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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well, friends,
a look at shrinking drought across the country. Rod Main
starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A vast improvement in the start of June. US drought
monitor both from the end of April.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Showing just twenty nine point six percent of the country
experiencing drought as of June third, and that is down
more than seven percentage points from thirty seven percent back
at the end of April.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And as USDA be urologist Brad Rippy points out improvement
also from last fall.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That number in June third, that marks the first time
we have seen the country with less than thirty percent
drought coverage since all the way back in early September
of twenty twenty four. You have to go back one
more week to August twenty seventh, twenty twenty four to
actually find a lower drought coverage than what we saw
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Improvement wide drought coverage comes from increasing precipitation across much
of the country the past month, as Ladedia no longer
is a weather factor how does the shrinking drought coverage
pertat the sub of the nation's crops.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Mostly good news as we get a little deeper into
the twenty twenty five growing season.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Rippy starts with cord and soybeads a drought for the
start of June one.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In soybeans and drought, those numbers are much better than
what we've been seeing prior planting, and as we get
into the growing season here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Cotton area is also a low drought coverage, a big
month over month decrease according to Rippy.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In terms of our spring weat crop, we had some
disappointingly low conditions as we started the twenty twenty five
growing season there, but hopefully again there we'll be able
to take advantage of some of the improved moisture in
the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Winter wheat in drought has been halved from the previous month.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Also in April, spring wheat productionary and drought the US
thirty seven percent that has been basically had in nineteen
percent on June third, as we have seen some much
needed moisture in some of those northern spring weeks areas.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
As for hey a cattle, a drought for the period
and a June third.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
US hay productionary and drought just nineteen percent. That is
down from twenty eight percent at the end of April.
US cattle inventory and drought just twenty one percent in
drought on June third, That is down from thirty one
percent on April twenty ninth.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, Friends, coming up some not so surprising results from
a grazing study that stories ahead. You're listening to ag Life.
Bob Quinn here with farmer used this morning, Friends. Washington
State's agricultural industry faces so many economic and regulatory challenges,
but some important changes could ease that pressure. Pam Lewis
and Agg, director at the Washington Policy Center, says the
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first is holding legislators accountable, which was in a bill
that didn't pass earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
That was a Senate bill to Protect Washington Farmers fifty
one seventeen, and it effectively would have required legislators to
think about the fiscal responsibilities that any piece of legislation
would attach to farms, you know, or I should say,
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the fiscal damage that any legislation would have to farms
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Recent legislation has made it extraordinarily difficult for farms to operate.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So much so that we lose two farms a day
every day, which is something that we should be seriously
concerned about. As a state. We are agricultural community is
in freefall, and.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
One of those new laws, Lewison says, is a big one.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The other that we need to seriously look at and
address is our overtime law. We have the single most
restrictive overtime law in the country for overtime pay in agriculture.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Lewison says, Washington's ag overtime law is putting many people
out of work.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Washington State farm workers command some of the highest wages
in the country, and when you ask their employer to
pay time and a half after forty hours a week,
they can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Other states that have passed AG overtime laws have reasonable workarounds.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Whether it is that farms can apply for a tax
rebate to recoup some of their expenses so that they
can afford to pay overtime, or overtime doesn't kick in
until you hit fifty sixty hours, or there is some
sort of seasonal exemption that allows you to declare, you know,
this is my harvest window, and so during this timeframe
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of twelve or sixteen weeks or whatever it might be,
this is seasonal exemption, and the rest of the time
we are constrained to this white collar schedule.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Pam Lewis and Agg director at the Washington Policy Center
with US American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duval recently
spent time meeting with key officials from one of the
US's top potential trading partners, Chad Smith has that story.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
At a time when international trade frequently tops headlines, American
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval is spreading the message of
American agriculture overseas. Duvall recently toured the United Kingdom and
met with a wide range of audiences to discuss several
important issues.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
I met with UK officials from the Department of Business
and Trade as well as the Department of Environmental, Food
and Rural Affairs. Also had a chance to meet with
the US Ambassador to the UK, Warren Stevens. I got
out in the countryside and met with several British farmers
and spent time observing their farming practices.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
He said, the United Kingdom presents an outstanding opportunity to
create new markets for American agricultural products.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
We think it could be an opportunity to set a
gold standard for these trade deals we help. Continued conversations
like these will help move these two countries closer together
and strength and agricultural ties. Our goal is to enable
our farmers to help meet the nutritional needs of families
in America and in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Duvall said his time meeting with farmers in the UK
was an eye opening experience.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
The food production methods in our two countries have more
in common than what separate us. We all face similar challenges,
including labor, protecting food supply through responsible use of pesticides,
and ensuring that we can stay in business to pass
the farm on to the next generation.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Learn more about the trip at fb dot org, Forward
Slash News Chad Smith, Washington Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The University of Idaho released the results of its ten
year study on the impacts of grazing on sage grouse populations.
Caitlin Glover, executive director of the Public Lands Council, said
the results are good news for cattle producers, so.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
This exciting study is actually the culmination of a decade
worth of work between the University of Idahoe and a
number of partners, including the Public Lands Council and ranchers
in the area, as well as federal agencies, who were
seeking to answer the question about whether cattle grazing in
areas where sage grouse tend to lack or breed and
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reproduce and live in those first stages, and what that
relationship looks like. And after ten years, I'm very pleased
to say that the work that was recently published demonstrates
that not only is grazing by cattle not harmful to
these sage gross populations, but we actually see a positive
corollary effect on how grazing helps improve those habitats over time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Farm News This morning, you are listening to wag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
It's another agnews update. The eagles sang a song. Hotel California.
You can check in, but never check out more after.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
This here's farmer and landowner John Prouf.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
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Speaker 9 (08:20):
Minnesota Representative Pete Stauber with Secretary of Interior Doug Bergen.
Speaker 12 (08:25):
When the gray wolf was listening as threatened under the
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fifty to fourteen hundred wolves was set for Minnesota. It's
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final delisting rule that was quickly litigated and blocked by
a district court in of all places, northern California. Even
the Biden administration, to their credit, sided with the science,
(08:48):
agreed with the delisting and defending this ruling. Can you
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the gray wolf, and can you commit to date that
the Trump administry will continue to follow the science and
work to ensure the gray wolf is delisted.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
Yes, absolutely, We'll follow the science and we've got multiple
examples gray wolf and grizzly where we've far exceeded the
original goals set, in some cases by more than two x.
