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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. Latest
drought monitor map out Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The first US drought monitor of December showed improvement from
just two weeks prior, add from mid October. Usda be
urologist Brad Rippey says, for the US Drought Monitor for
the period ending December second.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We are seeing about forty one point four percent of
the country still in drought. We are seeing drought coverage
down approximately five percentage points. We were greater than forty
six percent both on October twenty first and November eighteen.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Rippy acknowledges the forty one percent drought coverage remains a
formidable number.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We have seen US draw coverage greater than forty percent
each week since mid September of twenty twenty five, so
it certainly has been an autumn where we have been
dealing with considerable drought on the landscape.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yet precipitation in recent weeks has chipped away at the
drought number over the fall. What does this mean for
those crops and commodities view this type of year. In
drought coverage, rippy starts with winter wheat now in the
dorbency stage in several parts of the country.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Currently, we're seeing just about thirty five percent of the
US winter wheat production area in drought. That is actually
down ten percentage points from an autumn peak of forty
five percent, so we have seen improvement in the right direction.
A lot of that is due to beneficial precipitation that
has fallen across the lower Midwest and the Northwest into
a lesser degree some of the rain that has recently
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fallen across the southern Plains. Adversely, sixty five percent of
the winter wheat production area is not in drought, and
that does include a lot of the key heavily cropped
areas across the central Great Plains, including much of top
producer Kansas.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
As for drought coverage for hay and catalyas of December second,
thirty percent.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Of US hay production area currently in drought, down from
a peak just two weeks ago of thirty seven percent,
and battle inventory and drought. Just one quarter of the
US cattle currently experiencing drought. That is down from thirty
three percent two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Courted soybee growing season is long pass God, but what
about growing areas going into the winter season.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We are going in thirty percent of both the corn
and soybean production areas in drought. That is down from
peaks a few weeks ago, thirty two percent for corn
thirty nine percent for Soybean's Remember, we did have that
late developing drought that did have some impact in some
of the later developing crop areas.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, friends, a new aid package was announced by the President.
It will impact mostly row crop agriculture. We'll take a
look at that story and more ahead on today's edition
of Bag Life, Bob when here are some farm news
this morning, friends, President Trump and USDA Secretary Brook Rowlins
have ended weeks of suspense on details of a multi
(02:59):
billion dollar farm aid package, but not before an unscripted
difference took Trump by surprise. It started with Trump making
the initial White House announcement of farm aid from tariff revenues.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmers. This relief
will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get
this year's harvest to market and look ahead to next
year's crops.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But suddenly Secretary Rollins had a different number.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
We are very.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Pleased to announce that today we are going to be
effectuating an eleven billion dollar bridge payment to our farmers.
The money will move by February twenty eighth of twenty
twenty six, but by the end of this month, So
just in the next couple of weeks, every farmer that
is able to apply for it will know exactly what
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that number looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The President tried to correct Rodins, but to no avail
t billion.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, we're holding one billion back. So today we are
announcing eleven billion. We are holding one billion back just
to ensure that we are covering.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Rodin said, the backage you will cast a wide net
among crops, all of.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Our road crops, but some specialty crops and others that
we are still working with to best understand where they
are in the farm economy.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Trump stressed help for soybean producers hit hard by China's
import ban. Meanwhile, farmer's sentiment improved in November. The Purdue
University CME Group's AGGI Economy Barometer rose last month, and
Purdue professor emeritus James Mintered went through some of the findings.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
The Economy Barometer Index rose ten points to reading of
one thirty nine, but that still leaves the index nineteen
points lower than it was in May, which was the
index's high point so far in twenty twenty five. Current
condition indecks fell two points to reading of one twenty eight.
That leaves the November current Condition indecks eighteen points below
the twenty twenty five peak of one forty six back
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in May. Farm Financial Performance Index rows fourteen points in
November two U ninety two, taking the index back near
where it was in late summer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Farmers aren't quite as optimistic about expanding their operations.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
The Farm Captain Investment Index fell six points to reading
of fifty six. The percentage of respondents who chose good
times fell to sixteen percent. That's down for twenty four
percent who chose that in October. Well, the percentage who
chose a bad time to make investments fell two points
to a reading of sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
James Minter, Purdue University, joining us Kevin Rasmus a National
Pork Board member from the Midwest, says the new checkof
funded industry supported Taste What Pork Can Do consumer brand
campaign is making pork more relatable and irrelevant for today's consumer,
shifting it from a special occasion protein to an everyday
convenience item for busy consumers. For example, retailers offer a
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wide range of fresh pork, as well as popular further
processed products that can be prepared by air frying, roasting, grilling,
or smoking in a pan, and even some pre packaged meals.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
But the new products that are coming out from where
retailers are so exciting. One of our local retailers has
a prepared barbecued boneless ribs that you just heat them
up in the microwave for three minutes. Another one the
local retailer has some flavored carneadas and it's just like
a pulled pork. Heat it in the microwave for three
minutes and it's tasteful. It's got everything that this ad
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campaign has been talking about, and now we're actually seeing
these new products.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The National Pork Board launched the campaign back in May,
but the checkof funded research, planning and implementation involved several
members of the supply chain. After all, all rising tides
lift all ships.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
This is what we've been asking for for several years,
and now we're seeing it happen. National Pork Board can't
do this. The retailer, the further processor needs to do this,
but they need to be motivated to do this. And
that was one of the great things about the ad
campaign was we got all these processors together and said,
how do you want to do this? And they all
bought into it, and they were excited to take part
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in this.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Driving and increasing the long term value of pork as
a goal of the National Pork Board's strategic plan. Rasmussen
speaks on behalf of his fellow board members.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
The conversation in the boardroom is not woe me anymore.
It's like, what else can we do with our new
strategic plan. We've stayed very focused and the board has
stayed very, very focused. And that's another very exciting thing
to me as a board member is we're not wandering
off in the weeds anymore. We're staying focused. We're going
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to invest in deliverables that mean something to the producer
at the farm gate level, and that's very, very exciting
to me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Talking pork This morning some farm news. You're listening to
ag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
It's another agnews update. Producers watching exports signals closely. Is
China steps back into the sorgam market more after this?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance, a
food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by them on Santo Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(08:17):
I encourage all farmers to general for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit Grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
USDA's latest export inspection showing mixed green movement last week,
but China's first sorgham shipment of the season stands out
as a potential demand shift heading into December. Total sorghum
inspections one point eight million bushels. China listed as an
interior sourced buyer. It's a development that historically drives basis
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changes across Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. Corn lead overall
volumes at fifty five point nine million bushels, but slip
from the prior week, while soybean inspections fell sharply to
thirty three point eight million bushels. Wheat held near fourteen
point one in Derry. US Milk production continues to climb
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up three point six percent from August through October as
both cow numbers and per cow output improved, but Class one, three,
and four prices all posting deep year over year declines,
tightening margins ahead of twenty twenty six, and globally, WTO's
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latest Goods Trade barometer signal slower growth for ag raw materials.
