December 12, 2025

Episode Transcript

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.
USDA's National agg Statistics Service issued an updated release schedule
for reports impacted by the government shutdown. Rod Bain catches

(00:21):
us up in this report.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
After a six week halt of USDA reports due to
the government shutdown, catch up in report release is occurring
and will continue to occur in the suburb. Lance Hodig
of the National Agricultural Statistics Service noted plans were in
place in early November for report release in the event
of the federal government reopening. One of those, a major

(00:43):
Agriculture Department offering, was issued the day after reopening.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We did get the crop production report out on the fourteenth,
that would have come just a few days earlier, so
very short delayed there, and so some things are very
quickly getting back on schedule.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
That included reports release the front before Thanksgiving. Reports that
originally had at October first issue date.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Things like grain crushings or cotton system pats and oils
that work was virtually complete when the shutdown started.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Joining on that date the regularly scheduled November Catalog Feed report.
Other reports need additional time to assimilate data at prepare
for presentation. For instance, some offerings, such as the October
and November Agricultural Prices Report are now scheduled for December fifteenth,
while december'sag Prices offering comes out December thirty first, or

(01:37):
the end of month release regularly slotted forag Prices. What
about release dates for some larger reports.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
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 miss during those six weeks, but we've
also got everything happening right now that would have been

(02:04):
happening right now as well, and so a lot of
moving parts.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
At In some cases, reports DOT issued during the government
shut down will not be revisited or released.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Some examples that come to mind for me as some
of the weekly progress information. You really can't go back
in time and go back to folks and say hey,
as of second Sunday in October. What do you think
the condition ratings were? What do you think harvest progress was.
It's just physically not possible to recapture that information.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
A complete list of NASA's revised reports schedule is available
online at www dot NASS dot USDA dot go. I'm Rodbaine,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, friends, coming up, the ag labor issues continue to
plague many aspects of agriculture. Will have a report ahead. Also,
the latest ag barometer in measuring farmers' attitudes about agricultural
issues has been released and things are up a couple
of points in many areas. We'll take a look at

(03:09):
that as well. That is ahead, along with some insight
on the newly announced farm bridge payment program. You're listening
to Aglife. Bob Quinn here with some farm news this morning, friends.
Finding enough help on US farms continues to be a challenge.
Bob Larson takes a look at that for US this morning.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Finding enough labor to get the work done on the
farm and navigating regulations for the workforce have become increasingly
troublesome in recent years. Mike Strand's Vice president of Advocacy
for the National Farmers Union, says reform is more important
now than ever.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
With all of the added emphasis on the agriculture workforce
in the last year and the extra stresses that have
been put on the sector because of a lot of
the administration's actions, it's even more important to make progress
on workforce reform.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
For example, Strand says, more adjustments to the to A program,
or probably better yet.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Doing some more broad reaching and far reaching reforms through
the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Now's the time to make
bipartisan progress. And with the bills that have been out
there or the bill that's been out there for quite
a long time, now now might be the opportunity that
we've been waiting for.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
Especially Strand says, given the recent improvements to border security.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
It may well be that with the seeming improvements to
border security concerns, paired with the greater emphasis we've all
had on the need for secure and reliable farm workforce,
that adds up to a better shot for the Farm
Workforce Modernization Acts to move forward. And I think that
reaches across both parties and it could be an opportunity

(04:43):
to make some real headway in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Again, that is Mike Strand's vice president of Advocacy at
the National Farmers Union.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well Friends. The November Purdue University CME AG Economy Barometer
had an interesting question about financial assistance for farmers and
and what they would do with the funds to help
their operations. James Minter is a professor emeritus at Purdue University.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
If USDA provides an MFP payment to compensate for week
commodity prices, what will be the principal use of this
payment on your farm? And a majority of the producers
in our surveys both in November and in October said
that they expect to use that to pay down debt.
This month, that was fifty eight percent of the response
in the survey compared to fifty two percent last month.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Farmland values are another consistent topic in the AG Economy Barometer.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
The short term Farmland Value Expectation Index at one sixteen
was three points higher than a month earlier, and that's
the second month in a row that index has gone up,
and the index is now ten points higher than it
was back in September. The long term farmland Value Expectation
Index at one sixty five was up four points compared
to a month ago, and that's a new record high
for the long term Farmland Value Expectation Index.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
The November Barometer also looked into expected cash rental rates
for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
This month's survey so included a question asking producers what
their expectations are for cash funtal rates in their area
in twenty twenty six. A majority seventy four percent of
the response in this month's survey said they expect to
see cash truntder rates hold the same with last year.
That's about the same response we received back in both
July and August.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
James Minterter to Purdue University with US Well Friends. On
any given day, as many as one million pigs are
on the road across the country. Patrick Webb, DVM and
Assistant Chief Veterinarian with the National Port Board says Agview
is one traceability tool that tracks movements and securely shares
herd health and movement data in real time should a

