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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley all across the country. Wholesale egg
prices have slowly declined over the past month. But what's
behind the trend and how does it translate to the
retail level. Rod Bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
A drop in wholesale egg prices a sign, according to
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins that USDA efforts in preventing high
path avian influenza in egg leg poultry flocks, and lower
egg supplies are living.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
In the right direction absent any unforeseen significant depopulation event.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Secretary, visiting with the reporters, recently discussed changes with
the New York wholesale egg price. Since USDA's five prong
strategy was announced.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The wholesale egg prices are down nearly fifty percent from
their peak. In fact, the New York wholesale egg price
was at its historic peak on February twenty sixth, the
day we rolled a plan out at eight dollars and
fifty Since the price tag has fallen every day since
that peak, with that same egg price dropping to four
dollars and eight since as of March.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The team one reason behind lowering wholesale egg prices in
recent weeks increased supplies do in part to a short
term solution.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Turkey and South Korea have boats confirmed they will be
increasing breaker egg imports into the US.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
With potential of additional nations exporting eggs to the US. Yet,
as USDA Chief of Staff Kaylee Boeller emphasized, we.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Believe the market condition wouldn't make sense once at price
here in the US get to a certain point. So
at the moment in time we're in now, the imports
makes sense. But as market conditions of jobs and IG
prices limit, we wouldn't expect as many imports coming in.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Secretary Rollins acknowledged that some market factors going forward dictate
what egg prices might look like on the retail level.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We recognize it takes time for these reductions at the
wholesale level to translate to price reductions at the retail level.
I know that for some of us are shopping, we've
seen the prices immediately, but then we'll hear from other
people in other parts of the country where they have
yet seed at reduction on their grocery store shelf, but
as we know, it always takes some time and depending
on the part of the country and other factors as
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to why some of that retail hasn't caught up yet
but will very soon.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then there is coming up perhaps the most significant
season for egg demand.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We also recognize the Easter is just a few short
weeks of way, and demand is always unusually high during
this season.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The USDA Chief of Staff ads at additional concern regarding
the Easter season at egg prices.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
We're approaching spring migration, so that leaves a lot of
uncertainty in terms of potential outbreak high path. We want
consumers to be able to enjoy as as they usually do,
but they have to make these determinations on their own
with their families, and we want the Easter holidays to
be just as memorable as they always have been, despite
the situation we're having on.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
HBAI, I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of
Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, friends, we're thinking about cherries from the Pacific Northwest
now the season is upon us. We'll have a story
coming up also a look at corn planting intentions. You're
listening to ad Life Bob Quhen here was some farm
news this morning. Friends. Well, when it comes to Northwest
cherries being a popular spring and summer purchase for consumers,
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many factors come into play, including harvest, quantity, quantity, and price.
Northwest Cherry Growers president bj Thurlby says, there's a price
range that is kind of a win win, so.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
We know that four ninety nine and three ninety nine
is kind of in there in the sweet spot. California
did a really good job of making sure they're pricing
at retail was heavier to that range, which the year
before it was not. And they had a huge crop
the year before and so was our crop.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And last year, Thrillby says, went extremely well across the board.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
From a consumer standpoint, I think we presented everything we
possibly could have. We had great fruit, we had the
right price on it, and then because California was normal
timing last year, we ended up with some big cherry
displays over Memorial Day, which you know, before we even started,
a lot of cherry displays stayed right up front and
that had a very positive impact on the season.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Overall.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That is not always easy.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We battle for cherry shellsface every year. It's not like
Apple's where they have the most shell space in the
produce department to start with and they have the most
shell space to finish with. Cherry's, we lose that shells
face and goes to something else, and we've got to
recreate it every year.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thereby says from the growers he's talked with, things look
promising for the upcoming crop, but added that it's still early.
