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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob
Quinn and I'm with you for the next hour talking
about agricultural production here in the valley and all across
the country. Well friends. Genetic research by USDA is behind
the development of an alfalfa variety with a greater tolerance
to high salinity levels found in irrigation, groundwater or recycled water.
(00:21):
Rod Main has our opening report.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a state with a large amount of high value
crops thinke various tree nuts as an example, there needs
to be consideration for another important crop in California, alfalfa.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey, California is also big dairy state, which means that
you need alfalfa for dairy and alfalfa is very hot
to transport from a different state because it's a big biomass.
Transportation cost is going to be huge, so you have
to grow alfalfa in California.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yet is researcher to Vinder Sandhu of USDA's Aggwater Efficiency
and Solidity Research Unit in the Golden State points out
to avoid alfalfa competing in land use with other high
value crops well.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Fust in the regions where these high value cross do
not grow, where quality of water is not good, quality
of soil is not good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Increasing the band for surface water and greater use of
ground water and recycled water for irrigation has led to
htoo with high salt concentration. For crops such as alfalfa.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Plants, they do not like high salt in irrigation water
or in the soil, so this is leading to slowly
increase in soil and water solinity. So increased salt is
causing major production in yield, so we are getting less
and less production.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
As a research geneticist, sandhu In colleagues are developing new
lines of alfalfa varieties with the trait of higher tolerance
to sale.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The two lines which both of them are really good.
When we looked at molecular level, these two lines are
actually very different from each other. Then I decided to
combine the characters of these two lines to make it
even more tolerant to salt.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The combined ger plasm was tested using real salt water
from the Pacific kshit the findings.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
When you grow welfelf under hoftywater solidity, it does not
lose any biomeas at all, and even if you keep
increasing the salinity going up to seawater.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
These plants, they don't die.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
With alfalfa being a perennial crop. Platted woods grown and
harvested multiple years add the ground to recycled irrigation, water
solidity levels fluctuating year over year. Sad Who says the
significance for farmers is well significant. As far as next
steps with this alfalfa variety, we.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Are thinking you take this line and go through plot
protection or general plasm release for farmers to try this
out in the regions where the concentration of salt is
high in water and so they can directly.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Ride that broadbane.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Washington State is looking at gray wolf populations and its
impact on agriculture. That story is coming up on agglife
Bob when there was some farm us this morning, friends.
Washington State has roughly two hundred and sixty gray wools
in forty two pacts living within its borders, mostly in
the northeastern part of that state. But Washington Policy Center's
Director of Agriculture, Pam Lewison says last year's slight decline
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of the wolf population isn't likely due to neglect.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Sometimes populations correct on their own. That seems to be
what is happening here. That's what the state biologists have said.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This, Lewiston says, is a first.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
After years of exponential increases year over year since the
first gray wolf was detected in the state in two
thousand and seven, this is the first time ever that
there has been a recorded population decline.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Lewiston talks about what Washington should do next.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Going back and looking at how we can fix the
wolf management plan because it's never been revisited, it's never
been edited, and you know, anyone who lives in a
scientific environment knows that things change.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The wolf population in northeastern Washington has become a problem
for ranchers.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I think the thing that people need to understand is
that once wolves are habituated to killing livestock, what they
discover is that it's an easy meal. So they're not
interested in hunting deer and elk because they're harder to hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Moving the wolves is not allowed.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So that's where it goes back to. We need to
revisit the management plan and figure out is that the solution.
Can we expedite this process of moving these animals to
somewhere else to see if they can thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Washington State and the Gray Wolf this morning, Well, friends,
US dairy farmers are taking steps to help themselves compete
in overseas markets. Laurie Boyer has our story.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
The National Milk Producers Federation has voted to implement a
new member funded export assistance program called Next. Chris Galen
is National Milk's senior vice president of Member Services and Governance.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Yeah, I thin you hear, Laurie, is that we need
to have a tool, a farmer funded self help tool
to help US dairy products compete in international markets. We
usually have something called co operators working together, and that's
gone away, and so out of the the ashes of
the heads, so to speak, the Phoenix rising is something
we're calling Next.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
The Next program will focus on supporting US airy exports
and key markets around the world, including Latin America, the Caribbean,
and Asia.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
The point here is simply that as we rely more
and more for export markets as a home for our
dairy products, and as the export markets become increasingly challenged.
Look at all the discussion here this spring about the
impact of terras and retaliatory terrists. We need to have
something in our arsenal that helps us compete better, and
so we think that is the next program that's the
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answer to that question, or at least one of the
answers to that question.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
The next program will be supported with co op participants
paying two cents per one hundredweight for their dairy sales
through the year twenty twenty eight. The next program will
go into effect beginning on July first of this year.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The American Agri Women went to Capitol Hill in June
to talk about agricultural policy with elected officials. Rose Tryon,
president of the group, talks about what the trip to
DC means for her group.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
This is our advocacy trip to Washington, d C. So
American Agriwomen has been around. We just celebrated our fiftieth anniversary.
We're a nonprofit, all volunteer organization. We're the largest women's
organization supporting agriculture in the nation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They had a lot of priorities to talk about.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Probably the main one is getting a farm builco farmers
have some certainty. The other one is our fix.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Our Forest Act.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
We really need to work on forest management to try
to get rid of some of these huge fires that
are happening The other one that we have is protecting
private property rights, and the Budget Reconciliation Bill AGG labor
is also another one for us. So there's a plethora of.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Are they getting a sense of optimism from lawmakers about
a farm bill being done this year?
Speaker 9 (06:46):
You know, we certainly hope so I think, you know,
sometimes as farmers we get so frustrated because it feels
like Congress is broken right and every time we have
an administration, depending on who's coming in or going out,
it just feels like this huge pendulums. So I think
at some point our country just really needs to level
that out a little and hopefully maybe that's going to happen.
Now we're hoping that a farm build gets done. It
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really needs to be done sooner rather than later, because
we need the certainty in agriculture to know how to
move forward with our crops.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Rose tryon American Agurrawomen Farm US. You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
It's another agnews update. Staffing levels at USDA are they adequate?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
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Speaker 10 (08:00):
Secretary Brook Rawlins, testifying before a House AGG committee, asked
about staffing levels at USDA.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
The bottom line is this that no one has been fired.
There were fifteen thousand USDA employees who took the resignation,
the deferred resignation, but no one was fired. So I
think that's really important. In a normal year, Madam, we'll
have eight to ten thousand attrition rates. So while I
think there's been a big narrative about how these important
people have been fired, that was not the case. What
(08:30):
we have done, and yes, to answer your question is
a very careful review. Yesterday in the Oval office we
talked about our fire our wildland firefighters. They're at ninety
six percent full, meaning we are ahead of where the
Joe Biden USDA was last year at this time to
prepare for wildfire season. To your point on the FSA offices,
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what I have asked every member to do, and I
know you have my cell phone. I welcome every member,
Republican or Democrat to call me directly with specific examples
and we can get on that right away, because that
forward facing part of USDA, with our rural communities and
with our farmers is a priority to me.
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Doctor Daryl Peel, Loklahoma State Livestock Marketing Economists.
