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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is Iglife. My name is Bob
quinin with you for the next hour talking about agricultural
production here in the valley and all across the country.
We start off with a look at advances in beef
cattle nutrition with Rod.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Bain Ron lemon Agor has seen a lot in the
realm of nutrition for beef cattle. As a long time
Produe University beef specialist. His awareness of nutrition needs for
beef herds is needed through the advice he provides extension
customers examples of such treads. Love and Ager starts with this.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
One of the big changes that we've seen over the
last ten twenty years is the increased use of byproducts,
so things like distillers grains and corn, gluten feed and
swabing holes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The reason for increased use of byproducts versus traditional cord
and soybee meal as made cattle feed ingredients.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They become cost effective In many cases. Things like wheat
mids come in to play from time to time. So
there's a number of byproducts that I think we're using
more or now than we were ten or fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Love it Ager says a mineral profile should be conducted
in cattle feed formulations that could pay byproducts.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
For instance, whenever we use distillers grains, it would be
really high and phosphorus, and so we have to make
sure that we balance calcium for example, and we use
a calcium to phosphorus ratio at least one point five
to one. But if you don't do that, you can
end up with things like urinary calculi.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Another introduction in the beef cattle nutrition realm over the
past decade.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The use of delated minerals, and then there's some hydroxy
minerals that are also on the market now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
With a differentiation between organic and inorganic.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So inorganic would be like copper sulfate, zinc oxide, magnesium oxide,
the oxides, the calcified ones, those would be the inorganic,
so that organic ones would be things bound to something
like protein. You'll see things like copper protonate, or maybe
it's tied to an amino acid like defiamine or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Minerals and feed or supplement cabby an important nutritional component
for beef cattle in instances such as livestock coming out
of a drought situation.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If that happens, then I think our producers need to
be thinking about making sure that they've got adequate mineral supplies,
work with their nutritionistor, their extension educator, or whatever to
make sure that they're not depriving these animals with some
pretty important minerals.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A Broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Farm News Ahead, you're listening to aglife, Bob Quinn. Here
was some farm news this morning. Friends. Washingtonians have been
paying one of the highest gas rates in the nation
over the past few years thanks to the state's Climate
Commitment Act, which was written and passed into law giving
a tax exemption to fuel purchased for agricultural uses.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
However, the Department of Ecology was the agency that was
tasked with figuring out how to create an exemption for farms,
and they effectively said, well, we're not going to I'm
just not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And that, according to Pam Lewison, agg director at the
Washington Policy Center, was yet another big hit to the
pocketbooks for farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So we started sort of saying, you know, hey, we
would really like for this to be fixed because it
is adding significantly to our cost increases.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So after three long years of delays, Lewison says, agriculture
got a response.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
It finally this year came to fruition through many, many
hours of negotiation to get a fix that gets something
in place for farms to have the break that they
have been promised for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Governor Bob Ferguson signed the updated bill last month, but
Lewison says there are some caveats.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
There is a rebate account that people need to access
to get their money back from the last few years,
and I have strongly urged people to do that.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It's a hill that I will continue to die on
for and over again.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Pam Lewis and Washington Policy Center with US Well Friends.
High olaic soybean oil is now being incorporated into dairy
cattle feed rations and is positively affecting animal health. Don Wiese,
chair of the United Soybean Boards Audit and Evaluation Committee,
says it's been a quote journey to get the high
olaic soybean oil into cattle rations.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
We at USB brought the HILIK program forward and it
was all originally intended for food use. For the healthier
soybean oil being produced from these Highlake soybeans. But here
in the last short while, we are finding some benefits,
some significant benefits and areas of the feed industry, in
particular dairy so gimbean dairy month. You know, it is
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great to highlight this new found benefit from highlak soybeans
going into dairy rations, improving that overall butterfat yield. I
as a farmer, really like this from the standpoint that
we are paving the way for a more stable demand
foundation going forward when we can rely on both food
juices which haven't gone away, they're still there, but now
we're bringing this exciting new feed usage of higlaics into
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the mix as well. Real excited going forward.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He said. Checkof dollars helped with the research on high
olaic soybeans and dairy cattle feed rations.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
It's a significant example of why we as US soybean
net farmers pay into our checkof to promote our industry
overall and to bring big changes and developments to us
that come back to our own family farms around the country.
The Highlak program has been a perfect example, I guess
is how I would describe it as a place where
we've spent significant checkof dollars, but are now seeing significant
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returns that are coming back to our farms. And one
of the pieces that was taking time to grow is
just being able to offer this to all us soybean farmers.
And we're not there yet, but now we're in sixteen states,
and with this continued development with dairy you know it's
going to expand to other states as well when they
are trying to partner with other dairy locations around the country.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Getting the soybean into dairy cattle rations benefits sowybean farmers
and cattle producers.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
I thought it a win win. You know, we're witting
by seeing this going to the feed rations of dairy cows,
but also continuing to in a tighter margin environment, seeing
new developments on the demand site for our soybeans. And
this is only going to continue to grow going forward
with the results that we're seeing coming out of that
benefit to the dairy industry. And there's some additional work
being done in swine right now too to look at this,
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so we may not be done yet.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Don wis soybean farmer from Indiana talking soybeans this morning.
Doctor Michael Dilberto, an economist with the Louisiana State University,
A center says figures definitely show Brazil is quickly becoming
a major player in the world corn market.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Production is off almost eleven percent from last year in Brazil,
so that's something to watch as well. You know, their
corn production in Brazil soared over the past fifteen years.
It's more than doubled between twenty ten and twenty twenty
four according to USBA data, and that's mainly because producers
in Brazil have increased or second crop corn acres, which
is mostly planted after their soybeans. So you know, their
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total harvested corn area went from thirty four point one
million acres in twenty ten to fifty five and a
half million acres in twenty three. It's going to be
fifty five million acres this year and it shows that
second crop corn planning trickling. So just how much of
a player they are on the international corn world.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Doctor Michael Dilberto of Louisiana State University with US Farm News.
You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
It's another agnews update. Conservation. How important is it in
the new farm bill?
Speaker 10 (07:40):
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Speaker 11 (08:05):
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Speaker 9 (08:11):
Chairman of the House SAD Committee from Pennsylvania, Gt. Thompson.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
The Farm, Food and National Security Act was passed by
this committee last year and contains many bipartisan priorities in
its conservation title to build on the gains that we've
made in recent farm bills. This includes reforms to improve
the administration of our CPP, ACP and the Small Watershed Program.
