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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you here for the next hour. We're talking about
agricultural production here in the valley and all across the country. Well,
when food, cookware, dishes, utensils become contaminated by floodwater, what
are food safety tips to keep in mind? Well, Rod
bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Recent flood events in parts of the country, like those
reported on by USDA be rologist Brad Rippy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Things really kind of came to a head that day
as we saw an extensive flood event. Flooding that is
already underway.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Raised more than just water increased. Food safety considerations also
came fourth during recent flooding. So USDA food safety expert
Meredith corrothers, what are some tips to consider when it
comes to food safety at a flood event. Time may
be an.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Ally in that sometimes you can prepare for a flooding event,
and in those cases it's helpful to take food items
and elevate them onto a higher surface, put them on
a higher shelf, put them as high as you can
to hopefully avoid them coming into contact with floodwater.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Same with your refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You can Actually, if you have cinder block or have
an option to put it up on something to elevate it,
you can elevate your refrigerator as well.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Knowing how to evaluate foods after a flood event is
also essential.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Usually, if something has come into contact with floodwater, it's
usually better to assume it's not going to be salvageable,
and then it's not safe, especially things like cardboard packages, crackers,
things in those thin plastic bags, any fruits and vegetables,
any meats, anything like that.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
It's not packaged.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Necessarily bottles with screw caps aren't going to be considered safe.
All of those items will have to be discarded. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Now, metal cans and retort pouches can potentially be recovered
from flooding contamination, but as Corruthers advises.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You really have to make sure that it doesn't have
any damage on it, like a dent, or it's not swelling,
it doesn't have any punctures or things, because even microscopic
holes like that can allow bacteria to go inside.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So food and waterproof containers with no damage can be
made safe through the following steps.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If you cant food that's not damaged, not dented not
showing any signs of kind of structural integrity. You can
brush away any dirt, wash them with soap and water,
and then you can sanitize them by putting them in
water and allowing the water to come to a boil
for two minutes continuously. Or you can put them in
a freshly made solution of one tablespoon of unscented chlorine
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bleach per gallon of drinking water and then letting them
air dry for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Corrothers advis is drinking only bottled water not in contact
with flood water. As for cookware, ceramic dishes, and utensils
contaminated by flood.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Pots, pans, dishes, utensils, those kind of items can be
washed with soap and water and then rinsed and sanitized
by boiling them in clean water for fifteen minutes. So
your pots and pans are salvageable by cleaning and sanitizing
them thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Items such as wooden cutting boards, plastic utensils, baby bottlednipples,
pasifiers a contact with bloodwaters must be disposed of. Broad
Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Friends Potato growers met in there twice a year. Meeting
in the Pacific Northwest will have that story ahead, also
a look at possible ethanol expansion. You're listening to Aglife
Bob when here with Farmers this morning. Friends. While the
Department of Agriculture has begun rolling out funds earmark for
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twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four disasters, Chad Smith
has a breakdown on that number.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
The USDA is opening the sign up period for the
Supplemental Disaster Relief program for US farmers and ranchers. Danny Munch,
an economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about
who is eligible for the assistance.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Farmers and ranchers who received a crop insurance or non
insured Disaster as Systems Program payment for twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four for a qualifying disaster which includes
strout floods, freeze's wildfires, might be eligible for Stage one
of USDA's new Supplemental Disaster Relief Program. They must meet
standard USDA income and conservation rules and haven't already received
a twenty twenty two er payment for the same crop year.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
He said.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
The funding for the assistance comes from a congressional mandate.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
So the sixteen billion dollars in aid for this program
comes from the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of twenty
twenty five, which is passed by Congress at the end
of last year. And this announcement is only Stage one,
and the funding will be used across Stage one and
Stage two. When eventually Stage two is.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Announced, USDA's Farm Service Agency will mail pre filled applications
to eligible farmers based on existing crop insurance records.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Farmers can also contact their local FSA office to get
the forum. They must complete and return the sign formed
and make sure all that paperwork is filled out and
on file. They must also commit to keeping crop insurance
or NAP coverage for the next two years. The payment
calculation is just going to be upping and existing insurance
coverage levels by a corresponding factor.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Folks from the potato industry gathered in Idaho for the
National Potato Council's Summer Meeting. NPC president and Washington State
grower Ted Shirkey says the weather was great and there
was plenty of news to share.
Speaker 10 (05:15):
Well as the industry gets together throughout the years. The
Summer Meeting is sort of halfway marked for the industry
in just updates of what's going on in the National
Potato Council World topics.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That covered a range of current issues from trade to
the environment, to the progress of what's happening in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
Well as we progress here in DC, everybody's doesn't deliver
thinking of tariffs, you know, and one of the positive
things that might come out of this is possibly get
our doors open in Japan.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The meeting involved interesting guest speakers as well.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
We kicked off our general session we had Mark Tavoc
come in from WSU Potato researcher and talk about the
importance the front federal, state and industry support, which was
very important for the group and I think the people
appreciated that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Suirkey says. The Summer Meeting is there half yearly gathering.
Biofuel supporters are giving testimony before the Environmental Protection Agency
on it's proposed twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven
renewable volume obligations. Krista Swanson, chief Economists for the National
Corn Growers talks about the process and where it goes.
(06:30):
Once the testimony is complete.
Speaker 11 (06:32):
Interested parties could weigh in on the proposals, and so
from here then we would expect EPA to take that
into account and come out with a final rule. I'm
not sure the timeline on when we would expect the
final rule, but that's where we're at the process our
thoughts on the proposal. I mean, the conventional volumes remained
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at fifteen billion gallons, which we are pleased to see.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Said, the biggest changes came in the bio based diesel numbers.
Speaker 11 (07:04):
It doesn't directly affects ethanol, but it does. Bio based
diesel had the capability of producing more than the number
of wrends that were allocated in the rfs before.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
With these new hire volumes, that.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
Gives them more space in their own buckets, so to speak,
because the D four that bio based diesel falls into
could also use D six rinds, which are the wrens.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
That ethanol uses.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
So what I'm saying is they were using some of
the xs D six rinds that ethanol was not using.
The reason ethanol wasn't using the full fifteen billion is
because we have this ten percent blend wall that keeps
us from really hitting that fifteen billion gallons.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Krista Swanson National corn Rollers. This morning farm News, you're
listening to Aglife.
Speaker 12 (07:49):
It's another Agnews update foreign ownership of domestic farmland. More
after this.
Speaker 13 (07:59):
This is your q O'Neill reminding you that anytime is
a good time for the cooling, drying freshmen of gold bond,
powd of spring, like after the gym.
Speaker 14 (08:08):
Elevator ride, working with farm.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Animals, or hard day's work. Stay cool with gold bond,
pot of spreads, stay with gold bone. Uh huh.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
Arkansas Governors Sarah I could be Sanders on prohibiting foreign
ownership of farm land the.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Last couple of months.
