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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends.
As nationwide temperatures remain extremely hot, the need to keep
that farm, dog or other pets cool increases in importance.
(00:20):
Rod Bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Summer hot enough a near nation wide heat wave in
some places triple digit high temperatures not good for humans
add their pets, as Kathy Capitelli of USDA's Animal at
Plant Health Inspection Service offers as advice, you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Feel like it's muggy and hot, your dog or cat
or other pets feel it too, even more so.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So keeping pets at it. Indoor setting a cooler area
with air conditioning or a fad is needed to keep
pets from experiencing heat stress. Even outdoor, pets with heat
tolerance need to be.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Able to access shade outside of their normal shelter. When
the sun is beating down and baking those alters, the
temperature inside those can get very hot very quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Having a kiddie pool filled with water outside allows pets
opportunity to keep cool.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Also because they regulate their temperature through evaporative or conductive cooling.
They need to have some air movement. That's why it's
very dangerous to leave a pet in a car.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Another thing to keep in mind, the pets that are.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Going to be more susceptible to heat stress are going
to be pets who may be overweight or underweight, old
or very young, pregnant or nursing, or have medical conditions
that maybe create more stress on their body.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Also more susceptible to heat stress in.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Dogs, in particular the short nose breeds like pugs, bulldogs, Pekinese,
and others. They are not able to cool themselves as
efficiently as other breeds.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Sides of heat stress and pets include.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Excessive panting, salivation, if they're very thirsty, if they appear
restless or anxious, like they can't get comfortable, or they're
generalized weak and not interested in activity.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And what should a pet odor look for regarding signs
of heat stroke in their animals.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Heat stroke kind of sets in when directed temperature comes
above one oh four degrees fahrenheit. In that you might
start to see really rough or uncontrollable panting. Their gums
might appear to be dark red or it might feel
sticky to the touch. Vomiting or bloody diarrhea.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Those kind of go.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hand in hand with dehydration, inability to stand, trembling, dizziness,
or disorientation. All of these can progress rapidly to collapse, unconsciousness, seizures,
or even death.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There are immediate treatments that should start. What signs of
heat stress or heat stroke. Become a parent, get a pet.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You want to get them into a cool, shaded area
as soon as possible, and if you can carry them,
don't make them walk. Give them some cool, clean drinking
water to wet their tongues in their mouths. Run cool
but not ice cold water over their neck pods and
belly to promote that indaperative cooling. And put ice packs
if they're available in some of the sensitive areas, the
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non haired areas, because that's where the skin is going
to be able to release heat most effectively.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If home treatments are not progressing and coolly down your pet,
seek emergency veterinary care as soon as possible. I'm Broadbade,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well friends coming up disruptions in the fertilizer supply chain
could have an impact on fertilizer availability and fertilizer pricing
going forward. We'll have that story ahead on today's edition
of ag Life. Bob went back with some farm use
this morning. Friends. Tensions in the Middle East have raised
significant concerns about the price and availability of fertilizers and
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fertilizer inputs in recent weeks. Josh Linnville, vice president of
fertilizer for stone X, says a lot of fertilizer input
productions shut down during the fighting between Iran and Israel.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
We spent a lot of time talking about them. At
least it's importance to the nitrogen marketplace globally. In despite
between Israel and Iran had a very direct relationship to
the UREA market. So looking at twenty twenty four numbers,
Israel was the third largest exporter in the world for
urefl I Ran, as a cautioner measure, had to shut
down their gas fields, which means you shut down nitrogen production.
The flip side, Egypt was on four and they had
to shut theirs down. A lot of people like, well,
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they're far away from the fighting, why that matter. Well,
egripe relies on Israel for their gas, so they had
shut down their nirogen production. So when all this started
to happen, and especially when I Ran started talking about
closing the straight offore moves, prices went crazy. You know,
we're talking twenty forty percent rallies in these markets.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He said. Prices have remained elevated.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
We have in all for different reasons. The nitrogen market,
of course, it had been following we were finally starting
to see demand quiet down and the attack startup, and
that got everybody fired up. Even with things calming down,
we're not quite sure we're going to get back down
to the loads we were at. Unfortunately, in the middle
of all this, India stepped up with another purchase and
they're looking to secure two million ton of urea, so
that's going to give the market a lot of action
to work with. Foss Bate continues to struggle with the
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lack of Chinese exports. Normally they're the largest exporter at
eight nine ten million ton a year. The government is
restricting that down to four million ton this year if
we're lucky enough to get to that point.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The higher prices are affecting the potash market as well.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Even potash is significantly higher than more it was last year.
The manufacturers did a masterful job of kind of framing
the story out there, claiming things were tight, demand was big,
and there are certain aspects of that was true. But
in the end they got India and China to buy
it on higher prices, and now the rest of the
world is going to have to do the same.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Producers could face some choices ahead for fall application well unfortunate.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I think there's gonna be a very very hard decision
to be made in regards to the fall postate and
podash applications. When you look at the phosphate versus the
corn pricing. Of course, we look at December twenty six
corn today, because any of the fostate bought today to
be applied in the fall spring is being used to
raise next year's crop, and so we look at that
relationship between the two of them. The highest it's ever
been for this time of year. We have beaten the
two thousand and eight records that were set. You look at potash,
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it's on the higher side, not nearly as bad in comparison,
but it's still high. And I think farmers are really
going to have to sit there and look at it
and decide how important is this.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Josh Linnville Stone cks talking fertilizer with US well friends.
US met Export Federation is trying to find some new
markets for American meat. We have a report.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
While in appellate court weighs the legality of some US tariffs,
China's retaliatory duties on US pork and beef remain in place.
Most usbef exports to China have also been halted due
to China's failure to renew beef plant registrations. US Meat
Export Federation offices around the globe have worked together to
find new markets for product that would have been headed
to China. Amara Rescio, as a USBF representative for Latin America.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
All of the offices got together and we talked about
where and how we could use some of these China
items in other markets. So in the case of Columbia,
we identified processors where we could take some items like
the mask that used to go to Mexico. China outbids them.
Maybe there's an opportunity in some other markets. So looked
at processors, looked at the different wet markets, and some
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other opportunities on some off all that could go to
these wet markets in Colombia, in Central America and in
South America, a tremendous amount of white rice is eaten,
and so you know, we know how short plaits sliced
thinly and how they're used in Asia, and so we
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thought maybe that was an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
One of the most successful promotions came from shifting frozen
beef short plate to Korea, as USMEF Vice President of
Asia Pacific Jiayong.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Explains, collaborating with the third largest retail chain called Lo
de Mart, having one hundred five stores nationwide. Korean importer
took an advantage because the short beef supply limit the
product availability in Korea for the last couple of years
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due to the cattle cycle in the US. So it's
a great opportunity for the retailers to buy the reasonable
price of short plate for the Korean consumer and also
good for the US exporters because it creates a new
demand these promotions.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
For the USB and Export Federation. I'm Jon harrat Farm
US this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
It's another agnews update. AG Secretary Brook rawlins in front
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AG Secretary Brooke rawlins answering questions from Virginia Representative Eugene Vinman.
Speaker 12 (08:54):
Do you support farmers?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (08:57):
Of course, yeah.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
And how about the families that go to grocery stores?
Do you support them as well?
Speaker 14 (09:02):
I do?
Speaker 12 (09:02):
I have four children, Three of them are here e
groceries too.