(06:40):
foreign animal disease outbreak occur. More than sixteen hundred producers
have accounts from various operation types and sizes, representing nearly
forty percent of the nation's heard. However, there is still
a gap.

Speaker 8 (06:52):
Based on some of the aggregate data that we see
out of bag View, we expect that there should be
somewhere around a fifty to sixty thousand and movements a
week across the industry. And why such a wide variation
because we don't necessarily have the best understanding of how
many pigs in the exhibition side are moving at any
given time.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Once a producer creates an aag view account, real time
access helps officials monitor movement, map and regionalize outbreaks and
contain a situation quickly.

Speaker 8 (07:21):
In an outbreak, they're actually visualizing the movements. They can
get a very rapid situational awareness of what's going on.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
What the picture is. I like to say that find
the state.

Speaker 8 (07:30):
I'm a health official. I'm doing a foreign animal disease investigation,
and I'm investigating a large integrator. And let's say it's
on a south farm and they're an AGUE user and
they're peace time sharing or they share when I request it,
and that's all based upon the ability of that state
I'm a health official to visualize that data, which AGUE
provides that capability.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
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Speaker 9 (07:53):
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Speaker 2 (08:05):
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Speaker 9 (08:35):
Kansas State Beef System specialist Emma Briggs.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
So A matters a lot, especially in the reproductive powherd.
So Vitamin A plays an essential role for a vision,
immune function, reproductive success, as well as just overall growth
and metabolism, especially for cattle that are pregnant, lactating, or

(08:58):
just throwing young cattle in general. Vitamin A is mostly
found in green forges, and so we're talking green less pastures.
That's an excellent source. Lots of beta carotene inflants that
cattle can convert to vitamin A. Cattle can also convert
beta caroteen into vitamin A naturally and during the pasture

(09:20):
season when we really see a lot of green growth
in those pastures, cattle can typically a sue. We can
assume that there's a meeting about three to five times
the requirement of vitamin A and they can typically store
it for about four months or so worth of vitamin
A in the liver, which can help them get through
the winter slump when we don't have a lot of

(09:42):
available green forge for those cows where there's always toxicity
levels with everything. However, in my personal experience, I have
not seen an issue where we're actually having vitamin A toxicity,
especially for cows that are out on pasture. We're mostly
concerned about the deficiency.

Speaker 9 (10:01):
Side, and even blindness.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
So col's just having hard trouble seeing. However, that is
a severe, severe deficiency. We are not seeing those quite
too often because the cow has got to be dangerously
low for a really long time in order to get
to that point. But they can cause vision issues and
just not being able to see properly.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 14 (10:26):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.

Speaker 15 (10:33):
It's time for our Feet Forum Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins,
Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.

Speaker 16 (10:38):
Hello, Mike fourcome to today's feet form and our topic
will be milk fat depressure. And this was presented at
a seminar here at the University of Illinois from a
gradual student in the lab of Philippie Cardozo here at
the University of Illinois. We know that milk fat is
important because it has a great deal of value. Currently,
farmers are receiving three dollars and nine cents per pound

(11:01):
of melf fat at the farm gate, and they're rewarded
to maintaining high levels of fat and along with high
levels of protein. Certainly, we know that if we have
a digestive disorder like milk fat depression, we can see
effects on room and health and feed efficiency here in
the feeding program. So what is milk fat depression. Well,
what happens is that cows produced below the targeted level

(11:23):
of milk fat. Here in the US, hosting cows produce
a four point one percent milk fat on average. Cows
under milk fat depression will be probably below three five
and more extreme cases below three. So we are actually
losing the profitability on that cow as well. The causes
of milk fat depression can be such things as dietary factors,