Speaker 18 (10:30):
You know, the monthly trade data that came out was
for April, so you know that would be the first
month since we put all the tariffs on and and
you know, we do see some of the tariff impacts
in this data. It's it's not certainly not all of it.
It's going to build for several months as we go forward.
These beef supply chains are very complex and and you know,
there's a lot of inertia going into these things in
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terms of previous arrangements that were made, contracts and so on.
But all of that said, you do see some impacts
Basically we've continued what we've seen for the last months,
and that is that beef exports were down a little bit.
Total BF ex sports in the US were down in
April about eight point six percent, and that puts US
down a little over four percent for the year to date.
And so now you know, the most immediate impact you
(11:15):
see there is in China because of the huge tariff
escalation that we had with them, and so exports to
China mainland were down about sixty eight percent. If you
put Hong Kong with it, which I usually do, they're
really not separate markets anymore, Hong Kong was actually up
eighty six percent because they did not put on the
retaliatory tariffs that mainland China did, and so when you
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net that out, total exports to the China Hong Kong
combined market was down about fifty two percent. That's pretty
clearly just you know, a big impact of the tariffs.
Other than that, most of the rest of it is
just kind of the general trade trends we've been seeing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Imports also jump.
Speaker 18 (11:51):
Sharply in April, but that's continuing a trend that we've
had simply because we've had so much decrease in our
non fed beef production in the US House slaughter has
been down. Now this is the third year we're seeing
significant decreases there, so we've really squeezed our processing beef
supplies that support our ground beef market.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for feedbro at
to USA today. I'm with Eric Paulson, who is the
executive director of the Virginia State Dairyman's Association. Eric, great
to be with you at the Virginia Dairy Expo.
Speaker 19 (12:28):
Oh, John, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We love to have you here.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's an annual event that everybody looks forward to.
Speaker 19 (12:33):
Absolutely, we're here right in the middle June's Dairy Monet.
So we said, I want no better time to bring
our dairy farmers together, you know, for a day of
food and fellowship, ice cream and milk, you know, and
really do celebrate everything that makes this industry great.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
It's at the top dairy producing county in the state,
Rockenham County.
Speaker 19 (12:47):
That's true, right in the heart of dairy country here
in Rockingham County. So you look around and we're surrounded
by dairy farms, and so almost roughly half the dairy
farmers are here in Rockingham County. So there's no better
place to be celebrated in the industry.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
You have a unique income system which allows you to
do some different things that allows you to have some
skin in the game. Tell folks at home what that is.
Speaker 19 (13:05):
Yeah, So we're a voluntary member organization and we've been
around since nineteen oh seven. So we represent the dairy
farmers here in Virginia. We're not a checkoff program or
anything like that. But our dues are based on milk prices,
so our farmers like that we have skin in the game.
So when you know, when milk prices go up, our
dues go up a little bit. But when milk prices
go down, our deus drop and so dairy farmers like
that that we feel what they feel, and so it
makes us more responsive in their eyes.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We got to get to one program that's been a
success for you of getting milk back into schools, that
milk Dispenser program. Remind folks about that because it's just fantastic.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (13:34):
Absolutely, this is a real passion project for our producer.
Something they're very passionate about though school milk and children
drinking milk. That's something that's really important to the industry.
And so we saw a lot of schools. You know,
you started hearing compits complain about the milk isn't cold enough,
they don't like the taste of it. And so one
of the things we looked at is these milk dispensers.
So they're bulk milk dispensers. You load them with three
five gallon bags and that keeps that milk absolutely ice cold.
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And so you think of it similar to like a
soda fountain or something like that. You put your cup
up there knows the milk up, it says absolutely cold.
And then so the schools like it because kids are
drinking more milk, there's less waste, there's no cartons to
throw away. And so something we've been working with schools
around Virginia we offer that we'll cover the costs to
transition any school in a district two milk dispensers. That
way they can kind of try it out risk free,
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see the benefits, and then you know, whenever it comes
time to replace equipment at their other schools, they'll see
these milk dispensers there, which are roughly the same costs
as the coolers they have, and they're more likely than
to go over that.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And we've seen that happen.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And for dairy farmers, they want to hear this and
I want to underscore it because it does increase consumption
of fluid milk.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's right.
Speaker 19 (14:33):
Last year we saw fifteen percent increase in consumption at
schools that pulled the milk dispensers in, and that's just
in consumption. So not only kids taking more milk, they're
actually drinking more milk. They're not taking those cartons, you know,
and they're taking them and throwing them away. We actually
want kids to enjoy that milk. These kids who who
enjoy drinking milk turn into adults who drink milk, and
that's what we really want. So this is kind of
a long term thing. We see the immediate benefit, but
it's also going to have really profound long term impact.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We think as well.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
We're here at the Virginia Dairy Xpo. If you get
a lot of dairy producers from around in the area,
but you also have your board meeting which happens the
day before.
Speaker 19 (15:02):
That's right, so our board members is made up of
dairy farmers from around Virginia, so we break it up
in geographic area, and so every dairy farmer represents the
producers and their counties. So they come together yesterday, we
talk about police, we talk about things like milk dispensers.
We see what's going on, you know, both on the
state and federal legislative level, and really it's about what
can the Virginia State Dairyman's Association do to not only protect,
but promote and enhance the dairy industry in Virginia. We
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want a thriving industry, so without the dairy farmers, we
don't exist, and so we need to make sure we're
doing everything we can to make sure dairy farmers are
well positioned so they're still in business and you.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Want to ensure the next generation of consumers and of
dairy farmers.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Absolutely, they work together. You can't have one without the other.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
One really unique because you are not a check off,
so you get the ability to lobby if you choose to.
Speaker 19 (15:43):
Absolutely right, we can lobby. We do education promotion, we
can kind of do a lot of things. But since
we're a private organization, we don't have any restrictions on us.
We can do the promotion, but we can also be
down there in Richmond. Maybe, so we represent our dairy
farmers because they're a very vital part. You think about
the economic impact dairy farmers have in your local community.
I mean, I tell dairy farmers think about all the
checks you right every month to your local businesses, and
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how many other people depend on your farm. And they're
really true small businesses that really promote their local economy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And so we make sure we're telling that good story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Speaking of stories, you have a little success story about
our interview from last year that occurred with a dairy
farmer calling you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (16:18):
Absolutely, I was really thrilled to hear. Dairy farmer from
Wisconsin called me up. But he had heard this interview
last year talking about milk dispensers and he called me
up and hey, how can we do this in our state?
And I was more than happy to talk to him
because it's something.
Speaker 15 (16:29):
It helps us all.
Speaker 19 (16:29):
And you know that rising tide lifts all boats, and
so we would love to see and I know other
states have done it. It's something that I think that
the industry. I haven't talked to a dairy farmer. Yet
he thinks that's really the greatest idea. It's one of
those what's old is new again because that's how milk
used to be served as in those milk dispensers, and
it kind of went back to, you know, the convenience.
