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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. USDA
recently announced a cross government effort to boost domestic farm security.
But what are some of the wise behind that. Rod
Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Farm and food security as national security, a phrase several
of the agg and consumer sectors agree upon, and it
is this thought that recently led Agriculture Secretary Brick Rawlins
and various federal government agencies and state governments to join
forces in this effort.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The USDA's National Farm Security Action Plan.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yet what are some of the wise behind this action
PLANID In recent years, one may note an increase in
potential threats of different guides to that secure food supply.
There is the purchase of agricultural land in our nation
by not just foreign entities, but in cases foreign adversaries
to our country. And what has the Feed Secretary Pete
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Heggs double concerned is the number of foreign owned AGG properties,
their military installations in the cotton neal US.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I
want to know who owns the land around our bases
and strategic bases, and getting an understanding of why foreign entities,
foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying upland around those bases.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It isn't just farm landoed and operated by foreign adversaries,
but recent acquisitions of American food processing and input companies
that are part of our nation's supply chain. Other farm
but food security threats on the radar of Attorney General
Pam Bondi and others include potential bioterrorism on the farm level.
Recent examples of such threats include.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Last month in Michigan, we charged two Chinese nationals for
attempting to smuggle potential agro terrorism weapons into the United States.
Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending
packages of concealed biological materials into the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Security threats to agribusinesses in recent years computer systems hacked
with intent to extort or cripple companies and individuals are
also noted. Then there is theft. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes as specifically.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
For decades, evil foreign governments have come into this country
and they've stolen our intellectual property, stolen our.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Genetics, whether patented c technology or livestock animal genetics. The
seven component National Farm Safety Action Plan not only focuses
on national security from a food and farm perspective, but
also from an economic security one as well as various agroterror,
theft and fraudulent activity leads to potential losses of crops, innovation,
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and revenue for our country and its farm and food sector.
I'm broad Bane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Farm Use ahead. You're listening to Aglife Bob quinn iverson
Farm US this morning. Friends. While the Northwest cherry harvest
is in full swing, with the crop easily living up
to preseason estimates of twenty one to twenty two million
boxes early on, Carly Lang, domestic promotions director at Northwest Cherries,
says things are going great.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Season's been off to a very strong start. We've had
more volume in the front end of the season than
I've seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Time compared to last year. Lang says, we're a head
of schedule.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
We're probably over a million boxes over where we were
last year at this point, so it's ramped up very quickly.
I mean everybody said it was coming off quick, but
we didn't realize it was going to be quite this quick.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
As for the size and reported high quality of this
year's crop.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Sizing has been excellent this year and at least eighty
three to eighty four percent of what we've shipped has
been ten and a half row and larger quality.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I've been hearing the same thing. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The fruit's eating good, which is awesome because if you
have a big volume year, we need fruit to help
move it right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Aside from a little rain, Lang says, the weather has
been good as well.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
But I've haven't heard any damage from that. I know
the heat early on kind of impacted the early early
growers a little bit, but other than that, I really
haven't heard of any damage, which is awesome.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
At this time in the season.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Lang says. Exports have ramped up as Northwest cherries go
worldwide well. Friends of the United States and Canada are working
to come together on trade agreements, and negotiations are continuing.
One thing that may come as a surprise is that
the US and Canada's top agriculture officials have not spoken yet.
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture and agri food says
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he hasn't spoken with us AG Secretary Brook Rawlins.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
No, I haven't, and it's something that we need to do,
but we need the right time too. I mean, there's
a lot going on. We had the G seven, we
wanted to wait, then we received the letter on the
thirty five percent. So it's timing and needs to be
addressed obviously, But I think we need to be very
strategic when we do this.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He said. It's important for Canadian ag officials to be
on the same page when they find you sit down
to talk.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
That's a very fragile time in the trade. So I
don't want to disrupt any more than anyone else, but
I want to make sure that I have all my
ideas and strategies settled before I make that attempt again.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture with US well friends,
how might be recently announced a renewable fuel standard proposal
play a role in USDA's look at soybean oil supply
and demand. We have a report this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
In a USDA July domestic ballad sheet full of JUBE
report data such as quarterly stocks at crop acreage. Chief
Acatabis Seth Meyer believes one of the more significant contributors
to this BUZWOSNI is.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Trying to get a handle on what we think the
impacts on soybean crush soybean oil are due to the
renewable fuel standard that EPA released between the June ROSNY
and this July WISEI.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Perhaps the best illustration of what the latest Renewable Fuel
Standard proposal beads for the US soybean oil ballad sheet
is reflected in your over year comparisons.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
While we lowered twenty four to twenty five soybean oil
use just because early policy uncertainty here in twenty twenty
five had kind of slowed use, our twenty five twenty
six estimate shows a very strong increase year over year
as we look at RFS policies, we look at the
forty five Z policies and try to match that up
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to state level policies, and seems to be that they'll
be some strong demand for soybean oil to be pulled
into the biofuel sector.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
World Agricultural Outlook Board chair Mark Checkdowski provides a snap
shot how the new RVO proposal is reflected in the
bead oil supplied to bad estimate for this buff.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
For seeing increased domestic use, increased imports of soybean oil.
Speaker 12 (06:48):
And reduced exports.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Nope, that we raised.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
Our soybean oil for biofuel use by one point six
billion pounds this month and raise the market price by
seven cents per pound fifty three cents upound again, strong
demand fo.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fuel driven as for Corda, said d and the RFS
proposal chief ecotabus Buyers says the impact is perhaps not
as well known as.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
The constraint continues to be on ability to consume higher
level blends. So not large changes and expectations about ethanol.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
Farm US. You're listening to waglife.
Speaker 14 (07:26):
It's another agnews update. Well the lower close across the
board for row crops Friday. More after this.
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By members of the Wye Oliver's Slope with blue line futures.
Speaker 16 (08:08):
Add the closed December corn futures down one and three
quarter cent, settling at four nineteen before the week that
was eight and three quarters cents lower. New crop November
soybeans slid three and a quarter cents on Friday, settling
at ten twenty one, extending losses for the week to
fourteen cents. Lastly, September Chicago week futures down three and
a quarter cents to five thirty in a quarter that
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was seven cents lower on the week. On the bright spot,
there were three separate flash sales this morning from the USCA,
two of those for corn and then one for soybeans.
The first corn sale was for one hundred and three
thousand metric tons that was four delivery to Mexico, and
then the other one hundred and forty thousand metric tons
for delivery to South Korea, and then on the soybean side,
the flash sale of one hundred and forty two thousand
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metric tons was four delivery to Mexico. Hotter temperatures across
much of the corn belt are expected to work their
way further south next week with near normal temperatures across
the Midwest back and the forecasts and then precipitation forecast
look near normal as well. The weekly drought monitor, when
compared to where we started the month, does show some
improvement throughout the corn belt, most notably in parts of
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Iowa and Nebraska. However, there are still some isolated stress
pockets in Indiana and Illinois.
