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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Iglife. 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,
Expanding Access to Risk Protection is where we start off today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Public combts are now being accepted through January twenty seventh
on a final rule designed to expand producer access to
crop insurance and other risk protections. USDA Risk Management Agency
Administrator Pats Watson says, the focus of the Expanding Access
to Risk Protection Final Rule HERP is to.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Reduce burden some regulations and burden some paperwork for our farmers,
just to help make the program more accessible for our
farmers and easier for our agents to deliver the programs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll bug those aspects of HERP, scheduled to take effect
beginning in the twenty twenty six crop year, improved the
lad to access through preventative planting relief.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
In our current regulation. We had it in there that
there was three requirements in order for this physical piece
of land to be considered and qualified to receive the
prevented planting payment, that had to be planted, harvested, and insured.
And what we were finding was that the insured piece
was really difficult to find the answered and so it
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was becoming really burdensome for our farmers. So we decided
just to remove that word from the rule. So now
farmers just have to prove that the land had been
planted and harvested once in the last four years.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Stream blinde production reporting to crop insurance agents.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We still want to do the same year production reporting,
but if farmer's moving to a different insurance provider, it's
not required now for them to go back to their
previous agent to make that production report.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Simplification of dispute resolution processes at placing policy dates like
end of insurance at policy provision to create greater flexibilities
all the county level.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All the dates that are involved in like termination dates
and cancelation dates and end of insurance dates, we're just
removing those from the federal regulations so that they're more nimble,
so we can make changes as we see necessary without
having to make this into a final rule. And it
just makes it more nimble for the program to be
able to see, oh, there's an issue here with maybe
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the termination date, which creates a billing date or a
time when a farmer has to pay by.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
More details about the expand to Access to Risk Protection
final Rule are available oddline at www dot RMA, dot
USDA dot gov or through your local crop insurance agent.
Rodbain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well Friends Agriculture has waited a long time for any
changes to the H two to a program. We'll have
a story coming up. This is Aglife Bob when here
with some farm use today Friends. The twenty twenty six
American Farm Bureau Young Farmers in Ranchers Leadership Conference is
coming up quickly. Chad Smith tells US it gives farmers
the opportunity to become advocates for agriculture.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Rooted in Resilience is the theme for the twenty twenty
sixth WIF and OUR Conference, set for March thirteenth through
the sixteenth and Portland, Oregon, Massachusetts. Farmer Ryan McKay is
this year's yf and our chair and talked about what's
coming up at this year's conference.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
We are really excited about the twenty twenty six Leadership Conference.
The conference is returning to the Pacific Northwest for the
first time this year since two thousand and one, and
It'll include attendees and young farmers and ranchers from all
across the country, from Puerto Rico to Canada.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
He said attendees will get a lot out of this
year's conference.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The conference features a strong lineup of breakout sessions, including
topics such as leveraging AI to enhanced farm and ranch operations. Also,
we are offering a strong lineup of tours that highlight
both the Portland area and agricultural operations in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Getting involved in advocacy as young farmers and ranchers is
essential to the future success of US agriculture.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Because they ensures the next generation has a seat at
the table and influencing policy, regulations and public perceptions that
will directly impact our long term ability to farm. And
I think the Wife our program gives us that seat
at the table and the tools to grow.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Attendees can register for the conference at fb dot org.
Forward Slash Event Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Another year is coming gone without farm labor reforms, and
a long time senator explains why. Out of the Midwest,
Senator Chuck Grassley is as frustrated as any over Congress's
decades long failure to reform the H two A guest
worker program.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
It makes common sense that agriculture needs workers year round,
not seasonal workers at particular if you're an animal agriculture.
As one example, more.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Than three hundred and fifty food farm and farm worker
groups came together on a twenty twenty two bill sponsored
by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennett.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Increases the number of H two A visas and opens
the program up the year round jobs for the first
time ever. It creates wage certainty for farmers to protect
them from harmful swings and labor costs.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And Bennett claims of save farmers twenty three billion dollars
over twelve years, or two billion more than a House
passed version, but it was not to be in the Senate,
where three years later, Grassley says, the same issues still
stand in the way.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
There's people on the right aren't going to vote for
anything unless you get twelve million people illegally in our
country out of the country, and that is unfeasible. And
then there's people on the left, woe vote for anything
that you don't make people's citizens.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yesterday, the earlier bill tried to strike a compromise by
creating a temporary renewable legal status for farm workers already
here with an option to earn permanent legal status well friends.
Last month's United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP thirty,
was attended by an estimated fifty thousand people from around
the globe. Mattie Holkinson, a seventh generation Minnesota pig farmer,
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participated in several panels with representation from industry sectors such
as agriculture, energy, transferred to and non governmental organizations. US
pork insured producers had a seat at the table to
share their weak care commitment. Jamie Burr, chief Sustainability Officer
for the National Pork Board, talked about their participation.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Farmers get up every day to protect their family, protect resources,
produce safe abundant supply of food, and being able to
have a producer share her individual's life and family story
of progress of continuous improvement was just invaluable because she
can bring no more that emotional piece versus the data
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science piece to the story.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Events like COP thirty convene experts to strategically identify and
address key issues that could threaten producers freedom to operate.
For Burr, they created space to listen and learn from
peers around the world, while also providing an important opportunity
to share the US pork industry's commitment to progress. Six
hundred and seventy three million people are under neuro to
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meeting there are not getting enough to eat. That's a
compelling reminder of the role animal based protein can play
in delivering essential nutrition. Farm News this morning, you're listening
to ag Life. It's another agnews update. Ethanol output hitting
a new record, farm credit titans, Christmas tree growers facing
impoor pressure.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
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Speaker 9 (07:50):
US ethanol production setting a new weekly record as plants
reached one point one to three million barrels per day
to close November, even while gas demand slid to a
twenty six week low and domestic blending sloane stocks rose modestly.
Exports jump nearly forty percent, highlighting strong international interest heading
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into winter. At the same time, Kansas City federal reserves
as farm credit conditions tightened again in the third quarter,
with lower crop margins eroding working capital, increasing loan renewals,
and pushing capital spending to its lowest pace since early
twenty twenty. Those steady land values do continue to provide
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stability especialty crops us Christmas tree growers contending with a
long production cycle, rising labor and pest pressures, and the
rapid expansion of imported artificial trees largely sourced from China.
Exporters facing rising ocean freight rates. Last quarter, green shipping
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costs from the Gulf and facil at Northwest climb seven
to seventeen percent. It's another rag News update.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 13 (09:09):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light cruded pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:25):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Always call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig
dot com before you start work. A message from the
pipeline operators for egg Safety Campaign. American Cattle News. What's
the importance of vitamin A for cattle? We'll find out
after this.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
You're going to need meat. You're going to need us,
all of us. If you're going to need our help
with your water, your air, your food.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You're going to need our determination, our compassion.
