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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is aglif My name is Bob Gwinn, with you
for the next hour talking about agricultural production here in
the valley in all across the country. We start off
with looking at dry weather all across the country with
Rod Bay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Most regions of the country report improvements in drought coverage
started July. How does that apply to crops and commodities?
Usdab roologist Brad Rippey starts with a regional look of
drought coverage.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
When you start talking about a lot of our major
crop areas across the Midwest and even the plains, and
certainly moving into the South and east, there is not
much drought to talk about right now.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
So for corn and soybeads in drought for the period
ending July first corn.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Production area in drought and number was twenty one percent
on June third, not too bad, but it's gotten better
since and only twelve percent of the US corn production
area in drought. Even better, for soybeans, we saw a
halving of drought coverage, going from sixteen percent in early
June to eight percent.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Shrinking drought coverage was more notable for southern suburbs crops.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
We look at our major southern crops of cotton and
peanut and rice, and we see drought coverage as we
begin July.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Negligible, especially unusually for cotton.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Three percent of the cotton area. That's highly unusual, since
cotton stands fifteen southern states from California to the southern
Atlantic coast, so to see very little drought in any
of those southern states highly unusual.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
However, drought expansion in the northern plains and Pacific Northwest
is recorded for crops such as barley and spring wheat.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
The US and barley crop over half fifty six percent
in drought on July first, That is more than double
the June third number of twenty four percent. And also
on July first, spring wheat area in drought twenty nine percent,
up from nineteen percent on June third.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And as for winter wheeks, it's really.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That Northwestern drought that has pushed winter wheat drought coverage
twenty four percent of the production area by July first.
That's twice what we saw in early June. And again
that's really coming on strong in some of our northwestern
states very late in the growing season.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Broad Bane reporting for where the US Department of agriculture.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Farm us ahead, this is aglife, Bob Quhen. Here was
some farm us this morning. Friends. Interesting story out of
the Midwest. Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a law banning lab
grown meat from within the state's borders. Midwest reporter susan
littlefield with us.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Now.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
This new law bans the manufacturer, distribution, and sale of
lab grown or cultivated meat within the state of Nebraska.
Passage of the measure during the most recent legislative session
builds on the Governor's executive order from last year, which
prohibits agencies from purchasing lab grown meat and require state
contractors to certify that they will not discriminate against natural
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meat producers in favor of lab or cultivated meat producers.
As Nebraska Governor Jim Pillon shared, Nebraska is a leading
beef producing state, and we've.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Been really really proud of our team and hard work
and being able to get thirty three to legislators that
saw it the same way our business. We've been fighting
the far crazy left, petas, the humane societies trying to
do nothing but destroy production agriculture, destroy live livestock production.
The folks that are behind fake meat are the same thing.
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I call it bira reactor meat. It's really important that
we call them out for what they are. The fake
meat builds gigantic It protects Nebraska cattlemen, it protects Nebraska
livestock producers, it protects Nebraska agriculture. There's not going to
be any bio react or fake meat made in Nebraska.
It's not going to be found in grocery stores. But
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you still have your rights. If you want to eat
that stuff, you can get a drop shipped down your doorsteps.
You have the right and privilege to do that if
that's important to you.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Jerry Vinnen is the Director of Agriculture for the State
of Nebraska.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Why would we want to do something that's unproven, has
no track of safety, and we're not sure how this
is all going to play out with the pathogens and
the consumer safety angle here. So we have the best,
most complete tasting protein in the world that we produced
here in Nebraska, and we're going to continue that. It's
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all about protecting our consumer season.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The director went on to say that the new law
also is a protection for the consumers, as long term
health effects of eating fake meat are currently unknown. The
new law goes into effect September third. I'm Susan Littlefield
reporting rain.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is returning to South America, but will that slow down harvest?
Riley Smith has that story.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Rain is returning to the forecast in South America, which
is great for the drier parts of Brazil and Argentina.
Allen Dale commodity broker Greg McBrien said the forecast still
has plenty of clear skies for harvest progress to continue, though, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (04:56):
A lot of the same as what we've been talking about.
The main portion, the big portion of Brazil. On the
dryer side, we are starting to see some rain come
into southern Brazil and Argentina in the one to five
days forecast, and then when you move out to the
six to ten day forecast, those rains intensify a little bit,
which helps with some of those ryer areas. They are Obviously,
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once they get through with this corn harvest, they're going
to be then looking at wheat planting and conditions moving
forward into what would technically be their winter and then
into spring. So overall, it's still still clear skies for
harvest in over the next two weeks, so they should
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see continued continued progress here.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Even though Sabrina harvest progress in Brazil is behind the average,
farmers are still moving along at a good pace, so
there's no need for severe reactions yet.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Yeah, it's looking like it's we heard there was a
good portion of it to about forty percent to complete.
The number that we got as of last Friday is
showing twenty six percent, So that still puts them about
thirty behind the behind last year and thirty and about
to say seven percent behind the five year average. But
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a little bit of conflicting reports. Overall, there's there's still
not even halfway done. It is a big crop. We
know that it's going to take some additional time, but
for right now they are they are moving along.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Mc bride said. Corn harvest and Argentina is still moving
along as well.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Yeah, they're getting close to the five year average here
sitting in right now, they're at seventy six percent. Five
year puts them at seventy eight. Last year they were
a little bit further ahead at eighty one. But overall
still some of them right along. They're not too far
behind with where they were where they were at last
year or in the five year average. A good five
to six percent gained just a week over a week
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as far as harvest progress.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
That again was Greg McBride, director of brokerage at Allendale.
I'm Riley Smith reporting.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
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This cattle market has been outstanding. I mean, how can
you love it if you've got cattle out there and
you're looking at you know, pick a cash price two
thirty five to forty uh, you've got the box beef
of another two bucks here to day we eighty eight
sixty nine. That's an all time historic high. You know,
we just don't have the numbers out there. We'll see
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what the cattle on feet on Friday says. But you know,
until something fundamentally changes where we see more cattle coming in,
or that the American housewife starts to back off of
buying hamburger and steaks out here. You know, in the past,
when we've had you know, record high box feed prices,
it wasn't unusual see that market break, you know, five
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ten dollars overnight. You know, could we see a ten
or twenty dollars drop from these kinds of highs. It's possible.
Until we see that, it's hard to get, you know,
really two on this cattle mark. But as a risk manager,
let me tell you, guys, if you're not looking at
doing some kind of risk management to protect these historic
ye prices, I believe you're missing the boat. You can
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either sell futures and buy a call option to protect
it in case we go higher. You can buy a
foot option, spend four dollars on the fats, spend five
dollars on the feeders, and get some protection out here.