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American Cattle News some surprises for USDA and their cattle
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no matter who we are. Now, more than ever, they
need your support, support your local Why Today the Why
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Speaker 14 (10:26):
Us read by members of the Why How did markets
in the week? Last week oliver slope is with blue
line futures features.
Speaker 16 (10:37):
Were lower on Thursday, but gain some ground back and
Friday's trade ahead of the Cattle on Feed report. At
the closed October live cattle futures a dollar hired at
two twenty three fifteen for the week. That was three
dollars and thirty two cents higher and mark the fifth
weekly game in a row. September Peter cattle they edged
out August futures in terms of trade volume September futures
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and two dollars in fifty five cents higher on Friday,
settling at three thirty two to twenty That was eight
dollars higher on the week, and then over on the
snout side it was more mixed. Front month August future
is fifty cents higher, while the next three contract months
saw minor losses.
Speaker 17 (11:14):
This afternoon's Cattle on Feed report that showed on.
Speaker 16 (11:16):
Feed at ninety eight point four percent that was below
the lower end of expectations, placements at ninety two point
one percent also below the lower end of expectations, and
marketings ninety five point six percent. You guessed it below
the low end of expectations. This morning's wholesale box feed
for port was softer Choy Scott sixty three cents lower
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to three sixty seven forty six and select cups to
dollars thirty nine lower to three forty five sixty one.
The five are average price for live series was reported
at two thirty one eighty eight on Thursday, but volume
has been really light throughout much of the week. Thursday
afternoons slaughter was reported at one hundred and seventeen thousand head,
which put in the week today total at four hundred
and forty eight thousand. That's about thirty five thousand less
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than this period last year.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
Oliver Slope, Blue Line Futures, Cash Cattle last week in
the South two thirty up to two thirty two, two
forty to two forty two in the North, three eighty
dreads American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 18 (12:21):
Longer Days and the kids are home, and on this
week's Producer Tuesday, sponsored by the Professional Dairy Producers, we
focus on how to keep the kids safe on the
farm with Melissa Pluckelman, outreached specialist with the National Farm
Medicine Center at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Raising children on the farm has a lot of benefit,
but we're also going to talk about youth that are
not raised on the farm, but are working on farms
or visiting farms. When the weather's right, we make hay
right and a lot of times a farmer can't do
it on his own, and so he needs some help,
and a lot of times we see him hiring the
local youth in the area. So we see high schoolers
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of school for the summer and working on their neighbor's farm.
And there are so many benefits to that. You know,
they are out in the sun, they're getting that vitamin D,
they're getting some exercise, they're learning about the circle of
life and where food comes from. But there's also just
a lot of risk to raising children on the farm
or hiring youth to work on the farm. Every day,
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about thirty three children are injured in an agricultural related
incident that's across the US. And that number is just
too high because we think about those injuries and they
can be life altering injuries, and so we want to
change that and prevent that, because we don't want youth
going through the rest of their life with some type
of injury or disability because of something that happened on
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the farm. As parents, we can have youth working on
our farm NonStop all the time. There are no regulations,
which seems very crazy, but if you are actually hiring
a child to work or a youth to work on
your farm, there are age limits, there are our limits,
there are fair payment laws, and so to protect yourself
and your farm, it's good for you to know some
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of those laws and some of those regulations for your state.
So we have a couple campaigns and a couple resources,
the Child's Agricultural Safety Network for anyone who's interested in
kind of talking about keeping children safe, and anyone can
join this network. Just go to the website cultivatesafety dot org,
backlash cassen and you can join the network. With this network,
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we even have online networking system where you can ask questions,
share your thoughts, share ideas, maybe share concerns. And then
the last campaign we have there is the I am
Raising campaign. I am raising cattle, I am raising corn,
I am raising potatoes, I am raising cranberries. I am
raising kids, and we understand that, yes, you are raising
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kids on the farm, and that's okay, and that's great.
They are again getting that sunshine and getting that vitamin D,
getting exercise, getting out, knowing where their food comes from.
But remember to always be a parent first and a
farmer second. And if you're wondering, what are some of
the incidents that are happening in my area, what are
some of the injuries and fatalities that are happening. Egg
(15:15):
Injury News is a collection of news reports of injuries
and fatalities that are happening all over the United States.
So you can actually go on there. You can create
your own account. It's free to join, but you do
have to create an account, so you can actually filter
out your area or maybe the topic that you're most
interested in. So I could do Wisconsin if I just
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wanted to know injuries and fatalities in Wisconsin, or I
could filter out and say, I want to know how
many ATV injuries have happened in the United States. And
so you can filter and you can kind of see
and that'll kind of show you the trends in your
area of what injuries are happening, what fatalities are happening,
and then you can start to kind of figure out, well,
how can I prevent that from happening on my farm?
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So again, join us, share with us. What do you know,
What are you doing to keep your children safe? What
questions do you have, Are you looking for someone to
collaborate with on a project or anything?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
You know?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Join us on that online network because really a lot
of great information is shared there, and I just want
to say, I hope at the end of the day
that really I've brought safety back to the forefront in
our minds, and I hope that if even one small
tidbit of information stays with parents or with adults, it's
just to remember to think about safety each and every day,
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each and every minute, because at the end of the day,
there's nothing better than knowing that our youth and our
kids are touched safe into bed and having those sweet
dreams after a long day on the farm.
Speaker 18 (16:46):
Those are comments from Melissa Pluckelmann, outreach specialist with a
National Farm Medicine Center at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute on
a recent PDP dairy signal that you can hear in
its entirety for free at PDPW dot Org. I'm Bill Baker,
Dairy Radio.
Speaker 19 (17:03):
Biological control for mites and allments is a big deal
and many growers use it. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with a
California tree Nut Report, part of that vast ad information network.
David Havlin as a UC farm Advisor entomologist in Kern County.
Speaker 20 (17:21):
So mites are under better biological control than they've ever been.
It's fabulous.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
You know.
Speaker 20 (17:26):
When I started my career, it was typical to have
two or three mitosides go on every orchard and still
see significant tofoliation. Nowadays, just with the growers being so
sustainable and so green in their practices, things have really changed.
And it just unleashed the power of biological control, particularly
by six spotted threat and they're around in the spring.
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Growers don't need spring treatments anymore. The biocontrol does its job.
The question then becomes it hull split. If there's enough thrips,
you don't need any mitosides. But the problem is once
you get past hull split, you can't spray anymore. Got harvest.
You got nuts on the ground, multiple varieties being harvested.
So in that case, a lot of cases MITA side
is not needed, but if there's the chance it might,
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you know, if it looks like there might not be
enough biological control. Sometimes you do still need to put
a mitacide in one of your two naval orngtorm sprays,
you know, a hull split or a couple of weeks later.