Speaker 11 (09:58):
You're going to need the next generation of LEA to
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FOURH dot org.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Kansas State Beef System Specialist Emma Briggs.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
So Viamina matters a lot, especially in the reproductive cowherd.
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
just growing young cattle. In general, vitamin A is mostly
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found in green forges and so we're talking green luss pastures,
that's an excellent source lots of beta carotene in place
that cattle can convert to vitamin A. Cattle can also
convert beta caroteen into vitamin A naturally, and during the
pasture season when we really see a lot of green
growth in those cattle can typically a sue. We can
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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
available green forage. For those cows, where there's always toxicity
levels with everything. However, in my personal experience, I have
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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 (11:36):
Side and even blindness.
Speaker 14 (11:38):
So cows just have a 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.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Properly American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
This is Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 15 (12:05):
Happy New Year to the US dairy farmer and industry
that we have saluted for decades. And joining us for
a final time on our Milkie Monday is Lee Milk,
who started it all about forty years ago. Lee, thanks
for joining us as we close out our dairy line
and our Dairy Radio Now shows. When did you first
launch this radio program for dairy farmers now?
Speaker 16 (12:25):
It came from friends from our church and when we
would socialize the topic inedmitably would switch to dairy farming.
I had no background in farming whatsoever, even though I
was from Wisconsin. My last name is Milky. I was
not associated with the dairy industry. But I was surprised
at the lack of knowledge and understanding that a lot
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of dairy farmers had at that time. My first job
in radio was back in Berlin, Wisconsin, at a radio
station that was well listened to by farm The farm
director there if he said sell Huggs that morning, ninety
percent of the farmers in that county would go sell
Hoggs based on his expertise and say so. And I
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was impressed and So when I moved to the state
of Washington nineteen seventy four seventy five, the radio station
I went to work for here did not have a
farm show. On Labor Day nineteen eighty eight, Dairy Line
on five radio stations and three states eventually grew to
over one hundred radio stations in thirty two states, purely
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and a blessing of God to take a city slicker
who barely knew the difference between a bull and a
heifer and make him a syndicated radio announcer and columnist.
Because soon after the radio program started built that began
my Dairy Line column, and I still write the column
now called the Milky Market Weekly.
Speaker 15 (13:54):
So then in nineteen ninety nine you sold Dairy Line
to Dairy Business Communications, and that's when I came along.
Speaker 16 (14:01):
You came on as my assistant, and we became friends
and coworkers, and we had a lot of fun in
those years.
Speaker 15 (14:10):
We've seen some changes through the years in the dairy industry.
One thing that hasn't changed is milk still comes from
a cow, but it's more milk.
Speaker 16 (14:18):
And that's an angel problem that has plagged the industry
four as long as I've been in it roughly two
percent surplus milk hurts the price on the other ninety
eight percent and prompted back in the eighty five farm bill.
I believe it is when the whole hurt bial program
came online. It was developed by a California dairy farmer
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took an interest in and we interviewed several times on
dairy Line. We had regular communication with Congressman Jim Jeffards
of Vermont at that time, who shepherd it through the
House of Representatives, and we also found support for it
in the Senate, and the whole heard Bio program became
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a reality, and I think dairy Line had a small
part to play in that, and it was a successful
program that indeed limited the amount of belk, reduced it
and got the milk price back up. But unfortunately the
program was never repeated, and there was some talk of
beginning a quota system similar to Canada's in the United States,
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but that never took off either. So we are still
at the same problem of too much milk depressing the
price on the needed ninety eight percent. You know, one
of the biggest influences or changes that I saw in
my career were two One was computer feeding systems and
electronics coming onto the dairy to the point that a
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computer divvied up the amount of feed I would get
based on its lactation curb and even sounded an alarm
for mass titis also flagged a KL when it was
ready to bread. So electronics and the second big influencer
I believe, in my humble opinion was multiple component pricing,
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and farmers were paid not just on the amount of
milk and butterfat, but on butterfat, protein, and a number
of other components in the milk. That changed a lot
in the industry.
Speaker 15 (16:25):
Lee Milkie the host of Dairy Line for decades and
also column this now for the Milky Market Weekly in
several newspapers. We'll continue our conversation tomorrow as we look
back at Dairy Radio Now and Dairy Line. I'm Bill
Baker Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 17 (16:43):
A major farm operation speaks out on what they do
the scope of their farming. I'm Patrick Cabanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the AG Information Network.
Zach Fowler is CEO and director of asset Management for
Fowler Brothers Farming. They're based in the Waterford area, Stanislaus, County.
Speaker 16 (17:00):
Yeah, so we.
Speaker 18 (17:00):
Managed to approximate about twelve hundred acres throughout the state, and
we oversee almonds, olives, and walnuts, and currently we're looking
to get into said tomatoes and alfalfa. We farm from
Woodland just above Sacramento all the way down through the
Newman areas as of right now.
Speaker 17 (17:14):
Founder said they farm their own crops as well as
for others who are absentee farmers.
Speaker 18 (17:18):
Yeah, that's correct. Well, we farm our own stuff, and
then we also farm for people that don't want to farm,
or people that really have no idea, like said Acid
Pee owners. And you know, we like to look at
ourselves as almost like professional landscapers, so people that don't
really want to they want to own a farm, but
they really don't want to do anything with it.
Speaker 17 (17:32):
Foul our comments on the fact that tree nut growing
requires less labor, not none, but less.
Speaker 16 (17:37):
Yeah, it is less labor.
Speaker 19 (17:38):
It can be you know, depends on what your farming
practices are and stuff like that. Obviously everyone's trying to
go towards the less labor side of things just due
to the fact that labor's getting so expensive. The state's
putting you know, tighter restrictions on overtime rules for.
Speaker 18 (17:51):
Ads, I mean a lot of time actions you know,
how to higher overtime rules and everything like that. And
now were going to get tighter and tighter every year.
So you're starting to see people cut down on overtime.
So they're trying to find there are more ways to
get the actually Handley Brosfield getting machines in there.
Speaker 17 (18:03):
That's Zach Fowler with Fowler Brothers Farming.
Speaker 20 (18:06):
The best place to reach a farmer with a farming
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the wheel of their pickup truck or farm equipment with
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Speaker 17 (19:02):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 21 (19:06):
Welcome to Aglife. I'm Dwayne Murley with your farm news.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A connection between regenerative agricultural practices like cover crops, a
no till, improving soil nutrients and water quality, and production
of more nutrient dense foods to approve our nation's health.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
believes so.
