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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Central Coast and Valley farmers. This is aglife.
My name is Bob Quinn, with you for the next
hour talking about agricultural production here on the West Coast
and all across the country. Well, friends, we start off
with a look at agg co ops. Rod Bain has
our story.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Member investment is an important pillar of the cooperative business
model as seen in many parts of America, especially rural areas. Yet,
as Phil Kinkel of Oklahoma State University Extension points out,
there are many examples of what equity and its returns
might look like.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In most cooperatives. There is some membership equity. So from
order to me become a member, I make some investment
in buy a share of stock, and then that gives
me both voting rights and the right to get profits.
And then there is structures of revolving equity or proportional
equity or equity associated usage. Right, so there's really three
different categories there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Cankel explains revolving equity and intern how a member may
profit from this arrangement.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Most cooperative use of the revolving equity, and so at
the end of the year they pay back their profits
and they pay back that in a combination of cash,
which of course your immediate benefit, and then equity, so
you build your equity. You built your equity by owning
the co op.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Proportional equity is best exemplified by agricultural cooperatives such as
those in the dairy ad cotton sectors.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Those co ops, they would it's called a base capital system,
and you would have an equity requirement based on the
amount of business you're doing. Until you get to that,
you get less cash patronage, and then once you build
up that you've got the required amount. Then now you're
fully invested and you would get a higher amount of cash.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The model used by value added cooperatives. One example is
the ethanol industry is what Can'tkel calls proportion at share.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
For every bushel of corn I bring to an ethnol
co op, I had a one on the stock, one
sure stock and net stock has a usage druct. I
still get the profits off of that one bushel of corn,
but my equity was linked to it. And under that model,
that's the only coal model where the equity does actually
buy in trade, and so I can sell my shares
and usage rut to another farmer if they want to
buy that to be able to deliver their corn and
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get the ethanol profits or also done another value added
businesses at.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Sub cooperatives issue preferred stocks to both members and non members.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Preferred stocks usually pays a stated dividend, and then in
co ops by drill and a lot of times by
state laws, we have a limit on dividends of eight percent.
Some co ops actually, when we talk about revolving the equity,
they revolve it into preferred stocks. We're supposed to be
giving most of our returns in proportion to use, and
so I'd love to put that limit on dividends on
the equity on the preferred stock.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Friends, coming up a look at the bridge assistance payment structure.
Also a look at the Pacific Northwest sugar beet harvest.
That's ahead. You're listening to wag Life. Bob went back
with some farmer use this morning, friends, USDA announced the
payment rates for the Farmer Bridge Assistance program, but there
are still some gaps. Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Late in twenty twenty five, USDA announced the Farmer Bridge
Assistance Program. That's set aside twelve billion dollars in assistance
for US farmers and ranchers. Faith Parum, an economist for
the American Farm Bureau Federation, says rates vary based on
each eligible crop.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Eleven billion being in the Farmer Bridge Assistant program for
ro crop producers, and so these are one time bridge
payments and they are per acre by crop, and so
they range from eight dollars all the way up to
one hundred and thirty dollars, and it really just depends
on the crop.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Parm says, USDA is looking to pay out the assistance
relatively quickly.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Farmers should have reported their acreage to FSA by the
December deadline, and now all they have to do is
wait for pre filled application to apply to receive the funding.
So they should stay in contact with their local FSA
agents to see how those pre filled applications will be
distributed and make sure they turn them in. There should
be a payment by the end of February.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Only one billion was set aside for specialty crop producers,
which param said won't be enough.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
The USDA has mentioned they need more data to understand
the losses across specialty crops. Even so, this is a
very small amount for lots and lots of crops. There's
hundreds and hundreds of specialty crops. They have higher input costs,
they have really high labor costs, high technology costs, and
so we're seeing really large losses across the specialty crop field.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You can learn more on the market intail page ad
fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well Friends. The twenty twenty five season was a good
one for sugar beet growers across the Northwest, with very
strong yields reported. So what was the difference this year
that led to a crop Samantha Parrot described as massive.
The executive director of the Snake River sugar Beet Growers
Association says, while growers did a great job of working
the fields, addressing disease and keeping up with their spray program,
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it all comes down to weather.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Mother Nature was just very generous. It wasn't a super
hot summer. I think we had less one hundred degree
days and that's just really helpful. It wasn't smoky, so
in terms of the sunlight and getting those heat units
to the beads, that went really well. Cool nights helped
put on the sugar. So it was just kind of
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an anomaly where, you know, not to say that the
growers didn't work hard to do an amazing job, but
we were just really blessed to have mother nature cooperate
throughout the growing season.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Parrot added growers also benefited from very few replants last year,
which she noted helped the crop get off to an
early and strong start to the season. Next up, a
report on US pork exports into Nicaragua.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
The US Trade Representative recently announced its actions in a
Section three oh one investigation of Nicaragua's labor practices facing
a new tariffs over two years. It's a measured approach
that won't interrupt trade with a growing market for US pork.
According to US Meat Export Federation Central America representative Lucia Ruano.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Demand for US port Rinicaraua is being driven right now
by a combination of improved market access, changing consumption add
its as strong market development efforts, and a key factor
was the full tariff phase out under the Free Trade
Agreement in twenty twenty, which allows US pork to enter
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the market at civil duty. That made US pork more
competitive and more accessible to importers and retailers from the
importer and consumer perspective. What's most appealing about US pork
is its consistency, its quality, and reliability. Supply importers know
exactly what they're getting in terms of cut and specification, jills,
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and performance.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The US currently holds about ninety five percent market share
in Nicaragua's pork imports, as US pork is becoming a
center of the plate feature.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
This is happening through the modern retail and the food
service channels. Popular cuts that we are seeing here that
are being imported in Nicaragua is the pork loin, the tenderloin,
all the ribs like the baby bags, the spare ribs, rimlets.
These cuts fit very well with local cooking styles, with
family meals and restaurant menus, and they allow pork to
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compete directly with other proteins as the center of the plate.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
It's trade driven by a Free Trade Agreement CAFTA.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Has been absolutely critical in developing the Nicarawa market of
US pork and maintaining duty freeze access is essential right now.
Any disruption will immediately affect pricing volumes, confidence in the
supply change.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
For the USBAN Export Federation, I'm John Harrath farm US.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This morning, you're listening to wag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
It's another a news update. Box beef easing seasonally, and
corn exports remain a demand anchor. More after this.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Ryan, I don't know how much to say this all.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Just say it?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What is it?
Speaker 12 (07:48):
Linda?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I think we should see other people. Are you breaking
up with me on a roller coaster?
