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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley, in all across the country. Well friends.
USDA's projections for domestic corn supply and demand this month
features a record in both the old and new marketing year.
Rod bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Records are noted in USDA's domestic cord Supply and the
bad estimate.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
In July, US exports would reach a new record of
over two point seven billion bushels that would surpass the
previous record in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That projected record cord export forecast applies to the old
marketing year of twenty twenty four twenty five, according to
World Agricultural Outlook board chair Mark Jackatowski. What makes this
export forecast more significant.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
All of this export volume has been achieved with essentially
no exports to China, which in twenty twenty one it
was China that really drove that big strength in US
export demand.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So where is our old crop cord going get the
global marketplace?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
This year?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We're seeing strong export growth to places like South Korea, Mexico, Japan, Columbia,
and others, and we're also benefiting a little bit from
the fact that Brazil had a relatively slow start to
their horn export season, so that's giving some late season
strength to US exports.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
As for the new marketing year, for our nation's cord
crop twenty twenty five twenty six.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Production was reduced by one hundred and fifteen million bushels,
currently forecasted just over fifteen point seven billion bushels, up
eight hundred and thirty eight million bushels year over year
and a new record.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Even with that record production this marketing year, lower estimated
corn production from the previous season is contributing to lower
ending stocks on the ballot sheet, which carry over to
this marketing year. As smaller beginning stocks.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Reduced our feed and residual use by fifty million bushels,
and the ballots of that production is really just coming
out of stocks. We reduced our ending stocks estimate by
ninety million bushels, so we're looking at carrying out about
just over one point six billion bushels of corn in
a new crop season in twenty five twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Despite the lower eddig stocks, the season end to gaverage
price for cord rebee unchanged month over month at four
dollars twenty cents a bushel. Broad bad reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well Friends, recently passed tax rules could have a benefit
for agriculture that stories ahead on ag Life Bob Quinn.
Here are some farm news this morning, Friends. Updates to
the forty five Z tax credit have the potential to
boost demand for US grown agricultural products. Chad Smith has
our story.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Farmers and ranchers recently received some good news when it
comes to the sustainable Fuel tax credit. Samantha Ayub, an
economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, offers a quick
refresher on the credit, known commonly as forty five Z.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Forty five Z is also known as the Clean Fuel
Production Credit. It was created in twenty twenty two's Inflation
Reduction Act to consolidate some of the tax credits for
individual biofuels like biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
The recent budget reconciliation package, called the One Big Beautiful Bill,
made important changes to the credit that will benefit US growers.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
For one, anything that is used as a feedstock for
forty five Z fuels receiving the credit has to be
made from feedstocks produced in the US, Mexico, or Canada,
and then it also cannot be applied to companies who
are either foreign owned or in two years, foreign controlled,
So adding to American biofuels capacity, it also takes out
indirect land use changes through the emission scoring that is
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used to determine what fuels qualify for what level of
forty five Z tax credit.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
The goal is to increase biofuel capacity in the US,
but also generate more demand for American agricol cultural products.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Manure, digestors from livestock can all be used as feedstocks,
and so especially when we're seniors like this with record
bumper crop years, the hope is that we determine more
demand for American products totally support these large crops that
we continue to see.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Learn more on the market, Intel Paige at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well Friends. Farmers have to share a lot of personal
data to take part in government programs and need that
data to stay private. However, questions about the Department of
Government efficiencies access to farmers data are causing significant concern.
Senator Tammy Baldwin out of Wisconsin sent a letter to
USDA expressing her concerns.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
So we learned very recently that an individual had been
given access not only to review a USDA database, but
also to manipulate it, to edit it, to overwrite it.
And this is a database that has a lot of
private information. You know, to think about the information you
provide when you're taking a loan or a grant. So
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it's personal information, it's financial information, it's information that you
wouldn't want your competition to get.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is a database that few have access to, and
for a good reason.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
This database prior had very very limited access. And it
appears that the AG Secretary Rollins has given permission to
someone from DACHE. Reminder to Listener's dog is called the
Department of Government Deficiency, except for the fact that it's
not a department that was created or that has been
given any sort of legislative approval. It is a creation
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of this president and his team. It's unaccountable, and people
are very concerned that not only could their information be
reviewed by somebody who has no subject matter expertise. He
is not an AG expert, he is not an economic
effort and so not only can private personal information be
looked at by this, but it could be manipulated.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
She said. Database manipulation has already happened.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
We've already heard some reports that that has happened, that
some people have been deleted from the database because of
some irregularities with regard to how their first base entered
into this. It's deeply distressing to farmers and processors that
I've been talking to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Again, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin joining us well, friends, The
cattle industry isn't the only part of the livestock sector
with low inventory. Jim Matheson, executive director of the National
Bison Association, says his producers are in a similar situation.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
From a macro view, very similarly to the cattle industry.
We are at a very tight supply still in our
business are some of the low inventory of cattle right now,
which is having an impact of course on pricing, et cetera. Meanwhile,
and this is kind of a new one for us.
Consumer demand is just growing like crazy. For bison, it's
really caught on and we've had these shortages before. However,
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this time we didn't have the pent up demand for
it like we do this time. And on top of
that with cattle prices being so strong. Typically when we
would hit high prices like this, we would see transition
of course from cattleman crossing over to bison, which we're
not seeing so much this time because of those great
cattle prices, and we're happy for those producers as well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Talking bison numbers. This morning, farm us, you're listening to
WAG Life.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
It's another agnews update foreign ownership of domestic farmland. More
after this.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
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Speaker 9 (07:45):
SKay coum with cold by Arkansas Governors Sarah Huckabee Sanders
on prohibiting foreign ownership of farm land.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
The last couple of months.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
We've passed new legislation just this year allowing us to
prohibit them from now not only owning farmland in our state,
but from building or buying land around our military bases
and critical infrastructure. It is something that has to happen
and something that States have been leading the way on
but unfortunately, our states can't do it alone. That's why
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events like today matter so much. That's why leadership from
people like Secretary Rollins matter so much. The fact that
we now have a president who understands who our real
enemies are and is willing to take them on is
making a huge difference, not just in our country but
around the world. You know, we've talked a lot about
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today a country's ability to feed itself, but that's not
the only place, and that's not the only role agriculture place.