Well friends, farmers may plant more corn this spring than
initial reports estimate. Jim McCormick, co founder of agmarket dot net,
says people may be surprised at how high the demand
for corn seed is this spring.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The usc Outfook Forum was at ninety four million when
we looked at the numbers. How we generate this data,
We interviews producers. We also talk to our coharts over
at John Stewart Associates and what their commercials are seeing.
We've also talked to a lot of seed sellers and
they're seen across the board, the demand for corn and
is ferocious. There's some genetics that inner certain areas that
have actually run out because that demands so strong, and
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hints that's why we think when it's all said and
done on the thirty first, they're going to come in
at least at ninety five point three nine million acres.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He'll say. It's all about profit opportunities in corn that
are not there for soybeans.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
When you look at the spring price of corn, it's
a nickel above where it was a year ago, while
beans are a dollar below a year ago. And the
fact of the matter is, when you look at the
current price of beans, no one's making money. The cost
of money where it is. Does it make a lot
of sense to borrow a bunch of money to plan
a crop that at this point you are almost guaranteed
to not make money, where at least on the corn
it feels like you got a fighting chance, or at
least you are making some money. It may not be great,
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but the profitability is there, and those are why those
dynamics say the corn acres are going to be up
and bean acres are going to be down. Eighty two
point seventy five million acres is our bean numbers, and yes,
that is down from eighty four in the outlook form,
and down dramatically from this past year of eighty seven point.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh five McCormick said, agmarket dot net is predicting higher
all wheat numbers than USDA estimates.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
We are looking for a little bit all wheat acres
looking at the water wheat numbers, So we are just
a smidge higher right now. Like I said, we're not
look for atting dramatic. This would be too shocking. I mean,
the fact of the matter is, I think the big
numbers are going to be the corn of beings. So
the out look form wheat acres of forty seven million,
we're at about forty seven point eight two million, so
just a shade above it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Jim McCormick, ag market dot net and now an update
on snowpack. Several Western Mountain ranges note significant increase in
snowpack over the month of March, increasing water equivalency levels
for several parts of the region. Rod Bain has a report.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Days away from the end of the Western Mountain snowpack
accumulation season, and USDA borologist Brad Rippy says much of
the region's rages received a significant boost of snow.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
March has been a pretty good month for a lot
of our western watersheds.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Much of the accumulation is recorded in the northern two
thirds of the western region.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Our most abundant snowpack stretches from southern and eastern Oregon
and northern California northeastward into north central Montana.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The Northern Cascades reporting less than ninety percent of average
snowpack for the season in sub locales. But the main
area of concern remains much of the Southwest.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Even with a couple of March storm systems, we are
still seeing snowpack numbers broadly less than seventy five percent
of average in Arizona, New Mexico and extending into southern
sections of Utah and Colorado.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Raising concerns about spring and summer water runoff deficiencies this year.
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Farm News this morning. You're listening to ag Life.
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So let me say that it is going to be
very difficult to have a precise assessment of how much
of inflation is coming from tariffs from and that's already
the case. You may have seen that goods inflation moved
up pretty significantly in the first two months of the year.
Trying to track that back to actual tariff increases given
what was tariff and what was not very very challenging.
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So some of it, the answer is clearly some of it.
A good part of it is coming from tariffs. But
we'll be working and so will other forecasters, to try
to find the best possible way to separate non tariff
inflation from tariff inflation.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
On declining cinema, we.
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Do understand that sentiment has fallen off pretty sharply, but
economic activity is not yet, and so we're watching carefully.
So I would tell people that the economy seems to
be seems to be healthy. We understand that that sentiment
is quite negative at this time, and that probably has
to do with, you know, turmoil at the beginning of
an administration that's making you know, big changes in areas
(09:19):
of policy, and that's probably part of it. I do
think the underlying unhappiness people have about the economy, though,
is more is more about the price level.
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Org, American Cattle News. Use what's happening with retail meat
prices and consumer demand more after this.