The bill encourages more innovation in the programs by requiring
more frequent updates to conservation practice standards and makes precision
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agriculture eligible for Cost Share and EQUIP and CSP. It
also proposed a modernization of CRP and important improvements to
the Technical Services Provider Program. And while these are just
some of the reforms this committee can take in can
take to improve the administration of each program. We also
have a tremendous opportunity this Congress to bolster conservation programs
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over the long term with significant new funding. The Farm,
Food and National Security Act also propose resending the unobligated
IRA conservation funding and reallocating it into Title II. House
Republicans are now trying to provide similar reinvestment through the
reconciliation process. Instead of letting the IRA funding expire, investing
it would provide additional funding for the programs that we
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all know work and increase the baseline for the Conservation
title into perpetuity.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
It's another agnews update.
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American cattle use one trillion dollars just sitting there. Where
will we find it more? After this?
Speaker 15 (10:08):
This is Shaquille O'Neill reminding you that anytime is a
good time for the cooling, drying freshmen of gold bond
powder spread, like after the gym.
Speaker 16 (10:16):
Elevator ride for golf, working with farm animals.
Speaker 15 (10:21):
Or hard day's work. Stay cool with gold bond powder spread,
stay com with gold ban huh.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Secretary of Interior Doug Berghan taking questions from Representative Jared
Huffman from California.
Speaker 17 (10:34):
Now, you have said that American public lands are assets
that should be leveraged to pay down the national debt.
Finance experts, including the former Republican director of the CBO,
have said your proposal could only work at the US
entered into agreements with our foreign creditors to put specific
lands up as collateral. I want to ask you specifically,
because some of these creditors are China, Canada, France, India,
(10:56):
Saudi Arabia, UAE, will you put American public lands up
as collateral in agreements with any of these foreign interests.
Speaker 18 (11:04):
No, And the thing that you've just suggested has never
been discussed, never been in a meeting with that So
I don't even know where that idea came from. This
is there's when you're talking about leverage, meaning debt, but
we're talking about if we want to run advertisements to
the American people and say you've got thirty you own
part of thirty six and a half trillion dollars of debt,
which we do every time we have a presidential campaign,
(11:25):
we should also be running ads and say, Americans, you
own part of a what one hundred trillion, two hundred
trillion dollars.
Speaker 17 (11:32):
You have repeatedly said we should gentle our public lands,
we eliminate the national debt.
Speaker 18 (11:36):
Yes, because we're getting a horrifically poor return on the
assets that we have in our country. If our national
balance sheets worth one hundred trillion, and Interior pulled in
twenty billion, a one percent return on one hundred trillion
dollar balance sheet would be one trillion. We'd have all
kinds of money for you guys to appropriate to spend
on deferred maintenance. Our parks would be sustainable forever. These
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are simple things. But you know we've got the greatest
resources land, minerals, rare, earth minerals, wind, solar. I mean,
you name all the resources we have on public land.
We're managing them in a way where we're getting really
horrifically bad returns. And there's nothing contrary with getting good returns.
I mean, some of the companies that have the highest
return in the country are also the greatest stewards of
the assets that they manage.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
We can do the same thing.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now Milkie Monday.
Speaker 19 (12:31):
Corey Geiger, lead dairy economists at Colebank, a member of
the Farm Credit System. Corey, it appears that US dairy
farmers are putting the pedal to the metal as far
as milk production may output was up one point six
percent from a year ago and above a year ago
levels for the fifth month in a row. Don't think
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we're going to run out of milk anytime soon.
Speaker 20 (12:54):
Milk production's definitely up and it's driven by more cow numbers.
Cow numbers I've been up one hundred and fourteen thousand
head when you look over twelve months ago. But this growth,
as you talked about Lee, has really been in the
last five months since. So in the last five months,
US dairy farmers have added ninety thousand cows, while milk
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is up one point six percent, butterfat and protein what
I call milk components is up almost three percent, So
milk components are doubling growth and milk production.
Speaker 19 (13:23):
I guess the next question is where are these heifers
coming from, because dairy farmers have been doing genetics on
the farm and that has resulted in fewer heifers.
Speaker 20 (13:34):
Yes, well, the beef on dairy movement reading dairy cows
to beef semen. Because beef brace is.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
On a record high.
Speaker 20 (13:40):
Dairy heffers are at the lowest level in twenty years now.
USDA's numbers show that the average price is almost twenty
nine hundred, but I've seen auctions for two year old
cows pushed four thousand even out in California, on the
West coast and certainly the Midwest. What's happeningly is dairy
farmers are culling few cows. So far this year, US
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dairy farmers sent ninety eight thousand fewer cows the slaughter,
So we're keeping them around longer to keep building her numbers.
Speaker 19 (14:09):
Well real quickly and closing. That's good for filling up
those new plants that are making cheese. But we're going
to come to a point where supply is out distancing demand.
Speaker 20 (14:21):
Well, domestically, demand has just been a little sluggish. Consumers
have been buying a little less at restaurants. However, dairy
exports have been strong, and you're right, it's a delicate balance.
Speaker 19 (14:32):
Corey Geiger, lead Dairy Economists at Colebank, a member of
the Farm Credit System.
Speaker 21 (14:38):
Thanks Lee.
Speaker 22 (14:38):
Producers in local Farm Service Agency areas have until August
first to submit nominations for positions on their local FSA
county committees. We hear more from USDA Radio's Rod Baine.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The annual Farm Service Agency County Committee election cycle is
now underway, with dominations for positions being accepted.
Speaker 23 (14:57):
All nomination forms must be postmarked our receip in the
local FSA office by August first of this year.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
FSA Administrator Bill BBADS for dominating candidates eligible producers within
local service areas.
Speaker 23 (15:10):
We encourage you to consider running for your local county
committee or maybe a nominate another producer to improve outreach
and communication and short producers in your community are best
being served by USDA.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
More details about county committee dominations, eligibility requirements, and the
election process are available through local FSA offices or online.
Candidates elected later this fall will be swarted ond January first,
Rod Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 22 (15:42):
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So much to do in so little time to do it.
If only we had more time? Or could it be
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The incredible health aspects of consuming amends and also exercise recovery.
That's what almonds are all about. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with
a California Trina Report, part of the vast ag Information Network.
Clarice Turner is President and CEO of the Armored Bard
of California.
Speaker 28 (17:34):
Yeah, it's a breakthrough for us to have this knowledge
right again. It's like three academic studies have come back
and they're all saying the same thing. We have another
a couple more actually that are on the heels of
those we didn't know that, right, you know athletes who
are really training and exercising hard, and even not myself.
I'm not that person that goes to the gym and
exercises to the point that my muffles hurt.
Speaker 29 (17:53):
But for people that do that, it's.
Speaker 28 (17:55):
Really important, right because you've got to get right back
at the rest of your life when you're doing that.
Having something that helps you sort of transition from the
soreness piece of it and fatigue also is really really important.
And we have proof that that actually the almonds really
do help. So that's a new consumer segment to some
degree right in that And we did a couple of tests.