It's another AG news update.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
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Speaker 12 (09:46):
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Speaker 11 (10:02):
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Speaker 9 (10:13):
American Cattle News Today highlights from a recent Beef Reproduction
task Force meeting. More after this.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
American Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Beyer. As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(10:43):
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Doctor Sandy Johnson is a Kansas State beef reproduction specialist.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
One of the tools that we began working with Iowas
State on shortly after the group was formed is what
we called the Estrosynchronization Planner, and the original version that's
still available is an Excel spreadsheet version, and it tries
to step you through choices you might make in deciding
what synchronization protocol is best for you. And one of
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the things we wanted to do for years is to
be able to you know, as we've got smartphones and
electronic calendars, is to put that directly on a phone calendar.
And so we've recently worked with a group that's helped
us get over the hump to get that completed. So
we now have an online version that allowed you to
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make those choices, and you make your choices and then
you can send that iCal file to your computer or
phone and it adds it to your phone. Now it
doesn't have the cost comparison and perhaps all the other
helps that we have in our Excel versions of the
Synchronization Planner, but for many people that will be all
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they need is what date is it going to be?
If I'm gonna read cows on such and such a date.
And so we hope with those multiple versions you find
one that's useful to you. The other version that I
would mention is that this is such a catchy name,
is the multi group version. And what it would allow
you to do is if you are scheduling, you have
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both cows and heiferser trying to schedule in one breeding season,
and it would allow you to put those on the same.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Calendar Kansas State Beef Reproduction Specialist Andy Johnson, American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, this is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
This month's Ask the Bet segment sponsored by Crystal Creek,
and we're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical
Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, we're looking at the forage
program and you're here today to tell us all about
forage inoculans and what are the best practices. Let's start
with the importance of fermentation profiles.
Speaker 15 (13:03):
Well, when we look at forage preservation, you know, it's
arguably one of the most important things that the farmer's
going to do every year because of that short window
of time they harvest and put up forge. It's going
to last them for the next twelve months or or
maybe even longer. And one of the most important parts
of putting that silage up, whether it's halage or horn
silad or grass slage or something else, is getting a
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good fermentation. And there's a lot of things that go
into making a good fermentation when and there's certain things
that we can control and certain things we can't. Everybody
understands the importance of fermentation, but I don't know if
every farmer is looking at fermentation profiles. It's a test
that can be run on the silages to evaluate how
well the fermentation was completed, and then we can lean
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things from there and say, you know, if there was
some stumbling locks of what do we need to do
better next year? And one of the things we know
that can really help a fermentation profile is the use
of an inoculant. And there's a lot of different brands
out there. Crystal Creek as a brand called thenocy Lock,
and it's a for inoculant for forage preservation. Really, there's
two workhorses in our inoculant. One is strains of bacteria
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that will help lower the pH to preserve silage, and
then the other one is enzymes. And not all inoculants
out there have both bacteria and enzymes, and they both
have different functions. We can kind of dive into why
the bacteria will use material in the feed to grow
and then they produce byproducts. Oftentimes those byproducts are lactic
acids or other acids, sometimes the seetic acid, and then
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those lower the pH of the silage and that preserves it.
Will the enzymes actually help feed the bacteria so that
they can work faster. The whole heat to silage fermentation
is speed. We want to get that pH as low
as possible, as fast as possible. That's going to help
us do things like retain dry matter, retain higher levels
of protein, higher levels of sugar, and that just makes
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the feed more valuable to the farmer the faster it ferments.
And so the enzymes can actually help pre digest and
open up some of the starches some straight So they're
going to feed the bacteria so that they can actually
grow faster and create more assets more quickly, and drop
that pH of the silage faster and preserve it better.
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So that's that's the importance of the end zyme. I
think the only way to have a complete anoculant on
the market at this point is to have both a
mix of bacteria and enzymes, and the mix of bacteria
is important as well. In ours, we'll have bacteria that
thrive at different pH ranges. So we'll have bacteria that
we call like our early starters, and they work in
a much higher PA range, maybe six or seven, and
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then we have our finisher bacteria which work at a
much lower pH range. Let's say between you know, four
and a half and four maybe even a little below.
And it's important to have a complete profile of bacteria
that work in both the high pH ranges and the
low pH ranges because that way we consider it like
a relay race. We have our first bacteria that runs
the first leg and they'll take the pH maybe from
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seven and a half down to six and a half,
and then then they'll get out of their range of
activity a pH and they might die. But as that
six half pH comes into play, another bacteria becomes activated
and then they get essentially the baton handed off to them,
and they might drive the pH from say six and
a half to five and a half and then they're
outside of their range of activity and they die off.
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But yet another bacteria is stimulated to become active at
say five and a half, and they might drive it
down to four and a half and then they might die.
And then then the last bacteria will come in and
maybe get activated around four and a half and take
it down below four. And so that's kind of how
we structure our inoculates and what we think is a
good program for inoculates and not only have enzymes, but
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a profile bacteria that start and are active at a
higher page and completely cover that p trange all the
way through to a lower pH.
Speaker 14 (16:42):
You know, through the years you see people working hard
planting and harvesting, and it's that middle part that is
really crucial as well.
Speaker 15 (16:49):
Yes, so much effort goes into that last step, and
if that fermentation goes well, we're off to the races,
and if it doesn't go well, we're stuck with that
for twelve months. And it's just the to me, it's
just such a small piece of almost like insurance to
help drive that fermentation in a positive direction.
Speaker 14 (17:05):
Thanks for the visit today, Ryan, Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. If you have a
question for Ryan, just simply email him. Ask the vet
at Crystalcreek Natural dot com.
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Speaker 18 (17:32):
Planting cover crops to match almendblown for a more very
diet for bees. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with a California tree
nut Report part of the vastag Information Network. We're speaking
with Vivian Walters. She's a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis
and the lead author on cover crop best management Practices
and almonds.
Speaker 19 (17:51):
Somebody once pointed out, and I feel like it really
is stuck in my head because it's so true, is
that timing the flowering of cover crops is not a
trivial matter. It can be really difficult to get cover
crop in the ground early enough so that they will
bloom before and during almond bloom, because almond bloom is
pretty early compared to everything else. What we've found is
that and this is a lot of work with Project
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APISM has been working with growers on this, that if
they get their cover crops into the ground in mid
October and they irrigate them, and depending if they have
species that bloom early, like brassica species and some legumes
like peas, that those will bloom at the time when
the almonds are blooming. Because it definitely depends when you
seed it and how much water it gets. That's going
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to really determine what happens as for whether in an
ideal world, we would have blooming in all the almond orchards.
A really key factor is that those flowers, just like
the almond flowers, need to be protected from insectotypes. So
when bees are in your orchards, the honey bees will
benefit from having a diverse diet.