Speaker 13 (09:07):
Let's talk about the trade war, yes or no? Are
you aware that farmers need inputs that we typically import
to grow the crops?
Speaker 12 (09:17):
Which input? Yeah? Yes, in general, but which one specifically?
Are you talking about just.
Speaker 13 (09:21):
In general, I'm talking about it and yes is the
right answer, yes or no? We'll higher costs of inputs
force farmers who increase prices for their goods, resulting in
higher costs for families at the grocery store.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Mister Vinman. Under the last administration, inputs went up thirty
percent here in America. So that's the bigger question, not
the trade.
Speaker 13 (09:42):
We're not talking about the previous administration. We're talking about
this admiration.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
But that's really important. I mean, that's one hundred days
versus four years. That's a thirty percent increase in inputs
under the Biden administration of fifty billion dollar trade deficit
that wasn't there when the first TRUP administration left. I mean,
if you want to talk about the driving cost of
gross that's where that's coming around.
Speaker 13 (10:01):
My time.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It's another agnews update.
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Speaker 9 (10:36):
American Cattle News, Trade data and Cattle Doctor Darryl Peel
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Doctor Darryl Peel, Loklahoma State Livestock Economist.
Speaker 16 (11:20):
The monthly trade data that came out was for April,
so you know, that would be the first month since
we put all the tariffs on, and you know, we
do see some of the tariff impacts in this data.
It's it's not certainly not all of it. It's going
to build for several months as we go forward. These
beef supply chains are very complex, and you know, there's
a lot of inertia going into these things in terms
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of previous arrangements that were made, contracts and so on.
Speaker 15 (11:45):
But all of that said, you do see some impacts.
Speaker 16 (11:48):
Basically, we've continued what we've seen for the last several months,
and that is that beef exports were down a little bit.
Total beef ex sports in the US were down in
April about eight point six percent, and that puts US
down a little over four percent for the year to date.
And so now you know, the most immediate impact you
see there is in China because of the huge tariff
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escalation that we had with them, and so exports to
China mainland were down about sixty eight percent. If you
put Hong Kong with it, which I usually do, they're
really not separate markets anymore. Hong Kong was actually up
eighty six percent because they did not put on the
retaliatory tariffs that mainland China did, and so when you
net that out, total exports to the China Hong Kong
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combined market was down about fifty two percent.
Speaker 15 (12:33):
That's pretty clearly just you know, a big impact of
the tariffs.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
Other than that, most of the rest of it is
just kind of the general trade trends. We've been seeing
imports also jump sharply in April, but that's continuing a
trend that we've had simply because we've had so much
decrease in our non fed beef production in the US.
Speaker 15 (12:51):
House slaughter has been down.
Speaker 16 (12:52):
Now this is the third year we're seeing significant decreases there,
so we've really squeezed our processing beef supplies that's aboard
our ground beef market.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Largely American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is Dairy Radio now.
Speaker 17 (13:10):
The heat is on as we start the dog days
of summer very soon, and joining us with heat stress reminders.
Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 18 (13:20):
We talked earlier about the radiator in my grandpa's car
and how radiators are used to take heat and then
dissipate it in the environment to keep the engine cool
One of the biggest radiators on cattle is actually their lungs.
So when they breathe air in and they exhale, they
are actually taking a tremendous amount of heat from their
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internal core body, and essentially those lungs are acting like
a radiator. The cooler air from outside gets inhaled in,
it absorbs heat from the bloodstream in the body, and
then it's exhaled back out with excess moisture and heat
back into the environment. And that's why if you see
a cow with or calf that has had some chronic
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pneumonia or lung damage, oftentimes they sail along just fine
in the winter and you don't even really know that
they have some chronic lung damage. However, they will make
themselves evident and stand out from their peers and the
herd during periods of heat stress. Because their lungs have
so much scar tissue in them, it's almost like acting
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like a compromised radiator. They cannot as effectively dump heat
through the respiration process, and they build heat more and
they cattle or animals with chronic respiratory disease will struggle
much more in the heat than their counterparts that have
healthy lungs. Just something interesting to think about. When you
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see animals panting, they're using their physiological radiator, almost like
a mechanical radiator. Their lungs are acting like that to
dump out the heat. July and August, they're certainly going
to be rough. And just having that kind of understanding
the mechanics of heat stress and how we can cool animals,
I think is something to be aware of.
Speaker 17 (15:09):
And of course you want to take action sooner rather
than later. You really don't want to see those cows panting,
do you.
Speaker 15 (15:15):
Yep?
Speaker 18 (15:16):
Panting is maybe more of their last resort. Dogs will
pant at the drop of a hat for a cow
to pant, and certainly you'll also see it in poultry.
The idea of a chicken panting you don't have chickens
might sound kind of silly, but they certainly will. And
those are typically signs of what we would call moderate
to severe heat stress at that point. So that would
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be the sign that we would want to do a
more aggressive intervention on the panting. And one thing I
forgot to mention too. On the cows, their lungs act
as a giant radiator to dump heat But the other
thing too, is just the pure surface area of their
body actually acts like a giant radiator, just radiating heat
off of them. And anyone who is worked and of
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cattle certainly knows that. In the summer, I mean, if
you get in in a pen of cattle that's stacked
tight and you're kind of waiting around in between them,
it is hot. And the worst place that cattle take
a beating in the heat every day is not the
pen where they're in their free stall or they're eating,
but it is in the holding area because those cows
are crammed in that holding area two to three times
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a day for typically thirty to forty five minutes, and
it gets extremely hot in there. And there was an
interesting study done where the university put internal temperature monitors
into cows, and what they found was their internal temperatures
were in that one hundred and one hundred and two
degree range, and all of a sudden, they would spike
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up to one hundred and three degrees very very rapidly,
and then over the course of about twelve hours, it
took about twelve hours for them to get all that
heat back off their body. Their temperature would slowly come
down over the course of twelve hours, normalize in that
one hundred and one hundred and two, and then boom,
twelve hours later, spike back up again. And when they
looked at why was it spiking every twelve hours that
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correlated For the herds that were milk twice a day,
it was when they were going into the holding pen.
So forty five minutes in a holding pen can accumulate
enough heat that she will then spend the next twelve
hours getting rid of and guess where she is twelve
hours later, right back in the holding pen again. So
if your farm and you have a budget to buy
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fans and you're thinking where should I put them? Should
I put them over my stalls or should I put
them in the holding area? Buy far hands down every
single time. Always load the holding area up with fans first,
and then if there's remaining money in the budget left,
then put them in the stalls. But the holding area
is the most crucial area on every dairy for good
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heat abatement.
Speaker 17 (17:50):
Thank you, Ryan, Stay cool. That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of technical services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 19 (17:59):
Wells Say Teams and All Breeding and the Almond industries
pointed to self fruitful varieties, getting away from those trees
that need to be pollinated. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the Vast Egg Information Network.
It saves on bees and there's a lot more efficiencies
when you have one variety out there that you're harvesting.
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Brent Holtz is a UCA and R Farm Advisor, County
Director of San Juan King County. He has more on this.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
The real trends. There's been some talk in the nursery
and has been to develop a self fruitful non parell.