A country has to be able to feed itself, fuel itself,
and fight for itself to truly be free. And that's
why what this group is every component of that, and
we now have a president who understands it and is
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willing to do everything within his power to make sure
the United States continues to be the greatest country on
the face of the planet.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 13 (09:16):
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American Cattle News reopening the southern border with Mexico for
live feeder cattle good or bad? More after this.
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Speaker 9 (10:24):
The threat of New World screw worm has caused the
US to close the border with Mexico for feeder cattle.
That's recently reopened. Justin Douglass, Arizona, Robbie Kirkland is a
family feeder from Vega, Texas.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Those cattle are used by you know, farmers, backgrounders, and
then feed lots. So all different sectors of the of
the you know, of the market of the of the
beach chain. So this cattle will come across, and like
I said, a lot of them will be fed you know,
particularly in our region, I mean the Texas Cattle feeder region, Texas, Oklahoma,
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New Mexico, and then probably some up into maybe southern
part of Kansas. But uh, you know, the majority of
them would be fed in in our region. And so
those cattle would come in, a lot of them will
get We'll be put on pasture, could be gone wheat pasture,
could be summer grass pasture, and then like I said,
would go on into the to the to the feed
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lots sector. And and that's kind of how they're used.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
And why is this important to continue.
Speaker 14 (11:33):
Take a million head roughly out of the supply for
you know, shutting off the ports in and between Mexico
and the US. So that's put a really strain on
the numbers in the you know, in the feed lots,
on our grass, on our wheat pasture because of just
you know, just sheer numbers. So that's made a huge impact.
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And so in our region, we would say that there
would be around fifteen percent of the cattle on feed
or in our position would be cattle historically from.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Mexico American cattle.
Speaker 15 (12:10):
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Speaker 16 (12:17):
Curtis Bosma, vice president of producer services for High Ground
Dairy in Vicelia, California. Curtis, it truly was June dairy
month on US farms, as melt production soared three point
three percent from June twenty twenty four, biggest increase since
May twenty twenty one. But there is a caveat when
it comes to comparison to a year ago, isn't there?
Speaker 17 (12:39):
Yeah, those year of a year numbers can sometimes be
a little deceiting when the prior year did not perform
up to part. Remember back to June of twenty twenty four,
we started to see a pretty significant amount of herds
across the US, you know, getting faced with bird flu.
So we had a little bit of a blip on
the radar there. So maybe the year over year number
may jump out, but still I think year over year
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numbers aside the fact that we added versus last year,
about one hundred and forty six thousand milk cows. That's
a pretty significant number for this market to deal with.
Speaker 18 (13:11):
What do you.
Speaker 16 (13:12):
See the impact as far as milk prices down the road,
we've got weather coming into play here. Will we see
another increase in July or will it be down.
Speaker 17 (13:22):
Heat stress has been a big topic of conversation here.
But I think again, we're seeing a lot of changes
and shifts in the US dairy herd. We're seeing coal
rates drag at some pretty low levels. We're seeing you know,
slaughter numbers are very low, so people are holding cows longer.
Kind Of a lot of that focus from a you know,
breeding and repro strategy on you know, longevity, Getting that
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extra actation beef on dairy also plays into that as well,
where you know, cattle that maybe are towards the end
of their productive life cycle for milk, as long as
you can, you know, get one more calf out of them,
you know, when that calf is worth what they're worth today,
that's a significant additional amount of revenue to get these herds.
So it's a much different dynamic I think we're dealing
with here from a herd perspective, But I would expect
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us to continue to see some moderate growth. And I
think the other thing too is when you look at
this report and you think about you know, a lot
of the storylines we've been tracking over the last year,
you know, looking at replacement values and how tight the
heifer inventory has been across the US. I think there
was a lot of doubts that US dairy producers could
really step on the gas going into this year with
some additional milk. But this is just kind of showing
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us that there has been a lot of planned expansion
taking place, and now you know, with all the processing
capacities coming along in specific regions, we're seeing them olk
there as well.
Speaker 16 (14:36):
Where there's a will, there's a way. Thank you. Curtis Bosma,
vice president of producer Services for High Ground Dairy in Visalia, California.
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Really dialing in irrigation and understanding how much the plants
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Speaker 2 (16:55):
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When it comes to USDA's July outlook of meat production
at prices.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
The changes were relatively minor.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
With World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jacketowski, adding this
caveat to the beef section.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
They assumed that the border with Mexico remains closed to
cattle trades, so we're not taking any cattle from Mexico
into the US.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That reflects current policy as the US at Mexico continue
protocols to keep New World screw worm out of our country.
The Miighter adjustments noted by Jacketowski included mixed changes in
the current calendar year for various meat production and price
forecast from the prior month. Month over month, total US
meat production increases at for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We raised our hog price forecast by seventy five cents
per hundred weight.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Based on continued tight beef supplies, resent price straight, a
larger forecast at pig crop, and for next year increase
pork production.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
In terms of US beef production for twenty twenty five
lowered a little bit one hundred and seventy million pounds
based on relatively slower pace of slaughter, especially steers and
heifers recently. And for twenty twenty six, we raised our
beef production forecast by about five hundred and forty million pounds.
These are not cattle coming in from Mexico. This is
all going to be mostly US cattle and some beef imports,
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but that just reflects higher US cattle placements in the
second half.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It'll become beef next year, and reflecting the fact that
we've also had a pretty good crop last year, so
that should also support those supplies going into twenty twenty six.
Steer prices adjusted just attack had lower for twenty twenty five,
mainly reflecting prices reported in the second quarter. That adjusts
our annual price forecast lower nineteen cents per hundred weight
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to two hundred and twenty one dollars and thirty one
cents per hundred weight, and we made no change to
our twenty twenty six steer price forecast, which would be
up seven dollars and nineteen cents per hundredweight year over year.