Speaker 16 (19:27):
They provided us models for how to do this and
how to do it in a way at vertically integrates
that preserves profit margins and dramatically reduces inputs.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
HHS research is under way of that regard. It coincides
with the recent Agriculture Department announcement of a new regenerative
agriculture pilot program.
Speaker 22 (19:46):
In order to.
Speaker 23 (19:46):
Continue to be the most productive and most efficient growers
in the world, we must protect our top soil from
a necessary erosion and boost the microbiome of the soil.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Agriculture Secretary Brick RAWLID says the seven hundred million dollars
far First Pilot program is designed to be a streamlined,
outcome based approach to encourage producers who wish to transition
to regenerative AG to do so.
Speaker 23 (20:10):
Whole farm planning is the centerpiece, ensuring that all resource
concerns such as soil, water, and natural vitality are addressed together,
not one piece at a time. Producers will benefit from
a single application, reducing red tape and making conservations here
to access and are programs more impactful.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will oversee the Regenerative AG
Pilot program, one that will utilize existing at our CS offerings,
the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Conservation Stewardship Program.
Speaker 23 (20:42):
Each producer's results will be measured and credited back to
the farmer through an outcomes report, recognizing and rewarding improvements
they achieve on their own land.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yet, a key piece is not only the pilot program,
but federal government efforts to boost consumer education of soil
and water quality with better nutrition health. As explained by
the Secretary.
Speaker 23 (21:02):
Using the Sustains Act, we will bring corporate label and
supply chain partners directly into partnership within RCS, supporting regenerative
agriculture adoption, farmer recognition, and consumer education. Because success depends
on strong partnerships, we will expand work through our technical
service providers and local organizations to meet demand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Also, the Office of Urban agg and Innovative Production under
an RCS purview, will.
Speaker 23 (21:26):
Extend regenerative priorities into cities and urban areas and urban communities.
And many of those places are those that are facing
the most severe crisis regarding nutritious foods and access to
nutritious foods.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Myriad of challenge is faced by farm producers at recent months.
Led to this recent announcement by President Donald Trump.
Speaker 24 (21:44):
The United States will be taking a small portion of
the dollars we receive in tariff twelve million dollars in
economic assistance to American farmers.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The Farmer Bridge Assistance Program oversee by the Agriculture Department will.
Speaker 24 (21:57):
Provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get this
year's harvest to market and look ahead to next year's crops,
and they'll help them continue their effort to low food
prices for American Families.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlods explains the money will.
Speaker 25 (22:10):
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 that number looks like.
Speaker 23 (22:21):
So as you are going to your lender, as you
are working to ensure and understanding what you can plant
for next year, you will have that number in hand.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Under Secretary for Fire Production at Conservation, Richard Fordyce ads
that to determine payments to row crop growers, FBA.
Speaker 26 (22:37):
Uses a straightforward, uniform formula based on planet acres, cost
of production data, and lossby forecast to model economic losses
for the twenty twenty five crop year. Payments will cover
a portion of those modeled losses. Scale to fit within
the dollars available.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Pre filled applications will be utilized for FBA.
Speaker 26 (22:55):
I want to stress this program is simple, proportional and fair,
with no complict factors, no carving up producers by proper region.
If you plan an eligible crop and you've taken a hit,
you'll receive support.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The Undersecretary ads.
Speaker 26 (23:08):
Producers should ensure their twenty twenty five acres reports are
accurate by December nineteenth at five pm Eastern Time, because
those acres are the basis for PANIC calculations. Commodity specific
payment rates will be released later this month.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
While a loved billion of the twelve billion dollars IT
assistance focuses on road crop growers and their commodities.
Speaker 26 (23:27):
The remaining one billion dollars will be reserved for commodities
not covered under the road Crop program, including specialty crops,
and USDA is working to ensure that that support is
targeted appropriately.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Broad Bane Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 22 (23:42):
D C.
Speaker 21 (23:43):
You're listening to agg Life where we speak farm. Thanks
for being with us today. I am Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 27 (23:50):
It's time for California AD Today on the ag Information Network.
I am Hayleyship. The New World screwworm has been a
topic of ongoing discussion among livestyle producers and University of
California Agriculture and Natural resources scientists say it remains worth
keeping top of mind. The good news the flesh burrowing
parasite remains south of the US border, though detections in
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Mexico underscore the need for vigilance, particularly for California's dairy industry.
You see Experts caution that California is not immune to risk.
They say that dairy products are the state's top agricultural
commodity at eight point sixty one billion dollars annually, and
that even brief disruptions could have major consequences. Unlike beef cattle,
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which can be held back from market during a quarantine,
dairy cows produce milk every day that must be processed immediately,
explains Danielle Lebruno. You see Cooperative Extension Dairy Advisor for Fresno,
Madeira and King's Counties, adding that if a farm is
quarantined or a plant shuts down, milk spoils quickly and
has to be dumped. You see A and R. Scientists
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continue to share prevention resources and monitor for early warning signs.
Producers are encouraged to stay informed through official updates, including
the USDA's website screwworm dot gov.
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Speaker 20 (25:37):
The best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they're well farming. It's easy to
find them during the day, as most farmers are behind
the wheel of the pickup truck or farm equipment with
the radio on, listening to this station for the ag
Information Network of the West News. So reach real farmers
right here, right now as they listen to what's important
(25:57):
to their farm operation.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
Give us a call.
Speaker 20 (26:00):
We'll connect you with our local farming community. They trust us,
so they'll trust you.
Speaker 27 (26:05):
This is California AGG Today on the ag Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Bob when here were some farm News Today friends. The
twenty twenty six American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers
Leadership Conference is coming up quickly. Chad Smith tells us
it gives farmers the opportunity to become advocates for agriculture.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Rooted in resilience, is the theme for the twenty twenty
sixth YFNR Conference, set for March thirteenth through the sixteenth
in Portland, Oregon, Massachusetts. Farmer Ryan McKay is this year's
yfn R chair and talked about what's coming up at
this year's conference.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
We are really excited about the twenty twenty six Leadership Conference.
The conference is returning to the Pacific Northwest for the
first time this year since two thousand and one, and
it'll include attendees and young farmers and ranchers from all
across the country, from Puerto Rico to Canada.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
He said attendees will get a lot out of this
year's conference.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
The conference features a strong lineup of breakout sessions, including
topics such as leveraging AI to enhance farm and ranch operations. Also,
we are offering a strong lineup of tours that highlight
both the Portland area and agricultural operations in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Getting involved in advocacy as young farmers and ranchers is
essential to the future success of US agriculture.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Because it ensures the next generation has a seat at
the table and influencing policy, regulations and public perceptions that
will directly impact our long term ability to farm, and
I think the wife in our program gives us that
seat at the table and the tools to grow.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Attendees can register for the conference at fb dot org.