So there is still some MITA side use, but greatly greatly,
greatly reduced compared to the past.
Speaker 19 (18:24):
That's Kern County Farm advisor David Hevlin.
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Speaker 22 (18:56):
Farmwork is tough, and so is staying safe on road.
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the
same space, whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor
or a car.
Speaker 17 (19:05):
Here's what you need to remember.
Speaker 22 (19:06):
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves. Farmers,
make sure your slow moving vehicles, signs and lights are
visible and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One moment
of caution can save a light. Let's work together to
keep our roads and our firm stafe. This message was
brought to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 19 (19:25):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
USDA's July Dairy Outlook includes production forecast updates.
Speaker 23 (19:33):
It raised our US milk production forecast for both twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six half a billion pounds
in twenty twenty five and nine hundred million pounds in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Six, based on increased higher cow inventories at more milk
per cow. According to World Agricultural Outlook, Board chair Mark
jack Adowski straight that cheese exports is behind month over
month increases in total dairy exports both this year and next.
Speaker 23 (19:57):
In terms of prices, prices mostly higher across the board,
with the one exception being Class three price forecasts lower
fifteen cents in twenty twenty five from June yet showing
a fifty cent increase month over month in the following year.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Rises are reflected in both years for the all milk price,
although year over year the all milk price remains down
thirty five cents per hundred weight.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Product prices mostly higher. One modest exception, we lowered our
cheese price forecast by two cents per pound, now at
a dollar eighty four per pound for twenty twenty five,
reflecting some new production capacity that has come online, increasing supplies,
putting your a little bit of pressure on prices, but
also making us even more competitive in those export markets.
Speaker 23 (20:38):
Seeing a lot of the strong domestic demand to supporting
water prices, non fat, dry milk, dry weight, all the
main products outside of cheese.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
We'd adjusted the prices higher this.
Speaker 23 (20:47):
Month both twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, with
the class prices reflecting the product prices.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Class three prices.
Speaker 23 (20:52):
For twenty twenty five was reduced just a little bit
fifteen cents per hundred weight, reflecting those slightly lowered cheese prices,
but other than that, Class three Class four prices increased
for twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six. All milk
price for twenty twenty five now forecast at ay two
dollars per hundred weight that was raised by five cents
for one hundred weight this month. For twenty twenty six,
all milk price is forecast at twenty one dollars and
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sixty five cents per hundred weight that was raised thirty
five cents per hundredweight this month.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There has been an increase in farm transitions in recent years,
yet questions remade for both younger and older generations considering
this process. Jim Salfa of University of Minnesota Extension says,
for instance, how can a be getting farmer without a
home farm get into the business.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They're going to have to partner up because they just
don't have the equity to come in in lockstock and
barrel by somebody out.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That partner being an existing farmer that could share knowledge
and experience with the younger grower. Nationwide, the average age
of a farmer continues to rise, but Salfur believes that
may not necessarily be caused by a lack of successors.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I also think that people are aging better, so we
maybe don't have that older generation that's antsy to get
out of the industry. A lot of our farms maybe
just aren't really big enough to support two families. So
you've got to work through that and try to determine
does that mean one of them either the older young
generation works off the farm.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
When it comes to passing the farm from one generation
to the next, there could be some challenges facing both
sides making a transition work. But as University of Minnesota
Extensions Jim Selfurd notes, one factor perhaps not given much
consideration regarding what such a succession takes place is the
emotional investment made by the incumbent farmer regarding their operation.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
There's a lot of concerns and a lot of emotion,
and what about non family heirs. I understand that, but
not dealing with it doesn't make it any easier later,
And for the younger generation, I would encourage you to
be patient and understand how hard that is that maybe
your parents built up this business, worked really hard, and
now they're going to hand it over to somebody else
that's kind of been their baby for maybe their entire life.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
However, Selfur advises that a transition plan for a farm
operation be put in place sooner then later.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Talking to the older generation, here we're doing a disservice
to wait as long as we can until we really
do that transfer.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
A broad Bayan reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
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Speaker 25 (24:17):
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I am Hailey's ship. California almond growers are gearing up
for a big year. The twenty twenty five California almend
Objective Measurement Report, recently released by the USDA National Ag
Statistics Service, is estimating the state's crop at three billion
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meat pounds. That's a seven percent increase over the subjective
forecast that was released in May and ten percent higher
than the last year's final crop of two point seven
three billion pounds. Clarice Turner, President and CEO of the
Almand Board of California, says demand remains strong. While this
year's objective measurement estimate is higher than the industry expected,
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shipments remain strong.
Speaker 26 (25:00):
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timely rains, supported net growth into early summer. Pest and
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Speaker 1 (26:41):
Bob Quinn Everson farm us this morning, friends. While the
Northwest cherry harvest is in full swing, with the crop
easily living up to preseason estimates of twenty one to
twenty two million boxes early on, Carly Lang, domestic promotions
director at Northwest Cherries, says things are going great.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Seasons thin off of very strong start. We've had more
volume in the front end of the season than I've
seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Time compared to last year. Lang says, we're ahead of schedule.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
We're probably over a million boxes over where we were
last year at this point, so it's ramped up very quickly.
I mean, everybody said it was coming off quick, but
we didn't realize it was going to be quite this quick.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
As for the size and reported high quality of this
year's crop.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Sizing has been excellent this year.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
I'm at least eighty three to eighty four percent of
what we've shipped has been ten and a half row
and larger quality.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
I've been hearing the same thing. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
The fruit's eating good, which is awesome because if you
have a big volume year, we need fruit to help
move it right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Aside from a little rain, Lang says, the weather has
been good as.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Well, but I haven't heard any damage from that. I
know the heat early on kind of impacted the early
early growers a little bit, but other than that, I
really haven't heard of any damage, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
At this time in the season, Lang says, exports have
ramped up as Northwest cherries go old wide well. Friends
the United States and Canada are working to come together
on trade agreements, and negotiations are continuing. One thing that
may come as a surprise is that the US and
Canada's top agriculture officials have not spoken yet. Heath McDonald,
(28:15):
Canada's Minister of Agriculture and agri Food, says he hasn't
spoken with US ag Secretary Brook rawlins.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
No, I haven't, and it's something that we need to do,
but we need the right time too. I mean there's
a lot going on. We had the G seven, we
wanted to wait, then we received the letter on the
thirty five percent. So it's timing and needs to be
addressed obviously, But I think we need to be very
strategic when we do this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He said. It's important for Canadian ag officials to be
on the same page when they finally sit down to talk.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
It's a very fragile time in the trade, so I
don't want to disrupt any more than anyone else. But
I want to make sure that I have all my
ideas and strategies settled before I make that attempt again.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture, with US well friends.
The US Bureau of Land Management recently owned what some
may consider an unusual livestock auction. This month, the Bureau
hosted the Online Corral auction featuring wild horses and donkeys.