Speaker 19 (18:34):
That's the top variety in the almond industry.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And I listened to I talked Tarlie recently. You know,
Tom Burchell was trying to do some genetic manipulation of
the non prell variety to make it actually a self
fruitful non parell. You know, there's four or five regional
variety trials where the different UC advisors have looked at
some of the promising new varieties coming out, and you know,
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there's a lot of things being looked at right now.
Roger Duncan just had a big field day in new
varieties in his regional Alma variety trials. East of Modesta,
and there looks like there's going to be some What
everybody wants is something that gets non proll price and
doesn't need to be pollinated.
Speaker 19 (19:20):
That's Brent holtz A you see farm Advisor based in
San jOAI, King County.
Speaker 20 (19:25):
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 (19:40):
Oh?
Speaker 20 (19:40):
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 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 equipm with the radio on listening to this
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
Once a threat to our nation's cattle and livestock industry
threatens to make a return. New World screw work the NWS.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Is a scourage that is making its way from Latin
America up through Mexico, and if it hits America, it
is going to be absolutely devastating to our cattle industry
at the top of the list, frankly, to a lot
of our industries.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And as this pest moves closer to our country, Agriculture
Secretary Brook Rawlins is among those increasing prevention and eradication efforts.
That includes a recently announced plus which cattaids.
Speaker 21 (21:01):
A sterile fly dispersal facility at More Air Base in
Hitago County, investing in innovative research to develop novel treatments, preventatives,
and response strategies.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm Rod Bade coming up new World screw worm threats
of the past and the increased fight against it in
the present and future in this edition of Agriculture USA.
New World screw worm infestations of the US had a
century of history up to the nineteen fifties and sixties.
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What makes this evasive pest. What makes this evasive pest
such a threat to livestock and wildlife.
Speaker 22 (21:39):
Screwworms cannot eat through the unbroken skin of a healthy animal.
Injuries such as scratches, cuts, or even insect bites are
open invitations to disaster. The female fly deposits her eggs
around the edges of wounds. The eggs develop into worm
like larvae they feed in clusters. Any warm blooded animal
is subject to screwworm at Screwworm infestations, if left untreated,
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can result in debt. Calves that survive may be crippled
with joint disease.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But that educational film from nineteen sixty also reveals the
use of sterilizing screwworm flies releasing them in the wild,
leading to the eradication of the pest, first in the
southeastern US and later in the decade the entire country.
The threat of New World screwworm was driven as far
south as the Isthmus of Darien in Panama. That is
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where the US and Panama operate a joint sterile fly
production and dispersal facility, the Dairyan Peninsula site, operated in
part by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspecsion service serves
as a control method to keep nws out of Central
and North America, a duty it's had for decades yet,
awarding from that nineteen sixty film.
Speaker 22 (22:50):
As long as there are screwworms remaining in other parts
of North and South America, the hazard of reinfestation remains.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So that's not to say isolated outbreak have not been
reported and eliminated through the North American continent over the decades,
but one last November in Mexico near the Guatemalan border
raised concerns in our country and its livestock producers, and
as Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins told lawmakers recently after a
new world screw worm outbreak was reported in a northern
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state of Mexico this spring, that.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Screwroom had moved from within eleven hundred miles of our
border to seven hundred miles of our order within a matter.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Of weeks, leading to the closing of our border to
imports of Mexican live cattle and other livestock, and US
investment in a stero fly dispersal facility in Mexico. Further
efforts were announced by the Secretary at a recent visit
to More Air Force Base in South Texas, near the
border with Mexico. The site was previously home of USDA
screwworm research unit in the nineteen sixties and seventies. That
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facility will soon be put to use again in a
similar capacity as a US based stero fly dispersal center.
Speaker 21 (24:00):
Allow us to do is to fly the larva up
from the facility of Animal and the other facility two
South Texas. You finish off so that the sterile flies
are ready to go, load them in the mains and
then get them.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Across the border. And as part of long term efforts
to control New World screw warmentry into our country, Secretary
Rawlins announced.
Speaker 21 (24:18):
Plans to move forward with the design process of a
domestic production facility to complement the dispersal facility at More Airbase,
which has also been identified as the proposed location.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Both announcements coincide with the Secretary's reveal of a five
pronged strategy to address NWS and keep it out of
the US. Among those attending the announcement at More Air
Force Base members of the cattle industry, such as National
Cattleman's Beef Association President Buck Waerbine we all know that the.
Speaker 16 (24:49):
Longest journey begins with a single step, and this is
a good first step of several.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Ad Texas Cattle Feeders Association Chair Leaf low Row.
Speaker 23 (24:57):
These additional resources, combined with robust implementation of surveillance, sampling, reporting,
and enhance treatment protocols, provide a strong foundation for the
US to continue to fight the screworm fly where it
is today and ensure continued confidence in cattle and beef
trade between the United States and Mexico.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
This has been Agriculture USA Rod Dain reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 24 (25:24):
It's time for California AG today on the AG Information
Network I Am Hailey ship. As heat waves become more
frequent across California, fruit growers are rethinking how they protect
their orchards. Jeremy Hamlin, technical sales manager with Cultiva says
extreme temperatures can cause more than sunburn.
Speaker 25 (25:43):
Peat stress can we can trees reduce photosynthesis and lead
to issues like sunburn, doubling, and fruit drop, to name
a few, which can hurt marketable yield and long term productivity.
Speaker 24 (25:53):
Some growers are turning to tools that helps you strengthen
the natural defenses of fruit and trees. Hamlin points to
a product that's called park that's gaining traction for its
ability to enhance the plant's natural cuticle.
Speaker 25 (26:05):
It boosts resilience by improving photosynthetic activity, enhancing transporation, while
optimizing water use efficiency and increasing nutrient uptake and antioxidant production.
It also helps increase overall tree performance by reducing ethylene
production released in heat stress that can be responsible for
fruit drop Parka.
Speaker 24 (26:22):
It is being used on both young trees and mature orchards.
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 25 (26:26):
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Speaker 1 (27:51):
Ship Bob went back with some farm used this morning, friends.
Tensions in the Middle East have raised significant concerns about
the price and availability of fertilized and fertilizer inputs in
recent weeks. Josh Linnville, vice president of fertilizer for stone X,
says a lot of fertilizer input production shut down during
the fighting between Iran and Israel, we.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Spent a lot of time talking about them, at least
it's importance to the nitrogen marketplace globally. In this fight
between Israel and Iran had a very direct relationship to
the UREA market. So looking at twenty twenty four numbers,
Israel was the third largest exporter in the world for
urefl Iran, as a cautioner measure, had to shut down
their gas fields, which means you shut down nitrogen production.
The foot side. Egypt wasn't on four and they had
to shut theirs down. A lot of people like, well
(28:33):
they're far away from the fighting, why that matter. Leegri
relies on Israel for their gas, so they had shut
down their nirogen production. So when all this started to happen,
and then especially when Iran started talking about closing the
straight ufore moves, prices went crazy. You know, we're talking
twenty forty percent rallies in these markets.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He said. Prices have remained elevated.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
We have in all for different reasons. The nitrogen market,
of course, it had been following we were finally starting
to see demand quiet down in the attack startup, and
that got everybody fired up. Even with things calling down,
we're not quite sure we're going to get back down
to the loads that we were at. Unfortunately, in the
middle of all this, India stepped up with another purchase
and they're looking to secure two million ton of ureas,
so that's going to give the market a lot of
action to work with. FoST Bate continues to struggle with
(29:11):
the lack of Chinese exports. Normally they're the largest exporterer
at eight nine ten million ton a year. The government
is restricting that down to four million tons this year
if we're lucky enough to get to that point.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The higher prices are affecting the potash market as well.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Even potash is significantly higher than more it was last year.