Speaker 15 (08:27):
We've passed new legislation just this year allowing us to
prohibit them from now not only owning farmland in our state,
but from building or buying land around our military bases
and critical infrastructure. It is something that has to happen
and something that states have been leading the way on,
but unfortunately our states can't do it alone. That's why
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events like today matter so much. That's why a leadership
from people like Secretary Rollins matter so much. The fact
that we now have a pre resident who understands who
our real enemies are and is willing to take them on.
Is making a huge difference, not just in our country
but around the world. You know, we've talked a lot
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about today a country's ability to feed itself, but that's
not the only place, and that's not the only role
agriculture plays. A country has to be able to feed itself,
fuel itself, and fight for itself to truly be free.
And that's why what this group represents is every component
of that. And we now have a president who understands
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it and is willing to do everything within his power
to make sure the United States continues to be the
greatest country on the face of the planet.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I'm Russ Kohler, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heatstroke is life threatening.
Speaker 16 (09:53):
Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later,
allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.
Speaker 17 (10:09):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
American Cattle News reopening the southern border with Mexico for
live feeder cattle good or bad? More after this.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I'm Russ Koher, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heat stroke is life threatening.
Speaker 16 (10:33):
Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later.
Allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.
Speaker 17 (10:48):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
The threat of New World screw worm has caused the
US to close the border with Mexico for feeder cattle.
That's recently reopened. Justin Douglas, Arizona. Robbie Kirkland is a
family feeder from Vega, Texas.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Those cattle are used by you know, farmers, backgrounders, and
then feed lots, so all different sectors of the of
the you know, of the market of the of the bechain.
So this cattle will come across and then like I said,
a lot of them will be fed, you know, particularly
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in our region. I'm in the Texas Cattle feeder region Texas, Oklahoma,
and New Mexico and then probably some up into maybe
southern part of Kansas. But uh, you know the majority
of them would be fed in in our region, and
so those cattle would come in a lot of them
will get we'll be put on pasture, could be gone
wheat pasture, could be summer grass pasture, and then like
(11:54):
I said, would go on into the to the to
the feed lots sector. And and that's kind of how
they're used.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
And why is this important to.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Continue take a million head roughly out of the supply
for you know, shutting off the ports in in between
Mexico and the US. So that's put a really strain
on the numbers in the you know, in the feed lots,
on our grass, on our wheat pasture because of just
you know, just sheer numbers.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
So that's made a huge impact.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And so in our region we would say that there
would be around fifteen percent of the cattle on feed
or in our possession would be cattle historically from.
Speaker 18 (12:37):
Mexico American cattle. Meuse this is Dairy Radio now Milkie Monday.
Speaker 19 (12:48):
Lookas Fees senior dairy analysts with Rabble Bank in Chicago, Lucas,
would you please give us an update on the US
tariff situation. President Trump sent out letters last week to
several countries informing them of their new respective new tariff
rates in order to do business with the US.
Speaker 20 (13:06):
What is the status currently?
Speaker 21 (13:08):
We saw a little bit of a lull in new
tariff announcements over the past few weeks, but you're rightly
last week a variety of countries, more than twenty were
sent letters with their new respective tariff rates. This comes
after a few months ago in April, when the Trump
administration proposed kind of blanket tariff rates across numerous countries.
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It looks like this is an effort to force countries
to negotiate trade deals or face that deeper US import tariff.
The rate, of course, differing between countries, not one blanket
rate among those many different countries. Moving forward, the deadlines
are various, some deadlines into August, mostly for these countries
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to negotiate.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I think, from a.
Speaker 21 (13:56):
Very specific perspective though this is too much of an escalation.
I think critically, trade with Mexico remains uninhibited because of
the provisions of the US NCA agreement and of course,
the steep Chinese tariffs and China's reciprocal tariffs that were
rolled back in mid May. There has been no new
(14:17):
update there, so we continue to await any news on.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The US China negotiations. But overall, after.
Speaker 21 (14:24):
Lots of geopolitical and economic occurrences over the past few weeks,
it seems the administration has turned its attention back to trade.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Well.
Speaker 19 (14:33):
I have one concern about Canada regarding the butter that
Canada buys from the US. This could be impacted correctly.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It's certainly possible.
Speaker 21 (14:41):
Canada is a pretty significant buyer of butter overall, but
I think it's important to remember that butter is a
very domestic focused market, so Canada. Of course, maybe a
few million pounds per month could be a little bit
more impactful this year to the market, But overall, US
butter prices remain sharply lower versus the rest of the world.
Speaker 19 (15:04):
Bottom line for the US. Will the tariffs work? In
your opinion, Lucas.
Speaker 21 (15:11):
It's a great question. I think it's important to have
an expectation that the administration has some end goals that
they want to achieve here, and hopefully their goals are
coming to fruition with this strategy that they choose to
be playing out on tariffs.
Speaker 19 (15:27):
Thank you, Lucas Lucas Fees Senior dairy analysts with Rabble
Bank in Chicago.
Speaker 22 (15:33):
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This is Dairy Radio.
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Now taking place. Now sign up for a new USDA
Disaster assistance program.
Speaker 25 (16:29):
Producers who experience losses covered by crop insurance or by
non insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program or NAP can sign
up for Supplemental Disaster Relief Program.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Farm Service Agency Administrator Bill beeB says eligible crop losses
due to natural disasters apply to the twenty twenty three
and twenty four crop season. In addition to in person
sign ups at local FSA offices, pre field applications are
being bailed to producers with eligible crop, tree and vine losses.
While phase one of SdRP as under.
Speaker 26 (17:00):
Way, sometime this fall we will be able to have
the second stage of SdRP, and that's going to cover
shallow losses the producers that were not covered with crop
insurance that had those losses but were not indentified.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
More details about SdRP are available through local FSA offices.
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C. Join us tomorrow for our Producer
Tuesday from the Professional Dairy Producers.
Speaker 20 (17:26):
I'm Bill Baker, Dairy Radio.
Speaker 27 (17:28):
Now marketing almonds to China. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the vastag Information Network.
The almed Border California is doing their best to get
more almonds.
Speaker 22 (17:44):
Into China.
Speaker 27 (17:45):
Clarice Turner is the president and CEO of the Armed
Border California. She comments on a niche marketing approach in China.
Speaker 28 (17:53):
Yeah, we have been focusing a lot on skin health
in China because beauty is a really big dealarticularly China.
Japan and South Korea's similar strategy, and so we're continuing
that it really resonates with the Chinese consumer and we've
seen a lot of traction and it gives them a
new way to think about almonds holistically, beyond just what
they consume. We're also starting to shift now to doing
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more of what I was talking about before with educating
like chefs and formulators and people that are going to
include almonds and food and snacks, because we see also
that business is starting to ramp up in China again.