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You may have heard about the Kroger tests that we
did in California, Colorado, and I think Michigan. That's about
those are That was a lot of supermarkets. And we
put the coach Dean Sanders, which attracts attention, right, and
here he is with almonds and he's saying these help
you recover.
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So he has a.
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Level of credibility that helps us bring that message to
new consumers.
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That's Clarice Turner with the almond board.
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Dwayne Murley, and folks, as you know, a rural broadband
has been the focus of conversation not only at the
local and state level, but also at the federal level
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as well. Jeff Johnston, lead economos for Digital Infrastructure at Cobank,
talks about the overall state of broadband in rural America.
Speaker 33 (20:02):
Well, we've made progress. If you look back to where
we were before COVID and how COVID really exposed how
vulnerable those are who are living in rural America who
do not have access to internet, you know how vulnerable
they are. We've made a lot of progress since then,
both with federal state money and private capital as well.
So we're moving in the right direction, but we're not
where we need to be quite yet. There is forty
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two point five billion dollars actually that was earmarked out
of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and specifically it's
the B program within that piece of legislation, and that's
really exciting because that's an unprecedent amount of capital, a
present amount of money that the government has set aside
to support building out rural broadband networks to get those
who are not connected connected.
Speaker 31 (20:45):
The program hasn't made as much progress as what was
first hoped, but he does anticipate more progress to come
in the months ahead. Johnston said, rural electric cooperatives are
doing a lot of work to close that digital divide,
no doubt.
Speaker 33 (20:59):
Look, the rural electric cooperatives are sort of the unsung
heroesp in a lot of regards in terms of the
work that they've done building fiber to the home networks
for their members who don't have any connectivity, and they
continue to do that, So kudos to them. They're playing
a critical role in bridging the digital divide in rural
America as our rural telephone cooperatives and privately owned and
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managed rural telecom operatives as well, so it's kind of
a multi prom approach.
Speaker 19 (21:25):
He said.
Speaker 31 (21:25):
Future six g wireless development will open up a lot
of space for even more precision agriculture in rural America.
Speaker 33 (21:33):
Further on down the road, we have the six gigahertz
spectrum bands that have an enormous amount of capacity available
to build wireless networks in rural America and facilitate the
precision ad adoption amongst farmers and ranchers because as we know,
those drive significant operational efficiency. So there's a lot of
bats and balls that we have to play with here
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to get where we need to get to, which is.
Speaker 31 (21:54):
Exciting, he said. One of the biggest challenges to improving
continuity is cop wiring in in rural areas.
Speaker 33 (22:02):
Yeah, for sure. The folks that are on copper lines
right now are struggling because the applications that we use,
whether it's Zoom or streaming video from Netflix. I mean,
these are pretty bandwidth intensive applications and you need a
good connection to be able to take advantage of those. So, yeah,
those folks are in a tough spot right now. And
so yeah, getting back to the BEAT program in the
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forty two point five billion dollars that's meant to help
those folks. It'll be interesting to see how we go
from this point forward in terms of how that money
is managed and build out, if you will.
Speaker 31 (22:33):
Again, that is Jeff Johnston, lead Economists for Rural Infrastructure
at co Bank.
Speaker 29 (22:42):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McCowan.
Planning for long term care cost should be an element
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One way to address those costs involves long term care insurance.
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The agg Informie network. I am Hatley, Ship Bob Quinn.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Here were some farmer us this morning. Friends. Washingtonians have
been paying one of the highest gas rates in the
nation over the past few years thanks to the state's
Climate Commitment Act, which was written and passed into law
giving a tax exemption to fuel purchased for agricultural uses.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
However, the Department of Ecology was the agency that was
tasked with figuring out how to create an exemption for farms,
and they effectively said, well, we're not going to I'm
just not going to do it, and.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That, according to Pam Lewison, agg director at the Washington
Policy Center, was yet another big hit to the pocketbooks
for farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
So we started sort of saying, you know, hey, we
would really like for this to be fixed because it
is adding significantly to our cost increases.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So after three long years of delays, Lewison says, agriculture
got a response.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
It finally this year came to fruition through any many
hours of negotiation to get a fix that gets something
in place for farms to have the break that they
have been promised for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Governor Bob Ferguson signed the updated bill last month, but
Lewison says there are some caveats.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
There is a rebate account that people need to access
to get their money back from the last few years,
and I have strongly encouraged people to do that. It's
a hill that I will continue to die on Home
for and over again.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Pam Lewis and Washington Policy Center with US.
Speaker 29 (28:35):
For twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (28:36):
This is mainly just kying off the latest milk production report,
and that's driven by higher cow inventories. And then into
twenty twenty six, we're expecting to see some increase in
milk per cow as well, supporting that production increase.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That is USDA World Agriculture Outlook Board chair Mark Jekanowski.
Now He noted consumer demand remains strong for butter domestically
via imports and internationally via sports.
Speaker 16 (29:00):
Gary demand remains strong and that is reflected in price
strength across all of the major dairy products.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All of that culminated in the month over month increase
at the all milk price forecast for both years. Despite that,
year over year all milk price remains sixty five cents
lower and is forecasted at twenty one to thirty one
hundredweight in twenty twenty six. Well Friends Beef continues to
be the bright spot in agriculture this year with record
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high prices for producers, but one analyst is reminding producers
that it won't last forever. Mike Davis reports.
Speaker 36 (29:35):
DTN Livestock market analyst Shayley Stewart on the future of
the cow herd Webinar says, life is good right now
for cattle ranchers.
Speaker 37 (29:44):
When you get the opportunity to sell cattle this year,
I hope that you jump up, you click your heels
and at you that you just bask and how good
this market is. Because you and I both known if
we're going to play this game for long, we will
see an adverse time where prices are lower than this.
Of course it's going to happen, So you know what,
go ahead and take some time to put your face
in the sunshine and just enjoy this.
Speaker 36 (30:05):
But with the reduced herd inventory, Stuart says, packers margins
are tighter this year than last.
Speaker 37 (30:11):
If you compare that to twenty twenty four when our
cowhard inventory was low in the previous cycle, they're making
less than what they were back then at this point
in time. So what I'm here to tell you is
that slaughter.
Speaker 12 (30:21):
Speeds will continue to lessen.
Speaker 37 (30:23):
Even more in the second half as packers continue to
manage their margin and try to safer themselves from having
to see more red ink.
Speaker 36 (30:31):
Stuart notes that producers are literally beefing up their cattle
to an average of forty pounds per head, more than
in previous cycles. So she cautions them about what to
plan for when the inevitable herd expansion begins.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Not only will we have.
Speaker 37 (30:47):
That additional per head perspective, but think about how much
bigger today's cattle will be, So it'll be more like
having I would have to do the math, but the
realistic numbers is it would be far more because of
the additional production that the cattle are going to bring
to the marketplace from sheer weight.
