June 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Igwife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. We
start the morning with a look at some money saving
ideas for the food budget. Rod Bain, our reporter.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ready for summer vacation. Then again, there are plenty of
vacation opportunities any time of the year, weekends and holidays,
especially for a quick getaway as well, but how to
make such getaways affordable as well as memorable. Julie guard
Robinson of North Dakota State University Extension says one way

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is look at your food and drink travel budget.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
You can certainly do some pre planning and actually pre
buying before you go on your vacation, and that's one
sure way to squeeze more food and fun out of
your vacation dollars. So, for example, you pick up your
snacks ahead of time or even some of your beverages
ahead of time, you can save a lot compared with
stopping along the way at a convenience store, for example.
So check out the buys at your local grocery store

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and pack it up been some ice if needed. Or
just in a bag or another case guarded.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Robinson says shopping for beverages if bulk, to take on
your trip is one way to save buddy as well
versus purchasing individual containers.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
For example, I had my student intern check out some
costs of some different popular items that you might take
along on vacation.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Finding out, for instance, that purchasing say what energy drink
and what soda could cost more that buying a six
pack of bottled waters. And she also reminds us tap
water is free as well. Now, turning to food choices, finding.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
A hotel with a refrigerator in the room or a
microwave oven in the room, or a free complimentary breakfast
are sure ways to extend your budget as well. You
can bring along some of your own food in an
ice chest so that it stays safe and cold, and
you can even pick up free ice most of the
time in the hotel, so that can really help you
extend your budget.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It doesn't hurt to bring along pre purchase food items
that are shelf stable.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Like granola bars and hold green crackers and some of
the fruit cups that you can purchase that are in
preportion containers and dried fruit and nuts are also nutritious
nack that kids enjoy too.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
When eating out at a restaurant or dineer, consider having
ice water as the drake, as it is free and healthy.
Garden Robinson points out that beverages usually add to the
final bill for the meal, and speaking of eating out,
instead of doing that for every meal while on vacation
or get.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Away, choose a local specialty restaurant and kind of splurge
on one of the meal for the day so that
dining becomes an experience because that's part of the fun
of going on vacation. Even better, maybe choose your lunch
meal instead of the evening meal as your splurge. Most
lunch menus are lower in cost and the evening meal options.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So lots of ways to stretch that dollar during family vacation, outing,
and travel time on Rod Dane, reporting for the US
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Farm News Ahead, you're listening to agglife Bob when there
was some far I'm used today friends, Well, cherry harvest
is underway in the northwestern US and things are looking
good so far for growers and cherry lovers. Washington State
Tree Food Association President John Devaney says things have been
rough and agriculture recently, so this year's cherries should help.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Having a good cherry crop will help when so many
crops are having down cycles. You know, agriculture in generals
having a difficult period where wholesale crisis haven't been keeping
up with the input cost increases that growers have been facing.
So having a good cherry year will be beneficial for
our cherry growers as well as the broader ag economy
in our state.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
But as price takers and not price setters, Devanny says,
farmers will wait and see.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
We tend to be watching what happens more than we're
involved directly in setting those prices. Of course, so we
get some indications through the Fruit Commission because they're helping
with promotions, but we're believing that the overall fundamentals of
the timing, size and quality of the crops should lead
to good pricing for growers.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Devanny says, does Washington cherries have a reputation to uphold.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
There's other states where you can grow that crop, but
like apples and pairs, where the number one producer of
all three of those crops, so people do eagerly watch
for the Northwest and Washington cherry crops in particular, both
domestically and internationally.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
About thirty percent of the US cherry crop gets exported.
That means export markets should be able to take advantage
of a good supply.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yes, that's certainly what we want. We want to be
able to supply consumers. One of the great things about
cherries is because the seasons are fairly short, you're not
generally competing against as many domestic producers and export markets
as well, we can often have our timing not conflicting
with theirs.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
This year's Northwest cherry crop is expected to be nine
percent larger than last year's. Well, friends, the US winter
wheat harvest has slowed slightly. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippe talks
about the current progress nationally.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Four percent of the winter week a preage harvested by
June eight. That's only one point increase from the previous week,
at three points behind the I your average of seven percent,
even further behind last year's eleven percent.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
So why has the harvest slowed down over the past week.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
We are seeing some disruptions in harvest activities across the
South producers would really like to see some drier weather.
It's at harvest moving along in states Lake, Arkansas and
even into the southern plains to Oklahoma, and advanced during
the week from just four to five percent harvested on winter.
We ive your average is twenty three percent. The pretty
dramatic delay. Everything was effectively shut down across that portion