Speaker 12 (07:53):
Well, we do have a.
Speaker 13 (07:54):
Lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Maybe we should set an.
Speaker 14 (08:00):
Emotional roller coaster. Surprising? What's not surprising? How much you
could say by switching to Geico Geico fifteen minutes could
save you fifteen percent or more.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
US box fee values pulling back from the holiday highs,
but the move reflecting normal post holiday inventory adjustments rather
than weakening demand. Choice cutouts have slipped into the low
three fifties, yet five day averages remain historically elevated. It's
supported by firm ground beef and trimming values. Load counts declined,
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weak to wheat, but still running well above last year,
signaling steady product movement. Now tight fed cattle supplies remain
the dominant force, limiting packer flexibility, keeping procurement competition intact.
Despite short term price softness on the export front, Corn
continuing to lead grain demand. Weekly inspections remain well ahead
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of last year. Mexico anchoring shipments and additional diversification across
specific markets. Soybean exports remain uneven, but China continues to
take delivery. Sorghum shipment surging again, largely tied to China's
renewed buying interest and feed grain markets. Furthest supported by
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the strong export commitments and lingering drought risk. It's another
Agnews update.
Speaker 15 (09:30):
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Your work keeps our water clean and improves the soil
and enhances wildlife habitat. It also provides countless benefits, not
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Americans who depend on this region every day without even
realizing it. Thank you for being stewards of America's prairie
(09:52):
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Speaker 9 (09:58):
Org I can Cattle News. Today we take a look
at corrections in the market. Are they helpful? More?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
After this, Bryan, I don't know how much to say this,
so I'll just say it. What is it?
Speaker 16 (10:13):
Linda, I think we should see other people.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Are you breaking up with me on a roller coaster?
Speaker 14 (10:18):
Well, we didn't a lot of time.
Speaker 17 (10:20):
Maybe we should seed any.
Speaker 14 (10:24):
An emotional roller coaster. Surprising. What's not surprising how much
you could say by switching to geico I.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Just need a little lead time.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
Geicow, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
Doctor daryl' peel, Oklahoma State Livestock Marketing economists.
Speaker 18 (10:43):
You know, in most cases, the cattle market fundamentals are
very strong underneath this thing. So the market is is
I've said this a couple of times last year. The
market's pretty bulletproof, but it's not bomb proof. And you know,
once we got into the fourth quarter, of course, we
had had such a run up, so from especially from
a future market standpoint, we had a lot of futures
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traders that were sort of looking for an opportunity for
a correction. And that's that's just a healthy thing that
markets do. They have a big run one way or
the other, whether it's down or up, then they do
a correction, which gives people a chance to kind of
square off those positions, take some money off the table,
and sort of reset themselves, and so the market was
ready for a correction, and then we had a lot
of political stuff that came in from the outside in
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the fourth quarter, and that's not really helpful, and it
did certainly make the correction bigger than it needed to be,
and it took longer to recover from Again, we're still
in some sense in recovery, although if the politics stays
quieted down, then you know, we will move on from here.
So you know, most of the time, these corrections in
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this kind of a market are very short lived. A
week or two, couple three weeks. In this case it
was a few weeks, I would say. You know, the
bulk of the impact of the fourth quarter stuff was
over in about six or seven weeks, and so you know,
again we're still not fully recovered, depending on which market
you look at, but you know that external stuff can
drag on. Of course, you can get repeated. That's what
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happened was we had a whole series of things, so
it wasn't just one thing. If it had been any
one of those, it wouldn't have lasted very long. But
when you sort of pile on with a lot of stuff,
then it created a bigger correction. And it takes a
little bit longer to recover.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
From American Cattle News.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
This is Tim Amrich of the Egg Information Network with
your Farm of the Future report. These winter months on
the farm slow down the biology that happens beneath the
soil's surface. However, biological processes are still happening in John
Kemp of Advancing Eco Agriculture says, the winter is actually
a great time to build organic matter and with that
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nitrogen that can be available for next year's crop.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
When you stimulate biology during the winter months, you get
much better formation of stable organic matter what is correctly
referred to as mineral associated organic matter, during the winter
months than you do during the summer, because during the
summer it just cycles too fast. And what happens during
the winter months when you have this formation of mineral
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associated organic matter as a result of carbon cycling, there
is also the opportunity to capture nitrogen and associate nitrogen
with those various forms of carbon in a very efficient
way that doesn't leach. It's not legible. When you have
nitrogen in the form of bacterial proteins or that has
associated with these various complex carbon forms. It's very common
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to put applications on its spring, but you're losing your
golden window of opportunity of the fall of the winter
months when you have cold or soil temperatures.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Advancing Eco Agriculture sells a line of soil primer products
to help facilitate these biological processes.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(14:06):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on,
listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
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your terrific product or service, give us a call and
we'll connect you directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners.
Reach real farmers right here, right now as they listen
to what is important to their farm operation. They trust us,
They'll trust you.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
And that's today's Farm of the Future Report, brought to
you by the ag Information Network. I'm Tim Hambridge.
Speaker 16 (14:51):
Welcome to the Line on Agriculture Report. This does Lori
Boyer for the EG Information Network. Today we wrap up
our three part series on the Waters of the US
with Courtney Breeks from the U American Farm Bureau Federation.
In today's segment, she focuses on two key terms that
must clearly be defined under the WOTAS rule, which are
relatively permanent waters and continuous surface connection.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
In order to be a wotics, you need to have
a relatively permanent flow in connection to a traditional navigable water.
So what does relatively permanent mean? That is something that
we have grappled with for many years, and this EPA
is providing a definition of relatively permanent and one that
we think is legally sound. Continuous surface connection is another
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important term because it determines what wetlands can be regulated
that are adjacent to relatively permanent streams.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Riggs explains how the Trump administration rule making aims to
clearly define those terms and why that clarity is critical
for producers navigating compliance and land management decisions.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
First of all, there are civil and criminal penalties attached
to clean water at compliance, so you can be fined
sixty four thousand per day for every day of noncompliance,
or jail time if it is a criminal penalty. So
if the rules are not clear, a farmer can unknowingly
break the law and be subject to those penalties.
Speaker 16 (16:12):
Afbf's Courtney breaks.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(16:34):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on.
Listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
(16:56):
your terrific product or service, give us a call and
we'll connect you directly with our community of loyal farmer
listeners reach real farmers right here, right now as they
listen to what is important to their farm operation. They
trust us, They'll trust you.
Speaker 16 (17:12):
For the AG information network.
Speaker 17 (17:14):
I'm Lorie Boyer, a value added almond companies really helping
the industry. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report,
part of that vast AG information network. Christy Myers heads
up business development with Cash Creek Foods.
