June 17, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Ever,
grocery shop online rod Main has some cautions.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think our predecessors were much more prudent about avoiding
food waste, and I really think we can learn from
those lessons.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
As North Dakota State University Extension expert Julie Garden Robinson
explays experiences from her parents and older citizens regarding food
supplies and stretching such further to feed families during times
such as the Great Depression and the food rationeting of
the Second World War.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Our predecessors did things like grow gardens, and they used
their food carefully. They made new meals out of their leftovers.
They used meat, perhaps some smaller amounts, and soups and stews.
They preserved food. So we need to use what we
have available.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
And in that regard, she says, one thought process that
can help save consumers money, time and hassle involved in
shopping at the grocery store or supermarket, or even order
online for that matter.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
First shop your pantry, refrigerator and freezer before you buy
a lot of new food.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
At making sure older fooded storage like pat trees and
refrigerators are moved towards the front. As Garden Robinson puts it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Sometimes our food can get lost in the cupboard and
it might end up being wasted.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
As a rule of thumb, it's always.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
A good idea to have about two weeks of food available,
just as an emergency.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Plan, especially in the pantry where dry and canned goods
in most cases have log shelf life.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Things like canned fruit, canned vegetables, which actually last up
to five years according to USDA. Maybe some canned pasta, sauce, grains,
dry beans, lentils, which both have very long storage lives.
Protein foods like canned tuna, chicken, peanut, butter, and nuts
and seeds, and those sorts of things. Maybe some soup
bas have some spices, condiments, oil baking supplies. Also, your

(01:54):
freezer is another place to have a supply of food.
And keep in mind that frozen food will asked indefinitely
as long as it remains solidly frozen, but it can
lose quality over time.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Garden Robinson us as an example, we may not consider
frozen milk.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You might see some changes. For example, if you would
freeze milk or other dairy products, it might separate into
fat and liquid portions, but that food can still be
used in baking and it's still going to be totally
safe as long as your freezer remains at zero degrees
fahrenheit or lower.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
There are other methods of food preservation one could use,
from catting, drying, smoking, and curing garden. Robinson says Cooperative
Extension and its online resources offers tips on food preservation methods,
as well as plenty of recipes using ingredients and goods
from your food pantry. Road Bain, reporting for the US
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Farm News Ahead, you're listening to Aglife. Bob went here
with farm News This Morning Friends. When the Trump administration
announced that federal cuts were ending the USDA Low Food
Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement program, Save Family Farming was quick
to sound the alarm. Save Family Farming executive director Ben
Tendall says ending the program will impact those that can

(03:13):
least afford.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
It, so cutting this funding really hurts both kind of
the marginalized populations in some of our more urban or
suburban areas as well as those small farmers that really
depend on that funding for an outlet to be able
to get their produce to market.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Kendall says Washington State already faces significant food insecurity where
food deserts limit access to healthy, affordable food. He noted
food banks play an essential role in filling these gaps
in Washington and all across the country, ensuring those in
need have access to nutritional food. Tendall says removing this
funding will create greater scarcity, place additional strain on food

(03:49):
assistance networks, and harm vulnerable communities. He added this as
an area and a time for state leaders to step
up to be able to provide support.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
We're seeing so many regulations and higher costs, the labor costs,
the ability to purchase fertilizers or other commodities that they
need to support their operations. We're seeing those prices go up,
and so we need to see state legislators and state
wide offices step up and be able to support these farms.

(04:21):
Help us provide a sustainable agriculture for the future that
farming can survive, can survive and thrive and not be
priced out.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Ben Tendel, Washington State based Save Family farming with US
well friends. The Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed Renewable
Volume Obligations or rvos for twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. EPA proposed a total RVO of just over
twenty four billion gallons for twenty six, including fifteen billion

(04:54):
for conventional renewable fuels like corn ethanol and nine billion
for advanced biofuels. Now those numbers include five point six
billion gallons of biomass based diesel and one point three
billion of cellulastic biofuel. Now, the EPA proposed a total
RVO for twenty twenty seven at twenty four point four

(05:14):
billion gallons, which is fifteen billion in conventional renewable fuel
nine point four billion for advanced biofuel. Notably, the EPA
proposing lower RIN values for important fuels to ensure that
US produced renewable fuels are prioritized under this RFS. Mike Zuzzolo,
president of Global Commodity Analytics, says the proposed numbers came

(05:37):
out at a good time.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
What a time to have this news come out in
the light of the WADI report bringing US a fresh
record high soybean ending stocks number for the world of
one hundred and twenty five point three million metric tons,
so for a twenty twenty six biomass biodiesel blend, we
got five point six one for twenty two twenty six.