Hog prices seen some recent strength. Increased our hog price
forecast for twenty twenty five by a dollars seventeen per
hundred weight, reflecting that recent strength, and we expect that
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to continue into twenty twenty six, in part supported by
continued tight beef supplies, so we raised our twenty twenty
six hog price forecast, still down three dollars and eighty
two cents year over year at next year's price of
sixty four dollars and seventy five cents per hundredweight. Broiler
and turkey production forecast just shrewed up for twenty twenty
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five to reflect recent production hatchery data. Boiler production raised
by one hundred and ten million pounds, Turkey production lowered
just a bit ten million pounds this month, and no
changes for twenty twenty six boilers. A small increase in
our price forecast for twenty twenty five. Turkey price forecast
for twenty twenty five, seeing some recent strength there too,
We raised our price forecast by two point six cents
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per pound, reflecting some tighter supplies, and currently at one
hundred and eighteen and a half cents per pound. Didn't
make any change to our twenty twenty six price forecasts.
In terms of the US meat trade, for twenty twenty five,
our broiler meat export forecasts were reduced by one hundred
and fifteen million pounds, still very large almost six and
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a half billion pounds of boiler meat exported, but we
hold it back this month by one hundred and fifteen
million pounds, just reflecting a lot of international price competition
from various countries, including Brazil, kind of eating into many
of those global markets.
Speaker 27 (22:48):
Well, Congress's One Big, Beautiful Bill budget package did include
roughly a sixty six billion dollar investment in key farm programs.
There's still work to be done. Brian Glenn, as the
director of Government Affairs with the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Set of key focus was on improving risk management programs.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
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 27 (23:29):
Glenn says there are still several critical farm programs that
need updating through a new Farm bill.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Some of those programs include reauthorization and funding for the
Conservation Reserve Program, also support for real broadband programs in
the Reural Development Title, and support for additional research and
extension programs. And there's also opportunity to make important policy updates,
such as securing a fixed to Proposition twelve.
Speaker 27 (23:55):
He said, Congress is working on the next steps in
the farm bill process.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Right now, Chairman G. T.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Thompson of the House Agriculture Committee is drafting a farm
bill that addresses those remaining farm bill programs. They're doing
that as we speak. Both the House and Senate Agriculture
Committees are currently conducting hearings on important policy priorities, and
they're looking to move the bill this fall.
Speaker 27 (24:18):
Again. That is Brian Glenn, director of Government Affairs with
the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Speaker 28 (24:24):
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I am Haley's ship. Well, kudos are turning into congratulations
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of individuals is now seeing accolades evolve into well earned promotions.
Glenn Millar has been named the executive vice president of
Strategy and Global Markets, following more than a decade of
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expanding global demand for real California milk. Under his leadership,
cheese exports are up forty percent and fluid exports have
doubled in just five years. Janet Ariano now serves as
Director of Internet, having led efforts to expand product availability
in Mexico and opening new markets in Latin America and
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the Middle East. On the domestic front, Caitlin Harmon has
been promoted to Vice president of US Business Development after
driving retail growth, e commerce and food service strategies, and
Lizzie Warber moves into the role of Director of Business
Development following standout work in shopper marketing, brand promotions and
processor partnerships. CMAB CEO Bob Carroll says the promotions reflect
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the organization's commitment to collaboration, innovation, and results for California's
dairy farm families, both here at home and around the world.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
For more on the.
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Speaker 1 (26:49):
Here are some farm news this morning, friends. Updates to
the forty five Z tax credit have the potential to
boost demand for US grown agricultural products. Chad Smith has
our story.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Farmers and ranchers recently received some good news when it
comes to the Sustainable Fuel tax credit. Samantha Ayub, an
economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, offers a quick
refresher on the credit, known commonly as forty five Z.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Forty five Z is also known as the Clean Fuel
Production Credit. It was created in twenty twenty two's inflation
reduction Act to consolidate some of the tax credits for
individual biofuels like biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
The recent budget reconciliation package called the One Big Beautiful Bill,
made important changes to the credit that will benefit US growers.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
For one, anything that is used as a feedstock for
forty five Z fuels receiving the credit has to be
made from feedstocks produced in the US, Mexico, or Canada.
And then it also cannot be applied to companies who
are either foreign owned or in two years, foreign controlled,
so adding to American biofuels capacity, it also takes out
indirect land use change is through the emission scoring that
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is used to determine what fuels qualify for what level
of forty five Z tax credit.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The goal is to increase biofuel capacity in the US,
but also generate more demand for American agricultural products.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Manure, digestors from livestock can all be used as feedstocks,
and so especially when we're seen ors like this with
record bumper crop years, the hope is that we determine
more demand for American products totally support these large crops
that we continue to see.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well Friends. Army worms have made their way into Wisconsin.
Kevin Hoyer, an agronomist with Melrose Farm, supplies, that army
worms have hit some fields hard.
Speaker 29 (28:46):
I started getting some calls last week from some growers
asking me if I'd been hearing about army worms, and
that they were hearing rumors of it in the neighborhood.
And this week the calls got a little bit more concentrated,
and we went at did some scouting and lo and behold, Yes,
army worms have come into areas western Wisconsin here and
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are particularly devastating in some localized areas.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Boyer says, army worms have been spreading north and can
take over fields quickly, decimating entire crops.
Speaker 29 (29:18):
They do move fast, and they originate primarily in your
grassy or areas on the farm, whether it's hedgerows, fence rows,
grassy passeres, waterways, road ditches. The moths fly upper are
pushed up from the south in the early spring lay
their eggs on the leaves of the grass in ample
am ay and every year that change a little bit
depending on how warm from the climate we have at
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that time. Period. But as those egg masses hatch on
those grasses, the worms migrate out of the grass into
your cornfields and they devour quickly. It almost looks like
a large animal, large mammal has been in there chewing
on the leaves and they take huge chunks out and
no time you can have whole fields appear on you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He said. There are no early warnings of infestation, but
there are some telltale signs.