The manufacturers did a masterful job of kind of framing
the story out there, claiming things were tight, demand was big,
and there are certain aspects of that was true. But
in the end they got India and China to buy
it on higher prices, and now the rest of the
world is going to have to do the same.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Producers could face some choices ahead for fall application well.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Unfortunately, I think there's gonna be a very very hard
decision to be made in regards to the fall postate
and podash applications. When you look at the phosphate versus
the corn price, and of course we look at December
twenty six corn today because any of the fostate bought
today to be applied in the fall spring is being
used to raise next year's crop. And so we look
at that relationship between the two of them. The highest
it's ever been for this time of year. We have
beaten the two thousand and eight records that were set.
You look at potash, it's on the hier side, not
(30:01):
nearly as bad in comparison, but it's still high. And
I think farmers are really going to have to sit
there and look at it and decide how important is this.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Josh Linville stone X talking fertilizer with US. Well, Franz
Canada is taking political steps to distance itself from the
US trade agenda. Dennis Guy has a report for US
this morning.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
Prime Minister Mark Kearney has scored a major political victory
with the passage of Bill C five, called the One
Canadian Economy Act, which gives federal Cabinet the ability to
pick certain infrastructure and economic projects to push through the
regulatory process. This legislation was a priority for Carney during
(30:43):
the spring election campaign that returned the Liberals to power
in Ottawa. The Liberals are a few seats short of
a majority government, and the Conservatives helped to pass the
bill in the House of Commons last week, which was
followed by a favorable vote by the Senate this week.
This was an astoundingly short timeframe, as this bill was
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only introduced on June sixth. Prime Minister Kearney explained why
this bill had to be implemented quickly that Canada needs
to reassert its independence from the US and to quickly
set a bold new course for its economic destiny and future.
Speaker 27 (31:20):
The most important economic initiative this country has seen for
a long time. This is what unlocks the potential of
our country. This is what will make us more independent
from the United States. This bill unlocks that and this
is the response. This is us being in charge of
our destiny. That's why we pushed it.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Bill C five is in fact two pieces of legislation
in one. The first half is aimed at reducing internal
barriers to trade between provinces within Canada. The bill removes
the federal barriers both on goods and services as well
as labor mobility. The second half of the bill involves
the government looking at large projects and deals largely with processing,
(32:00):
infrastructure and Canada's large natural resource industries. In practice, its
goal is to speed up the permit process within Canada
to get things built faster, giving cabinets sweeping powers to
fast track projects deemed in the national interest. Tom Mulkairr,
a political analyst who is the former leader of the
(32:21):
federal New Democratic Party, says that through Bill C five,
Mark Kearney is simultaneously bringing two broad political agendas together,
Canada's need to improve its ability to provide products and
services domestically and to gain broader access for Canada's products
and services to international trade partners in the face of
(32:44):
Donald Trump's ongoing trade agenda.
Speaker 28 (32:47):
It goes hand in hand with something else that Karney's
been doing talking to new partners. Trump is going to
start getting the message that other countries are going to
start organizing. Canada can find partners to get around the
blockade of Trump. It might help us get a better result.
That's exactly what it's about. This is a masterstroke by Carney.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy farm US.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
This morning, you're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 29 (33:11):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
While President Trump is again considering how to shield America's
agricultural industry from his immigration crackdown, USA Today says this
comes just days after the administration reinstated workplace raids at
egg operations. Trump says, we can't put farms out of business,
and we're looking to do something where good and reputable
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farmers can take responsibility for the people they hire. At
the same time, we don't want to hurt people who
are not criminals. A USDA report says May egg production
dropped year over year, as did the number of total
egg layers in the US. Production fell to eight point
five nine billion eggs last month, down six percent year
over year, about seven point three billion where table eggs
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and one point two nine billion were hatching eggs. USDA
also said the number of egg layers on June first
total three hundred and fifty million, also a six percent
drop from the same date last year. For the second
straight week, the nation's average gas price has increased, rising
nine point seven cents from last week, now at three
eighteen per gallon. The national average is unchanged from a
(34:16):
month ago and is twenty three point three cents per
gallon lower than a year ago. Gas buddies Patrick Dahan
says with Israel and Iran trading attacks, oil prices have
continued to climb. He says average diesel prices have recorded
their largest weekly jump since August of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 30 (34:33):
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From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today friends well.
USDA's June Cattle on Feed Report revealed some notable trends
culminating in tighter supplies of cattle, yet more livestock staying
in feedlots. Rod Main has our.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Story Summer is officially here, which meets the suburb grilling
season is well underway. Also continue, though contraction of US
cattle supplies for beef. USDA Livestock catalyst Michael Bacottle reveals
from the Agriculture departments Jude Cattle on Feed Report.
Speaker 31 (36:11):
Mctorys are going down, but the marketing hasn't seen as
much cattle marketed, so that's kind of kept the inventory
levels from falling even further.
Speaker 30 (36:18):
So.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Looking at the numbers for the month of May started
with cattle and calves and feed lots for slaughter markets.
Speaker 31 (36:24):
On June first, there was eleven point four to four
million head of cattle in those feed lots, which is
one percent lower than a year ago. That was the
result of placements during the month of May totaling one
point eight nine million head, which was eight percent lower
than a year ago.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yet, for marketings of fed cattle.
Speaker 31 (36:40):
Marketings came in at one point seven six million head,
which was ten percent lower than a year ago, although
if you accounted one fewer slaughterday, it was about six
percent lower in this past May versus last May.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
But Cottle explains why cattle and feed lot marketings saw
a greater month over month increase compared to placements and inventory.
Speaker 31 (36:58):
Inventories are downslow from where they were a year ago,
but overall not as sharply down as what will be
reflected by the placements. However, because marketings have been relatively
light for the past couple of weeks, that's kept the
number of cattle available to be marketed to be relatively high.
The number of cattle that we have in feed lots
for more than one hundred and fifty days is pretty
much the highest that we've seen since we've started given
(37:18):
track of those tallies. So overall, what we're seeing is
relatively tight supplies, but low marketings for the past couple
of weeks results of the fact that we have pattle
there in the feed lots ready to be marketed. It's
just a matter of markets doing their thing and have
prices that both packers and feedbots can agree to. You
to see the cattle move.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The tighter of the tories and cattle feed lots are
just one component behind supportive prices for beef.
Speaker 31 (37:39):
Whether it be for feeder cattle, for fed cattle, or
for beef at the wholesaler retail level.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So overall, the.
Speaker 31 (37:44):
Tight supplies are resulting in supportive pricing all throughout.
Speaker 20 (37:47):
The value chain.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Broad Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And with that round of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bag
Life
Good morning, Valley. This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends.
As nationwide temperatures remain extremely hot, the need to keep
that farm, dog or other pets cool increases in importance.