If you go to the supermarkets, you see all kinds
of mixed nuts and fruits and cereals and things that
have not been part of the diet traditionally. I lived
(18:40):
in China for three years and I speak Mandarin, so
it's been very interesting to visit right and see it's
not the China I lived a long time ago, but
it's fun to watch them sort of evolve in a
very Chinese way and how these products are manifesting.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's for ease Turner with the almond board.
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Speaker 20 (20:04):
Cherries.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
This year's crop of this summertime Fourth of July treat
is now being harvested, and so.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
They're readily available in grocery stores here very soon. Anyway,
I'm sure we're starting to see some now.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Lance Holding of USDA's National Agricultural Statistic Service says harvest
continues until about mid July. You may know there are
two types of cherries, sweet ad tart. How are they
different besides the obvious clues in their names, Hodig explains,
with sweet cherries.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
This time of year, we think about cherries, especially around
the Fourth of July. They tend to be a staple
at some of those Fourth of July picnics and gatherings.
And we're really talking about the sweet cherries. These are
the cherries that are typically eaten fresh. They really don't
store well, and so this is the time of year
when they mature and get harvested, and so they're readily available.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
While with tart cherries.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
This is what you see appearing in your pies and
your pastries and other delicious dessert slur cherries are featured,
and because of the nature of that we freem we
store them and so we can find those pretty much
a year round.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And when it comes to keeping track of sweeted tart
cherries in USDA production reports, if you look.
Speaker 30 (21:09):
At when we publish estimates, will publish both sweet and
tart cherry numbers, and you'll never see in an ass
report a total cherry number, and that is simply because
the crops are so.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Unique that it really doesn't make any sense to put
them together.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So perhaps the question on your mind, will there be
plenty of cherries available this year? Holding starts with a
look at this year's sweet cherry harvest forecast, which.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Represents the largest crop since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
With a projected year over year production increase of four percent,
driving the production gains the nation's largest cherry growing state, Washington.
Speaker 30 (21:45):
They're expecting about a twenty nine percent increase this season.
Weather's been really good for the crop there and so
great news from both Washington and a national perspective.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
A slight production rise is also reported in Oregon, the
offset its wheat chair erry production this season is California.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
For some extreme weather during the bloom, and as a result,
they're actually looking at a crop it's about thirty eight
percent smaller than last year.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Michigan is far and away the largest tart cherry growing
state in the US, yet Hodig says.
Speaker 30 (22:16):
It's a really tough season for the fact they're looking
at about a forty one percent drop in tart cherry
production this year due to poor weather.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That poor weather, however, was not a major freeze of
it usually associated with tart cherry production.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
To Clydes, that's not the.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Case this year. It's just been not good weather.
Speaker 30 (22:34):
It's a pretty big drop in fact, nationally that means
we're only looking.
Speaker 31 (22:37):
At one hundred and thirty nine million pounds this year.
That's more than a third below last season's crop. It
will be the smallest crop since twenty twenty and the
second smallest crops it's that disastrous year of twenty twelve
when Michigan lost almost all their chair.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You are listening to focus on AG, extreme heat and
potential AG impacts. USDA b ro ologist Brad Rippe a
submarine starting with livestock.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sometimes they come with some expense to the cattle, they
are not quite acclimated to the heat at this point.
Some animals may still have a portion of their winter
coats and with that lack of cooling ability that can
create a very stressful situation.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Compounded by extreme humidity and overnight low temperatures and the
upper seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The nighttime cooling or lack thereof, is creating quite a
stressful situation for livestock and will have to continue to
monitor the animals as we move into the end of
June and into July. As this heat wave looks like
it will continue across many parts of the country.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
For crops corn and soybeans especially, they remained safe as
they have not reached the reproductive stage of development.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
However, we'll continue to watch this heat as it becomes
more potentially critical for corn and soybeans moving into July.
Moving to crops, a little bit of good news on
that front in the fact that a lot of the
US corn and soybeans, especially in the heartland in the Midwest,
has not yet reached the reproductive stage of development. Do
you see some single digit numbers for corn reaching the
(24:02):
silking stage and mostly single digit numbers in the Midwest
for soybeans starting to bloom, one exception being Iowa, where
soybeans blooming advanced to thirteen percent by June twenty second.
But from the corn standpoint, most of the corn is
still safe. If we're going to get the heat, let's
get it out of the way before it reaches reproduction.
For soybeans, that crop can withstand heat and begin to
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recover after it turns cooler and wetter. So any of
the early blooming soybeans that are being affected by this heat,
that may not be the end of the road for
that crop. It can rebloom or recover later once cooler
temperatures return.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.
Speaker 22 (24:44):
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Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
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of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
On the AG Information Network, I am Hateley's ship.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Bob when here with farmers this morning, friends. While the
Department of Agriculture has begun rolling out funds Earmark for
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four disasters. Chad Smith
has a breakdown on that number.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The USDA is opening the sign up period for the
Supplemental Disaster Relief program for US farmers and ranchers. Danny Munch,
an economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about
who is eligible for the assistance.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Farmers and ranchers who received a crop insurance or non
insured Disaster Assistance Program payment for twenty twenty three and
twenty twenty four for a qualifying disaster which includes strout floods,
freeze's wildfires, might be eligible for Stage one of USDA's
new Supplemental Disaster Relief program. They must meet standard us
DAD income and conservation rules and haven't already received at
twenty twenty two er payment for the same crop year.
Speaker 22 (28:05):
He said.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
The funding for the assistance comes from a congressional mandate.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
So the sixteen billion dollars in aid for this program
comes from the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of the
twenty twenty five which is passed by Congress at the
end of last year, and this announcement is only Stage
one and the funding will be used across both Stage
one and stage two. When eventually Stage two is.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Announced, USDA's Farm Service Agency will mail pre filled applications
to eligible farmers based on existing crop insurance records.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Farmers can also contact their local FSA office to get
the forum. They must complete and return the sign formed
and make sure all that paperwork is filled out and
on file. They must also commit to keeping crop insurance
or NAP coverage for the next two years. The payment
calculation is just going to be upping and existing insurance
coverage levels by a corresponding factor.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Folks from the potato industry gathered in Idaho for the
National Potatoto Council's Summer Meeting. NPC president and Washington State
grower Ted Shirky says the weather was great and there
was plenty of news to share well.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
As the industry gets together throughout the years, the summer
meeting is sort of halfway park for the industry and
just updates of what's going on in the National Tato
Council World topics.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That covered a range of current issues from trade to
the environment to the progress of what's happening in Washington.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
D c well as we progress here in DC. Everybody
doesn't know what they think of tariffs. You know. One
of the positive things that might come out of this
is possibly get our door opened in Japan.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The meeting involved interesting guest speakers as well.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
We kicked off our general session we had Mark Pavoc
come in from WSU Potato researcher and talk about the
importance of the funding the Korean federal, State and industry
support which was carry for the group, and I think
the people appreciated that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Schurkey says. The summer meeting is there half yearly gathering. Well,
friends of the US and Canada are talking trade. We have
a report this morning from the US Meat Export Federation.
