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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This Isglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country looking
at wildfire season. Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Extreme heat covering the country in recent days is behind
the drawing and curing of fuels in our nation's forest
and grasslands that could fuel wildfires. That and increasing wildfire
activity in different parts of the country is behind the
National Interagency Fire Centers announcement this past weekend of the
National wild land Fire Preparedness Level moving up to Level
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three status. In other words, increased mobilization of resources for
incident management operations at active wildfire complexes and the sharing
of resources at various levels.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We got some great.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Examples of where we have good operationally between the federal
government in Alaska, the State of Alaska, for example, also
the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, where we are
already coordinating.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
That's Interior Secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He was above various federal fire leaders recently visiting the
White House to update President Donald Trump on this year's
wildfire season to date and what is needed to prepare
for future incidents. Also advising the President and noting the
importance of collaboration and wildfire management efforts. Agriculture Secretary Brook, Rawlins.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Secretary Bergham, and I already have given direction to our
firefighting organizations to take whatever actions are necessary to ensure
that we are operationally ready.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The combined resources include firefighters from both agencies on the
front lines of wildfire complexes and available with activity shifts
to other locales.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
The Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture employ
over seventeen thousand wildfire.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Personnel, that is federal wildland firefighters. That added an additional
thirteen thousand wildfire personnel from state, local, and tribal entities
at the peak of the fire season, Brook and I
have already.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Held a joint briefing with the fire leaders about this
fire season. So we'll continue to unify this work, but
we have to work with the states.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The federal state joint effort in wildfire prevention and management
is essential. According to the Interior Secretary, as by mid June,
over one point two million acres burned, but more significantly, only.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Twenty five percent of that's been on federal The other
seventy five percent has been on state lands.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Or private lands.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That figure takes on a greater concern when one considers.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
With the growth of our country around urban areas. There's
been a thirty percent growth of what's called the wild
lands and urban interface. When this happens, people start building homes.
This is where we're essentially creating cities in the.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Middle of forest broad Bay and reporting for the US
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Farm US ahead, you're listening to Aglife. Bob went back
with some farm us this morning. Friends. Well, there's some
controversy over what's called dairy free butter. Lori Boyer has
our report.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
A new product from Country Croc label dairy free butter,
has spark concerned within the dairy industry dis labeling non
dairy products as butter as a violation of federal standards.
According to Chris Galen, executive director of the American Butter Institutes.
Speaker 10 (03:08):
Butter has rebounded and things like margins and plant spreads,
plant based spreads are in decline. So if you're a
manufacturer of those imitation butters fake butters, what you do
you decide to label yourself as something called dairy free butter,
which is a total oxymoron, because you can't have butter
unless it comes from a dairy ingredient like cream. But
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this is a concern because we see these products in
the marketplace.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
The American Butter Institute has asked a USA to intervene,
saying country crocs dairy free butter not only violates federal standards,
it misuses the term butter.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
The good news here, hopefully is that you know, there's
a lot of interest in the part of the Trump
administration to have people eat more real foods, more whole foods.
This country crop product is a combination of canola and
palm oil, but it's not legal to call it that,
at least not in r VUW. And hopefully that'll be
the view of the FDA. And we're hoping that in
this whole era of the making America Healthy Again and
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this Commission report that came out, they will look at
this complaint that we have more sympathetically.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
The American Butter Institute's executive director, Chris galen Well friends.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Last week, USDA rated more than eighty percent of the
corn crop in three of the top eighteen corn growing
states as good too excellent. But as Mike Davis reports,
there's variability among the top crops.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
Those states include Pennsylvania, Iowa, and to North Carolina, which
has eighty two percent rated good to excellent. Zach Webb
is a Bear technical agronomist and says in his region
of North Carolina, growers are set up to have an
outstanding crop.
Speaker 12 (04:40):
We had tydlee rainbow when we needed We did have
a hotspill in there where the tempty got pretty high,
and that can affect pollination to some degree. But I
think people forget that if you've got good mortar, well,
the heat can be a negative. Is not as bad
as he is. Like last year we were so dry
and we got heat that killed our po nation. This
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year we had heat, but we had good moisture.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
On the other hand, Web says soybeans are all over
the board.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
Early planet beings are growing off and looked really well.
We've had some tough conditions during playing time for soybeans.
A lot of places had too much water, and then
we've got dry in some places. Especially now, we're getting
a little dry in places double crop beans. So double
crop beings look pretty rough. So the soybeans are they're
truly a mixed bag because you may be. One guy
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who planted early May had the beautiful crop beans. The
guy who planted a week later had a hard time
getting a stand. It would beat down. Just a very,
very variable.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Right now, the cotton crop in the Carolinas has been
tough from the start.
Speaker 12 (05:46):
The guys who planted late April have got a phenomenal
crop right now. It looks beautiful. But May, as you
may remember, was very wet and wet and cotton planting
does not go together. So we got off to a
rough start with cotton. But you know, we've had a
lot of heat, which cotton loves. We've had ample morture,
and I'm telling books now cotton has starting a little
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like cotton again.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
Web is telling his cotton growers never give up on
a cotton crop.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I'm Mike Davis, other farmer used. President Trump once again
emphasized his willingness to protect American farmers who rely on
immigrant workers to operate their farms. At a rally in
the Midwest last week, the President said he would allow
farmers who hire migrant workers to take charge and permit
the migrants working in agriculture to remain in the country.
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News Nation says this plan wouldn't create a path to
citizenship that many immigration advocates want, but would protect them
from the possibility of being detained by immigration and Customs
enforcement agents during workplace raids. Now, the President said that
by implementing a plan for farm workers to avoid being
taken into custody, it will benefit a farming industry that
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contributed about two hundred and twenty three million to the
nation's gross domestic product in twenty twenty three. Farm News
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
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We've got you massive events happening and They will both
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Mark gold is with top third ag marketing.
Speaker 18 (10:13):
This cattle market has been outstanding. I mean, how can
you love it if you've got cattle out there and
you're looking at you know, pick a cash price two
thirty five to forty Uh, you've got the box beef
of another two bucks here to day, we eighty eight
sixty nine. That's an all time historic high. You know,
we just don't have the numbers out there. We'll see
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what the cattle on Feet on Friday says but you know,
until something fundamentally changes where we see more cattle coming in,
or that the American housewife starts to back off of
buying hamburger and steaks out here, you know in the pants.
When we've had you know, record high box feed prices,
it wasn't unusual see that market break five ten dollars overnight,
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you know, Could we see it ten or twenty dollar
drop from these kind of highs, It's possible. Until we
see that, it's hard to get really too bearish on
this cattle market. But as a risk manager, let me
tell you guys, if you're not looking at doing some
kind of risk management to protect these historic high prices,
I believe you're missing the boat. You can either sell
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futures and buy a call option to protect it in
case we go higher. You can buy a foot option,
spend four dollars on the fats, spend five dollars on
the feeders, and get some protection out here. Because as
we all know, it's been a long as long around
as long as I have, something always seems to shake
this cattle market, one thing or another, one room or another,
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and you just can't leave these prices on the table.