Speaker 29 (30:05):
Some of the things that you want to be concerned
about or cognizant of on the farm is Number one
is grass control in your fields. In recent years, there's
been a strong push to used cover crops in the
fields for various reasons, to improve soil organic health, for
water holding capacity, for some very positive reasons, using cover
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crops that winter rye. Unfortunately, winter rye can harbor these
army worm moths. So there's a lot of cultural practices
that we look at. One of them being just making
sure your fields are clean of grass weeds. Number two
can be hybrid selection in the corn. If you're planting
a non gmol corn, there is zero protection to armyworms.
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Some of the newer hybrids that have BT traits in
them to protect against corn bores, cornworms. Many of those
traits also protect against army worms.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
He added that keeping the grass in check around and
is fields goes a long way to combat the issue well. Friends,
The cattle industry isn't the only part of the livestock
sector with low inventory. Jim Matheson, executive director of the
National Bison Association, says his producers are in similar situation.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
From a macro view, very similarly to the cattle industry.
We are at a very tight supply still in our business,
very some of the low inventory of cattle right now,
which is having an impact of course on pricing, et cetera. Meanwhile,
and this is kind of a new one for us,
consumer demand is just growing like crazy. For bison, it's
really caught on, and we've had these shortages before. However,
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this time we didn't have the pent up demand for
it like we do this time. And on top of that,
with cattle prices being so strong, typically when we would
hit high prices like this, we would see transition of
course from cattleman crossing over to bison, which we're not
seeing so much this time because of those great cattle prices,
and we're happy for those producers as.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well talking bison numbers. This morning farm news, you're listening
to wag life.
Speaker 30 (31:58):
From that work. 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 to spend upwards
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of twenty thousand dollars in pest control from twenty twenty
one to twenty three. Farmers National Company 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 value stable, eyes investors are increasingly attracted by
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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 rule farm bank's play EID in supporting agriculture. Despite
continued challenges from global uncertainty and lingering supply chain disruptions,
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four banks posted solid financial performance, improved asset quality, and
increased lending to America's farmers and ranchers. The US banking
industry remains the sincle largest provider of agg credit, holding
two hundred and five billion dollars in farm loans through
twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 5 (34:19):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for today friends.
We're heading into the home stretch of the growing season,
now critical time for row crops. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
It's been hot, We've seen wet weather and it's also
been windy. This year's thrown a lot at farmers. While
overall crop conditions remain favorable, we are entering a critical
timeframe for maintaining crop health heading down summer's home stretch.
John Trelore, senior technical agronomist with Novonsis, has advice for
growers to help optimize soybean health.
Speaker 31 (34:52):
We've had a lot of timely moisture and rain events
keeping the crop moving forward. The earlier season was a
little bit and things were a little bit of soiinobeans
in those environments like to just sit there for a
long time and not do too much. So now that
the heat is coming combined with moisture, the crops are
looking pretty good.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
The late July through early August timeframe is especially important
for soybean growth for us.
Speaker 31 (35:17):
We've inoculated the crops, We've seen those nodules start to set.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
The plant is.
Speaker 31 (35:21):
Now looking for that nitrogen fixation when it's starting to
fill pods and starting to set pods and moving into
the summer phase and into the pod filling stage, needs
all the energy it can get, needs all the nitrogen
it can get. And with the moisture there in those
good conditions, we're going to see some strong nodulation as well.
So I think right now it's really important to keep
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those crops moving forward, to protect them from pathogens, protect
them from insects.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
He talks about things growers should keep in mind when
making late season input decisions.
Speaker 31 (35:50):
Some of our technology, like our LCO technology and ratchet,
which is something that can be applied in season with
either fungicides or herbicides, really help that plant with the photosynthesis,
really kind of upregulate the photosynthesis and the sugar production,
really kind of maximize those internal biological processes. And by
adding something like the LCO into the cropping system, it's
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going to keep that crop moving forward as fast and
as strong as it possibly can. You know, we think
about those in season sprays usually as things to protect
the crop from pathogen, to insects, right diseases, but we
can also add products that help continue to enhance photosynthesis
to enhance their nutritional needs as well.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Trilora talks about adding a plant nutrition product to your
tank mix.
Speaker 31 (36:32):
Well, nice thing about ratchet is it's incredibly easy to use.
It's a signal molecule that is communicating between the plant
and the microbes in the soil. It's a naturally occurring
signal molecule, but it's not biological in the sense that
it's alive.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
If it's not.
Speaker 31 (36:47):
Alive, you can't kill it, meaning you can mix it
really easily with any of the nzas and inputs, whether
that's an end season nutritional or in season control product,
we can add that and it's really really low volume.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
We're looking at.
Speaker 31 (37:00):
Basically two to four ounces an acre that can go
in with one of the in season sprays. We see
one and a half to two bushel increase on the soybeans.
You want it to be easy, right, That's super important
these days is just that ease of users, conversation and
back by solid data.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
To learn more about how ratchet and other biologicals from
nov Nesis can help you optimize yields, visit think biological
dot com. Chadsmith reporting with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends about a time for today, Thanks for joining us.
Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bag Life
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley, in all across the country. Well friends.
USDA's projections for domestic corn supply and demand this month
features a record in both the old and new marketing year.