Because as we all know, we've been a long as
long around as long as I have, something always seems
to shake this cattle market one thing or another, one
room or another, and you just can't leave these prices
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on the table if you've got cattle out there, and
that obviously has pushed the POG prices up to stay
competitive with these prices.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 21 (11:55):
Welcome to Producer Tuesday. Brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. Michael Gofman, who runs Igniting Performance, shared his
thoughts on the subject of dealing with difficult workers on
the farm in a recent PDP dairy signal. Here are
some of his comments.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
There's a few phrases with dealing with difficult people, and
one of them is, I know you would want to
hear this. If you're a manager, you're going to say
it all the time. I know you would want to
hear this. It allows me to bring up anything, even
difficult things. When it comes to dealing with difficult people.
I'm assuming that you have a position of authority, and
(12:32):
I don't mean a hammer authority. I mean somebody that
has your back to me. That's what a good leader does.
A good leader cannot do your job. A good leader ignites,
equips and encourages you to do your job, which means
I must be seen as your greatest resource. Everybody's doing
their job except for the person that is kind of
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running the management of all of that. That's my job.
It's to make sure that you are equipped, that you
are ignited in that that you know that you're doing
things well, which means I need to be your greatest resource.
And part of being your greatest resources. I promise you
I will tell you when you're on and I will
tell you when you're off. There is a format in conversations,
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any type of conversation, when we're having different When we're
having conversations, there are two needs in every interaction. There's
the personal needs and the practical needs. The personal needs
are what can I do as a human dealing with
a human and it's things like self esteem, listening, empathy, involvement.
But then there's the conversation itself. It's the practical needs
of the conversation. And there is a path. If I'm
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going to have a conversation, I need to think this
through a little bit and be prepared with it because
it could derail real fast. And the steps aren't start
the conversation, assess the wants and needs, lead the discussion,
eliminate the fog, and summarize the clothes, and before we leave,
we're going to make sure everybody's on the same page
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for what we've created, and then.
Speaker 14 (14:00):
We're going to end on a high note.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That's the process of any conversation, especially difficult ones. Start
the conversation off right, get all the issues first, before
we come up with a solution, make sure we're on
the same page. End on a high note. Two words
purpose and importance. So when you start a conversation, start
it off with listen. We need to have a conversation.
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This is what's going on, and this is the impact
it's having. And there's two.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Ways to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
First of all, rip the band aid off, get it
on the table. Here's the purpose and here's the importance
of why we need to discuss.
Speaker 21 (14:36):
Comments from Michael Hoffman, who runs Igniting Performance, who recently
shared his thoughts on a recent PDPW Dairy signal about
dealing with difficult people, particularly those that work for you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I will tell you this, the wrong person in the
wrong bus without with the wrong type of coaching will
never be successful. And trust me, if it's painful for you,
it's painful for them. So if you're not going to
raise me and grow me who own this position, then
I'm going to lean more towards it's your fault in mind.
Let's set expectations, guys. What are the rules? What are
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we looking for? This is what we need and if
it's an individual, it's going over the standards that are expected.
If you have no foundation for what's expected from these people,
then we're all living in fog. So we build our teams.
We're not the victims of our team. So I'll give
you a little bit of slack for a while, but
then start having conversations to get everybody back on track.
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I really want to emphasize that it's what you say
and it's what you do. Your team is not a mistake.
And by adding the skill sets of having good conversations
when you go out of your way to say I
need to hold you accountable for this, or I need
to bring this up, this is so off the mark,
or we can't have it this way anymore. I want
to talk to you about it. I want us to
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talk about it. What you're doing is you're building strength
in our relationship because I know you have me in
a strength and a team that means that we can
accomplish and we can work through anything. I'm not afraid
of the hard things because you handle it so well.
I love working here because of that, because i know
I've got a person who's got my back. So continue
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to keep our country moving, dairy people, and build strong
teams and strong families, and I'm in your back pocket
for anything and everything you need.
Speaker 21 (16:20):
And that's Michael Hoffman, who runs Igniting Performance. His comments
from a recent PDP Dairy signal that you can hear
in its entirety at pdpw dot org. Our thanks to
the Professional Dairy Producers for today's sponsorship of Producer Tuesday.
I'm Bill Baker Dairy Radio.
Speaker 22 (16:36):
Now, so.
Speaker 23 (16:40):
Far, things are looking great up in Tahema County, Northern
California and almonds and walnuts. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the VASTAC Information Network.
Jamie Ott is a UC Cooperative Extension Orchard System Advisor
for Tahama, Shasta, Glenn, and Butke Counties. He's reporting in, Yeah.
Speaker 22 (17:01):
So far, it's been a pretty mild year, good weather,
so if everything's pretty happy, we do likely have some
hot weather to look forward to coming up this month
or July, so we'll see how that treats us. In
terms of the crops. I mean, the almonds generally look
pretty good up here, and I would say the walnuts
it kind of depends who you are and where you are,
but it's always hard to tell when the nuts around
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the tree. It's not till the nuts get on the
ground and in the holler that we really know what
we're dealing with.
Speaker 23 (17:28):
We asked her about mating disruption on naval range worm,
which is the number one past in almonds. Mating disruption
is widely used in the southern San Joaquin Valley. We're
asking her about Northern California's.
Speaker 24 (17:39):
You so of it.
Speaker 22 (17:40):
I know some orchards that use it. It's certainly not
universal up here, but I definitely know some orchards, especially
larger operations, that find that it's worthwhile and that they
have enough acreage that they can deploy it effectively.
Speaker 23 (17:51):
Maybe disruption is when they wash the orchard with a
pheromone that confusedes the naval range worm male where he
can't find the female and therefore not made and create
much less populations to deal with.
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Speaker 3 (19:05):
A connection between irrigation surface water and potential bycrobial contabinets
that could create a food born illness. Cases of such
bacteria are leafy vegetables. Almost fifty years ago found irrigation
water providing pathways for microbes. But as USDA researcher Yakov
Pachetski recalls Congressional at federal establishment of standards for microbes
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from a food safety perspective led to questions such as how.
Speaker 26 (19:33):
Representative is the small sample that we can take for
the big source of water like edigation Pone fudditional lake,
and these questions were most critical.
Speaker 14 (19:42):
For surface water.
Speaker 26 (19:43):
Surface water is more susceptible to microdopollution. If there are
any technologists a potential help answer these question.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The tech question stemming from desires for both data at
cost efficiencies, so Pachetski a colleagues at the USDA Agricultural
re Search Station at Beltsville, Maryland, began studies incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 26 (20:06):
Remote sensing in proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Sensors admitting light waves both in water sources and through
aerial drones collect data. Artificial intelligence crunching this data creates
maps to break down contabinets at microbial levels. Potchevski says,
while technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, the
human element at the farm level continues to be an
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essential factor.
