
Argentina just lowered its beef export tax from six and
a half percent to five percent. That could make them
a little bit more competitive in the global market. And
being that there hasn't been any really new news to
clearly associate any kind of tariff for trade talks to
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beef in any wide fashion, I don't see that the
export market is going to be doing any better than
we already expected to do, so we'll see how that
plays out.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 15 (12:42):
This is Dairy Radio Now, a rundown of the latest
dairy news across America.
Speaker 16 (12:53):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for Feedbrick's USA with
Professor Tom Overton, who is Department chair at Animal Science.
We're glad to be with you at the Corner Electrition Conference.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Hey, John, great to with you too, So tell us a.
Speaker 16 (13:04):
Little bit about the conference because this is one of
the crown jewels of animal science.
Speaker 17 (13:07):
Yeah, this has been going I think about eighty five
years now, cornerleutritiony conference We've got I would say we're
one of the leading conferences in the country, if not
the leading. We attract an international audience, so folks do
live from the Northeast, but also across the country and
across the globe.
Speaker 16 (13:19):
That's interesting, and they come here for various reasons, Right,
what are some reasons people really want to be at
CNC And.
Speaker 17 (13:25):
I think I think they would be here at CNC
because this is really really where the leading in science
is presented, and so you know, they come here kind
of the sea things. First, we attract not only our
own speakers in Cornell, but kind of leading folks from
around the country and around the world. And again it's
really a heavy feed industry, nutrition based audience. And again
the nutritions here to learn new ideas and then take
back to work with their farms.
Speaker 16 (13:46):
Let's just talk a little bit about that, because truly,
there are a lot of nutritionists who attend this conference,
a lot of research being presented here, but it does
get back to those dairy farms.
Speaker 17 (13:54):
Right absolutely, that's the whole point, you know, it's the
whole point with what we do here. And again this
morning was about you know, new things is related to
to you know, such a feed add as is used
to enhance fermental function. We talked a lot about hepocalcemia
or a little bout calcium this afternoon and vitamin D
aspects of that not only for the cow, but also
for the human. And so we also spend not only
the you know, bring in some topics really to human
(14:15):
health as.
Speaker 16 (14:15):
Well multi species. So as a researcher, you get hit
with a lot of request to your research. How do
you set out which projects you want to pick?
Speaker 17 (14:22):
Well, I think again, you know, it really kind of
comes back to our landgrad mission, right, So the things
that we think are going to bring most value to
our farms, and that's really what comes down to, you know,
if we can't see in a project that where it
might bring value to our dairy farmers, to our nutritionists,
to others in the in the in the dairy industry,
and we're just not interested.
Speaker 16 (14:38):
And CNC is also a great place for networking, right absolutely.
Speaker 17 (14:42):
I think as you saw this year the halls are loud, right,
people are interacting a lot. I think people are super
excited again to be back doing life is normal.
Speaker 16 (14:49):
Yeah, post pandemic. We're back to almost normal levels where
you were before.
Speaker 17 (14:53):
Right, Yeah, we are. Numbers are just slightly down, you know.
I think that also reflects too, We've got, you know,
some some demographic changes in the industry and different ways.
But you know, we feel really good where we're at
compared to what we hear about some other conferences that
are actually down a fair amount.
Speaker 16 (15:05):
And companies come and sponsor the pre conference symposium too, fair.
Speaker 17 (15:08):
Yeah, absolutely, And again you know, we we have multiple
companies each year that that essentially they apply for the
opportunity to be the pre conference sponsor, so they have
to put forth a proposal and then we as an
organized committee choose which one that we think is it
will bring most value.
Speaker 16 (15:22):
And again, for you, you heard a lot of great
topics today, and just just go back over that just
a little bit. Which ones highlighted, which ones you really
trip your triggers?
Speaker 17 (15:30):
Yeah, you know, again, the the you know, a couple
of things right, you know, the environmental stuff is still
you know, let to be played out in a lot
of ways we're going to be strong in that area.
I think that that that clearly the greenhouse gas space,
you know, finding wins for the for for not only
the environment, but also for the farmer and that's really
important to us as well. And so having that capacity
at Cornell where we can do that and kind of
laying that out today, and it's really neat to kind
(15:52):
of come together. It's been something that that we we've
kind of been been forecasting in the last several years.
