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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. We're talking about agricultural
production here in the valley, in all across the country.
We start off with a look back this morning. Combination
of weather factors culminated in some sudden, heavy rains and
a deadly flooding event in Texas. Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The weather anata bee of a deadly storm system wood
leading to hundreds of fatalities in south central Texas during
the Independence Day period. USDA berologist Brad Rippey says it
was not just one factor, but a combination of several
behind the sudden rain, deluge and flash flooding.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
First, a lot of times with these flash floods, what
you see is some component of tropical moisture being injected
into a weather system. We saw a unique combination of
factors that included remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Berry. We
had had Hurricane Flossi in the Pacific a few days before,
and some of that tropical moisture had been drawn northward
by the North American monsoon circulation. So we effectively had
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this pool of tropical moisture both from the Atlantic and
Pacific basins parked over Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
To create the heavy precipitation behind the Texas Hill Country floods.
Rippy says, the pool of tropical boisture needed a climate
element to rig the raid out.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We had a disturbance, a little spin in the atmosphere
along with the remnants of old cold front that was
stalled just north of the region. That upper level disturbance
moving through created a slow moving thunderstorm complex on the third,
lingering into the overnight hours of the fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Perhaps unique about the flash flooding event is what it
resembled from a disaster perspective.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
A lot of times when you see events like this,
it involves a dam breaking or bursting, or some type
of damp failure. Unfortunately, in this event, it almost mimicked
what you would see in a dam failure. It just
unleashes it quickly within minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
With sub accounts noting that cascading wall of water rising
as much as two stories high during the flash flood event.
Brad Rippy says another weather factor that may have be
did to the nature of the flooding is drought.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
This particular area of Texas has been dealing with significant.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Drought for about three years.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So if you look at Kerr County, where most of
the flood fatalities occurred, that area has seen either D
three or D four in that county for more than
three years, with the exception of four weeks in the
fall of twenty twenty four, So you go all the
way back to March of twenty twenty two. Part of
Kerr County has been in either extreme or exceptional drought
ever since, and.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
In some cases a protracted drought.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That can change the character of the soils. Sometimes the
soils can be compacted and almost take on a concrete
like consistency, and so one of the things that may
have contributed to the really flashy and rapid runoff in
some of the canyons leading to the Guadalupe River is
that those hillsides were baked to a consistency of almost concrete.
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The soils become less receptive to water retention, and so
that may have contributed to increased runoff when that rain
came down so heavily.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Broad Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, friends, the state of Texas has a plan, and
we'll be introducing that to control the new world screwworm.
That's ahead on Aglife. Bob quit here with some farm
news this morning, friends, we start off with new news
on the new world screwworm problem. Working with USDA and
AG Secretary Brook Rollins, Texas is deploying a new version
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of an old solution to the new world screw worm problem,
swarm lure Dash five bait. Texas AGG Commissioner Sid Miller
says the screwworm was eradicated decades ago using a combination
of sterile flies, insecticide and an earlier version of swarm lure. Now,
the updated formula is stronger, smarter, and more precise.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Right now, the single method that everybody's focused on is
more flies. We need six hundred million flies a week.
Right now, we've got one hundred. We've got an old
plant in Mexico that we're going to retrofit. It produced
between fifty and a hundred million flies, so that'll get
us twenty percent of what we need. There's talk, there's
no action, but there's talk of a bill running through
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Congress to US to build a Texas fly facility that
will produce three to four hundred million flies. Well it's
just talk, so very best case scenario that's three years
down the road.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We can't wait three years.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He says. Field data shows that can reduce ninety percent
of fly populations in just weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
If we can lock that population down ninety percent, then
we can drop one hundred million flies in and it'll
clean up the problem. This was actually done in seventy
six and seventy seven when we had reassurgency. After we'd
eliminated brew on flying in nineteen sixty six, we had
a new outbreak and man, it shut it down quick,
but everybody forgot about it. So we've been working with
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the entomologists and some engineers on developing this new lure.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Really attracts screwworm flies.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It also attracts house flies and blowflies, but we'd just
kill all of them. A dozen harm honey bees or bumblebees,
or monarch butterflies or whooping crane, spotted owls or anything.
It just gills blowflies, which screwerm flies in that category.
So if we can get this bait out, we can
get this distributed probably within six months instead of wait
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three years. We could actually stop it in Mexico and
shove it back down into Central America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Texas will lead the rollout in coordination with USDA, Mexico
and other partners.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We have some traps with this new lure in it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We're dispersing those and testing those out, and then we're
working with the company. There's actually over fifty fly baits
restried for use in Texas, and so we're not going
to have any problem getting a company to make this
flybay bars. There's you know, it's a big business in Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Miller says. If we don't act, it could cost billions
in hit livestock, wildlife, and even pets and people long
term well friends. Farmers can expect some continuity and a
few key benefits when it comes to their federal income
taxes this year. One of the most notable updates is
that income tax brackets and standard deductions will stay largely
the same, thanks to a budget extension passed by Congress,
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and we hear more this morning from University of Wisconsin
Extension farm management specialist Kelly Wilford. The rates, originally adjusted
in twenty eighteen, were set to sunset in twenty six
Without the extension, taxpayers would have seen standard deductions drop
and tax brackets shift upwards. While that change impacts all taxpayers,
several provisions in the federal budget are relevant for farmers.
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Wilfort tells us.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
The bill brought back the deduction for qualified business income
that was set to phase out. They brought back the
special depreciation allowance for some qualified production property and the
full expensing of certain property. You might be thinking of
that as bonus depreciation, so bonus depreciation which allows our
farmers to expense certain purchases all in year one versus
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spreading it out. That has been getting phased out over
the last few years and was set to totally go away,
but again this bill brought that back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In addition, Congress extended the Clean Fuel Production Credit or
forty five Z tax credit through twenty thirty.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Those fuels under the new law have to be produced
from feedstocks or those commodities that are produced in the
United States, Canada, or Mexico, and so of course for
ethanol production, biofuel production, we're going to be looking at
hopefully some increased demand for our farmers who are growing
those commodities. Again, simply because we have these fuel producers
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being incentivized to also continue to produce based on the
extension of that credit again.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Kelly wilferd to University of Wisconsin extension with US Farmer
US This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
It's another agnews update. We've seen a weaker dollar this year.
Is that good or bad? More after this.
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Following the so called Liberation Day tariffs in early April,
we saw something the US economy had not seen in decades,
a flight not to the US dollar as a safe haven,
but away ferm it. And since President Trump's inauguration, the
US Dollar Index has fallen by nearly ten percent, marking
the worst first half performance for the dollar since nineteen
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eighty six. At the same time, Japan, America's largest sovereign creditor,
just saw the worst twenty year Japanese government bond auction
since the nineteen eighties, raising fears that it could reduce
its holdings of US treasuries. Given these developments, do you believe,
as I do, that the US may be transitioning from
a period of dollar dominance to a period of dollar decline.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
Well, let me say we FED does not have responsibility
for the dollar. That's really the treasury.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
But I'm asking for your analysis.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't make that statement. No, I think
it's things have been volatile. The markets are digesting things,
and I think, you know, the treasury market's been fine
by many measures, that the dollar is still.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
You feel the safe haven status of the dollars as
as strong as it's ever been.