Speaker 17 (18:58):
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Speaker 20 (19:20):
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insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 17 (19:26):
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Speaker 20 (19:30):
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Speaker 21 (19:43):
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Speaker 18 (19:49):
With the AGI Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. The US
pistachio industry continues to grow in sia's in California, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas. Zachary Frasier, president and CEO of
the American Pistachial Growers based in Fresnel, California, talks about
the state of this nutcrop.
Speaker 22 (20:10):
Water is an issue and we continue to have that
be a primary topic of most of our grower meetings
and opportunities to engage with our members. Obviously, things past
control and no longer it's no longer just insect pest
control in California.
Speaker 23 (20:25):
We've got to worry about road.
Speaker 22 (20:26):
And control now, which is a topic that it has
kind of popped over the last eighteen months, and we're
aggressively working with the state government both here in California
and also in our other member states Arizona in New
Mexico to address those issues. So, and cost of doing
business is a challenge, right. You can't keep having prices
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go up at a rate that's good, but having costs
go up at a rate that's even higher, and ultimately
that's going to eliminate margin for all the people that
need to make money in order to stay in business,
because at the end of the day, that's why we're
doing this right. It's fun and people love farming, and
I love doing what I do to represent the growers,
but we've got to be able to help them make
money or it doesn't really matter. So those are the
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three things I think that really keep us up at night.
As far as the challenges, again, we have a really
good collection of human beings working on those challenges together.
Speaker 24 (21:18):
Exports are a big challenge for the pistachio industry as well.
Speaker 23 (21:22):
It's expensive to ship across the ocean.
Speaker 22 (21:24):
It's expensive to get product into places like Europe and
into China and into India. The way that business is
conducted in those countries is different than here. So again,
we don't specifically handle that piece of it, but we
go out in front where the lead block to make
sure that our processors who are selling those products in
those markets can have an easier time, a more efficient
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time with selling that product. I think recognizing that cost
is a concern, right.
Speaker 23 (21:53):
We have to ensure that our costs.
Speaker 22 (21:54):
Stay at a point that our customers are buying the
product at a cost that still protects the.
Speaker 23 (21:59):
Intech ready the price for the grower.
Speaker 16 (22:01):
Right.
Speaker 23 (22:01):
We don't want to race to the bottom.
Speaker 22 (22:02):
We don't want to flood the market with products so
that growers can't make money. And so those are its.
It's and then tariffs have changed the conversation. I don't
know that it's it's still I think a little too
early to tell whether it's good or bad, But I
think from an emotional perspective, it's made it a lot
more topsy turby the last six or seven months. Even
though a lot of those things that you read about
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and the headlines haven't really set in yet, I think
the emotional toll has set in and that it adds
to the challenges of working in export market.
Speaker 24 (22:33):
That's Zachary Frazier, President and CEO the American Pistachio Growers,
talking about the state of pistachio industry. American Pistachio Growers
is a nonprofit trade association representing more than eight hundred
and sixty five growers and member processors in California, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas. The most pistachio acreach is in California.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
USDA report originally scheduled for release October first, delayed six
weeks due to the government shutdown.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Things like grain crushings or cotton system dots and oils
network was virtually complete when the shutdown started, so we're
going to be able to get that back out the
door very quickly.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Last So think of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, as
these are among the reports within NASA's revised Report release schedule.
For instance, some offerings such as the October and November
Agricultural Prices Report, are now scheduled for December fifteenth, while
in the case of some larger reports such as the
Census of Horticulture Specialties, release dates are still to be determined.
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A complete list of NASA's Revised Report release schedule is
available online at www dot EDESS dot USDA dot gov.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
So a lot of factors impact really how quickly the
actual rescheduled report can happen. So those reports that were
scheduled to be released literally the stay the shutdown started,
that work was virtually complete, so we're going to be
able to get that back out the twenty first of November.
So that's a quick turnaround on a report like that.
If you go completely to the opposite end of the spectrum,
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things like total or the Census of horticultural specialties, things
that are extremely large projects and very heavily impacted by
a six week gap. We still don't know exactly when
we're going to be able to catch all of that
work up, because not only do we need to capture
everything that we missed during those six weeks, but we've
also got everything happening right now that would have been
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happening right now as well, and so a lot of
moving parts trying to get it all balanced in.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 25 (24:44):
It's time for California AGG today on the ag Information Network.
Speaker 23 (24:48):
I am A.
Speaker 25 (24:48):
Haley's ship Well. Farm and ranch leaders from across the
state were honored at the one hundred and seventh California
Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Anaheim, where the Young Farmers
and Ranchers pro recognized standout contributions from individuals as well
as county committees. Steve Murray, a fourth generation farmer in Bakersfield,
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received the Hometown Hero Award for his ongoing support of
the Kerne County Wyfe and Our Committee. In her nomination,
Caitlin Filkins wrote, Steve's consistent support and genuine belief in
the next generation of farmers have made a lasting impact
on our program and our members. Murray hosts members on
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his farm each year for hands on learning and donates
produce to the committee's annual charity, Farmers Market. The Star
Member Award went to Cotati farmer Matthew Vossler for his
strong leadership and long involvement with the Sonoma Murrin Wife
and Our Committee. Sonoma Murrin was also named Committee of
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the Year. Additional honors went to Central Coast Stanislaus and
MERCID committees for their community outreach, food donations, and innovative
projects that support agriculture as well as local families.
Speaker 17 (26:07):
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to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon funga side a Bloom for added resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wasn't tough at all. Maravon funge
aside number one at Bloom for all the right reasons.
I always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 20 (26:29):
Today, we're talking with aphids and wife flies about sephena
insecticide from basf.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
So tell us how you feeling really really weird.
Speaker 20 (26:40):
And you still wanted to vour this few No way, bro,
There you have it, folks. Safena insecticide is specifically engineered
to disorient aphis and wife flies so they can't eat,
and when they can't eat, they can't destroy.
Speaker 21 (26:53):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 25 (26:58):
With California Today on the AG Information Network, I am
Haley's ship.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Bob Quhen. Here are some farm news this morning. Friends.
President Trump and USDA Secretary Brook Rollins have ended weeks
of suspense on details of a multi billion dollar farm
aid package, but not before an unscripted difference took Trump
by surprise. It started with Trump making the initial White
House announcement of farm aid from tariff revenues.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmers. This relief
will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get
this year's harvest to market and look ahead to next
year's crops.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But suddenly Secretary Rollins had a different number.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
We are very pleased to announce that today we are
going to be effectuating an eleven billion dollar bridge payment
to our farmers. The money will move by February twenty
eighth of twenty twenty six, but by the end of
this month. So just in the next couple of weeks,
every farmer that is able to apply for it will
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know exactly what that number looks like.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The President tried to correct Rodin's but to no avail
as billion.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, we're holding one billion back. So today we are
announcing eleven billion. We are holding one billion back, just
to ensure that we are.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Covering, Rolin said. The package you will cast a wide
net among crops, all of.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Our road crops, but some specialty crops and others that
we are still working with to best understand where they
are in the farm economy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Trump stressed help for soybean producers hit hard by China's
import ban. Well, friends, Finally, there are some October export
numbers to look at. Riley Smith has those for us.