I've recently called the Endangered Species List the Hotel California.
You can check in, you can never check out. There's
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ninety seven percent of the species that have gone on
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supposed to celebrate when they go on.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
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Steel American Cattle News. These wildfires we've seen, could they
be prevented? More after this.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 11 (10:21):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Unfortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start work a message from the pipeline
operators for egg safety campaign.
Speaker 16 (10:48):
The catastrophic wildfire crisis continues to grow each year because
of federal land management policy.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Caitlin Glover is executive director Public Lands Council.
Speaker 16 (11:02):
For a long time, one of the things that grazers
that ranchers have faced is this sort of you know,
being a second tier tool, a second class tool. The
federal agencies have always preferred chaining or other mechanized efforts,
prescribed fire or even herbicides because it's more standardized, right,
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But this role of targeted grazing, this expansion of using
grazing animals to conduct find fuels management at scale is
gaining traction. We have more than a handful of bills
this Congress alone. We have very clear direction from the
Secretary of the Interior in a recent memorandum. We have
an executive order from President Trump identifying the need for
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USDA and DOI to work better together in not only
putting these fires out, but preventing the catastrophic conditions and
from those fires becoming too big. And so, whether you're
talking about sage grouse, or your talking about fire and
fuels management, or you're even just talking about protecting watersheds,
right from a various number of factors, you're really seeing
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grazing having a moment.
Speaker 17 (12:11):
Right.
Speaker 16 (12:12):
It's not just goats in city parks, but it's cows
and sheep and technology and drones and satellites and all
of the big scientific and technology pieces coming together with
one of the most traditional, reliable, effective tools in grazing.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
And it's exciting American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 18 (12:41):
It's time for Our Feet for on Friday with doctor
by Kutchens, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 19 (12:47):
Well, welcome to today's speedform and we're going to talk
about ways to work with dairy technology. Are presented by
Ben Thorpe, a person that works with Leiley Company, and
need to review some things about as to technology can
do on dairy farms. Certainly, we know we need to
manage cows individually in a herd environment. That's a real
challenge nowadays as he starts seeing these larger herds across
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the United States as well. The ideal feeding system would
be getting the right fee to the right animal twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week, and three
hundred and sixty five days in the year to maximize
potential out here on the farm. So certainly we look
at these robotic feeding systems. That's one technology, and their
data would indicate that first location cows in the first
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three days after caving, we'll use it make about three
point five visits to the station. Second location cows will
visit four point five visits per day, and three plus
location cows four point eight. So certainly reflects that heifers
will be a little bit slower coming in here and
we'll make as many visits. Therefore, what we wi want
to overload those units where we are going to have
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heifers in the feeding program. He says, look at technology
the thing where we'd look at farm in the future.
He said, well, certainly this technology can improve the farm profitable.
That's going to be key for sustainability. We have to
get buy ins from our consumers as well, because they
are ultimate purchaser of our dairy products. Certainly we have
to look at dairy products that are going to be
very nutritionally important to consumers as well. We want to
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improve the environment and of course find the animal welfare.
A number of our consumers are concerned about that and
we as producers should be aware as well. We heard
another technology is artificial intelligence AI as we call that,
and of course that's coming quickly in the dairy area
because we are now assimilating large amounts of data. We
have data coming from the melking systems, from the melking parlors,
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from cow movement, pen and feedbunk evaluations, and of course
AI can assimilate all that into a nice summary package.
So when the dairy farmer goes to the farm each day,
he knows or she knows what needs to attention and
be done on the farm. When we look at robotics,
they recommend having three robots in each of the pen
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if that's possible. That reduces the competition for heifers and
boss colls to try to control if there's only one
or two robots in that pen. As well. As far
as that goes, we certainly want to minimize the number
amount of time that the cow is away from the
feedbug and the opportunity to lie down as well, and
they'd like to see that less than forty five minutes
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per milking or in robots less than one hour per day.
Key on the automation is going to be local support,
and most companies are doing an excellent job of training
their local people to service their equipment out there as well,
and in some cases we'll see financial support. The new
focus is going to be looking at manure management, and
of course California we see some very neat programs where
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larger herds get some support in which companies will come
in and put in some of that technology there and
share some of the power that's being generated from that manure,
which solves some of the problems as well. And the
last thing will be on some of the farms we
have the ability to pull animals from the milking pilot
as they're leaving beat atdig milk or a standard tepe
milking system. We call that a pullpen and therefore we
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can treat those animals that disturbing the rest of the herd.
So take all messages, bill and technologies here. Farmers are
going to take a look at how they work on
the farm, what does that cost, it's going to be,
and how we use AI in the future. Thanks, have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
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Speaker 2 (16:54):
Com regarding usdased beef production and steer price forecasts.
Speaker 21 (16:59):
Keep supplies extremely tight, prices continue to set new records.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski.
Speaker 21 (17:06):
Twenty twenty six, We raised our production forecast a bit
about one hundred and forty million pounds, kind of reflecting
higher placements in the second half of this year, but
still year over year, little over a billion pound reduction
in beef production.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With next year's projected price at two hundred and twenty
eight dollars fifty sets one hundred weight broad Bain reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 22 (17:29):
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Speaker 5 (17:46):
Caused by a fund. It's called polystigma amigadalia and it's
new to California. We you know what's amazing is we
saw it in the few spots last year. We hadn't
seen it at all and in twenty three, and we
saw and a few orchards in twenty four, and it's
pretty much up and down the Central Valley this year,
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especially showing up in orchards that didn't get a bloom spray,
probably after full bloom or so.
Speaker 22 (18:13):
It's caused by a plant pathogenic fungus and it's airborne.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It produces osco spores and the leaves that inject in
the ten season and in in the fall of the
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Speaker 2 (19:57):
Enjoyed strawberries this time of year, summertime really now any
time fruit treat and what enjoyed at many parts of
the world. Thank USDA Strawberry Research and Breeding Program in Beltsville,
Maryland for that. As research geneticist kid Lewers explains, the.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
Strawberry breeding progress started at nineteen ten, it was told
to me, and I have not found anybody that can
dispute it. It is considered the longest continuously running strawberry
breeding program in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And perhaps more significant to those at US who are
strawberry consumers.
Speaker 17 (20:35):
It has been credited for creating the strawberry industry.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
While we are enjoying, say, fresh strawberries and cream or
a homemade strawberry smoothie, Drake KiB Lewers by all means
tell us the story about the Beltsville program and its
role in creating the strawberry industry.