Rod bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Records are noted in USDA's domestic cord Supply and the
bad estimate.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
In July, US exports would reach a new record of
over two point seven billion bushels that would surpass the
previous record in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That projected record cord export forecast applies to the old
marketing year of twenty twenty four twenty five, according to
World Agricultural Outlook board chair Mark Jackatowski. What makes this
export forecast more significant.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
All of this export volume has been achieved with essentially
no exports to China, which in twenty twenty one it
was China that really drove that big strength in US
export demand.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So where is our old crop cord going get the
global marketplace?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
This year?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We're seeing strong export growth to places like South Korea, Mexico, Japan, Columbia,
and others, and we're also benefiting a little bit from
the fact that Brazil had a relatively slow start to
their horn export season, so that's giving some late season
strength to US exports.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
As for the new marketing year, for our nation's cord
crop twenty twenty five twenty six.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Production was reduced by one hundred and fifteen million bushels,
currently forecasted just over fifteen point seven billion bushels, up
eight hundred and thirty eight million bushels year over year
and a new record.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Even with that record production this marketing year, lower estimated
corn production from the previous season is contributing to lower
ending stocks on the ballot sheet, which carry over to
this marketing year. As smaller beginning stocks.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Reduced our feed and residual use by fifty million bushels,
and the ballots of that production is really just coming
out of stocks. We reduced our ending stocks estimate by
ninety million bushels, so we're looking at carrying out about
just over one point six billion bushels of corn in
a new crop season in twenty five twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Despite the lower eddig stocks, the season end to gaverage
price for cord rebee unchanged month over month at four
dollars twenty cents a bushel. Broad bad reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well Friends, recently passed tax rules could have a benefit
for agriculture that stories ahead on ag Life Bob Quinn.
Here are some farm news this morning, Friends. Updates to
the forty five Z tax credit have the potential to
boost demand for US grown agricultural products. Chad Smith has
our story.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Farmers and ranchers recently received some good news when it
comes to the sustainable Fuel tax credit. Samantha Ayub, an
economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, offers a quick
refresher on the credit, known commonly as forty five Z.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Forty five Z is also known as the Clean Fuel
Production Credit. It was created in twenty twenty two's Inflation
Reduction Act to consolidate some of the tax credits for
individual biofuels like biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
The recent budget reconciliation package, called the One Big Beautiful Bill,
made important changes to the credit that will benefit US growers.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
For one, anything that is used as a feedstock for
forty five Z fuels receiving the credit has to be
made from feedstocks produced in the US, Mexico, or Canada,
and then it also cannot be applied to companies who
are either foreign owned or in two years, foreign controlled,
So adding to American biofuels capacity, it also takes out
indirect land use changes through the emission scoring that is
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used to determine what fuels qualify for what level of
forty five Z tax credit.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
The goal is to increase biofuel capacity in the US,
but also generate more demand for American agricol cultural products.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Manure, digestors from livestock can all be used as feedstocks,
and so especially when we're seniors like this with record
bumper crop years, the hope is that we determine more
demand for American products totally support these large crops that
we continue to see.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Learn more on the market, Intel Paige at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well Friends. Farmers have to share a lot of personal
data to take part in government programs and need that
data to stay private. However, questions about the Department of
Government efficiencies access to farmers data are causing significant concern.
Senator Tammy Baldwin out of Wisconsin sent a letter to
USDA expressing her concerns.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
So we learned very recently that an individual had been
given access not only to review a USDA database, but
also to manipulate it, to edit it, to overwrite it.
And this is a database that has a lot of
private information. You know, to think about the information you
provide when you're taking a loan or a grant. So
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it's personal information, it's financial information, it's information that you
wouldn't want your competition to get.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is a database that few have access to, and
for a good reason.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
This database prior had very very limited access. And it
appears that the AG Secretary Rollins has given permission to
someone from DACHE. Reminder to Listener's dog is called the
Department of Government Deficiency, except for the fact that it's
not a department that was created or that has been
given any sort of legislative approval. It is a creation
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of this president and his team. It's unaccountable, and people
are very concerned that not only could their information be
reviewed by somebody who has no subject matter expertise. He
is not an AG expert, he is not an economic
effort and so not only can private personal information be
looked at by this, but it could be manipulated.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
She said. Database manipulation has already happened.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
We've already heard some reports that that has happened, that
some people have been deleted from the database because of
some irregularities with regard to how their first base entered
into this. It's deeply distressing to farmers and processors that
I've been talking to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Again, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin joining us well, friends, The
cattle industry isn't the only part of the livestock sector
with low inventory. Jim Matheson, executive director of the National
Bison Association, says his producers are in a similar situation.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
From a macro view, very similarly to the cattle industry.
We are at a very tight supply still in our
business are some of the low inventory of cattle right now,
which is having an impact of course on pricing, et cetera. Meanwhile,
and this is kind of a new one for us.
Consumer demand is just growing like crazy. For bison, it's
really caught on and we've had these shortages before. However,
(06:57):
this time we didn't have the pent up demand for
it like we do this time. And on top of
that with cattle prices being so strong. Typically when we
would hit high prices like this, we would see transition
of course from cattleman crossing over to bison, which we're
not seeing so much this time because of those great
cattle prices, and we're happy for those producers as well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Talking bison numbers. This morning, farm us, you're listening to
WAG Life.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
It's another agnews update foreign ownership of domestic farmland. More
after this.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
This is Shaquille O'Neill reminding you that anytime is a
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Speaker 11 (07:35):
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Speaker 9 (07:45):
SKay coum with cold by Arkansas Governors Sarah Huckabee Sanders
on prohibiting foreign ownership of farm land.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
The last couple of months.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
We've passed new legislation just this year allowing us to
prohibit them from now not only owning farmland in our state,
but from building or buying land around our military bases
and critical infrastructure. It is something that has to happen
and something that States have been leading the way on
but unfortunately, our states can't do it alone. That's why
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events like today matter so much. That's why leadership from
people like Secretary Rollins matter so much. The fact that
we now have a president who understands who our real
enemies are and is willing to take them on is
making a huge difference, not just in our country but
around the world. You know, we've talked a lot about
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today a country's ability to feed itself, but that's not
the only place, and that's not the only role agriculture place.
A country has to be able to feed itself, fuel itself,
and fight for itself to truly be free. And that's
why what this group is every component of that, and
we now have a president who understands it and is
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willing to do everything within his power to make sure
the United States continues to be the greatest country on
the face of the planet.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 13 (09:16):
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American Cattle News reopening the southern border with Mexico for
live feeder cattle good or bad? More after this.
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Speaker 9 (10:24):
The threat of New World screw worm has caused the
US to close the border with Mexico for feeder cattle.