Speaker 26 (28:40):
This morning, the USDA released its weekly US Export sales
report last Thursday. I'm Riley Smith reporting for the Iowa
Agribusiness Radio Network, and we're finally seeing the export numbers
for the end of October. This timeframe is when President
Trump and President g Jingping of China agreed on the
trade framework for US soybean Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride,
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So the report confirms that China did make purchases at
that time.
Speaker 27 (29:06):
Yeah, these latest numbers cover the timeframe of October twenty
fourth through October thirtieth. Now keep in mind this is
right before or right at the time when President Trump
and g were getting together in South Korea to come
to their deal. And so this is the first one
where we actually did see the China showed up on
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the on the B side of the of the ledger
here buying two hundred and thirty two thousand tons. So
that was that was one that obviously was confirmed that
we'd known about. So we'll continue to talk about that.
Speaker 26 (29:40):
McBride said, there has been continued strength in the corn
sales as well.
Speaker 27 (29:44):
We basically have continued to see strength in the corn sales.
So if you go back to a year ago at
this time, that that number was massive. It was over
two million tons.
Speaker 15 (29:55):
This time.
Speaker 27 (29:55):
We had one point ninety ninety five million tons sold
for corn. On the soybean side of things was that
to one point two four to eight on that so
overall very good sales for corn. They were okay for
being there were still below the five year average, but
it's still it's still something that at least they were
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not nearly as bad as what we'd seen the previous
few weeks. So we are still we are still trying
to get caught up from this government shutdown. It'll be
before the end of the year, right before the end
of the year when we finally do get caught up.
Speaker 26 (30:33):
Though, going back to the trade framework, McBride said, China's
purchases of US soybeans have halted recently, in some disappointing
news for soybean producers. It's looking like the twenty twenty
five deadline for those purchases will likely get extended into
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 27 (30:47):
We haven't had a flash scale of soybeans this week.
The last one we had was on Friday, the day
after Thanksgiving, over three hundred thousand tons, which is good,
but again we're now forced for business days without a sale.
Now whether or not we get a sale reported tomorrow
is out of the hero and or there. We are
still expecting that they'll buy their twelve million metric tons.
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But Treasury Secretary Scott isn't spoke earlier this morning or
late last night talking about granting a two month extension
to China to allow them to get those sales in
by the end of February now instead of the end
of December. So this is a little bit frustrating, and
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this will be frustrating for most of our producers that
we kind of kick the can.
Speaker 26 (31:33):
While the soybean industry will be pleased to get those sales,
it's hard to not be disheartened by the deadline extension.
Speaker 27 (31:39):
If we get the sales, we're going to be happy
with it. It's not going to be exactly what we want,
but at least it's making progress. Same thing with us
getting twenty five million in twenty six, twenty seven and
twenty eight. These are great for us to get these sales.
It's not the numbers necessarily that we want, but it
certainly helps. So pushing it back two months on short notice,
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considering they just now have started at the end of October.
I think that's that's okay. I prefer to see them
done by the end of December because that would that
would lead to some higher prices and maybe give us
another chance to uh to get some some sales made
here in cash from the farm. But for right now,
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this is kind of what we have to deal with,
is we are getting we are still getting sales. They're
just a little bit slower and maybe they've pushed it
out a little bit more than what we prefer.
Speaker 26 (32:31):
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Speaker 1 (32:36):
You're listening to AG Life.
Speaker 28 (32:40):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update.
Speaker 29 (32:44):
Well.
Speaker 28 (32:44):
AG Secretary Brook Rowland says trade deals under consideration may
help reduce farmers long term dependence on federal support, even
as a short term aid package is being ready. President
Trump's administration argues that expanding foreign market access through new
trade agreements will create on precedent at export opportunities, offering
farmers alternative income streams. Still, given current headwinds, the proposed
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bridge payment remains vital to help growers get through the
twenty twenty five to twenty six cycle without severe financial hardship.
The US Greens and Bioproducts Councils twenty twenty five twenty
six Corn Harvest Quality report contained good news. The fifteenth
annual survey showed the core crop is projected to be
the largest on record at four hundred and twenty five
and a half million metric tons or sixteen thy seven
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hundred and fifty two bushels. The report showed eighty seven
percent of the samples met all grade factor requirements for
US number one grade one, ninety seven point eight percent
met the requirements for number two grade, and the twenty
seven member states of the European Union approved the European
Commission's trade agreement with the US. However, Mexico Business News
says the European Parliament will challenge the elements it considers
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to be unfair. After President Trump tripled tariffs on EU
products while Brussels eliminated duties on US imports. In November,
EU countries agreed to lower tariffs on US imports under
a deal struck last summer between the Commission and the
White House.
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up aglife for today friends.
Effective dry off protocols can pay dividends in utter health
and next lactation milk production. Mike Davis as our report.
Speaker 31 (35:24):
Doctor Kurt Bleitstra, a professional services veterinarian with Bearinger Ingelheim,
explains how fine tuning dry off protocols can help reduce
mass s diitus risk and set your cows up for
productive lactations.
Speaker 29 (35:37):
The kid mass citus are going to make less milk.
They have increased somatic cell cone associated with that infection,
and that can lower milk quality and sometimes affect paid
second early from there, but also put those cows at
an increased risk of being sold. You know, if they
get one case mass status and it's not treated properly,
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they can they can trigut a second one, and so
good animal husbandry is central to cup comfort. Cup comfort
is essential to part of reducing the environmental risk for
mass that is bleed.
Speaker 31 (36:09):
Straw outlines some steps producers can take it dry off
to reduce the risk of mass idis.
Speaker 29 (36:15):
Having an antibiotic is part of your dry off protocol.
If you're going to use an antibiotic, that specifically targets
those gram positive bacteria makes sense. And then recommendation, regardless
of whether you're treating the cows or using selected dry
caut therapy is to apply an internal tat sealent. And
then again we're going to kind of have this theme
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the husbandry, the facilities, the management. So maintaining clean, dry,
comfortable cow facilities is important for otter health.
Speaker 31 (36:42):
He emphasizes the importance of keeping cows healthy and comfortable
during dry off.
Speaker 29 (36:48):
Working with nutritionis to make sure you have a balanced
dry cow ration and you dry off is a good
time to catch cows up on vaccines, following up on
the things that we often take for granted. You can
have really good dry off procedures and SOPs, but making
sure that the employees understand the hows and the wives
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of those steps with some frequent training and retraining is
going to be important. And then you know, working with
a veterinarian to make sure all those steps really mesh
is very important as well.