Forward Slash Event Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Another year is coming gone without farm labor reforms, and
a long time senator explains why. Out of the Midwest,
Senator Chuck Grassley is as frustrated as any over Congress's
decades long failure to reform the to a guest worker program.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
It makes common sense that agriculture needs workers year round,
not seasonal workers, particularly if you're an animal agriculture. As
one example, more.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Than three hundred and fifty food farm and farm worker
groups came together on a twenty twenty two bill sponsored
by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennett.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Increases the number of h two A visas. It opens
the program up to year round jobs for the first
time ever. It creates wage certainty for farmers to protect
them from harmful swings and labor costs.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And Bennett claims it would have saved farmers twenty three
billion dollars over twelve years, or two billion more than
a House passed version, but it was not to be
in the Senate, where three years later, Grassley says, the
same issues still stand in the way.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
There's people on the right aren't going to volt for
anything unless you get twelve million people illegally in our
country out of the country, and that is unfeasible. And
then there's people on the left woll vote for anything
you don't make people's citizens.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yesterday, the earlier bill tried to strike a compromise by
creating a temporary renewable legal status for farm workers already here,
with an option to earn permanent legal status. Well friends.
Several new cotton varieties for the southeast US were announced
at a recent grower summit. Mike Davis, how's the report
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for US?
Speaker 12 (29:24):
This morning?
Speaker 28 (29:25):
The annual Delta Pine New Product Devaluator Summit in Hollywood,
Florida brought together more than one hundred and fifty cotton
growers from across the country to witness the introduction of
several new varieties for twenty twenty six. Delta Pine Product
manager Eric Best says the new DP twenty six thirty
two proved very popular with the NPE growers who tested it.
Speaker 29 (29:47):
It is a mid maturity again, going that's typically the
maturity range they like to see over there in those
top geographies that yielded very very well, and we have
some pretty strong products in that environment anyway. So to
have something in a thriv on lineup that's on par
and or beating some of the current lineup is very promising.
Speaker 28 (30:06):
Best says DP. Twenty six twenty four also tested strongly
in the Southeast.
Speaker 29 (30:11):
Twenty six twenty four was another interesting set of germplasm
in the upper lower Southeast. Performed again very well against
those commercial checks we have. It is a thrive on
that also brings route not resistance, and one of the
things we continue to hear from growers on the nematode
side is I might have had some I'm not sure.
I might not have. But when you look at some
of their trials and you continue to see these nematde
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resistant lines come to the top, it makes you wonder
if the pest is there.
Speaker 28 (30:36):
Best says the Delta Pine products typically test strongly and
the adoptability rate reflects the grower's confidence.
Speaker 29 (30:45):
When these things are tested by the virtue of this
program in these real world environments. It is not uncommon
in some of these geographies for a grower to turn
around and put a half to two thirds, if not more,
of their acres and something in your one. Because they
have that confidence how it's going to perform on their farm,
under their environments, under their management scenarios, we see very
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rapid adoptability.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I'm Mike Davis farm US This morning. You're listening to
AG Life.
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From the AG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. Well, the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon
and Washington wrapped up fiscal year twenty twenty five with
a standout timber performance. Morning agclips dot Com reports across
Oregon and Washington, the BLM exceeded its annual goal in
support of the President's promise of increased timber production, offered
fifteen percent more timber than in fiscal year twenty twenty four. Altogether,
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BLM Oregon Washington sold two hundred and forty one million
board feet of timber from October of twenty twenty four
to September of this year. USDA approved stricter limits in
multiple states on what Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program recipients can
buy beginning in the new year. Under the waivers, states
can redefine food for purchase to exclude items such as candy, soda,
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and other products deemed unhealthy. Six states, including Hawaii, Missouri,
North Kota, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, received USDA approval,
joining others that have already adopted similar rules under the
Make America Healthy Again initiative. US Customs and Border Protection
agricultural specialists have intercepted a species of bark beetle never
before found in a US port of entry. The tiny insect,
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identified as Satana locks and spinnafer eggers, was discovered in
a piece of dried bark a passenger carried through the
Detroit Metropolitan Airport en route to Texas. Experts say the
afrotropical beetle tunnels within bark layers, making it a potential
threat to trees such as figs and olives.
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With your agribusiness update, I'm Bob Larson.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Bob Quinner from Maglife. To wrap up today's program. Spurging
on beef for the holidays in Canada, Dennis Sky has
more from north of the border. Many Canadians planning for
Christmas or a New Year's Eve dinner are staying with
a traditional turkey or ham as their main course, but
because it's just not served quite as often due to
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soaring prices these days, some are choosing beef as a
special treat for their families during the holiday season. There's
really nothing at the meat counter that could be described
as cheap, with all categories taking price hikes, even the
poultry and pork cuts. In Winnipeg, shopping at her local
butcher's counter, Maya Fontaine says meat prices are generally high anyway,
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so she's decided to have a small surloin roast for
her immediate family on Christmas Day.
Speaker 27 (34:24):
Hi, everywhere, I was actually looking at that one.
Speaker 23 (34:26):
This one is a top sir. Lane is sixty two dollars.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
Fontaine's longtime butcher is Sean Miller, who runs his family's
shop in Winnipeg. Miller says he's seen a lot of
changes in his customer's buying habits since beef started to
rise five years ago. People are certainly buying less of
their favorite beef cuts. And another thing he's noticed is
demand for certain cuts of beef that were never in
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very high demand before.
Speaker 30 (34:53):
Chuck ros, short ribs, flank steak, all those things used
to be trim, and now they are cuts that people
are wanting. The law lot of people aren't shying away
from buying beef. We're still seeing a strong demand for it.
The changes I've seen over the last five years in
the beef industry have been pretty drastic. A ribbi used
to be around ten dollars a steak, and now we're
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sitting at anywhere from twenty to thirty depending on the grave.
Speaker 12 (35:20):
And with retail beef sales at butcher shops and grocery
stores down in volume, that translates to much higher demand
for the other two primary meat categories, pork and poultry products.
Sylvain Charleblad, director of the Agra Food Analytics Lab del
Housie University, believes that higher meat product prices will remain
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high throughout twenty twenty six and well into twenty twenty seven.
He says it will take at least that long for
cattle herd numbers to catch up with beef supply, putting
continued pressure across the board on animal protein demand.
Speaker 31 (35:54):
The problem with beef is affecting meat counter economics altogether.
Prices for chicken and are also rising as a result
of what's going on.
Speaker 12 (36:02):
With beefh price sticker shock at the meat counter, according
to food chain analysts Sylvain Charlebos is leading or forcing
many consumers to experiment with various kinds of vegetable proteins.