If You've got cattle out there and that obviously is
pushed the hog prices up to stay competitive with the
these prices.
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Now.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for Feedbwick USA.
We're in Lancaster County today. We are talking with a
Tammy Weir who is on the All American show Board. Tammy,
what's going on with All Americans?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
We have our schedule in line for the twenty twenty
five show and at this point we are building up
our army of volunteers. It takes a small army to
put that show on.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
If you had another successful show in twenty twenty four.
In September for.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Twenty twenty four, we had over fourteen hundred head that
went through the show rings. It makes us the largest
dairy show east of the Mississippi. It really spotlights junior activities.
We are the only national junior show stands alone from
the open show. That really gives the juniors a chance
to highlight all of their projects and their cattle, and
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especially on the bread and own side. We do highlight
that with the Junior show as well.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Give us a little glimpse of that pageant, because that
is something very special.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Oh yeah, the pageant is spectacular. You have a dark arena,
the spotlight comes on as each animal and their exhibitor
their handler are introduced, and they will walk into their
specific spots within the arena and they are escorted by royalty.
Maybe it's dairy Royalty. It might be a state ffa
officer or somebody who is on the state for each
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board or breed representative, and all of those animals and
their handlers will be in the arena with spotlights and
the music. They all have a little piece of information
shared about each one. The highlights something that's unique about
the exhibitor, and then each of the judges has a
chance to review all of those animals one more time
before they pick the supreme champion of the Junior show.
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Motions run high. You can't help be excited. I've been
in that arena as just a competitor's mom, I have
been there as a spectator. I've been there as a
family member. Even as a spectator. The event itself will
bring you goosebumps, that's for sure. It's a little bit
more nerve racking when you have a close connection with
one of the exhibitors or the cows in the arena.
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So it's and you know, I've been fortunate my son
had a chance of having a supreme champion cow. So
it's the wonderful, wonderful opportunity for young people.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
That experience has got to really encourage young people whatever
path they choose, but particularly in agriculture.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely, it's a huge confidence builder. But
they also get to meet a lot of unique people.
And even at that pageant, you have a lot of
ag dignitaries that are there. We have the Secretary of
Agriculture for Pennsylvania, you have the deputy secretaries for agriculture,
you have some of the state representatives, some of our
national representatives that are representing our government agencies are there.
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It's a great place to rub elbows with those people
who can do wonders for our industry.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
So tell us a little bit about your planning. What
is the board doing now to really prepare for twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
So we go over the schedule with a fine tooth comb,
and we make sure that we have volunteers and people
that can make each segment of that schedule shine. So
we have committees, we have backup people. We have the
Board of Directors, which I have an opportunity to serve on,
and we just help the committee members and the volunteer
to make sure that everything is going smoothly. And it
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does take a lot of funding to make such a
special event come to life.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Funding comes in a variety of sources.
Speaker 19 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
So we get individual sponsorships, we get corporate sponsorships. Feedworks
has been a sponsor for us and we're very grateful
for that. We get grants from the local government and
then we also apply for grants on the national level.
But it takes about four hundred thousand dollars to run
that show.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
One of the things that's always impressed me is what
a great egg community Pennsylvania has.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh, that's what makes a show run. That's what makes
us unique that it really does. We have volunteers. They
just make sure that every show goes off without a hitch.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Let's shift gears. Tell us a little bit about the
All American Dairy Show Foundation, right.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The All American Dairy Show Foundation is a nonprofit organization
and that raises money to provide scholarship high school seniors
who have shown at the All American Dairy show or
have a background in dairy as well as some college
students should be looking on the All American Dairy Foundation
website or the All American Dairy Show website for opportunities
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to apply for scholarships. So they're looking at anywhere from
one thousand to fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars scholarships.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Tammy Weaver with the All American Dairy Showboard, thanks for
being with us today here.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Welcome John.
Speaker 18 (16:11):
Thank you.
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Speaker 22 (16:54):
I think the focus in terms of telling our story
in a couple of different ways. One is the health
and nutritional density and shelf life of boments, shifting whatever
that takes to be able to tell that story in
an impactful way. And then also the environmental and stewardship story.
We have to own that narrative, and we need to
do it in a way that people don't question it
as greenwashing because it's not. So how do you tell
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it in a way that's fact based but not too
flashy so that people suspect that's corporate, Right, No, that's not.
We're egg so forget. We have to find our footing
to be able to figure out what's the right way
to do that. The other piece that's been magnificent in
this first three months has been our board of directors also,
who are giving their time, super talented, informed individuals who
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really care a lot, and they have been super helpful
and trying to help hear the guard rails basically, So
that kind of perspective is really helpful too. So I
don't know where that's going to lead yet in terms
of the shape need to be different to be able
to deliver on those things.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 22 (17:49):
Innovation is the other one. There's a lot of outside
people probably that we can partner with that can help
us with that, that have global perspective and you know,
can call somebody tomorrow and have certain things done that
we just don't even have sight to.
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High oilin soybean oil is now being incorporated into dairy
cattle feed rations and is positively affecting animal health. Don Wee's,
chairman of the United Soybean Board's Audit and Evaluations Committee,
says it's been a journey to get the high oil
like slybean oil into cattle rations.
Speaker 23 (19:25):
We at USB brought the HILI program forward and it
was all originally intended for food use for the healthier
soybean oil being produced from these highly eke solobeans. But
here in the last short while, we are finding some benefits,
some significant benefits and areas of the feed industry, in
particular dairy. So you know, it is great to highlight
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this new found benefit from highlake soybeans going into dairy rations,
improving that overall butterfat eel. I as a farmer, really
like this from the standpoint that we are paving the
way for a more stable demand foundation going forward when
we can rely on both food juices which haven't gone away,
they're still there, but now we're bringing this exciting new
feed usage of high lakes into the mix as well.
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Real excited going forward.
Speaker 17 (20:09):
He said.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Checkoff dollars held with a research on high oil like
soybeans and dairy cattle feed rations.
Speaker 23 (20:15):
It's a significant example of why we as US soybean
farmers pay into our checkof to promote our industry overall
and to bring big changes and developments to us that
come back to our own family farms around the country.
The Highlight program has been a perfect example, I guess
is how I would describe it as a place where
we've spent significant checkoff dollars but are now seeing significant
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returns that are coming back to our farms. And one
of the pieces that was taking time to grow is
just being able to offer this to all US soybean farmers.