That's recently reopened. Justin Douglass, Arizona, Robbie Kirkland is a
family feeder from Vega, Texas.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Those cattle are used by you know, farmers, backgrounders, and
then feed lots. So all different sectors of the of
the you know, of the market of the of the
beach chain. So this cattle will come across, and like
I said, a lot of them will be fed you know,
particularly in our region, I mean the Texas Cattle feeder region, Texas, Oklahoma,
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New Mexico, and then probably some up into maybe southern
part of Kansas. But uh, you know, the majority of
them would be fed in in our region. And so
those cattle would come in, a lot of them will
get We'll be put on pasture, could be gone wheat pasture,
could be summer grass pasture, and then like I said,
would go on into the to the to the feed
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lots sector. And and that's kind of how they're used.
Speaker 9 (11:29):
And why is this important to continue.
Speaker 14 (11:33):
Take a million head roughly out of the supply for
you know, shutting off the ports in and between Mexico
and the US. So that's put a really strain on
the numbers in the you know, in the feed lots,
on our grass, on our wheat pasture because of just
you know, just sheer numbers. So that's made a huge impact.
(11:56):
And so in our region, we would say that there
would be around fifteen percent of the cattle on feed
or in our position would be cattle historically from.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Mexico American cattle.
Speaker 15 (12:10):
Meuse this is dairy radio now Belgie Monday.
Speaker 16 (12:17):
Curtis Bosma, vice president of producer services for High Ground
Dairy in Vicelia, California. Curtis, it truly was June dairy
month on US farms, as melt production soared three point
three percent from June twenty twenty four, biggest increase since
May twenty twenty one. But there is a caveat when
it comes to comparison to a year ago, isn't there?
Speaker 17 (12:39):
Yeah, those year of a year numbers can sometimes be
a little deceiting when the prior year did not perform
up to part. Remember back to June of twenty twenty four,
we started to see a pretty significant amount of herds
across the US, you know, getting faced with bird flu.
So we had a little bit of a blip on
the radar there. So maybe the year over year number
may jump out, but still I think year over year
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numbers aside the fact that we added versus last year,
about one hundred and forty six thousand milk cows. That's
a pretty significant number for this market to deal with.
Speaker 18 (13:11):
What do you.
Speaker 16 (13:12):
See the impact as far as milk prices down the road,
we've got weather coming into play here. Will we see
another increase in July or will it be down.
Speaker 17 (13:22):
Heat stress has been a big topic of conversation here.
But I think again, we're seeing a lot of changes
and shifts in the US dairy herd. We're seeing coal
rates drag at some pretty low levels. We're seeing you know,
slaughter numbers are very low, so people are holding cows longer.
Kind Of a lot of that focus from a you know,
breeding and repro strategy on you know, longevity, Getting that
(13:44):
extra actation beef on dairy also plays into that as well,
where you know, cattle that maybe are towards the end
of their productive life cycle for milk, as long as
you can, you know, get one more calf out of them,
you know, when that calf is worth what they're worth today,
that's a significant additional amount of revenue to get these herds.
So it's a much different dynamic I think we're dealing
with here from a herd perspective, But I would expect
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us to continue to see some moderate growth. And I
think the other thing too is when you look at
this report and you think about you know, a lot
of the storylines we've been tracking over the last year,
you know, looking at replacement values and how tight the
heifer inventory has been across the US. I think there
was a lot of doubts that US dairy producers could
really step on the gas going into this year with
some additional milk. But this is just kind of showing
(14:27):
us that there has been a lot of planned expansion
taking place, and now you know, with all the processing
capacities coming along in specific regions, we're seeing them olk
there as well.
Speaker 16 (14:36):
Where there's a will, there's a way. Thank you. Curtis Bosma,
vice president of producer Services for High Ground Dairy in Visalia, California.
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Here's dairy farmer Hank Wagner and his daughter Laura with
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A limited resource water needed to grow a wide variety
of crops in the Golden State.
Speaker 23 (16:13):
Really dialing in irrigation and understanding how much the plants
need when they need it to produce not only optimal yields,
but a high quality product is really important to the
growers out here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That focus led USDA Agricultural researcher Kyle Dipper and colleagues
in California to develop satellite based bottles to better understand
irrigation practices.
Speaker 23 (16:35):
And typing, specifically thermal imagery to map how much water
the crop is using in real time, with.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
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Speaker 23 (16:45):
Once we're able to measure that now from a satellite
point of view, we can do that over the entire
field and entire ranch, and over the entire state, so
they can make a more informed decision when it comes
to irrigation.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
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Eating a hand of walnuts a day, well, it's easy,
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I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Prenut Report, part of
the Vast ag Information Network. Pam Gravier is a Senior
Marketing Director International for the California Walnut Commission. She talks
about that power of three.
Speaker 25 (17:23):
No, absolutely, you know, I actually had walnuts with breakfast
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of omega three that their bodies need but they can't produce.
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Speaker 25 (18:00):
Absolutely, they're plant based, and there's not a lot of
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Speaker 24 (18:16):
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Speaker 26 (18:27):
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(18:48):
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Speaker 18 (18:56):
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Speaker 24 (19:25):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
When it comes to USDA's July outlook of meat production
at prices.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
The changes were relatively minor.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
With World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jacketowski, adding this
caveat to the beef section.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
They assumed that the border with Mexico remains closed to
cattle trades, so we're not taking any cattle from Mexico
into the US.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That reflects current policy as the US at Mexico continue
protocols to keep New World screw worm out of our country.
The Miighter adjustments noted by Jacketowski included mixed changes in
the current calendar year for various meat production and price
forecast from the prior month. Month over month, total US
meat production increases at for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We raised our hog price forecast by seventy five cents
per hundred weight.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Based on continued tight beef supplies, resent price straight, a
larger forecast at pig crop, and for next year increase
pork production.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
In terms of US beef production for twenty twenty five
lowered a little bit one hundred and seventy million pounds
based on relatively slower pace of slaughter, especially steers and
heifers recently. And for twenty twenty six, we raised our
beef production forecast by about five hundred and forty million pounds.