(06:00):
That compares to just under five point four this year,
a big jump, and then it goes even harder to
the upside in terms of twenty twenty seven, with think
a five point eighty six billion gallon blend as well
that next year. So very welcome news.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
The excitement on Friday was a start contrast to the
market's trepidation after reports that the EPA would not be
recommending higher RVO numbers.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
We went from essentially fear on Thursday to extreme excitement
on Friday. Very much needed because we need to replace
any lost export demand in soybeans with domestic demand, whether
it's being oil for biodiesel or bean meal with our
livestock sector.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Zuzzolo talks about what the proposal means for soybeans going forward.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
My take USD is too high on soybean exports for
twenty five twenty six, but this can help mitigate it.
I'm at about five hundred million bushel carryover for soybeans
in twenty five twenty six with a little bit lower
yield than where USDA is right now. Even with that,
if we continue to keep the trade pause in place
as far as the tariff pause with China, I can
start inching those exports up. But it gives us the

(07:06):
chance to stay below four hundred million bushels in terms
of ending stocks for the twenty five twenty six marketing year.
Would be my first guest. Haven't run a lot of
numbers yet since this is so brand new, but that
seems to be kind of a toggle point for me.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Michael is Soolo Global Commodity Analytics with US Farm News.
You're listening to AG Life.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
It's another Agnews update. Unrest around the world is fueling
the price of crude more after this.

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Speaker 8 (07:42):
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Speaker 6 (08:04):
Todd Colvin with Mark four Brokerage Oil.

Speaker 9 (08:07):
Prices rallied all the way up to seventy seven to
sixty two. Men increased tensions and escalated conflicts in the
Middle East, threatening to disrupt supply and logistics. Now, after
getting seventy seven sixty two, oil prices did back off
during the session, closing out at seventy three sixty, well
off the session highs, but still up eight percent on
the session. Now, since my first oil prices have rallied

(08:29):
about twenty five percent, So seeing a significant move in
a short amount of time, with much of that move
coming today again, seeing oil prices close out at seventy
three sixty, well over five dollars on the day, more importantly,
up well over.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Nine dollars on the week.

Speaker 10 (08:41):
Now, what does this all mean for volatility?

Speaker 9 (08:43):
I'll check out that Sea Vall index over at Semigroup
dot com and as prices by tires, so did volatility. However,
as prices went to five month highs, volatilities fiked to
three year highs, so seeing a significant shift hire in volatility. Lastly,
to talk about positioning, what are speculators doing well prior
to this move? Been prior to this event?

Speaker 1 (09:01):
As of last.

Speaker 9 (09:02):
Tuesday, speculators were adding to their net long position. So
prior to this event risk we saw speculators getting long,
which will be for a very interesting read when we
get next Fridays CFTC reports. Did speculators continue to add
to the netlongs then or did they scale out of
them as prices spike tire.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
It's another AGEWS update.

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of us. The why welcomes all of them with open arms,
from career readiness to safe spaces. The why is there?
No matter who we are now more than ever they
need your support, support your local why today? The why
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Speaker 3 (09:47):
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Speaker 6 (09:48):
Why American Cattle News, Cash Trade? Last week in the markets?
Where did we finish more? After this?

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Speaker 6 (10:24):
The why or better Us? Read by members of the
why Oliver's Slope is with blue line futures in Chicago,
with a recap of how markets finished the week.