And we're not there yet, but now we're in sixteen states,
and with this continued development with dairy, you know it's
going to expand to other states as well. When they
are trying to partner with other dairy locations around the country.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Getting the soybean and the dairy cattle rations benefit soybean
farm and cattle producers.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
I call it a win win.
Speaker 23 (21:03):
You know, we're witting by seeing this going to the
feed rations of dry cows, but also continuing to in
a tighter margin environment, seeing new developments on the demand
side for our soybeans. And this is only going to
continue to grow going forward with the results that we're
seeing coming out of that benefit to the dairy industry.
And there's some additional work being done in swine right
now too to look at this, so we may not
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be done yet.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
AGAM. That is Don weis chairman of the United Soybean
Board's Audit and Evaluations Committee, and Don's a soybean farmer
from Indiana. The USDA is outlined it's planned to attack
the New World's screwworm now that includes an eight point
five million dollar facility to produce sterile flies in South Texas.
Agg's secretary Brook Rawlins said the agency is trying to
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enhance its ability to detect, control, and eliminate the PESSS cigarette.
Johan's and the National Cattleman's Deep Association says it's an
extremely expensive disease to eradicate, which is why prevention is key.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
The dominoes in Central America fell really fast, and we
saw from November of last year up and through the
winter in the spring, we saw this disease move really
quickly through Central America into Mexico. And that is why
it is such an urgent concern for the United States now,
because it is right at our southern neighbor and we've
got to make sure we keep it out of the
US cattle herd. It is an extremely expensive disease to
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eradicate once you have it, so prevention is worth everything here.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
One step was to close the bordered live cattle imports,
and another was to brain flies that are sterile so
they will mate in the wild with females and then
they will not produce offspring.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
And then they drop them into the environment and these
sterilized males in theory outcompete the males in the environment
and gradually the population goes down. The trick with that, though,
is you need an awful lot of flies.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
There's currently one facility in Panama producing these flies. Mexico
is working on another, and this will get the US
a sterile fly operation near the border. The USDA's National
Agricultural Statistic Service was mailed out July Cattle Survey to
about eighteen thousand cattle operations nationwide to provide an update
measure of the US cattle inventories now. This is the
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first July Cattle Survey mail to producers since the reinstatement
of key reports was announced earlier this year. According to
NAS Livestock Branch chief Travis Avril, the information helps producers
make timely informed of business decisions and plan for hert
expansion or reduction. It also helps packers and government leaders
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evaluate expected slaughter volume for future months and determined potential
supplies for export. Now, during the first two weeks of July,
US cattle producers will have the opportunity to report their
beef and dairy cattle inventories, cab crop death loss, and
cattle on feed information, and then the July Cattle Reports
have to be out on Friday, July twenty fifth at
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two pm. I'm Dwayne Merley.
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It's time for California AG Today on the AG Information Network.
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Ship Well Independence days in the rear view mirror, but
it's still worth looking at the scale and the cost
of what was likely left behind on the table. According
to Reefed, Americans were expected to waste about one hundred
and twenty six million pounds of food during this year's
Fourth of July celebrations. We're also like twenty percent of
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what was prepared, based on estimates tied to the American
Farm Bureau Federations twenty twenty four market Basket survey. Now
that level of waste is not new, but the cost
is rising. This year's cookouts were projected to be the
most expensive yet, with average food prices up more than
four percent. Staples like chicken, tomatoes, ice cream, end especially beef,
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have all climbed, fueled by seasonal demand and supply chain pressure.
Beef remains a grill favorite and one of the most expensive,
with prices pushed higher by a shrinking US cattle herd
and new tariffs on Brazilian imports. The estimates come from Reefed,
a US based nonprofit working to drive evidenced based action
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Bob went back with some farm us this morning. Friends. Well,
there's some controversy over what's called dairy free butter Lori
Boyer has our report.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
A new product from Country Croc, label dairy free butter,
has sparked concerned within the dairy industry, mislabeling non dairy
products as butter as a violation of federal standards. According
to Chris Galen, executive director of the American Butter Institute.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Butter has rebounded and things like margins and plant spreads,
plant based spreads are in decline. So if you're a
manufacturer of those imitation butters, fake butters, where you do
you decide to label yourself as something called dairy free butter,
which is a total oxymoron because you can't have butter
unless it comes from a dairy ingredient like cream. But
(27:05):
this is a concern because we see these products in
the marketplace.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
The American Butter Institute has asked the USA to intervene,
saying Country Crocs dairy free butter not only violates federal standards,
it misuses the term butter.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
The good news here, hopefully, is that you know, there's
a lot of interest in the part of the Trump
administration to have people eat more real foods, more whole foods.
This Country Crop product is a combination of canola and
palm oil, but it's not legal to call it that,
at least not in our view, and hopefully that'll be
the view of the FDA, And we're hoping that in
this whole era of the making America Healthy again and
(27:38):
this Commission report that came out, they will look at
this complaint that we have more sympathetically.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
The American Butter Institute's executive director, Chris Galen.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Laury Boyer with us this morning. Well friends, the Renewable
Fuels Association reports ethanol production in the US continues to grow,
with actual production climbing and capacity utilization at about ninety percent.
That's Dan O'Brien from Kansas State University has been digging
into those numbers.
Speaker 25 (28:04):
We've been growing in capacity for ethanol in twenty twenty three,
ended up the year about seventy point seven billion gallons
per year of capacity eighteen point one in twenty twenty four,
now projected in this year to be eighteen point three.
The capacity is actually used when you dig back behind
those numbers, about ninety percent. Again, during the early heady
(28:24):
days of ethanol production, I remember hearing quite a bit
of discussion about how, yes, we have our name plate,
our boilerplate capacity, but we can't push it to that
or beyond. So I've always been kind of surprised to
see that in the overall aggregate that at least we're
showing about ninety percent of capacity for with all plants
thrown together.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Dan O'Brien, Kansas State University. The US Meat Export Federation
looking at some new convenience snacks being introduced into Mexico.
As we hear in this report.
Speaker 19 (28:53):
Convenience snacks featuring US pork have become a new avenue
for pork sales in Mexico. US Meat Export Federation Mexico
trade manager ger Rigoberto Trevino details some of the new
products developed with support from USDA, the National Pork Port
and State So I've been checkout programs.
Speaker 26 (29:07):
Last year, we launched a pro called Snakatlas that is
like dry meat with pork ham that is a snack
that is with one of the largest convenience storage distributors
in Mexico that is called Oxo. They have more than
twenty two thousand stores and the prog is all over
the country. We are also have the Chicha ramen that
(29:28):
is very important for US is made with Chicharron. Por
Gel Chicharroon with carne ramos is a ramen with port
Geologicharon us to us pork and is also in all
of their stores, is in different flights with Bivio wuz.
So we are proud to say that we are selling
(29:49):
Portal chicharon over the air all over Mexico.
Speaker 19 (29:53):
USMF also unveiled a pork cel chiacher own product in
a count at a large Mexican music festival.