Speaker 17 (20:53):
What I mean by that is you can grow things
in your backyard that can grow wild in the woods,
but it's not really an industry until they can be
harvested and then shipped for market. And one of the
problems with the early strawberries and wild strawberries, if you've
ever had them, is that they're very tender and almost
as soon as you touch them, good juice on your fingers,
which is kind of fun when you're picking wild fruit
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in the woods, but not so verat when you want
to have them ready for a store.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So the US strawberry industry in essence began when shippable
varieties were developed. That occurred in nineteen thirty one with
the ars Beltsville program created the blake bore cultivar, the
first type of strawberry easily shipped nation wide.
Speaker 17 (21:36):
The majority of the strawberries were grown in the Tennessee
Valley and they were shipped to Chicago, and that was
the beginning of the strawberry market and industry, At least
as it has been recorded, I was not there in
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
At one point the blake bore variety made up eighty
two percent of the nation strawberry crop. However, a threat
in the earth only nineteen fifties led to the Beltsville
Strawberry breeding program saving the developing strawberry industry.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
There was a disease that came around and it nearly
devastated the industry, and my predecessor, George Darrow was aware
of the disease.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Efforts to combat the red steel root rot disease and
strawberries led to development of the steel mast of variety
in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 17 (22:25):
So basically, he in advance, saved a newborn industry by
creating disease resistant strawberries, and we've been focusing on that
ever since.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So with that, a toast to the ARS strawberry breeding program,
as in raising a piece of toast with strawberry jam
and salute.
Speaker 27 (22:44):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Rod Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 28 (22:52):
Reusing Catalan feed report show the producers are starting to
keep a few more hamper than their herds, suggesting that
her rebuilding it may be underway. Doctor Darryl Peel, livestock
market economists for Oklahoma State University, says the rebuild appears
to be starting in slowly.
Speaker 29 (23:10):
Well a little bit. I mean, the only real data
point we have now that really kind of suggests heifer
retention and the beginnings of herd rebuilding would be in
that April Cattle on feed report. We've got the quarterly
breakdown of steers and heifers, and the heffers on feed
as a percentage of total feed lot inventories was at
the lowest level in the last five years. So that's
kind of the first real data point. But when you
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look at pepper slaughter again, particularly in the last few weeks,
has dropped off more significantly steers have two for that matter,
but Heffer's in particular, hefferslaughter has dropped, and so you know,
and if you put heifer and cowslaughter together and think
about female slaughter as a percent of total cattle slaughter,
it continues to come down.
Speaker 28 (23:50):
He says. It's not a full scale herd rebuild yet.
Speaker 29 (23:53):
It's still well above levels that would confirm that we're
actively rebuilding the herd. But we're certainly I think, moving
in that and that's consistent with what I sort of
hear out in the country anecdotally among producers and lenders
for that matter. There's a lot more interest now in
the possibility of retaining heiffers and getting started at least
with some herd rebuilding.
Speaker 28 (24:12):
No drought in the Southern Plains is also encouraging producers
to think about rebuilding their herd numbers.
Speaker 29 (24:18):
Yeah, I think that's absolutely correct. You know, producers have
been wisely very cautious about this, but with the improvement
we've seen in forage conditions in the last six weeks
or so, producers in the Southern Plains probably are now
moving forward. I don't think again, we're moving dramatically aggressively
at this point. I think we're still proceeding relatively modest
pace at this point, and of course we know that
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there's still a fair amount of drought and drought threats
in the northern part of the country and the northern
plains in particular, so that's going to limit it on
a total basis.
Speaker 28 (24:47):
Again, that is doctor Darryl Peel, Livestock market Economists at
Oklahoma State University.
Speaker 30 (24:54):
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Speaker 1 (27:20):
Bob Quinn here with farmer used this morning friends. Washington
State's agricultural industry faces so many economic and regulatory challenges,
but some important changes could ease that pressure. Pam Lewison,
AG director at the Washington Policy Center, says the first
is holding legislators accountable, which was in a bill that
didn't pass earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
That was a Senate bill to Protect Washington Farmers fifty
one seventeen, and it effectively would have required legislators to
think about the fiscal responsibilities that any piece of legislation
would attach to farms. You know, or I should say,
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the fiscal damage that any legislation would have to farms
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Recent legislation has made it extraordinarily difficult for farms to operate, so.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Much so that we lose two farms a day every day,
which is something that we should be seriously concerned about
as a state. Our agricultural community is in freefall, and.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
One of those new laws, Lewison says, is a big one.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I think the other that we need to seriously look
at and address is our overtime law. We have the
single most restrictive overtime law in the country for overtime
pay in agriculture.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Lewison says, Washington's ag overtime law is putting many people
out of work.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Washington State farm workers command some of the highest wages
in the country, and when you ask their employer to
pay time and a half after forty hours a week,
they can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Other states that have passed ag overtime laws have reasonable worker.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Whether it is that farms can apply for a tax
rebate to recoup some of their expenses so that they
can afford to pay overtime, or overtime doesn't kick in
until you hit fifty sixty hours, or there is some
sort of seasonal exemption that allows you to declare you
know this is my harvest window, and so during this
timeframe of twelve or sixteen weeks or whatever it might be,
(29:24):
this is seasonal exemption, and the rest of the time
we are constrained to this white collar schedule.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Pam Lewison, AG director at the Washington Policy Center with
US American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duval recently spent
time meeting with key officials from one of the US's
top potential trading partners, Chad Smith has that story.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
At a time when international trade frequently tops headlines, American
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval is spreading the message of
American agriculture overseas. Duval recently toured the United Kingdom and
met with a range of audiences to discuss several important issues.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
I met with UK officials from the Department of Business
and Trade as well as the Department of Environmental, Food
and Rural Affairs. Also had the chance to meet with
the US Ambassador to the UK, Warren Stevens. I got
out in the countryside and met with several British farmers
and spent time observing their farming practices.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
He said, the United Kingdom presents an outstanding opportunity to
create new markets for American agricultural products.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
We think it could be an opportunity to set a
gold standard for these trade deals. We hold continued conversations
like these will help move these two countries closer together
in strengthening agricultural ties. Our goal is to enable Oure
farmers to help meet the nutritional needs of families in
America and in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Duvall said his time meeting with farmers in the UK
was an eye opening experience.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
The food production messages in our two countries have more
in common than what separate us. We all faced similar challenges,
including labor, protecting food supply through responsible use of pesticide,
and ensuring and we can stay in business to pass
the farm on to the next generation.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Learn more about the trip at fb dot org, forward
Slash News Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
The Kansas wheat harvest underway with combines getting into the
fields is early as June tenth this year. Justin Gilpin,
CEO of Kansas Wheat, talks about what he's heard about
some of the early wheat being harvested.