Speaker 20 (30:15):
While trade talks with Canada are back on following Canada's
announcement it will rescind a digital services tax, there are
still agg trade concerns, as US Meat Export Federation Vice
president of Economic Analysis Aaron Borr explains.
Speaker 34 (30:27):
In Canada, there has been movement underway for some time
to try to safeguard in a way their supply management
programs for dairy and poultry in particular, and they have
essentially tried to put guardrails around this program, so that
in these negotiations with other countries, but clearly with the
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US and Mexico through the USMCA renewal, so that the
supply management system could not be in their minds, you know,
traded away or negotiated through these trade agreement updates. And
that sends a troubling signal to many in the US
in that problematic areas for the US are being redlined
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by legislation in Canada and unable to be negotiated. So
even some of in the domestic bag industry in Canada
have raised the concerns about the signal this sends.
Speaker 20 (31:23):
Canada also has in plagues a significant retaliatory terriff on
the US sausage products.
Speaker 34 (31:28):
This retaliation goes all the way back to February through
the fentanyl and immigration tariffs that the US imposed on Canada,
and then Canada had retaliated and included on that list
as US sausages and at twenty five percent retaliatory duty.
That trade for last year was a total of two
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hundred and seventy five million dollars, so it is a
huge line item. Canada is our largest market for sausage exports,
and again two hundred and seventy five million dollars worth
of trade, which has been facing this twenty five percent
tariff since early March.
Speaker 20 (32:02):
For the US Meat Export Federation. I'm John Herath.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Farm News this morning. You're listening to AGLFE.
Speaker 35 (32:13):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Most California figs end up as dried fruit, with the
bulk of which is turned into paste and other food ingredients,
most famously at one time as a filling for fig newtons,
but the fresh fruit in season now through October or
November is increasingly showing up in different culinary takes on
(32:33):
familiar dishes. California Fresh Fig Growers Association CEO Carlo Stockley says,
we've really seen it go way beyond the fig newton.
The Public Lands Council and the New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association announced support for the Enhancing Safety for Animals Act.
The legislation would delist the Mexican gray wolf and separate
the populations in the US and Mexico, allowing for proper
(32:56):
management of the species. PLC Executive Director CAITLINN. Glover says,
for far too long, ranchers in southern border states have
shouldered the burden of managing this species with limited tools
and little support. The Farmer's Share of the Food Dollar,
released last week, highlights how little family farms are in
compared to how much consumers pay at the grocery stores.
(33:17):
Family farmers get only a small fraction of their income
from many popular foods, an average of his lowest sixteen
point three percent. And if you President Rob LaRue says
family farmers and ranchers are working harder than ever and
taking home less, all while corporate monopolies make record profits.
Speaker 22 (33:33):
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?
Speaker 19 (33:48):
Oh?
Speaker 22 (33:48):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well quite frank 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
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if you'd like to deliver information about 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.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
You from the Egg Information Network.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up aglife for today friends.
Speaker 23 (34:41):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The first week of August will feature an American Farmers
Market event on Washington, DC's National Mall, part of our
country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration through the year
up to July fourth of twenty twenty six. Rod Bain
has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
This past July fourth was a cello br as always,
yet also the kickoff to a celebration of our nation
approaching of milestone.
Speaker 27 (35:06):
America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is the single greatest
year in the.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
History of our country.
Speaker 22 (35:11):
We want to have a lot of great things.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
President Donald Trump in Iowa on July third this year,
announcing some of the plans and events making up a
year long celebration of the US culminating in the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation in twenty twenty six.
Among those, every one of our national park, battlefields and historic.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Sites are going to have special events in honor.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Of America two fiftieth. We're going to have some incredible events.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Joining the Iowa USA two hundred and fiftieth anniversary kickoff event,
Agriculture Secretary Brook rawlins, we will.
Speaker 36 (35:45):
Have a celebration worthy of the anniversary across this entire
next year.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
We are pulling out all.
Speaker 36 (35:51):
The stops to celebrate two hundred and fifty years of
American greatness.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And at the July third celebration, the Secretary made it
an announcement of an upcoming USDA event. In conjunction with
our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 36 (36:06):
We will have in August the biggest, most amazing American
Farmers Market in the history of our country in Washington
on the National Mall.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
The August third through sixth event expands thirty years of
USDA's Farmers Market at USDA Headquarters to include market opportunities
from producers and vendors from all fifty states on the
National Mall with Secretary Rowlins offering this invitation every.
Speaker 36 (36:34):
Farmer, every rancher, every producer from every state who sell
their beautiful crops and their products, and their pork and
their beef to join us in Washington during National.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Farmers Market Week. Details about the Great American Farmers Market
are available online at www dot USDA dot gov. Click
the link to the Great American Farmers Market. To learn
more about the August third ribbon cutting ceremony, market hours,
daily programming, and vendor sid ups, and for information about
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local to U farmers' markets to visit during the regular
days and times of opening, go to this web address
www dot USDA Local Food Portal all one word dot com.
I'm Roadbaane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 26 (37:22):
D C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, rout of time for today, Thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you here for the next hour. We're talking about
agricultural production here in the valley and all across the country. Well,
when food, cookware, dishes, utensils become contaminated by floodwater, what
are food safety tips to keep in mind? Well, Rod
bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Recent flood events in parts of the country, like those
reported on by USDA be rologist Brad Rippy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Things really kind of came to a head that day
as we saw an extensive flood event. Flooding that is
already underway.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Raised more than just water increased. Food safety considerations also
came fourth during recent flooding. So USDA food safety expert
Meredith corrothers, what are some tips to consider when it
comes to food safety at a flood event. Time may
be an.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Ally in that sometimes you can prepare for a flooding event,
and in those cases it's helpful to take food items
and elevate them onto a higher surface, put them on
a higher shelf, put them as high as you can
to hopefully avoid them coming into contact with floodwater.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Same with your refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You can Actually, if you have cinder block or have
an option to put it up on something to elevate it,
you can elevate your refrigerator as well.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Knowing how to evaluate foods after a flood event is
also essential.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Usually, if something has come into contact with floodwater, it's
usually better to assume it's not going to be salvageable,
and then it's not safe, especially things like cardboard packages, crackers,
things in those thin plastic bags, any fruits and vegetables,
any meats, anything like that.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
It's not packaged.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Necessarily bottles with screw caps aren't going to be considered safe.