(11:44):
and the big one here is fatty acid profile and
we all heard about poofus poley and saturate fatty acids.
It can really drop butterfat tests down from say A
three to six to three zero, consuming only four grams
per day. Certainly another factor it would be room in fermentation.
The type of alta fatty acids being produced are important

(12:05):
because basically fifty percent of the milk fat is coming
from acetate and butyrate, so if those precursors are not formed,
it doesn't get to the memory gland and build those
into longer chain fatty acids. Of course, a starch levels,
starch type, the feeding behavior, feeding system on the farm
can affect room and fermentation. Forage, particle size, and monenza

(12:26):
or all factors can affect room fermentation, both positively and negatively.
And of course the third thing which can lower butterfat
test is health itself and the best example is mastitis.
Cows with mastitis or subacute rumin acidoses will have a
lower levels of milk fat. We already talked about the
importance of a rumen of alta fatty acids. We know

(12:46):
that we need to have higher levels of acetate and butyrate.
If we shift the room in pH below five point
nine for more than three hours a day, we will
see a potential risk of milk fat depression in those
targeted cows. What happens is that we shift from acetate
and butyrate to more proprionic acid, which is good news
for high producing cols. Propiate is used for glucose production,

(13:07):
but also increases latic acid. Latic Acid is a much
harsher acid in terms of pH in the ruminating leaders
to problems at higher levels as well, and high enough
levels cause clinical acid doses which can actually be lethal
to the animal. Work out of Penn State would indicate
that supplementing acetate did increase butter fat test as well.

(13:31):
We also looked at some studies that came out of
Michigan State on fat eighteen different eighteen Holstein cows and
a Latin square design with three different treatments, and they
looked at control no added fatty acids and then two
different forms free fatty acids, and then the triglystrides, which
is the normal form cols would consume in here, and
so the differences here would be that we saw a

(13:54):
difference in terms of fatty acids, causing an increase in
milk product, but a decrease in butterfat test here. Milk
production here was eighty six pounds for the control the
cows can fed the free fatty asses ninety two pounds
and the chargers triychlist red cows ninety point four pounds

(14:14):
of milk as well. So what happens here is that
the on Saturday of fatty acids have to be converted
if it's done right to steric it's a very eighteen
carbon and fat ass of no double bonds. If it
does wrong. In other words, we ends up getting producing
an intermediate call a CLA trans ten cys twelve and
then will drop butterfat tests down by twenty five percent

(14:37):
and basically only needs three to four grams per day
here in the feeding program. What about recovering from milk
fat depression? Another study down the Penn State with nine cows,
it's about fourteen days for dry matter to recover on
these cows, twenty one days for the butterfat tests to
come back, and seven days for milk yield. So our
TAKEO messages include milk fat depression is a common challenge

(14:58):
on dairy farms, affect all comes of certain cows, and
certainly we understand the various roles on saturdy of fatty
assids and starchs can have on milk fat. Thanks that
completes the program for today.

Speaker 17 (15:10):
Thank you, Mike.

Speaker 15 (15:10):
That's doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor emeritis from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here on our feet for him Friday
on Dairy Radio NAT.

Speaker 18 (15:23):
Naval Orange Worm Control on almonds the number one past.
There's a strategy to kick the damage down. I'm Patrick
Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of that vast
ag Information Network. David Havlin is a UCA and R
farm advisor n homologist based in Kerrin County.

Speaker 19 (15:43):
Well, the keys to the game come back to things
you've heard for decades, and we call these four pillars
of a Naval Orange orm integrated pest management program. So
we've got the winter sanitation, mating disruption, insecticides, and timely harvest.

Speaker 18 (15:58):
So the timely thing to do now is sanitation, and
Havelin describes exactly what you need to do.

Speaker 19 (16:04):
So there's four steps to sanitation. There's the shaking process,
get them off the trees, a polling process, okay, to
get the numbers down to a threshold, and then you're
blowing and you're mowing.

Speaker 18 (16:14):
Which kills that mummy larvae.

Speaker 19 (16:16):
All of them are needed.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
And here's why.

Speaker 19 (16:19):
The farther you go in reducing the number of mummies
is the more impactful sanitation is. And why is that?
On the front end, when you're knocking mummies off and
just reducing them, you're getting rid of worms. Okay, that's good,
that's beneficial. But once you get down into these really
low numbers, you're reducing worms. But anything that survives is

(16:39):
struggling to find mates. If they do mate, they're struggling
for a place to lay.