Speaker 13 (09:21):
I think it's I think the dollar is still the
number one safe haven currency, and I don't think it's
you know, I would say these narratives of decline are
premature and a bit overdone.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 14 (09:34):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prouve.
Speaker 15 (09:37):
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American Cattle News, what's the importance of grazing on federal lands?
More after this.
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Caitlin Glovers with the Public Lands Council Livestock.
Speaker 16 (10:46):
Grazing controls those fine fuels that support in a backwards way.
They support ignission of these big fires and these fires
then get rolling. They have such momentum. That's why they
become so hot, so fast, being and so catastrophic. You know,
And for a long time, one of the things that grazers,
that ranchers have faced is this sort of you know,
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being a second tier tool, a second class tool. The
federal agencies have always preferred chaining or other mechanized efforts,
prescribed fire or even herbicides because it's more standardized. Right,
But this role of target grazing, this expansion of using
grazing animals to conduct find fuels management at scale, is
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gaining traction. We have more than a handful of bills
this Congress alone. We have very clear direction from the
Secretary of the Interior in a recent memorandum. We have
an executive order from President Trump identifying the need for
USDA and DI to work better together in not only
putting these fires out, but preventing the catastrophic conditions and
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from those fires becoming too big. And so, whether you're
talking about sage grouse, or you're talking about fire and
fuels management, or you're even just talkingalking about protecting watersheds,
right from a various number of factors, you're really seeing grazing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Having a moment. Right.
Speaker 16 (12:08):
It's not just goats in city parks, but it's cows
and sheep and technology and drones and satellites and all
of the big scientific and technology pieces coming together with
one of the most traditional, reliable, effective tools in grazing,
and it's.
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Exciting American Cattle News.
Speaker 11 (12:33):
This is Dairy Radio Now feed Form Friday.
Speaker 18 (12:36):
With doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 19 (12:40):
Hello, Mike, Welcome to today's speed Form and our topic is
looking at muscle change and dairy cows during the lactation
gestation cycle. This is reported recently at the Four State
Nutrition Conference for doctor Jackie Foreman from Purdue University, and
she reports at cows in early lactation and just prior
to caving him mobilized body tissue. They can mobilize as
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much as one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds
of actually a muscle itself and over two hundred pounds
to two hundred and fifty pounds of adipose tissue as an
energy source. So these are significant weight losses that occur.
Her research is really zeroed in on the muscle itself.
Change which provide amino assets to the cow as well.
Some early work looked at infusing caseine into the dairy
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cows right after calving, using caseine which has an ideal
amino acid profile, administering a post a ruminal so it
doesn't get degraded in the room. And when they added
a seven hundred grams in the first four days after calving,
then the next fifteen days five hundred grams, in the
next twenty nine days two hundred grams, they saw a
significant increase about sixteen pounds more milk here with no
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difference in dry matter intake. So certainly this muscle is
a resource for cows to draw on in prior to
calving and in early lactation, and therefore the question is
how much will it mobilize? Listeners may ask these cows
wanting these amino acids, Well, we know it's important not
only for producing malk protein, but immune function, hormone, singling
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ammonium formation in the room and from the ruined microbes,
the energy cycle, the TCA cycle reuses amino acid intermediates,
and of course the unborn calf would be a factor
as well. They're looking at measuring a couple of different
factors at Purdue. One is using ultrasound images of the
muscle to actually monitor how much muscle is being degraded,
and then they're looking at levels of three methyl histadine
(14:30):
and createning looking at rasures here which are basically reflecting
the breakdown of a muscle mass itself. They looked at
cows in the Purdue herd and they grew to me
into two categories. One was what they call it a
high muscle cow versus a low muscle cow, and that
just indicates how much muscle would be available because these
cows respond differently in the lactation cycle. The lower muscle
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cows had lower milky rea nitrogen levels occurring, had lower
body conditions scores ten to produce smaller calves, and these
calves also had less muscle mass itself. The high muscle
cows basically lost more muscle mass, but also produced more milk.
Out Here in the program, and they looked at differences
between the first calf heifers versus mature cows equally as well.
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The high muscle cous do produce more milk, typically about
fourteen pounds more milk in early lactation. However, low muscle
cows tend to produce more milk later in lactation. So
the takeout messages are one that cows will lose muscle,
and that will occur starting prior to calving and all
in early lactation, but it will take the entire lactation
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to replace those amino acids, that muscle loss that would
have occurred. Those factors are not built into most modeling programs.
At this stage of the game. The cous can lose
as much as thirty percent of their muscle in the
lactation cycle, and of course we'll have to maintain building
that amino acid back in late lactation. Here the high
muscle cous produce more milk, bigger calves out there in
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the program. Well, that compleatch our program for today. Thanks,
have a great day.
Speaker 18 (16:03):
Thanks Mike. That's doctor Mike Cutcheons, Professor Emeritis from the
University of Illinois, featured every Friday here on our feed
Forum Friday on Dairy Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now innovations to better detect micromes in irrigation surface water
such as irrigation ponds and lakes, and in turn prevent
contabinants from causing food born illness and crops. That is
the work conducted by USDA researcher Yakov Pachewski and colleagues
incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 20 (16:30):
Remote sensing, and proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Sensors omitting light waves both in water sources and through
aerial drones collect data. AI crunching this data creates maps
that break down contabinants at microbial levels. Pochevski says, while
technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, cooperation of
field level farmers were also essential in developing detection methods
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that are more effective, cost efficient, and quicker with broader use.
At application of this tech approaching Broadbaine reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 18 (17:09):
June milk production up three point three percent high ground
daari's Curtis Bosma. We'll talk about it with Lee Milki
on Monday. I'm Bill Baker, Dairy Radio.
Speaker 21 (17:18):
Nown the carpophilis beetle in almonds. It's an invasive pass
that can cause a lot of damage and it's getting
into the almond industry. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California
Tree Nut Report. Part of the vastag Information Network. Brent
Holts is a uc A n R farm advisor based
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in San Joaquin County.
Speaker 22 (17:41):
It's like a small grain beetle and it gets into
the you know, especially like the non prows. It gets
in there and feeds on the nut, just like naval
orangeworm does. And you know, the problem is, I think
it's harder to get rid of with sanitation and the
other message that we've been able to get rid of
it with naval orange worm.
Speaker 21 (18:02):
Yeah, sanitation is when these infested nuts, they're not really
shaken off the tree during harvest and they stick in
the tree. So sanitation is to get those nuts out
of the ground and shred them to destroy that larvae.