(00:20):
Rod Bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Summer hot enough a near nation wide heat wave in
some places triple digit high temperatures not good for humans
add their pets, as Kathy Capitelli of USDA's Animal at
Plant Health Inspection Service offers as advice, you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Feel like it's muggy and hot, your dog or cat
or other pets feel it too, even more so.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So keeping pets at it. Indoor setting a cooler area
with air conditioning or a fad is needed to keep
pets from experiencing heat stress. Even outdoor, pets with heat
tolerance need to be.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Able to access shade outside of their normal shelter. When
the sun is beating down and baking those alters, the
temperature inside those can get very hot very quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Having a kiddie pool filled with water outside allows pets
opportunity to keep cool.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Also because they regulate their temperature through evaporative or conductive cooling.
They need to have some air movement. That's why it's
very dangerous to leave a pet in a car.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Another thing to keep in mind, the pets that are.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Going to be more susceptible to heat stress are going
to be pets who may be overweight or underweight, old
or very young, pregnant or nursing, or have medical conditions
that maybe create more stress on their body.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Also more susceptible to heat stress in.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Dogs, in particular the short nose breeds like pugs, bulldogs, Pekinese,
and others. They are not able to cool themselves as
efficiently as other breeds.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Sides of heat stress and pets include.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Excessive panting, salivation, if they're very thirsty, if they appear
restless or anxious, like they can't get comfortable, or they're
generalized weak and not interested in activity.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And what should a pet odor look for regarding signs
of heat stroke in their animals.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Heat stroke kind of sets in when directed temperature comes
above one oh four degrees fahrenheit. In that you might
start to see really rough or uncontrollable panting. Their gums
might appear to be dark red or it might feel
sticky to the touch. Vomiting or bloody diarrhea.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Those kind of go.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hand in hand with dehydration, inability to stand, trembling, dizziness,
or disorientation. All of these can progress rapidly to collapse, unconsciousness, seizures,
or even death.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There are immediate treatments that should start. What signs of
heat stress or heat stroke. Become a parent, get a pet.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You want to get them into a cool, shaded area
as soon as possible, and if you can carry them,
don't make them walk. Give them some cool, clean drinking
water to wet their tongues in their mouths. Run cool
but not ice cold water over their neck pods and
belly to promote that indaperative cooling. And put ice packs
if they're available in some of the sensitive areas, the
(03:01):
non haired areas, because that's where the skin is going
to be able to release heat most effectively.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If home treatments are not progressing and coolly down your pet,
seek emergency veterinary care as soon as possible. I'm Broadbade,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well friends coming up disruptions in the fertilizer supply chain
could have an impact on fertilizer availability and fertilizer pricing
going forward. We'll have that story ahead on today's edition
of ag Life. Bob went back with some farm use
this morning. Friends. Tensions in the Middle East have raised
significant concerns about the price and availability of fertilizers and
(03:42):
fertilizer inputs in recent weeks. Josh Linnville, vice president of
fertilizer for stone X, says a lot of fertilizer input
productions shut down during the fighting between Iran and Israel.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
We spent a lot of time talking about them. At
least it's importance to the nitrogen marketplace globally. In despite
between Israel and Iran had a very direct relationship to
the UREA market. So looking at twenty twenty four numbers,
Israel was the third largest exporter in the world for
urefl I Ran, as a cautioner measure, had to shut
down their gas fields, which means you shut down nitrogen production.
The flip side, Egypt was on four and they had
to shut theirs down. A lot of people like, well,
(04:15):
they're far away from the fighting, why that matter. Well,
egripe relies on Israel for their gas, so they had
shut down their nirogen production. So when all this started
to happen, and especially when I Ran started talking about
closing the straight offore moves, prices went crazy. You know,
we're talking twenty forty percent rallies in these markets.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
He said. Prices have remained elevated.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
We have in all for different reasons. The nitrogen market,
of course, it had been following we were finally starting
to see demand quiet down and the attack startup, and
that got everybody fired up. Even with things calming down,
we're not quite sure we're going to get back down
to the loads we were at. Unfortunately, in the middle
of all this, India stepped up with another purchase and
they're looking to secure two million ton of urea, so
that's going to give the market a lot of action
to work with. Foss Bate continues to struggle with the
(04:53):
lack of Chinese exports. Normally they're the largest exporter at
eight nine ten million ton a year. The government is
restricting that down to four million ton this year if
we're lucky enough to get to that point.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The higher prices are affecting the potash market as well.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Even potash is significantly higher than more it was last year.
The manufacturers did a masterful job of kind of framing
the story out there, claiming things were tight, demand was big,
and there are certain aspects of that was true. But
in the end they got India and China to buy
it on higher prices, and now the rest of the
world is going to have to do the same.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Producers could face some choices ahead for fall application well unfortunate.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I think there's gonna be a very very hard decision
to be made in regards to the fall postate and
podash applications. When you look at the phosphate versus the
corn pricing. Of course, we look at December twenty six
corn today, because any of the fostate bought today to
be applied in the fall spring is being used to
raise next year's crop, and so we look at that
relationship between the two of them. The highest it's ever
been for this time of year. We have beaten the
two thousand and eight records that were set. You look at potash,
(05:42):
it's on the higher side, not nearly as bad in comparison,
but it's still high. And I think farmers are really
going to have to sit there and look at it
and decide how important is this.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Josh Linnville Stone cks talking fertilizer with US well friends.
US met Export Federation is trying to find some new
markets for American meat. We have a report.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
While in appellate court weighs the legality of some US tariffs,
China's retaliatory duties on US pork and beef remain in place.
Most usbef exports to China have also been halted due
to China's failure to renew beef plant registrations. US Meat
Export Federation offices around the globe have worked together to
find new markets for product that would have been headed
to China. Amara Rescio, as a USBF representative for Latin America.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
All of the offices got together and we talked about
where and how we could use some of these China
items in other markets. So in the case of Columbia,
we identified processors where we could take some items like
the mask that used to go to Mexico. China outbids them.
Maybe there's an opportunity in some other markets. So looked
at processors, looked at the different wet markets, and some
(06:49):
other opportunities on some off all that could go to
these wet markets in Colombia, in Central America and in
South America, a tremendous amount of white rice is eaten,
and so you know, we know how short plaits sliced
thinly and how they're used in Asia, and so we
(07:09):
thought maybe that was an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
One of the most successful promotions came from shifting frozen
beef short plate to Korea, as USMEF Vice President of
Asia Pacific Jiayong.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Explains, collaborating with the third largest retail chain called Lo
de Mart, having one hundred five stores nationwide. Korean importer
took an advantage because the short beef supply limit the
product availability in Korea for the last couple of years
(07:40):
due to the cattle cycle in the US. So it's
a great opportunity for the retailers to buy the reasonable
price of short plate for the Korean consumer and also
good for the US exporters because it creates a new
demand these promotions.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
For the USB and Export Federation. I'm Jon harrat Farm
US this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
It's another agnews update. AG Secretary Brook rawlins in front
of members of the House AGG Committee. More after this, Dad,
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AG Secretary Brooke rawlins answering questions from Virginia Representative Eugene Vinman.
Speaker 12 (08:54):
Do you support farmers?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (08:57):
Of course, yeah.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
And how about the families that go to grocery stores?
Do you support them as well?
Speaker 14 (09:02):
I do?
Speaker 12 (09:02):
I have four children, Three of them are here e
groceries too.
Speaker 13 (09:07):
Let's talk about the trade war, yes or no? Are
you aware that farmers need inputs that we typically import
to grow the crops?
Speaker 12 (09:17):
Which input? Yeah? Yes, in general, but which one specifically?