Speaker 19 (17:31):
Cash Creek Foods is a trina ingredient manufacturer. We focus
primarily on almonds, and almond butter represents a very large
portion of our business, so we're currently innovating in that
as we always have, and also looking at new formats
for almonds that can be used in beverages and all
kinds of other products.
Speaker 17 (17:51):
And then their early two thousands, Blue Diamond came out
with the first almond milk beverage and a.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
Food scientist that work with Cash Creek Foods was also
formulating high spec almond butter for Cash Greek and we
helped some of the largest coffeehouses and other companies launch
their first plant based milk. Innovation has always been foundational
to who we are. It's one of our primary core values,
and so innovation works in two ways. For cash Creek
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Foods inbound, which represents the primary way that we innovate,
we get requests from product developers across the industry, and
then also the market opportunities that we see that we
think at scale represent a really huge opportunity globally to
serve people who maybe have not had access to plant
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based milk in the past.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
And you've probably been told that to reach a millennial
farmer you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(19:00):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on.
Listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
(19:23):
your terrific product or service, give us a call and
we'll connect you directly. With our community of loyal farmer
listeners reach real farmers right here, right now as they
listen to what is important to their farm operation. They
trust us, They'll trust you.
Speaker 17 (19:39):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. Welcome to
AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley with your farm news.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The connection between regenerative agricultural practices by growers, increasing soil health,
at water quality and interd folstering nutrients within the foods
we eat every day.
Speaker 20 (19:58):
We are launching a a new farmer First Regenerative Agriculture
Pilot program which will invest seven hundred million dollars specifically
to support regenerative agriculture.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The recent announcement by Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins offers avenues
to increase not just food production, but nutrient dense foods
for consumption in efforts to address issues such as more
chronic diseases in our nation through better nutrition. Eating those
foods makes you healthier and will save the taxpayers money
because Medicare.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Medicare won't have to pay out so.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Much in healthcare claims either paid port and food you
paid portant healthcare expenses. I'm Rod Bain, the administrator for
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, but met Oz
is among those joining us as we look at regenerative
aggs potential role in better nutrition and health outcomes in
this edition of Agriculture USA. Several farmers in our nation
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already utilize what is known as regenerative agricultural practices. They
cover crops, for instance, natural resources conservation methods designed to
approve soil health and water quality, and in many instances
grower profitability. Among those recognizing this approach the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
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 (21:22):
But beyond that, the Secretary believes in the role regenerative
ad can play a growing healthier foods for human consumption
and by that, improving overall human health. HHS. Research is
under way in that regard, and recently, in addition, an
announcement by the Agriculture Department of a new regenerative agriculture
pilot program.
Speaker 20 (21:42):
In order to 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.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Of the soil.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins says the seven hundred billion dollar
Farmer First Pilot program is designed to be a strict,
blied outcome based approach to encourage producers who wish to
transition to regenerative AG to do so.
Speaker 20 (22:07):
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.
Speaker 21 (22:17):
Producers will benefit.
Speaker 20 (22:18):
From a single application, reducing red tape and making conservation
dear to access and are programs more impactful.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will oversee the Regenerative AG
Pilot program, one that will utilize EXIST to get our
CS offerings, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQUIP add the
Conservation Stewardship Program CSP.
Speaker 17 (22:42):
Each producer's results.
Speaker 20 (22:43):
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 (22:51):
Yet a key piece of not only the pilot program,
but federal government efforts to boost soil and water quality
with better nutrition and health consumer edgucation as explayed by
the Secretary.
Speaker 20 (23:02):
Using the Sustains Act, we will bring corporate label and
supply chain partners directly into partnership within URCS, 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 (23:22):
Also, the Office of Urban agg and Innovative Production under
at rcs purview.
Speaker 20 (23:26):
Will 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 (23:38):
Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt provides this summary
of the approach.
Speaker 22 (23:44):
It connects the producer and the work that they're doing
on the farm, granting them the credit for that voluntary
action of change of practice on their farm that then
can transition into the supply chain, into the marketplace and
directly back to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Where to find more information about the farmer first Regenerated
Agriculture Pilot program, producers could contact their local USDA Service
center and at RCS staff to learn about state ranking
dates for fiscal year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Funding.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Companies interested in partnering with ATRCS in the pilot program
can request more details via email. The address is Regenerative
at USDA dot Go. This has been Agriculture USA.
Speaker 17 (24:27):
Thanks for being with us. You're listening to AG Live.
I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 23 (24:32):
It's time for California AG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's ship.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Well.
Speaker 23 (24:38):
A reminder for producers and landowners here in the States,
the US Department of Agriculture has revised the Farm Service
Agency County Committee voting period and eligible voters should receive
ballots this week. Elections are taking place in select local
administrative areas for committee members, who help guide how federal
farm programs are delivered locally. To be counted, ballots must
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be returned to your local FSA county office or postmarked
by February second. Newly elected members will take office on
March second of this year. Nationwide, more than seventy seven
hundred members of the agriculture community serve on FSA county committees.
These committees are made up of three to eleven members
who serve three year terms and play a key role
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in disaster recovery, safety net conservation, and price support programs.
They also helped to make decisions that affect county office
operations and other local agricultural issues. To vote, producers must
participate or cooperate in the USDA program and be assigned
to the area up for election. If you do not
receive a ballot, you can contact your local FSA office
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or visit FSA dot USDA dot gov slash elections for details.
Of course, that link can also be found at aginfo
dot net.
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we have never seen such an assault on fire and
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Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Bokquinbackers farmer US This morning, Friends USDA. Now it's the
payment rates for the farmer Bridge Assistance Program, but there
are still some gaps. Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Late in twenty twenty five, USDA announced the farmer Bridge
Assistance Program that's set aside twelve billion dollars in assistance
for US farmers and ranchers. Faith Parum, an economist for
the American Farm Bureau Federation, says rates vary based on
each eligible crop.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Eleven billion being in the Farmer Bridge Assistant Program for
re crop producers. And so these are one time bridge
payments and they are per acre by crop, and so
they range from eight dollars all the way up to
one hundred and thirty dollars, and it really just depends
on the.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Crop farm says. USDA is looking to pay out the
assistance relatively quickly.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Farmers should have reported their acreage to FSA by the
December deadline, and now all they have to do is
wait for pre filled application to apply to receive the funding.