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Tyler Cousins is the director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
So if we look at the retail beef price in
February is actually eight sixty four per pound, which was
an increase of seven percent from last year and actually
the highest.
Speaker 13 (10:50):
On record or retail beef prices.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Now the record beef price.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
It's noteworthy as it comes during February, which is often
considered a slow month for beef demand and for meat
demand in general. This is due, you know, kind of
the slowing of this meat demand and beef demand during
this these you know, kind of first quarter of the year.
You know, it's kind of you think of what's going on.
We're kind of in the middle of winter and just
people aren't outside realing as much, so that demand does
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slow down. So seeing this, this record beef price in
February is definitely noteworthy in something to watch, and I
kind of flagged that because you know, we kind of
get as we get closer to the Memorial Day, that's
kind of the unofficial start to grilling season in summer
and people being outside more, and definitely we see a
little bit more of an uptick in just overall retail
beef prices. So something to watch here in the coming
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of months. As far as other beef prices that were reported,
ground beef actually reached, it almost reached six dollars per
pound in Februaries, five to ninety six per pound. It's
actually a record, an increase of nine percent from last year.
Rose reached the record of eight dollars per pound in February,
which was an increase of nine percent from last year.
Stake skim in at a record of twelve oh one
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per pound in February, which was an increase of two
percent from last year and the first time time that
the price for mistakes have actually reached above twelve dollars
per pounds. So overall February's retail beef prices were higher,
and a few more record prices were set there on
some of those cuts, which is a noteworthy thing that
I had noted kind of for this time frame that
we're in as we kind of head into getting closer
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to the speak billing demand season.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 15 (12:28):
It's time for our feed Forum Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins,
Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Hello, Mike, Well, welcome to.
Speaker 16 (12:34):
Today's feed form, and we're going to talk a little
bit about an update on room and protected the fining
sources available to dairy farms here in the United States.
Horts Derriman does a survey each year. They reported that
there were seven different commercial companies producing product with a
room protecting the finding forty two percent of the dairy
farms were actually balancing rations based on amino acids, and
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sixteen percent of their herds in the survey were purchasing.
So this was based on a presentation by doctor Clay
Zimmerman from the Walchems Company. So when you look at
these different products, you want to look at three factors.
The first one is what level of the finding is
in the product. Ideally, hopefully it's close to seventy percent
of the finding in the product itself. The next question
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is what percent is roumin protected so it's not degraded
by the room microbes. Ideally, that number would be hopefully
over eighty percent, and then what percent of the finding
is available and a small intestine to be absorbed, and
again we'd like to have a nice higher number there
as well. So generally speaking, if we can get end
up available somewheres around forty percent, we call metabolize the
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finding available. That would be a real plus that the
count could then utilized in the bloodstream to be built
into milk protein and other needs for that essential amino acid.
So there are several different studies that were reported here.
They look at different products and each product performed better
than control. That was the good news, producing typically one
pound more milk here and in most case this is
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about a ten to five point increase in milk protein,
which has a real economic value as well. So as
ended up looking at energy corrected milk that was increased
about one point three pounds both of the products in
the study compared to the control. That study was down
at Virginia, Delaware did a ten midlelactation study and they
took one product and looked at three different levels of
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it and discovered there was kind of a sweet spot
in there. All three levels did increase milk yield. However,
the best level was increasing milk production by about one
point three pounds and five hundreds of increase in milk protein.
Ohio State did another study in which they looked at
again three x three latin square looking at three different
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products here and again one product performed much better than
the other one did, especially at higher levels in the
feeding program. And then also looked at some studies coming
out of Michigan State and a VPI that looked at
what was the amount of scoring availability and both of
these using various techniques. One was a stable is I
hope found that Summer's around fifty four fifty five percent
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was biologically available for that dairy cow in the feeding program.
So certainly the level of it is going to be important.