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of the Southern plains last week.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
USDA Media Rodal just Brad Rippy with US farmers and
other business people are watching the Trump administration's trade strategy
very carefully as tariffs, which could directly affect their bottom line,
go up and down and back again. Mike Davis talks
with one agg leader who is listening to what they
have to say.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Brian Keel as executive director of Farmers for Free Trade
and is holding town hall meetings across the country to
discuss the tariff war and its impact. He says he's
especially concerned about how it will affect farmers.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Twenty percent of US farm revenue comes from exports, so
if our exports decline, our farmers decline, and that's really scary.
Farmers also are price takers when it comes to input,
so if we're driving up the cost of fertilizer or
steel or farm chemicals. Farmers get squeezed, and that's the
big concern. We don't want to see farmers go out
of business. Farmers play an important role in terms of

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food security, terms of keeping our rural communities afloat.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
Keel says he's hearing a uniform message from producers at
these meetings. They're nervous.

Speaker 7 (06:35):
I think we're all willing to give a little bit
of latitude to President Trump. You know, we'd like to
get better deals. So everyone's waiting on that. But patients,
I think, is wearing thin. I think there are farmers
who are getting squeezed already, and certainly if this drags
on into harvest season, I think we're going to see
a lot of pain.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
The volatility and uncertainty of the tariff war is causing
farmers to reevaluate how they operate.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
People are sort of parking their capital or they're not
going to take risks. In this environment, you can't afford
to because you'll go out of business. So we're seeing
people that are not making investments. You know, we had
one of our farmer participants who said he's not going
to put up a new bar in this year? Who
would put up a new bar in this year? You
want to hold your capital in case things get bad.
And I think when you think about how that affects

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the US economy, if everybody behaves that way, we're going
to see a contraction of the economy.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Farmers for Free Trade has hosted town hall meetings in Austin, Texas,
and Raleigh, North Carolina, in the past couple of weeks.
Their next stop is scheduled for June seventeenth in swiss Er, Iowa.
I'm Mike Davis Farmer News.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
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Speaker 8 (07:39):
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Many times we'll look to the AGG Committee for those
who are representing agriculture. But Michelle Fischbach represents the seventh
Congressional District of Minnesota and says.

Speaker 13 (08:30):
You know, you take a look at the at the
Ways and Means Committee, and I'm on the Trade subcommittee,
and trade is so important to Egg. And then we
talk about taxes in ways and means that's so incredibly
important to all of our business farmers.

Speaker 10 (08:42):
And so you know estate tax.

Speaker 13 (08:45):
You know, when I was on the on the Egg
Committee the first year, the first term I was here,
is we talked a lot about that estate tax and
the stepped up basis and that's all in part of
the Ways and Means. So I work very closely with
the members of the Egg Committee. Brad finn Staid, who's
from Minnesota border his district, he's on the and he
is an Egg superstar, and so we work together all
the time, you know, and I think that you.

Speaker 10 (09:07):
Know, for Minnesotans and Texans do this a lot.

Speaker 13 (09:09):
Is you know, you you spread out so that you're
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that we do a lot, a lot of work together
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Cowboys Association more after this.

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Speaker 8 (10:41):
Lehman wall Is with the Working Ranch Cowboys Association talks
about the World Championship.

Speaker 16 (10:48):
It all stems from a local community or somebody that
has an interest in being a part of WRCA. They
will raise their hand and say, hey, we would like
to host a rodeo, and so we work with those
people to really pinpoint parts around the country that makes sense.
Obviously Texas and Oklahoma, you know the ranching communities Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona.

(11:14):
In order to have a ranch rodeo, you have to
have a ranch right. There has to be so back
to the real Working Ranch Cowboy deal. The ranches that
compete with us, they have to meet cattle requirements, they
have to run so many head to be eligible, and
then you can compete for that ranch as an owner,
as a full time employee or a day worker of
that operation.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
And who qualifies.

Speaker 16 (11:34):
This year, we've got twenty three sanction rodeo, So there's
going to be twenty three teams that will win one
of those events and they will earn a right and
earn a bid to calm down roll and compete for
that World Championship. Title. And then a really cool thing
that we've done in recent years, we started a youth division,
so kids that are sixteen and under they can compete. Similarly,
they've got qualifier events that they will go to. They

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win one of those, they get a chance to come
and compete in the big arena where the adults do
their skills. So Saturday afternoon, we give you a fifth
performance at our rodeo that's completely youth oriented, that next
generation of ranchers, And I'm going to tell you what
we're slowly becoming known to be. That event's probably the

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This is Day Radio Now with Bill Baker.