But with a Carpophalis beetle, they may be harvested.
Speaker 22 (18:18):
You know, it's a beetle. It's a tougher guy that
a lepidoptrine. Anyway, I don't really know too much about
the biology, but it's increasing pretty rapidly and it looks
like it's going to be a future problem for us
if we know, you know, if we have spray timings
down for it or anything like we do with naval
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orange one.
Speaker 21 (18:40):
The Beatle's presence in the industry really threatens the almond
industry in many ways, leading to yield loss.
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With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh. The US
Sobian Export Council recently host to the Soybean Oil Masters Program.
The GAML Suitor, CEO of the EUF Soorbian Export Council
talks about what went on.
Speaker 24 (20:00):
We've got one hundred and ten attendees in Indianapolis, Indiana,
where together with the Indiana Soybean Association USEC is hosting
the Soybean Oil Masters Program. So we've got people from
about fifteen different countries who are at some stage in
the process of using soybean oil, their food manufacturers, soy processor,
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soy refiners, and they're here improving their knowledge of soy,
how to better use it, the safety of soy, the
benefits of soy, and particularly the advantages of US soy.
Speaker 25 (20:32):
That's kind of a program offers big benefits to US
Sey customers.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Well.
Speaker 24 (20:36):
It benefits customers because they understand more about the differences
between soybean oil from US soybeans versus oil from other
origin beans, the quality differences, the shelf life differences, all
of those advantages, so they're able to put that to
use in their business. We have numerous US soy exporters
that will also be an attendant, so we'll be having
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seventy business to business meetings with the different people, so
they may make some contacts that allow them to be
a better importer of usoy into their country. And also
they just learn the latest and greatest kind of knowledge
about how best to use soy, the latest on the
sustainability of us sooi, which is a big marketing point
in many countries around the world.
Speaker 25 (21:18):
He goes on to say, the programs like this fit
the goals of the US Swabian Export Council when it
comes to promoting us soy.
Speaker 24 (21:26):
Our key strategic goals are differentiate, elevated preference for us sooy,
and then of course make sure we have market access.
And I was telling somebody earlier today that I think
this program is a great example of doing all three
of those things because through the educational process we're differentiating,
We're elevating a preference, through the talking about regulations, the
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science behind the utilization of us sooi, We're making sure
people understand the opportunity to have market access. So it's
doing that, and it's also diversifying markets for us sooy.
You know, we want to be in every market where
we can, where it makes sense for US soy to go.
Speaker 25 (22:02):
One of the highlights was attendee has even got a
chance to see the Indianapolis five hundred over the Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 24 (22:10):
The Indiana Soybean Association has been such a great partner.
We've done this several years in a row. Now they
really help it come alive because we are able to
show all the way from farm through export locations, how
the process works for these people, how the US export
supply chain works. And there happens to be a big
sporting event in Indy which the international participants, if they're
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so interested, have the opportunity to go to. And that's
the Indy five hundred again.
Speaker 25 (22:35):
That is Jim Sooner, CEO of the US Swabian Export Council.
Speaker 26 (22:44):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax report. I'm Roger McGowen.
The attractive nuisance doctrine holds landowners liable for injuries to
children who trespass if a dangerous artificial condition on the
property is likely to attract them and the owner failed
to take reasonable precautions. Whether a farm pond is legally
considered an attractive nuisance depends on the specific circumstances and
state law. I'll be back in a moment to discuss.
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backslash waltr Farm ponds, especially those with steep banks, docks,
or murky water, can post serious dangers to children. If
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you have a pond that is near residential areas or
otherwise easily accessible, a court may find that you should
have anticipated children might be drawn to it. However, many
courts do not classify natural or rural bodies of water
like farm ponds, as attractive nuisances. The rationale is that
the danger of drowning is obvious and widely understood, and
you shouldn't be expected to fence off every natural hazard
in rural settings. Still, you should be cautious if the
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pond has man made features or is located in an
area where children are likely to wander, the risk of
liability increases. Some states are more likely to apply the
doctrine broadly, especially if the child is very young and
the hazard is not clearly visible or avoidable. To reduce
your legal risk, install fences or warning signs if children
are likely to be nearby, and keep the area well
maintained and eliminate unnecessary hazards, and make sure your insurance
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coverage is up to date. This has been the Agricultural
Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger Mcowen.
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You've been listening to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley.
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It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship Well. During the California Mid State
Farris Annual Cattlemen and Farmer's Day, local agriculture organizations honored
Debbie Arnold as the twenty twenty five cattle Woman of
the Year, presented by the San Luis Obispo County Cattle
Women's Association. This award recognizes Debbie's lifelong dedication to agriculture,
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education and public service. Originally from Walnut to create, Debbie
came to cal Poly to study animal science. And soon
married Steve Arnold, joining a ranching family deeply rooted in
the Pozo Valley. Together, they worked on some of the
region's most iconic ranches. While raising their children, Joey and Michelle.
Debbie balanced he ranching life with a passion for early
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childhood education, founding Small Wonders Preschool and at Tascadero. Later,
she became a legislative advocate for agriculture through her roles
with County Supervisor Mike Ryan and Senator Sam Blakesley. A
longtime member of the County Cattlewoman, Debbie contributed to numerous
educational and fundraising events and served on various agg related committees.
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Elected to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
in twenty twelve, she brought ranch level experience to public
policy and tell her retirement in twenty twenty five. She
now remains active in ranching, winemaking, and spending time with
her granddaughters, earning her place as the sixtieth recipient of
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Speaker 1 (27:07):
Here were some farm news this morning, friends. We start
off with new news on the New World screwworm problem.
Working with USDA and AGG Secretary Brook Rollins, Texas is
deploying a new version of an old solution to the
New World screwworm problem, swarm lure dash five bait. Texas
agg Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm was eradicated decades
(27:30):
ago using a combination of sterile flies insecticide and an
earlier version of swarm lure. Now the updated formula is stronger, smarter,
and more precise.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Right now, the single method that everybody's focused on is
more flies. We need six hundred million flies a week.
Right now, we've got one hundred. We've got an old
plant in Mexico that we're going to help reprofit. It
produced between fifty and a one hundred million flies, so
that'll get us twenty percent of what we need. There's talk,
(28:02):
there's no action, but there's talk of a bill running
through Congress just to build a Texas fly facility that
will produce three to four hundred million flies. Well, it's
just taught, so very best case scenario that's three years
down the road.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
We can't wait three years.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
He says. Field data shows that can reduce ninety percent
of fly populations in just weeks.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
If we can lock that population down ninety percent, then
we can drop one hundred million flies in and it'll
clean up the problem. This was actually done in seventy
six and seventy seven when we had reassurgency after we
had eliminated screw on flying in the nineteen sixty six,
we had a new outbreak and man, it shut it
down quick, but everybody forgot about it. So we've been
(28:48):
working with the entomologists and some engineers on developing this
new lure.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Really attracts screwn flies.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It also attracts house flies and blow flies, but it
would kill all of them, and it doesn't harm honey
bees or bumblebees, or monarch butterflies or whooping cranes or
spotted owls or anything.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
It just kills.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Blowflies, which a screwerm flies in that category. So if
we can get this bait out, we can get this
distributed probably within six months instead of wait three years.