But it's nice see it come together.
Speaker 16 (15:58):
And as department chair, we've got to get a little
plug for the department and students coming in there. Yeah,
you know, students are a lifeblood, right and so you know,
the animal science major continues to grow at Cornell. The
dairy programs the strongests in the country. From my perspective,
of course, I play for the home team. Okay, you
got to forgive me on that, John, But again, you know,
we we're all about bringing in great students and helping
them have a great experience. Just a little bit about
(16:18):
the day fellows program because that's pretty unique.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (16:21):
Again, it's continued to be kind of the you know,
really the only program is kind of the country and
and it's sort of a capstone program where our students
put together the whole, the whole banana from from the
production management, through business management, through family transition, through business transitions,
through strategy. You know, all those things come into play.
Speaker 16 (16:36):
And also a strong Dairy Science.
Speaker 17 (16:37):
Club absolutely, you know, we have I have almost one
hundred members of the club. You know, the club does
a sale every year. We go international trips to Italy
and last year to Germany as well, you know, depending
on what where students are in the program. And so
the trips trips are great experience for students see things
that they wouldn't see otherwise.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
Professor Tom Overton at the Cornell Nutrition Conference, Thanks for
being with us today.
Speaker 13 (16:57):
Thanks John.
Speaker 16 (16:58):
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Speaker 11 (17:31):
When it comes to tree nuts being exported, and many
of those tree nuts are widely exported around the world,
these tariffs that the administration is put in place has
got a lot of uncertainty for their sales. I'm Patrick
Cavanaugh with the California tree Nut Report, part of the
vastag Information Network. Ryan Jacobson is CEO of the Fresno
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County Farm Bureau.
Speaker 19 (17:53):
It's a big driving factor right now. We are, you know,
when it comes to what's going on the administration side,
we're supportive of the concept of you know that the
administration really wants to protect American farmers. They want to
make sure that American farmers aren't forgotten about that. We
are at the top of the priority list and so
we're very appreciative of that. But in getting to that final.
Speaker 20 (18:13):
Result, Jacobson did say, you know, that's not going easy,
and there is a little pain out there.
Speaker 19 (18:18):
You know, we're seeing some pain, potentially some additional pain,
and so it's just a matter of you know, hopefully
the pain is short lived, but the long term benefit
does pay off handsomely.
Speaker 20 (18:27):
Hopefully in more tree nut news now that alm in
harvest is ongoing. The processors definitely want cleaner nuts, and
to do that you need to condition the nuts. Use
if a conditioner makes a big difference in the quality
of the incoming nuts. Unblemish kernels are the goal. Processors
also want cleaner loads, less debris, and the loads prevents
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kernels from being scuffed up in the process. Unblemished kernels
are the goal, so take the time to make sure
you're delivering quality.
Speaker 21 (18:56):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
the road. Every year, accidents happened when tractors and traffics
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. One moment
(19:18):
a caution can save a life. Let's work together to
keep our roads and are farm safe. This message was
brought to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 22 (19:26):
For the last forty years, the AG Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
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reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 23 (19:58):
Welcome to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley with your farm news.
Speaker 24 (20:03):
Mostly good news on the drought front, unless you're in
the Western United States.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The submary from the latest edition of the US Drought Monitor.
USDA burologist Brad Rippey says, month over a month.
Speaker 24 (20:14):
As of July twenty ninth, we have just a shade
over thirty one percent of the continental United States in
drought thirty one point zero two percent. That is down
about one point four percentage points from what we saw
at the beginning of July four weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
However, deteriorating conditions occurred in the West during July.
Speaker 24 (20:32):
By July twenty ninth, more than two thirds of the
eleven state Western Region sixty seven percent experiencing drought. That
is up from sixty four and a half percent, an
increase of almost three percentage points from the first of July.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That deterioration most noted in the Pacific Northwest Rippyad's Western drought, though,
has been offset by shrinking drought in several regions of
the country.