All of those items will have to be discarded. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Now, metal cans and retort pouches can potentially be recovered
from flooding contamination, but as Corruthers advises.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You really have to make sure that it doesn't have
any damage on it, like a dent, or it's not swelling,
it doesn't have any punctures or things, because even microscopic
holes like that can allow bacteria to go inside.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So food and waterproof containers with no damage can be
made safe through the following steps.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If you cant food that's not damaged, not dented not
showing any signs of kind of structural integrity. You can
brush away any dirt, wash them with soap and water,
and then you can sanitize them by putting them in
water and allowing the water to come to a boil
for two minutes continuously. Or you can put them in
a freshly made solution of one tablespoon of unscented chlorine
(02:24):
bleach per gallon of drinking water and then letting them
air dry for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Corrothers advis is drinking only bottled water not in contact
with flood water. As for cookware, ceramic dishes, and utensils
contaminated by flood.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Pots, pans, dishes, utensils, those kind of items can be
washed with soap and water and then rinsed and sanitized
by boiling them in clean water for fifteen minutes. So
your pots and pans are salvageable by cleaning and sanitizing
them thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Items such as wooden cutting boards, plastic utensils, baby bottlednipples,
pasifiers a contact with bloodwaters must be disposed of. Broad
Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, Well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Friends Potato growers met in there twice a year. Meeting
in the Pacific Northwest will have that story ahead, also
a look at possible ethanol expansion. You're listening to Aglife
Bob when here with Farmers this morning. Friends. While the
Department of Agriculture has begun rolling out funds earmark for
(03:28):
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four disasters, Chad Smith
has a breakdown on that number.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
The USDA is opening the sign up period for the
Supplemental Disaster Relief program for US farmers and ranchers. Danny Munch,
an economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about
who is eligible for the assistance.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Farmers and ranchers who received a crop insurance or non
insured Disaster as Systems Program payment for twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four for a qualifying disaster which includes
strout floods, freeze's wildfires, might be eligible for Stage one
of USDA's new Supplemental Disaster Relief Program. They must meet
standard USDA income and conservation rules and haven't already received
a twenty twenty two er payment for the same crop year.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
He said.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
The funding for the assistance comes from a congressional mandate.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
So the sixteen billion dollars in aid for this program
comes from the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of twenty
twenty five, which is passed by Congress at the end
of last year. And this announcement is only Stage one,
and the funding will be used across Stage one and
Stage two. When eventually Stage two is.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Announced, USDA's Farm Service Agency will mail pre filled applications
to eligible farmers based on existing crop insurance records.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Farmers can also contact their local FSA office to get
the forum. They must complete and return the sign formed
and make sure all that paperwork is filled out and
on file. They must also commit to keeping crop insurance
or NAP coverage for the next two years. The payment
calculation is just going to be upping and existing insurance
coverage levels by a corresponding factor.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Folks from the potato industry gathered in Idaho for the
National Potato Council's Summer Meeting. NPC president and Washington State
grower Ted Shirkey says the weather was great and there
was plenty of news to share.
Speaker 10 (05:15):
Well as the industry gets together throughout the years. The
Summer Meeting is sort of halfway marked for the industry
in just updates of what's going on in the National
Potato Council World topics.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That covered a range of current issues from trade to
the environment, to the progress of what's happening in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
Well as we progress here in DC, everybody's doesn't deliver
thinking of tariffs, you know, and one of the positive
things that might come out of this is possibly get
our doors open in Japan.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The meeting involved interesting guest speakers as well.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
We kicked off our general session we had Mark Tavoc
come in from WSU Potato researcher and talk about the
importance the front federal, state and industry support, which was
very important for the group and I think the people
appreciated that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Suirkey says. The Summer Meeting is there half yearly gathering.
Biofuel supporters are giving testimony before the Environmental Protection Agency
on it's proposed twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven
renewable volume obligations. Krista Swanson, chief Economists for the National
Corn Growers talks about the process and where it goes.
(06:30):
Once the testimony is complete.
Speaker 11 (06:32):
Interested parties could weigh in on the proposals, and so
from here then we would expect EPA to take that
into account and come out with a final rule. I'm
not sure the timeline on when we would expect the
final rule, but that's where we're at the process our
thoughts on the proposal. I mean, the conventional volumes remained
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at fifteen billion gallons, which we are pleased to see.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Said, the biggest changes came in the bio based diesel numbers.
Speaker 11 (07:04):
It doesn't directly affects ethanol, but it does. Bio based
diesel had the capability of producing more than the number
of wrends that were allocated in the rfs before.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
With these new hire volumes, that.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
Gives them more space in their own buckets, so to speak,
because the D four that bio based diesel falls into
could also use D six rinds, which are the wrens.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
That ethanol uses.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
So what I'm saying is they were using some of
the xs D six rinds that ethanol was not using.
The reason ethanol wasn't using the full fifteen billion is
because we have this ten percent blend wall that keeps
us from really hitting that fifteen billion gallons.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Krista Swanson National corn Rollers. This morning farm News, you're
listening to Aglife.
Speaker 12 (07:49):
It's another Agnews update foreign ownership of domestic farmland. More
after this.
Speaker 13 (07:59):
This is your q O'Neill reminding you that anytime is
a good time for the cooling, drying freshmen of gold bond,
powd of spring, like after the gym.
Speaker 14 (08:08):
Elevator ride, working with farm.
Speaker 13 (08:11):
Animals, or hard day's work. Stay cool with gold bond,
pot of spreads, stay with gold bone. Uh huh.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
Arkansas Governors Sarah I could be Sanders on prohibiting foreign
ownership of farm land the.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Last couple of months.
Speaker 15 (08:27):
We've passed new legislation just this year allowing us to
prohibit them from now not only owning farmland in our state,
but from building or buying land around our military bases
and critical infrastructure. It is something that has to happen
and something that states have been leading the way on,
but unfortunately our states can't do it alone. That's why
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events like today matter so much. That's why a leadership
from people like Secretary Rollins matter so much. The fact
that we now have a pre resident who understands who
our real enemies are and is willing to take them on.
Is making a huge difference, not just in our country
but around the world. You know, we've talked a lot
(09:12):
about today a country's ability to feed itself, but that's
not the only place, and that's not the only role
agriculture plays. A country has to be able to feed itself,
fuel itself, and fight for itself to truly be free.
And that's why what this group represents is every component
of that. And we now have a president who understands
(09:34):
it and is willing to do everything within his power
to make sure the United States continues to be the
greatest country on the face of the planet.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I'm Russ Kohler, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heatstroke is life threatening.
Speaker 16 (09:53):
Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later,
allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.
Speaker 17 (10:09):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
American Cattle News reopening the southern border with Mexico for
live feeder cattle good or bad? More after this.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I'm Russ Koher, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heat stroke is life threatening.
