June 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well,
friends are recent exhibit kicked off a celebration for a
New Jersey arts center, one recognizing its past as a
USDA animal quarantine facility. Rod bain starts us off today.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Last year, a New Jersey Community Arts Center kicked off
the celebration of its silver anniversary in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
The Clifton Arts Center where we have our arts for
the community.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Roxand Cabilliary is the center and Sculpture Parks Director. Clifton,
New Jersey, is about ten miles west of Manhattan, a
bedroom community suburb of New York City. Yet picture a
time where Clifton was quite rural, an agricultural hub for
the northern part of the Garden State. It was in
part that expanse of ag Land complex at close proximity

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to the nation's largest port, that back in the late
eighteen hundreds and third of the twentieth century, the.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
United States Agriculture Department used the property to have their
post base as a complex for an instruction in quarantine
service for animals.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
The US Animal Quarantine Station at Clifton began operation in
nineteen hundred and What is meant by animal quarantine is
explained by John Fieger of the Agriculture Department's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services Harvard.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Mission is to support international trade and also prevent the
introduction of fournamal diseases certain species of animals that we regulate,
mainly livestock and birds. Once they arrive in the United States,
they undergo a quarantine. They are isolated from other animals,
served every day by the s employees, and then they're
also tested for foreign animal diseases.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
The Clifton Quarantine Station contains several such barns on the
property during its seventy years of operation. The aging of
the structures and a population boom in Clifton and surrounding
areas in the nineteen twenties, thirties, and forties contributed to
the decommiss of the complex In the nineteen seventies. Sale
of the property to the town of Clifton resulted it

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new at the time structures such as a high school
and city hall, as well as use of previous barns
into community facilities such as a senior center, recycling center,
and the clifted Arts center.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
From the architectural structure, we still have the polls that
divided the animals to quarantine. We did have some visitors
that came that actually when they were younger, they were
working for the USDA here, they actually reclosed the barn
that we have here for the studio meeting room, remembering
seeing the horse on one side because of the actual polls.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
The current art center consists of two remodeled barns what
were horse and cattle quarantine barns, respectively, joined together by
a modern atrium building. And although the aphis quarantined exhibit
at the center is over, we have it in digital.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
It's still in the digital form.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
We took everything. Everything keeps on moving and keeps on changing,
but with the respect of keeping the integrity of what
spirit up This whole pretty mus about.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Rod Bane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Coming up, friends, a look at US ethanol production. This
is aglife. Bob went back with some farm news this morning. Friends. Well,
there's always a lot going on when you're involved in
US agriculture. Kenneth Hartman, junior President of the National Corn
Growers Association, says there are a lot of irons in
the fire.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
One of the things that we've been on top of
is concerns with tariffs. But at the same time, with
concerns of tariffs, we're hoping that the Trump administration works
on some trade agreements. We've been talking for the last
couple of months. We've been pushing India. India is a
growing population. They're trying to work on cleaning their enviarment
up with ethanol, So we feel like that's a great
place where the President can work with to work on
a trade agreement with ethanol and with corn and with

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dry distillers green and not only on the tariff's side
of it, but also on the concerns that they're not
very friendly to biotech products. So we're hoping that we
can work some things out there.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
There are several other market opportunity these for US corn.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Vietnam's an opportunity, Indonesia, Philippines, all these Asian countries are opportunities.
And then there's some opportunities that we feel like in
the Africa area too, So that's something that we're really
concerned with and working on.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
National Corn Growers Association is deeply concerned about the fallout
from the MAHA Report.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Obviously, the latest thing that's happened is the MAHA Report.
We have very much concerns there because there's a lot
of products and the products that have been named as
actressine and glycystate that we've been using for many years
that's very instrumental in crop protection when it comes to
raising crops. We hope that when they talk about studying
this that they don't try to take some of these
products away from us. So there's a concern there, and
we're also very much reaching out with the MAHA group

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that we'd like to be participating in some of these
studies and finding out more about how they're going to
go about this, because these products like adressine and glyphys
state have been studying for many, many years and now
we're going to start all over it sounds like. So
that's some frustration there.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Getting the reconciliation process done in Congress is a big concern.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Concern with that. There's parts of the Farm Bill that
we're looking at when it comes to Title one that's
in the House side. There's some things there that are
very supportive with that. We have concerns about some of
the things that normally goes in a farm bill that
would not be in this.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Kenneth Harkman, Junior National Corn Growers with US. Well, friends,
let's talk ethanol now, time to find out what life
has recently been like in the ethanol industry. Dan O'Brien
is an ag economist at Kansas State University who talks
about recent profitability in the ethanol sector.