Speaker 24 (20:56):
We are seeing our highest end drought D three and
D four extreme exceptional drought in ten of our eleven
Western state So if you look at those eleven Western states,
the only one that is completely free of D three
and D four at the end of July is Wyoming.
The other ten have at least a sliver of extreme
and or exceptional drought, led by in the southwest Arizona
(21:18):
thirty seven percent of the state reporting extreme or exceptional
drought at the end of July, followed by New Mexico
at thirty two percent. Other Western states with double digit
D three to D four numbers or coverage at the
end of July, we see Idaho seventeen percent, Washington State
fourteen percent with D three and D four coverage, along
with Colorado at twelve percent, Nevada eleven percent, and Montana
(21:40):
ten percent. To certainly drought an issue as we head
through the rest of the wildfire season in the West,
and also a concern with respect to the planting of
winter grains that will be coming up before we know
it here in a few weeks.
Speaker 23 (21:52):
Thanks for being with us. You're listening to Aglai if
I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Little drought concerned in the Midwest, the middle of crop
growing season that has.
Speaker 24 (22:02):
Gotten even better during the month of July with ample
moisture across many of our key production areas.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
With USDA b urologists Brad Ripby noting for US cord
and soybeans and drought coverage for the period ending July
twenty ninth, we.
Speaker 24 (22:16):
Are looking at some pretty incredibly low numbers for drought
coverage in the Midwest. Specifically for corn, only seven percent
of the US corn production area experiencing drought one July
twenty ninth. Soybeans even lower, just five percent of the
overall US production.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Area compared to twelve percent of corn production area and
eight percent of b production area in drought at the
beginning of July. Meanwhile, drought impacts in the northern plains
at Pacific Northwest are behind drought coverage increases for spring
planted crops in our country.
Speaker 23 (22:50):
Thanks for being with us, you're listening to ag Live.
Speaker 24 (22:53):
We still see some drought impacts for the northern planes
into the Northwest, and that has pushed the numbers higher
for some of our northwestern and northern plains springstone, small grains,
and I specifically want to mention spring wheat. We do
see at the end of July. Obviously that crop has
been hurt to some degree in some of the western
production areas Montana westward. Thirty eight percent of the US
(23:16):
spring wheat production area in drought at the end of July,
and that is a market increase from what we saw
earlier in the season. So as recently as early June,
we saw just nineteen percent of the US spring wheat
production area and drought and that has doubled now by
the end of July. And that's one of the reasons
we've seen that decline and condition from Montana wester It
(23:38):
has taken a bit of a toll in the crop,
a much worse looking crop for spring wheat and other
small grains in the Northwest including barley than compared to
what we saw last year. Cattle and hay numbers four
the month of July. First of all, with the diminishing
drought across the Great Plains that has really put a
dent in the amount of cattle inventory that is experiencing drought. Obviously,
(23:59):
we're still seeing impact in the cattle industry from drought
that lasted for much of twenty twenty through twenty twenty four,
but at present, cattle inventory in drought for the US
only fourteen percent at the end of July, and then
HATE production area in drought at eighteen percent, So really
we are at multi year lows. You really have to
go back into the late twenty ten, specifically twenty nineteen
(24:20):
to find a time when we have seen consistently low
numbers for several months during the growing season. And if
you look at that compared to what we have seen
in previous weeks, not much change overall, HATE production area
in drought down two percentage points during the month of
July from twenty to eighteen percent, and then the US
cattle inventory in drought going from eighteen percent of the
inventory in drought on July first down to fourteen percent
(24:42):
of the US cattle inventory in drought toward the end
of July.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 25 (24:51):
It's doing for California agg today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. California agriculture is a major player
on the world stage, but the impact of trade goes
well beyond farmers and ranchers. A new market Intel reports
from the American Farm Bureau Federation breaks down what usag
(25:11):
exports mean for the entire national economy. In twenty twenty three,
US agricultural exports totaled one hundred and seventy five point
five billion dollars. Those exports supported more than one point
zero five million full time jobs across the country, and
over half of those weren't on the farm. About five
(25:31):
hundred and eighty thousand jobs were in sectors like trucking, warehousing, processing,
and shipping. These are the workers who keep the supply
chain moving and connect US agriculture to global markets. Now,
while these are national numbers, the story, of course, hits
home here in California, where ag exports move through ports, trucks,
and warehouses every single day. These jobs and transportation, logistics
(25:54):
and processing are part of a much bigger picture, and
that is that agricultural trade is fueling in time higher
sectors of the economy that don't start on the farm
but wouldn't exist without it. For a look at these
latest numbers. Just to add on over to our website
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Speaker 1 (27:17):
Bob Quen, here was some farm us this morning. Friends,
Farmers and ranchers need more efficient programs for supplying labor.