Speaker 26 (20:34):
We work with real forms because the ir irrigation happens
on the real farms. Farmers in Georgia and farmers of
Maryland were most supportive for us, and we are really
thankful to these people who allowed us to do the
measurements and to discuss things with them.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
The result of incorporating innovations of microbial detection and surface
irrigation water more effective, cost efficient, and quicker methods of
detection of potentialabinets, and Potchevski says, these technologies are approaching
broader use and application.
Speaker 26 (21:06):
All the components that we are looking now are commercially available,
so it's just a matter of companies or consultants or
groups of enthusius just taking this thing, combining them together
and beginning to use.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Recently, Potchevski was honored for his work, receiving the Samuel J.
Hayman's Service to America Medal the Savvy for his contributions
as a civil servant to the public. Farm and food
security as national security, a phrase several of the agg
and consumer sectors agree upon, and it is this thought
that recently led Agriculture Secretary of Brick Rawlins and various
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federal government agencies and state governments to join forces in
this effort.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The USDA's National Farm Security Action Plan.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yet, what are some of the wise behind this action plan?
In recent years, one may note an increase in potential
threats of different guides to that cure food supply. There
is the purchase of agricultural land in our nation by
not just foreign entities, but in cases foreign adversaries to
our country. And what has the FETCH Secretary Pete Hegseth
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double concerned is the number of foreign owned ag properties
their military installations in the cottonental US.
Speaker 27 (22:20):
As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I
want to know who owns the land around our basis
and strategic bases and getting an understanding of why foreign entities,
foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying upland around those bases.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It isn't just farm land owned and operated by foreign adversaries,
but recent acquisitions of American food processing and input companies
that are part of our nation supply chain. Other farm
and food security threats on the radar of Attorney General
Pam Bondi and others include potential bioterrorism on the farm level.
Recent examples of such threats include.
Speaker 28 (22:56):
Last month in Michigan, we charged two Chinese nationals for
attempting to smuggle potential agro terrorism weapons into the United States.
Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending
packages of concealed biological materials into the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Cybersecurity threats to agribusinesses in recent years. Computer systems hacked
with intent to extort or cripple companies and individuals are
also noted. Then there is theft. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes as specifically.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
For decades, evil foreign governments have come into this country
and they have stolen our intellectual property, stolen our.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Genetics, whether patented seed technology or livestock animal genetics. The
seven component National Farm Safety Action Plan not only focuses
on national security from a food and farm perspective, but
also from an economic security one as well as various
agro terror theft and fraudulent activity leads to potential losses
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of crops, innovation, and revenue for our country and its
farm and food.
Speaker 29 (24:01):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's ship Well. Congress's One Big Beautiful Bill
budget package included approximately sixty six billion dollars in investment
and key farm programs. There is still work to be done.
Brian Glenn, director of government Affairs with the American Farm
Bureau Federation, set a key focus was on improving risk
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management programs.
Speaker 30 (24:25):
About sixty billion. Of that investment was put towards modernizing
farm safety net programs. These modernizations include extending key commodity
support programs through the twenty thirty one crop year. The
bill also raises statutory reference prices for major covered commodities.
It expanded premium support for beginning farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 29 (24:47):
Despite those wins, Glenn said there are still several critical
farm programs that need updating through a new farm bill.
Speaker 30 (24:54):
Some of those programs include reauthorization and funding for the
Conservation Reserve Program, support for broadband programs in the Rural
Development Title, and support for additional research and extension programs.
Speaker 29 (25:06):
According to Glenn, Chairman GT. Thompson of the House Agriculture
Committee is drafting a farm bill that addresses those remaining
Farm Bill programs. He says they are doing this as
we speak, and that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees
are currently conducting hearings on importance policy priorities and they're
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When here was some farm us this morning, friends, Interesting
story out of the Midwest. Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a
law banning lab grown meat from within the state's borders.
Midwest reporter susan littlefield.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
With us now This new law bans the manufacture, distribution,
and sale of lab grown are cultivated meat within the
state of Nebraska. Passage of the measure during the most
recent legislative session builds on the Governor's executive order from
last year, which prohibits agencies from purchasing lab grown meat
and require state contractors to certify that they will not
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discriminate against natural meat producers in favor of lab or
cultivated meat producers. As Nebraska Governor Jim pill and share
at Nebraska is a leading beef producing state.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
No, We've been really really proud of our team and
the hard work and being able to get thirty three
legislators that saw it the same way. In our business,
we've been fighting the far crazy left petas, the humane
societies trying to do nothing but destroy production, agriculture, destroy
livestock production. The folks that are behind fake meat are
(27:32):
the same thing. I call it bio reactor meat. It's
really important that we call them out for what they are.
The fake meat builds gigantic It protects Nebraska cavliman, it
protects Nebraska livestock producers, it protects Nebraska agriculture. There's not
going to be any bio reactor fake meat made in Nebraska.
(27:53):
It's not going to be found in grocery stores. But
you still have your rights. If you want to eat
that stuff, you can get a drop shipped on your doorsteps.
You have the right and privilege to do that if
that's important to your cherry.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Vinton is the director of Agriculture for the State of Nebraska.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Why would we want to do something that's unproven, has
no track record of safety, and we're not sure how
this is all going to play out with the pathogens
and the consumer safety angle here. So we have the best,
most complete tasting protein in the world that we produce
here in Nebraska, and we're going to continue that. It's
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all about protecting our consumer season.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
The director went on to say that the new law
also is a protection for the consumers, as long term
health effects of eating fake meat are currently unknown. The
new law goes into effect September third. I'm Susan Littlefield
reporting well Friends.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Canada is diversifying its customer base in multiple industries to
decrease its reliance on the US as a top customer.
Dennis Guy as our story.
Speaker 24 (28:59):
Mark Ernie, has announced that Canada has implemented plans to
restrict imports so foreign steel to help Canada's manufacturers hit
by tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Nearly ninety percent
of all Canadian steel is exported to the US. Prime
Minister Carney has pledged to diversify Canada's trade partnerships away
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from the US.
Speaker 31 (29:22):
The trade actions of the United States are transforming global
dynamics and supply chains. We've become too dependent on the
United States as our biggest customer. We must diversify our
trade relationships and above all, we must rely more on
Canadian steel for Canadian projects. We have the potential to
become our own best customer during this time of change.
Speaker 24 (29:44):
Canada's open market policy has suffered from cheap foreign steel
product dumping, largely from Chinese sources. But Carney's announcement was
primarily made in response to the twenty five percent then
doubled to fifty percent foreign tariffs imposed by President Trump.