Speaker 15 (31:35):
I think a lot of the wheat that was getting
cut early might have been some The field that we
were in specifically was wheat that was behind soybeans, and
it didn't necessarily have had the great tillering because of
the dry fall. It probably was a little bit earlier
than maybe some wheat behind wheat or traditional wheat, but
the double crop wheat was coming off pretty rapidly, it
(31:58):
seemed like until we had that that pause.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Gelpin says, there's going to be a lot of variability
in the crop.
Speaker 15 (32:04):
We've had such a dry fall and concerns with not
getting some brain in March and April when the crop
is breaking dormancy to some cooler, wetter weather in May
that really helped the crop fill out. And so I
think there's it's going to be one of those years
where USDA has the average yield at fifty one bushels
per acre for the state of Kansas. But I think
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it's going to be one of those years where it's
not going to be maybe a lot of average. I
think there'll be some yields that are going to be
on the high side of that, and then certainly some
fields that are going to be on the low side
of that. Those droughts stricken areas.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Look at wheat this morning, farm us. You're listening to
aag life.
Speaker 27 (32:42):
For the egg information that worked. This is your agribusiness update.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Friends of the Earth,
and others on the Plant Powered School Meals Coalition applauded
the Senate Egg Committee's actions on increasing non dairy milk
options in schools. The changes included in the Whole Milk
for Healthy Gift ZACH removes key barriers long preventing lactose
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intolerant students from receiving a nutritionally appropriate beverage at school. Currently,
students who submit a physician's note are only guaranteed a
substitute like fortified soy milk. Several key US agriculture groups
congratulated Stephen Baden on his confirmation as USDA Deputy Secretary.
The National Cattlemans b Association Vice president Ethan Lane says
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his unique skill set is especially important now that the
Trump administration works to expand market access for cattle producers.
Farm Bureau President Zippy Ball ads that Baden will hit
the ground running with a firm understanding of the challenges
facing American farmers. And a court ruling determined that agricultural
equipment manufacturer John Deere must face a lawsuit by the
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Federal Trade Commission, which accuses the company of forcing farmers
to use its authorized dealer network. A judge ruled that
drove up farmer's costs for repairs and parts. A US
District court judge rejected Deer's efforts for now to end
the lawsuit, which was at the end of President Joe
Biden's administration in January.
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Speaker 1 (35:16):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Aglie for today. We're
going to wrap up today with more on a study
out of Idaho. University of Idaho released the results of
its ten year study on the impacts of grazing on
sage grouse populations. Caitlin Glover, Executive director of the Public
Lands Council, said the results are good news for cattle producers.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
So this exciting study is actually the culmination of a
decade worth of work between the University of Idaho and
a number of partners, including the Public Lands Council and
ranchers in the area, as well as federal agencies who
were seeking to answer the question about whether cattle grazing
in areas where sage grouse tend to lack or breed
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and reproduce and live in those first stages, and what
that relationship looks like. And after ten years, I'm very
pleased to say that the work that was recently published
demonstrates that not only is grazing by cattle not harmful
to these sage gross populations, but we actually see a
positive corollary effect on how grazing helps improve those habitats
(36:20):
over time.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
The study proves what cattle producers have said for years.
Speaker 8 (36:24):
The short version here is that grazing is good for
the bird. So what we've been saying for the last
ten fifteen years, that's what is good for the herd
is good for the bird, really proves out.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
We lover talks about what the study means for Western
cattle producers.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
It's really important to have science backing up traditional knowledge
and customary knowledge because all of our land management in
the West, particularly when it comes to grazing. Science really
is a result of all of the different scientific impacts
for wildlife, for forage, for livestock, grazing and how they
interact with this study. It's peer reviewed. The USGS, the
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US Studological Survey has reviewed this science. It's gone through
rigorous evaluations. It means that what we know about our
good grazing management now has basis not only in traditional knowledge,
but also in science as well.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Now, that study was extensive to ensure reliable results.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
This study is massive.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Right.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
You look at sagegross populations across those Western states and
they have a lot of things in common. They deal
with a lot of different factors that influence the environment
and the where they live and how they reproduce. I mean,
this study alone had more than thirty thousand project locations
that were surveyed over this decade long period. And what
this means is that grazing can very definitively say that
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our work is not only good for the environment, but
is good for future conservation efforts of this kind of
habitat as well.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Capelin Glover Public Lands Council with us and with that,
friends out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back Monday morning with another edition A bag Life
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well, friends,
a look at shrinking drought across the country. Rod Main
starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A vast improvement in the start of June. US drought
monitor both from the end of April.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Showing just twenty nine point six percent of the country
experiencing drought as of June third, and that is down
more than seven percentage points from thirty seven percent back
at the end of April.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And as USDA be urologist Brad Rippy points out improvement
also from last fall.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That number in June third, that marks the first time
we have seen the country with less than thirty percent
drought coverage since all the way back in early September
of twenty twenty four. You have to go back one
more week to August twenty seventh, twenty twenty four to
actually find a lower drought coverage than what we saw
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Improvement wide drought coverage comes from increasing precipitation across much
of the country the past month, as Ladedia no longer
is a weather factor how does the shrinking drought coverage
pertat the sub of the nation's crops.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Mostly good news as we get a little deeper into
the twenty twenty five growing season.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Rippy starts with cord and soybeads a drought for the
start of June one.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In soybeans and drought, those numbers are much better than
what we've been seeing prior planting, and as we get
into the growing season here.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Cotton area is also a low drought coverage, a big
month over month decrease according to Rippy.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In terms of our spring weat crop, we had some
disappointingly low conditions as we started the twenty twenty five
growing season there, but hopefully again there we'll be able
to take advantage of some of the improved moisture in
the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Winter wheat in drought has been halved from the previous month.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Also in April, spring wheat productionary and drought the US
thirty seven percent that has been basically had in nineteen
percent on June third, as we have seen some much
needed moisture in some of those northern spring weeks areas.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
As for hey a cattle, a drought for the period
and a June third.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
US hay productionary and drought just nineteen percent. That is
down from twenty eight percent at the end of April.