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Well, in May, we've seen a little bit more of
a turn towards a more positive outlook. Not much, but
an estimate of about three cents a gallon profit again
using kind of an iOS centric based model with the
latest numbers for the first three weeks of the month.
So you've got a break even cost of about a
dollar sixty one ethanol price dollars sixty four, which you've
got DDG prices about one hundred and forty five dollars

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per ton cornall prices of about fifty three cents. So
both the DDG and the corner oil numbers are.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Up key factor and ethanol profitability is the cost of corn.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
A price of about four dollars and forty nine cents
here in May and April it had been about four
to sixty three. Again, you drop by about fourteen fifteen
cents the cost of corn and have some moderate improvement
in ethanol DDG and cornill prices, and you end up
with some profitability.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
He's watching ethanol stocks and says they haven't come down
much as the summer driving season ramps up.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
And we're watching the corn, watching the ethanol inventories, and
trying to see how te grain based ethanol production and
stocks are coordinating with what we think will probably be
a decent time of fuel demand coming up this summer,
and kind of an up and down situation. It's kind
of surprising really that the US ethanol production figures had
dropped down here of late. But yet yet for some

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reason last week or so well, for some supply demand factors,
we haven't seen a major drop off yet in the inventory.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Dan O'Brien, Kansas State University, talking Ethanol with US more
on ethanol production this morning. Friends. US has churned out
record levels of ethanol since late twenty twenty four, largely
due to arise in exports and steady domestic demand, but
Reuter's said output has dropped from record levels during the
last two weeks, which coincides with the build up of

(07:15):
the summer driving season. US does have large stock piles
of ethanol that can offset some of the lower production
levels in the short term, but exports and domestic travel
trends will have to be watched in the coming weeks
and months, when fuel demand typically hits its highest point
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Campaign Amy Kirkland is a school teacher and the feed
yard mom.

Speaker 18 (10:44):
I think one of our biggest opportunities is being able
to tell our story. And for years that's you know,
that's what I've said that we that we as Kirkland
Feedyard and be producers, need to tell our story. But
what we heard this morning is that cannsumers love our
product and they're going to pay for our product. But
what consumers also want is authenticity and transparency, and they

(11:08):
want to trust the product that we have in the
grocery store. And so I think that gives us a
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on that phone screen, is to reach out to consumers

(12:14):
and just say, you know, tell our story of beef
and what we're doing and how are we making this
great product.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.

Speaker 19 (12:33):
The heat is on as we're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman,
director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek and Ryan. The
question this week is how best to cool down these animals?
You have some science facts to.

Speaker 20 (12:44):
Back it up.

Speaker 21 (12:45):
Yeah, heat stresses. I think something that's universal if you
own animals. The first thing to understand is things always
go from hot to cold. It's a one way velve.
Energy always moves from the hottest object to an area
of something cooler. The greater the difference in temperatures, the
faster and more efficient that that heat transfer happens. So,
for example, say you have an adult cow and her

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skin temperature is one hundred fahrenheit and the ambient temperature
around her is zero fahrenheit, that gradient is one hundred degrees,
meaning that heat will move very rapidly from her at
one hundred fahrenheit the high point to the air at
zero fahrenheit. Because that's a very large gradient has very
big change in temperature, so the heat can move very

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rapidly and at which point she will have no problem
dumping heat off of her body. This large gradient will
just strip heat off of her body very effectively and efficiently.
The reason that animals have heat stress is think about
as that ambient temperature now comes up, say it's eighty
degrees fahrenheit, and so now the col giving up heat
from her one hundred degree skin to the air that's