Mark Carney has also warned of the possibility that American
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tariffs might remain in place as an ongoing Trump policy,
even with an updated USMCA trade packed in place. Steel
and aluminum sectors are not alone in taking a hit
from US tariff policies. Trump's imposition of a fifty percent
tariff on all copper imports has increased copper market prices
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substantially since that announcement. Trump said that metal import tariffs
are for national security reasons. While steel is the number
one medal needed by the US Department of Defense, copper
is the number two component. But copper is classed as
a critical mineral and vitally important to every modern industrialized economy.
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Last year, the US imported more than fifty percent of
its copper needs from Canada. Ian Lee at the Sprout
School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa said that
while the US can increase its steel production, copper production
increases will be far more difficult due to more limited
US availability and the complexities of developing copper minds. Professor
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Lee said that with copper being such a vital component,
Canada and other copper exporters will find other markets, but
with a fifty percent tariff on foreign metals and lie
says that Trump's tariff policies will only hurt American competitiveness,
and this is certainly true for its copper needs.
Speaker 32 (31:31):
Demand for copper is only going to increase, there's going
to be shortages. There is no good substitute for copper
in these critical industries. Anything that's electronic today, it's absolutely essential,
and there's very few substitutes. It's really inexplicable what mister
Trump is doing. He's going to hurt the United States
much more than anybody else.
Speaker 24 (31:50):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy far YEWS this morning.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 17 (31:57):
From the AGG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, which in past years have destroyed
tens of millions of dollars of northern California crops, are
back this year, but farmers say in smaller numbers. Plumous
County rancher Suzi Pierce says during the past several years,
grasshopper populations were so thick that the cows had their
eyes closed walking across the meadows. The infestation forced her
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to spend upwards of twenty thousand dollars in pest control
from twenty twenty one to twenty three. Farmers National Companies says,
despite ongoing challenges in commodity markets and uncertain farm profits,
agricultural land values remain surprisingly stable through midyear. While producers
remain the main buyers, interests from individual and institutional investors
can't be ignored. As land values stable, eyes investors are
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increasingly attracted by both annual returns and long term appreciation.
Inventory remains limited, with listings down twenty to twenty five
percent from the peak in twenty twenty and twenty one,
The American Bankers Association released its annual Farm Bank Performance Report,
highlighting the critical role form banks played in supporting agriculture.
Despite continued challenges from global uncertainty and lingering supply chain disruptions,
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for banks posted solid financial performance, improved asset quality, and
increased lending to America's farmers and ranchers. The US banking
industry remains the single largest provider of agg credit, holding
two hundred and five billion dollars in farm loans through
twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1 (34:17):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update. Bob went back
to wrap up ag live Ford today. Friends across the
corn and soybean belt growers are keeping an eye on
weather reports, disease monitors, and insect outbreaks. Chad Smith wraps
us up today has both.
Speaker 18 (34:33):
The weather and potential pressures. Seed Up. Jesse Groats and
Agronomy Service representative with Syngenta shares what to watch for
and how to preserve maximum potential yield. Changing weather conditions
can mean different diseases to watch out for.
Speaker 33 (34:49):
As we started off, we had cool and which really
would favor us for Tarsquad.
Speaker 14 (34:53):
More recently, there's still a lot of moisture. Ground temperatures
are moderated a little bit, so definitely have be.
Speaker 33 (34:58):
On the lookout for greatly spotting core and also a
northern corn leaf blight, and the fields I've scouted, I've
found all three of those, So I think this environment
can still change and there's going.
Speaker 14 (35:08):
To be a lot of pressure out there.
Speaker 33 (35:09):
And now as LEASA rhyme bass, the corn is starting
to get to that VTR one and it's time to
be applying a good funguside like Miravous Neo three modes
of action both preventative and curative, and right now is
the prime time to get that on.
Speaker 18 (35:21):
There are past challenges to deal with this season.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Two, as far.
Speaker 33 (35:25):
As insects go, a lot of Japanese beetles have been
popping up.
Speaker 14 (35:28):
They've been found both.
Speaker 33 (35:29):
In corn and soybeans, and it's also time to begin
scouting the soybeans for soybean A fits two.
Speaker 14 (35:35):
In Iowa here we had a really big run of
soybean a fits late in the year.
Speaker 33 (35:38):
When you think about the pressure of the insects, a
lot of thresholds are based on a single pest, but
oftentimes there's more than one out there, and maybe each
one individually doesn't reach a threshold, but the combination of
all of them can certainly reach to a damaging level
in a hurry, so in soybeans, as the fungicide's going
out in the soybeans when it had Indigo zcx insect
aside to that, two very solid modes of act, one
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to provide a knockdown and then one to provide a
long lasting residual. If you do treat your corn with
insect side, then we want to use a Warrior two.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Product on that growth.
Speaker 18 (36:08):
Talks about his recommendations for protecting against tar spot.
Speaker 33 (36:13):
For disease mirvous neo or tribal profungicide is going to
be our recommendation. The timing wise, we want that out
there vt R one stage for corn and then the
R three stage for soybeams. And we've got three modes
of action in both of those products, and they both
contain a very potent carboximide SDCHI, which really carries that
residual through the season and then also provides a lot
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of health benefits to to mitigate say the moisture were
to turn off and we got hot and dry, we
can help mitigate.
Speaker 14 (36:38):
That stress too. Very effective on tar spot.
Speaker 18 (36:41):
And what about pest protection as far.
Speaker 33 (36:43):
As insecticide, again, for aphids or Japanese beetles are a
broad spectrum of insects, and soybeams want to use Indigo
zcx to get that powerful knockdown two modes of action
and then also.
Speaker 14 (36:53):
Have that residual control out there as well.
Speaker 33 (36:55):
Both Indigo ZCX and sex side and Warrior insecticide, they're
both fully compatible funguside, so when fungicide's going out, and
then soybeans definitely want to advise a tank mixiv in
too zcx with that too to get that insect control
and then any control we needing corn insect wise, Warrior
two is a good option to take mix with funguside
there as well.
Speaker 18 (37:13):
Again, that's Jesse Groat with Syngenta. Indigo z c x
and Warrior two with Xeon technology are restricted use pesticides.
Chad Smith reporting.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
With that friends a lot of time for today, thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
Bad Life.
Good morning, Valley.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is aglif My name is Bob Gwinn, with you
for the next hour talking about agricultural production here in
the valley in all across the country. We start off
with looking at dry weather all across the country with
Rod Bay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Most regions of the country report improvements in drought coverage
started July. How does that apply to crops and commodities?