Speaker 26 (29:59):
We start that idea with a cone that is with
buys of Pordiology charon because if you are in a festival,
in a concert, or in a match, a soccer match
or something like that, you want to eat something that
is very easy to buy to eat, et cetera. So
after that cone, we created the chita ramin in the
(30:19):
festival just eating the chitarani and that's great and right
now we are into that pro to the convenience source.
It was a really huge success in the music festival
that is called Paul nortin Monterrey, Mexico. It's as like
eighty thousand people per day. It's the last three days
and it was a great success and we are now
looking for other channels to sell that product.
Speaker 19 (30:42):
The current product has also been a hit at sporting
events across Mexico for the US Meat Export Federation.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I'm John Harrath, other farm used. President Trump once again
emphasized his willingness to protect American farmers rely on immigrant
workers to operate their farms, and a rally in the
Midwest last week, the President said he would allow farmers
who hire migrant workers to take charge and permit the
migrants working in agriculture to remain in the country. News
Nation says this plan wouldn't create a path to citizenship
(31:10):
that many immigration advocates want, but would protect them from
the possibility of being detained by immigration and Customs enforcement
agents during workplace raids. The President said that by implementing
a plan for farm workers to avoid being taken into custody,
it will benefit a farming industry that contributed about two
hundred twenty three million to the nation's gross domestic product
(31:31):
in twenty twenty three. Farm News This morning, you're listening
to WAG Life.
Speaker 14 (31:38):
Well, the AGRID Permission Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Concerns about the Make America Healthy Again report led two
hundred and fifty plus AGG groups to ask the Trump
administration to correct the direction of MAHA. In a June
thirteenth letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,
Junior AGG Secretary Brook Rawlins, and EPA Administrator Lee Zelden,
(31:58):
the group criticized the MAHAW Commission's lack of transparency, adding
it didn't allow for any public engagement. A follow up
MAHA report is due August twelfth. Ex Secretary Brook Rawlins
is rescending the two thousand and one Roadless Rule, which
removes prohibitions on road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest on
nearly fifty nine million acres of National Forest System. This
(32:19):
could allow better fire prevention and responsible timber production. Rawlins
says this rule is overly restrictive and poses real harm
to the millions of acres of US national forests. Thirty
percent of National Forest System lands are impacted by the rule.
Milk production in the twenty four major milk producing states
total nineteen point one billion pounds, up one point seven
percent from May of twenty four. April's revised production at
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eighteen point six billion pounds was also up one point
seven percent from last year and increase of point one
percent from last month. Preliminary estimate the number of milk
cows on farms was nine million head, one hundred and
eighteen thousand more than last year and six thousand more
than April.
Speaker 17 (32:57):
You've probably been told that to reach a male you
have to go digital. Hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Speaker 18 (33:12):
Oh?
Speaker 17 (33:12):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know, it's
easy for us to find them during the day, as
most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup truck
or farm equipment with the radio on. Listening to this
(33:34):
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If you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
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Speaker 14 (33:56):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness date.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Agli for today friends.
While the Canadian marketplace is a major buyer of US
produced pickup trucks, Dennis Guy wraps us up today. Pickups
are extremely popular in Canada and make up an outsized
portion of new vehicle sales, but with the exception of
GM's Sierra models assembled in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada imports its
(34:24):
pickup trucks mostly from the US. On Wednesday, Prime Minister
Mark Kearney hosted a meeting with the Canadian CEOs of Ford,
General Motors and Stilantis. With trade talks having resumed and
facing a July twenty first deadline, the Prime Minister was
looking for input from the Canadian heads of the big
three North American car manufacturers. Stephen Beattie, an automotive industry
(34:49):
consultant and the former corporate vice president of Toyota Canada,
was surprised that no Japanese or Korean car representatives were
at the Ottawa meeting, as they were resent the majority
of new vehicles sold today. Stephen Beattie said that President
Trump is correct when he says that Americans don't need
(35:09):
Canadian cars because the market share for the big three
automakers vehicles has been shrinking for years.
Speaker 27 (35:16):
If you look at the companies we're represented in the room,
they produced a little less than thirty percent of the
vehicles produced in Canada last year. Honda and Toyota made
the other seventy plus percent. Donald Trump was right in
one aspect. He says that the US doesn't need our cars,
and is absolutely true. The size of the US market
has been shrinking over the last couple of decades, So
what they're looking for is assurance that there's not going
(35:37):
to be a disruption to the Canadian marketplace. The US
does need one thing from Canada, and that is our market.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
When it comes to full size pickup trucks, the top
sellar across North America continues to be the Ford F one,
fifty and it's Super Duty models, followed by the Dodge
Ram and GM's Sierra pickup models. With a shrinking market,
the last thing the big three auto makers need is
tariffs and resulting counter tariffs crippling the sales of their
(36:05):
full size pickup trucks. Canada is a big buyer of
full size pickup trucks. So, according to Steven Beatty, Donald
Trump is not correct when he says that Canada does
not have any cards. The Detroit based Big three auto
makers are well aware that Canada is by far its
largest export market.
Speaker 27 (36:25):
There is exactly one good export market for the US
and that's Canada. If, for example, one hundred and thirty
four thousand F series pickup trucks aren't going to be
sold next year in Canada because of terrace on our side,
their industries in trouble, you can't think of any other
market around the world that would accept the number of
full size pickup trucks that Canada purchases every year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Steven Beatty is a Canadian automotive industry consultant and the
former corporate vice president of Toyota Canada. Reporting from Canada.
I'm Dennis Guy with that. Friends, out of time for today,
thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition
A Bag Life
Good morning, Valley. This Isglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country looking
at wildfire season. Rod Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Extreme heat covering the country in recent days is behind
the drawing and curing of fuels in our nation's forest
and grasslands that could fuel wildfires. That and increasing wildfire
activity in different parts of the country is behind the
National Interagency Fire Centers announcement this past weekend of the
National wild land Fire Preparedness Level moving up to Level
(00:34):
three status. In other words, increased mobilization of resources for
incident management operations at active wildfire complexes and the sharing
of resources at various levels.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We got some great.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Examples of where we have good operationally between the federal
government in Alaska, the State of Alaska, for example, also
the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, where we are
already coordinating.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
That's Interior Secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He was above various federal fire leaders recently visiting the
White House to update President Donald Trump on this year's
wildfire season to date and what is needed to prepare
for future incidents. Also advising the President and noting the
importance of collaboration and wildfire management efforts. Agriculture Secretary Brook, Rawlins.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Secretary Bergham, and I already have given direction to our
firefighting organizations to take whatever actions are necessary to ensure
that we are operationally ready.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The combined resources include firefighters from both agencies on the
front lines of wildfire complexes and available with activity shifts
to other locales.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
The Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture employ
over seventeen thousand wildfire.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Personnel, that is federal wildland firefighters. That added an additional
thirteen thousand wildfire personnel from state, local, and tribal entities
at the peak of the fire season, Brook and I
have already.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Held a joint briefing with the fire leaders about this
fire season. So we'll continue to unify this work, but
we have to work with the states.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The federal state joint effort in wildfire prevention and management
is essential. According to the Interior Secretary, as by mid June,
over one point two million acres burned, but more significantly, only.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Twenty five percent of that's been on federal The other
seventy five percent has been on state lands.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Or private lands.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That figure takes on a greater concern when one considers.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
With the growth of our country around urban areas. There's
been a thirty percent growth of what's called the wild
lands and urban interface. When this happens, people start building homes.