Speaker 14 (31:03):
I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Doctor Michael Dilberto, an economist with the Louisiana State University
A Center, says figures definitely show Brazil is quickly becoming
a major player in the world corn market.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Production's off almost eleven percent from last year in Brazil,
so that's something to watch as well. You know, their
corn production in Brazil sword over the past fifteen years.
It's more than doubled between twenty ten and twenty twenty four,
according to USDA data, and that's mainly because producers in
Brazil have increased their second crop, corn acres, which is
mostly planted after their soybeans. So you know, Their total
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harvested corn area went from thirty four point one million
acres in twenty ten to fifty five and a half
million acres in twenty three. It's going to be fifty
five million acres this year and it shows that second
crop corn planning tripling. So just how much of a
player they are on the international corn world.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Doctor Michael Dilberto of Louisiana State University with US Farm US.
You're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 38 (32:06):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
California's goals to combat climate change requires converting ten percent
of its crop land to organic by twenty thirty, fifteen
percent by twenty thirty eight, and twenty percent by twenty
forty five, but organic acridge has trended down in recent years.
The California Department of Agriculture says the states twenty four
point two million acres used to grow crops and raise livestock.
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In twenty twenty two, some one point eight million acres
were certified organic, down from the high of nearly two
point two million in twenty twenty. Chinese Customs has approved
one hundred and six new US pork and poultry plants
to export eligible products to China produced on or after
June twelfth, Reuters reports The announcement comes after China and
the US reached an agreement last month in Geneva on
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a framework to get their trade talks back on track.
According to a Chinese customs database, the newly approved facilities
include twenty three port plants and eighty three poultry facilities.
Ex Secretreate Brook Rowlands announced the USDA will terminate more
than one hundred and forty five diversity, equity and inclusion
focused awards, totaling up to one hundred and forty eight
point six million dollars in savings according to agramarketing dot Com.
(33:12):
Rowlands says putting America farmers first means cutting the millions
of dollars wasted on woke DEI programs. She adds, it
will end the waste, fraud, and abuse that's diverted resources
from American farmers and restoring sanity and fiscal stewardship to
the USDA.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
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Speaker 9 (34:27):
I'm Bob Larson with today's Agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up Aglive for today. Friends. Well,
what does the environmental protection agencies recently propose renewable fuel
standard for the next year and year after potentially mean
for the nation's biofuel industry, motorists and consumers and the Economy.
Rod Bain wraps us up.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
It has been a significant two months of development for
the nation's renewable fuels industry in its effort to increase
production and use of f ato al and other biofuels.
A visit with FAR broadcasters this past May at USDA
headquarters gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zelden opportunity to
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talk about a just then announced policy.
Speaker 20 (35:13):
The big deadline that was upon US was May one,
as it relates to fifteen.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
The emergency fuel waiver issue by EPA prior to May
first allows for sale of E fifteen blended fuels fuels
with fifteen percent or more ethanol nationwide. During that same
visit with National Association of FAR Broadcasting representatives, the EPA
administrator ooed it the next important consideration regarding renewable fuels.
Speaker 32 (35:41):
Towards making a decision on the path forward on rbos,
but that's a decision to.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Be made eminantly, referring to proposed renewable volume obligations associated
with our nation's renewable fuel standard for producing biofuels in
twenty twenty six and twenty seven. By mid June, EPA
may the announcement about the RFS for the next two
years proposed volumes of over twenty four billion gallons for
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the next year at a slightly higher proposed total of
the following year. Those totals are not lost on the
renewable fuel industry, as both would be the highest rvos
if finalized. Announced in the twentieth anniversary year of the
Renewable Fuel Standard.
Speaker 14 (36:23):
So what is next?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Jeff Cooper of the Renewable Fuels Association offers an estimated timeline.
Speaker 39 (36:29):
EPA is going to be receiving and soliciting feedback and
input from the public and from stakeholder groups. They're looking
at a forty five day comment period. They'll also have
a public hearing. They'll gather all that up, they'll analyze it,
and they will make any potential changes to the rule
based on that input they received. They are fixated on
having a final rule in place no later than October
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thirty first of this year.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
In a press release, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins commended the
decision for bringing certainty to the biofuel industry, contributing to
lower fuel prices and increasing production for export opportunities. For instance,
a part of the recently reached US United Kingdom trade
agreement in which the UK reduces US ethanol export tariffs
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to that market from nineteen to zero, which for our
road croppers is.
Speaker 16 (37:17):
A huge deal.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm Broadbane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
With that friends amount of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife.
Good morning, Valley, This is Iglife. My name is Bob
quinin with you for the next hour talking about agricultural
production here in the valley and all across the country.
We start off with a look at advances in beef
cattle nutrition with Rod.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Bain Ron lemon Agor has seen a lot in the
realm of nutrition for beef cattle. As a long time
Produe University beef specialist. His awareness of nutrition needs for
beef herds is needed through the advice he provides extension
customers examples of such treads. Love and Ager starts with this.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
One of the big changes that we've seen over the
last ten twenty years is the increased use of byproducts,
so things like distillers grains and corn, gluten feed and
swabing holes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The reason for increased use of byproducts versus traditional cord
and soybee meal as made cattle feed ingredients.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They become cost effective In many cases. Things like wheat
mids come in to play from time to time. So
there's a number of byproducts that I think we're using
more or now than we were ten or fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Love it Ager says a mineral profile should be conducted
in cattle feed formulations that could pay byproducts.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
For instance, whenever we use distillers grains, it would be
really high and phosphorus, and so we have to make
sure that we balance calcium for example, and we use
a calcium to phosphorus ratio at least one point five
to one. But if you don't do that, you can
end up with things like urinary calculi.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Another introduction in the beef cattle nutrition realm over the
past decade.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The use of delated minerals, and then there's some hydroxy
minerals that are also on the market now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
With a differentiation between organic and inorganic.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So inorganic would be like copper sulfate, zinc oxide, magnesium oxide,
the oxides, the calcified ones, those would be the inorganic,
so that organic ones would be things bound to something
like protein. You'll see things like copper protonate, or maybe
it's tied to an amino acid like defiamine or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Minerals and feed or supplement cabby an important nutritional component
for beef cattle in instances such as livestock coming out
of a drought situation.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If that happens, then I think our producers need to
be thinking about making sure that they've got adequate mineral supplies,
work with their nutritionistor, their extension educator, or whatever to
make sure that they're not depriving these animals with some
pretty important minerals.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A Broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Farm News Ahead, you're listening to aglife, Bob Quinn. Here
was some farm news this morning. Friends. Washingtonians have been
paying one of the highest gas rates in the nation
over the past few years thanks to the state's Climate
Commitment Act, which was written and passed into law giving
a tax exemption to fuel purchased for agricultural uses.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
However, the Department of Ecology was the agency that was
tasked with figuring out how to create an exemption for farms,
and they effectively said, well, we're not going to I'm
just not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And that, according to Pam Lewison, agg director at the
Washington Policy Center, was yet another big hit to the
pocketbooks for farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So we started sort of saying, you know, hey, we
would really like for this to be fixed because it
is adding significantly to our cost increases.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So after three long years of delays, Lewison says, agriculture
got a response.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
It finally this year came to fruition through many, many
hours of negotiation to get a fix that gets something
in place for farms to have the break that they
have been promised for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Governor Bob Ferguson signed the updated bill last month, but
Lewison says there are some caveats.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
There is a rebate account that people need to access
to get their money back from the last few years,
and I have strongly urged people to do that.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
It's a hill that I will continue to die on
for and over again.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Pam Lewis and Washington Policy Center with US Well Friends.