Usdab roologist Brad Rippey starts with a regional look of
drought coverage.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
When you start talking about a lot of our major
crop areas across the Midwest and even the plains, and
certainly moving into the South and east, there is not
much drought to talk about right now.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
So for corn and soybeads in drought for the period
ending July first corn.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Production area in drought and number was twenty one percent
on June third, not too bad, but it's gotten better
since and only twelve percent of the US corn production
area in drought. Even better, for soybeans, we saw a
halving of drought coverage, going from sixteen percent in early
June to eight percent.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Shrinking drought coverage was more notable for southern suburbs crops.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
We look at our major southern crops of cotton and
peanut and rice, and we see drought coverage as we
begin July.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Negligible, especially unusually for cotton.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Three percent of the cotton area. That's highly unusual, since
cotton stands fifteen southern states from California to the southern
Atlantic coast, so to see very little drought in any
of those southern states highly unusual.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
However, drought expansion in the northern plains and Pacific Northwest
is recorded for crops such as barley and spring wheat.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
The US and barley crop over half fifty six percent
in drought on July first, That is more than double
the June third number of twenty four percent. And also
on July first, spring wheat area in drought twenty nine percent,
up from nineteen percent on June third.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And as for winter wheeks, it's really.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That Northwestern drought that has pushed winter wheat drought coverage
twenty four percent of the production area by July first.
That's twice what we saw in early June. And again
that's really coming on strong in some of our northwestern
states very late in the growing season.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Broad Bane reporting for where the US Department of agriculture.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Farm us ahead, this is aglife, Bob Quhen. Here was
some farm us this morning. Friends. Interesting story out of
the Midwest. Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a law banning lab
grown meat from within the state's borders. Midwest reporter susan
littlefield with us.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Now.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
This new law bans the manufacturer, distribution, and sale of
lab grown or cultivated meat within the state of Nebraska.
Passage of the measure during the most recent legislative session
builds on the Governor's executive order from last year, which
prohibits agencies from purchasing lab grown meat and require state
contractors to certify that they will not discriminate against natural
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meat producers in favor of lab or cultivated meat producers.
As Nebraska Governor Jim Pillon shared, Nebraska is a leading
beef producing state, and we've.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Been really really proud of our team and hard work
and being able to get thirty three to legislators that
saw it the same way our business. We've been fighting
the far crazy left, petas, the humane societies trying to
do nothing but destroy production agriculture, destroy live livestock production.
The folks that are behind fake meat are the same thing.
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I call it bira reactor meat. It's really important that
we call them out for what they are. The fake
meat builds gigantic It protects Nebraska cattlemen, it protects Nebraska
livestock producers, it protects Nebraska agriculture. There's not going to
be any bio react or fake meat made in Nebraska.
It's not going to be found in grocery stores. But
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you still have your rights. If you want to eat
that stuff, you can get a drop shipped down your doorsteps.
You have the right and privilege to do that if
that's important to you.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Jerry Vinnen is the Director of Agriculture for the State
of Nebraska.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Why would we want to do something that's unproven, has
no track of safety, and we're not sure how this
is all going to play out with the pathogens and
the consumer safety angle here. So we have the best,
most complete tasting protein in the world that we produced
here in Nebraska, and we're going to continue that. It's
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all about protecting our consumer season.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The director went on to say that the new law
also is a protection for the consumers, as long term
health effects of eating fake meat are currently unknown. The
new law goes into effect September third. I'm Susan Littlefield
reporting rain.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is returning to South America, but will that slow down harvest?
Riley Smith has that story.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Rain is returning to the forecast in South America, which
is great for the drier parts of Brazil and Argentina.
Allen Dale commodity broker Greg McBrien said the forecast still
has plenty of clear skies for harvest progress to continue, though, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (04:56):
A lot of the same as what we've been talking about.
The main portion, the big portion of Brazil. On the
dryer side, we are starting to see some rain come
into southern Brazil and Argentina in the one to five
days forecast, and then when you move out to the
six to ten day forecast, those rains intensify a little bit,
which helps with some of those ryer areas. They are Obviously,
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once they get through with this corn harvest, they're going
to be then looking at wheat planting and conditions moving
forward into what would technically be their winter and then
into spring. So overall, it's still still clear skies for
harvest in over the next two weeks, so they should
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see continued continued progress here.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Even though Sabrina harvest progress in Brazil is behind the average,
farmers are still moving along at a good pace, so
there's no need for severe reactions yet.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Yeah, it's looking like it's we heard there was a
good portion of it to about forty percent to complete.
The number that we got as of last Friday is
showing twenty six percent, So that still puts them about
thirty behind the behind last year and thirty and about
to say seven percent behind the five year average. But
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a little bit of conflicting reports. Overall, there's there's still
not even halfway done. It is a big crop. We
know that it's going to take some additional time, but
for right now they are they are moving along.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Mc bride said. Corn harvest and Argentina is still moving
along as well.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Yeah, they're getting close to the five year average here
sitting in right now, they're at seventy six percent. Five
year puts them at seventy eight. Last year they were
a little bit further ahead at eighty one. But overall
still some of them right along. They're not too far
behind with where they were where they were at last
year or in the five year average. A good five
to six percent gained just a week over a week
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as far as harvest progress.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
That again was Greg McBride, director of brokerage at Allendale.
I'm Riley Smith reporting.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Farm news this morning. You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
It's another agnews update. A couple of things could move
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Speaker 15 (07:48):
We've got two massive events happening and they will both
be coming to a head on Wednesday, July ninth. The
first one is the release of the FOMC minutes from
the last rating meeting. Markets will look for any insight
it all into the thinking at the FMC in terms
of the deflationary price trends that are currently in place
and the slowing but still positive job creation. We saw
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the beat on Thursday morning with the headline jobs number
and the unemployment rate. The second one is the global
tariff deadline issued by President Trump when he paused his
massive reciprocal tariffs globally. Marcus will be focused on whether
President and Trump will in force so sweeping tariffs as promised,
potentially up to fifty percent on countries that haven't finalized
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trade deals by the July ninth deadline. This yes or
no proposition will impact global growth, inflation, and supply chains,
and has the potential to add quite a bit of
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This cattle market has been outstanding. I mean, how can
you love it if you've got cattle out there and
you're looking at you know, pick a cash price two
thirty five to forty uh, you've got the box beef
of another two bucks here to day we eighty eight
sixty nine. That's an all time historic high. You know,
we just don't have the numbers out there. We'll see
(10:27):
what the cattle on feet on Friday says. But you know,
until something fundamentally changes where we see more cattle coming in,
or that the American housewife starts to back off of
buying hamburger and steaks out here. You know, in the past,
when we've had you know, record high box feed prices,
it wasn't unusual see that market break, you know, five
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ten dollars overnight. You know, could we see a ten
or twenty dollars drop from these kinds of highs. It's possible.
Until we see that, it's hard to get, you know,
really two on this cattle mark. But as a risk manager,
let me tell you, guys, if you're not looking at
doing some kind of risk management to protect these historic
ye prices, I believe you're missing the boat. You can
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either sell futures and buy a call option to protect
it in case we go higher. You can buy a
foot option, spend four dollars on the fats, spend five
dollars on the feeders, and get some protection out here.