We could actually stop it in Mexico and shove it
back down into Central America.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Texas will lead the rollout in coordination with USDA Mexico
and other partners.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
We have some traps with this new lure in it.
We're dispersing those and testing those out, and then we're
working with the company. There's actually over fifty fly baits
restured for use in Texas, and so we're not going
to have any problem getting a company to make this
flybait for us. You know, it's a big business in Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Miller says, if we don't act, it could cost billions
in hit livestock, wildlife and even pets and people long term.
Well friends, farmers and ranchers have enough to do, but
don't forget about good tire maintenance on your equipment, Glenn Wagen, reports.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Greg Jones, senior manager for Global Field Engineering at Firestone Eggs,
is one of the most important things for farmers and
farm managers is to know how much tractors and implements weight.
Speaker 29 (30:16):
You know what that weight is, then you could calculate
the per tire weight and then from that use a
load table and actually determine, okay, what pressure should I
be running to carry that load. So that type of
preventive maintenance could keep you from having downtime, because what
we've seen is when you overload those tires, what you've
done is you've asked that tire to carry the load,
(30:38):
and what's carrying the load is the air. The air
carries a load and the tire is merely a vessel.
To contain the air. But when I overload it, now
the air's done all can do, and now I'm asking
the tire to actually carry that and it deflects the
sidewall in a way that's not good for the sidewall
and you'll end up with lower sidewall separations. That's a
tailtale sign that you've overloaded it. It will lead to
(31:01):
some type of failure in the field if it's left unattended.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Jones says, if you don't know the weight of your implements,
he encourages farmers to take the time and run those
implements across the scale so you have an exact number
to work with. When the weight is known, Jones says,
the next thing to focus on is tire pressure. He
says many growers typically don't think about tire pressure or
just inflate the tires to the max. He added, proper
balansting is also a key.
Speaker 29 (31:26):
What we're doing there is we're trying to teach them
it's really important to balast the tractor, understand the amount
of what you got on the front axle, the what
you got on the rear axle, and set the air
pressures and a load appropriately. So when you do that,
that's when you're optimizing your time, and really that's helping
you in a lot of different ways because when you
get that optimum footprint from balansting and getting the right pressure,
(31:48):
that's where it translates into the field where you are
getting that best footprint. That best foot prints keeping you
from getting the tractor slippage. If you're not slipping, then
you're not wasting time as time in the field, and.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
You're not quisting fuel in the field. Jones noted to
help farmers understand the importance of proper tire maintenance and
air pressure, Firestone will host field days. I'm glenn Wagen reporting.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Farm US this morning. You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 17 (32:16):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
More US farms filed for bankruptcy in the first three
months of twenty twenty five than during the entire twenty
twenty four calendar year. New research from University of Arkansas
extension economist Ryan Loy shows that the two hundred and
fifty nine filings in the first three months of twenty
twenty five are the most since twenty twenty one. Loy
(32:36):
says we've already beaten last year in the first three
months of this year, and contributing factors include commodity prices
back to twenty eighteen nineteen levels. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins
announced plans to boost USDA's efforts combating food borne illness.
The National Chicken Councils doctor Ashley Peterson says chicken producers
appreciate USDA's common sense, science based approach to food safety.
(32:58):
NCC also applauded USDA's withdrawal of the proposed salmonilla regulations
introduced by the Biden administration. Peterson says it would have
had no meaningful impact on public health, led to extraordinary
food waste and increase costs for consumers and producers. The
USDA's Economic Research Service as US corn exports have continued
at a rapid pace and support a one hundred million
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bushel month to month increase over the twenty twenty four
to twenty five marketing year, raising the forecast to a
record high two point seventy five billion bushels. If realized,
corn exports will exceed the twenty twenty three twenty four
estimate by almost twenty two percent. Elevated corn exports are
supported by sizeable growth in shipments to South Korea, Mexico
and Spain.
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I'm Bob Larson and this has been your fruit grower Report.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGGLI for today friends.
While researchers are using innovations such as artificial intelligence to
locate microbes in irrigation surface water contaminants that could cause
a food borne illness. Rodbain has our final report.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
A connection between irrigation surface water at potential bycrobial contabinants
that could create a food bored 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 and federal establishment of standards for microbes
(35:18):
from a food safety perspective led to questions such as how.
Speaker 20 (35:22):
Representative is the small samples that we can take for
the big source of water like riugation pont Fidditional Lake.
And if these questions were most critical for surface water,
surface water is more susceptible to microdo pollution? And if
there are any technologists a potential help answer these question.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
The tech question stemming from desires for both data at
cost efficiencies, so Pachetski a colleagues at the USDA Agricultural
Research Station at Beltsville, Baryland began studies incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 20 (35:55):
Remote sensing and proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Sensors a bitting 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. Patchevski says,
while technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, the
human element at the farm level continues to be an
(36:22):
essential factor.
Speaker 20 (36:23):
We work with real forms because the irrigation happens on
the real forms. Farmers in Georgia and farmers of Marylands
were most supportive for us, and we are really thankful
to these people who allowed us to do the measurements
and to discuss.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Things with them.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
The result of incorporating innovations of microbial detection and surface
irrigation water more effective, cost efficient, and quicker methods of
detection of potential contabinants and Potchevski says, these technologies are
approaching broader use and application.
Speaker 20 (36:55):
All the components that we are looking now are commercially available,
so it's just a matter of companies or consultants or
groups of enthusiasts just taking this thing, combining them together
and beginning to use it.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Recently, Pachevski was honored for his work receiving the Samuel J.
Hayman's Service to America Mettle the Sabby for his contributions
as a civil servant to the public. Am broad Bain,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, a lot of time for today, Thanks
for joining us Back Monday morning with another edition A
Baglife
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you for the next hour. We're talking about agricultural
production here in the valley, in all across the country.
We start off with a look back this morning. Combination
of weather factors culminated in some sudden, heavy rains and
a deadly flooding event in Texas. Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The weather anata bee of a deadly storm system wood
leading to hundreds of fatalities in south central Texas during
the Independence Day period. USDA berologist Brad Rippey says it
was not just one factor, but a combination of several
behind the sudden rain, deluge and flash flooding.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
First, a lot of times with these flash floods, what
you see is some component of tropical moisture being injected
into a weather system. We saw a unique combination of
factors that included remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Berry. We
had had Hurricane Flossi in the Pacific a few days before,
and some of that tropical moisture had been drawn northward
by the North American monsoon circulation. So we effectively had
(01:00):
this pool of tropical moisture both from the Atlantic and
Pacific basins parked over Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
To create the heavy precipitation behind the Texas Hill Country floods.