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eighty degrees is much much less efficient and it's much slower,
and so she just retains that heat on her body more.
Thus the heat stress builds. So then the question is, well,
we lose heat if we're an animal. Eighth grade science class, right,
we have conduction, convection, and radiation. That's just like a
blast in the past. I remember sitting in mister Hoover's
science class in eighth grade learning about the differences between

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conduction convection and radiation. The one that we really utilize
a lot in livestock industry is convection. So convection is
heat loss due to moving air. We all know that
you can strip heat off an object much better if
you blow fast moving air over it. That uses the
law of convection to help take heat off an object.

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So we'll use fast moving air fans, et cetera to
cool animals in the summer. And another thing that we
will often do is use the power of evaporative heat loss,
and that's when we put sprinklers or water on animals. Now,
water is very interesting from a physics standpoint. If you're
kind of nerdy, water has one of what's called the
highest specific heats of anything in the world, meaning it

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can absorb a tremendous amount of energy. It takes a
tremendous amount of energy before the temperature of the water
will increase. So if you think of water like a
sponge to absorb something, it has a tremendous ability to
absorb heat. The way it cools the animal is basically
twofold one. It starts to absorb heat off of the

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animal and then that water evaporates and it takes the
heat with it. So just imagine when you're seeing it's
hot day. You see the sprinklers run on. These cows
are soaked, their backs are soaked. Just imagine that water
is just absorbing a tremendous amount of heat. And then
as it just converts. Water exists in three phases, right,
liquid solid, like ice or gas. As it converts phase

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from liquid to gas, it takes all that heat with it.
We can put water on a cowl, we get this
evaporative cooling process, and then if we blow fans on them,
now we're combining the power of convective heat loss on
top of the evaporative heat loss, and we get some
really effective ways cooling down those animals. For cows, we're

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putting water on them in the form of a sprinkler,
but for mammals that can sweat, the body knows that
this evaporative heat loss is a very efficient way to
reduce heat, and so the body will actually mobilize salt
up to the skin and then the water follows that
sodium actually precipitates onto the skin and then goes through
the same evaporative heat loss and you're cool that way.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (16:24):
Ryan Stay cool out there. That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.

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The importance of diverse genetics in the bacon industry. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part of
the vast ag Information Network. Jennifer Randall is a professor
of New Mexico State University and she comments on the
genetics of the pecan industry.

Speaker 11 (17:29):
The future of the bacon industry is actually within the genetics,
and so we need to utilize the genetics the diversity
that is in there in order to be able to
make regional trees for regional adaptation. That way, with the
increased cost of inputs and lack of water availability and
differences in temperature, it is important that we use the genetics.

Speaker 14 (17:49):
Randall speaks about the priorities in the genetic research and bacons.

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The short term, we want disease resistant trees such as
scap resistance, salinity tolerance for the West, and yes, it
would be great. It would be a game changer for
pecan if we get tree size control.

Speaker 14 (18:04):
And of course keep that production strong.

Speaker 11 (18:06):
But with size control you could plant more trees, you know,
decrease some of the inputs, but increase production eventually.

Speaker 14 (18:13):
And they have a lot to work with an enormous
amount of genetic material.

Speaker 11 (18:16):
We have the USDA Carrioderm POSM repository and it is
amazing because the natural conforests are gone and so that
repository hosts the genetics from Mexico all the way up
through Missouri.

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Speaker 20 (19:38):
USDAAG Secretary Brook Rollins issued a suite of proposals intended
to support small family farms across Royalmry Cup. John Walt Boatwright,
director of Government Affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation,
says this is a critical time to support all agriculture,
but particularly small farms.

Speaker 24 (19:58):
We all know the farm economy is not doing quite
well at the moment, but especially so for small family farms.
The proposal notes about eighty six percent of America's farmers
are small farmers, and they really wanted a chance to
tout some policy proposals and ideas that would specifically help
these small farmers get through these tough times, and we

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were excited to see it happen.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
He said.