Are you talking about just.
Speaker 13 (09:21):
In general, I'm talking about it and yes is the
right answer, yes or no? We'll higher costs of inputs
force farmers who increase prices for their goods, resulting in
higher costs for families at the grocery store.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Mister Vinman. Under the last administration, inputs went up thirty
percent here in America. So that's the bigger question, not
the trade.
Speaker 13 (09:42):
We're not talking about the previous administration. We're talking about
this admiration.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
But that's really important. I mean, that's one hundred days
versus four years. That's a thirty percent increase in inputs
under the Biden administration of fifty billion dollar trade deficit
that wasn't there when the first TRUP administration left. I mean,
if you want to talk about the driving cost of
gross that's where that's coming around.
Speaker 13 (10:01):
My time.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
It's another agnews update.
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Speaker 9 (10:36):
American Cattle News, Trade data and Cattle Doctor Darryl Peel
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Doctor Darryl Peel, Loklahoma State Livestock Economist.
Speaker 16 (11:20):
The monthly trade data that came out was for April,
so you know, that would be the first month since
we put all the tariffs on, and you know, we
do see some of the tariff impacts in this data.
It's it's not certainly not all of it. It's going
to build for several months as we go forward. These
beef supply chains are very complex, and you know, there's
a lot of inertia going into these things in terms
(11:42):
of previous arrangements that were made, contracts and so on.
Speaker 15 (11:45):
But all of that said, you do see some impacts.
Speaker 16 (11:48):
Basically, we've continued what we've seen for the last several months,
and that is that beef exports were down a little bit.
Total beef ex sports in the US were down in
April about eight point six percent, and that puts US
down a little over four percent for the year to date.
And so now you know, the most immediate impact you
see there is in China because of the huge tariff
(12:09):
escalation that we had with them, and so exports to
China mainland were down about sixty eight percent. If you
put Hong Kong with it, which I usually do, they're
really not separate markets anymore. Hong Kong was actually up
eighty six percent because they did not put on the
retaliatory tariffs that mainland China did, and so when you
net that out, total exports to the China Hong Kong
(12:30):
combined market was down about fifty two percent.
Speaker 15 (12:33):
That's pretty clearly just you know, a big impact of
the tariffs.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
Other than that, most of the rest of it is
just kind of the general trade trends. We've been seeing
imports also jump sharply in April, but that's continuing a
trend that we've had simply because we've had so much
decrease in our non fed beef production in the US.
Speaker 15 (12:51):
House slaughter has been down.
Speaker 16 (12:52):
Now this is the third year we're seeing significant decreases there,
so we've really squeezed our processing beef supplies that's aboard
our ground beef market.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
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Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is Dairy Radio now.
Speaker 17 (13:10):
The heat is on as we start the dog days
of summer very soon, and joining us with heat stress reminders.
Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 18 (13:20):
We talked earlier about the radiator in my grandpa's car
and how radiators are used to take heat and then
dissipate it in the environment to keep the engine cool
One of the biggest radiators on cattle is actually their lungs.
So when they breathe air in and they exhale, they
are actually taking a tremendous amount of heat from their
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internal core body, and essentially those lungs are acting like
a radiator. The cooler air from outside gets inhaled in,
it absorbs heat from the bloodstream in the body, and
then it's exhaled back out with excess moisture and heat
back into the environment. And that's why if you see
a cow with or calf that has had some chronic
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pneumonia or lung damage, oftentimes they sail along just fine
in the winter and you don't even really know that
they have some chronic lung damage. However, they will make
themselves evident and stand out from their peers and the
herd during periods of heat stress. Because their lungs have
so much scar tissue in them, it's almost like acting
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like a compromised radiator. They cannot as effectively dump heat
through the respiration process, and they build heat more and
they cattle or animals with chronic respiratory disease will struggle
much more in the heat than their counterparts that have
healthy lungs. Just something interesting to think about. When you
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see animals panting, they're using their physiological radiator, almost like
a mechanical radiator. Their lungs are acting like that to
dump out the heat. July and August, they're certainly going
to be rough. And just having that kind of understanding
the mechanics of heat stress and how we can cool animals,
I think is something to be aware of.
Speaker 17 (15:09):
And of course you want to take action sooner rather
than later. You really don't want to see those cows panting,
do you.
Speaker 15 (15:15):
Yep?
Speaker 18 (15:16):
Panting is maybe more of their last resort. Dogs will
pant at the drop of a hat for a cow
to pant, and certainly you'll also see it in poultry.
The idea of a chicken panting you don't have chickens
might sound kind of silly, but they certainly will. And
those are typically signs of what we would call moderate
to severe heat stress at that point. So that would
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be the sign that we would want to do a
more aggressive intervention on the panting. And one thing I
forgot to mention too. On the cows, their lungs act
as a giant radiator to dump heat But the other
thing too, is just the pure surface area of their
body actually acts like a giant radiator, just radiating heat
off of them. And anyone who is worked and of
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cattle certainly knows that. In the summer, I mean, if
you get in in a pen of cattle that's stacked
tight and you're kind of waiting around in between them,
it is hot. And the worst place that cattle take
a beating in the heat every day is not the
pen where they're in their free stall or they're eating,
but it is in the holding area because those cows
are crammed in that holding area two to three times
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a day for typically thirty to forty five minutes, and
it gets extremely hot in there. And there was an
interesting study done where the university put internal temperature monitors
into cows, and what they found was their internal temperatures
were in that one hundred and one hundred and two
degree range, and all of a sudden, they would spike
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up to one hundred and three degrees very very rapidly,
and then over the course of about twelve hours, it
took about twelve hours for them to get all that
heat back off their body. Their temperature would slowly come
down over the course of twelve hours, normalize in that
one hundred and one hundred and two, and then boom,
twelve hours later, spike back up again. And when they
looked at why was it spiking every twelve hours that
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correlated For the herds that were milk twice a day,
it was when they were going into the holding pen.
So forty five minutes in a holding pen can accumulate
enough heat that she will then spend the next twelve
hours getting rid of and guess where she is twelve
hours later, right back in the holding pen again. So
if your farm and you have a budget to buy
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fans and you're thinking where should I put them? Should
I put them over my stalls or should I put
them in the holding area? Buy far hands down every
single time. Always load the holding area up with fans first,
and then if there's remaining money in the budget left,
then put them in the stalls. But the holding area
is the most crucial area on every dairy for good
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heat abatement.
Speaker 17 (17:50):
Thank you, Ryan, Stay cool. That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of technical services with Crystal Creek.
Speaker 19 (17:59):
Wells Say Teams and All Breeding and the Almond industries
pointed to self fruitful varieties, getting away from those trees
that need to be pollinated. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the Vast Egg Information Network.
It saves on bees and there's a lot more efficiencies
when you have one variety out there that you're harvesting.
(18:20):
Brent Holtz is a UCA and R Farm Advisor, County
Director of San Juan King County. He has more on this.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
The real trends. There's been some talk in the nursery
and has been to develop a self fruitful non parell.
Speaker 19 (18:34):
That's the top variety in the almond industry.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And I listened to I talked Tarlie recently. You know,
Tom Burchell was trying to do some genetic manipulation of
the non prell variety to make it actually a self
fruitful non parell. You know, there's four or five regional
variety trials where the different UC advisors have looked at
some of the promising new varieties coming out, and you know,
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there's a lot of things being looked at right now.