So they should stay in contact with their local FSA
agents to see how those pre filled applications will be
distributed and make sure they turn them in. There should
be a by the end of February.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Only one billion was set aside for specialty crop producers,
which Parum said won't be enough.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
The USDA has mentioned they need more data to understand
the losses across specialty crops. Even so, this is a
very small amount for lots and lots of crops. There's
hundreds and hundreds of specialty crops. They have higher input costs,
they have really high labor costs, high technology costs, and
so we're seeing really large losses across the specialty crop field.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You can learn more on the market intail page at
fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Well Friends. The twenty twenty five season was a good one.
For sugar beet growers across the Northwest, with very strong
yields reported. So what was the difference this year that
led to a crop Samantha Parrot described as massive. The
executive director of the Snake River sugar Beet Growers Association says,
while growers did a great job of working the fields,
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addressing disease and keeping up with their spray program, it
all comes down to weather.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Mother nature was just very generous. It wasn't a super
hot summer. I think we had less one hundred degree
days and that's just really helpful. It wasn't smoky, so
in terms of the sunlight and getting those heat units
to the beads, that went really well. Cool nights helped
put on the sugar. So it was just kind of
(29:19):
an anomaly where, you know, not to say that the
growers didn't work hard to do an amazing job, but
we were just really blessed to have mother nature cooperate
throughout the growing season.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Parrot added growers also benefited from very few replants last year,
which she noted helped the crop get off to an
early and strong start to the season. Well, friends of
a disease outbreak were to occur. Efficient and accurate swine
traceability may help reduce the number of animals impacted and
the response time. Doctor Brent Peppin, director of Swine Health
(29:50):
with the National Port Board, emphasizes that show pigs may
pose a disease risk due to their frequent travel.
Speaker 24 (29:56):
I mean show pick producers move a lot of pigs,
a lot of pigs visually in small groups, which is
different from the commercial guys. And it's because they the
same pig might go to multiple locations. If there's ever
sort of an issue or a disease issue, I'll be
really they could have multiple contacts and you need to
be able to figure out where those contacts are for
the protection of our whole swine industrym.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
National Portboard is working to improve traceability efforts through cooperative
agreements with the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
to distribute radio frequency identification reader technology to exhibition sites.
Speaker 24 (30:31):
Up to four handheld RFID readers that they can utilize
for checking pigs in to their exhibition sites. It's a
very good opportunity to start start help start making it
easier the checking pigs to the show. First of all,
its increase decrease this amount of time you have to
spend looking at each individual pigs ID in their ear.
If you can just scan their RFID eight forty tag,
you can pull up individual minimal number and you can
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send them on their way to get through the check
in process.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Like exhibition sites, the National port Board is also addressing
a gap in the traces of cull sows. Each call
sal facility can receive up to four handtaild RFID readers
and five RFID reader panels. When pigs are unloaded from
the truck, they pass by the RFDA panel where their
number can be read if they have an RFDI eight
(31:16):
four zero tag. Regardless, each exhibition or call sole market
site must have a valid premise identification number to receive
RFID equipment.
Speaker 24 (31:26):
And for those locations, because they are going to bring
in a high volume of pig is going through those sites,
they actually qualify to get funding for panel readers and
what those are as their stationary readers that pigs actually
walk by and then as the pig walks by, it
reads their holds their tag information from that RFID.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Tag traceability through identification Tags farm US. You're listening to
ag life.
Speaker 25 (31:50):
From the AGG Information Network on Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update well. During the Governor's Summit on Agricultural Viability
in Idaho, American farm Land Trust announced a new initiative
called Thriving Farms and Ranches. The summit explored the challenges
of balancing the growth of cities and towns with Idaho's
valuable agricultural economy as working lands are lost at an
alarming rate. AFT will work to ensure farmers and ranchers
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can be financially secure, invest in the future of their operations,
and attract the next generation of farmers. Ex Secretary Brook
Rawlins announced a number of coordinated actions that emphasize American
agriculture research and innovation under the USDA's National Farm Security
Action PLANT. The plan will ensure ideas stay in America
or with our allies and not with hostile nations, and
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that we put American farmers in ranchers first. These actions
strength the transparency around foreign ownership of US agg land
and insure federal programs and purchasing preferences don't support foreign
supply chains. The Senate will recand roughly twenty one billion
dollars in unspent federal funds originally designated for broadband programs,
setting up a potential debate over how that money should
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be spent. The legislation targets a portion of the broadband
Equity Access in Deployment or BEAD program that's not been
allocated to states. BEAD was created in the twenty twenty
one Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act to expand high speed
internet access to underserved areas.
Speaker 11 (33:10):
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Speaker 10 (34:08):
From the AG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
BOK went back to wrap up AGLIE for to their friends.
A lot of confusion around exactly how many US soybeans
China has purchased under the recent agreement. Todd Gleeson wraps
us up today.
Speaker 26 (34:23):
I'm a University of Illinois Extensions Tugley's an agricultful economists
from Iowa State Extension based on the campus of the Ames.
Chadtheart now joined us. Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Chad.
Speaker 26 (34:35):
Let's talk about imports or exports. I suppose to China
of soybeans where we stand today, there's a lot of
confusing numbers.
Speaker 21 (34:48):
The Chinese data. As far as US beans that have
hit their shores, we're still at zero. When I look
at the weekly exports sales day data that USDA is
catching back up on given the delays during the government shutdown,
that would show that China has purchased about four million
(35:11):
metric tons thus far, and you know, while those haven't
hit the shore yet, they will be moving along that way.
And for those Eagle eighte observers that have been tracking
the daily sales that are reported under USDA system, you
could get yourself up to about that seven million metric
ton level because we have been seeing China being active,
(35:34):
especially here in late November early December, and those data
will eventually show up in the weekly sales data, probably
within the next couple of weeks, and then they'll show
up in that Chinese data within the next month or so.
Speaker 26 (35:49):
How has the marketplace been viewing this data, particularly recently
as there's been a pullback in soyping prices And what
is your expectation for any kind of rally to come
if it would based off more reported actual sales.
Speaker 21 (36:09):
Well, I think as you look at it right now,
it was one of those deals of where we really
traded up the rumor and then bid down the news.
So the idea is we saw the rally before any
purchases were made, but when the agreement was sort of announced,
and now with each resulting sale, the market's sort of
discounting that along the way, and I think it's because
(36:30):
the market is seeing here going, yeah, there's been an agreement,
that agreement seems to be being held up here, but
it also puts us still in a position to China
agreed to purchase twelve million metric tons here for twenty
twenty five, but that would still only be about half
of what they usually do and so hence the let's
(36:52):
call it lack of excitement within the market as China
fulfills that part of the deal.
Speaker 26 (36:57):
That's Chad Hart. He's an agriculturalnomoist at Iowa State University
based in Ames. I'm the Illinois Extensions Todd Gleason with.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That friends amount of time for they thanks for joining us.
Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
Good morning, Central Coast and Valley farmers. This is aglife.
My name is Bob Quinn, with you for the next
hour talking about agricultural production here on the West Coast
and all across the country. Well, friends, we start off
with a look at agg co ops. Rod Bain has
our story.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Member investment is an important pillar of the cooperative business
model as seen in many parts of America, especially rural areas. Yet,
as Phil Kinkel of Oklahoma State University Extension points out,
there are many examples of what equity and its returns
might look like.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In most cooperatives. There is some membership equity. So from
order to me become a member, I make some investment
in buy a share of stock, and then that gives
me both voting rights and the right to get profits.
And then there is structures of revolving equity or proportional
equity or equity associated usage. Right, so there's really three
different categories there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Cankel explains revolving equity and intern how a member may
profit from this arrangement.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Most cooperative use of the revolving equity, and so at
the end of the year they pay back their profits
and they pay back that in a combination of cash,
which of course your immediate benefit, and then equity, so
you build your equity. You built your equity by owning
the co op.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Proportional equity is best exemplified by agricultural cooperatives such as
those in the dairy ad cotton sectors.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Those co ops, they would it's called a base capital system,
and you would have an equity requirement based on the
amount of business you're doing. Until you get to that,
you get less cash patronage, and then once you build
up that you've got the required amount. Then now you're
fully invested and you would get a higher amount of cash.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The model used by value added cooperatives. One example is
the ethanol industry is what Can'tkel calls proportion at share.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
For every bushel of corn I bring to an ethnol
co op, I had a one on the stock, one
sure stock and net stock has a usage druct. I
still get the profits off of that one bushel of corn,
but my equity was linked to it. And under that model,
that's the only coal model where the equity does actually
buy in trade, and so I can sell my shares
and usage rut to another farmer if they want to
buy that to be able to deliver their corn and
(02:03):
get the ethanol profits or also done another value added
businesses at.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Sub cooperatives issue preferred stocks to both members and non members.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Preferred stocks usually pays a stated dividend, and then in
co ops by drill and a lot of times by
state laws, we have a limit on dividends of eight percent.
Some co ops actually, when we talk about revolving the equity,
they revolve it into preferred stocks. We're supposed to be
giving most of our returns in proportion to use, and
so I'd love to put that limit on dividends on
the equity on the preferred stock.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Friends, coming up a look at the bridge assistance payment structure.
Also a look at the Pacific Northwest sugar beet harvest.
That's ahead. You're listening to wag Life. Bob went back
with some farmer use this morning, friends, USDA announced the
payment rates for the Farmer Bridge Assistance program, but there
are still some gaps. Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Late in twenty twenty five, USDA announced the Farmer Bridge
Assistance Program. That's set aside twelve billion dollars in assistance
for US farmers and ranchers. Faith Parum, an economist for
the American Farm Bureau Federation, says rates vary based on
each eligible crop.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Eleven billion being in the Farmer Bridge Assistant program for
ro crop producers, and so these are one time bridge
payments and they are per acre by crop, and so
they range from eight dollars all the way up to
one hundred and thirty dollars, and it really just depends
on the crop.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Parm says, USDA is looking to pay out the assistance
relatively quickly.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Farmers should have reported their acreage to FSA by the
December deadline, and now all they have to do is
wait for pre filled application to apply to receive the funding.
So they should stay in contact with their local FSA
agents to see how those pre filled applications will be
distributed and make sure they turn them in. There should
be a payment by the end of February.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Only one billion was set aside for specialty crop producers,
which param said won't be enough.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
The USDA has mentioned they need more data to understand
the losses across specialty crops. Even so, this is a
very small amount for lots and lots of crops. There's
hundreds and hundreds of specialty crops. They have higher input costs,
they have really high labor costs, high technology costs, and
so we're seeing really large losses across the specialty crop field.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You can learn more on the market intail page ad
fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well Friends. The twenty twenty five season was a good
one for sugar beet growers across the Northwest, with very
strong yields reported. So what was the difference this year
that led to a crop Samantha Parrot described as massive.
The executive director of the Snake River sugar Beet Growers
Association says, while growers did a great job of working
the fields, addressing disease and keeping up with their spray program,
(04:46):
it all comes down to weather.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Mother Nature was just very generous. It wasn't a super
hot summer. I think we had less one hundred degree
days and that's just really helpful. It wasn't smoky, so
in terms of the sunlight and getting those heat units
to the beads, that went really well. Cool nights helped
put on the sugar. So it was just kind of
(05:09):
an anomaly where, you know, not to say that the
growers didn't work hard to do an amazing job, but
we were just really blessed to have mother nature cooperate
throughout the growing season.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Parrot added growers also benefited from very few replants last year,
which she noted helped the crop get off to an
early and strong start to the season. Next up, a
report on US pork exports into Nicaragua.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
The US Trade Representative recently announced its actions in a
Section three oh one investigation of Nicaragua's labor practices facing
a new tariffs over two years. It's a measured approach
that won't interrupt trade with a growing market for US pork.
According to US Meat Export Federation Central America representative Lucia Ruano.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Demand for US port Rinicaraua is being driven right now
by a combination of improved market access, changing consumption add
its as strong market development efforts, and a key factor
was the full tariff phase out under the Free Trade
Agreement in twenty twenty, which allows US pork to enter
(06:11):
the market at civil duty. That made US pork more
competitive and more accessible to importers and retailers from the
importer and consumer perspective. What's most appealing about US pork
is its consistency, its quality, and reliability. Supply importers know
exactly what they're getting in terms of cut and specification, jills,
(06:36):
and performance.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The US currently holds about ninety five percent market share
in Nicaragua's pork imports, as US pork is becoming a
center of the plate feature.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
This is happening through the modern retail and the food
service channels. Popular cuts that we are seeing here that
are being imported in Nicaragua is the pork loin, the tenderloin,
all the ribs like the baby bags, the spare ribs, rimlets.
These cuts fit very well with local cooking styles, with
family meals and restaurant menus, and they allow pork to
(07:08):
compete directly with other proteins as the center of the plate.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
It's trade driven by a Free Trade Agreement CAFTA.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Has been absolutely critical in developing the Nicarawa market of
US pork and maintaining duty freeze access is essential right now.
Any disruption will immediately affect pricing volumes, confidence in the
supply change.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
For the USBAN Export Federation, I'm John Harrath farm US.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This morning, you're listening to wag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
It's another a news update. Box beef easing seasonally, and
corn exports remain a demand anchor. More after this.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Ryan, I don't know how much to say this all.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Just say it?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What is it?