Because as we all know, we've been a long as
long around as long as I have, something always seems
to shake this cattle market one thing or another, one
room or another, and you just can't leave these prices
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on the table if you've got cattle out there, and
that obviously has pushed the POG prices up to stay
competitive with these prices.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 21 (11:55):
Welcome to Producer Tuesday. Brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. Michael Gofman, who runs Igniting Performance, shared his
thoughts on the subject of dealing with difficult workers on
the farm in a recent PDP dairy signal. Here are
some of his comments.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
There's a few phrases with dealing with difficult people, and
one of them is, I know you would want to
hear this. If you're a manager, you're going to say
it all the time. I know you would want to
hear this. It allows me to bring up anything, even
difficult things. When it comes to dealing with difficult people.
I'm assuming that you have a position of authority, and
(12:32):
I don't mean a hammer authority. I mean somebody that
has your back to me. That's what a good leader does.
A good leader cannot do your job. A good leader ignites,
equips and encourages you to do your job, which means
I must be seen as your greatest resource. Everybody's doing
their job except for the person that is kind of
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running the management of all of that. That's my job.
It's to make sure that you are equipped, that you
are ignited in that that you know that you're doing
things well, which means I need to be your greatest resource.
And part of being your greatest resources. I promise you
I will tell you when you're on and I will
tell you when you're off. There is a format in conversations,
(13:14):
any type of conversation, when we're having different When we're
having conversations, there are two needs in every interaction. There's
the personal needs and the practical needs. The personal needs
are what can I do as a human dealing with
a human and it's things like self esteem, listening, empathy, involvement.
But then there's the conversation itself. It's the practical needs
of the conversation. And there is a path. If I'm
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going to have a conversation, I need to think this
through a little bit and be prepared with it because
it could derail real fast. And the steps aren't start
the conversation, assess the wants and needs, lead the discussion,
eliminate the fog, and summarize the clothes, and before we leave,
we're going to make sure everybody's on the same page
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for what we've created, and then.
Speaker 14 (14:00):
We're going to end on a high note.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That's the process of any conversation, especially difficult ones. Start
the conversation off right, get all the issues first, before
we come up with a solution, make sure we're on
the same page. End on a high note. Two words
purpose and importance. So when you start a conversation, start
it off with listen. We need to have a conversation.
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This is what's going on, and this is the impact
it's having. And there's two.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Ways to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
First of all, rip the band aid off, get it
on the table. Here's the purpose and here's the importance
of why we need to discuss.
Speaker 21 (14:36):
Comments from Michael Hoffman, who runs Igniting Performance, who recently
shared his thoughts on a recent PDPW Dairy signal about
dealing with difficult people, particularly those that work for you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I will tell you this, the wrong person in the
wrong bus without with the wrong type of coaching will
never be successful. And trust me, if it's painful for you,
it's painful for them. So if you're not going to
raise me and grow me who own this position, then
I'm going to lean more towards it's your fault in mind.
Let's set expectations, guys. What are the rules? What are
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we looking for? This is what we need and if
it's an individual, it's going over the standards that are expected.
If you have no foundation for what's expected from these people,
then we're all living in fog. So we build our teams.
We're not the victims of our team. So I'll give
you a little bit of slack for a while, but
then start having conversations to get everybody back on track.
(15:29):
I really want to emphasize that it's what you say
and it's what you do. Your team is not a mistake.
And by adding the skill sets of having good conversations
when you go out of your way to say I
need to hold you accountable for this, or I need
to bring this up, this is so off the mark,
or we can't have it this way anymore. I want
to talk to you about it. I want us to
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talk about it. What you're doing is you're building strength
in our relationship because I know you have me in
a strength and a team that means that we can
accomplish and we can work through anything. I'm not afraid
of the hard things because you handle it so well.
I love working here because of that, because i know
I've got a person who's got my back. So continue
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to keep our country moving, dairy people, and build strong
teams and strong families, and I'm in your back pocket
for anything and everything you need.
Speaker 21 (16:20):
And that's Michael Hoffman, who runs Igniting Performance. His comments
from a recent PDP Dairy signal that you can hear
in its entirety at pdpw dot org. Our thanks to
the Professional Dairy Producers for today's sponsorship of Producer Tuesday.
I'm Bill Baker Dairy Radio.
Speaker 22 (16:36):
Now, so.
Speaker 23 (16:40):
Far, things are looking great up in Tahema County, Northern
California and almonds and walnuts. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Tree Nut Report, part of the VASTAC Information Network.
Jamie Ott is a UC Cooperative Extension Orchard System Advisor
for Tahama, Shasta, Glenn, and Butke Counties. He's reporting in, Yeah.
Speaker 22 (17:01):
So far, it's been a pretty mild year, good weather,
so if everything's pretty happy, we do likely have some
hot weather to look forward to coming up this month
or July, so we'll see how that treats us. In
terms of the crops. I mean, the almonds generally look
pretty good up here, and I would say the walnuts
it kind of depends who you are and where you are,
but it's always hard to tell when the nuts around
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the tree. It's not till the nuts get on the
ground and in the holler that we really know what
we're dealing with.
Speaker 23 (17:28):
We asked her about mating disruption on naval range worm,
which is the number one past in almonds. Mating disruption
is widely used in the southern San Joaquin Valley. We're
asking her about Northern California's.
Speaker 24 (17:39):
You so of it.
Speaker 22 (17:40):
I know some orchards that use it. It's certainly not
universal up here, but I definitely know some orchards, especially
larger operations, that find that it's worthwhile and that they
have enough acreage that they can deploy it effectively.
Speaker 23 (17:51):
Maybe disruption is when they wash the orchard with a
pheromone that confusedes the naval range worm male where he
can't find the female and therefore not made and create
much less populations to deal with.
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Speaker 19 (18:33):
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providing news and information for the most important industry in
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Speaker 23 (19:02):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
A connection between irrigation surface water and potential bycrobial contabinets
that could create a food born illness. Cases of such
bacteria are leafy vegetables. Almost fifty years ago found irrigation
water providing pathways for microbes. But as USDA researcher Yakov
Pachetski recalls Congressional at federal establishment of standards for microbes
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from a food safety perspective led to questions such as how.
Speaker 26 (19:33):
Representative is the small sample that we can take for
the big source of water like edigation Pone fudditional lake,
and these questions were most critical.
Speaker 14 (19:42):
For surface water.