Chad Smith has a first hand account from an Alabama
grower to share with us this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Difficulty finding adequate labor is a common challenge for farmers
across the US. Philip Hunter, a wholesale tree grower from
Alabamas's hired help is vital to his business's success.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
There's very little automation in the nortship business, so we
had to have labor to do almost everything we do.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
We grow landscape trees, so planting, pruning, steaking. We have
equipment to run that we need when we're harvesting, when
we're shipping, we'll have multiple crews and on many different
things at one time.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hunter's nursery uses the H two a guest worker program
to find labor. While the program has no doubt been helpful,
he says the system still needs some updates.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
It's a good program, but it's been around forty years and.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
It needs to be updated.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It needs to be streamlined, particularly the adverse effect wage
rate which we must pay. It has gone up in
Alabama thirty four percent since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Hunter says farmers can and should get involved in advocating
for changes to the labor program.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
We've been advocating three different approaches, executive action to the
Trump administration, legislative action to our congressman, and then action
through the agency, so like Department of Labor, Department of
Home Lay Security, USDA get involved there.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You can learn more at fb dot org, forward slash Labor.
Chad Smith, Washington, Well friends.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Some important parts of a typical farm bill were passed
in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Senate That
I Committee chair John Boseman of Arkansas says there's still
a lot of work to do to finish the rest
of the farm bill.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Well, reconciliation is about taxing and spending. There's a lot
of things that are just pure policy decisions that need
to be made. We need to increase the loan limits.
As I said earlier, things like that just don't work
anymore because of the way that the economy has changed
since twenty eighteen, so those are the kind of things
that we'll be looking at. We've got a great partnership
(29:30):
with Enter Klobashow. Traditionally, agriculture farm bills aren't about Democrats
or Republicans, are about different areas of the country.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
There's a lot to balance because no two areas of
the country farm in the same way.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Southern agriculture's different than the Midwest, Midwest, it's different in California,
and the Great Plains were all different. Putting all of
that together and then the various commodities, making sure everybody's represented,
everybody is taken care of. But it's not about Democrats
or Republicans. So we've got a greater relationship with our
counterparts on the committee. It's a very serious committee. So
(30:04):
we're looking forward to getting the individual members on the
committee continuing to be out and about throughout the country,
listing to people that are undergoing all the adverse effects
that are in farm country.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Right now, many farmers are on the verge of losing
their farm. So time is of the essence.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
We definitely have to get it done by the end
of the year. Certainly, the center of the Better it
is very very difficult as you describe it, and Congress
is active.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Senator John Boseman joining us this morning. Well friends, it
appears rural Americans are not as healthy as they once were.
Lori Boyer has a report.
Speaker 21 (30:39):
This is Lori Boyer for the IG Information Network. Before
World War Two, rural Americans actually had longer life expectancies
than those in urban areas thanks to active lifestyles, clean water,
and time spent outdoors, but that trend has reverse over time.
Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, explains
how and why this has shifted.
Speaker 26 (30:57):
What we've seen is slowly over time, while life expectancy
increases in urban area, it's steadily decreased in rule and Wow,
after COVID it really decreased. So it's not unusual to
see life expectancy in a rural area to be as
much as twenty years less than in a suburban area.
Speaker 21 (31:17):
And why are life expectancies lower in rural areas.
Speaker 26 (31:20):
Lack of access to healthcare first and foremost. And if
you can't get to your doctor for preventive care or
a checkup, you wait until things get really bad, and
then you go into the emergency room.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Environmental issues.
Speaker 26 (31:31):
You know, for our ranchers and farmers, that's a tough,
difficult profession to be in by itself. Then you get
into lifestyle choices, a lot of process fast food which
is easy to get and let cost less. Well, that
impacts your health. And then on top of that, you
just have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer across the board.