High olaic soybean oil is now being incorporated into dairy
cattle feed rations and is positively affecting animal health. Don Wiese,
chair of the United Soybean Boards Audit and Evaluation Committee,
says it's been a quote journey to get the high
olaic soybean oil into cattle rations.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
We at USB brought the HILIK program forward and it
was all originally intended for food use. For the healthier
soybean oil being produced from these Highlake soybeans. But here
in the last short while, we are finding some benefits,
some significant benefits and areas of the feed industry, in
particular dairy so gimbean dairy month. You know, it is
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great to highlight this new found benefit from highlak soybeans
going into dairy rations, improving that overall butterfat yield. I
as a farmer, really like this from the standpoint that
we are paving the way for a more stable demand
foundation going forward when we can rely on both food
juices which haven't gone away, they're still there, but now
we're bringing this exciting new feed usage of higlaics into
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the mix as well. Real excited going forward.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He said. Checkof dollars helped with the research on high
olaic soybeans and dairy cattle feed rations.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
It's a significant example of why we as US soybean
net farmers pay into our checkof to promote our industry
overall and to bring big changes and developments to us
that come back to our own family farms around the country.
The Highlak program has been a perfect example, I guess
is how I would describe it as a place where
we've spent significant checkof dollars, but are now seeing significant
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returns that are coming back to our farms. And one
of the pieces that was taking time to grow is
just being able to offer this to all us soybean farmers.
And we're not there yet, but now we're in sixteen states,
and with this continued development with dairy you know it's
going to expand to other states as well when they
are trying to partner with other dairy locations around the country.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Getting the soybean into dairy cattle rations benefits sowybean farmers
and cattle producers.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
I thought it a win win. You know, we're witting
by seeing this going to the feed rations of dairy cows,
but also continuing to in a tighter margin environment, seeing
new developments on the demand site for our soybeans. And
this is only going to continue to grow going forward
with the results that we're seeing coming out of that
benefit to the dairy industry. And there's some additional work
being done in swine right now too to look at this,
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so we may not be done yet.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Don wis soybean farmer from Indiana talking soybeans this morning.
Doctor Michael Dilberto, an economist with the Louisiana State University,
A center says figures definitely show Brazil is quickly becoming
a major player in the world corn market.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Production is off almost eleven percent from last year in Brazil,
so that's something to watch as well. You know, their
corn production in Brazil soared over the past fifteen years.
It's more than doubled between twenty ten and twenty twenty
four according to USBA data, and that's mainly because producers
in Brazil have increased or second crop corn acres, which
is mostly planted after their soybeans. So you know, their
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total harvested corn area went from thirty four point one
million acres in twenty ten to fifty five and a
half million acres in twenty three. It's going to be
fifty five million acres this year and it shows that
second crop corn planning trickling. So just how much of
a player they are on the international corn world.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Doctor Michael Dilberto of Louisiana State University with US Farm News.
You're listening to Waglife.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
It's another agnews update. Conservation. How important is it in
the new farm bill?
Speaker 10 (07:40):
More after this, I'm Russ Caller, a dairyman from Utah Safety.
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for water and rest rates by drinking two to four
cups of water each hour.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
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Speaker 9 (08:11):
Chairman of the House SAD Committee from Pennsylvania, Gt. Thompson.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
The Farm, Food and National Security Act was passed by
this committee last year and contains many bipartisan priorities in
its conservation title to build on the gains that we've
made in recent farm bills. This includes reforms to improve
the administration of our CPP, ACP and the Small Watershed Program.
The bill encourages more innovation in the programs by requiring
more frequent updates to conservation practice standards and makes precision
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agriculture eligible for Cost Share and EQUIP and CSP. It
also proposed a modernization of CRP and important improvements to
the Technical Services Provider Program. And while these are just
some of the reforms this committee can take in can
take to improve the administration of each program. We also
have a tremendous opportunity this Congress to bolster conservation programs
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over the long term with significant new funding. The Farm,
Food and National Security Act also propose resending the unobligated
IRA conservation funding and reallocating it into Title II. House
Republicans are now trying to provide similar reinvestment through the
reconciliation process. Instead of letting the IRA funding expire, investing
it would provide additional funding for the programs that we
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all know work and increase the baseline for the Conservation
title into perpetuity.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
It's another agnews update.
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Blue's not feeling well the prescription generic medication. Blue wonders,
do they really work as well as name brands? Yes,
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FDA approval is equally rigorous for generics to make sure
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Speaker 9 (09:58):
American cattle use one trillion dollars just sitting there. Where
will we find it more? After this?
Speaker 15 (10:08):
This is Shaquille O'Neill reminding you that anytime is a
good time for the cooling, drying freshmen of gold bond
powder spread, like after the gym.
Speaker 16 (10:16):
Elevator ride for golf, working with farm animals.
Speaker 15 (10:21):
Or hard day's work. Stay cool with gold bond powder spread,
stay com with gold ban huh.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Secretary of Interior Doug Berghan taking questions from Representative Jared
Huffman from California.
Speaker 17 (10:34):
Now, you have said that American public lands are assets
that should be leveraged to pay down the national debt.
Finance experts, including the former Republican director of the CBO,
have said your proposal could only work at the US
entered into agreements with our foreign creditors to put specific
lands up as collateral. I want to ask you specifically,
because some of these creditors are China, Canada, France, India,
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Saudi Arabia, UAE, will you put American public lands up
as collateral in agreements with any of these foreign interests.
Speaker 18 (11:04):
No, And the thing that you've just suggested has never
been discussed, never been in a meeting with that So
I don't even know where that idea came from. This
is there's when you're talking about leverage, meaning debt, but
we're talking about if we want to run advertisements to
the American people and say you've got thirty you own
part of thirty six and a half trillion dollars of debt,
which we do every time we have a presidential campaign,
(11:25):
we should also be running ads and say, Americans, you
own part of a what one hundred trillion, two hundred
trillion dollars.