US cattle inventory and drought just twenty one percent in
drought on June third, That is down from thirty one
percent on April twenty ninth.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, Friends, coming up some not so surprising results from
a grazing study that stories ahead. You're listening to ag Life.
Bob Quinn here with farmer used this morning, Friends. Washington
State's agricultural industry faces so many economic and regulatory challenges,
but some important changes could ease that pressure. Pam Lewis
and Agg, director at the Washington Policy Center, says the
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first is holding legislators accountable, which was in a bill
that didn't pass earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
That was a Senate bill to Protect Washington Farmers fifty
one seventeen, and it effectively would have required legislators to
think about the fiscal responsibilities that any piece of legislation
would attach to farms, you know, or I should say,
(03:18):
the fiscal damage that any legislation would have to farms
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Recent legislation has made it extraordinarily difficult for farms to operate.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So much so that we lose two farms a day
every day, which is something that we should be seriously
concerned about. As a state. We are agricultural community is
in freefall, and.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
One of those new laws, Lewison says, is a big one.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The other that we need to seriously look at and
address is our overtime law. We have the single most
restrictive overtime law in the country for overtime pay in agriculture.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Lewison says, Washington's ag overtime law is putting many people
out of work.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Washington State farm workers command some of the highest wages
in the country, and when you ask their employer to
pay time and a half after forty hours a week,
they can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Other states that have passed AG overtime laws have reasonable workarounds.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Whether it is that farms can apply for a tax
rebate to recoup some of their expenses so that they
can afford to pay overtime, or overtime doesn't kick in
until you hit fifty sixty hours, or there is some
sort of seasonal exemption that allows you to declare, you know,
this is my harvest window, and so during this timeframe
(04:37):
of twelve or sixteen weeks or whatever it might be,
this is seasonal exemption, and the rest of the time
we are constrained to this white collar schedule.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Pam Lewis and Agg director at the Washington Policy Center
with US American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duval recently
spent time meeting with key officials from one of the
US's top potential trading partners, Chad Smith has that story.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
At a time when international trade frequently tops headlines, American
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval is spreading the message of
American agriculture overseas. Duvall recently toured the United Kingdom and
met with a wide range of audiences to discuss several
important issues.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
I met with UK officials from the Department of Business
and Trade as well as the Department of Environmental, Food
and Rural Affairs. Also had a chance to meet with
the US Ambassador to the UK, Warren Stevens. I got
out in the countryside and met with several British farmers
and spent time observing their farming practices.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
He said, the United Kingdom presents an outstanding opportunity to
create new markets for American agricultural products.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
We think it could be an opportunity to set a
gold standard for these trade deals we help. Continued conversations
like these will help move these two countries closer together
and strength and agricultural ties. Our goal is to enable
our farmers to help meet the nutritional needs of families
in America and in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Duvall said his time meeting with farmers in the UK
was an eye opening experience.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
The food production methods in our two countries have more
in common than what separate us. We all face similar challenges,
including labor, protecting food supply through responsible use of pesticides,
and ensuring that we can stay in business to pass
the farm on to the next generation.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Learn more about the trip at fb dot org, Forward
Slash News Chad Smith, Washington Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The University of Idaho released the results of its ten
year study on the impacts of grazing on sage grouse populations.
Caitlin Glover, executive director of the Public Lands Council, said
the results are good news for cattle producers, so.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
This exciting study is actually the culmination of a decade
worth of work between the University of Idahoe and a
number of partners, including the Public Lands Council and ranchers
in the area, as well as federal agencies, who were
seeking to answer the question about whether cattle grazing in
areas where sage grouse tend to lack or breed and
(07:15):
reproduce and live in those first stages, and what that
relationship looks like. And after ten years, I'm very pleased
to say that the work that was recently published demonstrates
that not only is grazing by cattle not harmful to
these sage gross populations, but we actually see a positive
corollary effect on how grazing helps improve those habitats over time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Farm News This morning, you are listening to wag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
It's another agnews update. The eagles sang a song. Hotel California.
You can check in, but never check out more after.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
This here's farmer and landowner John Prouf.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the land so we could farm through it.
We thought we knew whe the pipe was so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 10 (08:09):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start working. A message from the pipeline
operators for Egg Safety Campaign.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Minnesota Representative Pete Stauber with Secretary of Interior Doug Bergen.
Speaker 12 (08:25):
When the gray wolf was listening as threatened under the
ESA in nineteen seventy eight, a recovery goal of twelve
fifty to fourteen hundred wolves was set for Minnesota. It's
clearly far beyond that. The first Trump administration issued a
final delisting rule that was quickly litigated and blocked by
a district court in of all places, northern California. Even
the Biden administration, to their credit, sided with the science,
(08:48):
agreed with the delisting and defending this ruling. Can you
please speak to your department's defense of this rule delisting
the gray wolf, and can you commit to date that
the Trump administry will continue to follow the science and
work to ensure the gray wolf is delisted.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
Yes, absolutely, We'll follow the science and we've got multiple
examples gray wolf and grizzly where we've far exceeded the
original goals set, in some cases by more than two x.
I've recently called the Endangered Species List the Hotel California.
You can check in, you can never check out. There's
(09:26):
ninety seven percent of the species that have gone on
there have never been removed. We need to build the
capability to celebrate when species come off. This list is
supposed to celebrate when they go on.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
It's another Agnews update.
Speaker 14 (09:38):
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Speaker 15 (10:05):
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Speaker 9 (10:07):
Steel American Cattle News. These wildfires we've seen, could they
be prevented? More after this.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Here's farmer and landowner John Prue.
Speaker 11 (10:21):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands. We could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Unfortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start work a message from the pipeline
operators for egg safety campaign.
Speaker 16 (10:48):
The catastrophic wildfire crisis continues to grow each year because
of federal land management policy.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Caitlin Glover is executive director Public Lands Council.
Speaker 16 (11:02):
For a long time, one of the things that grazers
that ranchers have faced is this sort of you know,
being a second tier tool, a second class tool. The
federal agencies have always preferred chaining or other mechanized efforts,
prescribed fire or even herbicides because it's more standardized, right,
(11:24):
But this role of targeted grazing, this expansion of using
grazing animals to conduct find fuels management at scale is
gaining traction. We have more than a handful of bills
this Congress alone. We have very clear direction from the
Secretary of the Interior in a recent memorandum. We have
an executive order from President Trump identifying the need for
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USDA and DOI to work better together in not only
putting these fires out, but preventing the catastrophic conditions and
from those fires becoming too big. And so, whether you're
talking about sage grouse, or your talking about fire and
fuels management, or you're even just talking about protecting watersheds,
right from a various number of factors, you're really seeing
(12:09):
grazing having a moment.