Speaker 17 (12:32):
It's time for our feed Forum Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins,
Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.

Speaker 18 (12:37):
Hello Mike, well, welcome to today's feed form and we're
going to talk about water intake in pre wing caves,
passing any topic buildings. This is presented by Gustav Truman
from the Ohio State University. And we know that certainly
water is important in all livestock and humans as well.
But certainly with cavs is really important because we want
these caves again somewhere's around eight to nine hundred grams day,

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which is going to be almost about one point seven
pounds from the time they are born until we wean
them off or they reach two months of age. The
ability to consume liquids is affected by the calf itself.
In the first three days, these calves will consume less
liquid if the dam happens to be a heifer. Depending
on the sex of the animal, dystocia, which is difficult calving,

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will reduce liquid intakes. The positioning of the calf at
birth backward calves will have undergo more stress there as well.
Twins will reduce water consumption, and of course shortanization periods
will also have some impact as well, and these are
all important keys to get these caves off to a
good start. When we start looking at liquids that are
coming from water, we're looking at osmoality. Bill osmolity really

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are the particles that you will find in the solution
fed to the calf, which could be milk replacer, that
could be water, that could be electrolytes, and then measures
such things includes some things as minerals sugars amino acids
will contribute to that as well. Basically, what we're looking
for in the blood is two hundred and ninety million
osmo per kilogram, so that's kind of what the blood

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is looking for. The good news is milk is three hundreds.
We call that isotonic, so it's very easy to assimilate
into the bloodstream as well. Water will be twenty five
units and that'd be hypotonic. Therefore, that would we need
to add some other particles to get that up to
the optimal level. A high lactose milk replacer four hundred
and fifty with that is hypertonic, and that will cause

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some other problems as well in the feeding program if
you have high eyes modelity, which can be a problem.
It affects the small intestine, the junction in the small intestine,
which can lead to diarrhea and passage organizems into the
blood stream as well and lead to dehydration of the
calf as well. So certainly, when we have water, we
want to hopefully try to get that adjusted as much

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as we can and try to avoid the real high
numbers here in the program as well. Certainly we also
hidn't touch on water sources on farms, well water, you
need to check that out because it can be fairly
high in numbers, as high as thirty six forty versus
city water which would be right around ten or eleven.
And they did some research with reverse osmosis, which means

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you are filtering out the sulfates, sodium, potassium, some of
the other minerals as well. Get that down to below one.
So certainly the type of water and the minerals in
the water will have an impact here in the program
as well. Temperature gets to be another factor. Caves like
warmer temperatures ideally between sixty and ninety degrees fahrenheit would
be ideal. And if calves get real cold water, water

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intake will go down, especially when it gets down below
eighteen degrees centigrade. Certainly calves will drink in about thirty
minutes and they'll have about three sessions of consuming water. Finally,
clean water is important. We want to have very low
and coal form bacterials less than ten colony farming units
per one hundred mL, and no e coali as well.

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So our take all messages bill certainly that calves need
to consume liquids early in life. So hopefully take them
off of stress. Calves pole can to more warm water
than cold water. Make sure it is clean water as well,
and remember it takes about two pounds firby two pounds
a starter takes about ten pounds of water for consumption.
That completes your program for today. Thanks, I have a

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great day.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 20 (17:10):
Now AM and variety trials continue up and down the state.
This time we're talking about you Azani, a new release
from the USDA now being sold by Dwarti Nursery. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree nutt Report, part of
the vast agg Information Network. Luke Millron is a UC

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and R Orchard Crops farm advisor for Butt, Tahema and
Glenn Counties. He comments on that Yourazani.

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Your Zannie's a variety that came out of the third
generation out of the twenty fourteen planting. It's from the USDA.

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And this is a new scion.

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The fertile variety that Duarti Nursery has really run with
and marketed as the Golden Nuts. The third generation should
be wrapping this next year and may continue to do
some observations and maybe even continue to check yield on
it and then of course really excited for this fourth generation,
really excited for the independence rootstock trial and all those
demonstrations of some of the popular self fertile varieties with

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different rootstocks.