Speaker 20 (20:21):
Small farms or a vital building block of American agriculture.

Speaker 24 (20:25):
Without them, we cannot collectively be as sustainable as we are,
be as productive as we are, and be as competitive
as we are throughout the world. So that's I think
a critical recognition by USDA and the fact that they
are planning to prioritize policy solutions to help small farmers.
It's a helpful step forward.

Speaker 20 (20:44):
Boat Right says Farm Bureau made several recommendations to the
USDA related to small farms. Ahead of the announcement, we raised.

Speaker 24 (20:53):
Issues ranging from efficiencies with local FSA and n RCS offices,
to expanded an enhant risk management options for these small
farming operations, to addressing bigger, larger issues such as burdensome
and complex regulations that small farmers just simply aren't equipped
to wrap their arms around.

Speaker 20 (21:11):
Again that as John Walt boat Wright, director of Government
Affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, the summer grilling
season was upon his Wagou. One of the most prestigious
breeds of cattle hails from Japan, but there are a
select number of producers here in the United States, and
Mike Davis had a chance to talk to one of
those producers.

Speaker 25 (21:32):
Jacqueline Smith is actually a Jacqueline of all trades. She
and her husband move in the construction space in North Carolina,
but in twenty twenty they diversified.

Speaker 26 (21:43):
Our kids came home from school and we were home
from work for a bit, and it just gave us
a chance to slow down and play outside a little bit.
And so we just fell head first in love with agriculture,
and so we started a little bit of a garden,
had some chickens and some pigs, and eventually our first
cow that was pregnant and gave birth to twins.

Speaker 25 (22:04):
From there, the Smiths looked for a unique product and
they landed on Wagoo cows.

Speaker 26 (22:10):
We felt like it was a very niche market. It
was a really cool, fun beef angle. Just this high
end product, a very neat palette experience for the consumer,
different than what you know, most people are used to,
and just you know, a fund spin on that. While
also my husband loves the genetics side and so being

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able to work with the genetics of the you know,
parentage of the cattle allow us to really hone in
on what is creating that best best beef experience for
the American palette.

Speaker 25 (22:44):
Wagoo is a Japanese breed that was introduced to the
US in the nineteen seventies, but even today, the high
end beef product is raised by very few American producers.

Speaker 26 (22:55):
The consistency of beef with the marbling is just very
unique to the breed, and so so it's just hyper marbles.
It's a very fine marbling, which makes the customer experience
or consumer experience when tasting it just very unique and special.
It also has some health benefits, so it's lower in
cholesterol than most of the beef product on the market,

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and it also is higher in the omega threes, almost
some better than some fish.

Speaker 25 (23:22):
Jacqueline says they may be the largest wagoo producers on
the East Coast with more than one thousand head. I'm
Mike Davis.

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It is time for California AG today on the AG
Information Network. I am Hailey's ship. Well, we've got an
update today from US Senator Adam Shipp's office regarding USDA
service centers here in California. According to a press release
from the senator, eight of the nine USDA offices that

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were slated to close under a plan from the Trump
administration will now remain open. Schiff, who serves on the
Senate's Committee on Agriculture and Nutrition in Forestry, says he
urged the administration to reconsider the closures and that USDA
Secretary Rowlands confirmed the department is now working with the
General Services Administration to keep the majority of those offices

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up and running. The eight locations that will no longer
be closed include Bakersfield, Blyth, Los Angeles, Madeira, Oxnard, Salinas, Woodland,
and Wyrika. That said not all offices are in the clear.
The USDA offices in Mount Shasta and Brea are still
on the termination list, and Shiff says he plans to
continue pushing to keep those sites operating again. This update

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comes from Senator Shiff's office. We will be watching to
see how the situation develops and how it impacts access
to USDA services across rural California.

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Speaker 1 (26:51):
Bob Quinn back with some farm news this morning friends.
While US UK trade negotiations moving, we have a report
this morning.