Speaker 18 (16:43):
Their eggs, and that further reduces the numbers for twenty
twenty six, So sanitation is critical.

Speaker 10 (16:50):
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(17:11):
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Speaker 11 (17:19):
Today we're talking with aphids and wife flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF. We just get nailed with it. So
tell us how you feeling really really weird and you
still wanted to vour this feel No way way, bro.

Speaker 10 (17:34):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
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flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.

Speaker 12 (17:43):
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read and follow label directions.

Speaker 18 (17:49):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.

Speaker 20 (17:52):
Welcome to Aglife. I'm Dwayne Murley with your farm news.
Dennis Guy tells us about a planned expand the norrad
Early Warning system involves by a lot of Canadian farmland.
The plan to expand an early warning system for the
Canada US nor D military system, aim to improve the

(18:13):
Arctic zone protection is being welcomed in northern Canada, but
not so much in the farm belt of southern Ontario.
The Arctic over the Horizon Radar site is part of
a thirty eight billion dollar investment to upgrade Canada's contribution
to NORRAD, established in nineteen fifty eight. NORRAD stands for

(18:35):
the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a joint military command
of Canada and the United States responsible for aerospace warning,
control and maritime advance warnings to protect North America. Earlier
this year, Prime Minister Carney announced that his government will
build what's called the Arctic over the Horizon radar system

(18:58):
to make no d W more quickly aware of objects
approaching and edering Canadian and Arctic airspace. However, those expansion
plans involve thousands of acres of prime agricultural land. Two
different southern Ontario rural communities are slated to receive communications
installations integral to the system. The Department of National Defense

(19:22):
recently held public information sessions in cobaconk in the Kartha
Lakes region east of Toronto, and in Clearview Township, just
south of Georgian Bay. The NORRAD expansion plan calls for
nearly four thousand acres of prime farmland to be purchased
and expropriated. Where the plan calls for two separate but

(19:43):
relatively closely situated sites. The Brooks family has livestock and
a seven hundred acre cash crop operation and is one
of several farm operations affected by Norrad's expansion plans. But
Rachel Brooks says her family has no interest in the
selling any of their second generation farmland.

Speaker 13 (20:03):
We're looking at installing two sites that would be approximately
fifteen hundred acres each. Who its three thousand acres, So
these two sites combined would obliterate a small town. We've
been working this land for forty five years. I have
no desire to sell our land. This is where we
raise our family and this is where we have our business.

Speaker 14 (20:21):
Both of the sites in Clearview Township, along with the
proposed site in the Quortha Lakes region, were chosen for
being flat and dry, with fairly limited environmental constraints, and
close to southern Ontario's readily available electrical power sources. The
Hutchinson farm family is one of those affected in Kuwartha Lakes.

(20:43):
The Hutchinsons run beef, cattle and cash crop just over
one thousand acres. Jennifer Hutchinson believes Department of Defense should
find somewhere else for the Norad project that does not
involve food producing land.

Speaker 21 (20:58):
There's animals feed us wheat that makes our bread. Where
are we going to gain that? Where is that going
to come from? With the amount of people coming into
our province, into Canada, who is going to feed them?
People are not willing to budge. We do not want
to move, We do not want to sell. Go find
another location.

Speaker 14 (21:17):
The Department of National Defense has already purchased five hundred
and sixty acres in the Core at the Lakes area,
but says that it needs to acquire at least another
thousand acres to make the nora Ed expansion project viable.
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy.

Speaker 20 (21:35):
There's an understandable temptation to cut costs wherever possible on
the farm when the bottom line is getting squeezed. One
play issue did not want to cut corners the soiled testing.
Todd Schomberg, the senior agronomos that tells agronomy in Wisconsin, says,
there's a lot of important information that comes from a
successful soil test.

Speaker 22 (21:55):
So knowing that balance is very important because then it
helps you make this on how much fertilizer you may
need or manure. So your deposits are your manure, your fertilizer.
All that sort of nutrient put in and then your
crop makes the withdrawal, so over time that can change.
And one of the things I always thought is maybe

(22:16):
sooner or later we actually'd have to soil sample less
because we would know exactly how much deposits and withdrawals
we make, and then we would see that and it
would help us project forward.