This is where we're essentially creating cities in the.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Middle of forest broad Bay and reporting for the US
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Farm US ahead, you're listening to Aglife. Bob went back
with some farm us this morning. Friends. Well, there's some
controversy over what's called dairy free butter. Lori Boyer has
our report.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
A new product from Country Croc label dairy free butter,
has spark concerned within the dairy industry dis labeling non
dairy products as butter as a violation of federal standards.
According to Chris Galen, executive director of the American Butter Institutes.
Speaker 10 (03:08):
Butter has rebounded and things like margins and plant spreads,
plant based spreads are in decline. So if you're a
manufacturer of those imitation butters fake butters, what you do
you decide to label yourself as something called dairy free butter,
which is a total oxymoron, because you can't have butter
unless it comes from a dairy ingredient like cream. But
(03:29):
this is a concern because we see these products in
the marketplace.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
The American Butter Institute has asked a USA to intervene,
saying country crocs dairy free butter not only violates federal standards,
it misuses the term butter.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
The good news here, hopefully is that you know, there's
a lot of interest in the part of the Trump
administration to have people eat more real foods, more whole foods.
This country crop product is a combination of canola and
palm oil, but it's not legal to call it that,
at least not in r VUW. And hopefully that'll be
the view of the FDA. And we're hoping that in
this whole era of the making America Healthy Again and
(04:03):
this Commission report that came out, they will look at
this complaint that we have more sympathetically.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
The American Butter Institute's executive director, Chris galen Well friends.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Last week, USDA rated more than eighty percent of the
corn crop in three of the top eighteen corn growing
states as good too excellent. But as Mike Davis reports,
there's variability among the top crops.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
Those states include Pennsylvania, Iowa, and to North Carolina, which
has eighty two percent rated good to excellent. Zach Webb
is a Bear technical agronomist and says in his region
of North Carolina, growers are set up to have an
outstanding crop.
Speaker 12 (04:40):
We had tydlee rainbow when we needed We did have
a hotspill in there where the tempty got pretty high,
and that can affect pollination to some degree. But I
think people forget that if you've got good mortar, well,
the heat can be a negative. Is not as bad
as he is. Like last year we were so dry
and we got heat that killed our po nation. This
(05:00):
year we had heat, but we had good moisture.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
On the other hand, Web says soybeans are all over
the board.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
Early planet beings are growing off and looked really well.
We've had some tough conditions during playing time for soybeans.
A lot of places had too much water, and then
we've got dry in some places. Especially now, we're getting
a little dry in places double crop beans. So double
crop beings look pretty rough. So the soybeans are they're
truly a mixed bag because you may be. One guy
(05:31):
who planted early May had the beautiful crop beans. The
guy who planted a week later had a hard time
getting a stand. It would beat down. Just a very,
very variable.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Right now, the cotton crop in the Carolinas has been
tough from the start.
Speaker 12 (05:46):
The guys who planted late April have got a phenomenal
crop right now. It looks beautiful. But May, as you
may remember, was very wet and wet and cotton planting
does not go together. So we got off to a
rough start with cotton. But you know, we've had a
lot of heat, which cotton loves. We've had ample morture,
and I'm telling books now cotton has starting a little
(06:08):
like cotton again.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
Web is telling his cotton growers never give up on
a cotton crop.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I'm Mike Davis, other farmer used. President Trump once again
emphasized his willingness to protect American farmers who rely on
immigrant workers to operate their farms. At a rally in
the Midwest last week, the President said he would allow
farmers who hire migrant workers to take charge and permit
the migrants working in agriculture to remain in the country.
(06:34):
News Nation says this plan wouldn't create a path to
citizenship that many immigration advocates want, but would protect them
from the possibility of being detained by immigration and Customs
enforcement agents during workplace raids. Now, the President said that
by implementing a plan for farm workers to avoid being
taken into custody, it will benefit a farming industry that
(06:56):
contributed about two hundred and twenty three million to the
nation's gross domestic product in twenty twenty three. Farm News
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
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How could the FOMCEE minutes and tariff deadlines move markets
this week? Bob Ayachino is with Path Trading Partners.
Speaker 15 (07:58):
We've got you massive events happening and They will both
be coming to a head on Wednesday, July ninth. The
first one is the release of the FOMC minutes from
the last rate meeting. Markets will look for any insight
at all into the thinking at the FMC in terms
of the deflationary price trends that are currently in place
and the slowing but still positive job creation. We saw
(08:20):
the beat on Thursday morning with the headline jobs number
and the unemployment rate. The second one is the global
tariff deadline issued by President Trump when he paused his
massive reciprocal tariffs globally.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Markets will be.
Speaker 15 (08:32):
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tariffs as promise, potentially up to fifty percent on countries
that haven't finalized trade deals by the July ninth deadline.
This yes or no proposition will impact global growth, inflation,
and supply chains, and has the potential to add quite
a bit of volatility to multiple markets, not just stocks,
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Mark gold is with top third ag marketing.
Speaker 18 (10:13):
This cattle market has been outstanding. I mean, how can
you love it if you've got cattle out there and
you're looking at you know, pick a cash price two
thirty five to forty Uh, you've got the box beef
of another two bucks here to day, we eighty eight
sixty nine. That's an all time historic high. You know,
we just don't have the numbers out there. We'll see
(10:34):
what the cattle on Feet on Friday says but you know,
until something fundamentally changes where we see more cattle coming in,
or that the American housewife starts to back off of
buying hamburger and steaks out here, you know in the pants.
When we've had you know, record high box feed prices,
it wasn't unusual see that market break five ten dollars overnight,
(10:58):
you know, Could we see it ten or twenty dollar
drop from these kind of highs, It's possible. Until we
see that, it's hard to get really too bearish on
this cattle market. But as a risk manager, let me
tell you guys, if you're not looking at doing some
kind of risk management to protect these historic high prices,
I believe you're missing the boat. You can either sell
(11:19):
futures and buy a call option to protect it in
case we go higher. You can buy a foot option,
spend four dollars on the fats, spend five dollars on
the feeders, and get some protection out here. Because as
we all know, it's been a long as long around
as long as I have, something always seems to shake
this cattle market, one thing or another, one room or another,
(11:40):
and you just can't leave these prices on the table.