Jason Letterman of the National Wild Horse and Burrow program
says it's a chance to provide a good home for
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a wild horse or donkey.
Speaker 26 (29:16):
A lot of horses go on to win major prizes.
A lot of people use animals to show We've had
a lot of burrows go on to also win different
livestock shows. They're really just great all around animals. You
can do anything. Some of the best stories that I
hear about horses are used for therapy. Actually, a lot
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of people who suffer from PTSD or other mental illnesses
have found a lot of help in working with the
wildforse or wild borrow. Just something about coming from the
same place of uncertainty that gives a lot of people
help with their mental struggles.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The program makes sure that animals and rangeland the in
ten western states are healthy and not overcrowded.
Speaker 26 (29:59):
Our responsibility is to just allow the horses to be
horses out on public lands. The main thing that we
pay attention to is to make sure they have enough
food and water. And because these herds, these horses and burrows,
they thrive so well on public lands that their populations
actually double every four to five years. And so what
our adoption program does is it helps us find homes
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for those animals that are that might run out of
food or water on the range. And so this is
really important part of our program to help help us
keep the animals healthy and the land healthy.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wild horses can be trained to perform several different tasks.
Speaker 26 (30:34):
So typically a lot of people use wild horses for
a wide variety of uses. A lot of people trail
ride with them. They are very hardy animals. They're very
sure footed, and so they make great companions for the trails.
A lot of people use them for ranch work. They
are really trainable for a variety of disciplines because you're
getting a horse that doesn't have any bad habits already,
they don't have any previous training. They're really a blank
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slate feed to train the horse for whatever you might
need a horse to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Burrows can be surprisingly useful on farms and ranches, so a.
Speaker 26 (31:04):
Lot of people use them as guard animals. Burrows make
great guard animals. They'll run off coyotes or other predators
that might threaten your herd. A lot of people just
keep them as pets. I mean, you look at take
one look at one of those burrows and you'll see why.
They're very cute animals and a lot of people have
them around as pets or lifestyle guardians. Some people take
them on the trails as well. They can be used
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as pack animals basically anything you want a donkey to do.
That's what this burrow is for.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Wild horse and donkey auction news. This morning farm News.
You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 27 (31:37):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Amid a global downturn in wine consumption and increasing number
of California wine and grape growers are cultivating their crops
without a winery contract this year without a guaranteed buyer.
Sacramento County farmer Max Francisconi is focused on maintaining greape
quality while carefully managing costs. Francisconi told ag Alert, you
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still have to do preventive maintenance and keep high quality
grapes on the vine so you can market them. The
Trump administration says there won't be a crackdown on pesticide
use in the US. Politico says that's despite a report
from the Make America Healthy Again Committee that called crop
protection products dangerous to people's health. Egg industry lobbyists have
been pushing back against the Mahawk Committee report, which linked
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pesticides to cancer and other diseases. The White House officials
says a plan is due in August and won't include
pesticide policies. White House borders are Tom Holman says the
Trump administration is considering possible changes to its immigration enforcement
policy as it relates to farm and hospitality workers. In
an interview with News Nations, Cuomo Homan said people in
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the White House are talking about various policy solutions and
expect an announcement sometime soon. The Trump administration has sent
mixed messages about its approach to immigration rates that affect
farms and migrant farm workers.
Speaker 21 (32:56):
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From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob quin back to wrap up HYE for
today friends. While the August first deadline for Canada and
the US trade discussions is rapidly approaching, Dennis Guy as
our story, Canadian Federal Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is doubtful
that a security and economic framework agreement can be reached
(34:15):
in time to meet Donald Trump's August first deadline. Late
last month, President Trump sent letters to a list of nations,
including Canada, telling them that if individual trade deals were
not in place by the first of August, his administration
would impose tariffs on additional imports on those countries. Trump's
letter threatened Canada with thirty five percent tariffs, but the
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White House also stated that those levees would not be
applied to Canadian imports, which are compliant under the USMCA.
Canada is currently being hit with import tariffs on steel, aluminum,
and automobiles, and expects to be impacted by copper duties
as well. Trade Minister LeBlanc told reporters on Thursday that
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negotiation are continuing, but the American Canadian discussions are extremely
complex because there is no other arrangement that is similar
to the Canada US relationship.
Speaker 29 (35:10):
The Canadian American economic and security relationship is unique. There
is no comparator with other countries the way the trading
and security relationship between our countries has evolved. That's why
these are complicated conversations. We're only going to be in
a position to accept a deal when the Prime Minister
decides that it's the best deal we can get.
Speaker 30 (35:29):
Prime Minister Mark Kearney has been quite clear that his
negotiators take the time needed and his officials have been
instructed to get the best security and trade terms possible,
regardless of short term deadlines. According to Carney, the outcome
of this arrangement is crucial to the future wellbeing of Canada.
Speaker 24 (35:48):
This is about building this country and coming to a
good accord with the United States, who we're working to
get the best deal for Canadians.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
What's absolutely clear is we have a lot to do.
Speaker 30 (35:57):
Canadian officials have remained quiet about what American negotiators want
from Canada. A recent US Japan agreement included a five
hundred and fifty billion dollars Japanese investment pledge. When LeBlanc
was asked if his discussions included promises of capital investment
by Canada, LeBlanc would only say that Canada would openly
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welcome the opportunity to display its current US investments, which
will lead to future investments.
Speaker 29 (36:25):
If they're looking for countries that invest massively in the
United States, that's great news for Canada. Our pension funds
alone have over a trillion dollars of investment in the
United States that can potentially grow by one hundred billion
dollars or more a year. That example repeats itself all
over the place. So if one of the objectives is
to show the United States administration that Canadians are investing
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in the United States, we're in a very good position.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Reporting from Canada. I'm Dennis Guy with that friends out
of time today, thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow morning
with another edition A Bad Life
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. USDA
recently announced a cross government effort to boost domestic farm security.
But what are some of the wise behind that. Rod
Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Farm and food security as national security, a phrase several
of the agg and consumer sectors agree upon, and it
is this thought that recently led Agriculture Secretary Brick Rawlins
and various federal government agencies and state governments to join
forces in this effort.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The USDA's National Farm Security Action Plan.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yet what are some of the wise behind this action
PLANID In recent years, one may note an increase in
potential threats of different guides to that secure food supply.
There is the purchase of agricultural land in our nation
by not just foreign entities, but in cases foreign adversaries
to our country. And what has the Feed Secretary Pete
(00:59):
Heggs double concerned is the number of foreign owned AGG properties,
their military installations in the cotton neal US.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I
want to know who owns the land around our bases
and strategic bases, and getting an understanding of why foreign entities,
foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying upland around those bases.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It isn't just farm landoed and operated by foreign adversaries,
but recent acquisitions of American food processing and input companies
that are part of our nation's supply chain. Other farm
but food security threats on the radar of Attorney General
Pam Bondi and others include potential bioterrorism on the farm level.