Speaker 26 (19:43):
Surface water is more susceptible to microdopollution. If there are
any technologists a potential help answer these question.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The tech question stemming from desires for both data at
cost efficiencies, so Pachetski a colleagues at the USDA Agricultural
re Search Station at Beltsville, Maryland, began studies incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 26 (20:06):
Remote sensing in proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Sensors admitting light waves both in water sources and through
aerial drones collect data. Artificial intelligence crunching this data creates
maps to break down contabinets at microbial levels. Potchevski says,
while technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, the
human element at the farm level continues to be an
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essential factor.
Speaker 26 (20:34):
We work with real forms because the ir irrigation happens
on the real farms. Farmers in Georgia and farmers of
Maryland were most supportive for us, and we are really
thankful to these people who allowed us to do the
measurements and to discuss things with them.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
The result of incorporating innovations of microbial detection and surface
irrigation water more effective, cost efficient, and quicker methods of
detection of potentialabinets, and Potchevski says, these technologies are approaching
broader use and application.
Speaker 26 (21:06):
All the components that we are looking now are commercially available,
so it's just a matter of companies or consultants or
groups of enthusius just taking this thing, combining them together
and beginning to use.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Recently, Potchevski was honored for his work, receiving the Samuel J.
Hayman's Service to America Medal the Savvy for his contributions
as a civil servant to the public. Farm and food
security as national security, a phrase several of the agg
and consumer sectors agree upon, and it is this thought
that recently led Agriculture Secretary of Brick Rawlins and various
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federal government agencies and state governments to join forces in
this effort.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The USDA's National Farm Security Action Plan.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yet, what are some of the wise behind this action plan?
In recent years, one may note an increase in potential
threats of different guides to that cure food supply. There
is the purchase of agricultural land in our nation by
not just foreign entities, but in cases foreign adversaries to
our country. And what has the FETCH Secretary Pete Hegseth
(22:13):
double concerned is the number of foreign owned ag properties
their military installations in the cottonental US.
Speaker 27 (22:20):
As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I
want to know who owns the land around our basis
and strategic bases and getting an understanding of why foreign entities,
foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying upland around those bases.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It isn't just farm land owned and operated by foreign adversaries,
but recent acquisitions of American food processing and input companies
that are part of our nation supply chain. Other farm
and food security threats on the radar of Attorney General
Pam Bondi and others include potential bioterrorism on the farm level.
Recent examples of such threats include.
Speaker 28 (22:56):
Last month in Michigan, we charged two Chinese nationals for
attempting to smuggle potential agro terrorism weapons into the United States.
Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending
packages of concealed biological materials into the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Cybersecurity threats to agribusinesses in recent years. Computer systems hacked
with intent to extort or cripple companies and individuals are
also noted. Then there is theft. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes as specifically.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
For decades, evil foreign governments have come into this country
and they have stolen our intellectual property, stolen our.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Genetics, whether patented seed technology or livestock animal genetics. The
seven component National Farm Safety Action Plan not only focuses
on national security from a food and farm perspective, but
also from an economic security one as well as various
agro terror theft and fraudulent activity leads to potential losses
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of crops, innovation, and revenue for our country and its
farm and food.
Speaker 29 (24:01):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's ship Well. Congress's One Big Beautiful Bill
budget package included approximately sixty six billion dollars in investment
and key farm programs. There is still work to be done.
Brian Glenn, director of government Affairs with the American Farm
Bureau Federation, set a key focus was on improving risk
(24:24):
management programs.
Speaker 30 (24:25):
About sixty billion. Of that investment was put towards modernizing
farm safety net programs. These modernizations include extending key commodity
support programs through the twenty thirty one crop year. The
bill also raises statutory reference prices for major covered commodities.
It expanded premium support for beginning farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 29 (24:47):
Despite those wins, Glenn said there are still several critical
farm programs that need updating through a new farm bill.
Speaker 30 (24:54):
Some of those programs include reauthorization and funding for the
Conservation Reserve Program, support for broadband programs in the Rural
Development Title, and support for additional research and extension programs.
Speaker 29 (25:06):
According to Glenn, Chairman GT. Thompson of the House Agriculture
Committee is drafting a farm bill that addresses those remaining
Farm Bill programs. He says they are doing this as
we speak, and that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees
are currently conducting hearings on importance policy priorities and they're
looking to move the bill this fall. Attention all growers.
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Speaker 2 (26:26):
When here was some farm us this morning, friends, Interesting
story out of the Midwest. Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a
law banning lab grown meat from within the state's borders.
Midwest reporter susan littlefield.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
With us now This new law bans the manufacture, distribution,
and sale of lab grown are cultivated meat within the
state of Nebraska. Passage of the measure during the most
recent legislative session builds on the Governor's executive order from
last year, which prohibits agencies from purchasing lab grown meat
and require state contractors to certify that they will not
(27:00):
discriminate against natural meat producers in favor of lab or
cultivated meat producers. As Nebraska Governor Jim pill and share
at Nebraska is a leading beef producing state.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
No, We've been really really proud of our team and
the hard work and being able to get thirty three
legislators that saw it the same way. In our business,
we've been fighting the far crazy left petas, the humane
societies trying to do nothing but destroy production, agriculture, destroy
livestock production. The folks that are behind fake meat are
(27:32):
the same thing. I call it bio reactor meat. It's
really important that we call them out for what they are.
The fake meat builds gigantic It protects Nebraska cavliman, it
protects Nebraska livestock producers, it protects Nebraska agriculture. There's not
going to be any bio reactor fake meat made in Nebraska.
(27:53):
It's not going to be found in grocery stores. But
you still have your rights. If you want to eat
that stuff, you can get a drop shipped on your doorsteps.
You have the right and privilege to do that if
that's important to your cherry.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Vinton is the director of Agriculture for the State of Nebraska.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Why would we want to do something that's unproven, has
no track record of safety, and we're not sure how
this is all going to play out with the pathogens
and the consumer safety angle here. So we have the best,
most complete tasting protein in the world that we produce
here in Nebraska, and we're going to continue that. It's
(28:34):
all about protecting our consumer season.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
The director went on to say that the new law
also is a protection for the consumers, as long term
health effects of eating fake meat are currently unknown. The
new law goes into effect September third. I'm Susan Littlefield
reporting well Friends.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Canada is diversifying its customer base in multiple industries to
decrease its reliance on the US as a top customer.
Dennis Guy as our story.
Speaker 24 (28:59):
Mark Ernie, has announced that Canada has implemented plans to
restrict imports so foreign steel to help Canada's manufacturers hit
by tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Nearly ninety percent
of all Canadian steel is exported to the US. Prime
Minister Carney has pledged to diversify Canada's trade partnerships away
(29:21):
from the US.
Speaker 31 (29:22):
The trade actions of the United States are transforming global
dynamics and supply chains. We've become too dependent on the
United States as our biggest customer. We must diversify our
trade relationships and above all, we must rely more on
Canadian steel for Canadian projects. We have the potential to
become our own best customer during this time of change.