These are not cattle coming in from Mexico. This is
all going to be mostly US cattle and some beef imports,
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but that just reflects higher US cattle placements in the
second half.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It'll become beef next year, and reflecting the fact that
we've also had a pretty good crop last year, so
that should also support those supplies going into twenty twenty six.
Steer prices adjusted just attack had lower for twenty twenty five,
mainly reflecting prices reported in the second quarter. That adjusts
our annual price forecast lower nineteen cents per hundred weight
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to two hundred and twenty one dollars and thirty one
cents per hundred weight, and we made no change to
our twenty twenty six steer price forecast, which would be
up seven dollars and nineteen cents per hundredweight year over year.
Hog prices seen some recent strength. Increased our hog price
forecast for twenty twenty five by a dollars seventeen per
hundred weight, reflecting that recent strength, and we expect that
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to continue into twenty twenty six, in part supported by
continued tight beef supplies, so we raised our twenty twenty
six hog price forecast, still down three dollars and eighty
two cents year over year at next year's price of
sixty four dollars and seventy five cents per hundredweight. Broiler
and turkey production forecast just shrewed up for twenty twenty
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five to reflect recent production hatchery data. Boiler production raised
by one hundred and ten million pounds, Turkey production lowered
just a bit ten million pounds this month, and no
changes for twenty twenty six boilers. A small increase in
our price forecast for twenty twenty five. Turkey price forecast
for twenty twenty five, seeing some recent strength there too,
We raised our price forecast by two point six cents
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per pound, reflecting some tighter supplies, and currently at one
hundred and eighteen and a half cents per pound. Didn't
make any change to our twenty twenty six price forecasts.
In terms of the US meat trade, for twenty twenty five,
our broiler meat export forecasts were reduced by one hundred
and fifteen million pounds, still very large almost six and
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a half billion pounds of boiler meat exported, but we
hold it back this month by one hundred and fifteen
million pounds, just reflecting a lot of international price competition
from various countries, including Brazil, kind of eating into many
of those global markets.
Speaker 27 (22:48):
Well, Congress's One Big, Beautiful Bill budget package did include
roughly a sixty six billion dollar investment in key farm programs.
There's still work to be done. Brian Glenn, as the
director of Government Affairs with the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Set of key focus was on improving risk management programs.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
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 27 (23:29):
Glenn says there are still several critical farm programs that
need updating through a new Farm bill.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Some of those programs include reauthorization and funding for the
Conservation Reserve Program, also support for real broadband programs in
the Reural Development Title, and support for additional research and
extension programs. And there's also opportunity to make important policy updates,
such as securing a fixed to Proposition twelve.
Speaker 27 (23:55):
He said, Congress is working on the next steps in
the farm bill process.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Right now, Chairman G. T.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Thompson of the House Agriculture Committee is drafting a farm
bill that addresses those remaining farm bill programs. They're doing
that as we speak. Both the House and Senate Agriculture
Committees are currently conducting hearings on important policy priorities, and
they're looking to move the bill this fall.
Speaker 27 (24:18):
Again. That is Brian Glenn, director of Government Affairs with
the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Speaker 28 (24:24):
It's time for California agg today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. Well, kudos are turning into congratulations
at the California Milk Advisory Board, where a solid team
of individuals is now seeing accolades evolve into well earned promotions.
Glenn Millar has been named the executive vice president of
Strategy and Global Markets, following more than a decade of
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expanding global demand for real California milk. Under his leadership,
cheese exports are up forty percent and fluid exports have
doubled in just five years. Janet Ariano now serves as
Director of Internet, having led efforts to expand product availability
in Mexico and opening new markets in Latin America and
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the Middle East. On the domestic front, Caitlin Harmon has
been promoted to Vice president of US Business Development after
driving retail growth, e commerce and food service strategies, and
Lizzie Warber moves into the role of Director of Business
Development following standout work in shopper marketing, brand promotions and
processor partnerships. CMAB CEO Bob Carroll says the promotions reflect
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the organization's commitment to collaboration, innovation, and results for California's
dairy farm families, both here at home and around the world.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
For more on the.
Speaker 28 (25:41):
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Speaker 1 (26:49):
Here are some farm news this morning, friends. Updates to
the forty five Z tax credit have the potential to
boost demand for US grown agricultural products. Chad Smith has
our story.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Farmers and ranchers recently received some good news when it
comes to the Sustainable Fuel tax credit. Samantha Ayub, an
economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, offers a quick
refresher on the credit, known commonly as forty five Z.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Forty five Z is also known as the Clean Fuel
Production Credit. It was created in twenty twenty two's inflation
reduction Act to consolidate some of the tax credits for
individual biofuels like biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
The recent budget reconciliation package called the One Big Beautiful Bill,
made important changes to the credit that will benefit US growers.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
For one, anything that is used as a feedstock for
forty five Z fuels receiving the credit has to be
made from feedstocks produced in the US, Mexico, or Canada.
And then it also cannot be applied to companies who
are either foreign owned or in two years, foreign controlled,
so adding to American biofuels capacity, it also takes out
indirect land use change is through the emission scoring that
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is used to determine what fuels qualify for what level
of forty five Z tax credit.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The goal is to increase biofuel capacity in the US,
but also generate more demand for American agricultural products.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Manure, digestors from livestock can all be used as feedstocks,
and so especially when we're seen ors like this with
record bumper crop years, the hope is that we determine
more demand for American products totally support these large crops
that we continue to see.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Learn more on the market intel page at fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well Friends. Army worms have made their way into Wisconsin.
Kevin Hoyer, an agronomist with Melrose Farm, supplies, that army
worms have hit some fields hard.
Speaker 29 (28:46):
I started getting some calls last week from some growers
asking me if I'd been hearing about army worms, and
that they were hearing rumors of it in the neighborhood.
And this week the calls got a little bit more concentrated,
and we went at did some scouting and lo and behold, Yes,
army worms have come into areas western Wisconsin here and
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are particularly devastating in some localized areas.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Boyer says, army worms have been spreading north and can
take over fields quickly, decimating entire crops.