Speaker 29 (26:58):
The US and the United Kingdom and now it's the
framework of a trade agreement that would allow some duty
free beef trade between the two countries. US met Expert
Federation President and CEO Dan Halstrom says the market is
promising for US beef if a number of trade issues
can be resolved.

Speaker 30 (27:12):
There is no doubt that there is potential for US
beef into the UK. And for a little perspective, we've
had in a past duty free access and currently have
duty free access into the EU, but when the UK
departed the EU for Brexit a few years ago, we
lost that duty free access. So from a tariff standpoint,
the fact that they would be creating a zero duty

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country specific spot for US beef into the UK. This
is definitely encouraging. That being said, there's still work to
be done from our viewpoint, because there's quite a few
issues around non tariff trade barriers that concern us, around
market access, restrictions, around plant approvals, around hormone usage, also

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around residue testing. While we're optimistic hope that these other
non tariff issues are taken into account as well.

Speaker 29 (28:03):
And while the announcement did not include news on pork,
the UK could be a valuable market for US pork producers.

Speaker 30 (28:09):
They are a large user of pork in the UK,
They have large exports currently from the EU into the UK,
and we know that there's legitimate demand for US pork
into the UK as well as the EU. So from
that perspective, we run into some of the same complicating
factors around some of these restrictions on the technical side,
residue testing that's required there as well, plan approval processes

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that are required there as well. But while there's been
no details published on pork yet, we're hopeful that pork
is not only part of the agreement, but it would
fall in the same bucket of addressing some of these
non tariff trade issues that impact pork as well.

Speaker 29 (28:47):
For the US Meat Export Federation.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm John Harrith, Well friends. For the first time in
almost fifty years, Canada's official head of state opened the
Canadian Parliament. Dennis Guy joins US This past Tuesday. On
his first visit as reigning monarch, King Charles the Third
made the annual Speech from the Throne. Included in his
thirty minute address, Charles mentioned how a long standing international

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trade landscape is changing and how long standing trade relationships
are being forced to change in the process.

Speaker 31 (29:18):
Today, Canada faces another critical moment. The system of open
global trade that, while not perfect, has helped to deliver
prosperity for decades is changing. Canada's relationships with partners are
also changing.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
Then, on Wednesday, just the day after King Charles left
Canada to return to the United Kingdom, the free trade
landscape changed once again. The US Court of International Trade,
based in Manhattan, dealt a potentially fatal blow to large
sections of Donald Trump's trade agenda. Court's rulings stated that
the US President overstepped his constitutional authority to impose reciprocal

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import tariffs on goods from virtually every global country. The
court's ruling further stated that the imposition of tariffs are
generally a responsibility held by congressional lawmakers. The following day, Thursday,
Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed Parliament to say that he
welcomed the US Trade Court's decision to strike down parts

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of Trump's trade regime. However, Carney also explained that the
US Court's decision nullifies only some of Donald Trump's tariffs
imposed to apparently spur a crackdown on illegal drugs and
migrants at the Canada US border.

Speaker 32 (30:35):
The government welcomes yesterday's decision by the US Court of
International Trade, which is consistent with Canada's long standing position
that the US tariffs were unlawful. We recognize that our
trading relationship with the United States is still profoundly threatened
by unjustified tariffs against steel, aluminum, and the auto sector,
as well as threats of tariffs against lumber, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
It's unclear just how fa last Wednesday's court ruling will
go into effect, with the court giving the US government
up to ten days to carry out necessary administrative moves
to remove the tariffs. As well, numerous US trading partners
currently in negotiations must now decide whether to press ahead
in their efforts to secure trade deals or to slow

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down their discussions on the possibility that they now have
a stronger negotiating hand. Within minutes of the US Court
of International Trades ruling on Wednesday, the White House announced
that it would appeal the Court's finding, which ultimately puts
the fate of the tariffs in the hands of an
appellate court or potentially the US Supreme Court. Purporting from Canada,

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I'm Dennis Guy.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Far mews this morning. You're listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 33 (31:47):
From the AGG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. Well,
commercial beekeepers discovered their colonies of honeybees in near or
total collapse earlier this year, in what some call the
worst be die off in US history. Combined with other
honeybee die offs, some bee keepers may have lost seventy
to one hundred percent of their colonies. A recent report
by Project aps M says the losses are severe and