If You've got cattle out there and that obviously is
pushed the hog prices up to stay competitive with the
these prices.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
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Now.
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I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for Feedbwick USA.
We're in Lancaster County today. We are talking with a
Tammy Weir who is on the All American show Board. Tammy,
what's going on with All Americans?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
We have our schedule in line for the twenty twenty
five show and at this point we are building up
our army of volunteers. It takes a small army to
put that show on.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
If you had another successful show in twenty twenty four.
In September for.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Twenty twenty four, we had over fourteen hundred head that
went through the show rings. It makes us the largest
dairy show east of the Mississippi. It really spotlights junior activities.
We are the only national junior show stands alone from
the open show. That really gives the juniors a chance
to highlight all of their projects and their cattle, and
(12:43):
especially on the bread and own side. We do highlight
that with the Junior show as well.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Give us a little glimpse of that pageant, because that
is something very special.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Oh yeah, the pageant is spectacular. You have a dark arena,
the spotlight comes on as each animal and their exhibitor
their handler are introduced, and they will walk into their
specific spots within the arena and they are escorted by royalty.
Maybe it's dairy Royalty. It might be a state ffa
officer or somebody who is on the state for each
(13:10):
board or breed representative, and all of those animals and
their handlers will be in the arena with spotlights and
the music. They all have a little piece of information
shared about each one. The highlights something that's unique about
the exhibitor, and then each of the judges has a
chance to review all of those animals one more time
before they pick the supreme champion of the Junior show.
(13:31):
Motions run high. You can't help be excited. I've been
in that arena as just a competitor's mom, I have
been there as a spectator. I've been there as a
family member. Even as a spectator. The event itself will
bring you goosebumps, that's for sure. It's a little bit
more nerve racking when you have a close connection with
one of the exhibitors or the cows in the arena.
(13:53):
So it's and you know, I've been fortunate my son
had a chance of having a supreme champion cow. So
it's the wonderful, wonderful opportunity for young people.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
That experience has got to really encourage young people whatever
path they choose, but particularly in agriculture.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely, it's a huge confidence builder. But
they also get to meet a lot of unique people.
And even at that pageant, you have a lot of
ag dignitaries that are there. We have the Secretary of
Agriculture for Pennsylvania, you have the deputy secretaries for agriculture,
you have some of the state representatives, some of our
national representatives that are representing our government agencies are there.
(14:30):
It's a great place to rub elbows with those people
who can do wonders for our industry.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
So tell us a little bit about your planning. What
is the board doing now to really prepare for twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
So we go over the schedule with a fine tooth comb,
and we make sure that we have volunteers and people
that can make each segment of that schedule shine. So
we have committees, we have backup people. We have the
Board of Directors, which I have an opportunity to serve on,
and we just help the committee members and the volunteer
to make sure that everything is going smoothly. And it
(15:02):
does take a lot of funding to make such a
special event come to life.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Funding comes in a variety of sources.
Speaker 19 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
So we get individual sponsorships, we get corporate sponsorships. Feedworks
has been a sponsor for us and we're very grateful
for that. We get grants from the local government and
then we also apply for grants on the national level.
But it takes about four hundred thousand dollars to run
that show.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
One of the things that's always impressed me is what
a great egg community Pennsylvania has.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh, that's what makes a show run. That's what makes
us unique that it really does. We have volunteers. They
just make sure that every show goes off without a hitch.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Let's shift gears. Tell us a little bit about the
All American Dairy Show Foundation, right.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The All American Dairy Show Foundation is a nonprofit organization
and that raises money to provide scholarship high school seniors
who have shown at the All American Dairy show or
have a background in dairy as well as some college
students should be looking on the All American Dairy Foundation
website or the All American Dairy Show website for opportunities
(16:00):
to apply for scholarships. So they're looking at anywhere from
one thousand to fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars scholarships.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Tammy Weaver with the All American Dairy Showboard, thanks for
being with us today here.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Welcome John.
Speaker 18 (16:11):
Thank you.
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Information Network. Clarice Turner as President and CEO of the
Almond Border, California.
Speaker 22 (16:54):
I think the focus in terms of telling our story
in a couple of different ways. One is the health
and nutritional density and shelf life of boments, shifting whatever
that takes to be able to tell that story in
an impactful way. And then also the environmental and stewardship story.
We have to own that narrative, and we need to
do it in a way that people don't question it
as greenwashing because it's not. So how do you tell
(17:15):
it in a way that's fact based but not too
flashy so that people suspect that's corporate, Right, No, that's not.
We're egg so forget. We have to find our footing
to be able to figure out what's the right way
to do that. The other piece that's been magnificent in
this first three months has been our board of directors also,
who are giving their time, super talented, informed individuals who
(17:35):
really care a lot, and they have been super helpful
and trying to help hear the guard rails basically, So
that kind of perspective is really helpful too. So I
don't know where that's going to lead yet in terms
of the shape need to be different to be able
to deliver on those things.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 22 (17:49):
Innovation is the other one. There's a lot of outside
people probably that we can partner with that can help
us with that, that have global perspective and you know,
can call somebody tomorrow and have certain things done that
we just don't even have sight to.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Frankly, so farmwork is tough, and so is staying safe
on a road. Every year, accidents happen when tractors and
traffic share the same space, whether you're behind the wheel
of a tractor or a car. Here's what you need
to remember. Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on
hills or curves. Farmers, make sure your slow moving vehicles,
signs and lights are visible and everyone's sailor, especially on
(18:24):
rule roads. One moment a caution can save a life.
Let's work together to keep our roads and are farm safe.
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Speaker 17 (18:33):
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Speaker 21 (19:02):
With the AGI Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
High oilin soybean oil is now being incorporated into dairy
cattle feed rations and is positively affecting animal health. Don Wee's,
chairman of the United Soybean Board's Audit and Evaluations Committee,
says it's been a journey to get the high oil
like slybean oil into cattle rations.
Speaker 23 (19:25):
We at USB brought the HILI program forward and it
was all originally intended for food use for the healthier
soybean oil being produced from these highly eke solobeans. But
here in the last short while, we are finding some benefits,
some significant benefits and areas of the feed industry, in
particular dairy. So you know, it is great to highlight
(19:46):
this new found benefit from highlake soybeans going into dairy rations,
improving that overall butterfat eel. I as a farmer, really
like this from the standpoint that we are paving the
way for a more stable demand foundation going forward when
we can rely on both food juices which haven't gone away,
they're still there, but now we're bringing this exciting new
feed usage of high lakes into the mix as well.
(20:08):
Real excited going forward.