Speaker 20 (18:09):
That's Luke Milron with UC Cooperative Extension working on variety trials.
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Speaker 2 (19:36):
As the first week of emergency payments to producers qualified
under USDA's Emergency Livestock Relief Program wraps up.

Speaker 23 (19:44):
If you qualified with the loss, you should be receiving
a payment in the mail if you've not received it already.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Farm Service Agency Administrator Bill Beebe says the payment released
to Bay thirtieth covers crazy losses due to eligible drought
or wildfire events in twenty twenty three and or twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 24 (20:02):
Farm Service Agency is issualing emergency relief payments to ranchers
who have approved applications through the Livestock Forage Disaster Program
for grazing losses due to eligible drought or wildfire.

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CORP payment eligibility requires livestock producers to have suffered grazing
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Speaker 12 (21:53):
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is set to expire
at the end of the year. If it's not renewed,
farmers and ranchers face significant tax hikes. Samantha Aube and
associate economists with the American Farm Bureau Federation says letting
these provisions expire put farmers at risk.

Speaker 14 (22:10):
At the end of the day, taxes are an expense.
We already see farmers and rangers across the country suffering
from above average input expenses across the board, and if
taxes were to increase next year, that is just another
hit to the expenses on a balance sheet that is
already struggling, Aube.

Speaker 12 (22:28):
So several provisions in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act
were designed to boost economic activity and encourage investments.

Speaker 14 (22:35):
If taxes increase, that takes out dollars that farmers can
then invest back into their business and back into their community.
Ey A consulting Firm estimates that expiration of TCJA provisions
would lead to agriculture alone losing forty nine thousand jobs,
which is three billion dollars in wages that then can
trickle out into ten billion dollars of economic activity.

Speaker 12 (22:56):
She says, some progress has been made on making these
provisions permanent, but there's more work to be done.

Speaker 14 (23:02):
We've seen the reconciliation packaged the One Big Beautiful Bill
past the House and it provided permanency, which is ultimately
certainty and improved upon a lot of the provisions that
important to farmers and ranchers. That is obviously not a
completed process. It's important that those provisions that were kept
in the House continue into the Senate.

Speaker 12 (23:20):
Agam out of Samantha Aube, an associate economists that the
American Farm Bureau Federation.

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The AG information Network. I am Hateley, Ship Bob Quinn.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Here are some farm news this morning, friends. Brazil will
likely harvest its second largest corn crop ever this year,
which may reach five billion bushels. That's according to the
National Supply Company or KONA, the country's food and supply
statistics agency or Brazil's counterpart to the USDA. The volume
is higher than last year and above previous projections due

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to favorable rainfall in April and May. Johanna Kulusi is
an agricultural economist University of Illinois and a brazil native.
She talks about what it means to be the second
biggest corn crop in Brazil's history.

Speaker 28 (27:23):
Brazil is expected to have the second largest corn harvest
in the country's history. This expectation is largely attribute to
the high yilth potents because when you look the planted area,
it's increased only one point five percent from fifty two
million acres to fifty three million acres, but the yields,

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the expectation around the eilds is really good. So according
to Connab, average yields are projected to reach a record
nine point five bushels per acre this season. This is
eight percent higher than last year. And we can say
that these strong yields are mainly driven by performance of
the second crop corn that we call Safrina, which is

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splanted right after the summer so ibing harvest. So and
of course remember that last year there was a drought
in the center West region. So and this year the weather,
especially in April and May, was really good. So we
are almost in the middle of the June. The harvest
started in the beginning of the month and will continue

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until early August.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
The size of the sofrina or second corn crop is
larger than either the first or certainly the third crop
corn they get three in one season, she says. The
second corn crop makes up a lot of the country's
total production.

Speaker 28 (28:46):
The Safrinia, the second crop is responsible nowadays for seventy
eight percent, almost eighty percent of brazils total corn production,
and we know that this production is concentrated in the
center west region in matugrosu Goyaz, Matu, Gros Dosu, and
also a little bit in the south of Brazil. Over

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the past twenty years, Brazil's second corn crop has growth
more than nine times, from four hundred million bushels twenty
years ago to almost four billion bushels in the current
crop season. And when you look at the numbers regarding
the first crop that's planted during the summer season in Brazil,

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it has declined by twenty two percent. So we know
that the southern states it's where the Brazil's first crap
is typically planted. But yes, we have seen a huge
increase of the second corn crop in Brazil in the
last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
She says. Despite the larger production, the country's exports will decline.