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may impact food security through inadequate pollination services. The report
estimates financial losses at over one hundred and thirty nine
million dollars. The USDA will purchase up to sixty seven
million dollars in fresh seafood, fruits, and vegetables from domestic
producers to distribute to food banks and nutrition assistance programs
across the country. These purchases are being made through Section

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thirty two of the Agriculture Act of nineteen thirty five
and will assist producers and communities in need. Fiscal year
to date, USDA has provided more than six hundred million
dollars and purchases, all of which benefit the Charitable Feeding Network.
The USDA's Cattle on Feed Report showed on feed numbers, placements,
and marketings were all down two to three percent in May.
US cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market

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for feed lots with a capacity of one thousand or
more total eleven point four million head on May first,
USDA's Cold Storage report shows total red meat supplies and
freezers were up five percent from the previous month, but
down six percent from last year.

Speaker 13 (33:07):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over.

Speaker 23 (33:10):
Any origin theories colors, Oh hey, yeah, it's Seva fungicide
from BASF, a category leader in disease control.

Speaker 13 (33:17):
How do you explain these healthy crops.

Speaker 23 (33:19):
Well, longer lasting residual plus it's built for current regulatory
standards and prepared for what's to come, which improves crop
marketing flexibility.

Speaker 13 (33:26):
So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it sevia fungicide from BASF for is it always
reading Holy bressions.

Speaker 12 (33:36):
For the last forty years, the AG Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades

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of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
From the EG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Bob Quent back to wrap up AGLI for to they friends.
The US Soybean Export Council has been busy. Chad Smith
has our final report.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
USEK hosted the Soybean Oil Masters program. Jim Sutter, CEO
of USEK, talked about what went on.

Speaker 34 (34:23):
We've got one hundred and ten attendees in Indianapolis, Indiana,
where together with the Indiana Soybean Association USEK is hosting
the Soydean Oil Masters Program. So we've got people from
about fifteen different countries who are at some stage in
the process of using soybean oil, their food manufacturers, soy processor,

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soy refiners, and they're here improving their knowledge of soy,
how to better use it, the safety of soy, the
benefits of soy, and particularly the advantages of US soy.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
This kind of program offers big benefits to US soy customers.

Speaker 34 (34:58):
Well. It benefits customers because they understand more about the
differences between soy and oil from US soy beans versus
oil from other origin beans, to quality differences, the shelf
life differences, all of those advantages, so they're able to
put that to use in their business. We have numerous
US soy exporters that will also be an attendance, so
we'll be having seventy business to business meetings with these

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different people so they may make some contacts that allow
them to be a better importer of usoy into their country.
And also they just learn the latest and greatest kind
of knowledge about how best to use soy the latest
on the sustainability of US sooy, which is a big
marketing point in many countries around the world.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Programs like this fit the goals you SEC has set
in promoting US sooy.

Speaker 34 (35:44):
Our key strategic goals are differentiate, elevated preference for US soy,
and then of course make sure we have market access.
And I was telling somebody earlier today that I think
this program is a great example of doing all three
of those things because through the educational process we're differentiating,
We're elevating a preference, through the talking about regulations, the

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science behind the utilization of US soy, We're making sure
people understand the opportunity to have market access. So it's
doing that and it's also diversifying markets for US soy.
You know, we want to be in every market where
we can, where it makes sense for US soy to go.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Program attendees even had a chance to see the Indy
five hundred over Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 34 (36:26):
The Indiana Soybean Association has been such a great partner.
We've done this several years in a row. Now they
really help it come alive because we are able to
show all the way from farm through export locations, how
the process works for these people, how the US export
supply chain works. And there happens to be a big
sporting event in Indy which the international participants, if they're

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so interested, have the opportunity to go to.

Speaker 9 (36:49):
And that's the Indy five hundred again.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
That's Jim Sutter with you, Sek Chad Smith reporting with that.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition A Bad Life