Speaker 11 (10:37):
At the closed August live cattle futures four dollars and
fifty cents lower, settling at two twelve forty five for
the week that was six dollars and forty two cents lower.
August feeder cattle features lost four dollars and eighty two
cents in friday's trade, settling at three h six forty two,
or the week that was down three seventy two front
munth July leen hog futures gained fifty seven cents today,

(10:58):
while the now most actively traded August contract lost five
cents to one ten twelve have put gains for the
week at seventy two cents. This morning's wholesale box b
for report was firm yet again. Choy scuts a thirty
five cents hire to three seventy seven oh seven and
select cuts seventy eight cents higher to three sixty three
eighty five. Sodder on Thursday afternoon was reported at one

(11:22):
hundred and fifteen thousand head, and the five very average
price for live series was at two thirty seven oh
nine CEME feeder cattle. In next Thursday three fifteen eighty five,
analysts made note of continued headline risk ahead of the
weekend as potential catalyst for long liquidation from funds who
hold a historically lofty net long position in live cattle

(11:43):
and feeder cattle according to the weekly commitment atrator's report.
With that data being collected through Tuesdays, Analystic to Speck
to see this afternoon's report expand those positions. Next week's
report will be more reflective of the weakness that we
saw on the back half of the week.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oliver Slope with blue line futures, cash trade last week
two thirty five to two forty in the south to
forty two in the north, and DRESS three eighty. American
Cavil News.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.

Speaker 12 (12:20):
On our producer Tuesday, brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. We focus on farm safety, particularly in the
silo with Gerald Minor, who is chief of the Pittsfield
Fire Department located in the middle of the state. He's
been chief there for more than twenty years and he
updated PDP dairy signal listeners and what they've been doing
as far as safety on the farm.

Speaker 13 (12:39):
We've done a lot of work since the Farm Center
and National part Medicine Center opened up in Marshfield working
with training fire personnel how to safely respond to incidents
on the farm. We are in silo gas season right now.
Doesn't matter what product you put in a silo or
in a bunker. If it's a plant product, it has

(13:01):
nitrogen in it. When you store it, it goes through
a natural fermentation process, and silo gas is the result
of that process. It all has to happen. If you
filled your silo full of grass clippings, you would get
silo gas. It gets its name from normally where we

(13:21):
run into problems and that being in a silo. So
silogas chemically is nitrogen dioxide that is created the normal
fermentation of the product that's in the vessel. It happens
in ground bunkers, it happens in silo bags as well.
Usually three to four weeks is when the gas production
is the highest after and during filling the silo. So

(13:45):
we tell people if you don't have to go in
that silo, do not go in there. Just absolutely stay out.
Now I know that doesn't always happen, and people have
to go in and they may have to level off
the silage things like that. If you absolutely to go in,
Number one, you need to get the silo fillers running,
blow as much air through that silo as you possibly can.

(14:08):
Silo gas is heavier than air, so it will come
down the shoots naturally into the silo room or into
the barn. So if you're starting to ventilate that silo
from the outside with a stile of filler, don't be
in the barn. Don't be in the silo room because
it's going to push the gas into that area. A
style of filler pushes a lot of air. I would

(14:29):
ventilate that thing for at least a half hour before
I had to make entry. And then is it safe
to go in? No, it's not unless you can monitor
silo gas, and there are very few places that can
do that. There is no way that you're going to
truly know silo gas when you breathe it in if
it's in the right concentration. And if you ask, well,

(14:51):
what's the right concentration, my answer is any concentration. It
goes into your lungs and reacts with the moisture in
your lungs. So we add nitrogen dioxide to moisture, you
get nitric acid. So when you say acid in your lungs,
that should be a picture of a very toxic combination.
Acid in your lungs is going to cause tremendous amounts

(15:14):
of fluid build up called a dima. Your ability to
breathe is going to go from normal to nothing. And
in a very very short amount of time, if you
walk into a pocket of silo gas, you can be
down and unconscious in thirty seconds or less. It is.
It can be visible if you're in the silo room,
for example, and you see this brownish, reddish yellowish kind

(15:37):
of cloud formation coming down the chute. That is silo gas.
Don't let your nose be your monitor, but it has
an ammonia type of odor to it. You smell it,
you see it. You need to get out of there.
You need to get away from it. We have seen
it outside where bags are being used. Silo bags are
being used. Usually when the bag heats up filling. I've

(16:01):
seen it early in the morning, it'll simply be wisping
out of the bag. You know, the bags have vents
on them. The end that's open, you'll see it come
out of there. And don't purposely go out and look
for this because it's it's not something that you know
you need to be close to. But if you see
that type of thing, or you get that indication that
silo gas again, assume it's there. The safe window is

(16:24):
three to four weeks after that it should be dissipated. However,
if you have to go back in that silo again,
I would run that silo filler that blower for at
least a half hour to dissipate any fumes that might
be out.