Speaker 12 (07:48):
Linda?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I think we should see other people. Are you breaking
up with me on a roller coaster?
Speaker 12 (07:53):
Well, we do have a.
Speaker 13 (07:54):
Lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Maybe we should set an.
Speaker 14 (08:00):
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Speaker 9 (08:13):
US box fee values pulling back from the holiday highs,
but the move reflecting normal post holiday inventory adjustments rather
than weakening demand. Choice cutouts have slipped into the low
three fifties, yet five day averages remain historically elevated. It's
supported by firm ground beef and trimming values. Load counts declined,
(08:37):
weak to wheat, but still running well above last year,
signaling steady product movement. Now tight fed cattle supplies remain
the dominant force, limiting packer flexibility, keeping procurement competition intact.
Despite short term price softness on the export front, Corn
continuing to lead grain demand. Weekly inspections remain well ahead
(09:01):
of last year. Mexico anchoring shipments and additional diversification across
specific markets. Soybean exports remain uneven, but China continues to
take delivery. Sorghum shipment surging again, largely tied to China's
renewed buying interest and feed grain markets. Furthest supported by
(09:22):
the strong export commitments and lingering drought risk. It's another
Agnews update.
Speaker 15 (09:30):
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Speaker 9 (09:58):
Org I can Cattle News. Today we take a look
at corrections in the market. Are they helpful? More?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
After this, Bryan, I don't know how much to say this,
so I'll just say it. What is it?
Speaker 16 (10:13):
Linda, I think we should see other people.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Are you breaking up with me on a roller coaster?
Speaker 14 (10:18):
Well, we didn't a lot of time.
Speaker 17 (10:20):
Maybe we should seed any.
Speaker 14 (10:24):
An emotional roller coaster. Surprising. What's not surprising how much
you could say by switching to geico I.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Just need a little lead time.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
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Speaker 9 (10:38):
Doctor daryl' peel, Oklahoma State Livestock Marketing economists.
Speaker 18 (10:43):
You know, in most cases, the cattle market fundamentals are
very strong underneath this thing. So the market is is
I've said this a couple of times last year. The
market's pretty bulletproof, but it's not bomb proof. And you know,
once we got into the fourth quarter, of course, we
had had such a run up, so from especially from
a future market standpoint, we had a lot of futures
(11:04):
traders that were sort of looking for an opportunity for
a correction. And that's that's just a healthy thing that
markets do. They have a big run one way or
the other, whether it's down or up, then they do
a correction, which gives people a chance to kind of
square off those positions, take some money off the table,
and sort of reset themselves, and so the market was
ready for a correction, and then we had a lot
of political stuff that came in from the outside in
(11:27):
the fourth quarter, and that's not really helpful, and it
did certainly make the correction bigger than it needed to be,
and it took longer to recover from Again, we're still
in some sense in recovery, although if the politics stays
quieted down, then you know, we will move on from here.
So you know, most of the time, these corrections in
(11:47):
this kind of a market are very short lived. A
week or two, couple three weeks. In this case it
was a few weeks, I would say. You know, the
bulk of the impact of the fourth quarter stuff was
over in about six or seven weeks, and so you know,
again we're still not fully recovered, depending on which market
you look at, but you know that external stuff can
drag on. Of course, you can get repeated. That's what
(12:08):
happened was we had a whole series of things, so
it wasn't just one thing. If it had been any
one of those, it wouldn't have lasted very long. But
when you sort of pile on with a lot of stuff,
then it created a bigger correction. And it takes a
little bit longer to recover.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
From American Cattle News.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
This is Tim Amrich of the Egg Information Network with
your Farm of the Future report. These winter months on
the farm slow down the biology that happens beneath the
soil's surface. However, biological processes are still happening in John
Kemp of Advancing Eco Agriculture says, the winter is actually
a great time to build organic matter and with that
(12:46):
nitrogen that can be available for next year's crop.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
When you stimulate biology during the winter months, you get
much better formation of stable organic matter what is correctly
referred to as mineral associated organic matter, during the winter
months than you do during the summer, because during the
summer it just cycles too fast. And what happens during
the winter months when you have this formation of mineral
(13:10):
associated organic matter as a result of carbon cycling, there
is also the opportunity to capture nitrogen and associate nitrogen
with those various forms of carbon in a very efficient
way that doesn't leach. It's not legible. When you have
nitrogen in the form of bacterial proteins or that has
associated with these various complex carbon forms. It's very common
(13:31):
to put applications on its spring, but you're losing your
golden window of opportunity of the fall of the winter
months when you have cold or soil temperatures.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Advancing Eco Agriculture sells a line of soil primer products
to help facilitate these biological processes.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(14:06):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on,
listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
(14:29):
your terrific product or service, give us a call and
we'll connect you directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners.
Reach real farmers right here, right now as they listen
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They'll trust you.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
And that's today's Farm of the Future Report, brought to
you by the ag Information Network. I'm Tim Hambridge.
Speaker 16 (14:51):
Welcome to the Line on Agriculture Report. This does Lori
Boyer for the EG Information Network. Today we wrap up
our three part series on the Waters of the US
with Courtney Breeks from the U American Farm Bureau Federation.
In today's segment, she focuses on two key terms that
must clearly be defined under the WOTAS rule, which are
relatively permanent waters and continuous surface connection.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
In order to be a wotics, you need to have
a relatively permanent flow in connection to a traditional navigable water.
So what does relatively permanent mean? That is something that
we have grappled with for many years, and this EPA
is providing a definition of relatively permanent and one that
we think is legally sound. Continuous surface connection is another
(15:33):
important term because it determines what wetlands can be regulated
that are adjacent to relatively permanent streams.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Riggs explains how the Trump administration rule making aims to
clearly define those terms and why that clarity is critical
for producers navigating compliance and land management decisions.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
First of all, there are civil and criminal penalties attached
to clean water at compliance, so you can be fined
sixty four thousand per day for every day of noncompliance,
or jail time if it is a criminal penalty. So
if the rules are not clear, a farmer can unknowingly
break the law and be subject to those penalties.
Speaker 16 (16:12):
Afbf's Courtney breaks.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(16:34):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on.
Listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
(16:56):
your terrific product or service, give us a call and
we'll connect you directly with our community of loyal farmer
listeners reach real farmers right here, right now as they
listen to what is important to their farm operation. They
trust us, They'll trust you.
Speaker 16 (17:12):
For the AG information network.
Speaker 17 (17:14):
I'm Lorie Boyer, a value added almond companies really helping
the industry. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report,
part of that vast AG information network. Christy Myers heads
up business development with Cash Creek Foods.