Speaker 17 (12:11):
Right.
Speaker 16 (12:12):
It's not just goats in city parks, but it's cows
and sheep and technology and drones and satellites and all
of the big scientific and technology pieces coming together with
one of the most traditional, reliable, effective tools in grazing.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
And it's exciting American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 18 (12:41):
It's time for Our Feet for on Friday with doctor
by Kutchens, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 19 (12:47):
Well, welcome to today's speedform and we're going to talk
about ways to work with dairy technology. Are presented by
Ben Thorpe, a person that works with Leiley Company, and
need to review some things about as to technology can
do on dairy farms. Certainly, we know we need to
manage cows individually in a herd environment. That's a real
challenge nowadays as he starts seeing these larger herds across
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the United States as well. The ideal feeding system would
be getting the right fee to the right animal twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week, and three
hundred and sixty five days in the year to maximize
potential out here on the farm. So certainly we look
at these robotic feeding systems. That's one technology, and their
data would indicate that first location cows in the first
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three days after caving, we'll use it make about three
point five visits to the station. Second location cows will
visit four point five visits per day, and three plus
location cows four point eight. So certainly reflects that heifers
will be a little bit slower coming in here and
we'll make as many visits. Therefore, what we wi want
to overload those units where we are going to have
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heifers in the feeding program. He says, look at technology
the thing where we'd look at farm in the future.
He said, well, certainly this technology can improve the farm profitable.
That's going to be key for sustainability. We have to
get buy ins from our consumers as well, because they
are ultimate purchaser of our dairy products. Certainly we have
to look at dairy products that are going to be
very nutritionally important to consumers as well. We want to
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improve the environment and of course find the animal welfare.
A number of our consumers are concerned about that and
we as producers should be aware as well. We heard
another technology is artificial intelligence AI as we call that,
and of course that's coming quickly in the dairy area
because we are now assimilating large amounts of data. We
have data coming from the melking systems, from the melking parlors,
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from cow movement, pen and feedbunk evaluations, and of course
AI can assimilate all that into a nice summary package.
So when the dairy farmer goes to the farm each day,
he knows or she knows what needs to attention and
be done on the farm. When we look at robotics,
they recommend having three robots in each of the pen
(14:58):
if that's possible. That reduces the competition for heifers and
boss colls to try to control if there's only one
or two robots in that pen. As well. As far
as that goes, we certainly want to minimize the number
amount of time that the cow is away from the
feedbug and the opportunity to lie down as well, and
they'd like to see that less than forty five minutes
(15:20):
per milking or in robots less than one hour per day.
Key on the automation is going to be local support,
and most companies are doing an excellent job of training
their local people to service their equipment out there as well,
and in some cases we'll see financial support. The new
focus is going to be looking at manure management, and
of course California we see some very neat programs where
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larger herds get some support in which companies will come
in and put in some of that technology there and
share some of the power that's being generated from that manure,
which solves some of the problems as well. And the
last thing will be on some of the farms we
have the ability to pull animals from the milking pilot
as they're leaving beat atdig milk or a standard tepe
milking system. We call that a pullpen and therefore we
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can treat those animals that disturbing the rest of the herd.
So take all messages, bill and technologies here. Farmers are
going to take a look at how they work on
the farm, what does that cost, it's going to be,
and how we use AI in the future. Thanks, have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 18 (16:18):
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Speaker 2 (16:54):
Com regarding usdased beef production and steer price forecasts.
Speaker 21 (16:59):
Keep supplies extremely tight, prices continue to set new records.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski.
Speaker 21 (17:06):
Twenty twenty six, We raised our production forecast a bit
about one hundred and forty million pounds, kind of reflecting
higher placements in the second half of this year, but
still year over year, little over a billion pound reduction
in beef production.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With next year's projected price at two hundred and twenty
eight dollars fifty sets one hundred weight broad Bain reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 22 (17:29):
It's called red leaf blotch and it's a big problem
in amon orchards throughout California. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Trina Report, part of the vastag Information Network. Brin
Holds is a uc an R farm advisor in San
Joaquin County.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Caused by a fund. It's called polystigma amigadalia and it's
new to California. We you know what's amazing is we
saw it in the few spots last year. We hadn't
seen it at all and in twenty three, and we
saw and a few orchards in twenty four, and it's
pretty much up and down the Central Valley this year,
(18:07):
especially showing up in orchards that didn't get a bloom spray,
probably after full bloom or so.
Speaker 22 (18:13):
It's caused by a plant pathogenic fungus and it's airborne.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It produces osco spores and the leaves that inject in
the ten season and in in the fall of the
next year and start new infections. Traveling by air, it.
Speaker 22 (18:28):
Can cause leaf drop, a decrease in photosynthesis and yield losses.
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It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin theories callers, Oh hey.
Speaker 25 (19:30):
Yeah, it's Seva fungicide from BASF, a category leader in
disease control.
Speaker 26 (19:35):
How do you explain these healthy crops.
Speaker 25 (19:37):
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 26 (19:44):
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Speaker 22 (19:54):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Enjoyed strawberries this time of year, summertime really now any
time fruit treat and what enjoyed at many parts of
the world. Thank USDA Strawberry Research and Breeding Program in Beltsville,
Maryland for that. As research geneticist kid Lewers explains, the.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
Strawberry breeding progress started at nineteen ten, it was told
to me, and I have not found anybody that can
dispute it. It is considered the longest continuously running strawberry
breeding program in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And perhaps more significant to those at US who are
strawberry consumers.
Speaker 17 (20:35):
It has been credited for creating the strawberry industry.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
While we are enjoying, say, fresh strawberries and cream or
a homemade strawberry smoothie, Drake KiB Lewers by all means
tell us the story about the Beltsville program and its
role in creating the strawberry industry.