Speaker 12 (16:37):
Gerald Miner is chief of the Pittsfield Fire Department located
in the state of Wisconsin. And if you'd like to
go back and listen to the presentation complete in its entirety,
head to PDPW dot org and click on the Dairy Signal.
Our thanks to the Professional Dairy Producers for today's sponsorship
of Producer Tuesday here on Dairy Radio and.

Speaker 14 (16:55):
Out pastatio grow or is that are members of the
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(17:17):
director of Sustainability and member Outreach with American Pistachio Growers Association.

Speaker 15 (17:23):
There's an awful lot of service industry, fertilizer companies, pesticide
and tech and equipment and all kinds of people that
want access to growers, and I'm kind of a filter
from them to the membership in terms of with a
little bit of a focus on agronomy, but essentially managing
all the private business relations as well. And some of

(17:43):
these companies that are offering solutions to growers don't have
well defined economics. Some of them that I can theorize
could douce costs or enhance production. You know, I'm I'm
happy to demonstrate or to research with them and then
convey that information to all of the growers.

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Speaker 18 (19:22):
US TAROFTSUN steel and aluminum imports doubled, and Canada isn't
happy about it.

Speaker 10 (19:29):
Dennis Guy has all the details. President Trump signed in
order that doubled tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum
products from twenty five to fifty percent, to take effect
immediately for the American market. The US is the largest
importer of steel in the world after the European Union,
and is the world's largest aluminum importer. It currently gets

(19:52):
most of those raw products from Canada. Canadian metals industry
is calling on ODDWA to retaliate and to match those
fifty percent tariffs. Shortly after the US announcement was made,
Prime Minister Mark Carney's reaction was to say that tariffs
are both unjustified and illegal. However, with discussions currently in
place and the fact that Canada was not specifically targeted,

(20:16):
Carney says that Canada is going to take a breath
before reacting.

Speaker 19 (20:20):
They're bad for American workers, bad for American industry, and
of course for Canadian industry as well. We will take
some time, not much, because we are in intensive discussions
right now with the Americans on the trading relationship, and
I would note that the American action is a global action,
it's not one targeted at Canada, so we will take
some time, but not much.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
Ontario Premier doug Ford was more direct in his response.
Ford says that he wants the American public to realize
that a tariff is a domestic consumer tax. Andy said,
because much of Canada's raw exports are bought back as
finished products, this latest action will only hurt US deal
and aluminum workers now that the Canadian raw products are

(21:04):
priced out of the US market.

Speaker 20 (21:06):
T just tax Americans fifteen billion dollars by adding these
tariffs is very short sighted in my opinion. Maybe the
steel sector jumping up and down, but when they start
laying people off, we ship aluminum down there, then convert it,
ship it back up. That's done.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
Steel mills are the largest employer in SIUs Saint Marie, Ontario.
That town's mayor, Matthew Schumaker, agrees with Premier doug Ford's assessment.
A fifty percent tariff on imported steel into the American
market will cripple and possibly kill production.

Speaker 21 (21:36):
Makes the product uneconomic to sell at a fifty percent
increase in cost, they were able to hobble along, I
would say with the twenty five percent tariff, but at
fifty percent, there might not be Canadian steel being produced.

Speaker 10 (21:47):
Already, high metal prices are continuing to rise as the
result of the new measures. David Frumm is a Canadian
and of political analyst living in Washington from believes that
this surprise doubling of terraff rates on industrial foundation goods
like steel and aluminum is soon going to cost President
Trump the goodwill of many of his most loyal supporters.