Speaker 17 (20:09):
He said.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Checkoff dollars held with a research on high oil like
soybeans and dairy cattle feed rations.
Speaker 23 (20:15):
It's a significant example of why we as US soybean
farmers pay into our checkof to promote our industry overall
and to bring big changes and developments to us that
come back to our own family farms around the country.
The Highlight program has been a perfect example, I guess
is how I would describe it as a place where
we've spent significant checkoff dollars but are now seeing significant
(20:38):
returns that are coming back to our farms. And one
of the pieces that was taking time to grow is
just being able to offer this to all US soybean farmers.
And we're not there yet, but now we're in sixteen states,
and with this continued development with dairy, you know it's
going to expand to other states as well. When they
are trying to partner with other dairy locations around the country.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Getting the soybean and the dairy cattle rations benefit soybean
farm and cattle producers.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
I call it a win win.
Speaker 23 (21:03):
You know, we're witting by seeing this going to the
feed rations of dry cows, but also continuing to in
a tighter margin environment, seeing new developments on the demand
side for our soybeans. And this is only going to
continue to grow going forward with the results that we're
seeing coming out of that benefit to the dairy industry.
And there's some additional work being done in swine right
now too to look at this, so we may not
(21:24):
be done yet.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
AGAM. That is Don weis chairman of the United Soybean
Board's Audit and Evaluations Committee, and Don's a soybean farmer
from Indiana. The USDA is outlined it's planned to attack
the New World's screwworm now that includes an eight point
five million dollar facility to produce sterile flies in South Texas.
Agg's secretary Brook Rawlins said the agency is trying to
(21:47):
enhance its ability to detect, control, and eliminate the PESSS cigarette.
Johan's and the National Cattleman's Deep Association says it's an
extremely expensive disease to eradicate, which is why prevention is key.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
The dominoes in Central America fell really fast, and we
saw from November of last year up and through the
winter in the spring, we saw this disease move really
quickly through Central America into Mexico. And that is why
it is such an urgent concern for the United States now,
because it is right at our southern neighbor and we've
got to make sure we keep it out of the
US cattle herd. It is an extremely expensive disease to
(22:20):
eradicate once you have it, so prevention is worth everything here.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
One step was to close the bordered live cattle imports,
and another was to brain flies that are sterile so
they will mate in the wild with females and then
they will not produce offspring.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
And then they drop them into the environment and these
sterilized males in theory outcompete the males in the environment
and gradually the population goes down. The trick with that, though,
is you need an awful lot of flies.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
There's currently one facility in Panama producing these flies. Mexico
is working on another, and this will get the US
a sterile fly operation near the border. The USDA's National
Agricultural Statistic Service was mailed out July Cattle Survey to
about eighteen thousand cattle operations nationwide to provide an update
measure of the US cattle inventories now. This is the
(23:09):
first July Cattle Survey mail to producers since the reinstatement
of key reports was announced earlier this year. According to
NAS Livestock Branch chief Travis Avril, the information helps producers
make timely informed of business decisions and plan for hert
expansion or reduction. It also helps packers and government leaders
(23:30):
evaluate expected slaughter volume for future months and determined potential
supplies for export. Now, during the first two weeks of July,
US cattle producers will have the opportunity to report their
beef and dairy cattle inventories, cab crop death loss, and
cattle on feed information, and then the July Cattle Reports
have to be out on Friday, July twenty fifth at
(23:50):
two pm. I'm Dwayne Merley.
Speaker 24 (23:55):
It's time for California AG Today on the AG Information Network.
Speaker 16 (23:59):
I am Hayley.
Speaker 24 (24:00):
Ship Well Independence days in the rear view mirror, but
it's still worth looking at the scale and the cost
of what was likely left behind on the table. According
to Reefed, Americans were expected to waste about one hundred
and twenty six million pounds of food during this year's
Fourth of July celebrations. We're also like twenty percent of
(24:20):
what was prepared, based on estimates tied to the American
Farm Bureau Federations twenty twenty four market Basket survey. Now
that level of waste is not new, but the cost
is rising. This year's cookouts were projected to be the
most expensive yet, with average food prices up more than
four percent. Staples like chicken, tomatoes, ice cream, end especially beef,
(24:41):
have all climbed, fueled by seasonal demand and supply chain pressure.
Beef remains a grill favorite and one of the most expensive,
with prices pushed higher by a shrinking US cattle herd
and new tariffs on Brazilian imports. The estimates come from Reefed,
a US based nonprofit working to drive evidenced based action
(25:02):
to stop food waste. With over a third of waste
happening at home, simple steps like planning meals and saving
leftovers can make a difference.
Speaker 16 (25:13):
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Speaker 17 (25:41):
For the last forty years, the Egg Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
(26:04):
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Speaker 24 (26:09):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey Ship. For more AGG news, check us
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Speaker 1 (26:21):
Bob went back with some farm us this morning. Friends. Well,
there's some controversy over what's called dairy free butter Lori
Boyer has our report.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
A new product from Country Croc, label dairy free butter,
has sparked concerned within the dairy industry, mislabeling non dairy
products as butter as a violation of federal standards. According
to Chris Galen, executive director of the American Butter Institute.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
Butter has rebounded and things like margins and plant spreads,
plant based spreads are in decline. So if you're a
manufacturer of those imitation butters, fake butters, where you do
you decide to label yourself as something called dairy free butter,
which is a total oxymoron because you can't have butter
unless it comes from a dairy ingredient like cream. But
(27:05):
this is a concern because we see these products in
the marketplace.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
The American Butter Institute has asked the USA to intervene,
saying Country Crocs dairy free butter not only violates federal standards,
it misuses the term butter.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
The good news here, hopefully, is that you know, there's
a lot of interest in the part of the Trump
administration to have people eat more real foods, more whole foods.
This Country Crop product is a combination of canola and
palm oil, but it's not legal to call it that,
at least not in our view, and hopefully that'll be
the view of the FDA, And we're hoping that in
this whole era of the making America Healthy again and
(27:38):
this Commission report that came out, they will look at
this complaint that we have more sympathetically.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
The American Butter Institute's executive director, Chris Galen.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Laury Boyer with us this morning. Well friends, the Renewable
Fuels Association reports ethanol production in the US continues to grow,
with actual production climbing and capacity utilization at about ninety percent.
That's Dan O'Brien from Kansas State University has been digging
into those numbers.
Speaker 25 (28:04):
We've been growing in capacity for ethanol in twenty twenty three,
ended up the year about seventy point seven billion gallons
per year of capacity eighteen point one in twenty twenty four,
now projected in this year to be eighteen point three.
The capacity is actually used when you dig back behind
those numbers, about ninety percent. Again, during the early heady
(28:24):
days of ethanol production, I remember hearing quite a bit
of discussion about how, yes, we have our name plate,
our boilerplate capacity, but we can't push it to that
or beyond. So I've always been kind of surprised to
see that in the overall aggregate that at least we're
showing about ninety percent of capacity for with all plants
thrown together.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Dan O'Brien, Kansas State University. The US Meat Export Federation
looking at some new convenience snacks being introduced into Mexico.