But people a starting to come back around now and
see some of these benefits of making sure we're serving
hopefully soon whole cold milk here in the near future.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Eric Polson, Executive director of the Virginia State Dairymen's Association
at the Virginia Dairy Expo, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I'm John Clark, traveling countryside for Feedwick's USA.
Speaker 20 (17:04):
Pistachios are known as alternate bearing on years and off years.
This year is and on year, bigger crops coming in.
I'm Patrick Cavanagh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. We're speaking with Joe Coello, director
of Sustainability and Member Outreach for the American Pistachio Growers Association.
Speaker 21 (17:25):
Two years ago, I think we're about one point.
Speaker 20 (17:28):
Five that's a billion pounds, and then.
Speaker 21 (17:31):
Last year is in twenty twenty four, I think we
hit just under one point two, and now we're looking
at one point six, and we're looking at an awful
lot of growth over the next three years.
Speaker 20 (17:42):
It could be more than two billion pounds in a
few years. And a big part of the California pistachio
crop is well exported.
Speaker 21 (17:50):
Seventy eight percent of what we produce and the state
is exported. So a lot of sustained pricing is going
to depend on the international mark development and that's really
apg's bread and butter.
Speaker 20 (18:03):
Hopefully Terris won't bring a wreck to this industry's export market.
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to ag life. My names Dwane Merley. Well, as the
growing season is underway here in North America, we also
like to keep track of what's going on in South America.
And this year's corn crop in Brazil is expected to
be a record breaker. Brazil will likely harvest the second
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largest crop ever this year. It could reach five billion borstels.
That's according to the National Supplied Company or Co NAB,
the country's food and supply statistics agents, Bruzil's counterpart to
the USDA. Now the volume is higher than last year
and about previous projections due to favorable rainfall in April
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and May. Joanna Kulussi is an agricultural economist at the
University of Illinois and a brazil native, and she talks
about what it means to be the second biggest corn
crop in Brazil's history.
Speaker 25 (20:22):
Brazil is expected to have the second largest corn harvest
in the country's history. This expectation is largely attribute to
the high ylth potential because when you look the planted area,
it's increased only one point five percent from fifty two
million acres to fifty three million acres. But the yields,
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the expectation around the eilds is really good. So according
to CONNAB, average yields are projected to reach a record
nine point five bushels per acre this season. This is
eight percent higher than last year. And we can say
that these strong yields are mainly driven by a performance
of the second crop corn that we call Safrina, which
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is splanted right after the summer. So I being harvest
so and of course remember that last year there was
a drought in the central West region. So in this year,
the weather, especially in April and May, was really good.
So we are almost in the middle of the June.
The harvest started in the beginning of the month and
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will continue until early August.
Speaker 26 (21:34):
The size of the sofrina or the second corn crop
is larger than either the first or certainly the third
corn crop. Now they get three in one season. And
she talks about the second corn crop, how it makes
up a lot of the country's total production.
Speaker 25 (21:49):
The safrinia and the second crop is responsible nowadays for
seventy eight percent, almost eighty percent of brazils total corn production.
And we know that this production is concentrated in the
central West region in matugrosu Goyaz Matu, Gros Dosu, and
also a little bit in the south of Brazil. Over
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the past twenty years, Brazil's second corn crop has growth
more than nine times, from four hundred million bushees twenty
years ago to almost four billion bushels in the current
crop season. And when you look at the numbers regarding
the first crop that's planted during the summer season in Brazil,
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it has declined by twenty two percent. So we know
that the southern states, it's where the Brazil's first crop
is typically planted. But yes, we have seen a huge
increase of the second corn crop in Brazil in the
last twenty years.
Speaker 26 (22:49):
She says, despite the larger production, the country's exports will decline.
Speaker 25 (22:55):
I would say that the main reason for this decline
are the rizing domasque demands, especially from the livestock sector
and talk about poultry production, pork production, and also the
growing corn ethanol industry in Brazil, which has expanded over
the past decades. So we know that during the many
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years and still nowadays, most of the ethanol in Brazil
is produced from sugar cane, but in the last ten years,
the amount of corn used to produce ethanol is increasing.
Nowadays is fifteen percent of the corn in Brazil is
used to produce ethanol, and around seventy five percent of
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the corn produced in Brazil is used to livestock sector,
I mean the meal either for poultry production or pork.
So that's the reason that there is expectation that the
exports from January to December this year twenty twenty five
will decline around nine percent, from one point five billion
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bus shows last year to around one point four billion
bus shows this year.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Again.
Speaker 26 (24:08):
That is Joanna Calusi and agriculturally economist at the University
of Illinois and a Brazil native. The complete article can
be found on the farm doc Daily website. My name
is Duwane Murley and thanks for being with us today
on AG Live.
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Speaker 1 (26:49):
Bob when there were some farm news this morning, friends.
Washington State has roughly two hundred and sixty gray wolves
in forty two packs living within its borders, mostly in
the northeastern part of that state, but Washrington Policy Center's
Director of Agriculture, Pam Lewison says last year's slight decline
of the wolf population isn't likely due to neglect.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Sometimes populations correct on their own. That seems to be
what is happening here. That's what the state biologists have said.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This, Lewiston says, is a first.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
After years of exponential increases year over year since the
first gray wolf was detected in the state in two
thousand and seven. This is the first time ever that
there has been a recorded population decline.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Lewiston talks about what Washington should do next, going.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Back and looking at how we can fix the wolf
management plan because it's never been revisited, it's never been edited,
and you know, anyone who lives in a scientific environment
knows that things change.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The wolf population in northeastern Washington has become a problem
for ranchers.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I think the thing that people need to understand is
that once wolves are habituated to killing livestock, what they
discover is that it's an easy meal. So there we're
not interested in hunting deer and elk because they're harder
to hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Moving the wolves is not allowed.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So that's where it goes back to. We need to
revisit the management plan and figure out is that the solution.
Can we expedite this process of moving these animals to
somewhere else to see if they can thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Washington State and the gray wolf. This morning, the full
effect for tariffs on US agriculture has yet to be determined.
Riley Smith has a story for US this morning.
Speaker 16 (28:27):
The impact of tariffs on consumers is well known, as
we pay more to import certain products, consumers are having
to compensate for that by paying more at the register.
Things are not so clear when it comes to the
effects that tariffs have on exports. We know that things
are worse, but it's difficult to figure out just how
much we're losing. Iowa State University economist Chad Hart said
(28:48):
that makes things tricky.
Speaker 29 (28:49):
What they looked at was specifically the tariffs are already
paying for, so looking at products we bring into the US,
we're paying additional tariff on that. What we found is
that if you compare April of twenty twenty four to
April of twenty twenty five, there's been about a sixty
eight million dollar increase in tariffs being paid by Iowa
consumers as we bring product into Iowa.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's about a three hundred percent jump year over year.
Speaker 29 (29:15):
When you think about that, So we definitely are seeing
cost already being built in in the products that we
bring in here.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
To the state.
Speaker 29 (29:22):
One of the major challenges though, is that we also
export a lot of products outside the US, and that's
a piece that's still missing when we think about the
damages here.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
That we know what we're paying on what's coming in,
we don't know fully what we're losing for the product
that needs to leave.