Speaker 22 (22:09):
They're going to come as a tremendous shock to a
lot of people who trust to Trump. Imported goods suddenly
cost a lot more to including cars and trucks, because
of Trump's terraffs. Sooner or later they feel of the reality,
and the reality is going to hurt and they may
be mad.

Speaker 10 (22:21):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis Guy.

Speaker 23 (22:24):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger Mcowen.
A lot of farm property is out in the open.
This raises concerns about public access to the premises, as
well as possible theft of property and potential liability issues.
Does the posting of your farmland with no trespassing signs
have any legal consequence? I'll be back in a moment
to discuss.

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Speaker 23 (22:57):
Join me for two days of Farm Income tax'sen a
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More information at registration is available at mecoenaglointax dot substack
dot com. One benefit of posting your property with no
trespassing signs is that it might cause a trespass to
be criminal and get the state involved in prosecuting the trespasser.

(23:21):
Posting might also discourage trespassing to begin with. Another possible
benefit of posting your property is that it may cause
a search warrant to be obtained. In a recent case,
a fish and game warden entered the defendant's property through
oining tract. The warden found a hunting blind with AsSalt
block and apples nearby and charged the landowner with illegally
baiting big game. The landowner sought to exclude the evidence

(23:41):
for lack of a search warrant. The landowner claimed he
had a reasonable expectation of privacy throughout his property because
of the no trespassing signs. The landowner won the case,
posting his property created an expectation of privacy and the
evidence obtained in the warrantless search was excluded. But this
issue is still an unsettled one in the courts. One
other point not to deal on your own with any

(24:01):
trespassers you might find. Let the local sheriff's office address
the matter. This has been the Agricultural Law and Tax Report.
I'm Roger mcco.

Speaker 24 (24:11):
It's time for California AG today on the AG Information Network,
I am Haley's ship. Last week, the University of Idaho
wrapped up a ten year study looking at the effects
of cattle grazing on Greater sage grouse populations, and the
findings are turning heads. According to the National Cattleman's b Association,

(24:31):
the research confirms that grazing doesn't harm sage grouse, In fact,
it helps. The study found that responsible cattle graizing builds
better habitat, increases forage, and reduces invasive grasses that fuel
catastrophic wildfires, all things that benefit sage grouse and the
broader landscape. Public Lands Council President Tim Canterbury said, this

(24:53):
is what rangers have known all along that livestock production
supports wildlife. Now there's a decade of self data to
back it up. And CBA President Buck wherebey and echoed
that sentiment, calling cattle producers the original conservationists. He says,
the idea that grazing hurts native wildlife has always been
a myth, and this research finally puts that myth to bet.

(25:15):
Ranchers were involved from the starts, helping to guide the
work and lending local expertise, and now they're seeing their
stewardship validated. To learn more, just head on over to
our website aginfo dot net.

Speaker 16 (25:28):
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now participating in the Propane Farm Research program can impact
your bottom line. Share your propane equipment performance data and
you could receive compensation like up to five thousand dollars
for propane irrigation engines and prime power generators, and up
to two thousand dollars for propane building heat systems. Take

(25:49):
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Speaker 1 (26:34):
Bob went here with farmer News This Morning friends. When
the Trump administration announced that federal cuts were ending the
USDA Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement program, Save Family
Farming was quick to sound the alarm. Save Family Farming
executive director Ben Tendahl says ending the program will impact
those that can least afford it.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
So cutting this funding really hurts both kind of the
marginalized populations and some of our more earn or suburban
areas as well as those small farmers that really depend
on that funding for an outlet to be able to
get their produce to market.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Tendall says Washington State already faces significant food insecurity where
food deserts limit access to healthy, affordable food. He noted
food banks play an essential role in filling these gaps
in Washington and all across the country, ensuring those in
need have access to nutritional food. Tendall says removing this
funding will create greater scarcity, place additional strain on food

(27:30):
assistance networks, and harm vulnerable communities. He added this as
an area and a time for state leaders to step
up to be able to provide support.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
We're seeing so many regulations and higher costs, the labor costs,
the ability to purchase fertilizers or other commodities that they
need to support their operations. We're seeing those prices go up,
and so we need to see state legislators and state
wide offices step up and be able to support the farms,

(28:01):
help provide a sustainable agriculture for the future that farming
can survive, can survive and thrive and not be priced out.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Ben Tendel, Washington State based Save Family Farming with US
well friends. The Environmental Protection Agency released its proposals for
the renewable volume obligations for twenty twenty six and twenty seven.
Jeff Cooper, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association,
says the numbers are a positive signal for America's ethanol

(28:34):
industry and corn farmers.