Rippy says, the pool of tropical boisture needed a climate
element to rig the raid out.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
We had a disturbance, a little spin in the atmosphere
along with the remnants of old cold front that was
stalled just north of the region. That upper level disturbance
moving through created a slow moving thunderstorm complex on the third,
lingering into the overnight hours of the fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Perhaps unique about the flash flooding event is what it
resembled from a disaster perspective.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
A lot of times when you see events like this,
it involves a dam breaking or bursting, or some type
of damp failure. Unfortunately, in this event, it almost mimicked
what you would see in a dam failure. It just
unleashes it quickly within minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
With sub accounts noting that cascading wall of water rising
as much as two stories high during the flash flood event.
Brad Rippy says another weather factor that may have be
did to the nature of the flooding is drought.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
This particular area of Texas has been dealing with significant.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Drought for about three years.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So if you look at Kerr County, where most of
the flood fatalities occurred, that area has seen either D
three or D four in that county for more than
three years, with the exception of four weeks in the
fall of twenty twenty four, So you go all the
way back to March of twenty twenty two. Part of
Kerr County has been in either extreme or exceptional drought
ever since, and.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
In some cases a protracted drought.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That can change the character of the soils. Sometimes the
soils can be compacted and almost take on a concrete
like consistency, and so one of the things that may
have contributed to the really flashy and rapid runoff in
some of the canyons leading to the Guadalupe River is
that those hillsides were baked to a consistency of almost concrete.
(02:50):
The soils become less receptive to water retention, and so
that may have contributed to increased runoff when that rain
came down so heavily.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Broad Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, friends, the state of Texas has a plan, and
we'll be introducing that to control the new world screwworm.
That's ahead on Aglife. Bob quit here with some farm
news this morning, friends, we start off with new news
on the new world screwworm problem. Working with USDA and
AG Secretary Brook Rollins, Texas is deploying a new version
(03:25):
of an old solution to the new world screw worm problem,
swarm lure Dash five bait. Texas AGG Commissioner Sid Miller
says the screwworm was eradicated decades ago using a combination
of sterile flies, insecticide and an earlier version of swarm lure. Now,
the updated formula is stronger, smarter, and more precise.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Right now, the single method that everybody's focused on is
more flies. We need six hundred million flies a week.
Right now, we've got one hundred. We've got an old
plant in Mexico that we're going to retrofit. It produced
between fifty and a hundred million flies, so that'll get
us twenty percent of what we need. There's talk, there's
no action, but there's talk of a bill running through
(04:06):
Congress to US to build a Texas fly facility that
will produce three to four hundred million flies. Well it's
just talk, so very best case scenario that's three years
down the road.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We can't wait three years.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
He says. Field data shows that can reduce ninety percent
of fly populations in just weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
If we can lock that population down ninety percent, then
we can drop one hundred million flies in and it'll
clean up the problem. This was actually done in seventy
six and seventy seven when we had reassurgency. After we'd
eliminated brew on flying in nineteen sixty six, we had
a new outbreak and man, it shut it down quick,
but everybody forgot about it. So we've been working with
(04:45):
the entomologists and some engineers on developing this new lure.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Really attracts screwworm flies.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It also attracts house flies and blowflies, but we'd just
kill all of them. A dozen harm honey bees or bumblebees,
or monarch butterflies or whooping crane, spotted owls or anything.
It just gills blowflies, which screwerm flies in that category.
So if we can get this bait out, we can
get this distributed probably within six months instead of wait
(05:12):
three years. We could actually stop it in Mexico and
shove it back down into Central America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Texas will lead the rollout in coordination with USDA, Mexico
and other partners.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We have some traps with this new lure in it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We're dispersing those and testing those out, and then we're
working with the company. There's actually over fifty fly baits
restried for use in Texas, and so we're not going
to have any problem getting a company to make this
flybay bars. There's you know, it's a big business in Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Miller says. If we don't act, it could cost billions
in hit livestock, wildlife, and even pets and people long
term well friends. Farmers can expect some continuity and a
few key benefits when it comes to their federal income
taxes this year. One of the most notable updates is
that income tax brackets and standard deductions will stay largely
the same, thanks to a budget extension passed by Congress,
(06:01):
and we hear more this morning from University of Wisconsin
Extension farm management specialist Kelly Wilford. The rates, originally adjusted
in twenty eighteen, were set to sunset in twenty six
Without the extension, taxpayers would have seen standard deductions drop
and tax brackets shift upwards. While that change impacts all taxpayers,
several provisions in the federal budget are relevant for farmers.
(06:24):
Wilfort tells us.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
The bill brought back the deduction for qualified business income
that was set to phase out. They brought back the
special depreciation allowance for some qualified production property and the
full expensing of certain property. You might be thinking of
that as bonus depreciation, so bonus depreciation which allows our
farmers to expense certain purchases all in year one versus
(06:48):
spreading it out. That has been getting phased out over
the last few years and was set to totally go away,
but again this bill brought that back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In addition, Congress extended the Clean Fuel Production Credit or
forty five Z tax credit through twenty thirty.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Those fuels under the new law have to be produced
from feedstocks or those commodities that are produced in the
United States, Canada, or Mexico, and so of course for
ethanol production, biofuel production, we're going to be looking at
hopefully some increased demand for our farmers who are growing
those commodities. Again, simply because we have these fuel producers
(07:26):
being incentivized to also continue to produce based on the
extension of that credit again.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Kelly wilferd to University of Wisconsin extension with US Farmer
US This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
It's another agnews update. We've seen a weaker dollar this year.
Is that good or bad? More after this.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
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Speaker 8 (08:04):
Com talking the week dollar Richie Torre's representative from New
York with FED chair Jerome pal sure power.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
Following the so called Liberation Day tariffs in early April,
we saw something the US economy had not seen in decades,
a flight not to the US dollar as a safe haven,
but away ferm it. And since President Trump's inauguration, the
US Dollar Index has fallen by nearly ten percent, marking
the worst first half performance for the dollar since nineteen
(08:36):
eighty six. At the same time, Japan, America's largest sovereign creditor,
just saw the worst twenty year Japanese government bond auction
since the nineteen eighties, raising fears that it could reduce
its holdings of US treasuries. Given these developments, do you believe,
as I do, that the US may be transitioning from
a period of dollar dominance to a period of dollar decline.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
Well, let me say we FED does not have responsibility
for the dollar. That's really the treasury.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
But I'm asking for your analysis.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't make that statement. No, I think
it's things have been volatile. The markets are digesting things,
and I think, you know, the treasury market's been fine
by many measures, that the dollar is still.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
You feel the safe haven status of the dollars as
as strong as it's ever been.