Speaker 17 (11:32):
You have repeatedly said we should gentle our public lands,
we eliminate the national debt.
Speaker 18 (11:36):
Yes, because we're getting a horrifically poor return on the
assets that we have in our country. If our national
balance sheets worth one hundred trillion, and Interior pulled in
twenty billion, a one percent return on one hundred trillion
dollar balance sheet would be one trillion. We'd have all
kinds of money for you guys to appropriate to spend
on deferred maintenance. Our parks would be sustainable forever. These
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are simple things. But you know we've got the greatest
resources land, minerals, rare, earth minerals, wind, solar. I mean,
you name all the resources we have on public land.
We're managing them in a way where we're getting really
horrifically bad returns. And there's nothing contrary with getting good returns.
I mean, some of the companies that have the highest
return in the country are also the greatest stewards of
the assets that they manage.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
We can do the same thing.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now Milkie Monday.
Speaker 19 (12:31):
Corey Geiger, lead dairy economists at Colebank, a member of
the Farm Credit System. Corey, it appears that US dairy
farmers are putting the pedal to the metal as far
as milk production may output was up one point six
percent from a year ago and above a year ago
levels for the fifth month in a row. Don't think
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we're going to run out of milk anytime soon.
Speaker 20 (12:54):
Milk production's definitely up and it's driven by more cow numbers.
Cow numbers I've been up one hundred and fourteen thousand
head when you look over twelve months ago. But this growth,
as you talked about Lee, has really been in the
last five months since. So in the last five months,
US dairy farmers have added ninety thousand cows, while milk
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is up one point six percent, butterfat and protein what
I call milk components is up almost three percent, So
milk components are doubling growth and milk production.
Speaker 19 (13:23):
I guess the next question is where are these heifers
coming from, because dairy farmers have been doing genetics on
the farm and that has resulted in fewer heifers.
Speaker 20 (13:34):
Yes, well, the beef on dairy movement reading dairy cows
to beef semen. Because beef brace is.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
On a record high.
Speaker 20 (13:40):
Dairy heffers are at the lowest level in twenty years now.
USDA's numbers show that the average price is almost twenty
nine hundred, but I've seen auctions for two year old
cows pushed four thousand even out in California, on the
West coast and certainly the Midwest. What's happeningly is dairy
farmers are culling few cows. So far this year, US
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dairy farmers sent ninety eight thousand fewer cows the slaughter,
So we're keeping them around longer to keep building her numbers.
Speaker 19 (14:09):
Well real quickly and closing. That's good for filling up
those new plants that are making cheese. But we're going
to come to a point where supply is out distancing demand.
Speaker 20 (14:21):
Well, domestically, demand has just been a little sluggish. Consumers
have been buying a little less at restaurants. However, dairy
exports have been strong, and you're right, it's a delicate balance.
Speaker 19 (14:32):
Corey Geiger, lead Dairy Economists at Colebank, a member of
the Farm Credit System.
Speaker 21 (14:38):
Thanks Lee.
Speaker 22 (14:38):
Producers in local Farm Service Agency areas have until August
first to submit nominations for positions on their local FSA
county committees. We hear more from USDA Radio's Rod Baine.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The annual Farm Service Agency County Committee election cycle is
now underway, with dominations for positions being accepted.
Speaker 23 (14:57):
All nomination forms must be postmarked our receip in the
local FSA office by August first of this year.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
FSA Administrator Bill BBADS for dominating candidates eligible producers within
local service areas.
Speaker 23 (15:10):
We encourage you to consider running for your local county
committee or maybe a nominate another producer to improve outreach
and communication and short producers in your community are best
being served by USDA.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
More details about county committee dominations, eligibility requirements, and the
election process are available through local FSA offices or online.
Candidates elected later this fall will be swarted ond January first,
Rod Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 22 (15:42):
Another simple miracle moment with Hank and Laura.
Speaker 24 (15:45):
So much to do in so little time to do it.
If only we had more time? Or could it be
that the problem is not our shortage of time, but
maybe just too much to do.
Speaker 25 (15:56):
If you feel like you'd like to get a better
handle on how you spend your time, a great place
to start is with a time budget for one week,
write down every task that you do and how long
you spend doing it.
Speaker 24 (16:08):
Now that you have an accurate log of how you
spend your time, you can decide if you want to
make changes. Americans spend an average of five and a
half hours on their cell phones and another four and
a half hours a day watching TV.
Speaker 25 (16:21):
We all have the same amount of time every day,
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The incredible health aspects of consuming amends and also exercise recovery.
That's what almonds are all about. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with
a California Trina Report, part of the vast ag Information Network.
Clarice Turner is President and CEO of the Armored Bard
of California.
Speaker 28 (17:34):
Yeah, it's a breakthrough for us to have this knowledge
right again. It's like three academic studies have come back
and they're all saying the same thing. We have another
a couple more actually that are on the heels of
those we didn't know that, right, you know athletes who
are really training and exercising hard, and even not myself.
I'm not that person that goes to the gym and
exercises to the point that my muffles hurt.
Speaker 29 (17:53):
But for people that do that, it's.
Speaker 28 (17:55):
Really important, right because you've got to get right back
at the rest of your life when you're doing that.
Having something that helps you sort of transition from the
soreness piece of it and fatigue also is really really important.
And we have proof that that actually the almonds really
do help. So that's a new consumer segment to some
degree right in that And we did a couple of tests.
(18:18):
You may have heard about the Kroger tests that we
did in California, Colorado, and I think Michigan. That's about
those are That was a lot of supermarkets. And we
put the coach Dean Sanders, which attracts attention, right, and
here he is with almonds and he's saying these help
you recover.
Speaker 30 (18:33):
So he has a.
Speaker 28 (18:34):
Level of credibility that helps us bring that message to
new consumers.
Speaker 31 (18:38):
That's Clarice Turner with the almond board.
Speaker 14 (18:41):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin theories. Callers, Oh hey.
Speaker 32 (18:46):
Yeah, it's Seva fund aside from BASF, a category leader
and disease control.
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How do you explain these healthy crops well.
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Speaker 11 (19:09):
Liberationis the best place to reach a farmer with a
farming solution message is when they're well farming. It's easy
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AG Information Network of the West News. So reach real
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Dwayne Murley, and folks, as you know, a rural broadband
has been the focus of conversation not only at the
local and state level, but also at the federal level
(19:53):
as well. Jeff Johnston, lead economos for Digital Infrastructure at Cobank,
talks about the overall state of broadband in rural America.
Speaker 33 (20:02):
Well, we've made progress. If you look back to where
we were before COVID and how COVID really exposed how
vulnerable those are who are living in rural America who
do not have access to internet, you know how vulnerable
they are. We've made a lot of progress since then,
both with federal state money and private capital as well.