Speaker 25 (28:36):
We have been anxiously awaiting these numbers, and it was
great to see them this morning. And this proposal, we
think sends a very positive, very powerful signal to the
US renewable fuels industry and to the farmers that provide
our feedstock. We think it really represents an excellent starting
point as a proposal, and we hope that EPA works
quickly to finalize these volumes because again they provide substantial

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growth opportunities, numbers that are higher and much higher in
many cases than what we have in twenty twenty five.
So we're very excited about what we saw today from EPA.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Cooper talks about the numbers.

Speaker 25 (29:07):
The proposed number for twenty twenty six. The total is
twenty four point oh two billion gallons, which would be
the highest renewable fuel standard ever. Fifteen billion gallons would
be reserved for conventional renewable fuels like corn ethanol, and
the other nine point oh two billion gallons would be
advanced biofuels. And within that, EPA's proposal includes five point

(29:29):
six one billion gallons of biomass based diesel, which is
a significant increase from what is being required in twenty
twenty five and should really help that side of the
industry get backed up on its feet and start start
increasing volume again.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
He talks about when the numbers get set in stone.

Speaker 25 (29:46):
EPA is going to be receiving and soliciting feedback and
input from the public and from stakeholder groups like the
Renewable Fuels Association. They're looking at a forty five day
comment period. They'll also have a public hearing. They'll gather
all that up, they'll analyze it, they will make changes
any potential changes to the rule based on that input
they received, and they told us this morning that they
are fixated on having a final rule in place no

(30:10):
later than October thirty first of this year.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Again, Jeff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association with US the Iowa
Farm Bureau sent many people to talk to officials on
Capitol Hill. The Farm Bureau like many other agricultural groups,
is closely watching the reconciliation process, which includes important parts
of the regular farm bill. Iowa's Farm Bureau President Brent
Johnson talked about their message to Congress.

Speaker 26 (30:34):
It's kind of twofold, right, So the twenty eighteen farm
Bill is really getting old at this time fiscally, you know,
it's the one or two generations back when it means
to the safety nets that impact farmers across the country.
Since twenty eighteen, we've had pandemic record inflation, a lot
of world conflicts that really make those safety nets outdated.

Speaker 10 (30:52):
So our farmers are.

Speaker 26 (30:53):
Really telling us we really have to have an updated
safety net program, which is what's in the reconciliation package.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
While that is good news, farmers still need a complete
farm bill, and they need it sooner rather than later.

Speaker 26 (31:04):
If we pass all of our fiscal responsibilities in this
reconciliation package, the real question becomes when or if how
do we pass a consolidated farm bill in the future,
and those policies that are left in the larch, how
do we move those things forward? Things like Interstate Commerce
year Round E fifteen and some of those things that
aren't fiscally connected.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Out of the Midwest Farm Bureau President to Brent Johnson
with US Farm US. You're listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 27 (31:30):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Well Beginning farmers and their more experienced peers are forging
partnerships through a mentorship program run by the California Farm Bureaus,
the California Bountiful Foundation and support it by state and
federal funding. The year old program's coordinator, Tyler Rude, says
the expanding Our Roots program aims to help newcomers and

(31:51):
navigate the complexities of farming and ranching by giving them
access to seasoned pros who can share their knowledge they've
gained through years of trial and error. Senior US and
Chinese negotiators announ stay framework for getting their trade negotiations
back on track after a series of disputes threatened to
derail the talks. The London meetings appeared to focus on
finding a way to resolve disputes over mineral and technology

(32:14):
exports that had shaken a fragile truce on trade reached
in Geneva. President Trump and Chinese leader Shi Jinping also
spoke on the phone to calm the tensions. Health conditions
of the twenty twenty five US winter wheat crop were
described as one of the worst ever last fall, but
as harvest ramps up, Reuter says winter wheat ratings now
sit at a six year high. In early June, the

(32:36):
USDA rated fifty four percent of the American winter wheat
crop in good or excellent condition, which is up from
fifty percent just two weeks ago. October's thirty eight percent
good to excellent condition was the second worst in thirty
nine years.