Speaker 13 (09:21):
I think it's I think the dollar is still the
number one safe haven currency, and I don't think it's
you know, I would say these narratives of decline are
premature and a bit overdone.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 14 (09:34):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prouve.
Speaker 15 (09:37):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the land so we could fire through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Unfortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 14 (09:53):
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Speaker 8 (10:04):
American Cattle News, what's the importance of grazing on federal lands?
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Caitlin Glovers with the Public Lands Council Livestock.
Speaker 16 (10:46):
Grazing controls those fine fuels that support in a backwards way.
They support ignission of these big fires and these fires
then get rolling. They have such momentum. That's why they
become so hot, so fast, being and so catastrophic. You know,
And for a long time, one of the things that grazers,
that ranchers have faced is this sort of you know,
(11:09):
being a second tier tool, a second class tool. The
federal agencies have always preferred chaining or other mechanized efforts,
prescribed fire or even herbicides because it's more standardized. Right,
But this role of target grazing, this expansion of using
grazing animals to conduct find fuels management at scale, is
(11:29):
gaining traction. We have more than a handful of bills
this Congress alone. We have very clear direction from the
Secretary of the Interior in a recent memorandum. We have
an executive order from President Trump identifying the need for
USDA and DI to work better together in not only
putting these fires out, but preventing the catastrophic conditions and
(11:52):
from those fires becoming too big. And so, whether you're
talking about sage grouse, or you're talking about fire and
fuels management, or you're even just talkingalking about protecting watersheds,
right from a various number of factors, you're really seeing grazing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Having a moment. Right.
Speaker 16 (12:08):
It's not just goats in city parks, but it's cows
and sheep and technology and drones and satellites and all
of the big scientific and technology pieces coming together with
one of the most traditional, reliable, effective tools in grazing,
and it's.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Exciting American Cattle News.
Speaker 11 (12:33):
This is Dairy Radio Now feed Form Friday.
Speaker 18 (12:36):
With doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 19 (12:40):
Hello, Mike, Welcome to today's speed Form and our topic is
looking at muscle change and dairy cows during the lactation
gestation cycle. This is reported recently at the Four State
Nutrition Conference for doctor Jackie Foreman from Purdue University, and
she reports at cows in early lactation and just prior
to caving him mobilized body tissue. They can mobilize as
(13:02):
much as one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds
of actually a muscle itself and over two hundred pounds
to two hundred and fifty pounds of adipose tissue as an
energy source. So these are significant weight losses that occur.
Her research is really zeroed in on the muscle itself.
Change which provide amino assets to the cow as well.
Some early work looked at infusing caseine into the dairy
(13:25):
cows right after calving, using caseine which has an ideal
amino acid profile, administering a post a ruminal so it
doesn't get degraded in the room. And when they added
a seven hundred grams in the first four days after calving,
then the next fifteen days five hundred grams, in the
next twenty nine days two hundred grams, they saw a
significant increase about sixteen pounds more milk here with no
(13:47):
difference in dry matter intake. So certainly this muscle is
a resource for cows to draw on in prior to
calving and in early lactation, and therefore the question is
how much will it mobilize? Listeners may ask these cows
wanting these amino acids, Well, we know it's important not
only for producing malk protein, but immune function, hormone, singling
(14:08):
ammonium formation in the room and from the ruined microbes,
the energy cycle, the TCA cycle reuses amino acid intermediates,
and of course the unborn calf would be a factor
as well. They're looking at measuring a couple of different
factors at Purdue. One is using ultrasound images of the
muscle to actually monitor how much muscle is being degraded,
and then they're looking at levels of three methyl histadine
(14:30):
and createning looking at rasures here which are basically reflecting
the breakdown of a muscle mass itself. They looked at
cows in the Purdue herd and they grew to me
into two categories. One was what they call it a
high muscle cow versus a low muscle cow, and that
just indicates how much muscle would be available because these
cows respond differently in the lactation cycle. The lower muscle
(14:54):
cows had lower milky rea nitrogen levels occurring, had lower
body conditions scores ten to produce smaller calves, and these
calves also had less muscle mass itself. The high muscle
cows basically lost more muscle mass, but also produced more milk.
Out Here in the program, and they looked at differences
between the first calf heifers versus mature cows equally as well.
(15:17):
The high muscle cous do produce more milk, typically about
fourteen pounds more milk in early lactation. However, low muscle
cows tend to produce more milk later in lactation. So
the takeout messages are one that cows will lose muscle,
and that will occur starting prior to calving and all
in early lactation, but it will take the entire lactation
(15:37):
to replace those amino acids, that muscle loss that would
have occurred. Those factors are not built into most modeling programs.
At this stage of the game. The cous can lose
as much as thirty percent of their muscle in the
lactation cycle, and of course we'll have to maintain building
that amino acid back in late lactation. Here the high
muscle cous produce more milk, bigger calves out there in
(15:59):
the program. Well, that compleatch our program for today. Thanks,
have a great day.
Speaker 18 (16:03):
Thanks Mike. That's doctor Mike Cutcheons, Professor Emeritis from the
University of Illinois, featured every Friday here on our feed
Forum Friday on Dairy Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now innovations to better detect micromes in irrigation surface water
such as irrigation ponds and lakes, and in turn prevent
contabinants from causing food born illness and crops. That is
the work conducted by USDA researcher Yakov Pachewski and colleagues
incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 20 (16:30):
Remote sensing, and proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Sensors omitting light waves both in water sources and through
aerial drones collect data. AI crunching this data creates maps
that break down contabinants at microbial levels. Pochevski says, while
technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, cooperation of
field level farmers were also essential in developing detection methods
(16:57):
that are more effective, cost efficient, and quicker with broader use.
At application of this tech approaching Broadbaine reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 18 (17:09):
June milk production up three point three percent high ground
daari's Curtis Bosma. We'll talk about it with Lee Milki
on Monday. I'm Bill Baker, Dairy Radio.
Speaker 21 (17:18):
Nown the carpophilis beetle in almonds. It's an invasive pass
that can cause a lot of damage and it's getting
into the almond industry. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California
Tree Nut Report. Part of the vastag Information Network. Brent
Holts is a uc A n R farm advisor based
(17:40):
in San Joaquin County.
Speaker 22 (17:41):
It's like a small grain beetle and it gets into
the you know, especially like the non prows. It gets
in there and feeds on the nut, just like naval
orangeworm does. And you know, the problem is, I think
it's harder to get rid of with sanitation and the
other message that we've been able to get rid of
it with naval orange worm.
Speaker 21 (18:02):
Yeah, sanitation is when these infested nuts, they're not really
shaken off the tree during harvest and they stick in
the tree. So sanitation is to get those nuts out
of the ground and shred them to destroy that larvae.
But with a Carpophalis beetle, they may be harvested.