So we're moving in the right direction, but we're not
where we need to be quite yet. There is forty
(20:23):
two point five billion dollars actually that was earmarked out
of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and specifically it's
the B program within that piece of legislation, and that's
really exciting because that's an unprecedent amount of capital, a
present amount of money that the government has set aside
to support building out rural broadband networks to get those
who are not connected connected.
Speaker 31 (20:45):
The program hasn't made as much progress as what was
first hoped, but he does anticipate more progress to come
in the months ahead. Johnston said, rural electric cooperatives are
doing a lot of work to close that digital divide,
no doubt.
Speaker 33 (20:59):
Look, the rural electric cooperatives are sort of the unsung
heroesp in a lot of regards in terms of the
work that they've done building fiber to the home networks
for their members who don't have any connectivity, and they
continue to do that, So kudos to them. They're playing
a critical role in bridging the digital divide in rural
America as our rural telephone cooperatives and privately owned and
(21:21):
managed rural telecom operatives as well, so it's kind of
a multi prom approach.
Speaker 19 (21:25):
He said.
Speaker 31 (21:25):
Future six g wireless development will open up a lot
of space for even more precision agriculture in rural America.
Speaker 33 (21:33):
Further on down the road, we have the six gigahertz
spectrum bands that have an enormous amount of capacity available
to build wireless networks in rural America and facilitate the
precision ad adoption amongst farmers and ranchers because as we know,
those drive significant operational efficiency. So there's a lot of
bats and balls that we have to play with here
(21:53):
to get where we need to get to, which is.
Speaker 31 (21:54):
Exciting, he said. One of the biggest challenges to improving
continuity is cop wiring in in rural areas.
Speaker 33 (22:02):
Yeah, for sure. The folks that are on copper lines
right now are struggling because the applications that we use,
whether it's Zoom or streaming video from Netflix. I mean,
these are pretty bandwidth intensive applications and you need a
good connection to be able to take advantage of those. So, yeah,
those folks are in a tough spot right now. And
so yeah, getting back to the BEAT program in the
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forty two point five billion dollars that's meant to help
those folks. It'll be interesting to see how we go
from this point forward in terms of how that money
is managed and build out, if you will.
Speaker 31 (22:33):
Again, that is Jeff Johnston, lead Economists for Rural Infrastructure
at co Bank.
Speaker 29 (22:42):
This is the Agricultural Law and Tax Report. I'm Roger McCowan.
Planning for long term care cost should be an element
of a complete estate plan for many farm and ranch families.
One way to address those costs involves long term care insurance.
That makes it important to consider the terms and conditions
when exploring long term care policies. I'll be back at
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Speaker 21 (23:17):
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Speaker 29 (23:30):
What are some things to examine when exploring long term
care insurance. One is the duration of benefits. Policies cover
from one to five years. Also what triggers payment under
the policy. There will be terms and conditions attached to
those triggers, make sure you understand them. Long term care
policies also have a waiting period that can be anywhere
from a few days to a year. The longer the
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policy premiums. Also consider the daily benefit amount. Will the
policy pay all of the daily long term care costs
or only a percentage re apps The policy can be
tailored to pay only the portion of the cost that
your income doesn't. Also make sure the policy has an
inflation adjustment provision and that you understand the type of
inflation adjuster. If a policy can be obtained to cover
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your assets will be protected. That means you may not
have to gift assets to protect them. Many insurance agents
and financial advisors can provide estimates for policies and help
you determine the type of policy that might be best
for you. This has been the Agricultural Law and Tax Report.
I'm Roger McGowen.
Speaker 34 (24:36):
It's time for California add today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. Well, whether you have early season
silage corn in the field or double crop just getting started,
we are in that window of defense between planting and harvest.
Hayden Costa is with Helena Agri Enterprises.
Speaker 35 (24:54):
Early season corn. Right now, we're probably twenty one days
from getting chopped or really just watching might making sure
we don't have a last minute flare up the double
crops corn. What we're really worried about right now is
just getting those weeds under control, making sure that plant's
not stressed, heat stress.
Speaker 34 (25:08):
And MTES pressure. What do growers need to.
Speaker 35 (25:11):
Know heat stress wise? I mean last year we saw
it probably the worst I've ever seen it with the
one fifteen degree weather for I mean, it seemed like forever.
So really, what we're trying to do is make it
as stress free as we can for that corner crop
when it pollinates. So we're going to use products like
Megafol four bix really just to reduce all those abiotic
stresses that we can control. Might wise, a lot of
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guys will fly on their MITA side around here, So
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and get the most bang for our buck. So we're
going to use products like Kinetic that really just help
with spreading that in those leaves, and then products like
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Speaker 1 (27:02):
Here were some farmer us this morning. Friends. Washingtonians have
been paying one of the highest gas rates in the
nation over the past few years thanks to the state's
Climate Commitment Act, which was written and passed into law
giving a tax exemption to fuel purchased for agricultural uses.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
However, the Department of Ecology was the agency that was
tasked with figuring out how to create an exemption for farms,
and they effectively said, well, we're not going to I'm
just not going to do it, and.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That, according to Pam Lewison, agg director at the Washington
Policy Center, was yet another big hit to the pocketbooks
for farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
So we started sort of saying, you know, hey, we
would really like for this to be fixed because it
is adding significantly to our cost increases.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So after three long years of delays, Lewison says, agriculture
got a response.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
It finally this year came to fruition through any many
hours of negotiation to get a fix that gets something
in place for farms to have the break that they
have been promised for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Governor Bob Ferguson signed the updated bill last month, but
Lewison says there are some caveats.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
There is a rebate account that people need to access
to get their money back from the last few years,
and I have strongly encouraged people to do that. It's
a hill that I will continue to die on Home
for and over again.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Pam Lewis and Washington Policy Center with US.
Speaker 29 (28:35):
For twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (28:36):
This is mainly just kying off the latest milk production report,
and that's driven by higher cow inventories. And then into
twenty twenty six, we're expecting to see some increase in
milk per cow as well, supporting that production increase.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That is USDA World Agriculture Outlook Board chair Mark Jekanowski.
Now He noted consumer demand remains strong for butter domestically
via imports and internationally via sports.
Speaker 16 (29:00):
Gary demand remains strong and that is reflected in price
strength across all of the major dairy products.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All of that culminated in the month over month increase
at the all milk price forecast for both years. Despite that,
year over year all milk price remains sixty five cents
lower and is forecasted at twenty one to thirty one
hundredweight in twenty twenty six. Well Friends Beef continues to
be the bright spot in agriculture this year with record
(29:28):
high prices for producers, but one analyst is reminding producers
that it won't last forever. Mike Davis reports.