Recent examples of such threats include.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Last month in Michigan, we charged two Chinese nationals for
attempting to smuggle potential agro terrorism weapons into the United States.
Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending
packages of concealed biological materials into the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Security threats to agribusinesses in recent years computer systems hacked
with intent to extort or cripple companies and individuals are
also noted. Then there is theft. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes as specifically.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
For decades, evil foreign governments have come into this country
and they've stolen our intellectual property, stolen our.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Genetics, whether patented c technology or livestock animal genetics. The
seven component National Farm Safety Action Plan not only focuses
on national security from a food and farm perspective, but
also from an economic security one as well as various agroterror,
theft and fraudulent activity leads to potential losses of crops, innovation,
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and revenue for our country and its farm and food sector.
I'm broad Bane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Farm Use ahead. You're listening to Aglife Bob quinn iverson
Farm US this morning. Friends. While the Northwest cherry harvest
is in full swing, with the crop easily living up
to preseason estimates of twenty one to twenty two million
boxes early on, Carly Lang, domestic promotions director at Northwest Cherries,
says things are going great.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Season's been off to a very strong start. We've had
more volume in the front end of the season than
I've seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Time compared to last year. Lang says, we're a head
of schedule.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
We're probably over a million boxes over where we were
last year at this point, so it's ramped up very quickly.
I mean everybody said it was coming off quick, but
we didn't realize it was going to be quite this quick.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
As for the size and reported high quality of this
year's crop.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Sizing has been excellent this year and at least eighty
three to eighty four percent of what we've shipped has
been ten and a half row and larger quality.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I've been hearing the same thing. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The fruit's eating good, which is awesome because if you
have a big volume year, we need fruit to help
move it right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Aside from a little rain, Lang says, the weather has
been good as well.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
But I've haven't heard any damage from that. I know
the heat early on kind of impacted the early early
growers a little bit, but other than that, I really
haven't heard of any damage, which is awesome.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
At this time in the season.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Lang says. Exports have ramped up as Northwest cherries go
worldwide well. Friends of the United States and Canada are working
to come together on trade agreements, and negotiations are continuing.
One thing that may come as a surprise is that
the US and Canada's top agriculture officials have not spoken yet.
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture and agri food says
(04:36):
he hasn't spoken with us AG Secretary Brook Rawlins.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
No, I haven't, and it's something that we need to do,
but we need the right time too. I mean, there's
a lot going on. We had the G seven, we
wanted to wait, then we received the letter on the
thirty five percent. So it's timing and needs to be
addressed obviously, But I think we need to be very
strategic when we do this.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He said. It's important for Canadian ag officials to be
on the same page when they find you sit down
to talk.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
That's a very fragile time in the trade. So I
don't want to disrupt any more than anyone else, but
I want to make sure that I have all my
ideas and strategies settled before I make that attempt again.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture with US well friends,
how might be recently announced a renewable fuel standard proposal
play a role in USDA's look at soybean oil supply
and demand. We have a report this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
In a USDA July domestic ballad sheet full of JUBE
report data such as quarterly stocks at crop acreage. Chief
Acatabis Seth Meyer believes one of the more significant contributors
to this BUZWOSNI is.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Trying to get a handle on what we think the
impacts on soybean crush soybean oil are due to the
renewable fuel standard that EPA released between the June ROSNY
and this July WISEI.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Perhaps the best illustration of what the latest Renewable Fuel
Standard proposal beads for the US soybean oil ballad sheet
is reflected in your over year comparisons.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
While we lowered twenty four to twenty five soybean oil
use just because early policy uncertainty here in twenty twenty
five had kind of slowed use, our twenty five twenty
six estimate shows a very strong increase year over year
as we look at RFS policies, we look at the
forty five Z policies and try to match that up
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to state level policies, and seems to be that they'll
be some strong demand for soybean oil to be pulled
into the biofuel sector.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
World Agricultural Outlook Board chair Mark Checkdowski provides a snap
shot how the new RVO proposal is reflected in the
bead oil supplied to bad estimate for this buff.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
For seeing increased domestic use, increased imports of soybean oil.
Speaker 12 (06:48):
And reduced exports.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Nope, that we raised.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
Our soybean oil for biofuel use by one point six
billion pounds this month and raise the market price by
seven cents per pound fifty three cents upound again, strong
demand fo.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fuel driven as for Corda, said d and the RFS
proposal chief ecotabus Buyers says the impact is perhaps not
as well known as.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
The constraint continues to be on ability to consume higher
level blends. So not large changes and expectations about ethanol.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
D C.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Farm US. You're listening to waglife.
Speaker 14 (07:26):
It's another agnews update. Well the lower close across the
board for row crops Friday. More after this.
Speaker 13 (07:36):
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It takes a lot of voices to create the sound
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Speaker 14 (08:03):
By members of the Wye Oliver's Slope with blue line futures.
Speaker 16 (08:08):
Add the closed December corn futures down one and three
quarter cent, settling at four nineteen before the week that
was eight and three quarters cents lower. New crop November
soybeans slid three and a quarter cents on Friday, settling
at ten twenty one, extending losses for the week to
fourteen cents. Lastly, September Chicago week futures down three and
a quarter cents to five thirty in a quarter that
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was seven cents lower on the week. On the bright spot,
there were three separate flash sales this morning from the USCA,
two of those for corn and then one for soybeans.
The first corn sale was for one hundred and three
thousand metric tons that was four delivery to Mexico, and
then the other one hundred and forty thousand metric tons
for delivery to South Korea, and then on the soybean side,
the flash sale of one hundred and forty two thousand
(08:49):
metric tons was four delivery to Mexico. Hotter temperatures across
much of the corn belt are expected to work their
way further south next week with near normal temperatures across
the Midwest back and the forecasts and then precipitation forecast
look near normal as well. The weekly drought monitor, when
compared to where we started the month, does show some
improvement throughout the corn belt, most notably in parts of
(09:12):
Iowa and Nebraska. However, there are still some isolated stress
pockets in Indiana and Illinois.
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Speaker 14 (09:51):
American Cattle News some surprises for USDA and their cattle
on feed report.
Speaker 13 (09:58):
More after the Hey there, soph Hello, Hello, huh, Hey, y'all,
Hey la Hi.
Speaker 15 (10:07):
It takes a lot of voices to create the sound
of us. The Why welcomes all of them with open arms,
from career readiness to safe spaces. The Why is there
no matter who we are. Now, more than ever, they
need your support, support your local Why Today the Why
for better.
Speaker 14 (10:26):
Us read by members of the Why How did markets
in the week? Last week oliver slope is with blue
line futures features.