Speaker 16 (10:33):
Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later.
Allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.
Speaker 17 (10:48):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
The threat of New World screw worm has caused the
US to close the border with Mexico for feeder cattle.
That's recently reopened. Justin Douglas, Arizona. Robbie Kirkland is a
family feeder from Vega, Texas.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Those cattle are used by you know, farmers, backgrounders, and
then feed lots, so all different sectors of the of
the you know, of the market of the of the bechain.
So this cattle will come across and then like I said,
a lot of them will be fed, you know, particularly
(11:33):
in our region. I'm in the Texas Cattle feeder region Texas, Oklahoma,
and New Mexico and then probably some up into maybe
southern part of Kansas. But uh, you know the majority
of them would be fed in in our region, and
so those cattle would come in a lot of them
will get we'll be put on pasture, could be gone
wheat pasture, could be summer grass pasture, and then like
(11:54):
I said, would go on into the to the to
the feed lots sector. And and that's kind of how
they're used.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
And why is this important to.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Continue take a million head roughly out of the supply
for you know, shutting off the ports in in between
Mexico and the US. So that's put a really strain
on the numbers in the you know, in the feed lots,
on our grass, on our wheat pasture because of just
you know, just sheer numbers.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
So that's made a huge impact.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And so in our region we would say that there
would be around fifteen percent of the cattle on feed
or in our possession would be cattle historically from.
Speaker 18 (12:37):
Mexico American cattle. Meuse this is Dairy Radio now Milkie Monday.
Speaker 19 (12:48):
Lookas Fees senior dairy analysts with Rabble Bank in Chicago, Lucas,
would you please give us an update on the US
tariff situation. President Trump sent out letters last week to
several countries informing them of their new respective new tariff
rates in order to do business with the US.
Speaker 20 (13:06):
What is the status currently?
Speaker 21 (13:08):
We saw a little bit of a lull in new
tariff announcements over the past few weeks, but you're rightly
last week a variety of countries, more than twenty were
sent letters with their new respective tariff rates. This comes
after a few months ago in April, when the Trump
administration proposed kind of blanket tariff rates across numerous countries.
(13:30):
It looks like this is an effort to force countries
to negotiate trade deals or face that deeper US import tariff.
The rate, of course, differing between countries, not one blanket
rate among those many different countries. Moving forward, the deadlines
are various, some deadlines into August, mostly for these countries
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to negotiate.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I think, from a.
Speaker 21 (13:56):
Very specific perspective though this is too much of an escalation.
I think critically, trade with Mexico remains uninhibited because of
the provisions of the US NCA agreement and of course,
the steep Chinese tariffs and China's reciprocal tariffs that were
rolled back in mid May. There has been no new
(14:17):
update there, so we continue to await any news on.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The US China negotiations. But overall, after.
Speaker 21 (14:24):
Lots of geopolitical and economic occurrences over the past few weeks,
it seems the administration has turned its attention back to trade.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Well.
Speaker 19 (14:33):
I have one concern about Canada regarding the butter that
Canada buys from the US. This could be impacted correctly.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It's certainly possible.
Speaker 21 (14:41):
Canada is a pretty significant buyer of butter overall, but
I think it's important to remember that butter is a
very domestic focused market, so Canada. Of course, maybe a
few million pounds per month could be a little bit
more impactful this year to the market, But overall, US
butter prices remain sharply lower versus the rest of the world.
Speaker 19 (15:04):
Bottom line for the US. Will the tariffs work? In
your opinion, Lucas.
Speaker 21 (15:11):
It's a great question. I think it's important to have
an expectation that the administration has some end goals that
they want to achieve here, and hopefully their goals are
coming to fruition with this strategy that they choose to
be playing out on tariffs.
Speaker 19 (15:27):
Thank you, Lucas Lucas Fees Senior dairy analysts with Rabble
Bank in Chicago.
Speaker 22 (15:33):
Another simple miracle moment with Hank and Laura.
Speaker 23 (15:36):
Knowledge and wisdom are both important, but wisdom is far
more valuable. Knowledge is information. Wisdom can be seen as
application of knowledge.
Speaker 24 (15:45):
Knowledge can be purchased. We can buy books, attend college
classes or seminars, or access the endless online information about
any topic.
Speaker 23 (15:53):
Imagine, wisdom cannot be purchased, and it is not easy
to acquire. Wisdom takes time and it is a result
of accumulating both good and bad experiences while growing in maturity.
Speaker 24 (16:04):
Wisdom does not automatically happen as we get older, but
allowing time and experiences to play out does help wisdom
in our inner circle that will surely bring miracles our way.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's Tank Wagner and Laura Rod's, author of the book
Simple Miracles for More.
Speaker 19 (16:18):
Go to Becomebetter Leaders dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now taking place. Now sign up for a new USDA
Disaster assistance program.
Speaker 25 (16:29):
Producers who experience losses covered by crop insurance or by
non insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program or NAP can sign
up for Supplemental Disaster Relief Program.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Farm Service Agency Administrator Bill beeB says eligible crop losses
due to natural disasters apply to the twenty twenty three
and twenty four crop season. In addition to in person
sign ups at local FSA offices, pre field applications are
being bailed to producers with eligible crop, tree and vine losses.
While phase one of SdRP as under.
Speaker 26 (17:00):
Way, sometime this fall we will be able to have
the second stage of SdRP, and that's going to cover
shallow losses the producers that were not covered with crop
insurance that had those losses but were not indentified.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
More details about SdRP are available through local FSA offices.
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C. Join us tomorrow for our Producer
Tuesday from the Professional Dairy Producers.
Speaker 20 (17:26):
I'm Bill Baker, Dairy Radio.
Speaker 27 (17:28):
Now marketing almonds to China. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the vastag Information Network.
The almed Border California is doing their best to get
more almonds.
Speaker 22 (17:44):
Into China.
Speaker 27 (17:45):
Clarice Turner is the president and CEO of the Armed
Border California. She comments on a niche marketing approach in China.
Speaker 28 (17:53):
Yeah, we have been focusing a lot on skin health
in China because beauty is a really big dealarticularly China.
Japan and South Korea's similar strategy, and so we're continuing
that it really resonates with the Chinese consumer and we've
seen a lot of traction and it gives them a
new way to think about almonds holistically, beyond just what
they consume. We're also starting to shift now to doing
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more of what I was talking about before with educating
like chefs and formulators and people that are going to
include almonds and food and snacks, because we see also
that business is starting to ramp up in China again.
If you go to the supermarkets, you see all kinds
of mixed nuts and fruits and cereals and things that
have not been part of the diet traditionally. I lived
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in China for three years and I speak Mandarin, so
it's been very interesting to visit right and see it's
not the China I lived a long time ago, but
it's fun to watch them sort of evolve in a
very Chinese way and how these products are manifesting.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's for ease Turner with the almond board.