Speaker 36 (29:35):
DTN Livestock market analyst Shayley Stewart on the future of
the cow herd Webinar says, life is good right now
for cattle ranchers.
Speaker 37 (29:44):
When you get the opportunity to sell cattle this year,
I hope that you jump up, you click your heels
and at you that you just bask and how good
this market is. Because you and I both known if
we're going to play this game for long, we will
see an adverse time where prices are lower than this.
Of course it's going to happen, So you know what,
go ahead and take some time to put your face
in the sunshine and just enjoy this.
Speaker 36 (30:05):
But with the reduced herd inventory, Stuart says, packers margins
are tighter this year than last.
Speaker 37 (30:11):
If you compare that to twenty twenty four when our
cowhard inventory was low in the previous cycle, they're making
less than what they were back then at this point
in time. So what I'm here to tell you is
that slaughter.
Speaker 12 (30:21):
Speeds will continue to lessen.
Speaker 37 (30:23):
Even more in the second half as packers continue to
manage their margin and try to safer themselves from having
to see more red ink.
Speaker 36 (30:31):
Stuart notes that producers are literally beefing up their cattle
to an average of forty pounds per head, more than
in previous cycles. So she cautions them about what to
plan for when the inevitable herd expansion begins.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Not only will we have.
Speaker 37 (30:47):
That additional per head perspective, but think about how much
bigger today's cattle will be, So it'll be more like
having I would have to do the math, but the
realistic numbers is it would be far more because of
the additional production that the cattle are going to bring
to the marketplace from sheer weight.
Speaker 14 (31:03):
I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Doctor Michael Dilberto, an economist with the Louisiana State University
A Center, says figures definitely show Brazil is quickly becoming
a major player in the world corn market.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Production's off almost eleven percent from last year in Brazil,
so that's something to watch as well. You know, their
corn production in Brazil sword over the past fifteen years.
It's more than doubled between twenty ten and twenty twenty four,
according to USDA data, and that's mainly because producers in
Brazil have increased their second crop, corn acres, which is
mostly planted after their soybeans. So you know, Their total
(31:38):
harvested corn area went from thirty four point one million
acres in twenty ten to fifty five and a half
million acres in twenty three. It's going to be fifty
five million acres this year and it shows that second
crop corn planning tripling. So just how much of a
player they are on the international corn world.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Doctor Michael Dilberto of Louisiana State University with US Farm US.
You're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 38 (32:06):
From the Egg Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
California's goals to combat climate change requires converting ten percent
of its crop land to organic by twenty thirty, fifteen
percent by twenty thirty eight, and twenty percent by twenty
forty five, but organic acridge has trended down in recent years.
The California Department of Agriculture says the states twenty four
point two million acres used to grow crops and raise livestock.
(32:29):
In twenty twenty two, some one point eight million acres
were certified organic, down from the high of nearly two
point two million in twenty twenty. Chinese Customs has approved
one hundred and six new US pork and poultry plants
to export eligible products to China produced on or after
June twelfth, Reuters reports The announcement comes after China and
the US reached an agreement last month in Geneva on
(32:50):
a framework to get their trade talks back on track.
According to a Chinese customs database, the newly approved facilities
include twenty three port plants and eighty three poultry facilities.
Ex Secretreate Brook Rowlands announced the USDA will terminate more
than one hundred and forty five diversity, equity and inclusion
focused awards, totaling up to one hundred and forty eight
point six million dollars in savings according to agramarketing dot Com.
(33:12):
Rowlands says putting America farmers first means cutting the millions
of dollars wasted on woke DEI programs. She adds, it
will end the waste, fraud, and abuse that's diverted resources
from American farmers and restoring sanity and fiscal stewardship to
the USDA.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
For over forty years, the ag Information Network has been
providing news and information for the most important industry in
the world, agriculture. The Egg Information Network gives you worldwide
updates from local producers to regional organizations, from major crops
like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture to specially crops
like apples, almonds, and cherries. We report on stories that
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the next generation.
Speaker 14 (33:56):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin.
Speaker 32 (34:00):
Theories callers, Oh hey, yeah, it's Seva fungicide from BASF,
a category leader in disease control.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
How do you explain these healthy crops?
Speaker 32 (34:09):
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 14 (34:16):
So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it, Sevia fungicide from BASF. For is it always
reading libressions from the Egg Information Network.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
I'm Bob Larson with today's Agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Bob Quinn here to wrap up Aglive for today. Friends. Well,
what does the environmental protection agencies recently propose renewable fuel
standard for the next year and year after potentially mean
for the nation's biofuel industry, motorists and consumers and the Economy.
Rod Bain wraps us up.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
It has been a significant two months of development for
the nation's renewable fuels industry in its effort to increase
production and use of f ato al and other biofuels.
A visit with FAR broadcasters this past May at USDA
headquarters gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zelden opportunity to
(35:11):
talk about a just then announced policy.
Speaker 20 (35:13):
The big deadline that was upon US was May one,
as it relates to fifteen.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
The emergency fuel waiver issue by EPA prior to May
first allows for sale of E fifteen blended fuels fuels
with fifteen percent or more ethanol nationwide. During that same
visit with National Association of FAR Broadcasting representatives, the EPA
administrator ooed it the next important consideration regarding renewable fuels.
Speaker 32 (35:41):
Towards making a decision on the path forward on rbos,
but that's a decision to.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Be made eminantly, referring to proposed renewable volume obligations associated
with our nation's renewable fuel standard for producing biofuels in
twenty twenty six and twenty seven. By mid June, EPA
may the announcement about the RFS for the next two
years proposed volumes of over twenty four billion gallons for
(36:07):
the next year at a slightly higher proposed total of
the following year. Those totals are not lost on the
renewable fuel industry, as both would be the highest rvos
if finalized. Announced in the twentieth anniversary year of the
Renewable Fuel Standard.
Speaker 14 (36:23):
So what is next?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Jeff Cooper of the Renewable Fuels Association offers an estimated timeline.
Speaker 39 (36:29):
EPA is going to be receiving and soliciting feedback and
input from the public and from stakeholder groups. They're looking
at a forty five day comment period. They'll also have
a public hearing. They'll gather all that up, they'll analyze it,
and they will make any potential changes to the rule
based on that input they received. They are fixated on
having a final rule in place no later than October
(36:50):
thirty first of this year.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
In a press release, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins commended the
decision for bringing certainty to the biofuel industry, contributing to
lower fuel prices and increasing production for export opportunities. For instance,
a part of the recently reached US United Kingdom trade
agreement in which the UK reduces US ethanol export tariffs
(37:14):
to that market from nineteen to zero, which for our
road croppers is.
Speaker 16 (37:17):
A huge deal.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm Broadbane, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
With that friends amount of time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife.
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