Speaker 21 (31:53):
Leading to small towns with high health needs and the
inability to seek care due to lack of providers and
or affordability factor.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Farm us. This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
A harvest of Gala apples has started in California's Central Valley,
with the fruit hitting store shelves last week. Because California
starts picking apples several weeks before Washington State, the nation's
leading apple producer, providing the first fresh apple of the
year is a key selling point. Unlike the Evergreen State,
(32:25):
which keeps its apples in cold storage and sells them
long after harvest, Golden State apples are picked, packed and
shipped fresh. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
announced it will no longer conduct a national Environmental Policy
Act Analysis when approving genetically engineered seeds. APHIS regulates genetically
engineered organisms, and those regulations allow them to grant unregulated
(32:48):
status to a ge seed if the plant grown from
it would not pose a greater pest risk than a
similar organism. That means it could be easier to bring
new ge seeds to the market. The USDA's National agg
Statistics Service and partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
is reaching out to farmers, ranchers, and agricultural landowners to
(33:08):
gather in depth information about the conservation practices they use.
Nearly twenty three thousand operators nationwide will receive the twenty
twenty five Conservation Effects Assessment Project Survey. Eligible farmers and
landowners may be contacted between November and March of twenty
twenty six and asked to participate.
Speaker 21 (33:25):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on road.
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffics share the
same space, whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor
or a car.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
Here's what you need to remember.
Speaker 21 (33:36):
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves.
Farmers make sure your slow moving vehicles. Signs and lights
are visible and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One
moment 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 22 (33:55):
For over forty years, the AAG Information Network has been
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
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mean the most to you online at agginfo dot net.
The Egg Information Network trusted and transparent journalism lasting for
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Speaker 15 (34:24):
From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob quin here to wrap up AGG Live
for today. Friends Well symptoms of red crown rot now
appearing in commercial soybean fields. Todd Gleeson has our final report.
Speaker 27 (34:39):
Tell me about red crown rot as a disease. What
is it so?
Speaker 28 (34:43):
Red conrody is a new and emerging disease here in
the Midwest is a soilbone disease. It's causing some ear
reductions in commercial fields. Is spreading was first detected in
twenty eighteen in Pike County, but now it's spread throughout
the states and every season we report new counties with
(35:04):
the disease. And once you have the disease in a field,
it's a pathrogen that can produce some resistant structors called
my croatia that will remain in the soil and we
will cause infections the photowing seasons. And this is why
when we highlight a county in our maps to keep
track of the disease, we just keep it highlighted because
(35:26):
there are high chances that you will hit the problem
again the following seasons.
Speaker 27 (35:32):
When I took a look at that map on Crop
Protection Network dot org, it showed Illinois as primarily the
place in the Midwest that has red crown rot. Do
we know why that's the case?
Speaker 28 (35:46):
Yeah, no, Actually we don't. What you see in the
map is how we were able to keep track of
the disease. So this disease can cause symptoms that can
be very similar to those caused by others. This is
that is called sudden syndrome. Which is a very well established.
This is in solvents in the Midwest, so there is
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a chance that for years this disease has been dianosed
as a sudden the syndrome.
Speaker 27 (36:18):
It is called red crown rot for a reason. Can
you give me that how farmers and others might be
able to identify it in the field.
Speaker 28 (36:26):
Yeah, So it's called redcround rod because it will go
a red disk coloration at the base, at the stem base,
and this discoloration can be noticed or observed even during
the vegetative stages. Then more close to R one you
can start seeing the foilier symptoms, although they are more
(36:48):
common between our three and R five. So we need
to be very careful with the dinos and we always
encourage everybody to send samples to our plant clinic that
in just a couple of days can give the right diagnose.
Speaker 27 (37:02):
Is there a reason to treat for this, whether it
be in the field already or prior to its existence
in the field.
Speaker 28 (37:12):
So this is for this disease without have any folier
fundicize so far that can help you to control the disease.
So there is no match that we can do in
season with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends, arount of time for today. Thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition, A Bad Life
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