Speaker 16 (10:37):
Were lower on Thursday, but gain some ground back and
Friday's trade ahead of the Cattle on Feed report. At
the closed October live cattle futures a dollar hired at
two twenty three fifteen for the week. That was three
dollars and thirty two cents higher and mark the fifth
weekly game in a row. September Peter cattle they edged
out August futures in terms of trade volume September futures
(10:59):
and two dollars in fifty five cents higher on Friday,
settling at three thirty two to twenty That was eight
dollars higher on the week, and then over on the
snout side it was more mixed. Front month August future
is fifty cents higher, while the next three contract months
saw minor losses.
Speaker 17 (11:14):
This afternoon's Cattle on Feed report that showed on.
Speaker 16 (11:16):
Feed at ninety eight point four percent that was below
the lower end of expectations, placements at ninety two point
one percent also below the lower end of expectations, and
marketings ninety five point six percent. You guessed it below
the low end of expectations. This morning's wholesale box feed
for port was softer Choy Scott sixty three cents lower
(11:36):
to three sixty seven forty six and select cups to
dollars thirty nine lower to three forty five sixty one.
The five are average price for live series was reported
at two thirty one eighty eight on Thursday, but volume
has been really light throughout much of the week. Thursday
afternoons slaughter was reported at one hundred and seventeen thousand head,
which put in the week today total at four hundred
and forty eight thousand. That's about thirty five thousand less
(11:59):
than this period last year.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
Oliver Slope, Blue Line Futures, Cash Cattle last week in
the South two thirty up to two thirty two, two
forty to two forty two in the North, three eighty
dreads American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 18 (12:21):
Longer Days and the kids are home, and on this
week's Producer Tuesday, sponsored by the Professional Dairy Producers, we
focus on how to keep the kids safe on the
farm with Melissa Pluckelman, outreached specialist with the National Farm
Medicine Center at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Raising children on the farm has a lot of benefit,
but we're also going to talk about youth that are
not raised on the farm, but are working on farms
or visiting farms. When the weather's right, we make hay
right and a lot of times a farmer can't do
it on his own, and so he needs some help,
and a lot of times we see him hiring the
local youth in the area. So we see high schoolers
(13:00):
of school for the summer and working on their neighbor's farm.
And there are so many benefits to that. You know,
they are out in the sun, they're getting that vitamin D,
they're getting some exercise, they're learning about the circle of
life and where food comes from. But there's also just
a lot of risk to raising children on the farm
or hiring youth to work on the farm. Every day,
(13:21):
about thirty three children are injured in an agricultural related
incident that's across the US. And that number is just
too high because we think about those injuries and they
can be life altering injuries, and so we want to
change that and prevent that, because we don't want youth
going through the rest of their life with some type
of injury or disability because of something that happened on
(13:44):
the farm. As parents, we can have youth working on
our farm NonStop all the time. There are no regulations,
which seems very crazy, but if you are actually hiring
a child to work or a youth to work on
your farm, there are age limits, there are our limits,
there are fair payment laws, and so to protect yourself
and your farm, it's good for you to know some
(14:05):
of those laws and some of those regulations for your state.
So we have a couple campaigns and a couple resources,
the Child's Agricultural Safety Network for anyone who's interested in
kind of talking about keeping children safe, and anyone can
join this network. Just go to the website cultivatesafety dot org,
backlash cassen and you can join the network. With this network,
(14:30):
we even have online networking system where you can ask questions,
share your thoughts, share ideas, maybe share concerns. And then
the last campaign we have there is the I am
Raising campaign. I am raising cattle, I am raising corn,
I am raising potatoes, I am raising cranberries. I am
raising kids, and we understand that, yes, you are raising
(14:53):
kids on the farm, and that's okay, and that's great.
They are again getting that sunshine and getting that vitamin D,
getting exercise, getting out, knowing where their food comes from.
But remember to always be a parent first and a
farmer second. And if you're wondering, what are some of
the incidents that are happening in my area, what are
some of the injuries and fatalities that are happening. Egg
(15:15):
Injury News is a collection of news reports of injuries
and fatalities that are happening all over the United States.
So you can actually go on there. You can create
your own account. It's free to join, but you do
have to create an account, so you can actually filter
out your area or maybe the topic that you're most
interested in. So I could do Wisconsin if I just
(15:38):
wanted to know injuries and fatalities in Wisconsin, or I
could filter out and say, I want to know how
many ATV injuries have happened in the United States. And
so you can filter and you can kind of see
and that'll kind of show you the trends in your
area of what injuries are happening, what fatalities are happening,
and then you can start to kind of figure out, well,
how can I prevent that from happening on my farm?
(16:00):
So again, join us, share with us. What do you know,
What are you doing to keep your children safe? What
questions do you have, Are you looking for someone to
collaborate with on a project or anything?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
You know?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Join us on that online network because really a lot
of great information is shared there, and I just want
to say, I hope at the end of the day
that really I've brought safety back to the forefront in
our minds, and I hope that if even one small
tidbit of information stays with parents or with adults, it's
just to remember to think about safety each and every day,
(16:34):
each and every minute, because at the end of the day,
there's nothing better than knowing that our youth and our
kids are touched safe into bed and having those sweet
dreams after a long day on the farm.
Speaker 18 (16:46):
Those are comments from Melissa Pluckelmann, outreach specialist with a
National Farm Medicine Center at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute on
a recent PDP dairy signal that you can hear in
its entirety for free at PDPW dot Org. I'm Bill Baker,
Dairy Radio.
Speaker 19 (17:03):
Biological control for mites and allments is a big deal
and many growers use it. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with a
California tree Nut Report, part of that vast ad information network.
David Havlin as a UC farm Advisor entomologist in Kern County.
Speaker 20 (17:21):
So mites are under better biological control than they've ever been.
It's fabulous.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
You know.
Speaker 20 (17:26):
When I started my career, it was typical to have
two or three mitosides go on every orchard and still
see significant tofoliation. Nowadays, just with the growers being so
sustainable and so green in their practices, things have really changed.
And it just unleashed the power of biological control, particularly
by six spotted threat and they're around in the spring.
(17:47):
Growers don't need spring treatments anymore. The biocontrol does its job.
The question then becomes it hull split. If there's enough thrips,
you don't need any mitosides. But the problem is once
you get past hull split, you can't spray anymore. Got harvest.
You got nuts on the ground, multiple varieties being harvested.
So in that case, a lot of cases MITA side
is not needed, but if there's the chance it might,
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you know, if it looks like there might not be
enough biological control. Sometimes you do still need to put
a mitacide in one of your two naval orngtorm sprays,
you know, a hull split or a couple of weeks later.
So there is still some MITA side use, but greatly greatly,
greatly reduced compared to the past.
Speaker 19 (18:24):
That's Kern County Farm advisor David Hevlin.