Speaker 16 (29:37):
This trade war has opened the door for a country
like Brazil to swoop in and take some of the
market share that the US has with China.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well, that's the deal.
Speaker 29 (29:44):
I like to joke that when you're looking at a
trade fight, the country that wins is the country that
does not participate. So when we're looking here, for example,
the fight between the US and China, it's a country
like Brazil that truly benefits because they have the ability to,
as you say it, span production. They already have a
trade relationship with China and they produce a lot of
the same goods that we produce there in the US.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
So that makes them a.
Speaker 29 (30:03):
Ready market to sort of replace us within the Chinese system.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And that is a major.
Speaker 29 (30:08):
Challenge here is that right now, this terrif fight between
the US and China is leading to higher costs for both,
while Brazil gets to sit on the outside and benefit
from those changes.
Speaker 16 (30:18):
Part said that a more measured in particular approach would
likely make things easier on farmers and consumers.
Speaker 29 (30:24):
Well, I believe the biggest challenge is that we basically
started this office trying to adjust the entire globe at
the same time, where trade and tariff negotiations are much
more of a country by country agreement that you reach.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
And so you want to do it more let's call
it methodically than what we've been doing.
Speaker 29 (30:41):
The challenge right now, and I think you know it's
a challenge the President's seen faces is trying to negotiate
with ninety other countries at the same time.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
You just can't find enough negotiators.
Speaker 29 (30:51):
Where if, on the other hand, you're taking a very
systematic approach looking at where the biggest trade problems are
and working specifically with that individual country, you're much more
likely to get effective change in trade policy.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
The reality of the situation, though, is that farmers have
to deal with elevated market pressure. Heart said he advises
farmers to focus on the things they can control financially
while the economic storm passes.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well.
Speaker 29 (31:14):
Arguably there is a way and you can think of
the terrif issues we're having are basically just you know,
creating some economic damage to the farm as we're looking at,
but farmers, over time, if you've been a farmer for
a while, you have figured out how to weather some
financial storm.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
So it is reminding ourselves of, Okay.
Speaker 29 (31:31):
How do we control our cost how do we try
to capture the best price that we can at the
time that we can and basically work through let's call
it the rough financials of the business to keep ourselves going,
recognizing that we can't control what prices are in the marketplace,
that we can't control what costs of for example.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Hot ashes when you come to the country's room.
Speaker 29 (31:50):
But what we can do is look at better assess
our ability to grow products within that market and try
to succeed from there.
Speaker 16 (31:59):
For more in site, visit the ISU AGG Decision Maker
at extension dot iastate dot edu forward slash ag DM.
That again was Ioas State University economist Chad Hart. I'm
Riley Smith reporting.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Farm US this morning. You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 30 (32:16):
From the AGG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. Well,
the latest World AGG Supply and Demand Estimate report for
June says the twenty twenty five twenty six US corn
outlook didn't change much from last month. The season average
farm price received by producers is unchanged at four dollars
and twenty cents per bushel. The US weed outlook this
month is for slightly larger supplies, unchanged domestic use, higher exports,
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and lower ending stocks. All wheat production is projected at
one point nine to one million bushels, up one hundred
and fifteen thousand from last month. Food insecurity affects forty
seven million people in America, with a disproportionate impact on
rural areas. In an effort to provide food and resources
for people facing hunger, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting
has introduced the NFB Hunger Campaign that directs donors to
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the Feeding America network of partner food banks. To learn
more about the NAFB Hunger Campaign, go to their dedicated
website at NAFB Hunger dot com. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins
launched an eight and a half million dollar new World
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part plan to enhance detection, control, and elimination of the pest.
(33:23):
While the screwworm was eradicated from the US decades ago,
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and bison imports from Mexico. The plan includes partnering with
Mexico to ensure eradication and protect the southern border.
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Speaker 1 (34:40):
Bob Gwin here to wrap up Agli for today, friends,
What are some of the weather trends associated with meteorological
spring now that that season has transferred over to summer?
Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Arrival of the summer solstice means the books are closed
for astronomical spring. Twenty twenty five meteorological sp however, concluded
once the calendar turned from May to June. So regarding
the recap of weather from a meteorological spring perspective, usdab
or ologist Brad Rippy points out it.
Speaker 17 (35:12):
Was the nation's second warmest spring on record, twenty fourth wettest.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Regarding the spring's warm temperatures.
Speaker 17 (35:19):
An average temperature a little over fifty four degrees was
more than three degrees above the twentieth century mean and
ranks only behind the spring of twenty twelve in terms
of warmestone record for the lower forty eight states over
the last one hundred and thirty one years, dropping to
third place nineteen ten, which was, of course before anyone
was around, but a memorably warm spring a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Rippy says that warmth was concentrated across several states and regions.
Speaker 17 (35:46):
We had top ten warmth in Montana and Nebraska across
the Great Plains. Top ten warmth also extended to the
south and included Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and then the
warmth also moving right on through the Gulf Coast states
and up the Atlantic seaboard, all those states also ranking
in their top ten warmest springs.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Needless to say, cool weather discussion for this sprigue was limited.
Speaker 17 (36:10):
As an example, Arizona did come up on that list
as the coolest state, but even there it was still
the twenty sixth warmest, so it's way into the upper
part of the distribution. No state was in the lower
half of the cool half of that spring historical distribution.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
As for the rage of precipitation this past meteorological sprague
across the country, there was.
Speaker 17 (36:31):
Some dryness in the west twenty seventh driest spring in Colorado,
twenty eighth in Idaho, but then as you move eastward,
it was a top ten wet spring in states like Oklahoma, Kentucky,
and then several eastern states including Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
The month of May weather wise across the country had
some high lightable weather, it was overall.
Speaker 17 (36:52):
A warm wet May twenty sixth warmest and thirteenth wettest
on record.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
With weather highlights on a state perspective, including it.
Speaker 17 (37:00):
Was the wettest on record in Alabama. That wetness extended
pretty broadly to twelve other states, mostly in the southern
and eastern part of the US, and briefly in terms
of temperature, as we saw range from the thirty sixth
coolest May in Oklahoma, Florida and California both ranking in
the top ten for May heat.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm Broadbaine, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
With that, friends, abount of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob
Quinn and I'm with you for the next hour talking
about agricultural production here in the valley and all across
the country. Well friends. Genetic research by USDA is behind
the development of an alfalfa variety with a greater tolerance
to high salinity levels found in irrigation, groundwater or recycled water.
(00:21):
Rod Main has our opening report.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a state with a large amount of high value
crops thinke various tree nuts as an example, there needs
to be consideration for another important crop in California, alfalfa.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey, California is also big dairy state, which means that
you need alfalfa for dairy and alfalfa is very hot
to transport from a different state because it's a big biomass.