Speaker 31 (37:19):
For more information, visit cattle first dot com. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that 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. Latest
drought monitor map out Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The first US drought monitor of December showed improvement from
just two weeks prior, add from mid October. Usda be
urologist Brad Rippey says, for the US Drought Monitor for
the period ending December second.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We are seeing about forty one point four percent of
the country still in drought. We are seeing drought coverage
down approximately five percentage points. We were greater than forty
six percent both on October twenty first and November eighteen.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Rippy acknowledges the forty one percent drought coverage remains a
formidable number.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We have seen US draw coverage greater than forty percent
each week since mid September of twenty twenty five, so
it certainly has been an autumn where we have been
dealing with considerable drought on the landscape.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yet precipitation in recent weeks has chipped away at the
drought number over the fall. What does this mean for
those crops and commodities view this type of year. In
drought coverage, rippy starts with winter wheat now in the
dorbency stage in several parts of the country.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Currently, we're seeing just about thirty five percent of the
US winter wheat production area in drought. That is actually
down ten percentage points from an autumn peak of forty
five percent, so we have seen improvement in the right direction.
A lot of that is due to beneficial precipitation that
has fallen across the lower Midwest and the Northwest into
a lesser degree some of the rain that has recently
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fallen across the southern Plains. Adversely, sixty five percent of
the winter wheat production area is not in drought, and
that does include a lot of the key heavily cropped
areas across the central Great Plains, including much of top
producer Kansas.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
As for drought coverage for hay and catalyas of December second,
thirty percent.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Of US hay production area currently in drought, down from
a peak just two weeks ago of thirty seven percent,
and battle inventory and drought. Just one quarter of the
US cattle currently experiencing drought. That is down from thirty
three percent two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Courted soybee growing season is long pass God, but what
about growing areas going into the winter season.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We are going in thirty percent of both the corn
and soybean production areas in drought. That is down from
peaks a few weeks ago, thirty two percent for corn
thirty nine percent for Soybean's Remember, we did have that
late developing drought that did have some impact in some
of the later developing crop areas.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, friends, a new aid package was announced by the President.
It will impact mostly row crop agriculture. We'll take a
look at that story and more ahead on today's edition
of Bag Life, Bob when here are some farm news
this morning, friends, President Trump and USDA Secretary Brook Rowlins
have ended weeks of suspense on details of a multi
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billion dollar farm aid package, but not before an unscripted
difference took Trump by surprise. It started with Trump making
the initial White House announcement of farm aid from tariff revenues.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmers. This relief
will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get
this year's harvest to market and look ahead to next
year's crops.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But suddenly Secretary Rollins had a different number.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
We are very.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Pleased to announce that today we are going to be
effectuating an eleven billion dollar bridge payment to our farmers.
The money will move by February twenty eighth of twenty
twenty six, but by the end of this month, So
just in the next couple of weeks, every farmer that
is able to apply for it will know exactly what
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that number looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The President tried to correct Rodins, but to no avail
t billion.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, we're holding one billion back. So today we are
announcing eleven billion. We are holding one billion back just
to ensure that we are covering.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Rodin said, the backage you will cast a wide net
among crops, all of.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Our road crops, but some specialty crops and others that
we are still working with to best understand where they
are in the farm economy.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Trump stressed help for soybean producers hit hard by China's
import ban. Meanwhile, farmer's sentiment improved in November. The Purdue
University CME Group's AGGI Economy Barometer rose last month, and
Purdue professor emeritus James Mintered went through some of the findings.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
The Economy Barometer Index rose ten points to reading of
one thirty nine, but that still leaves the index nineteen
points lower than it was in May, which was the
index's high point so far in twenty twenty five. Current
condition indecks fell two points to reading of one twenty eight.
That leaves the November current Condition indecks eighteen points below
the twenty twenty five peak of one forty six back
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in May. Farm Financial Performance Index rows fourteen points in
November two U ninety two, taking the index back near
where it was in late summer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Farmers aren't quite as optimistic about expanding their operations.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
The Farm Captain Investment Index fell six points to reading
of fifty six. The percentage of respondents who chose good
times fell to sixteen percent. That's down for twenty four
percent who chose that in October. Well, the percentage who
chose a bad time to make investments fell two points
to a reading of sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
James Minter, Purdue University, joining us Kevin Rasmus a National
Pork Board member from the Midwest, says the new checkof
funded industry supported Taste What Pork Can Do consumer brand
campaign is making pork more relatable and irrelevant for today's consumer,
shifting it from a special occasion protein to an everyday
convenience item for busy consumers. For example, retailers offer a
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wide range of fresh pork, as well as popular further
processed products that can be prepared by air frying, roasting, grilling,
or smoking in a pan, and even some pre packaged meals.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
But the new products that are coming out from where
retailers are so exciting. One of our local retailers has
a prepared barbecued boneless ribs that you just heat them
up in the microwave for three minutes. Another one the
local retailer has some flavored carneadas and it's just like
a pulled pork. Heat it in the microwave for three
minutes and it's tasteful. It's got everything that this ad
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campaign has been talking about, and now we're actually seeing
these new products.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The National Pork Board launched the campaign back in May,
but the checkof funded research, planning and implementation involved several
members of the supply chain. After all, all rising tides
lift all ships.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
This is what we've been asking for for several years,
and now we're seeing it happen. National Pork Board can't
do this. The retailer, the further processor needs to do this,
but they need to be motivated to do this. And
that was one of the great things about the ad
campaign was we got all these processors together and said,
how do you want to do this? And they all
bought into it, and they were excited to take part
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in this.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Driving and increasing the long term value of pork as
a goal of the National Pork Board's strategic plan. Rasmussen
speaks on behalf of his fellow board members.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
The conversation in the boardroom is not woe me anymore.
It's like, what else can we do with our new
strategic plan. We've stayed very focused and the board has
stayed very, very focused. And that's another very exciting thing
to me as a board member is we're not wandering
off in the weeds anymore. We're staying focused. We're going
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to invest in deliverables that mean something to the producer
at the farm gate level, and that's very, very exciting
to me.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Talking pork This morning some farm news. You're listening to
ag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
It's another agnews update. Producers watching exports signals closely. Is
China steps back into the sorgam market more after this?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (07:57):
I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance, a
food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by them on Santo Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
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Speaker 9 (08:26):
USDA's latest export inspection showing mixed green movement last week,
but China's first sorgham shipment of the season stands out
as a potential demand shift heading into December. Total sorghum
inspections one point eight million bushels. China listed as an
interior sourced buyer. It's a development that historically drives basis
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changes across Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. Corn lead overall
volumes at fifty five point nine million bushels, but slip
from the prior week, while soybean inspections fell sharply to
thirty three point eight million bushels. Wheat held near fourteen
point one in Derry. US Milk production continues to climb
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up three point six percent from August through October as
both cow numbers and per cow output improved, but Class one, three,
and four prices all posting deep year over year declines,
tightening margins ahead of twenty twenty six, and globally, WTO's
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latest Goods Trade barometer signal slower growth for ag raw materials.