Speaker 21 (18:27):
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(18:48):
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Speaker 22 (18:56):
Farmwork is tough, and so is staying safe on road.
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffic share the
same space, whether you're behind the wheel of a tractor
or a car.
Speaker 17 (19:05):
Here's what you need to remember.
Speaker 22 (19:06):
Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on hills or curves. Farmers,
make sure your slow moving vehicles, signs and lights are
visible and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One moment
of caution can save a light. Let's work together to
keep our roads and our firm stafe. This message was
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Speaker 19 (19:25):
With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
USDA's July Dairy Outlook includes production forecast updates.
Speaker 23 (19:33):
It raised our US milk production forecast for both twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six half a billion pounds
in twenty twenty five and nine hundred million pounds in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Six, based on increased higher cow inventories at more milk
per cow. According to World Agricultural Outlook, Board chair Mark
jack Adowski straight that cheese exports is behind month over
month increases in total dairy exports both this year and next.
Speaker 23 (19:57):
In terms of prices, prices mostly higher across the board,
with the one exception being Class three price forecasts lower
fifteen cents in twenty twenty five from June yet showing
a fifty cent increase month over month in the following year.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Rises are reflected in both years for the all milk price,
although year over year the all milk price remains down
thirty five cents per hundred weight.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Product prices mostly higher. One modest exception, we lowered our
cheese price forecast by two cents per pound, now at
a dollar eighty four per pound for twenty twenty five,
reflecting some new production capacity that has come online, increasing supplies,
putting your a little bit of pressure on prices, but
also making us even more competitive in those export markets.
Speaker 23 (20:38):
Seeing a lot of the strong domestic demand to supporting
water prices, non fat, dry milk, dry weight, all the
main products outside of cheese.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
We'd adjusted the prices higher this.
Speaker 23 (20:47):
Month both twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, with
the class prices reflecting the product prices.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Class three prices.
Speaker 23 (20:52):
For twenty twenty five was reduced just a little bit
fifteen cents per hundred weight, reflecting those slightly lowered cheese prices,
but other than that, Class three Class four prices increased
for twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six. All milk
price for twenty twenty five now forecast at ay two
dollars per hundred weight that was raised by five cents
for one hundred weight this month. For twenty twenty six,
all milk price is forecast at twenty one dollars and
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sixty five cents per hundred weight that was raised thirty
five cents per hundredweight this month.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There has been an increase in farm transitions in recent years,
yet questions remade for both younger and older generations considering
this process. Jim Salfa of University of Minnesota Extension says,
for instance, how can a be getting farmer without a
home farm get into the business.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They're going to have to partner up because they just
don't have the equity to come in in lockstock and
barrel by somebody out.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That partner being an existing farmer that could share knowledge
and experience with the younger grower. Nationwide, the average age
of a farmer continues to rise, but Salfur believes that
may not necessarily be caused by a lack of successors.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I also think that people are aging better, so we
maybe don't have that older generation that's antsy to get
out of the industry. A lot of our farms maybe
just aren't really big enough to support two families. So
you've got to work through that and try to determine
does that mean one of them either the older young
generation works off the farm.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
When it comes to passing the farm from one generation
to the next, there could be some challenges facing both
sides making a transition work. But as University of Minnesota
Extensions Jim Selfurd notes, one factor perhaps not given much
consideration regarding what such a succession takes place is the
emotional investment made by the incumbent farmer regarding their operation.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
There's a lot of concerns and a lot of emotion,
and what about non family heirs. I understand that, but
not dealing with it doesn't make it any easier later,
And for the younger generation, I would encourage you to
be patient and understand how hard that is that maybe
your parents built up this business, worked really hard, and
now they're going to hand it over to somebody else
that's kind of been their baby for maybe their entire life.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
However, Selfur advises that a transition plan for a farm
operation be put in place sooner then later.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Talking to the older generation, here we're doing a disservice
to wait as long as we can until we really
do that transfer.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
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in Washington, d C. Abroadbaan reporting for the US Department
of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 20 (23:18):
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Speaker 24 (23:23):
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Farm ponds can post serious dangers to children. If you
have a pond that's 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
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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 depens off every natural hazard and rural settings. Still,
you should be cautious if the pond has man made
features or is located in an area where children are
likely to wander. The risk of liability increases, also trying
to keep the area around the pond well maintained and
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eliminate unnecessary hazards. This has been the Agricultural Law and
Tax Report. I'm Roger McCowan.
Speaker 25 (24:17):
It's time for California agg today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's ship. California almond growers are gearing up
for a big year. The twenty twenty five California almend
Objective Measurement Report, recently released by the USDA National Ag
Statistics Service, is estimating the state's crop at three billion
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meat pounds. That's a seven percent increase over the subjective
forecast that was released in May and ten percent higher
than the last year's final crop of two point seven
three billion pounds. Clarice Turner, President and CEO of the
Almand Board of California, says demand remains strong. While this
year's objective measurement estimate is higher than the industry expected,
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shipments remain strong.
Speaker 26 (25:00):
She said.
Speaker 25 (25:01):
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through new channels, and opening markets around the world. The
twenty twenty five crop faced variable bloom conditions. Bloom began
in early February and peaked mid month when storms brought rain, wind,
and hail and hindered b hours and blossom development. But
conditions improved in March and mild spring. Temperatures paired with
(25:24):
timely rains, supported net growth into early summer. Pest and
disease pressure has been reported as lower than normal and
harvest is expected to begin on time. To get a
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Speaker 1 (26:41):
Bob Quinn Everson farm us this morning, friends. While the
Northwest cherry harvest is in full swing, with the crop
easily living up to preseason estimates of twenty one to
twenty two million boxes early on, Carly Lang, domestic promotions
director at Northwest Cherries, says things are going great.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Seasons thin off of very strong start. We've had more
volume in the front end of the season than I've
seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Time compared to last year. Lang says, we're ahead of schedule.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
We're probably over a million boxes over where we were
last year at this point, so it's ramped up very quickly.
I mean, everybody said it was coming off quick, but
we didn't realize it was going to be quite this quick.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
As for the size and reported high quality of this
year's crop.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Sizing has been excellent this year.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
I'm at least eighty three to eighty four percent of
what we've shipped has been ten and a half row
and larger quality.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
I've been hearing the same thing. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
The fruit's eating good, which is awesome because if you
have a big volume year, we need fruit to help
move it right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Aside from a little rain, Lang says, the weather has
been good as.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Well, but I haven't heard any damage from that. I
know the heat early on kind of impacted the early
early growers a little bit, but other than that, I
really haven't heard of any damage, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
At this time in the season, Lang says, exports have
ramped up as Northwest cherries go old wide well. Friends
the United States and Canada are working to come together
on trade agreements, and negotiations are continuing. One thing that
may come as a surprise is that the US and
Canada's top agriculture officials have not spoken yet. Heath McDonald,
(28:15):
Canada's Minister of Agriculture and agri Food, says he hasn't
spoken with US ag Secretary Brook rawlins.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
No, I haven't, and it's something that we need to do,
but we need the right time too. I mean there's
a lot going on. We had the G seven, we
wanted to wait, then we received the letter on the
thirty five percent. So it's timing and needs to be
addressed obviously, But I think we need to be very
strategic when we do this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He said. It's important for Canadian ag officials to be
on the same page when they finally sit down to talk.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
It's a very fragile time in the trade, so I
don't want to disrupt any more than anyone else. But
I want to make sure that I have all my
ideas and strategies settled before I make that attempt again.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Heath McDonald, Canada's Minister of Agriculture, with US well friends.