Charlet Boughs says consumers who would never call themselves. Vegetarians
are getting more adventurous.
Speaker 31 (36:21):
People are more focused on other things beyond the meat counter.
The most popular vegetable protein sources out there are tofu, hummus, lentils, chickpeas,
people are exploring.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis S Guy.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
With that friends, aro ount of time for today, Thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
Bag Life
Good morning, Valley. This is Iglife. 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,
Expanding Access to Risk Protection is where we start off today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Public combts are now being accepted through January twenty seventh
on a final rule designed to expand producer access to
crop insurance and other risk protections. USDA Risk Management Agency
Administrator Pats Watson says, the focus of the Expanding Access
to Risk Protection Final Rule HERP is to.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Reduce burden some regulations and burden some paperwork for our farmers,
just to help make the program more accessible for our
farmers and easier for our agents to deliver the programs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll bug those aspects of HERP, scheduled to take effect
beginning in the twenty twenty six crop year, improved the
lad to access through preventative planting relief.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
In our current regulation. We had it in there that
there was three requirements in order for this physical piece
of land to be considered and qualified to receive the
prevented planting payment, that had to be planted, harvested, and insured.
And what we were finding was that the insured piece
was really difficult to find the answered and so it
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was becoming really burdensome for our farmers. So we decided
just to remove that word from the rule. So now
farmers just have to prove that the land had been
planted and harvested once in the last four years.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Stream blinde production reporting to crop insurance agents.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We still want to do the same year production reporting,
but if farmer's moving to a different insurance provider, it's
not required now for them to go back to their
previous agent to make that production report.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Simplification of dispute resolution processes at placing policy dates like
end of insurance at policy provision to create greater flexibilities
all the county level.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All the dates that are involved in like termination dates
and cancelation dates and end of insurance dates, we're just
removing those from the federal regulations so that they're more nimble,
so we can make changes as we see necessary without
having to make this into a final rule. And it
just makes it more nimble for the program to be
able to see, oh, there's an issue here with maybe
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the termination date, which creates a billing date or a
time when a farmer has to pay by.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
More details about the expand to Access to Risk Protection
final Rule are available oddline at www dot RMA, dot
USDA dot gov or through your local crop insurance agent.
Rodbain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well Friends Agriculture has waited a long time for any
changes to the H two to a program. We'll have
a story coming up. This is Aglife Bob when here
with some farm use today Friends. The twenty twenty six
American Farm Bureau Young Farmers in Ranchers Leadership Conference is
coming up quickly. Chad Smith tells US it gives farmers
the opportunity to become advocates for agriculture.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Rooted in Resilience is the theme for the twenty twenty
sixth WIF and OUR Conference, set for March thirteenth through
the sixteenth and Portland, Oregon, Massachusetts. Farmer Ryan McKay is
this year's yf and our chair and talked about what's
coming up at this year's conference.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
We are really excited about the twenty twenty six Leadership Conference.
The conference is returning to the Pacific Northwest for the
first time this year since two thousand and one, and
It'll include attendees and young farmers and ranchers from all
across the country, from Puerto Rico to Canada.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
He said attendees will get a lot out of this
year's conference.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The conference features a strong lineup of breakout sessions, including
topics such as leveraging AI to enhanced farm and ranch operations. Also,
we are offering a strong lineup of tours that highlight
both the Portland area and agricultural operations in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Getting involved in advocacy as young farmers and ranchers is
essential to the future success of US agriculture.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Because they ensures the next generation has a seat at
the table and influencing policy, regulations and public perceptions that
will directly impact our long term ability to farm. And
I think the Wife our program gives us that seat
at the table and the tools to grow.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Attendees can register for the conference at fb dot org.
Forward Slash Event Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Another year is coming gone without farm labor reforms, and
a long time senator explains why. Out of the Midwest,
Senator Chuck Grassley is as frustrated as any over Congress's
decades long failure to reform the H two A guest
worker program.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
It makes common sense that agriculture needs workers year round,
not seasonal workers at particular if you're an animal agriculture.
As one example, more.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Than three hundred and fifty food farm and farm worker
groups came together on a twenty twenty two bill sponsored
by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennett.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Increases the number of H two A visas and opens
the program up the year round jobs for the first
time ever. It creates wage certainty for farmers to protect
them from harmful swings and labor costs.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And Bennett claims of save farmers twenty three billion dollars
over twelve years, or two billion more than a House
passed version, but it was not to be in the Senate,
where three years later, Grassley says, the same issues still
stand in the way.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
There's people on the right aren't going to vote for
anything unless you get twelve million people illegally in our
country out of the country, and that is unfeasible. And
then there's people on the left, woe vote for anything
that you don't make people's citizens.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yesterday, the earlier bill tried to strike a compromise by
creating a temporary renewable legal status for farm workers already
here with an option to earn permanent legal status well friends.
Last month's United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP thirty,
was attended by an estimated fifty thousand people from around
the globe. Mattie Holkinson, a seventh generation Minnesota pig farmer,
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participated in several panels with representation from industry sectors such
as agriculture, energy, transferred to and non governmental organizations. US
pork insured producers had a seat at the table to
share their weak care commitment. Jamie Burr, chief Sustainability Officer
for the National Pork Board, talked about their participation.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Farmers get up every day to protect their family, protect resources,
produce safe abundant supply of food, and being able to
have a producer share her individual's life and family story
of progress of continuous improvement was just invaluable because she
can bring no more that emotional piece versus the data
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science piece to the story.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Events like COP thirty convene experts to strategically identify and
address key issues that could threaten producers freedom to operate.
For Burr, they created space to listen and learn from
peers around the world, while also providing an important opportunity
to share the US pork industry's commitment to progress. Six
hundred and seventy three million people are under neuro to
(07:00):
meeting there are not getting enough to eat. That's a
compelling reminder of the role animal based protein can play
in delivering essential nutrition. Farm News this morning, you're listening
to ag Life. It's another agnews update. Ethanol output hitting
a new record, farm credit titans, Christmas tree growers facing
impoor pressure.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
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Speaker 9 (07:50):
US ethanol production setting a new weekly record as plants
reached one point one to three million barrels per day
to close November, even while gas demand slid to a
twenty six week low and domestic blending sloane stocks rose modestly.
Exports jump nearly forty percent, highlighting strong international interest heading
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into winter. At the same time, Kansas City federal reserves
as farm credit conditions tightened again in the third quarter,
with lower crop margins eroding working capital, increasing loan renewals,
and pushing capital spending to its lowest pace since early
twenty twenty. Those steady land values do continue to provide
(08:35):
stability especialty crops us Christmas tree growers contending with a
long production cycle, rising labor and pest pressures, and the
rapid expansion of imported artificial trees largely sourced from China.