Transportation cost is going to be huge, so you have
to grow alfalfa in California.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yet is researcher to Vinder Sandhu of USDA's Aggwater Efficiency
and Solidity Research Unit in the Golden State points out
to avoid alfalfa competing in land use with other high
value crops well.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Fust in the regions where these high value cross do
not grow, where quality of water is not good, quality
of soil is not good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Increasing the band for surface water and greater use of
ground water and recycled water for irrigation has led to
htoo with high salt concentration. For crops such as alfalfa.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Plants, they do not like high salt in irrigation water
or in the soil, so this is leading to slowly
increase in soil and water solinity. So increased salt is
causing major production in yield, so we are getting less
and less production.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
As a research geneticist, sandhu In colleagues are developing new
lines of alfalfa varieties with the trait of higher tolerance
to sale.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The two lines which both of them are really good.
When we looked at molecular level, these two lines are
actually very different from each other. Then I decided to
combine the characters of these two lines to make it
even more tolerant to salt.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The combined ger plasm was tested using real salt water
from the Pacific kshit the findings.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
When you grow welfelf under hoftywater solidity, it does not
lose any biomeas at all, and even if you keep
increasing the salinity going up to seawater.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
These plants, they don't die.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
With alfalfa being a perennial crop. Platted woods grown and
harvested multiple years add the ground to recycled irrigation, water
solidity levels fluctuating year over year. Sad Who says the
significance for farmers is well significant. As far as next
steps with this alfalfa variety, we.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Are thinking you take this line and go through plot
protection or general plasm release for farmers to try this
out in the regions where the concentration of salt is
high in water and so they can directly.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
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Reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Washington State is looking at gray wolf populations and its
impact on agriculture. That story is coming up on agglife
Bob when there was some farm us this morning, friends.
Washington State has roughly two hundred and sixty gray wools
in forty two pacts living within its borders, mostly in
the northeastern part of that state. But Washington Policy Center's
Director of Agriculture, Pam Lewison says last year's slight decline
(03:10):
of the wolf population isn't likely due to neglect.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Sometimes populations correct on their own. That seems to be
what is happening here. That's what the state biologists have said.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This, Lewiston says, is a first.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
After years of exponential increases year over year since the
first gray wolf was detected in the state in two
thousand and seven, this is the first time ever that
there has been a recorded population decline.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Lewiston talks about what Washington should do next.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Going back and looking at how we can fix the
wolf management plan because it's never been revisited, it's never
been edited, and you know, anyone who lives in a
scientific environment knows that things change.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The wolf population in northeastern Washington has become a problem
for ranchers.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I think the thing that people need to understand is
that once wolves are habituated to killing livestock, what they
discover is that it's an easy meal. So they're not
interested in hunting deer and elk because they're harder to hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Moving the wolves is not allowed.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So that's where it goes back to. We need to
revisit the management plan and figure out is that the solution.
Can we expedite this process of moving these animals to
somewhere else to see if they can thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Washington State and the Gray Wolf this morning, Well, friends,
US dairy farmers are taking steps to help themselves compete
in overseas markets. Laurie Boyer has our story.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
The National Milk Producers Federation has voted to implement a
new member funded export assistance program called Next. Chris Galen
is National Milk's senior vice president of Member Services and Governance.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Yeah, I thin you hear, Laurie, is that we need
to have a tool, a farmer funded self help tool
to help US dairy products compete in international markets. We
usually have something called co operators working together, and that's
gone away, and so out of the the ashes of
the heads, so to speak, the Phoenix rising is something
we're calling Next.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
The Next program will focus on supporting US airy exports
and key markets around the world, including Latin America, the Caribbean,
and Asia.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
The point here is simply that as we rely more
and more for export markets as a home for our
dairy products, and as the export markets become increasingly challenged.
Look at all the discussion here this spring about the
impact of terras and retaliatory terrists. We need to have
something in our arsenal that helps us compete better, and
so we think that is the next program that's the
(05:34):
answer to that question, or at least one of the
answers to that question.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
The next program will be supported with co op participants
paying two cents per one hundredweight for their dairy sales
through the year twenty twenty eight. The next program will
go into effect beginning on July first of this year.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The American Agri Women went to Capitol Hill in June
to talk about agricultural policy with elected officials. Rose Tryon,
president of the group, talks about what the trip to
DC means for her group.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
This is our advocacy trip to Washington, d C. So
American Agriwomen has been around. We just celebrated our fiftieth anniversary.
We're a nonprofit, all volunteer organization. We're the largest women's
organization supporting agriculture in the nation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They had a lot of priorities to talk about.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Probably the main one is getting a farm builco farmers
have some certainty. The other one is our fix.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Our Forest Act.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
We really need to work on forest management to try
to get rid of some of these huge fires that
are happening The other one that we have is protecting
private property rights, and the Budget Reconciliation Bill AGG labor
is also another one for us. So there's a plethora of.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Are they getting a sense of optimism from lawmakers about
a farm bill being done this year?
Speaker 9 (06:46):
You know, we certainly hope so I think, you know,
sometimes as farmers we get so frustrated because it feels
like Congress is broken right and every time we have
an administration, depending on who's coming in or going out,
it just feels like this huge pendulums. So I think
at some point our country just really needs to level
that out a little and hopefully maybe that's going to happen.
Now we're hoping that a farm build gets done. It
(07:08):
really needs to be done sooner rather than later, because
we need the certainty in agriculture to know how to
move forward with our crops.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Rose tryon American Agurrawomen Farm US. You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
It's another agnews update. Staffing levels at USDA are they adequate?
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More?
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Secretary Brook Rawlins, testifying before a House AGG committee, asked
about staffing levels at USDA.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
The bottom line is this that no one has been fired.
There were fifteen thousand USDA employees who took the resignation,
the deferred resignation, but no one was fired. So I
think that's really important. In a normal year, Madam, we'll
have eight to ten thousand attrition rates. So while I
think there's been a big narrative about how these important
people have been fired, that was not the case. What
(08:30):
we have done, and yes, to answer your question is
a very careful review. Yesterday in the Oval office we
talked about our fire our wildland firefighters. They're at ninety
six percent full, meaning we are ahead of where the
Joe Biden USDA was last year at this time to
prepare for wildfire season. To your point on the FSA offices,
(08:51):
what I have asked every member to do, and I
know you have my cell phone. I welcome every member,
Republican or Democrat to call me directly with specific examples
and we can get on that right away, because that
forward facing part of USDA, with our rural communities and
with our farmers is a priority to me.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
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Doctor Daryl Peel, Loklahoma State Livestock Marketing Economists.
Speaker 18 (10:30):
You know, the monthly trade data that came out was
for April, so you know that would be the first
month since we put all the tariffs on and and
you know, we do see some of the tariff impacts
in this data. It's it's not certainly not all of it.
It's going to build for several months as we go forward.
These beef supply chains are very complex and and you know,
there's a lot of inertia going into these things in
(10:51):
terms of previous arrangements that were made, contracts and so on.
But all of that said, you do see some impacts
Basically we've continued what we've seen for the last months,
and that is that beef exports were down a little bit.
Total BF ex sports in the US were down in
April about eight point six percent, and that puts US
down a little over four percent for the year to date.