The US Bureau of Land Management recently owned what some
may consider an unusual livestock auction. This month, the Bureau
hosted the Online Corral auction featuring wild horses and donkeys.
Jason Letterman of the National Wild Horse and Burrow program
says it's a chance to provide a good home for
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a wild horse or donkey.
Speaker 26 (29:16):
A lot of horses go on to win major prizes.
A lot of people use animals to show We've had
a lot of burrows go on to also win different
livestock shows. They're really just great all around animals. You
can do anything. Some of the best stories that I
hear about horses are used for therapy. Actually, a lot
(29:37):
of people who suffer from PTSD or other mental illnesses
have found a lot of help in working with the
wildforse or wild borrow. Just something about coming from the
same place of uncertainty that gives a lot of people
help with their mental struggles.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The program makes sure that animals and rangeland the in
ten western states are healthy and not overcrowded.
Speaker 26 (29:59):
Our responsibility is to just allow the horses to be
horses out on public lands. The main thing that we
pay attention to is to make sure they have enough
food and water. And because these herds, these horses and burrows,
they thrive so well on public lands that their populations
actually double every four to five years. And so what
our adoption program does is it helps us find homes
(30:20):
for those animals that are that might run out of
food or water on the range. And so this is
really important part of our program to help help us
keep the animals healthy and the land healthy.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wild horses can be trained to perform several different tasks.
Speaker 26 (30:34):
So typically a lot of people use wild horses for
a wide variety of uses. A lot of people trail
ride with them. They are very hardy animals. They're very
sure footed, and so they make great companions for the trails.
A lot of people use them for ranch work. They
are really trainable for a variety of disciplines because you're
getting a horse that doesn't have any bad habits already,
they don't have any previous training. They're really a blank
(30:57):
slate feed to train the horse for whatever you might
need a horse to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Burrows can be surprisingly useful on farms and ranches, so a.
Speaker 26 (31:04):
Lot of people use them as guard animals. Burrows make
great guard animals. They'll run off coyotes or other predators
that might threaten your herd. A lot of people just
keep them as pets. I mean, you look at take
one look at one of those burrows and you'll see why.
They're very cute animals and a lot of people have
them around as pets or lifestyle guardians. Some people take
them on the trails as well. They can be used
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as pack animals basically anything you want a donkey to do.
That's what this burrow is for.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Wild horse and donkey auction news. This morning farm News.
You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 27 (31:37):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Amid a global downturn in wine consumption and increasing number
of California wine and grape growers are cultivating their crops
without a winery contract this year without a guaranteed buyer.
Sacramento County farmer Max Francisconi is focused on maintaining greape
quality while carefully managing costs. Francisconi told ag Alert, you
(31:59):
still have to do preventive maintenance and keep high quality
grapes on the vine so you can market them. The
Trump administration says there won't be a crackdown on pesticide
use in the US. Politico says that's despite a report
from the Make America Healthy Again Committee that called crop
protection products dangerous to people's health. Egg industry lobbyists have
been pushing back against the Mahawk Committee report, which linked
(32:22):
pesticides to cancer and other diseases. The White House officials
says a plan is due in August and won't include
pesticide policies. White House borders are Tom Holman says the
Trump administration is considering possible changes to its immigration enforcement
policy as it relates to farm and hospitality workers. In
an interview with News Nations, Cuomo Homan said people in
(32:44):
the White House are talking about various policy solutions and
expect an announcement sometime soon. The Trump administration has sent
mixed messages about its approach to immigration rates that affect
farms and migrant farm workers.
Speaker 21 (32:56):
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(33:17):
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Speaker 28 (33:25):
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Speaker 17 (33:54):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob quin back to wrap up HYE for
today friends. While the August first deadline for Canada and
the US trade discussions is rapidly approaching, Dennis Guy as
our story, Canadian Federal Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is doubtful
that a security and economic framework agreement can be reached
(34:15):
in time to meet Donald Trump's August first deadline. Late
last month, President Trump sent letters to a list of nations,
including Canada, telling them that if individual trade deals were
not in place by the first of August, his administration
would impose tariffs on additional imports on those countries. Trump's
letter threatened Canada with thirty five percent tariffs, but the
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White House also stated that those levees would not be
applied to Canadian imports, which are compliant under the USMCA.
Canada is currently being hit with import tariffs on steel, aluminum,
and automobiles, and expects to be impacted by copper duties
as well. Trade Minister LeBlanc told reporters on Thursday that
(34:59):
negotiation are continuing, but the American Canadian discussions are extremely
complex because there is no other arrangement that is similar
to the Canada US relationship.
Speaker 29 (35:10):
The Canadian American economic and security relationship is unique. There
is no comparator with other countries the way the trading
and security relationship between our countries has evolved. That's why
these are complicated conversations. We're only going to be in
a position to accept a deal when the Prime Minister
decides that it's the best deal we can get.
Speaker 30 (35:29):
Prime Minister Mark Kearney has been quite clear that his
negotiators take the time needed and his officials have been
instructed to get the best security and trade terms possible,
regardless of short term deadlines. According to Carney, the outcome
of this arrangement is crucial to the future wellbeing of Canada.
Speaker 24 (35:48):
This is about building this country and coming to a
good accord with the United States, who we're working to
get the best deal for Canadians.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
What's absolutely clear is we have a lot to do.
Speaker 30 (35:57):
Canadian officials have remained quiet about what American negotiators want
from Canada. A recent US Japan agreement included a five
hundred and fifty billion dollars Japanese investment pledge. When LeBlanc
was asked if his discussions included promises of capital investment
by Canada, LeBlanc would only say that Canada would openly
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welcome the opportunity to display its current US investments, which
will lead to future investments.
Speaker 29 (36:25):
If they're looking for countries that invest massively in the
United States, that's great news for Canada. Our pension funds
alone have over a trillion dollars of investment in the
United States that can potentially grow by one hundred billion
dollars or more a year. That example repeats itself all
over the place. So if one of the objectives is
to show the United States administration that Canadians are investing
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in the United States, we're in a very good position.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Reporting from Canada. I'm Dennis Guy with that friends out
of time today, thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow morning
with another edition A Bad Life
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