Speaker 17 (20:53):
What I mean by that is you can grow things
in your backyard that can grow wild in the woods,
but it's not really an industry until they can be
harvested and then shipped for market. And one of the
problems with the early strawberries and wild strawberries, if you've
ever had them, is that they're very tender and almost
as soon as you touch them, good juice on your fingers,
which is kind of fun when you're picking wild fruit
(21:15):
in the woods, but not so verat when you want
to have them ready for a store.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So the US strawberry industry in essence began when shippable
varieties were developed. That occurred in nineteen thirty one with
the ars Beltsville program created the blake bore cultivar, the
first type of strawberry easily shipped nation wide.
Speaker 17 (21:36):
The majority of the strawberries were grown in the Tennessee
Valley and they were shipped to Chicago, and that was
the beginning of the strawberry market and industry, At least
as it has been recorded, I was not there in
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
At one point the blake bore variety made up eighty
two percent of the nation strawberry crop. However, a threat
in the earth only nineteen fifties led to the Beltsville
Strawberry breeding program saving the developing strawberry industry.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
There was a disease that came around and it nearly
devastated the industry, and my predecessor, George Darrow was aware
of the disease.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Efforts to combat the red steel root rot disease and
strawberries led to development of the steel mast of variety
in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 17 (22:25):
So basically, he in advance, saved a newborn industry by
creating disease resistant strawberries, and we've been focusing on that
ever since.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So with that, a toast to the ARS strawberry breeding program,
as in raising a piece of toast with strawberry jam
and salute.
Speaker 27 (22:44):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Rod Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 28 (22:52):
Reusing Catalan feed report show the producers are starting to
keep a few more hamper than their herds, suggesting that
her rebuilding it may be underway. Doctor Darryl Peel, livestock
market economists for Oklahoma State University, says the rebuild appears
to be starting in slowly.
Speaker 29 (23:10):
Well a little bit. I mean, the only real data
point we have now that really kind of suggests heifer
retention and the beginnings of herd rebuilding would be in
that April Cattle on feed report. We've got the quarterly
breakdown of steers and heifers, and the heffers on feed
as a percentage of total feed lot inventories was at
the lowest level in the last five years. So that's
kind of the first real data point. But when you
(23:31):
look at pepper slaughter again, particularly in the last few weeks,
has dropped off more significantly steers have two for that matter,
but Heffer's in particular, hefferslaughter has dropped, and so you know,
and if you put heifer and cowslaughter together and think
about female slaughter as a percent of total cattle slaughter,
it continues to come down.
Speaker 28 (23:50):
He says. It's not a full scale herd rebuild yet.
Speaker 29 (23:53):
It's still well above levels that would confirm that we're
actively rebuilding the herd. But we're certainly I think, moving
in that and that's consistent with what I sort of
hear out in the country anecdotally among producers and lenders
for that matter. There's a lot more interest now in
the possibility of retaining heiffers and getting started at least
with some herd rebuilding.
Speaker 28 (24:12):
No drought in the Southern Plains is also encouraging producers
to think about rebuilding their herd numbers.
Speaker 29 (24:18):
Yeah, I think that's absolutely correct. You know, producers have
been wisely very cautious about this, but with the improvement
we've seen in forage conditions in the last six weeks
or so, producers in the Southern Plains probably are now
moving forward. I don't think again, we're moving dramatically aggressively
at this point. I think we're still proceeding relatively modest
pace at this point, and of course we know that
(24:39):
there's still a fair amount of drought and drought threats
in the northern part of the country and the northern
plains in particular, so that's going to limit it on
a total basis.
Speaker 28 (24:47):
Again, that is doctor Darryl Peel, Livestock market Economists at
Oklahoma State University.
Speaker 30 (24:54):
It's time for California Egg Today on the ag Information Network,
I am Haley's ship heads up California agg Community. One
of the biggest national gatherings in agriculture is headed to
our own backyard. The American Farm Bureau just announced that
its twenty twenty six convention will take place in Anaheim
(25:16):
January ninth through the fourteenth, and headlining the event none
other than Tim Tebow. The former NFL quarterback, Heisman Trophy
winner and best selling author is known for his passion,
purpose and leadership, and he'll be bringing that energy to
the keynote stage. American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval says
(25:37):
that Tibo's message fits perfectly with the theme of this
year's event, Imagine, Grow Lead. It's a mindset that resonates
with farmers and ranchers across the West, especially as we
face big challenges and bigger opportunities in agriculture. In addition
to the keynote, attendees can expect a packed schedule of
(25:57):
educational workshops, policy tosscussions, and an extensive trade show featuring
the latest in ag tech and innovation. Now registration for
the event doesn't open until October first, but you can
do that through your state Farm Bureau office or online
at FB dot org. Once the time is here. With
the national spotlight on California, now's the time to make
plans to be there.
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AG Information Network. I am Hatley Ship.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Bob Quinn here with farmer used this morning friends. Washington
State's agricultural industry faces so many economic and regulatory challenges,
but some important changes could ease that pressure. Pam Lewison,
AG director at the Washington Policy Center, says the first
is holding legislators accountable, which was in a bill that
didn't pass earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
That was a Senate bill to Protect Washington Farmers fifty
one seventeen, and it effectively would have required legislators to
think about the fiscal responsibilities that any piece of legislation
would attach to farms. You know, or I should say,
(28:01):
the fiscal damage that any legislation would have to farms
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Recent legislation has made it extraordinarily difficult for farms to operate, so.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Much so that we lose two farms a day every day,
which is something that we should be seriously concerned about
as a state. Our agricultural community is in freefall, and.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
One of those new laws, Lewison says, is a big one.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I think the other that we need to seriously look
at and address is our overtime law. We have the
single most restrictive overtime law in the country for overtime
pay in agriculture.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Lewison says, Washington's ag overtime law is putting many people
out of work.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Washington State farm workers command some of the highest wages
in the country, and when you ask their employer to
pay time and a half after forty hours a week,
they can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Other states that have passed ag overtime laws have reasonable worker.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Whether it is that farms can apply for a tax
rebate to recoup some of their expenses so that they
can afford to pay overtime, or overtime doesn't kick in
until you hit fifty sixty hours, or there is some
sort of seasonal exemption that allows you to declare you
know this is my harvest window, and so during this
timeframe of twelve or sixteen weeks or whatever it might be,
(29:24):
this is seasonal exemption, and the rest of the time
we are constrained to this white collar schedule.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Pam Lewison, AG director at the Washington Policy Center with
US American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duval recently spent
time meeting with key officials from one of the US's
top potential trading partners, Chad Smith has that story.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
At a time when international trade frequently tops headlines, American
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval is spreading the message of
American agriculture overseas. Duval recently toured the United Kingdom and
met with a range of audiences to discuss several important issues.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
I met with UK officials from the Department of Business
and Trade as well as the Department of Environmental, Food
and Rural Affairs. Also had the chance to meet with
the US Ambassador to the UK, Warren Stevens. I got
out in the countryside and met with several British farmers
and spent time observing their farming practices.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
He said, the United Kingdom presents an outstanding opportunity to
create new markets for American agricultural products.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
We think it could be an opportunity to set a
gold standard for these trade deals. We hold continued conversations
like these will help move these two countries closer together
in strengthening agricultural ties. Our goal is to enable Oure
farmers to help meet the nutritional needs of families in
America and in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Duvall said his time meeting with farmers in the UK
was an eye opening experience.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
The food production messages in our two countries have more
in common than what separate us. We all faced similar challenges,
including labor, protecting food supply through responsible use of pesticide,
and ensuring and we can stay in business to pass
the farm on to the next generation.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Learn more about the trip at fb dot org, forward
Slash News Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
The Kansas wheat harvest underway with combines getting into the
fields is early as June tenth this year. Justin Gilpin,
CEO of Kansas Wheat, talks about what he's heard about
some of the early wheat being harvested.