Speaker 20 (22:26):
Soils are unique, which is why it's important to regularly
test them.

Speaker 22 (22:30):
But the soil is unique and it has a buffering capacity.
That's hard to tell that all the time, so we
do need to take these soil samples every couple of
years to three years to kind of help us know
that and when to take them again.

Speaker 20 (22:44):
That is Todd Schomberg, the senior agronomos that tells Agronomy
in Wisconsin, thanks for being with us. You're listening to
ag Live.

Speaker 23 (22:53):
It's time for California agg today on the ag Information Network.

Speaker 24 (22:57):
I am Haley.

Speaker 23 (22:58):
Ship technology is a rapidly reshaping dry bean research in California,
and growers saw that innovation firsthand during the University of
California Dry Bean Field Day. The event highlighted by the
University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, showcased
how drones, ground based robots, and advanced imaging tools are

(23:21):
changing the way breeders evaluate plant performance. Researchers at UC
Davis demonstrated how aerial and ground level imagery helps track growth,
stress response, and canopy traits far more efficiently than traditional
hand ratings. Team members including Travis Parker, Lars Lendquist, Hesapune,

(23:42):
and Earl Ernario are integrating these data into breeding work
across garbanzos, black eyed peas, common beans, and TEPPERI beans.
The technology also supports the Gemini Project, which develops breeding
resources for multiple bean types statewide. By pairing sensor based
men measurements with field knowledge, scientists say they can identify

(24:04):
promising lines earlier, with greater accuracy and less labor. For
growers who want a closer look at how these tools
work or are interested in hosting trial plots, you can
reach out to your local UCY Cooperative Extension office.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
Increasing your Alman yield can seem like a tough nut
to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon Funge's side at Bloom for added resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control and proven
yield results. See that wouldn't tough at all. Maravon funge

(24:39):
a side number one at bloom for all the right reasons.
Always read and follow label directions.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sophena
insecticide from BASF. We just get nailed with it. So
tell us how you feeling really really weird and you
still wanted to vour this view? No way, brou There
you have it, folks. Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to
disorient aphis and wie flies so they can't eat, and

(25:09):
when they can't eat, they can't destroy.

Speaker 12 (25:11):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with saphena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions with.

Speaker 23 (25:17):
California AGG Today on the AG Information Network, I am
Hailey's ship.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Bob Quinn here with some farm news this morning, friends.
Finding enough help on US farms continues to be a challenge.
Bob Larson takes a look at that for us this morning.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Well.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Finding enough labor to get the work done on the
farm and navigating regulations for the workforce have become increasingly
troublesome in recent years. Mike Strand's vice president of Advocacy
for the National Farmers Union says reform is more important
now than ever.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
With all of the added emphasis on the agriculture workforce
in the last year and the extra stresses that have
been put on the sector because of a lot of
the administration's actions, it's even more important to make progress
on workforce reform.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
For example, Strand says, more adjustments to the H two
A program, or probably better yet.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Doing some more broad reaching and far reaching reforms through
the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Now's the time to make
bipartisan progress. And with the bills that have been out
there or the bill that's been out there for quite
a long time, now now might be the opportunity that
we've been waiting for.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Especially, Strand says, given the recent improvements to border security.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
It may well be that with the seeming improvements to
border security concerns, paired with the greater emphasis we've all
had on the need for a secure and reliable farm workforce,
that adds up to a better shot for the Farm
Workforce Modernization Acts to move forward. And I think that
reaches across both parties and it could be an opportunity

(26:46):
to make some real headway in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Again that is Mike Strand's vice president of Advocacy at
the National Farmers Union.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well Frenzy Trump administration has announced a new eleven billion
dollar aid package for farmers. However, University of Illinois policy
expert Jonathan Coppas with US warns that without addressing underlying
trade conflicts and rising input costs, this bridge may not
lead to where farmers hope. Todd Gleeson with our story.

Speaker 25 (27:11):
I'm University of Illinois Extensions tug Lison are now joined
by policy expert from the University of Illinois, Jonathan Coppas,
to discuss the farmer aid package that was announced by
the Trump administration yesterday. Some eleven billion dollars to be
delivered to mostly row crop producers, but all kinds of
producers across the United States by the end of fedbue Weary.