Speaker 22 (18:18):
You know, it's a beetle. It's a tougher guy that
a lepidoptrine. Anyway, I don't really know too much about
the biology, but it's increasing pretty rapidly and it looks
like it's going to be a future problem for us
if we know, you know, if we have spray timings
down for it or anything like we do with naval
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orange one.
Speaker 21 (18:40):
The Beatle's presence in the industry really threatens the almond
industry in many ways, leading to yield loss.
Speaker 23 (18:46):
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Speaker 10 (19:15):
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providing news and information for the most important industry in
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updates from local producers to regional organizations, from major crops
like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture to specially crops
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Speaker 21 (19:45):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh. The US
Sobian Export Council recently host to the Soybean Oil Masters Program.
The GAML Suitor, CEO of the EUF Soorbian Export Council
talks about what went on.
Speaker 24 (20:00):
We've got one hundred and ten attendees in Indianapolis, Indiana,
where together with the Indiana Soybean Association USEC is hosting
the Soybean Oil Masters Program. So we've got people from
about fifteen different countries who are at some stage in
the process of using soybean oil, their food manufacturers, soy processor,
(20:21):
soy refiners, and they're here improving their knowledge of soy,
how to better use it, the safety of soy, the
benefits of soy, and particularly the advantages of US soy.
Speaker 25 (20:32):
That's kind of a program offers big benefits to US
Sey customers.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Well.
Speaker 24 (20:36):
It benefits customers because they understand more about the differences
between soybean oil from US soybeans versus oil from other
origin beans, the quality differences, the shelf life differences, all
of those advantages, so they're able to put that to
use in their business. We have numerous US soy exporters
that will also be an attendant, so we'll be having
(20:57):
seventy business to business meetings with the different people, so
they may make some contacts that allow them to be
a better importer of usoy into their country. And also
they just learn the latest and greatest kind of knowledge
about how best to use soy, the latest on the
sustainability of us sooi, which is a big marketing point
in many countries around the world.
Speaker 25 (21:18):
He goes on to say, the programs like this fit
the goals of the US Swabian Export Council when it
comes to promoting us soy.
Speaker 24 (21:26):
Our key strategic goals are differentiate, elevated preference for us sooy,
and then of course make sure we have market access.
And I was telling somebody earlier today that I think
this program is a great example of doing all three
of those things because through the educational process we're differentiating,
We're elevating a preference, through the talking about regulations, the
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science behind the utilization of us sooi, We're making sure
people understand the opportunity to have market access. So it's
doing that, and it's also diversifying markets for us sooy.
You know, we want to be in every market where
we can, where it makes sense for US soy to go.
Speaker 25 (22:02):
One of the highlights was attendee has even got a
chance to see the Indianapolis five hundred over the Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 24 (22:10):
The Indiana Soybean Association has been such a great partner.
We've done this several years in a row. Now they
really help it come alive because we are able to
show all the way from farm through export locations, how
the process works for these people, how the US export
supply chain works. And there happens to be a big
sporting event in Indy which the international participants, if they're
(22:31):
so interested, have the opportunity to go to. And that's
the Indy five hundred again.
Speaker 25 (22:35):
That is Jim Sooner, CEO of the US Swabian Export Council.
Speaker 26 (22:44):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax report. I'm Roger McGowen.
The attractive nuisance doctrine holds landowners liable for injuries to
children who trespass if a dangerous artificial condition on the
property is likely to attract them and the owner failed
to take reasonable precautions. Whether a farm pond is legally
considered an attractive nuisance depends on the specific circumstances and
state law. I'll be back in a moment to discuss.
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Speaker 26 (23:22):
Join me in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on August four and five
for two days of farm income tax as well as pharma,
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Law dot edu backslash walter that's washburn Law dot edu
backslash waltr Farm ponds, especially those with steep banks, docks,
or murky water, can post serious dangers to children. If
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you have a pond that is near residential areas or
otherwise easily accessible, a court may find that you should
have anticipated children might be drawn to it. However, many
courts do not classify natural or rural bodies of water
like farm ponds, as attractive nuisances. The rationale is that
the danger of drowning is obvious and widely understood, and
you shouldn't be expected to fence off every natural hazard
in rural settings. Still, you should be cautious if the
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pond has man made features or is located in an
area where children are likely to wander, the risk of
liability increases. Some states are more likely to apply the
doctrine broadly, especially if the child is very young and
the hazard is not clearly visible or avoidable. To reduce
your legal risk, install fences or warning signs if children
are likely to be nearby, and keep the area well
maintained and eliminate unnecessary hazards, and make sure your insurance
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coverage is up to date. This has been the Agricultural
Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger Mcowen.
Speaker 25 (24:37):
You've been listening to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 28 (24:41):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship Well. During the California Mid State
Farris Annual Cattlemen and Farmer's Day, local agriculture organizations honored
Debbie Arnold as the twenty twenty five cattle Woman of
the Year, presented by the San Luis Obispo County Cattle
Women's Association. This award recognizes Debbie's lifelong dedication to agriculture,
(25:05):
education and public service. Originally from Walnut to create, Debbie
came to cal Poly to study animal science. And soon
married Steve Arnold, joining a ranching family deeply rooted in
the Pozo Valley. Together, they worked on some of the
region's most iconic ranches. While raising their children, Joey and Michelle.
Debbie balanced he ranching life with a passion for early
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childhood education, founding Small Wonders Preschool and at Tascadero. Later,
she became a legislative advocate for agriculture through her roles
with County Supervisor Mike Ryan and Senator Sam Blakesley. A
longtime member of the County Cattlewoman, Debbie contributed to numerous
educational and fundraising events and served on various agg related committees.
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Elected to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors
in twenty twelve, she brought ranch level experience to public
policy and tell her retirement in twenty twenty five. She
now remains active in ranching, winemaking, and spending time with
her granddaughters, earning her place as the sixtieth recipient of
this honor. Attention, all growers, have your packouts been reduced
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due to damage caused by heat, stress or sunburn?
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which ultimately means your crops continue to perform during times
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of excessive heat. As a result, plants treated with Parka
are better equipped to sustain growth under environmental stress conditions
to deliver high fruit quality and marketable yields. Unlike other
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Information Network. I am Hayley, Ship Bob quit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Here were some farm news this morning, friends. We start
off with new news on the New World screwworm problem.
Working with USDA and AGG Secretary Brook Rollins, Texas is
deploying a new version of an old solution to the
New World screwworm problem, swarm lure dash five bait. Texas
agg Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm was eradicated decades
(27:30):
ago using a combination of sterile flies insecticide and an
earlier version of swarm lure. Now the updated formula is stronger, smarter,
and more precise.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Right now, the single method that everybody's focused on is
more flies. We need six hundred million flies a week.