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the road.
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Every year.
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Accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the same space,
whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor or a car.
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Here's what you need to remember.
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Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves.
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Speaker 20 (20:04):
Cherries.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
This year's crop of this summertime Fourth of July treat
is now being harvested, and so.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
They're readily available in grocery stores here very soon. Anyway,
I'm sure we're starting to see some now.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Lance Holding of USDA's National Agricultural Statistic Service says harvest
continues until about mid July. You may know there are
two types of cherries, sweet ad tart. How are they
different besides the obvious clues in their names, Hodig explains,
with sweet cherries.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
This time of year, we think about cherries, especially around
the Fourth of July. They tend to be a staple
at some of those Fourth of July picnics and gatherings.
And we're really talking about the sweet cherries. These are
the cherries that are typically eaten fresh. They really don't
store well, and so this is the time of year
when they mature and get harvested, and so they're readily available.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
While with tart cherries.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
This is what you see appearing in your pies and
your pastries and other delicious dessert slur cherries are featured,
and because of the nature of that we freem we
store them and so we can find those pretty much
a year round.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And when it comes to keeping track of sweeted tart
cherries in USDA production reports, if you look.
Speaker 30 (21:09):
At when we publish estimates, will publish both sweet and
tart cherry numbers, and you'll never see in an ass
report a total cherry number, and that is simply because
the crops are so.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Unique that it really doesn't make any sense to put
them together.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So perhaps the question on your mind, will there be
plenty of cherries available this year? Holding starts with a
look at this year's sweet cherry harvest forecast, which.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Represents the largest crop since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
With a projected year over year production increase of four percent,
driving the production gains the nation's largest cherry growing state, Washington.
Speaker 30 (21:45):
They're expecting about a twenty nine percent increase this season.
Weather's been really good for the crop there and so
great news from both Washington and a national perspective.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
A slight production rise is also reported in Oregon, the
offset its wheat chair erry production this season is California.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
For some extreme weather during the bloom, and as a result,
they're actually looking at a crop it's about thirty eight
percent smaller than last year.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Michigan is far and away the largest tart cherry growing
state in the US, yet Hodig says.
Speaker 30 (22:16):
It's a really tough season for the fact they're looking
at about a forty one percent drop in tart cherry
production this year due to poor weather.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That poor weather, however, was not a major freeze of
it usually associated with tart cherry production.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
To Clydes, that's not the.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Case this year. It's just been not good weather.
Speaker 30 (22:34):
It's a pretty big drop in fact, nationally that means
we're only looking.
Speaker 31 (22:37):
At one hundred and thirty nine million pounds this year.
That's more than a third below last season's crop. It
will be the smallest crop since twenty twenty and the
second smallest crops it's that disastrous year of twenty twelve
when Michigan lost almost all their chair.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You are listening to focus on AG, extreme heat and
potential AG impacts. USDA b ro ologist Brad Rippe a
submarine starting with livestock.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sometimes they come with some expense to the cattle, they
are not quite acclimated to the heat at this point.
Some animals may still have a portion of their winter
coats and with that lack of cooling ability that can
create a very stressful situation.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Compounded by extreme humidity and overnight low temperatures and the
upper seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The nighttime cooling or lack thereof, is creating quite a
stressful situation for livestock and will have to continue to
monitor the animals as we move into the end of
June and into July. As this heat wave looks like
it will continue across many parts of the country.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
For crops corn and soybeans especially, they remained safe as
they have not reached the reproductive stage of development.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
However, we'll continue to watch this heat as it becomes
more potentially critical for corn and soybeans moving into July.
Moving to crops, a little bit of good news on
that front in the fact that a lot of the
US corn and soybeans, especially in the heartland in the Midwest,
has not yet reached the reproductive stage of development. Do
you see some single digit numbers for corn reaching the
(24:02):
silking stage and mostly single digit numbers in the Midwest
for soybeans starting to bloom, one exception being Iowa, where
soybeans blooming advanced to thirteen percent by June twenty second.
But from the corn standpoint, most of the corn is
still safe. If we're going to get the heat, let's
get it out of the way before it reaches reproduction.
For soybeans, that crop can withstand heat and begin to
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recover after it turns cooler and wetter. So any of
the early blooming soybeans that are being affected by this heat,
that may not be the end of the road for
that crop. It can rebloom or recover later once cooler
temperatures return.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.
Speaker 22 (24:44):
You've been listening to focus on AGG. Thanks for being
with us today.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I am Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 14 (24:51):
It's time for California AG Today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hayley's ship. Sometimes the best story starts by accident.
For journalist Rachel Gable, it was a photo of a
goat with an underbite and a silly backstory.
Speaker 32 (25:06):
You know, three am, I was sitting out in the
goat barn waiting on a goat to kid and there
was a goat with an underbite, and she kept looking
around the gate at me, and she looked pretty glamorous
for a goat. And I took a picture of her
on my iPhone with like the portrait setting, so the
back was kind of gauzy, and she was up on
the gate with her underbite and she looked just, you know, magnificent.
(25:29):
So I named her Linda and said that she was
a divorcee and a good bowler and she makes a
mean pina colada and a chocolate lasagna and believes that
the man of her dreams would come into her life
in a less than practical car and custom bowling shoes.
And I was just being smart, Alec, but I posted it,
and that was the beginning of Cowbios.
Speaker 14 (25:49):
It's actually turned into two books, each one full of humor,
heart and a whole lot of rural truth.
Speaker 32 (25:54):
I don't know that that's a social media plan, like
I'm going to make fun of middle aged rural women
and post them with pictures of guns and cows, and
I'm going to bring together women from across the country.
But that is totally what happened.
Speaker 14 (26:10):
You can learn more and order your copy at Rachelgable
dot com.
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For the last forty years, the Egg Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
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Speaker 14 (27:13):
On the AG Information Network, I am Hateley's ship.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Bob when here with farmers this morning, friends. While the
Department of Agriculture has begun rolling out funds Earmark for
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four disasters. Chad Smith
has a breakdown on that number.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The USDA is opening the sign up period for the
Supplemental Disaster Relief program for US farmers and ranchers. Danny Munch,
an economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about
who is eligible for the assistance.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Farmers and ranchers who received a crop insurance or non
insured Disaster Assistance Program payment for twenty twenty three and
twenty twenty four for a qualifying disaster which includes strout floods,
freeze's wildfires, might be eligible for Stage one of USDA's
new Supplemental Disaster Relief program. They must meet standard us
DAD income and conservation rules and haven't already received at
twenty twenty two er payment for the same crop year.