Speaker 29 (29:18):
They do move fast, and they originate primarily in your
grassy or areas on the farm, whether it's hedgerows, fence rows,
grassy passeres, waterways, road ditches. The moths fly upper are
pushed up from the south in the early spring lay
their eggs on the leaves of the grass in ample
am ay and every year that change a little bit
depending on how warm from the climate we have at
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that time. Period. But as those egg masses hatch on
those grasses, the worms migrate out of the grass into
your cornfields and they devour quickly. It almost looks like
a large animal, large mammal has been in there chewing
on the leaves and they take huge chunks out and
no time you can have whole fields appear on you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He said. There are no early warnings of infestation, but
there are some telltale signs.
Speaker 29 (30:05):
Some of the things that you want to be concerned
about or cognizant of on the farm is Number one
is grass control in your fields. In recent years, there's
been a strong push to used cover crops in the
fields for various reasons, to improve soil organic health, for
water holding capacity, for some very positive reasons, using cover
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crops that winter rye. Unfortunately, winter rye can harbor these
army worm moths. So there's a lot of cultural practices
that we look at. One of them being just making
sure your fields are clean of grass weeds. Number two
can be hybrid selection in the corn. If you're planting
a non gmol corn, there is zero protection to armyworms.
(30:47):
Some of the newer hybrids that have BT traits in
them to protect against corn bores, cornworms. Many of those
traits also protect against army worms.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
He added that keeping the grass in check around and
is fields goes a long way to combat the issue well. Friends,
The cattle industry isn't the only part of the livestock
sector with low inventory. Jim Matheson, executive director of the
National Bison Association, says his producers are in similar situation.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
From a macro view, very similarly to the cattle industry.
We are at a very tight supply still in our business,
very some of the low inventory of cattle right now,
which is having an impact of course on pricing, et cetera. Meanwhile,
and this is kind of a new one for us,
consumer demand is just growing like crazy. For bison, it's
really caught on, and we've had these shortages before. However,
(31:35):
this time we didn't have the pent up demand for
it like we do this time. And on top of that,
with cattle prices being so strong, typically when we would
hit high prices like this, we would see transition of
course from cattleman crossing over to bison, which we're not
seeing so much this time because of those great cattle prices,
and we're happy for those producers as.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well talking bison numbers. This morning farm news, you're listening
to wag life.
Speaker 30 (31:58):
From that work. 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 to spend upwards
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of twenty thousand dollars in pest control from twenty twenty
one to twenty three. Farmers National Company 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 value stable, eyes investors are increasingly attracted by
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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 rule farm bank's play EID in supporting agriculture. Despite
continued challenges from global uncertainty and lingering supply chain disruptions,
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four banks posted solid financial performance, improved asset quality, and
increased lending to America's farmers and ranchers. The US banking
industry remains the sincle largest provider of agg credit, holding
two hundred and five billion dollars in farm loans through
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 26 (33:20):
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and thirty first, Open to the public and registration is free.
(33:41):
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Speaker 5 (34:19):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for today friends.
We're heading into the home stretch of the growing season,
now critical time for row crops. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
It's been hot, We've seen wet weather and it's also
been windy. This year's thrown a lot at farmers. While
overall crop conditions remain favorable, we are entering a critical
timeframe for maintaining crop health heading down summer's home stretch.
John Trelore, senior technical agronomist with Novonsis, has advice for
growers to help optimize soybean health.
Speaker 31 (34:52):
We've had a lot of timely moisture and rain events
keeping the crop moving forward. The earlier season was a
little bit and things were a little bit of soiinobeans
in those environments like to just sit there for a
long time and not do too much. So now that
the heat is coming combined with moisture, the crops are
looking pretty good.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
The late July through early August timeframe is especially important
for soybean growth for us.
Speaker 31 (35:17):
We've inoculated the crops, We've seen those nodules start to set.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
The plant is.
Speaker 31 (35:21):
Now looking for that nitrogen fixation when it's starting to
fill pods and starting to set pods and moving into
the summer phase and into the pod filling stage, needs
all the energy it can get, needs all the nitrogen
it can get. And with the moisture there in those
good conditions, we're going to see some strong nodulation as well.
So I think right now it's really important to keep
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those crops moving forward, to protect them from pathogens, protect
them from insects.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
He talks about things growers should keep in mind when
making late season input decisions.
Speaker 31 (35:50):
Some of our technology, like our LCO technology and ratchet,
which is something that can be applied in season with
either fungicides or herbicides, really help that plant with the photosynthesis,
really kind of upregulate the photosynthesis and the sugar production,
really kind of maximize those internal biological processes. And by
adding something like the LCO into the cropping system, it's
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going to keep that crop moving forward as fast and
as strong as it possibly can. You know, we think
about those in season sprays usually as things to protect
the crop from pathogen, to insects, right diseases, but we
can also add products that help continue to enhance photosynthesis
to enhance their nutritional needs as well.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Trilora talks about adding a plant nutrition product to your
tank mix.
Speaker 31 (36:32):
Well, nice thing about ratchet is it's incredibly easy to use.
It's a signal molecule that is communicating between the plant
and the microbes in the soil. It's a naturally occurring
signal molecule, but it's not biological in the sense that
it's alive.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
If it's not.
Speaker 31 (36:47):
Alive, you can't kill it, meaning you can mix it
really easily with any of the nzas and inputs, whether
that's an end season nutritional or in season control product,
we can add that and it's really really low volume.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
We're looking at.
Speaker 31 (37:00):
Basically two to four ounces an acre that can go
in with one of the in season sprays. We see
one and a half to two bushel increase on the soybeans.
You want it to be easy, right, That's super important
these days is just that ease of users, conversation and
back by solid data.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
To learn more about how ratchet and other biologicals from
nov Nesis can help you optimize yields, visit think biological
dot com. Chadsmith reporting with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends about a time for today, Thanks for joining us.
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