Exporters facing rising ocean freight rates. Last quarter, green shipping
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costs from the Gulf and facil at Northwest climb seven
to seventeen percent. It's another rag News update.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 13 (09:09):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light cruded pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:25):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines.
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Always call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig
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pipeline operators for egg Safety Campaign. American Cattle News. What's
the importance of vitamin A for cattle? We'll find out
after this.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
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Speaker 9 (10:14):
Kansas State Beef System Specialist Emma Briggs.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
So Viamina matters a lot, especially in the reproductive cowherd.
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
just growing young cattle. In general, vitamin A is mostly
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found in green forges and so we're talking green luss pastures,
that's an excellent source lots of beta carotene in place
that cattle can convert to vitamin A. Cattle can also
convert beta caroteen into vitamin A naturally, and during the
pasture season when we really see a lot of green
growth in those cattle can typically a sue. We can
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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
available green forage. For those cows, where there's always toxicity
levels with everything. However, in my personal experience, I have
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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 (11:36):
Side and even blindness.
Speaker 14 (11:38):
So cows just have a 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.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Properly American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
This is Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 15 (12:05):
Happy New Year to the US dairy farmer and industry
that we have saluted for decades. And joining us for
a final time on our Milkie Monday is Lee Milk,
who started it all about forty years ago. Lee, thanks
for joining us as we close out our dairy line
and our Dairy Radio Now shows. When did you first
launch this radio program for dairy farmers now?
Speaker 16 (12:25):
It came from friends from our church and when we
would socialize the topic inedmitably would switch to dairy farming.
I had no background in farming whatsoever, even though I
was from Wisconsin. My last name is Milky. I was
not associated with the dairy industry. But I was surprised
at the lack of knowledge and understanding that a lot
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of dairy farmers had at that time. My first job
in radio was back in Berlin, Wisconsin, at a radio
station that was well listened to by farm The farm
director there if he said sell Huggs that morning, ninety
percent of the farmers in that county would go sell
Hoggs based on his expertise and say so. And I
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was impressed and So when I moved to the state
of Washington nineteen seventy four seventy five, the radio station
I went to work for here did not have a
farm show. On Labor Day nineteen eighty eight, Dairy Line
on five radio stations and three states eventually grew to
over one hundred radio stations in thirty two states, purely
(13:35):
and a blessing of God to take a city slicker
who barely knew the difference between a bull and a
heifer and make him a syndicated radio announcer and columnist.
Because soon after the radio program started built that began
my Dairy Line column, and I still write the column
now called the Milky Market Weekly.
Speaker 15 (13:54):
So then in nineteen ninety nine you sold Dairy Line
to Dairy Business Communications, and that's when I came along.
Speaker 16 (14:01):
You came on as my assistant, and we became friends
and coworkers, and we had a lot of fun in
those years.
Speaker 15 (14:10):
We've seen some changes through the years in the dairy industry.
One thing that hasn't changed is milk still comes from
a cow, but it's more milk.
Speaker 16 (14:18):
And that's an angel problem that has plagged the industry
four as long as I've been in it roughly two
percent surplus milk hurts the price on the other ninety
eight percent and prompted back in the eighty five farm bill.
I believe it is when the whole hurt bial program
came online. It was developed by a California dairy farmer
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took an interest in and we interviewed several times on
dairy Line. We had regular communication with Congressman Jim Jeffards
of Vermont at that time, who shepherd it through the
House of Representatives, and we also found support for it
in the Senate, and the whole heard Bio program became
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a reality, and I think dairy Line had a small
part to play in that, and it was a successful
program that indeed limited the amount of belk, reduced it
and got the milk price back up. But unfortunately the
program was never repeated, and there was some talk of
beginning a quota system similar to Canada's in the United States,
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but that never took off either. So we are still
at the same problem of too much milk depressing the
price on the needed ninety eight percent. You know, one
of the biggest influences or changes that I saw in
my career were two One was computer feeding systems and
electronics coming onto the dairy to the point that a
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computer divvied up the amount of feed I would get
based on its lactation curb and even sounded an alarm
for mass titis also flagged a KL when it was
ready to bread. So electronics and the second big influencer
I believe, in my humble opinion was multiple component pricing,
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and farmers were paid not just on the amount of
milk and butterfat, but on butterfat, protein, and a number
of other components in the milk. That changed a lot
in the industry.
Speaker 15 (16:25):
Lee Milkie the host of Dairy Line for decades and
also column this now for the Milky Market Weekly in
several newspapers. We'll continue our conversation tomorrow as we look
back at Dairy Radio Now and Dairy Line. I'm Bill
Baker Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 17 (16:43):
A major farm operation speaks out on what they do
the scope of their farming. I'm Patrick Cabanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the AG Information Network.
Zach Fowler is CEO and director of asset Management for
Fowler Brothers Farming. They're based in the Waterford area, Stanislaus, County.
Speaker 16 (17:00):
Yeah, so we.
Speaker 18 (17:00):
Managed to approximate about twelve hundred acres throughout the state, and
we oversee almonds, olives, and walnuts, and currently we're looking
to get into said tomatoes and alfalfa. We farm from
Woodland just above Sacramento all the way down through the
Newman areas as of right now.
Speaker 17 (17:14):
Founder said they farm their own crops as well as
for others who are absentee farmers.
Speaker 18 (17:18):
Yeah, that's correct. Well, we farm our own stuff, and
then we also farm for people that don't want to farm,
or people that really have no idea, like said Acid
Pee owners. And you know, we like to look at
ourselves as almost like professional landscapers, so people that don't
really want to they want to own a farm, but
they really don't want to do anything with it.
Speaker 17 (17:32):
Foul our comments on the fact that tree nut growing
requires less labor, not none, but less.
Speaker 16 (17:37):
Yeah, it is less labor.
Speaker 19 (17:38):
It can be you know, depends on what your farming
practices are and stuff like that. Obviously everyone's trying to
go towards the less labor side of things just due
to the fact that labor's getting so expensive. The state's
putting you know, tighter restrictions on overtime rules for.
Speaker 18 (17:51):
Ads, I mean a lot of time actions you know,
how to higher overtime rules and everything like that. And
now were going to get tighter and tighter every year.
So you're starting to see people cut down on overtime.
So they're trying to find there are more ways to
get the actually Handley Brosfield getting machines in there.
Speaker 17 (18:03):
That's Zach Fowler with Fowler Brothers Farming.
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Speaker 17 (19:02):
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Speaker 21 (19:06):
Welcome to Aglife. I'm Dwayne Murley with your farm news.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A connection between regenerative agricultural practices like cover crops, a
no till, improving soil nutrients and water quality, and production
of more nutrient dense foods to approve our nation's health.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
believes so.