It's another AG news update.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
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Speaker 9 (10:13):
American Cattle News Today highlights from a recent Beef Reproduction
task Force meeting. More after this.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
American Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Beyer. As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(10:43):
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Doctor Sandy Johnson is a Kansas State beef reproduction specialist.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
One of the tools that we began working with Iowas
State on shortly after the group was formed is what
we called the Estrosynchronization Planner, and the original version that's
still available is an Excel spreadsheet version, and it tries
to step you through choices you might make in deciding
what synchronization protocol is best for you. And one of
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the things we wanted to do for years is to
be able to you know, as we've got smartphones and
electronic calendars, is to put that directly on a phone calendar.
And so we've recently worked with a group that's helped
us get over the hump to get that completed. So
we now have an online version that allowed you to
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make those choices, and you make your choices and then
you can send that iCal file to your computer or
phone and it adds it to your phone. Now it
doesn't have the cost comparison and perhaps all the other
helps that we have in our Excel versions of the
Synchronization Planner, but for many people that will be all
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they need is what date is it going to be?
If I'm gonna read cows on such and such a date.
And so we hope with those multiple versions you find
one that's useful to you. The other version that I
would mention is that this is such a catchy name,
is the multi group version. And what it would allow
you to do is if you are scheduling, you have
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both cows and heiferser trying to schedule in one breeding season,
and it would allow you to put those on the same.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Calendar Kansas State Beef Reproduction Specialist Andy Johnson, American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, this is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 14 (12:45):
This month's Ask the Bet segment sponsored by Crystal Creek,
and we're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical
Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, we're looking at the forage
program and you're here today to tell us all about
forage inoculans and what are the best practices. Let's start
with the importance of fermentation profiles.
Speaker 15 (13:03):
Well, when we look at forage preservation, you know, it's
arguably one of the most important things that the farmer's
going to do every year because of that short window
of time they harvest and put up forge. It's going
to last them for the next twelve months or or
maybe even longer. And one of the most important parts
of putting that silage up, whether it's halage or horn
silad or grass slage or something else, is getting a
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good fermentation. And there's a lot of things that go
into making a good fermentation when and there's certain things
that we can control and certain things we can't. Everybody
understands the importance of fermentation, but I don't know if
every farmer is looking at fermentation profiles. It's a test
that can be run on the silages to evaluate how
well the fermentation was completed, and then we can lean
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things from there and say, you know, if there was
some stumbling locks of what do we need to do
better next year? And one of the things we know
that can really help a fermentation profile is the use
of an inoculant. And there's a lot of different brands
out there. Crystal Creek as a brand called thenocy Lock,
and it's a for inoculant for forage preservation. Really, there's
two workhorses in our inoculant. One is strains of bacteria
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that will help lower the pH to preserve silage, and
then the other one is enzymes. And not all inoculants
out there have both bacteria and enzymes, and they both
have different functions. We can kind of dive into why
the bacteria will use material in the feed to grow
and then they produce byproducts. Oftentimes those byproducts are lactic
acids or other acids, sometimes the seetic acid, and then
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those lower the pH of the silage and that preserves it.
Will the enzymes actually help feed the bacteria so that
they can work faster. The whole heat to silage fermentation
is speed. We want to get that pH as low
as possible, as fast as possible. That's going to help
us do things like retain dry matter, retain higher levels
of protein, higher levels of sugar, and that just makes
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the feed more valuable to the farmer the faster it ferments.
And so the enzymes can actually help pre digest and
open up some of the starches some straight So they're
going to feed the bacteria so that they can actually
grow faster and create more assets more quickly, and drop
that pH of the silage faster and preserve it better.
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So that's that's the importance of the end zyme. I
think the only way to have a complete anoculant on
the market at this point is to have both a
mix of bacteria and enzymes, and the mix of bacteria
is important as well. In ours, we'll have bacteria that
thrive at different pH ranges. So we'll have bacteria that
we call like our early starters, and they work in
a much higher PA range, maybe six or seven, and
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then we have our finisher bacteria which work at a
much lower pH range. Let's say between you know, four
and a half and four maybe even a little below.
And it's important to have a complete profile of bacteria
that work in both the high pH ranges and the
low pH ranges because that way we consider it like
a relay race. We have our first bacteria that runs
the first leg and they'll take the pH maybe from
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seven and a half down to six and a half,
and then then they'll get out of their range of
activity a pH and they might die. But as that
six half pH comes into play, another bacteria becomes activated
and then they get essentially the baton handed off to them,
and they might drive the pH from say six and
a half to five and a half and then they're
outside of their range of activity and they die off.
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But yet another bacteria is stimulated to become active at
say five and a half, and they might drive it
down to four and a half and then they might die.
And then then the last bacteria will come in and
maybe get activated around four and a half and take
it down below four. And so that's kind of how
we structure our inoculates and what we think is a
good program for inoculates and not only have enzymes, but
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a profile bacteria that start and are active at a
higher page and completely cover that p trange all the
way through to a lower pH.
Speaker 14 (16:42):
You know, through the years you see people working hard
planting and harvesting, and it's that middle part that is
really crucial as well.
Speaker 15 (16:49):
Yes, so much effort goes into that last step, and
if that fermentation goes well, we're off to the races,
and if it doesn't go well, we're stuck with that
for twelve months. And it's just the to me, it's
just such a small piece of almost like insurance to
help drive that fermentation in a positive direction.
Speaker 14 (17:05):
Thanks for the visit today, Ryan, Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. If you have a
question for Ryan, just simply email him. Ask the vet
at Crystalcreek Natural dot com.
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with Vivian Walters. She's a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis
and the lead author on cover crop best management Practices
and almonds.
Speaker 19 (17:51):
Somebody once pointed out, and I feel like it really
is stuck in my head because it's so true, is
that timing the flowering of cover crops is not a
trivial matter. It can be really difficult to get cover
crop in the ground early enough so that they will
bloom before and during almond bloom, because almond bloom is
pretty early compared to everything else. What we've found is
that and this is a lot of work with Project
(18:13):
APISM has been working with growers on this, that if
they get their cover crops into the ground in mid
October and they irrigate them, and depending if they have
species that bloom early, like brassica species and some legumes
like peas, that those will bloom at the time when
the almonds are blooming. Because it definitely depends when you
seed it and how much water it gets. That's going
(18:35):
to really determine what happens as for whether in an
ideal world, we would have blooming in all the almond orchards.
A really key factor is that those flowers, just like
the almond flowers, need to be protected from insectotypes. So
when bees are in your orchards, the honey bees will
benefit from having a diverse diet.
Speaker 17 (18:58):
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and follow label directions.
Speaker 20 (19:20):
Today we're talking with aphis and wife flies about sephena
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Speaker 8 (19:25):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 17 (19:26):
So tell us how you feeling really, really weird.
Speaker 20 (19:30):
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Speaker 21 (19:43):
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Speaker 18 (19:49):
With the AGI Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. The US
pistachio industry continues to grow in sia's in California, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas. Zachary Frasier, president and CEO of
the American Pistachial Growers based in Fresnel, California, talks about
the state of this nutcrop.