As we hear in this report.
Speaker 19 (28:53):
Convenience snacks featuring US pork have become a new avenue
for pork sales in Mexico. US Meat Export Federation Mexico
trade manager ger Rigoberto Trevino details some of the new
products developed with support from USDA, the National Pork Port
and State So I've been checkout programs.
Speaker 26 (29:07):
Last year, we launched a pro called Snakatlas that is
like dry meat with pork ham that is a snack
that is with one of the largest convenience storage distributors
in Mexico that is called Oxo. They have more than
twenty two thousand stores and the prog is all over
the country. We are also have the Chicha ramen that
(29:28):
is very important for US is made with Chicharron. Por
Gel Chicharroon with carne ramos is a ramen with port
Geologicharon us to us pork and is also in all
of their stores, is in different flights with Bivio wuz.
So we are proud to say that we are selling
(29:49):
Portal chicharon over the air all over Mexico.
Speaker 19 (29:53):
USMF also unveiled a pork cel chiacher own product in
a count at a large Mexican music festival.
Speaker 26 (29:59):
We start that idea with a cone that is with
buys of Pordiology charon because if you are in a festival,
in a concert, or in a match, a soccer match
or something like that, you want to eat something that
is very easy to buy to eat, et cetera. So
after that cone, we created the chita ramin in the
(30:19):
festival just eating the chitarani and that's great and right
now we are into that pro to the convenience source.
It was a really huge success in the music festival
that is called Paul nortin Monterrey, Mexico. It's as like
eighty thousand people per day. It's the last three days
and it was a great success and we are now
looking for other channels to sell that product.
Speaker 19 (30:42):
The current product has also been a hit at sporting
events across Mexico for the US Meat Export Federation.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I'm John Harrath, other farm used. President Trump once again
emphasized his willingness to protect American farmers rely on immigrant
workers to operate their farms, and a rally in the
Midwest last week, the President said he would allow farmers
who hire migrant workers to take charge and permit the
migrants working in agriculture to remain in the country. News
Nation says this plan wouldn't create a path to citizenship
(31:10):
that many immigration advocates want, but would protect them from
the possibility of being detained by immigration and Customs enforcement
agents during workplace raids. The President said that by implementing
a plan for farm workers to avoid being taken into custody,
it will benefit a farming industry that contributed about two
hundred twenty three million to the nation's gross domestic product
(31:31):
in twenty twenty three. Farm News This morning, you're listening
to WAG Life.
Speaker 14 (31:38):
Well, the AGRID Permission Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Concerns about the Make America Healthy Again report led two
hundred and fifty plus AGG groups to ask the Trump
administration to correct the direction of MAHA. In a June
thirteenth letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,
Junior AGG Secretary Brook Rawlins, and EPA Administrator Lee Zelden,
(31:58):
the group criticized the MAHAW Commission's lack of transparency, adding
it didn't allow for any public engagement. A follow up
MAHA report is due August twelfth. Ex Secretary Brook Rawlins
is rescending the two thousand and one Roadless Rule, which
removes prohibitions on road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest on
nearly fifty nine million acres of National Forest System. This
(32:19):
could allow better fire prevention and responsible timber production. Rawlins
says this rule is overly restrictive and poses real harm
to the millions of acres of US national forests. Thirty
percent of National Forest System lands are impacted by the rule.
Milk production in the twenty four major milk producing states
total nineteen point one billion pounds, up one point seven
percent from May of twenty four. April's revised production at
(32:42):
eighteen point six billion pounds was also up one point
seven percent from last year and increase of point one
percent from last month. Preliminary estimate the number of milk
cows on farms was nine million head, one hundred and
eighteen thousand more than last year and six thousand more
than April.
Speaker 17 (32:57):
You've probably been told that to reach a male you
have to go digital. Hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Speaker 18 (33:12):
Oh?
Speaker 17 (33:12):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know, it's
easy for us to find them during the day, as
most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup truck
or farm equipment with the radio on. Listening to this
(33:34):
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Speaker 14 (33:56):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness date.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Agli for today friends.
While the Canadian marketplace is a major buyer of US
produced pickup trucks, Dennis Guy wraps us up today. Pickups
are extremely popular in Canada and make up an outsized
portion of new vehicle sales, but with the exception of
GM's Sierra models assembled in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada imports its
(34:24):
pickup trucks mostly from the US. On Wednesday, Prime Minister
Mark Kearney hosted a meeting with the Canadian CEOs of Ford,
General Motors and Stilantis. With trade talks having resumed and
facing a July twenty first deadline, the Prime Minister was
looking for input from the Canadian heads of the big
three North American car manufacturers. Stephen Beattie, an automotive industry
(34:49):
consultant and the former corporate vice president of Toyota Canada,
was surprised that no Japanese or Korean car representatives were
at the Ottawa meeting, as they were resent the majority
of new vehicles sold today. Stephen Beattie said that President
Trump is correct when he says that Americans don't need
(35:09):
Canadian cars because the market share for the big three
automakers vehicles has been shrinking for years.
Speaker 27 (35:16):
If you look at the companies we're represented in the room,
they produced a little less than thirty percent of the
vehicles produced in Canada last year. Honda and Toyota made
the other seventy plus percent. Donald Trump was right in
one aspect. He says that the US doesn't need our cars,
and is absolutely true. The size of the US market
has been shrinking over the last couple of decades, So
what they're looking for is assurance that there's not going
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to be a disruption to the Canadian marketplace. The US
does need one thing from Canada, and that is our market.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
When it comes to full size pickup trucks, the top
sellar across North America continues to be the Ford F one,
fifty and it's Super Duty models, followed by the Dodge
Ram and GM's Sierra pickup models. With a shrinking market,
the last thing the big three auto makers need is
tariffs and resulting counter tariffs crippling the sales of their
(36:05):
full size pickup trucks. Canada is a big buyer of
full size pickup trucks. So, according to Steven Beatty, Donald
Trump is not correct when he says that Canada does
not have any cards. The Detroit based Big three auto
makers are well aware that Canada is by far its
largest export market.
Speaker 27 (36:25):
There is exactly one good export market for the US
and that's Canada. If, for example, one hundred and thirty
four thousand F series pickup trucks aren't going to be
sold next year in Canada because of terrace on our side,
their industries in trouble, you can't think of any other
market around the world that would accept the number of
full size pickup trucks that Canada purchases every year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Steven Beatty is a Canadian automotive industry consultant and the
former corporate vice president of Toyota Canada. Reporting from Canada.
I'm Dennis Guy with that. Friends, out of time for today,
thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition
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