And so now you know, the most immediate impact you
(11:15):
see there is in China because of the huge tariff
escalation that we had with them, and so exports to
China mainland were down about sixty eight percent. If you
put Hong Kong with it, which I usually do, they're
really not separate markets anymore, Hong Kong was actually up
eighty six percent because they did not put on the
retaliatory tariffs that mainland China did, and so when you
(11:37):
net that out, total exports to the China Hong Kong
combined market was down about fifty two percent. That's pretty
clearly just you know, a big impact of the tariffs.
Other than that, most of the rest of it is
just kind of the general trade trends we've been seeing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Imports also jump.
Speaker 18 (11:51):
Sharply in April, but that's continuing a trend that we've
had simply because we've had so much decrease in our
non fed beef production in the US House slaughter has
been down. Now this is the third year we're seeing
significant decreases there, so we've really squeezed our processing beef
supplies that support our ground beef market.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Largely American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is Dairy Radio Now.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for feedbro at
to USA today. I'm with Eric Paulson, who is the
executive director of the Virginia State Dairyman's Association. Eric, great
to be with you at the Virginia Dairy Expo.
Speaker 19 (12:28):
Oh, John, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We love to have you here.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's an annual event that everybody looks forward to.
Speaker 19 (12:33):
Absolutely, we're here right in the middle June's Dairy Monet.
So we said, I want no better time to bring
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food and fellowship, ice cream and milk, you know, and
really do celebrate everything that makes this industry great.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
It's at the top dairy producing county in the state,
Rockenham County.
Speaker 19 (12:47):
That's true, right in the heart of dairy country here
in Rockingham County. So you look around and we're surrounded
by dairy farms, and so almost roughly half the dairy
farmers are here in Rockingham County. So there's no better
place to be celebrated in the industry.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
You have a unique income system which allows you to
do some different things that allows you to have some
skin in the game. Tell folks at home what that is.
Speaker 19 (13:05):
Yeah, So we're a voluntary member organization and we've been
around since nineteen oh seven. So we represent the dairy
farmers here in Virginia. We're not a checkoff program or
anything like that. But our dues are based on milk prices,
so our farmers like that we have skin in the game.
So when you know, when milk prices go up, our
dues go up a little bit. But when milk prices
go down, our deus drop and so dairy farmers like
that that we feel what they feel, and so it
makes us more responsive in their eyes.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We got to get to one program that's been a
success for you of getting milk back into schools, that
milk Dispenser program. Remind folks about that because it's just fantastic.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (13:34):
Absolutely, this is a real passion project for our producer.
Something they're very passionate about though school milk and children
drinking milk. That's something that's really important to the industry.
And so we saw a lot of schools. You know,
you started hearing compits complain about the milk isn't cold enough,
they don't like the taste of it. And so one
of the things we looked at is these milk dispensers.
So they're bulk milk dispensers. You load them with three
five gallon bags and that keeps that milk absolutely ice cold.
(13:55):
And so you think of it similar to like a
soda fountain or something like that. You put your cup
up there knows the milk up, it says absolutely cold.
And then so the schools like it because kids are
drinking more milk, there's less waste, there's no cartons to
throw away. And so something we've been working with schools
around Virginia we offer that we'll cover the costs to
transition any school in a district two milk dispensers. That
way they can kind of try it out risk free,
(14:16):
see the benefits, and then you know, whenever it comes
time to replace equipment at their other schools, they'll see
these milk dispensers there, which are roughly the same costs
as the coolers they have, and they're more likely than
to go over that.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And we've seen that happen.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And for dairy farmers, they want to hear this and
I want to underscore it because it does increase consumption
of fluid milk.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's right.
Speaker 19 (14:33):
Last year we saw fifteen percent increase in consumption at
schools that pulled the milk dispensers in, and that's just
in consumption. So not only kids taking more milk, they're
actually drinking more milk. They're not taking those cartons, you know,
and they're taking them and throwing them away. We actually
want kids to enjoy that milk. These kids who who
enjoy drinking milk turn into adults who drink milk, and
that's what we really want. So this is kind of
a long term thing. We see the immediate benefit, but
it's also going to have really profound long term impact.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We think as well.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
We're here at the Virginia Dairy Xpo. If you get
a lot of dairy producers from around in the area,
but you also have your board meeting which happens the
day before.
Speaker 19 (15:02):
That's right, so our board members is made up of
dairy farmers from around Virginia, so we break it up
in geographic area, and so every dairy farmer represents the
producers and their counties. So they come together yesterday, we
talk about police, we talk about things like milk dispensers.
We see what's going on, you know, both on the
state and federal legislative level, and really it's about what
can the Virginia State Dairyman's Association do to not only protect,
but promote and enhance the dairy industry in Virginia. We
(15:24):
want a thriving industry, so without the dairy farmers, we
don't exist, and so we need to make sure we're
doing everything we can to make sure dairy farmers are
well positioned so they're still in business and you.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Want to ensure the next generation of consumers and of
dairy farmers.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Absolutely, they work together. You can't have one without the other.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
One really unique because you are not a check off,
so you get the ability to lobby if you choose to.
Speaker 19 (15:43):
Absolutely right, we can lobby. We do education promotion, we
can kind of do a lot of things. But since
we're a private organization, we don't have any restrictions on us.
We can do the promotion, but we can also be
down there in Richmond. Maybe, so we represent our dairy
farmers because they're a very vital part. You think about
the economic impact dairy farmers have in your local community.
I mean, I tell dairy farmers think about all the
checks you right every month to your local businesses, and
(16:04):
how many other people depend on your farm. And they're
really true small businesses that really promote their local economy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And so we make sure we're telling that good story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Speaking of stories, you have a little success story about
our interview from last year that occurred with a dairy
farmer calling you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (16:18):
Absolutely, I was really thrilled to hear. Dairy farmer from
Wisconsin called me up. But he had heard this interview
last year talking about milk dispensers and he called me
up and hey, how can we do this in our state?
And I was more than happy to talk to him
because it's something.
Speaker 15 (16:29):
It helps us all.
Speaker 19 (16:29):
And you know that rising tide lifts all boats, and
so we would love to see and I know other
states have done it. It's something that I think that
the industry. I haven't talked to a dairy farmer. Yet
he thinks that's really the greatest idea. It's one of
those what's old is new again because that's how milk
used to be served as in those milk dispensers, and
it kind of went back to, you know, the convenience.
But people a starting to come back around now and
see some of these benefits of making sure we're serving
hopefully soon whole cold milk here in the near future.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Eric Polson, Executive director of the Virginia State Dairymen's Association
at the Virginia Dairy Expo, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I'm John Clark, traveling countryside for Feedwick's USA.
Speaker 20 (17:04):
Pistachios are known as alternate bearing on years and off years.
This year is and on year, bigger crops coming in.
I'm Patrick Cavanagh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. We're speaking with Joe Coello, director
of Sustainability and Member Outreach for the American Pistachio Growers Association.
Speaker 21 (17:25):
Two years ago, I think we're about one point.
Speaker 20 (17:28):
Five that's a billion pounds, and then.
Speaker 21 (17:31):
Last year is in twenty twenty four, I think we
hit just under one point two, and now we're looking
at one point six, and we're looking at an awful
lot of growth over the next three years.