Speaker 22 (20:10):
Water is an issue and we continue to have that
be a primary topic of most of our grower meetings
and opportunities to engage with our members. Obviously, things past
control and no longer it's no longer just insect pest
control in California.
Speaker 23 (20:25):
We've got to worry about road.
Speaker 22 (20:26):
And control now, which is a topic that it has
kind of popped over the last eighteen months, and we're
aggressively working with the state government both here in California
and also in our other member states Arizona in New
Mexico to address those issues. So, and cost of doing
business is a challenge, right. You can't keep having prices
(20:47):
go up at a rate that's good, but having costs
go up at a rate that's even higher, and ultimately
that's going to eliminate margin for all the people that
need to make money in order to stay in business,
because at the end of the day, that's why we're
doing this right. It's fun and people love farming, and
I love doing what I do to represent the growers,
but we've got to be able to help them make
money or it doesn't really matter. So those are the
(21:08):
three things I think that really keep us up at night.
As far as the challenges, again, we have a really
good collection of human beings working on those challenges together.
Speaker 24 (21:18):
Exports are a big challenge for the pistachio industry as well.
Speaker 23 (21:22):
It's expensive to ship across the ocean.
Speaker 22 (21:24):
It's expensive to get product into places like Europe and
into China and into India. The way that business is
conducted in those countries is different than here. So again,
we don't specifically handle that piece of it, but we
go out in front where the lead block to make
sure that our processors who are selling those products in
those markets can have an easier time, a more efficient
(21:45):
time with selling that product. I think recognizing that cost
is a concern, right.
Speaker 23 (21:53):
We have to ensure that our costs.
Speaker 22 (21:54):
Stay at a point that our customers are buying the
product at a cost that still protects the.
Speaker 23 (21:59):
Intech ready the price for the grower.
Speaker 16 (22:01):
Right.
Speaker 23 (22:01):
We don't want to race to the bottom.
Speaker 22 (22:02):
We don't want to flood the market with products so
that growers can't make money. And so those are its.
It's and then tariffs have changed the conversation. I don't
know that it's it's still I think a little too
early to tell whether it's good or bad, But I
think from an emotional perspective, it's made it a lot
more topsy turby the last six or seven months. Even
though a lot of those things that you read about
(22:23):
and the headlines haven't really set in yet, I think
the emotional toll has set in and that it adds
to the challenges of working in export market.
Speaker 24 (22:33):
That's Zachary Frazier, President and CEO the American Pistachio Growers,
talking about the state of pistachio industry. American Pistachio Growers
is a nonprofit trade association representing more than eight hundred
and sixty five growers and member processors in California, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas. The most pistachio acreach is in California.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
USDA report originally scheduled for release October first, delayed six
weeks due to the government shutdown.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Things like grain crushings or cotton system dots and oils
network was virtually complete when the shutdown started, so we're
going to be able to get that back out the
door very quickly.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Last So think of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, as
these are among the reports within NASA's revised Report release schedule.
For instance, some offerings such as the October and November
Agricultural Prices Report, are now scheduled for December fifteenth, while
in the case of some larger reports such as the
Census of Horticulture Specialties, release dates are still to be determined.
(23:40):
A complete list of NASA's Revised Report release schedule is
available online at www dot EDESS dot USDA dot gov.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
So a lot of factors impact really how quickly the
actual rescheduled report can happen. So those reports that were
scheduled to be released literally the stay the shutdown started,
that work was virtually complete, so we're going to be
able to get that back out the twenty first of November.
So that's a quick turnaround on a report like that.
If you go completely to the opposite end of the spectrum,
(24:12):
things like total or the Census of horticultural specialties, things
that are extremely large projects and very heavily impacted by
a six week gap. We still don't know exactly when
we're going to be able to catch all of that
work up, because not only do we need to capture
everything that we missed during those six weeks, but we've
also got everything happening right now that would have been
(24:33):
happening right now as well, and so a lot of
moving parts trying to get it all balanced in.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 25 (24:44):
It's time for California AGG today on the ag Information Network.
Speaker 23 (24:48):
I am A.
Speaker 25 (24:48):
Haley's ship Well. Farm and ranch leaders from across the
state were honored at the one hundred and seventh California
Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Anaheim, where the Young Farmers
and Ranchers pro recognized standout contributions from individuals as well
as county committees. Steve Murray, a fourth generation farmer in Bakersfield,
(25:10):
received the Hometown Hero Award for his ongoing support of
the Kerne County Wyfe and Our Committee. In her nomination,
Caitlin Filkins wrote, Steve's consistent support and genuine belief in
the next generation of farmers have made a lasting impact
on our program and our members. Murray hosts members on
(25:31):
his farm each year for hands on learning and donates
produce to the committee's annual charity, Farmers Market. The Star
Member Award went to Cotati farmer Matthew Vossler for his
strong leadership and long involvement with the Sonoma Murrin Wife
and Our Committee. Sonoma Murrin was also named Committee of
(25:52):
the Year. Additional honors went to Central Coast Stanislaus and
MERCID committees for their community outreach, food donations, and innovative
projects that support agriculture as well as local families.
Speaker 17 (26:07):
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to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon funga side a Bloom for added resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wasn't tough at all. Maravon funge
aside number one at Bloom for all the right reasons.
I always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 20 (26:29):
Today, we're talking with aphids and wife flies about sephena
insecticide from basf.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
So tell us how you feeling really really weird.
Speaker 20 (26:40):
And you still wanted to vour this few No way, bro,
There you have it, folks. Safena insecticide is specifically engineered
to disorient aphis and wife flies so they can't eat,
and when they can't eat, they can't destroy.
Speaker 21 (26:53):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 25 (26:58):
With California Today on the AG Information Network, I am
Haley's ship.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Bob Quhen. Here are some farm news this morning. Friends.
President Trump and USDA Secretary Brook Rollins have ended weeks
of suspense on details of a multi billion dollar farm
aid package, but not before an unscripted difference took Trump
by surprise. It started with Trump making the initial White
House announcement of farm aid from tariff revenues.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmers. This relief
will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get
this year's harvest to market and look ahead to next
year's crops.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But suddenly Secretary Rollins had a different number.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
We are very pleased to announce that today we are
going to be effectuating an eleven billion dollar bridge payment
to our farmers. The money will move by February twenty
eighth of twenty twenty six, but by the end of
this month. So just in the next couple of weeks,
every farmer that is able to apply for it will
(28:00):
know exactly what that number looks like.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The President tried to correct Rodin's but to no avail
as billion.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, we're holding one billion back. So today we are
announcing eleven billion. We are holding one billion back, just
to ensure that we are.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Covering, Rolin said. The package you will cast a wide
net among crops, all of.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Our road crops, but some specialty crops and others that
we are still working with to best understand where they
are in the farm economy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Trump stressed help for soybean producers hit hard by China's
import ban. Well, friends, Finally, there are some October export
numbers to look at. Riley Smith has those for us.