Right now, we've got one hundred. We've got an old
plant in Mexico that we're going to help reprofit. It
produced between fifty and a one hundred million flies, so
that'll get us twenty percent of what we need. There's talk,
(28:02):
there's no action, but there's talk of a bill running
through Congress just to build a Texas fly facility that
will produce three to four hundred million flies. Well, it's
just taught, so very best case scenario that's three years
down the road.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
We can't wait three years.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
He says. Field data shows that can reduce ninety percent
of fly populations in just weeks.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
If we can lock that population down ninety percent, then
we can drop one hundred million flies in and it'll
clean up the problem. This was actually done in seventy
six and seventy seven when we had reassurgency after we
had eliminated screw on flying in the nineteen sixty six,
we had a new outbreak and man, it shut it
down quick, but everybody forgot about it. So we've been
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working with the entomologists and some engineers on developing this
new lure.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Really attracts screwn flies.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It also attracts house flies and blow flies, but it
would kill all of them, and it doesn't harm honey
bees or bumblebees, or monarch butterflies or whooping cranes or
spotted owls or anything.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
It just kills.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Blowflies, which a screwerm flies in that category. So if
we can get this bait out, we can get this
distributed probably within six months instead of wait three years.
We could actually stop it in Mexico and shove it
back down into Central America.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Texas will lead the rollout in coordination with USDA Mexico
and other partners.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
We have some traps with this new lure in it.
We're dispersing those and testing those out, and then we're
working with the company. There's actually over fifty fly baits
restured for use in Texas, and so we're not going
to have any problem getting a company to make this
flybait for us. You know, it's a big business in Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Miller says, if we don't act, it could cost billions
in hit livestock, wildlife and even pets and people long term.
Well friends, farmers and ranchers have enough to do, but
don't forget about good tire maintenance on your equipment, Glenn Wagen, reports.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Greg Jones, senior manager for Global Field Engineering at Firestone Eggs,
is one of the most important things for farmers and
farm managers is to know how much tractors and implements weight.
Speaker 29 (30:16):
You know what that weight is, then you could calculate
the per tire weight and then from that use a
load table and actually determine, okay, what pressure should I
be running to carry that load. So that type of
preventive maintenance could keep you from having downtime, because what
we've seen is when you overload those tires, what you've
done is you've asked that tire to carry the load,
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and what's carrying the load is the air. The air
carries a load and the tire is merely a vessel.
To contain the air. But when I overload it, now
the air's done all can do, and now I'm asking
the tire to actually carry that and it deflects the
sidewall in a way that's not good for the sidewall
and you'll end up with lower sidewall separations. That's a
tailtale sign that you've overloaded it. It will lead to
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some type of failure in the field if it's left unattended.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Jones says, if you don't know the weight of your implements,
he encourages farmers to take the time and run those
implements across the scale so you have an exact number
to work with. When the weight is known, Jones says,
the next thing to focus on is tire pressure. He
says many growers typically don't think about tire pressure or
just inflate the tires to the max. He added, proper
balansting is also a key.
Speaker 29 (31:26):
What we're doing there is we're trying to teach them
it's really important to balast the tractor, understand the amount
of what you got on the front axle, the what
you got on the rear axle, and set the air
pressures and a load appropriately. So when you do that,
that's when you're optimizing your time, and really that's helping
you in a lot of different ways because when you
get that optimum footprint from balansting and getting the right pressure,
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that's where it translates into the field where you are
getting that best footprint. That best foot prints keeping you
from getting the tractor slippage. If you're not slipping, then
you're not wasting time as time in the field, and.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
You're not quisting fuel in the field. Jones noted to
help farmers understand the importance of proper tire maintenance and
air pressure, Firestone will host field days. I'm glenn Wagen reporting.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Farm US this morning. You're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 17 (32:16):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
More US farms filed for bankruptcy in the first three
months of twenty twenty five than during the entire twenty
twenty four calendar year. New research from University of Arkansas
extension economist Ryan Loy shows that the two hundred and
fifty nine filings in the first three months of twenty
twenty five are the most since twenty twenty one. Loy
(32:36):
says we've already beaten last year in the first three
months of this year, and contributing factors include commodity prices
back to twenty eighteen nineteen levels. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins
announced plans to boost USDA's efforts combating food borne illness.
The National Chicken Councils doctor Ashley Peterson says chicken producers
appreciate USDA's common sense, science based approach to food safety.
(32:58):
NCC also applauded USDA's withdrawal of the proposed salmonilla regulations
introduced by the Biden administration. Peterson says it would have
had no meaningful impact on public health, led to extraordinary
food waste and increase costs for consumers and producers. The
USDA's Economic Research Service as US corn exports have continued
at a rapid pace and support a one hundred million
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bushel month to month increase over the twenty twenty four
to twenty five marketing year, raising the forecast to a
record high two point seventy five billion bushels. If realized,
corn exports will exceed the twenty twenty three twenty four
estimate by almost twenty two percent. Elevated corn exports are
supported by sizeable growth in shipments to South Korea, Mexico
and Spain.
Speaker 23 (33:38):
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(33:59):
For more details is at rbauction dot com. Again, that's
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Speaker 17 (34:37):
I'm Bob Larson and this has been your fruit grower Report.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGGLI for today friends.
While researchers are using innovations such as artificial intelligence to
locate microbes in irrigation surface water contaminants that could cause
a food borne illness. Rodbain has our final report.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
A connection between irrigation surface water at potential bycrobial contabinants
that could create a food bored 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 and federal establishment of standards for microbes
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from a food safety perspective led to questions such as how.
Speaker 20 (35:22):
Representative is the small samples that we can take for
the big source of water like riugation pont Fidditional Lake.
And if these questions were most critical for surface water,
surface water is more susceptible to microdo pollution? And if
there are any technologists a potential help answer these question.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
The tech question stemming from desires for both data at
cost efficiencies, so Pachetski a colleagues at the USDA Agricultural
Research Station at Beltsville, Baryland began studies incorporating artificial intelligence.
Speaker 20 (35:55):
Remote sensing and proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Sensors a bitting 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. Patchevski 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 20 (36:23):
We work with real forms because the irrigation happens on
the real forms. Farmers in Georgia and farmers of Marylands
were most supportive for us, and we are really thankful
to these people who allowed us to do the measurements
and to discuss.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Things with them.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
The result of incorporating innovations of microbial detection and surface
irrigation water more effective, cost efficient, and quicker methods of
detection of potential contabinants and Potchevski says, these technologies are
approaching broader use and application.
Speaker 20 (36:55):
All the components that we are looking now are commercially available,
so it's just a matter of companies or consultants or
groups of enthusiasts just taking this thing, combining them together
and beginning to use it.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Recently, Pachevski was honored for his work receiving the Samuel J.
Hayman's Service to America Mettle the Sabby for his contributions
as a civil servant to the public. Am broad Bain,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
With that, friends, a lot of time for today, Thanks
for joining us Back Monday morning with another edition A
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