Speaker 15 (31:35):
I think a lot of the wheat that was getting
cut early might have been some The field that we
were in specifically was wheat that was behind soybeans, and
it didn't necessarily have had the great tillering because of
the dry fall. It probably was a little bit earlier
than maybe some wheat behind wheat or traditional wheat, but
the double crop wheat was coming off pretty rapidly, it
(31:58):
seemed like until we had that that pause.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Gelpin says, there's going to be a lot of variability
in the crop.
Speaker 15 (32:04):
We've had such a dry fall and concerns with not
getting some brain in March and April when the crop
is breaking dormancy to some cooler, wetter weather in May
that really helped the crop fill out. And so I
think there's it's going to be one of those years
where USDA has the average yield at fifty one bushels
per acre for the state of Kansas. But I think
(32:24):
it's going to be one of those years where it's
not going to be maybe a lot of average. I
think there'll be some yields that are going to be
on the high side of that, and then certainly some
fields that are going to be on the low side
of that. Those droughts stricken areas.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Look at wheat this morning, farm us. You're listening to
aag life.
Speaker 27 (32:42):
For the egg information that worked. This is your agribusiness update.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Friends of the Earth,
and others on the Plant Powered School Meals Coalition applauded
the Senate Egg Committee's actions on increasing non dairy milk
options in schools. The changes included in the Whole Milk
for Healthy Gift ZACH removes key barriers long preventing lactose
(33:03):
intolerant students from receiving a nutritionally appropriate beverage at school. Currently,
students who submit a physician's note are only guaranteed a
substitute like fortified soy milk. Several key US agriculture groups
congratulated Stephen Baden on his confirmation as USDA Deputy Secretary.
The National Cattlemans b Association Vice president Ethan Lane says
(33:24):
his unique skill set is especially important now that the
Trump administration works to expand market access for cattle producers.
Farm Bureau President Zippy Ball ads that Baden will hit
the ground running with a firm understanding of the challenges
facing American farmers. And a court ruling determined that agricultural
equipment manufacturer John Deere must face a lawsuit by the
(33:45):
Federal Trade Commission, which accuses the company of forcing farmers
to use its authorized dealer network. A judge ruled that
drove up farmer's costs for repairs and parts. A US
District court judge rejected Deer's efforts for now to end
the lawsuit, which was at the end of President Joe
Biden's administration in January.
Speaker 24 (34:03):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over.
Any origin theories callers, Oh hey, yeah.
Speaker 25 (34:09):
It's Sevia fungicide from BASF, a category leader in disease control.
Speaker 26 (34:13):
How do you explain these healthy crops.
Speaker 25 (34:16):
Well, longer lasting residual. Plus it's built for current regulatory
standards and prepare for what's to come, which improves crop
marketing flexibility.
Speaker 26 (34:23):
So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it Sevia fungicide from BASF. For is it always
read involved libressions?
Speaker 31 (34:33):
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insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 31 (34:39):
So tell us how you feeling really, really weird and
you still want to devour this field?
Speaker 28 (34:46):
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Speaker 1 (35:16):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up Aglie for today. We're
going to wrap up today with more on a study
out of Idaho. University of Idaho released the results of
its ten year study on the impacts of grazing on
sage grouse populations. Caitlin Glover, Executive director of the Public
Lands Council, said the results are good news for cattle producers.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
So this exciting study is actually the culmination of a
decade worth of work between the University of Idaho and
a number of partners, including the Public Lands Council and
ranchers in the area, as well as federal agencies who
were seeking to answer the question about whether cattle grazing
in areas where sage grouse tend to lack or breed
(35:58):
and reproduce and live in those first stages, and what
that relationship looks like. And after ten years, I'm very
pleased to say that the work that was recently published
demonstrates that not only is grazing by cattle not harmful
to these sage gross populations, but we actually see a
positive corollary effect on how grazing helps improve those habitats
(36:20):
over time.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
The study proves what cattle producers have said for years.
Speaker 8 (36:24):
The short version here is that grazing is good for
the bird. So what we've been saying for the last
ten fifteen years, that's what is good for the herd
is good for the bird, really proves out.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
We lover talks about what the study means for Western
cattle producers.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
It's really important to have science backing up traditional knowledge
and customary knowledge because all of our land management in
the West, particularly when it comes to grazing. Science really
is a result of all of the different scientific impacts
for wildlife, for forage, for livestock, grazing and how they
interact with this study. It's peer reviewed. The USGS, the
(37:01):
US Studological Survey has reviewed this science. It's gone through
rigorous evaluations. It means that what we know about our
good grazing management now has basis not only in traditional knowledge,
but also in science as well.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Now, that study was extensive to ensure reliable results.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
This study is massive.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Right.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
You look at sagegross populations across those Western states and
they have a lot of things in common. They deal
with a lot of different factors that influence the environment
and the where they live and how they reproduce. I mean,
this study alone had more than thirty thousand project locations
that were surveyed over this decade long period. And what
this means is that grazing can very definitively say that
(37:41):
our work is not only good for the environment, but
is good for future conservation efforts of this kind of
habitat as well.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Capelin Glover Public Lands Council with us and with that,
friends out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back Monday morning with another edition A bag Life
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