Speaker 16 (32:50):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
in the origin.

Speaker 17 (32:54):
Theories callers, Oh hey, yeah, it's sevo fund aside from BASF,
a category leader in disease control.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
How do you explain these healthy crops.

Speaker 17 (33:02):
Well, longer lasting residual Plus it's built for current regulatory
standards and prepare for what's to come, which improves crop
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Speaker 16 (33:09):
So a fungicide that is out of this world.

Speaker 10 (33:12):
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Speaker 6 (33:13):
Sebia fungicide from BASF.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
For is it always reading follow aggressions?

Speaker 28 (33:19):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF.

Speaker 10 (33:23):
We just get nailed with it.

Speaker 28 (33:25):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
And you still want to devour this field? No way, bro,
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 28 (33:34):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
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Speaker 1 (34:01):
Bob Quent back to wrap up ig life for today.
Friends may, warm weather, and other factors are behind accelerated
melt of western mountain snowpack. Rod Main has our story.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
It is an important source of water for the Western
United States. Runoff of mountain snowpack into reservoirs at lakes
after a winter's worth of accumulation. Water essential for irrigation
of farm crops and in many cases municipal water systems.
And when the Western water season ended on April first, and,

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as USDA meorologist Brad Rippy pointed out beyond, we.

Speaker 29 (34:36):
Were heading into really the month of May in pretty
good shape across the western US, especially along the north
of a line from this Airavada to the Central Rockies.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Yet that changed in many parts of the West during
the month of May. Rippy says recent warm spells that
month led to several instances of premature mountain snowpack melt, and.

Speaker 29 (34:55):
That has led to reduced expectations for runoff.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
The warm spells. We're not the only contributor to the
quick melting a mountain snowpack. Above other complications.

Speaker 29 (35:05):
Soil seem to be unusually thirsty across much of the West,
so we're not seeing all of that runoff go right
into the reservoirs. If that were happening, we really wouldn't
have as much of a problem because that water would
still be conserved. It would be held in a different
form than the snowpack, but at least would be stored
in reservoirs. But we are seeing some loss due to
thirsty soils.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Also part of this equation, one is snowed as sublimation.

Speaker 29 (35:25):
Periods of very dry weather. It has actually led to
some sublimation of snow. That is, when you go directly
from the solid form snowpack or ice into the gas form,
which is just evaporating it right into the thin air,
you are not retaining any water for irrigation purposes when
sublimation happens.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
The contributor to premature mountain snowpack belt in the desert
Southwest has been.

Speaker 29 (35:47):
The number of dust storms. Some of that dust has
ended up on the slopes on the mountain sides, and
that has led to an accelerated snow melt of an
already subpar snowpack in parts of the Southwest, so we
have lost some snow there well.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Looking at various areas of the West at their mountain
snowpack going in the sumbur the.

Speaker 29 (36:03):
Far northern tier of California, much of Oregon, and even
extending into parts of the Northern Rockies looking pretty good
for water supply. But areas further to the north as
you move up into Washington State and then especially to
the south from the Sierra Nevada and Central Rocky South
where we have lost some potential on how much water
is going to be available for this.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Summer One example, a premature snowpack melt is found in
the Sierra Nevada Range.

Speaker 29 (36:26):
That entire range, we had basically an average snowpack this year.
Well by the time we came out of the Memorial
Day weekend, that liquid equivalency of the existing or the
remaining snowpack was down to under two and a half inches.
This time of year, we still expect to see almost
ten inches contained in that snowpack, so we lost it
very quickly. The remaining snowpack is only about one quarter

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of what we expect to see for late May.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
I'm road dayan reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that, friends, out of time for today, thanks for
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