Speaker 22 (28:05):
He said.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
The funding for the assistance comes from a congressional mandate.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
So the sixteen billion dollars in aid for this program
comes from the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of the
twenty twenty five which is passed by Congress at the
end of last year, and this announcement is only Stage
one and the funding will be used across both Stage
one and stage two. When eventually Stage two is.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Announced, USDA's Farm Service Agency will mail pre filled applications
to eligible farmers based on existing crop insurance records.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Farmers can also contact their local FSA office to get
the forum. They must complete and return the sign formed
and make sure all that paperwork is filled out and
on file. They must also commit to keeping crop insurance
or NAP coverage for the next two years. The payment
calculation is just going to be upping and existing insurance
coverage levels by a corresponding factor.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Folks from the potato industry gathered in Idaho for the
National Potatoto Council's Summer Meeting. NPC president and Washington State
grower Ted Shirky says the weather was great and there
was plenty of news to share well.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
As the industry gets together throughout the years, the summer
meeting is sort of halfway park for the industry and
just updates of what's going on in the National Tato
Council World topics.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That covered a range of current issues from trade to
the environment to the progress of what's happening in Washington.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
D c well as we progress here in DC. Everybody
doesn't know what they think of tariffs. You know. One
of the positive things that might come out of this
is possibly get our door opened in Japan.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The meeting involved interesting guest speakers as well.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
We kicked off our general session we had Mark Pavoc
come in from WSU Potato researcher and talk about the
importance of the funding the Korean federal, State and industry
support which was carry for the group, and I think
the people appreciated that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Schurkey says. The summer meeting is there half yearly gathering. Well,
friends of the US and Canada are talking trade. We have
a report this morning from the US Meat Export Federation.
Speaker 20 (30:15):
While trade talks with Canada are back on following Canada's
announcement it will rescind a digital services tax, there are
still agg trade concerns, as US Meat Export Federation Vice
president of Economic Analysis Aaron Borr explains.
Speaker 34 (30:27):
In Canada, there has been movement underway for some time
to try to safeguard in a way their supply management
programs for dairy and poultry in particular, and they have
essentially tried to put guardrails around this program, so that
in these negotiations with other countries, but clearly with the
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US and Mexico through the USMCA renewal, so that the
supply management system could not be in their minds, you know,
traded away or negotiated through these trade agreement updates. And
that sends a troubling signal to many in the US
in that problematic areas for the US are being redlined
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by legislation in Canada and unable to be negotiated. So
even some of in the domestic bag industry in Canada
have raised the concerns about the signal this sends.
Speaker 20 (31:23):
Canada also has in plagues a significant retaliatory terriff on
the US sausage products.
Speaker 34 (31:28):
This retaliation goes all the way back to February through
the fentanyl and immigration tariffs that the US imposed on Canada,
and then Canada had retaliated and included on that list
as US sausages and at twenty five percent retaliatory duty.
That trade for last year was a total of two
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hundred and seventy five million dollars, so it is a
huge line item. Canada is our largest market for sausage exports,
and again two hundred and seventy five million dollars worth
of trade, which has been facing this twenty five percent
tariff since early March.
Speaker 20 (32:02):
For the US Meat Export Federation. I'm John Herath.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Farm News this morning. You're listening to AGLFE.
Speaker 35 (32:13):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Most California figs end up as dried fruit, with the
bulk of which is turned into paste and other food ingredients,
most famously at one time as a filling for fig newtons,
but the fresh fruit in season now through October or
November is increasingly showing up in different culinary takes on
(32:33):
familiar dishes. California Fresh Fig Growers Association CEO Carlo Stockley says,
we've really seen it go way beyond the fig newton.
The Public Lands Council and the New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association announced support for the Enhancing Safety for Animals Act.
The legislation would delist the Mexican gray wolf and separate
the populations in the US and Mexico, allowing for proper
(32:56):
management of the species. PLC Executive Director CAITLINN. Glover says,
for far too long, ranchers in southern border states have
shouldered the burden of managing this species with limited tools
and little support. The Farmer's Share of the Food Dollar,
released last week, highlights how little family farms are in
compared to how much consumers pay at the grocery stores.
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Family farmers get only a small fraction of their income
from many popular foods, an average of his lowest sixteen
point three percent. And if you President Rob LaRue says
family farmers and ranchers are working harder than ever and
taking home less, all while corporate monopolies make record profits.
Speaker 22 (33:33):
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?
Speaker 19 (33:48):
Oh?
Speaker 22 (33:48):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well quite frank 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
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station for the AGG Information Network of the West News
if you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
or service, give us a call and we'll connect you
directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners. Reach real
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is important to their farm operation. They trust us, They'll trust.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
You from the Egg Information Network.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up aglife for today friends.
Speaker 23 (34:41):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The first week of August will feature an American Farmers
Market event on Washington, DC's National Mall, part of our
country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration through the year
up to July fourth of twenty twenty six. Rod Bain
has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
This past July fourth was a cello br as always,
yet also the kickoff to a celebration of our nation
approaching of milestone.
Speaker 27 (35:06):
America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is the single greatest
year in the.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
History of our country.
Speaker 22 (35:11):
We want to have a lot of great things.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
President Donald Trump in Iowa on July third this year,
announcing some of the plans and events making up a
year long celebration of the US culminating in the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation in twenty twenty six.
Among those, every one of our national park, battlefields and historic.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Sites are going to have special events in honor.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Of America two fiftieth. We're going to have some incredible events.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Joining the Iowa USA two hundred and fiftieth anniversary kickoff event,
Agriculture Secretary Brook rawlins, we will.
Speaker 36 (35:45):
Have a celebration worthy of the anniversary across this entire
next year.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
We are pulling out all.
Speaker 36 (35:51):
The stops to celebrate two hundred and fifty years of
American greatness.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And at the July third celebration, the Secretary made it
an announcement of an upcoming USDA event. In conjunction with
our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 36 (36:06):
We will have in August the biggest, most amazing American
Farmers Market in the history of our country in Washington
on the National Mall.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
The August third through sixth event expands thirty years of
USDA's Farmers Market at USDA Headquarters to include market opportunities
from producers and vendors from all fifty states on the
National Mall with Secretary Rowlins offering this invitation every.
Speaker 36 (36:34):
Farmer, every rancher, every producer from every state who sell
their beautiful crops and their products, and their pork and
their beef to join us in Washington during National.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Farmers Market Week. Details about the Great American Farmers Market
are available online at www dot USDA dot gov. Click
the link to the Great American Farmers Market. To learn
more about the August third ribbon cutting ceremony, market hours,
daily programming, and vendor sid ups, and for information about
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local to U farmers' markets to visit during the regular
days and times of opening, go to this web address
www dot USDA Local Food Portal all one word dot com.
I'm Roadbaane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 26 (37:22):
D C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, rout of time for today, Thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
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