Speaker 19 (17:31):
Cash Creek Foods is a trina ingredient manufacturer. We focus
primarily on almonds, and almond butter represents a very large
portion of our business, so we're currently innovating in that
as we always have, and also looking at new formats
for almonds that can be used in beverages and all
kinds of other products.
Speaker 17 (17:51):
And then their early two thousands, Blue Diamond came out
with the first almond milk beverage and a.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
Food scientist that work with Cash Creek Foods was also
formulating high spec almond butter for Cash Greek and we
helped some of the largest coffeehouses and other companies launch
their first plant based milk. Innovation has always been foundational
to who we are. It's one of our primary core values,
and so innovation works in two ways. For cash Creek
(18:18):
Foods inbound, which represents the primary way that we innovate,
we get requests from product developers across the industry, and
then also the market opportunities that we see that we
think at scale represent a really huge opportunity globally to
serve people who maybe have not had access to plant
(18:38):
based milk in the past.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
And you've probably been told that to reach a millennial
farmer you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe
(19:00):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well, quite frankly farming.
You know, it's easy for us to find them during
the day, as most farmers are behind the wheel of
a pickup truck or farm equipment with the radio on.
Listening to this station for the agg Information Network of
the West News. If you'd like to deliver information about
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Speaker 17 (19:39):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. Welcome to
AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley with your farm news.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The connection between regenerative agricultural practices by growers, increasing soil health,
at water quality and interd folstering nutrients within the foods
we eat every day.
Speaker 20 (19:58):
We are launching a a new farmer First Regenerative Agriculture
Pilot program which will invest seven hundred million dollars specifically
to support regenerative agriculture.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The recent announcement by Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins offers avenues
to increase not just food production, but nutrient dense foods
for consumption in efforts to address issues such as more
chronic diseases in our nation through better nutrition. Eating those
foods makes you healthier and will save the taxpayers money
because Medicare.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Medicare won't have to pay out so.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Much in healthcare claims either paid port and food you
paid portant healthcare expenses. I'm Rod Bain, the administrator for
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, but met Oz
is among those joining us as we look at regenerative
aggs potential role in better nutrition and health outcomes in
this edition of Agriculture USA. Several farmers in our nation
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already utilize what is known as regenerative agricultural practices. They
cover crops, for instance, natural resources conservation methods designed to
approve soil health and water quality, and in many instances
grower profitability. Among those recognizing this approach the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
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 (21:22):
But beyond that, the Secretary believes in the role regenerative
ad can play a growing healthier foods for human consumption
and by that, improving overall human health. HHS. Research is
under way in that regard, and recently, in addition, an
announcement by the Agriculture Department of a new regenerative agriculture
pilot program.
Speaker 20 (21:42):
In order to 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.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Of the soil.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins says the seven hundred billion dollar
Farmer First Pilot program is designed to be a strict,
blied outcome based approach to encourage producers who wish to
transition to regenerative AG to do so.
Speaker 20 (22:07):
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.
Speaker 21 (22:17):
Producers will benefit.
Speaker 20 (22:18):
From a single application, reducing red tape and making conservation
dear to access and are programs more impactful.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will oversee the Regenerative AG
Pilot program, one that will utilize EXIST to get our
CS offerings, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQUIP add the
Conservation Stewardship Program CSP.
Speaker 17 (22:42):
Each producer's results.
Speaker 20 (22:43):
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 (22:51):
Yet a key piece of not only the pilot program,
but federal government efforts to boost soil and water quality
with better nutrition and health consumer edgucation as explayed by
the Secretary.
Speaker 20 (23:02):
Using the Sustains Act, we will bring corporate label and
supply chain partners directly into partnership within URCS, 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 (23:22):
Also, the Office of Urban agg and Innovative Production under
at rcs purview.
Speaker 20 (23:26):
Will 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 (23:38):
Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt provides this summary
of the approach.
Speaker 22 (23:44):
It connects the producer and the work that they're doing
on the farm, granting them the credit for that voluntary
action of change of practice on their farm that then
can transition into the supply chain, into the marketplace and
directly back to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Where to find more information about the farmer first Regenerated
Agriculture Pilot program, producers could contact their local USDA Service
center and at RCS staff to learn about state ranking
dates for fiscal year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Funding.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Companies interested in partnering with ATRCS in the pilot program
can request more details via email. The address is Regenerative
at USDA dot Go. This has been Agriculture USA.
Speaker 17 (24:27):
Thanks for being with us. You're listening to AG Live.
I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 23 (24:32):
It's time for California AG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's ship.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Well.
Speaker 23 (24:38):
A reminder for producers and landowners here in the States,
the US Department of Agriculture has revised the Farm Service
Agency County Committee voting period and eligible voters should receive
ballots this week. Elections are taking place in select local
administrative areas for committee members, who help guide how federal
farm programs are delivered locally. To be counted, ballots must
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be returned to your local FSA county office or postmarked
by February second. Newly elected members will take office on
March second of this year. Nationwide, more than seventy seven
hundred members of the agriculture community serve on FSA county committees.
These committees are made up of three to eleven members
who serve three year terms and play a key role
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in disaster recovery, safety net conservation, and price support programs.
They also helped to make decisions that affect county office
operations and other local agricultural issues. To vote, producers must
participate or cooperate in the USDA program and be assigned
to the area up for election. If you do not
receive a ballot, you can contact your local FSA office
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or visit FSA dot USDA dot gov slash elections for details.
Of course, that link can also be found at aginfo
dot net.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
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Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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Speaker 23 (26:49):
This is California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Bokquinbackers farmer US This morning, Friends USDA. Now it's the
payment rates for the farmer Bridge Assistance Program, but there
are still some gaps. Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Late in twenty twenty five, USDA announced the farmer Bridge
Assistance Program that's set aside twelve billion dollars in assistance
for US farmers and ranchers. Faith Parum, an economist for
the American Farm Bureau Federation, says rates vary based on
each eligible crop.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Eleven billion being in the Farmer Bridge Assistant Program for
re crop producers. And so these are one time bridge
payments and they are per acre by crop, and so
they range from eight dollars all the way up to
one hundred and thirty dollars, and it really just depends
on the.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Crop farm says. USDA is looking to pay out the
assistance relatively quickly.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Farmers should have reported their acreage to FSA by the
December deadline, and now all they have to do is
wait for pre filled application to apply to receive the funding.