Speaker 24 (29:44):
Canada's open market policy has suffered from cheap foreign steel
product dumping, largely from Chinese sources. But Carney's announcement was
primarily made in response to the twenty five percent then
doubled to fifty percent foreign tariffs imposed by President Trump.
Mark Carney has also warned of the possibility that American
(30:06):
tariffs might remain in place as an ongoing Trump policy,
even with an updated USMCA trade packed in place. Steel
and aluminum sectors are not alone in taking a hit
from US tariff policies. Trump's imposition of a fifty percent
tariff on all copper imports has increased copper market prices
(30:27):
substantially since that announcement. Trump said that metal import tariffs
are for national security reasons. While steel is the number
one medal needed by the US Department of Defense, copper
is the number two component. But copper is classed as
a critical mineral and vitally important to every modern industrialized economy.
(30:48):
Last year, the US imported more than fifty percent of
its copper needs from Canada. Ian Lee at the Sprout
School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa said that
while the US can increase its steel production, copper production
increases will be far more difficult due to more limited
US availability and the complexities of developing copper minds. Professor
(31:13):
Lee said that with copper being such a vital component,
Canada and other copper exporters will find other markets, but
with a fifty percent tariff on foreign metals and lie
says that Trump's tariff policies will only hurt American competitiveness,
and this is certainly true for its copper needs.
Speaker 32 (31:31):
Demand for copper is only going to increase, there's going
to be shortages. There is no good substitute for copper
in these critical industries. Anything that's electronic today, it's absolutely essential,
and there's very few substitutes. It's really inexplicable what mister
Trump is doing. He's going to hurt the United States
much more than anybody else.
Speaker 24 (31:50):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy far YEWS this morning.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 17 (31:57):
From the AGG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, which in past years have destroyed
tens of millions of dollars of northern California crops, are
back this year, but farmers say in smaller numbers. Plumous
County rancher Suzi Pierce says during the past several years,
grasshopper populations were so thick that the cows had their
eyes closed walking across the meadows. The infestation forced her
(32:19):
to spend upwards of twenty thousand dollars in pest control
from twenty twenty one to twenty three. Farmers National Companies says,
despite ongoing challenges in commodity markets and uncertain farm profits,
agricultural land values remain surprisingly stable through midyear. While producers
remain the main buyers, interests from individual and institutional investors
can't be ignored. As land values stable, eyes investors are
(32:41):
increasingly attracted by both annual returns and long term appreciation.
Inventory remains limited, with listings down twenty to twenty five
percent from the peak in twenty twenty and twenty one,
The American Bankers Association released its annual Farm Bank Performance Report,
highlighting the critical role form banks played in supporting agriculture.
Despite continued challenges from global uncertainty and lingering supply chain disruptions,
(33:04):
for banks posted solid financial performance, improved asset quality, and
increased lending to America's farmers and ranchers. The US banking
industry remains the single largest provider of agg credit, holding
two hundred and five billion dollars in farm loans through
twenty twenty four.
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(33:39):
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Speaker 1 (34:17):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update. Bob went back
to wrap up ag live Ford today. Friends across the
corn and soybean belt growers are keeping an eye on
weather reports, disease monitors, and insect outbreaks. Chad Smith wraps
us up today has both.
Speaker 18 (34:33):
The weather and potential pressures. Seed Up. Jesse Groats and
Agronomy Service representative with Syngenta shares what to watch for
and how to preserve maximum potential yield. Changing weather conditions
can mean different diseases to watch out for.
Speaker 33 (34:49):
As we started off, we had cool and which really
would favor us for Tarsquad.
Speaker 14 (34:53):
More recently, there's still a lot of moisture. Ground temperatures
are moderated a little bit, so definitely have be.
Speaker 33 (34:58):
On the lookout for greatly spotting core and also a
northern corn leaf blight, and the fields I've scouted, I've
found all three of those, So I think this environment
can still change and there's going.
Speaker 14 (35:08):
To be a lot of pressure out there.
Speaker 33 (35:09):
And now as LEASA rhyme bass, the corn is starting
to get to that VTR one and it's time to
be applying a good funguside like Miravous Neo three modes
of action both preventative and curative, and right now is
the prime time to get that on.
Speaker 18 (35:21):
There are past challenges to deal with this season.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Two, as far.
Speaker 33 (35:25):
As insects go, a lot of Japanese beetles have been
popping up.
Speaker 14 (35:28):
They've been found both.
Speaker 33 (35:29):
In corn and soybeans, and it's also time to begin
scouting the soybeans for soybean A fits two.
Speaker 14 (35:35):
In Iowa here we had a really big run of
soybean a fits late in the year.
Speaker 33 (35:38):
When you think about the pressure of the insects, a
lot of thresholds are based on a single pest, but
oftentimes there's more than one out there, and maybe each
one individually doesn't reach a threshold, but the combination of
all of them can certainly reach to a damaging level
in a hurry, so in soybeans, as the fungicide's going
out in the soybeans when it had Indigo zcx insect
aside to that, two very solid modes of act, one
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to provide a knockdown and then one to provide a
long lasting residual. If you do treat your corn with
insect side, then we want to use a Warrior two.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Product on that growth.
Speaker 18 (36:08):
Talks about his recommendations for protecting against tar spot.
Speaker 33 (36:13):
For disease mirvous neo or tribal profungicide is going to
be our recommendation. The timing wise, we want that out
there vt R one stage for corn and then the
R three stage for soybeams. And we've got three modes
of action in both of those products, and they both
contain a very potent carboximide SDCHI, which really carries that
residual through the season and then also provides a lot
(36:33):
of health benefits to to mitigate say the moisture were
to turn off and we got hot and dry, we
can help mitigate.
Speaker 14 (36:38):
That stress too. Very effective on tar spot.
Speaker 18 (36:41):
And what about pest protection as far.
Speaker 33 (36:43):
As insecticide, again, for aphids or Japanese beetles are a
broad spectrum of insects, and soybeams want to use Indigo
zcx to get that powerful knockdown two modes of action
and then also.
Speaker 14 (36:53):
Have that residual control out there as well.
Speaker 33 (36:55):
Both Indigo ZCX and sex side and Warrior insecticide, they're
both fully compatible funguside, so when fungicide's going out, and
then soybeans definitely want to advise a tank mixiv in
too zcx with that too to get that insect control
and then any control we needing corn insect wise, Warrior
two is a good option to take mix with funguside
there as well.
Speaker 18 (37:13):
Again, that's Jesse Groat with Syngenta. Indigo z c x
and Warrior two with Xeon technology are restricted use pesticides.
Chad Smith reporting.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
With that friends a lot of time for today, thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
Bad Life.
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