Speaker 26 (28:40):
This morning, the USDA released its weekly US Export sales
report last Thursday. I'm Riley Smith reporting for the Iowa
Agribusiness Radio Network, and we're finally seeing the export numbers
for the end of October. This timeframe is when President
Trump and President g Jingping of China agreed on the
trade framework for US soybean Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride,
(29:02):
So the report confirms that China did make purchases at
that time.
Speaker 27 (29:06):
Yeah, these latest numbers cover the timeframe of October twenty
fourth through October thirtieth. Now keep in mind this is
right before or right at the time when President Trump
and g were getting together in South Korea to come
to their deal. And so this is the first one
where we actually did see the China showed up on
(29:27):
the on the B side of the of the ledger
here buying two hundred and thirty two thousand tons. So
that was that was one that obviously was confirmed that
we'd known about. So we'll continue to talk about that.
Speaker 26 (29:40):
McBride said, there has been continued strength in the corn
sales as well.
Speaker 27 (29:44):
We basically have continued to see strength in the corn sales.
So if you go back to a year ago at
this time, that that number was massive. It was over
two million tons.
Speaker 15 (29:55):
This time.
Speaker 27 (29:55):
We had one point ninety ninety five million tons sold
for corn. On the soybean side of things was that
to one point two four to eight on that so
overall very good sales for corn. They were okay for
being there were still below the five year average, but
it's still it's still something that at least they were
(30:17):
not nearly as bad as what we'd seen the previous
few weeks. So we are still we are still trying
to get caught up from this government shutdown. It'll be
before the end of the year, right before the end
of the year when we finally do get caught up.
Speaker 26 (30:33):
Though, going back to the trade framework, McBride said, China's
purchases of US soybeans have halted recently, in some disappointing
news for soybean producers. It's looking like the twenty twenty
five deadline for those purchases will likely get extended into
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 27 (30:47):
We haven't had a flash scale of soybeans this week.
The last one we had was on Friday, the day
after Thanksgiving, over three hundred thousand tons, which is good,
but again we're now forced for business days without a sale.
Now whether or not we get a sale reported tomorrow
is out of the hero and or there. We are
still expecting that they'll buy their twelve million metric tons.
(31:09):
But Treasury Secretary Scott isn't spoke earlier this morning or
late last night talking about granting a two month extension
to China to allow them to get those sales in
by the end of February now instead of the end
of December. So this is a little bit frustrating, and
(31:29):
this will be frustrating for most of our producers that
we kind of kick the can.
Speaker 26 (31:33):
While the soybean industry will be pleased to get those sales,
it's hard to not be disheartened by the deadline extension.
Speaker 27 (31:39):
If we get the sales, we're going to be happy
with it. It's not going to be exactly what we want,
but at least it's making progress. Same thing with us
getting twenty five million in twenty six, twenty seven and
twenty eight. These are great for us to get these sales.
It's not the numbers necessarily that we want, but it
certainly helps. So pushing it back two months on short notice,
(32:00):
considering they just now have started at the end of October.
I think that's that's okay. I prefer to see them
done by the end of December because that would that
would lead to some higher prices and maybe give us
another chance to uh to get some some sales made
here in cash from the farm. But for right now,
(32:21):
this is kind of what we have to deal with,
is we are getting we are still getting sales. They're
just a little bit slower and maybe they've pushed it
out a little bit more than what we prefer.
Speaker 26 (32:31):
For more marketing information, visit Allendale dash I Inc. Dot com.
I'm Riley Smith reporting farm US.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
You're listening to AG Life.
Speaker 28 (32:40):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update.
Speaker 29 (32:44):
Well.
Speaker 28 (32:44):
AG Secretary Brook Rowland says trade deals under consideration may
help reduce farmers long term dependence on federal support, even
as a short term aid package is being ready. President
Trump's administration argues that expanding foreign market access through new
trade agreements will create on precedent at export opportunities, offering
farmers alternative income streams. Still, given current headwinds, the proposed
(33:06):
bridge payment remains vital to help growers get through the
twenty twenty five to twenty six cycle without severe financial hardship.
The US Greens and Bioproducts Councils twenty twenty five twenty
six Corn Harvest Quality report contained good news. The fifteenth
annual survey showed the core crop is projected to be
the largest on record at four hundred and twenty five
and a half million metric tons or sixteen thy seven
(33:26):
hundred and fifty two bushels. The report showed eighty seven
percent of the samples met all grade factor requirements for
US number one grade one, ninety seven point eight percent
met the requirements for number two grade, and the twenty
seven member states of the European Union approved the European
Commission's trade agreement with the US. However, Mexico Business News
says the European Parliament will challenge the elements it considers
(33:47):
to be unfair. After President Trump tripled tariffs on EU
products while Brussels eliminated duties on US imports. In November,
EU countries agreed to lower tariffs on US imports under
a deal struck last summer between the Commission and the
White House.
Speaker 30 (34:01):
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up aglife for today friends.
Effective dry off protocols can pay dividends in utter health
and next lactation milk production. Mike Davis as our report.
Speaker 31 (35:24):
Doctor Kurt Bleitstra, a professional services veterinarian with Bearinger Ingelheim,
explains how fine tuning dry off protocols can help reduce
mass s diitus risk and set your cows up for
productive lactations.
Speaker 29 (35:37):
The kid mass citus are going to make less milk.
They have increased somatic cell cone associated with that infection,
and that can lower milk quality and sometimes affect paid
second early from there, but also put those cows at
an increased risk of being sold. You know, if they
get one case mass status and it's not treated properly,
(35:57):
they can they can trigut a second one, and so
good animal husbandry is central to cup comfort. Cup comfort
is essential to part of reducing the environmental risk for
mass that is bleed.
Speaker 31 (36:09):
Straw outlines some steps producers can take it dry off
to reduce the risk of mass idis.
Speaker 29 (36:15):
Having an antibiotic is part of your dry off protocol.
If you're going to use an antibiotic, that specifically targets
those gram positive bacteria makes sense. And then recommendation, regardless
of whether you're treating the cows or using selected dry
caut therapy is to apply an internal tat sealent. And
then again we're going to kind of have this theme
(36:35):
the husbandry, the facilities, the management. So maintaining clean, dry,
comfortable cow facilities is important for otter health.
Speaker 31 (36:42):
He emphasizes the importance of keeping cows healthy and comfortable
during dry off.
Speaker 29 (36:48):
Working with nutritionis to make sure you have a balanced
dry cow ration and you dry off is a good
time to catch cows up on vaccines, following up on
the things that we often take for granted. You can
have really good dry off procedures and SOPs, but making
sure that the employees understand the hows and the wives
(37:08):
of those steps with some frequent training and retraining is
going to be important. And then you know, working with
a veterinarian to make sure all those steps really mesh
is very important as well.
Speaker 31 (37:19):
For more information, visit cattle first dot com. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that friends, arount of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition A Bad
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