So they should stay in contact with their local FSA
agents to see how those pre filled applications will be
distributed and make sure they turn them in. There should
be a by the end of February.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Only one billion was set aside for specialty crop producers,
which Parum said won't be enough.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
The USDA has mentioned they need more data to understand
the losses across specialty crops. Even so, this is a
very small amount for lots and lots of crops. There's
hundreds and hundreds of specialty crops. They have higher input costs,
they have really high labor costs, high technology costs, and
so we're seeing really large losses across the specialty crop field.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You can learn more on the market intail page at
fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Well Friends. The twenty twenty five season was a good one.
For sugar beet growers across the Northwest, with very strong
yields reported. So what was the difference this year that
led to a crop Samantha Parrot described as massive. The
executive director of the Snake River sugar Beet Growers Association says,
while growers did a great job of working the fields,
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addressing disease and keeping up with their spray program, it
all comes down to weather.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Mother nature was just very generous. It wasn't a super
hot summer. I think we had less one hundred degree
days and that's just really helpful. It wasn't smoky, so
in terms of the sunlight and getting those heat units
to the beads, that went really well. Cool nights helped
put on the sugar. So it was just kind of
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an anomaly where, you know, not to say that the
growers didn't work hard to do an amazing job, but
we were just really blessed to have mother nature cooperate
throughout the growing season.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Parrot added growers also benefited from very few replants last year,
which she noted helped the crop get off to an
early and strong start to the season. Well, friends of
a disease outbreak were to occur. Efficient and accurate swine
traceability may help reduce the number of animals impacted and
the response time. Doctor Brent Peppin, director of Swine Health
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with the National Port Board, emphasizes that show pigs may
pose a disease risk due to their frequent travel.
Speaker 24 (29:56):
I mean show pick producers move a lot of pigs,
a lot of pigs visually in small groups, which is
different from the commercial guys. And it's because they the
same pig might go to multiple locations. If there's ever
sort of an issue or a disease issue, I'll be
really they could have multiple contacts and you need to
be able to figure out where those contacts are for
the protection of our whole swine industrym.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
National Portboard is working to improve traceability efforts through cooperative
agreements with the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
to distribute radio frequency identification reader technology to exhibition sites.
Speaker 24 (30:31):
Up to four handheld RFID readers that they can utilize
for checking pigs in to their exhibition sites. It's a
very good opportunity to start start help start making it
easier the checking pigs to the show. First of all,
its increase decrease this amount of time you have to
spend looking at each individual pigs ID in their ear.
If you can just scan their RFID eight forty tag,
you can pull up individual minimal number and you can
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send them on their way to get through the check
in process.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Like exhibition sites, the National port Board is also addressing
a gap in the traces of cull sows. Each call
sal facility can receive up to four handtaild RFID readers
and five RFID reader panels. When pigs are unloaded from
the truck, they pass by the RFDA panel where their
number can be read if they have an RFDI eight
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four zero tag. Regardless, each exhibition or call sole market
site must have a valid premise identification number to receive
RFID equipment.
Speaker 24 (31:26):
And for those locations, because they are going to bring
in a high volume of pig is going through those sites,
they actually qualify to get funding for panel readers and
what those are as their stationary readers that pigs actually
walk by and then as the pig walks by, it
reads their holds their tag information from that RFID.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Tag traceability through identification Tags farm US. You're listening to
ag life.
Speaker 25 (31:50):
From the AGG Information Network on Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update well. During the Governor's Summit on Agricultural Viability
in Idaho, American farm Land Trust announced a new initiative
called Thriving Farms and Ranches. The summit explored the challenges
of balancing the growth of cities and towns with Idaho's
valuable agricultural economy as working lands are lost at an
alarming rate. AFT will work to ensure farmers and ranchers
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can be financially secure, invest in the future of their operations,
and attract the next generation of farmers. Ex Secretary Brook
Rawlins announced a number of coordinated actions that emphasize American
agriculture research and innovation under the USDA's National Farm Security
Action PLANT. The plan will ensure ideas stay in America
or with our allies and not with hostile nations, and
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that we put American farmers in ranchers first. These actions
strength the transparency around foreign ownership of US agg land
and insure federal programs and purchasing preferences don't support foreign
supply chains. The Senate will recand roughly twenty one billion
dollars in unspent federal funds originally designated for broadband programs,
setting up a potential debate over how that money should
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be spent. The legislation targets a portion of the broadband
Equity Access in Deployment or BEAD program that's not been
allocated to states. BEAD was created in the twenty twenty
one Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act to expand high speed
internet access to underserved areas.
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Speaker 10 (34:08):
From the AG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
BOK went back to wrap up AGLIE for to their friends.
A lot of confusion around exactly how many US soybeans
China has purchased under the recent agreement. Todd Gleeson wraps
us up today.
Speaker 26 (34:23):
I'm a University of Illinois Extensions Tugley's an agricultful economists
from Iowa State Extension based on the campus of the Ames.
Chadtheart now joined us. Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Chad.
Speaker 26 (34:35):
Let's talk about imports or exports. I suppose to China
of soybeans where we stand today, there's a lot of
confusing numbers.
Speaker 21 (34:48):
The Chinese data. As far as US beans that have
hit their shores, we're still at zero. When I look
at the weekly exports sales day data that USDA is
catching back up on given the delays during the government shutdown,
that would show that China has purchased about four million
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metric tons thus far, and you know, while those haven't
hit the shore yet, they will be moving along that way.
And for those Eagle eighte observers that have been tracking
the daily sales that are reported under USDA system, you
could get yourself up to about that seven million metric
ton level because we have been seeing China being active,
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especially here in late November early December, and those data
will eventually show up in the weekly sales data, probably
within the next couple of weeks, and then they'll show
up in that Chinese data within the next month or so.
Speaker 26 (35:49):
How has the marketplace been viewing this data, particularly recently
as there's been a pullback in soyping prices And what
is your expectation for any kind of rally to come
if it would based off more reported actual sales.
Speaker 21 (36:09):
Well, I think as you look at it right now,
it was one of those deals of where we really
traded up the rumor and then bid down the news.
So the idea is we saw the rally before any
purchases were made, but when the agreement was sort of announced,
and now with each resulting sale, the market's sort of
discounting that along the way, and I think it's because
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the market is seeing here going, yeah, there's been an agreement,
that agreement seems to be being held up here, but
it also puts us still in a position to China
agreed to purchase twelve million metric tons here for twenty
twenty five, but that would still only be about half
of what they usually do and so hence the let's
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call it lack of excitement within the market as China
fulfills that part of the deal.
Speaker 26 (36:57):
That's Chad Hart. He's an agriculturalnomoist at Iowa State University
based in Ames. I'm the Illinois Extensions Todd Gleason with.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That friends amount of time for they thanks for joining us.
Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
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