Speaker 16 (19:27):
They provided us models for how to do this and
how to do it in a way at vertically integrates
that preserves profit margins and dramatically reduces inputs.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
HHS research is under way of that regard. It coincides
with the recent Agriculture Department announcement of a new regenerative
agriculture pilot program.
Speaker 22 (19:46):
In order to.
Speaker 23 (19:46):
Continue to be the most productive and most efficient growers
in the world, we must protect our top soil from
a necessary erosion and boost the microbiome of the soil.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Agriculture Secretary Brick RAWLID says the seven hundred million dollars
far First Pilot program is designed to be a streamlined,
outcome based approach to encourage producers who wish to transition
to regenerative AG to do so.
Speaker 23 (20:10):
Whole farm planning is the centerpiece, ensuring that all resource
concerns such as soil, water, and natural vitality are addressed together,
not one piece at a time. Producers will benefit from
a single application, reducing red tape and making conservations here
to access and are programs more impactful.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will oversee the Regenerative AG
Pilot program, one that will utilize existing at our CS offerings,
the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Conservation Stewardship Program.
Speaker 23 (20:42):
Each producer's results will be measured and credited back to
the farmer through an outcomes report, recognizing and rewarding improvements
they achieve on their own land.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yet, a key piece is not only the pilot program,
but federal government efforts to boost consumer education of soil
and water quality with better nutrition health. As explained by
the Secretary.
Speaker 23 (21:02):
Using the Sustains Act, we will bring corporate label and
supply chain partners directly into partnership within RCS, supporting regenerative
agriculture adoption, farmer recognition, and consumer education. Because success depends
on strong partnerships, we will expand work through our technical
service providers and local organizations to meet demand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Also, the Office of Urban agg and Innovative Production under
an RCS purview, will.
Speaker 23 (21:26):
Extend regenerative priorities into cities and urban areas and urban communities.
And many of those places are those that are facing
the most severe crisis regarding nutritious foods and access to
nutritious foods.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Myriad of challenge is faced by farm producers at recent months.
Led to this recent announcement by President Donald Trump.
Speaker 24 (21:44):
The United States will be taking a small portion of
the dollars we receive in tariff twelve million dollars in
economic assistance to American farmers.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The Farmer Bridge Assistance Program oversee by the Agriculture Department will.
Speaker 24 (21:57):
Provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get this
year's harvest to market and look ahead to next year's crops,
and they'll help them continue their effort to low food
prices for American Families.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlods explains the money will.
Speaker 25 (22:10):
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 that number looks like.
Speaker 23 (22:21):
So as you are going to your lender, as you
are working to ensure and understanding what you can plant
for next year, you will have that number in hand.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Under Secretary for Fire Production at Conservation, Richard Fordyce ads
that to determine payments to row crop growers, FBA.
Speaker 26 (22:37):
Uses a straightforward, uniform formula based on planet acres, cost
of production data, and lossby forecast to model economic losses
for the twenty twenty five crop year. Payments will cover
a portion of those modeled losses. Scale to fit within
the dollars available.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Pre filled applications will be utilized for FBA.
Speaker 26 (22:55):
I want to stress this program is simple, proportional and fair,
with no complict factors, no carving up producers by proper region.
If you plan an eligible crop and you've taken a hit,
you'll receive support.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The Undersecretary ads.
Speaker 26 (23:08):
Producers should ensure their twenty twenty five acres reports are
accurate by December nineteenth at five pm Eastern Time, because
those acres are the basis for PANIC calculations. Commodity specific
payment rates will be released later this month.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
While a loved billion of the twelve billion dollars IT
assistance focuses on road crop growers and their commodities.
Speaker 26 (23:27):
The remaining one billion dollars will be reserved for commodities
not covered under the road Crop program, including specialty crops,
and USDA is working to ensure that that support is
targeted appropriately.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Broad Bane Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 22 (23:42):
D C.
Speaker 21 (23:43):
You're listening to agg Life where we speak farm. Thanks
for being with us today. I am Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 27 (23:50):
It's time for California AD Today on the ag Information Network.
I am Hayleyship. The New World screwworm has been a
topic of ongoing discussion among livestyle producers and University of
California Agriculture and Natural resources scientists say it remains worth
keeping top of mind. The good news the flesh burrowing
parasite remains south of the US border, though detections in
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Mexico underscore the need for vigilance, particularly for California's dairy industry.
You see Experts caution that California is not immune to risk.
They say that dairy products are the state's top agricultural
commodity at eight point sixty one billion dollars annually, and
that even brief disruptions could have major consequences. Unlike beef cattle,
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which can be held back from market during a quarantine,
dairy cows produce milk every day that must be processed immediately,
explains Danielle Lebruno. You see Cooperative Extension Dairy Advisor for Fresno,
Madeira and King's Counties, adding that if a farm is
quarantined or a plant shuts down, milk spoils quickly and
has to be dumped. You see A and R. Scientists
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continue to share prevention resources and monitor for early warning signs.
Producers are encouraged to stay informed through official updates, including
the USDA's website screwworm dot gov.
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Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Bob when here were some farm News Today friends. The
twenty twenty six American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers
Leadership Conference is coming up quickly. Chad Smith tells us
it gives farmers the opportunity to become advocates for agriculture.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Rooted in resilience, is the theme for the twenty twenty
sixth YFNR Conference, set for March thirteenth through the sixteenth
in Portland, Oregon, Massachusetts. Farmer Ryan McKay is this year's
yfn R chair and talked about what's coming up at
this year's conference.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
We are really excited about the twenty twenty six Leadership Conference.
The conference is returning to the Pacific Northwest for the
first time this year since two thousand and one, and
it'll include attendees and young farmers and ranchers from all
across the country, from Puerto Rico to Canada.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
He said attendees will get a lot out of this
year's conference.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
The conference features a strong lineup of breakout sessions, including
topics such as leveraging AI to enhance farm and ranch operations. Also,
we are offering a strong lineup of tours that highlight
both the Portland area and agricultural operations in the Northwest.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Getting involved in advocacy as young farmers and ranchers is
essential to the future success of US agriculture.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Because it ensures the next generation has a seat at
the table and influencing policy, regulations and public perceptions that
will directly impact our long term ability to farm, and
I think the wife in our program gives us that
seat at the table and the tools to grow.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Attendees can register for the conference at fb dot org.