Roger Duncan just had a big field day in new
varieties in his regional Alma variety trials. East of Modesta,
and there looks like there's going to be some What
everybody wants is something that gets non proll price and
doesn't need to be pollinated.
Speaker 19 (19:20):
That's Brent holtz A you see farm Advisor based in
San jOAI, King County.
Speaker 20 (19:25):
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 (19:40):
Oh?
Speaker 20 (19:40):
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 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 equipm 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
farmers right here, right now as they listen to what
is important to their farm operation. They trust us, They'll
trust you with the ag Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Once a threat to our nation's cattle and livestock industry
threatens to make a return. New World screw work the NWS.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Is a scourage that is making its way from Latin
America up through Mexico, and if it hits America, it
is going to be absolutely devastating to our cattle industry
at the top of the list, frankly, to a lot
of our industries.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And as this pest moves closer to our country, Agriculture
Secretary Brook Rawlins is among those increasing prevention and eradication efforts.
That includes a recently announced plus which cattaids.
Speaker 21 (21:01):
A sterile fly dispersal facility at More Air Base in
Hitago County, investing in innovative research to develop novel treatments, preventatives,
and response strategies.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm Rod Bade coming up new World screw worm threats
of the past and the increased fight against it in
the present and future in this edition of Agriculture USA.
New World screw worm infestations of the US had a
century of history up to the nineteen fifties and sixties.
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What makes this evasive pest. What makes this evasive pest
such a threat to livestock and wildlife.
Speaker 22 (21:39):
Screwworms cannot eat through the unbroken skin of a healthy animal.
Injuries such as scratches, cuts, or even insect bites are
open invitations to disaster. The female fly deposits her eggs
around the edges of wounds. The eggs develop into worm
like larvae they feed in clusters. Any warm blooded animal
is subject to screwworm at Screwworm infestations, if left untreated,
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can result in debt. Calves that survive may be crippled
with joint disease.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But that educational film from nineteen sixty also reveals the
use of sterilizing screwworm flies releasing them in the wild,
leading to the eradication of the pest, first in the
southeastern US and later in the decade the entire country.
The threat of New World screwworm was driven as far
south as the Isthmus of Darien in Panama. That is
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where the US and Panama operate a joint sterile fly
production and dispersal facility, the Dairyan Peninsula site, operated in
part by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspecsion service serves
as a control method to keep nws out of Central
and North America, a duty it's had for decades yet,
awarding from that nineteen sixty film.
Speaker 22 (22:50):
As long as there are screwworms remaining in other parts
of North and South America, the hazard of reinfestation remains.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So that's not to say isolated outbreak have not been
reported and eliminated through the North American continent over the decades,
but one last November in Mexico near the Guatemalan border
raised concerns in our country and its livestock producers, and
as Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins told lawmakers recently after a
new world screw worm outbreak was reported in a northern
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state of Mexico this spring, that.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Screwroom had moved from within eleven hundred miles of our
border to seven hundred miles of our order within a matter.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Of weeks, leading to the closing of our border to
imports of Mexican live cattle and other livestock, and US
investment in a stero fly dispersal facility in Mexico. Further
efforts were announced by the Secretary at a recent visit
to More Air Force Base in South Texas, near the
border with Mexico. The site was previously home of USDA
screwworm research unit in the nineteen sixties and seventies. That
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facility will soon be put to use again in a
similar capacity as a US based stero fly dispersal center.
Speaker 21 (24:00):
Allow us to do is to fly the larva up
from the facility of Animal and the other facility two
South Texas. You finish off so that the sterile flies
are ready to go, load them in the mains and
then get them.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Across the border. And as part of long term efforts
to control New World screw warmentry into our country, Secretary
Rawlins announced.
Speaker 21 (24:18):
Plans to move forward with the design process of a
domestic production facility to complement the dispersal facility at More Airbase,
which has also been identified as the proposed location.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Both announcements coincide with the Secretary's reveal of a five
pronged strategy to address NWS and keep it out of
the US. Among those attending the announcement at More Air
Force Base members of the cattle industry, such as National
Cattleman's Beef Association President Buck Waerbine we all know that the.
Speaker 16 (24:49):
Longest journey begins with a single step, and this is
a good first step of several.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Ad Texas Cattle Feeders Association Chair Leaf low Row.
Speaker 23 (24:57):
These additional resources, combined with robust implementation of surveillance, sampling, reporting,
and enhance treatment protocols, provide a strong foundation for the
US to continue to fight the screworm fly where it
is today and ensure continued confidence in cattle and beef
trade between the United States and Mexico.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
This has been Agriculture USA Rod Dain reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 24 (25:24):
It's time for California AG today on the AG Information
Network I Am Hailey ship. As heat waves become more
frequent across California, fruit growers are rethinking how they protect
their orchards. Jeremy Hamlin, technical sales manager with Cultiva says
extreme temperatures can cause more than sunburn.
Speaker 25 (25:43):
Peat stress can we can trees reduce photosynthesis and lead
to issues like sunburn, doubling, and fruit drop, to name
a few, which can hurt marketable yield and long term productivity.
Speaker 24 (25:53):
Some growers are turning to tools that helps you strengthen
the natural defenses of fruit and trees. Hamlin points to
a product that's called park that's gaining traction for its
ability to enhance the plant's natural cuticle.
Speaker 25 (26:05):
It boosts resilience by improving photosynthetic activity, enhancing transporation, while
optimizing water use efficiency and increasing nutrient uptake and antioxidant production.
It also helps increase overall tree performance by reducing ethylene
production released in heat stress that can be responsible for
fruit drop Parka.
Speaker 24 (26:22):
It is being used on both young trees and mature orchards.
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 25 (26:26):
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life cycle, from helping new plantings mitigate shock, establish and
grow to protecting mature trees during fruit development and post harvest.
If you're ready to give your orchard season long protection
from heat, stress and other environmental impacts, visit Cultiva dot
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Speaker 24 (26:44):
Hamlin calls it a push towards proactivity rather than reactivity
when it comes to stress management.
Speaker 26 (26:50):
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Speaker 24 (27:49):
AG Information Network. I am Hayley.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Ship Bob went back with some farm used this morning, friends.
Tensions in the Middle East have raised significant concerns about
the price and availability of fertilized and fertilizer inputs in
recent weeks. Josh Linnville, vice president of fertilizer for stone X,
says a lot of fertilizer input production shut down during
the fighting between Iran and Israel, we.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Spent a lot of time talking about them, at least
it's importance to the nitrogen marketplace globally. In this fight
between Israel and Iran had a very direct relationship to
the UREA market. So looking at twenty twenty four numbers,
Israel was the third largest exporter in the world for
urefl Iran, as a cautioner measure, had to shut down
their gas fields, which means you shut down nitrogen production.