Speaker 28 (29:49):
I would say that the main reason for this decline
are the rizen Domasque demands, especially from the livestock sector
and talk about three production pork production, and also the
growing corn ethanol industry in Brazil, which has expanded over
the past decade. So we know that during the many

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years and still nowadays, most of the ethanol in Brazil
is produced from sugar cane, but in the last ten
years the amount of corn used to produce ethanol is increasing.
Nowadays is fifteen percent of the corn in Brazil is
used to produce ethanol, and around seventy five percent of

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the corn produced in Brazil is used to livestock sector,
I mean the meal either for poltry production or pork.
So that's the reason that there is expectation that the
exports from January to December this year twenty twenty five
will decline around nine percent from one point five billion

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bushels last year to around one point four billion bushels.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
D Joanna Klusi, University of Illinois, joining US well friends
dairy farmers from around the nation, approved a new initiative
to boost dairy exports and welcomed a new co op
member as well as new farmer leaders as the National
Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors meeting wrapped up this week.
It's an amazing story if you imagine the millions of
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The board voted to implement a new member funded export
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Speaker 29 (31:55):
The information that work. This is your agribusiness update. Well,
a new sign of the cheer curiading relations after China
accused the US of violating the trade trus the country
signed last month. The agreement that signed in Switzerland led
to a deal to lower tariffs on each other for
ninety days while they negotiated on trade, but President Trump
accused Beijing of violating the agreement. A day after Treasury

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Secretary Scott Bescent said negotiations are a bit stalled. Talks
could resume this week. The US has churned out record
levels of ethanol since late last year, but Reuters says
the US does have large stockpiles of ethanol that can
offset lower production levels in the short term. During the
four weeks ending May twenty third, America's ethanol production averaged

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about one point zero two six million barrels per day,
the best in the last six years, but behind the
levels of six or seven years ago. The USDA's April
Prices received index fell three point six percent from March,
but was higher by twelve percent year over year. The
livestock production index fell eight percent in April compared to
the prior month, but was still eighteen percent above last year.

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The crop production in dex ros four point nine percent
from March, but was down one point one percent from
last year. Egg producers saw lower prices received for eggs, milk, lettuce,
and hogs, but higher prices for cattle, broilers, strawberries, and cabs.

Speaker 30 (33:13):
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
Bob quin here to wrap up AGLIE for today, friends
will Nearly a century of public input, partnership, legislation, and
oversight are behind the continuing development of our nation's main
farm safety net program. Rod Bain has our final report.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Most SAG producers are familiar with the Federal crop insurance program.

Speaker 32 (34:43):
The main thing about crop insurance is it's the backbone
of the American farmer's financial stability, what gives them the
opportunity to continue to farm when there is price fluctuation,
when there is disasters, when there is a weather event
that causes them to have poorer yields than their average yields.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Pats Wantson is quite familiar with the significance and history
of our nation's crop insurance program from viewpoints as farmer
crop insurance agent, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation board member, and
currently administrator of the Agriculture Department's Risk Management Agency. It
is a farm safety debt that has been around for

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almost a century now.

Speaker 32 (35:20):
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation actually started back in the
nineteen thirties, so this is not a new program.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
One of many initiatives created to help agriculture recover in
the midst of the Great Depression. The Corporation came into
existence in nineteen thirty eight to carry out the program.
Crop insurance remained as an experimental form in major growing
areas for key row crops for over four decades until
a nationwide program expansion occurred under the nineteen eighty Federal

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Crop Insurance Act.

Speaker 32 (35:50):
But it wasn't till nineteen ninety six that our may
was the oversight for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
That came about two years after Congress passed the Federal
Crop and Insurance REFORMACKED in nineteen ninety four, connecting crop insurance
coverage to federal disaster benefits for farmers. Significant growth in
producer participation in the crop insurance program led to Year
two thousand legislation supporting private sector research and development of

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new insurance products and features. Administrator Swatson says the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation Board remains a key part in product
development with input ranging the ag spectrum.

Speaker 32 (36:28):
There's six members that serve on that board, four of
them are farmers. One of them is a regulatory and
one of them is a crop insurance agent as well.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
In addition, the FCIC Board overseas development of.

Speaker 32 (36:39):
Products that are becoming available to farmers through the five
O eight H.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Process, which allows private parties to develop insurance products for crops.
I'm Broadbane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that, friends, arount of time for today. Thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition of Baglife