(27:33):
They often in the administration discuss this as a bridge,
sometimes as a bridge to a golden era. What is Washington,
DC telling you about this bridge and really the definition
of it.

Speaker 26 (27:47):
I don't know if I can answer it in terms
of what Washington is telling anybody at this point. I
think there's there's still questions out there. But I think
what we're seeing is and this is this should sound
kind of stunning to people when we think about what
the term bridge means here, because the bridge is, as
I understand it is. Effectively, the bridge is something from
the ten billion dollars in ECAP payments made this spring

(28:10):
to the estimated thirteen and a half billion dollars that
we expect park and Plc to make next fall. But those,
as we all know, those program payments are delayed for
the marketing year. And I guess we're bridging over the
fact that the tariff and trade conflict with China is
not delivering necessarily the results that have been announced or
proclaimed or hoped for. But honestly, I think this whole

(28:31):
thing raises enormous questions and concerns that we will not
be bridging over by throwing more payments at problems that
are going to be around for a while.

Speaker 25 (28:40):
Now, what are your questions and concerns?

Speaker 26 (28:42):
So the single biggest question I have is are we
paying farmers to go off a cliff? Because if we've
lost the Chinese swabean market, we need to make some
serious adjustments in agriculture and payments tied to planted acres,
particularly being made as we go into the spring planting
decisions end up having us plant a whole lot of
acres that we don't have market for. And these payments

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are not going to fix that. These payments are not going.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
To help that.

Speaker 26 (29:07):
The second set of questions are if part of the
justification once again for these policy changes are increased input costs.
Are these payments only feeding increased input costs and not
helping farmers adjust the cost side of these equations. So
we're again putting them in a squeeze, and the payments
are temporary, and the squeeze may be lasting longer. So
I think the question here is Golden Era or not

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of agriculture. What are we doing and what are we
what are we setting farmers up for? Because I'm worried
that the after effects of these things, the tear off
conflict with China, the fact that we're just making payments
on top of payments on top of payments, and all
we hear is that these payments certainly aren't solving anything.
If we have to have more payments and more bridges
and more payments and bridges to payments. We've reached a

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level here that I think a lot of us should
be really concerned about the direction we're taking and the
outcomes that we're going to put farmers in. Right, these
are very useful if you're running around Washington demanding payments
and you can say it winter Meetings, I got you
more payments. These are not useful if your budget is
stretched and your input costs are inflated because of this,
and the markets aren't going to be their next fall

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when you got to sell crop.

Speaker 25 (30:12):
Jonathan Coppas is a policy specialist with the farm Doc Team.
He will be on the road at the winter meeting season.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
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Mike Davis wraps us up today.

Speaker 17 (33:12):
Sid Genta has just announced its latest insect management tool,
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Agency and is available for use subject to state approvals.
Scott Johnson is Senta Insecticides product.

Speaker 27 (33:28):
Lead Flannathon Technology sin genas latest innovation in breakthrough technology,
and it's going to provide significant protection for tough to
manage insects in a multitude of crops in different application
methods from seed treatment, sol applied and folier upon registration.

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We've tested it for over twelve years, about thirty three
hundred trials. We've also tested it in thirty different states
and forty different crops, so we feel very confident then,
you know, we're just really excited to bring it to
the growers into the market for the twenty six growing season.

Speaker 17 (34:06):
Johnson says Planazlin technology will power several new products.

Speaker 27 (34:10):
A Quinto would be our lead brand and that's going
to be for our cereal and pulse growers. It's an
insecticide sea treatment that offers flexibility and compatibility options to
terminate wireworms and suppress other below ground pests, ultimately improving
the plant stand and helping the growers bottom line. Opello
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like plant bugs, thrips, steamed bugs and mites.

Speaker 17 (35:01):
And Planazlein technology is also available for vegetable and specialty crops.

Speaker 27 (35:06):
For our vegetable growers, our brand will be Incipio insecticide
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option that will lead the way to potato and tree
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Speaker 17 (35:39):
Planazl and technology will be available for the twenty twenty
six growing season, subject to state approvals. To place your
order for one of these powerful new insecticides or to
learn more, contact your local Syngenta representative. Always read and
follow labeled instructions. Opelo is a restricted used pesticide. Mike
Davis reporting.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
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