The foot side. Egypt wasn't on four and they had
to shut theirs down. A lot of people like, well
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they're far away from the fighting, why that matter. Leegri
relies on Israel for their gas, so they had shut
down their nirogen production. So when all this started to happen,
and then especially when Iran started talking about closing the
straight ufore moves, prices went crazy. You know, we're talking
twenty forty percent rallies in these markets.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He said. Prices have remained elevated.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
We have in all for different reasons. The nitrogen market,
of course, it had been following we were finally starting
to see demand quiet down in the attack startup, and
that got everybody fired up. Even with things calling down,
we're not quite sure we're going to get back down
to the loads that we were at. Unfortunately, in the
middle of all this, India stepped up with another purchase
and they're looking to secure two million ton of ureas,
so that's going to give the market a lot of
action to work with. FoST Bate continues to struggle with
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the lack of Chinese exports. Normally they're the largest exporterer
at eight nine ten million ton a year. The government
is restricting that down to four million tons this year
if we're lucky enough to get to that point.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The higher prices are affecting the potash market as well.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Even potash is significantly higher than more it was last year.
The manufacturers did a masterful job of kind of framing
the story out there, claiming things were tight, demand was big,
and there are certain aspects of that was true. But
in the end they got India and China to buy
it on higher prices, and now the rest of the
world is going to have to do the same.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Producers could face some choices ahead for fall application well.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Unfortunately, I think there's gonna be a very very hard
decision to be made in regards to the fall postate
and podash applications. When you look at the phosphate versus
the corn price, and of course we look at December
twenty six corn today because any of the fostate bought
today to be applied in the fall spring is being
used to raise next year's crop. And so we look
at that relationship between the two of them. The highest
it's ever been for this time of year. We have
beaten the two thousand and eight records that were set.
You look at potash, it's on the hier side, not
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nearly as bad in comparison, but it's still high. And
I think farmers are really going to have to sit
there and look at it and decide how important is this.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Josh Linville stone X talking fertilizer with US. Well, Franz
Canada is taking political steps to distance itself from the
US trade agenda. Dennis Guy has a report for US
this morning.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
Prime Minister Mark Kearney has scored a major political victory
with the passage of Bill C five, called the One
Canadian Economy Act, which gives federal Cabinet the ability to
pick certain infrastructure and economic projects to push through the
regulatory process. This legislation was a priority for Carney during
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the spring election campaign that returned the Liberals to power
in Ottawa. The Liberals are a few seats short of
a majority government, and the Conservatives helped to pass the
bill in the House of Commons last week, which was
followed by a favorable vote by the Senate this week.
This was an astoundingly short timeframe, as this bill was
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only introduced on June sixth. Prime Minister Kearney explained why
this bill had to be implemented quickly that Canada needs
to reassert its independence from the US and to quickly
set a bold new course for its economic destiny and future.
Speaker 27 (31:20):
The most important economic initiative this country has seen for
a long time. This is what unlocks the potential of
our country. This is what will make us more independent
from the United States. This bill unlocks that and this
is the response. This is us being in charge of
our destiny. That's why we pushed it.
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Bill C five is in fact two pieces of legislation
in one. The first half is aimed at reducing internal
barriers to trade between provinces within Canada. The bill removes
the federal barriers both on goods and services as well
as labor mobility. The second half of the bill involves
the government looking at large projects and deals largely with processing,
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infrastructure and Canada's large natural resource industries. In practice, its
goal is to speed up the permit process within Canada
to get things built faster, giving cabinets sweeping powers to
fast track projects deemed in the national interest. Tom Mulkairr,
a political analyst who is the former leader of the
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federal New Democratic Party, says that through Bill C five,
Mark Kearney is simultaneously bringing two broad political agendas together,
Canada's need to improve its ability to provide products and
services domestically and to gain broader access for Canada's products
and services to international trade partners in the face of
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Donald Trump's ongoing trade agenda.
Speaker 28 (32:47):
It goes hand in hand with something else that Karney's
been doing talking to new partners. Trump is going to
start getting the message that other countries are going to
start organizing. Canada can find partners to get around the
blockade of Trump. It might help us get a better result.
That's exactly what it's about. This is a masterstroke by Carney.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy farm US.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
This morning, you're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 29 (33:11):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
While President Trump is again considering how to shield America's
agricultural industry from his immigration crackdown, USA Today says this
comes just days after the administration reinstated workplace raids at
egg operations. Trump says, we can't put farms out of business,
and we're looking to do something where good and reputable
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farmers can take responsibility for the people they hire. At
the same time, we don't want to hurt people who
are not criminals. A USDA report says May egg production
dropped year over year, as did the number of total
egg layers in the US. Production fell to eight point
five nine billion eggs last month, down six percent year
over year, about seven point three billion where table eggs
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and one point two nine billion were hatching eggs. USDA
also said the number of egg layers on June first
total three hundred and fifty million, also a six percent
drop from the same date last year. For the second
straight week, the nation's average gas price has increased, rising
nine point seven cents from last week, now at three
eighteen per gallon. The national average is unchanged from a
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month ago and is twenty three point three cents per
gallon lower than a year ago. Gas buddies Patrick Dahan
says with Israel and Iran trading attacks, oil prices have
continued to climb. He says average diesel prices have recorded
their largest weekly jump since August of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 30 (34:33):
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a road. Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffic
share the same space. Whether you're behind the wheel of
a tractor or a car. Here's what you need to remember.
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves. Farmers,
make sure you're slow moving vehicles. Signs and lights are visible,
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Speaker 29 (35:32):
From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today friends well.
USDA's June Cattle on Feed Report revealed some notable trends
culminating in tighter supplies of cattle, yet more livestock staying
in feedlots. Rod Main has our.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Story Summer is officially here, which meets the suburb grilling
season is well underway. Also continue, though contraction of US
cattle supplies for beef. USDA Livestock catalyst Michael Bacottle reveals
from the Agriculture departments Jude Cattle on Feed Report.
Speaker 31 (36:11):
Mctorys are going down, but the marketing hasn't seen as
much cattle marketed, so that's kind of kept the inventory
levels from falling even further.
Speaker 30 (36:18):
So.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Looking at the numbers for the month of May started
with cattle and calves and feed lots for slaughter markets.
Speaker 31 (36:24):
On June first, there was eleven point four to four
million head of cattle in those feed lots, which is
one percent lower than a year ago. That was the
result of placements during the month of May totaling one
point eight nine million head, which was eight percent lower
than a year ago.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yet, for marketings of fed cattle.
Speaker 31 (36:40):
Marketings came in at one point seven six million head,
which was ten percent lower than a year ago, although
if you accounted one fewer slaughterday, it was about six
percent lower in this past May versus last May.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
But Cottle explains why cattle and feed lot marketings saw
a greater month over month increase compared to placements and inventory.
Speaker 31 (36:58):
Inventories are downslow from where they were a year ago,
but overall not as sharply down as what will be
reflected by the placements. However, because marketings have been relatively
light for the past couple of weeks, that's kept the
number of cattle available to be marketed to be relatively high.
The number of cattle that we have in feed lots
for more than one hundred and fifty days is pretty
much the highest that we've seen since we've started given
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track of those tallies. So overall, what we're seeing is
relatively tight supplies, but low marketings for the past couple
of weeks results of the fact that we have pattle
there in the feed lots ready to be marketed. It's
just a matter of markets doing their thing and have
prices that both packers and feedbots can agree to. You
to see the cattle move.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The tighter of the tories and cattle feed lots are
just one component behind supportive prices for beef.
Speaker 31 (37:39):
Whether it be for feeder cattle, for fed cattle, or
for beef at the wholesaler retail level.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So overall, the.
Speaker 31 (37:44):
Tight supplies are resulting in supportive pricing all throughout.
Speaker 20 (37:47):
The value chain.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Broad Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
And with that round of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bag
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