Forward Slash Event Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Another year is coming gone without farm labor reforms, and
a long time senator explains why. Out of the Midwest,
Senator Chuck Grassley is as frustrated as any over Congress's
decades long failure to reform the to a guest worker program.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
It makes common sense that agriculture needs workers year round,
not seasonal workers, particularly if you're an animal agriculture. As
one example, more.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Than three hundred and fifty food farm and farm worker
groups came together on a twenty twenty two bill sponsored
by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennett.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Increases the number of h two A visas. It opens
the program up to year round jobs for the first
time ever. It creates wage certainty for farmers to protect
them from harmful swings and labor costs.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And Bennett claims it would have saved farmers twenty three
billion dollars over twelve years, or two billion more than
a House passed version, but it was not to be
in the Senate, where three years later, Grassley says, the
same issues still stand in the way.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
There's people on the right aren't going to volt for
anything unless you get twelve million people illegally in our
country out of the country, and that is unfeasible. And
then there's people on the left woll vote for anything
you don't make people's citizens.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yesterday, the earlier bill tried to strike a compromise by
creating a temporary renewable legal status for farm workers already here,
with an option to earn permanent legal status. Well friends.
Several new cotton varieties for the southeast US were announced
at a recent grower summit. Mike Davis, how's the report
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for US?
Speaker 12 (29:24):
This morning?
Speaker 28 (29:25):
The annual Delta Pine New Product Devaluator Summit in Hollywood,
Florida brought together more than one hundred and fifty cotton
growers from across the country to witness the introduction of
several new varieties for twenty twenty six. Delta Pine Product
manager Eric Best says the new DP twenty six thirty
two proved very popular with the NPE growers who tested it.
Speaker 29 (29:47):
It is a mid maturity again, going that's typically the
maturity range they like to see over there in those
top geographies that yielded very very well, and we have
some pretty strong products in that environment anyway. So to
have something in a thriv on lineup that's on par
and or beating some of the current lineup is very promising.
Speaker 28 (30:06):
Best says DP. Twenty six twenty four also tested strongly
in the Southeast.
Speaker 29 (30:11):
Twenty six twenty four was another interesting set of germplasm
in the upper lower Southeast. Performed again very well against
those commercial checks we have. It is a thrive on
that also brings route not resistance, and one of the
things we continue to hear from growers on the nematode
side is I might have had some I'm not sure.
I might not have. But when you look at some
of their trials and you continue to see these nematde
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resistant lines come to the top, it makes you wonder
if the pest is there.
Speaker 28 (30:36):
Best says the Delta Pine products typically test strongly and
the adoptability rate reflects the grower's confidence.
Speaker 29 (30:45):
When these things are tested by the virtue of this
program in these real world environments. It is not uncommon
in some of these geographies for a grower to turn
around and put a half to two thirds, if not more,
of their acres and something in your one. Because they
have that confidence how it's going to perform on their farm,
under their environments, under their management scenarios, we see very
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rapid adoptability.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I'm Mike Davis farm US This morning. You're listening to
AG Life.
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From the AG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. Well, the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon
and Washington wrapped up fiscal year twenty twenty five with
a standout timber performance. Morning agclips dot Com reports across
Oregon and Washington, the BLM exceeded its annual goal in
support of the President's promise of increased timber production, offered
fifteen percent more timber than in fiscal year twenty twenty four. Altogether,
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BLM Oregon Washington sold two hundred and forty one million
board feet of timber from October of twenty twenty four
to September of this year. USDA approved stricter limits in
multiple states on what Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program recipients can
buy beginning in the new year. Under the waivers, states
can redefine food for purchase to exclude items such as candy, soda,
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and other products deemed unhealthy. Six states, including Hawaii, Missouri,
North Kota, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, received USDA approval,
joining others that have already adopted similar rules under the
Make America Healthy Again initiative. US Customs and Border Protection
agricultural specialists have intercepted a species of bark beetle never
before found in a US port of entry. The tiny insect,
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identified as Satana locks and spinnafer eggers, was discovered in
a piece of dried bark a passenger carried through the
Detroit Metropolitan Airport en route to Texas. Experts say the
afrotropical beetle tunnels within bark layers, making it a potential
threat to trees such as figs and olives.
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With your agribusiness update, I'm Bob Larson.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Bob Quinner from Maglife. To wrap up today's program. Spurging
on beef for the holidays in Canada, Dennis Sky has
more from north of the border. Many Canadians planning for
Christmas or a New Year's Eve dinner are staying with
a traditional turkey or ham as their main course, but
because it's just not served quite as often due to
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soaring prices these days, some are choosing beef as a
special treat for their families during the holiday season. There's
really nothing at the meat counter that could be described
as cheap, with all categories taking price hikes, even the
poultry and pork cuts. In Winnipeg, shopping at her local
butcher's counter, Maya Fontaine says meat prices are generally high anyway,
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so she's decided to have a small surloin roast for
her immediate family on Christmas Day.
Speaker 27 (34:24):
Hi, everywhere, I was actually looking at that one.
Speaker 23 (34:26):
This one is a top sir. Lane is sixty two dollars.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
Fontaine's longtime butcher is Sean Miller, who runs his family's
shop in Winnipeg. Miller says he's seen a lot of
changes in his customer's buying habits since beef started to
rise five years ago. People are certainly buying less of
their favorite beef cuts. And another thing he's noticed is
demand for certain cuts of beef that were never in
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very high demand before.
Speaker 30 (34:53):
Chuck ros, short ribs, flank steak, all those things used
to be trim, and now they are cuts that people
are wanting. The law lot of people aren't shying away
from buying beef. We're still seeing a strong demand for it.
The changes I've seen over the last five years in
the beef industry have been pretty drastic. A ribbi used
to be around ten dollars a steak, and now we're
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sitting at anywhere from twenty to thirty depending on the grave.
Speaker 12 (35:20):
And with retail beef sales at butcher shops and grocery
stores down in volume, that translates to much higher demand
for the other two primary meat categories, pork and poultry products.
Sylvain Charleblad, director of the Agra Food Analytics Lab del
Housie University, believes that higher meat product prices will remain
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high throughout twenty twenty six and well into twenty twenty seven.
He says it will take at least that long for
cattle herd numbers to catch up with beef supply, putting
continued pressure across the board on animal protein demand.
Speaker 31 (35:54):
The problem with beef is affecting meat counter economics altogether.
Prices for chicken and are also rising as a result
of what's going on.
Speaker 12 (36:02):
With beefh price sticker shock at the meat counter, according
to food chain analysts Sylvain Charlebos is leading or forcing
many consumers to experiment with various kinds of vegetable proteins.
Charlet Boughs says consumers who would never call themselves. Vegetarians
are getting more adventurous.
Speaker 31 (36:21):
People are more focused on other things beyond the meat counter.
The most popular vegetable protein sources out there are tofu, hummus, lentils, chickpeas,
people are exploring.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis S Guy.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
With that friends, aro ount of time for today, Thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
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