Speaker 20 (17:42):
It could be more than two billion pounds in a
few years. And a big part of the California pistachio
crop is well exported.
Speaker 21 (17:50):
Seventy eight percent of what we produce and the state
is exported. So a lot of sustained pricing is going
to depend on the international mark development and that's really
apg's bread and butter.
Speaker 20 (18:03):
Hopefully Terris won't bring a wreck to this industry's export market.
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With the IG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh, Welcome back
to ag life. My names Dwane Merley. Well, as the
growing season is underway here in North America, we also
like to keep track of what's going on in South America.
And this year's corn crop in Brazil is expected to
be a record breaker. Brazil will likely harvest the second
(19:48):
largest crop ever this year. It could reach five billion borstels.
That's according to the National Supplied Company or Co NAB,
the country's food and supply statistics agents, Bruzil's counterpart to
the USDA. Now the volume is higher than last year
and about previous projections due to favorable rainfall in April
(20:09):
and May. Joanna Kulussi is an agricultural economist at the
University of Illinois and a brazil native, and she talks
about what it means to be the second biggest corn
crop in Brazil's history.
Speaker 25 (20:22):
Brazil is expected to have the second largest corn harvest
in the country's history. This expectation is largely attribute to
the high ylth potential because when you look the planted area,
it's increased only one point five percent from fifty two
million acres to fifty three million acres. But the yields,
(20:45):
the expectation around the eilds is really good. So according
to CONNAB, average yields are projected to reach a record
nine point five bushels per acre this season. This is
eight percent higher than last year. And we can say
that these strong yields are mainly driven by a performance
of the second crop corn that we call Safrina, which
(21:09):
is splanted right after the summer. So I being harvest
so and of course remember that last year there was
a drought in the central West region. So in this year,
the weather, especially in April and May, was really good.
So we are almost in the middle of the June.
The harvest started in the beginning of the month and
(21:31):
will continue until early August.
Speaker 26 (21:34):
The size of the sofrina or the second corn crop
is larger than either the first or certainly the third
corn crop. Now they get three in one season. And
she talks about the second corn crop, how it makes
up a lot of the country's total production.
Speaker 25 (21:49):
The safrinia and the second crop is responsible nowadays for
seventy eight percent, almost eighty percent of brazils total corn production.
And we know that this production is concentrated in the
central West region in matugrosu Goyaz Matu, Gros Dosu, and
also a little bit in the south of Brazil. Over
(22:10):
the past twenty years, Brazil's second corn crop has growth
more than nine times, from four hundred million bushees twenty
years ago to almost four billion bushels in the current
crop season. And when you look at the numbers regarding
the first crop that's planted during the summer season in Brazil,
(22:32):
it has declined by twenty two percent. So we know
that the southern states, it's where the Brazil's first crop
is typically planted. But yes, we have seen a huge
increase of the second corn crop in Brazil in the
last twenty years.
Speaker 26 (22:49):
She says, despite the larger production, the country's exports will decline.
Speaker 25 (22:55):
I would say that the main reason for this decline
are the rizing domasque demands, especially from the livestock sector
and talk about poultry production, pork production, and also the
growing corn ethanol industry in Brazil, which has expanded over
the past decades. So we know that during the many
(23:17):
years and still nowadays, most of the ethanol in Brazil
is produced from sugar cane, but in the last ten years,
the amount of corn used to produce ethanol is increasing.
Nowadays is fifteen percent of the corn in Brazil is
used to produce ethanol, and around seventy five percent of
(23:38):
the corn produced in Brazil is used to livestock sector,
I mean the meal either for poultry production or pork.
So that's the reason that there is expectation that the
exports from January to December this year twenty twenty five
will decline around nine percent, from one point five billion
(24:02):
bus shows last year to around one point four billion
bus shows this year.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Again.
Speaker 26 (24:08):
That is Joanna Calusi and agriculturally economist at the University
of Illinois and a Brazil native. The complete article can
be found on the farm doc Daily website. My name
is Duwane Murley and thanks for being with us today
on AG Live.
Speaker 27 (24:23):
It's time for California ag Today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey's Ship. If you have ever wanted to
explore the farm's flavors and the experiences that make California
agriculture so unique, there is now a one stop shop
to help make it happen. A new website, Experience California Agriculture,
has just launched, offering a digital gateway into the state's
(24:45):
vibrant world of agritourism. From you pick orchards and vineyard
tours to farm stays and farm to table restaurants, visitors
can browse interactive maps, trip ideas, and seasonal guides for
planning their next on the land experience. It's all part
of an effort from California grown in partnership with the
(25:05):
California Department of Food and agriculture to connect more people
both on and off the farm, with the state's agricultural communities.
California agg Secretary Karen Ross says the site highlights how food,
family and farming intersect in powerful ways, and California Grown
Executive director Sherry Want calls it a tool not just
(25:26):
for travel, but for building appreciation of California's diverse crops
and communities. The site, developed with MGR Creative Group of Fresno,
is now live you can find it yourself at Californiagrown
dot org.
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Speaker 27 (26:40):
This is California agg today on the ag Information Network,
I am Hailey Ship. For more agnews, check us out
online at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Bob when there were some farm news this morning, friends.
Washington State has roughly two hundred and sixty gray wolves
in forty two packs living within its borders, mostly in
the northeastern part of that state, but Washrington Policy Center's
Director of Agriculture, Pam Lewison says last year's slight decline
of the wolf population isn't likely due to neglect.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Sometimes populations correct on their own. That seems to be
what is happening here. That's what the state biologists have said.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This, Lewiston says, is a first.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
After years of exponential increases year over year since the
first gray wolf was detected in the state in two
thousand and seven. This is the first time ever that
there has been a recorded population decline.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Lewiston talks about what Washington should do next, going.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Back and looking at how we can fix the wolf
management plan because it's never been revisited, it's never been edited,
and you know, anyone who lives in a scientific environment
knows that things change.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The wolf population in northeastern Washington has become a problem
for ranchers.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I think the thing that people need to understand is
that once wolves are habituated to killing livestock, what they
discover is that it's an easy meal. So there we're
not interested in hunting deer and elk because they're harder
to hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Moving the wolves is not allowed.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So that's where it goes back to. We need to
revisit the management plan and figure out is that the solution.
Can we expedite this process of moving these animals to
somewhere else to see if they can thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Washington State and the gray wolf. This morning, the full
effect for tariffs on US agriculture has yet to be determined.
Riley Smith has a story for US this morning.
Speaker 16 (28:27):
The impact of tariffs on consumers is well known, as
we pay more to import certain products, consumers are having
to compensate for that by paying more at the register.
Things are not so clear when it comes to the
effects that tariffs have on exports. We know that things
are worse, but it's difficult to figure out just how
much we're losing. Iowa State University economist Chad Hart said
(28:48):
that makes things tricky.
Speaker 29 (28:49):
What they looked at was specifically the tariffs are already
paying for, so looking at products we bring into the US,
we're paying additional tariff on that. What we found is
that if you compare April of twenty twenty four to
April of twenty twenty five, there's been about a sixty
eight million dollar increase in tariffs being paid by Iowa
consumers as we bring product into Iowa.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's about a three hundred percent jump year over year.
Speaker 29 (29:15):
When you think about that, So we definitely are seeing
cost already being built in in the products that we
bring in here.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
To the state.
Speaker 29 (29:22):
One of the major challenges though, is that we also
export a lot of products outside the US, and that's
a piece that's still missing when we think about the
damages here.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
That we know what we're paying on what's coming in,
we don't know fully what we're losing for the product
that needs to leave.
Speaker 16 (29:37):
This trade war has opened the door for a country
like Brazil to swoop in and take some of the
market share that the US has with China.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well, that's the deal.
Speaker 29 (29:44):
I like to joke that when you're looking at a
trade fight, the country that wins is the country that
does not participate. So when we're looking here, for example,
the fight between the US and China, it's a country
like Brazil that truly benefits because they have the ability to,
as you say it, span production. They already have a
trade relationship with China and they produce a lot of
the same goods that we produce there in the US.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
So that makes them a.
Speaker 29 (30:03):
Ready market to sort of replace us within the Chinese system.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And that is a major.
Speaker 29 (30:08):
Challenge here is that right now, this terrif fight between
the US and China is leading to higher costs for both,
while Brazil gets to sit on the outside and benefit
from those changes.
Speaker 16 (30:18):
Part said that a more measured in particular approach would
likely make things easier on farmers and consumers.
Speaker 29 (30:24):
Well, I believe the biggest challenge is that we basically
started this office trying to adjust the entire globe at
the same time, where trade and tariff negotiations are much
more of a country by country agreement that you reach.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
And so you want to do it more let's call
it methodically than what we've been doing.
Speaker 29 (30:41):
The challenge right now, and I think you know it's
a challenge the President's seen faces is trying to negotiate
with ninety other countries at the same time.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
You just can't find enough negotiators.
Speaker 29 (30:51):
Where if, on the other hand, you're taking a very
systematic approach looking at where the biggest trade problems are
and working specifically with that individual country, you're much more
likely to get effective change in trade policy.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
The reality of the situation, though, is that farmers have
to deal with elevated market pressure. Heart said he advises
farmers to focus on the things they can control financially
while the economic storm passes.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well.
Speaker 29 (31:14):
Arguably there is a way and you can think of
the terrif issues we're having are basically just you know,
creating some economic damage to the farm as we're looking at,
but farmers, over time, if you've been a farmer for
a while, you have figured out how to weather some
financial storm.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
So it is reminding ourselves of, Okay.
Speaker 29 (31:31):
How do we control our cost how do we try
to capture the best price that we can at the
time that we can and basically work through let's call
it the rough financials of the business to keep ourselves going,
recognizing that we can't control what prices are in the marketplace,
that we can't control what costs of for example.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Hot ashes when you come to the country's room.
Speaker 29 (31:50):
But what we can do is look at better assess
our ability to grow products within that market and try
to succeed from there.
Speaker 16 (31:59):
For more in site, visit the ISU AGG Decision Maker
at extension dot iastate dot edu forward slash ag DM.
That again was Ioas State University economist Chad Hart. I'm
Riley Smith reporting.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Farm US this morning. You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 30 (32:16):
From the AGG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. Well,
the latest World AGG Supply and Demand Estimate report for
June says the twenty twenty five twenty six US corn
outlook didn't change much from last month. The season average
farm price received by producers is unchanged at four dollars
and twenty cents per bushel. The US weed outlook this
month is for slightly larger supplies, unchanged domestic use, higher exports,
(32:38):
and lower ending stocks. All wheat production is projected at
one point nine to one million bushels, up one hundred
and fifteen thousand from last month. Food insecurity affects forty
seven million people in America, with a disproportionate impact on
rural areas. In an effort to provide food and resources
for people facing hunger, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting
has introduced the NFB Hunger Campaign that directs donors to
(33:02):
the Feeding America network of partner food banks. To learn
more about the NAFB Hunger Campaign, go to their dedicated
website at NAFB Hunger dot com. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins
launched an eight and a half million dollar new World
screwfly dispersal facility in South Texas and announced a five
part plan to enhance detection, control, and elimination of the pest.
(33:23):
While the screwworm was eradicated from the US decades ago,
recent detections in Mexico led to the suspension of live cattle, horses,
and bison imports from Mexico. The plan includes partnering with
Mexico to ensure eradication and protect the southern border.
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Speaker 15 (34:07):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin.
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Theories callers, Oh hey, yeah, it's Seva fungicide from BASF,
a category leader in disease control.
Speaker 15 (34:17):
How do you explain these healthy crops.
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So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it Sevia fungicide from BASF for is it always
reading for libressions from the AAG Information Network. I'm Bob
Larson with today's Agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Bob Gwin here to wrap up Agli for today, friends,
What are some of the weather trends associated with meteorological
spring now that that season has transferred over to summer?
Rod Bain has our story.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Arrival of the summer solstice means the books are closed
for astronomical spring. Twenty twenty five meteorological sp however, concluded
once the calendar turned from May to June. So regarding
the recap of weather from a meteorological spring perspective, usdab
or ologist Brad Rippy points out it.
Speaker 17 (35:12):
Was the nation's second warmest spring on record, twenty fourth wettest.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Regarding the spring's warm temperatures.
Speaker 17 (35:19):
An average temperature a little over fifty four degrees was
more than three degrees above the twentieth century mean and
ranks only behind the spring of twenty twelve in terms
of warmestone record for the lower forty eight states over
the last one hundred and thirty one years, dropping to
third place nineteen ten, which was, of course before anyone
was around, but a memorably warm spring a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Rippy says that warmth was concentrated across several states and regions.
Speaker 17 (35:46):
We had top ten warmth in Montana and Nebraska across
the Great Plains. Top ten warmth also extended to the
south and included Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and then the
warmth also moving right on through the Gulf Coast states
and up the Atlantic seaboard, all those states also ranking
in their top ten warmest springs.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Needless to say, cool weather discussion for this sprigue was limited.
Speaker 17 (36:10):
As an example, Arizona did come up on that list
as the coolest state, but even there it was still
the twenty sixth warmest, so it's way into the upper
part of the distribution. No state was in the lower
half of the cool half of that spring historical distribution.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
As for the rage of precipitation this past meteorological sprague
across the country, there was.
Speaker 17 (36:31):
Some dryness in the west twenty seventh driest spring in Colorado,
twenty eighth in Idaho, but then as you move eastward,
it was a top ten wet spring in states like Oklahoma, Kentucky,
and then several eastern states including Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
The month of May weather wise across the country had
some high lightable weather, it was overall.
Speaker 17 (36:52):
A warm wet May twenty sixth warmest and thirteenth wettest
on record.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
With weather highlights on a state perspective, including it.
Speaker 17 (37:00):
Was the wettest on record in Alabama. That wetness extended
pretty broadly to twelve other states, mostly in the southern
and eastern part of the US, and briefly in terms
of temperature, as we saw range from the thirty sixth
coolest May in Oklahoma, Florida and California both ranking in
the top ten for May heat.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm Broadbaine, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
With that, friends, abount of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
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