Look for the research results. It's worked quite well, so
our take a messages. There are number of different products
out there, all of them seem to be performing quite
nicely based on the research that was reported here. Who
can expect to increase about ten fund percent increase in
milk protein and maybe a slight increase in milk production
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leading energy correct and milk and there could be some
real savings depending on which product you're using. Somewhere's around
five or six cents differences between these various programs. Well,
that completes the program for today. Thanks, Hey, have a
great day.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Thank you Mike.
Speaker 15 (15:38):
That's doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor emeritus from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here in our feed Forum Friday on
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A novel perennial cover crop for orchard crops. So I'm
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the vastag Information Network. Kelsey Finn is a PhD student
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she talks about this new cover crop she's working with
and this is part of her dissertation for a PhD.
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This is a hybrid grass species called hybrid Poa bolbosa,
more commonly known as Oakville bluegrass, and it's being introduced
as a perennial cover crop in orchard systems because of
its unique ability to go dormant in the springtime, so
it circumvents a lot of barriers to adoption for orchard
growers to have a cover crop because it will go dormant.
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It's very drought resistant, so it requires very little water,
no extraight irrigation, and it is a pretty low lying
grass species that can still improve soil health to the orchard.
And so we're trying to address the question if the
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from equipment traffic, and if those changes and improvements to
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structural properties can increase the water holding capacity of the
soil and then potentially actually bring water savings to the
soil from the cover crop. Right now, there's a lot
of concern among growers about cover cropping because of the
perceived water use of the cover crop.
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So we're trying to answer that question.
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A drop in wholesale egg prices aside, According to Agriculture
Secretary Brook Rawlins that USDA efforts at both preventing high
path aviat influenza in egg laying poultry flocks and lower
egg supplies are moving in.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The right direction absent any unforeseen significant depopulation event.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The Secretary, visiting with the reporters Thursday, noted the almost
one month, almost fifty percent decrease in the New York
sale egg price since USDA's five pronged strategy was announced,
that price at four dollars eight cents a dozen on Wednesday.
She acknowledges at sub cases, the reduction and wholesale egg
prices still needs to translate to the retail level, and
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also with Easter and demand for eggs growing as the
holiday approaches.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Their noting set.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Prices are exponentially down, and we're really really encouraged by that.
There is always a possibility those prices could tick back up.
The wholesale egg prices are down nearly fifty percent from
their peak. In fact, the New York wholesale egg price
was at its historic peak on February twenty sixth, the
day we rolled the plan out, at eight dollars and
fifty three cents against that wholesale The price tag has
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fallen every day since that peak, with that same egg
price dropping to four dollars and eight cents as of
March nineteenth. So we also recognize the Easter is just
a few short weeks away and demand is always unusually
high during the season. We also recognize that it takes
time for these reductions at the wholesale level to translate
to price productions at the retail level. I know that
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for some of us are shopping, we've seen the prices immediately,
but then we'll hear from other people in other parts
of the country where they have yet to see that
reduction on their grocery store shelf. But as we know,
it always takes some time and depending on what part
of the country and other factors as to why some
of that retail hasn't caught up yet but will very soon.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Rodbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
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Speaker 24 (22:23):
There may be some literal movement in the months ahead
for the US dairy industry. During the recent Commodity Classic,
the conversation included discussions about the possibility of US dairies
relocating to Nebraska and other states with more favorable infrastructure.
Chris Galen is with a National Milk Producers Federation.
Speaker 25 (22:43):
From a town called Steward in southeast Nebraska, near Lincoln.
What's happened in the past generation is really not just Nebraska,
but northwest Iowa, which borders Nebraska, southeast South Dakota, which
also borders Nebraska and Iowa, and even western Michigan. That's
called the I twenty nine corridor, and that area has
seen a lot of growth of new greenfield dairy farms
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as well as processing plants, either new plants or expanded plants.
A lot of it's in south Dakota and somewhat in
northwest Iowa, but Nebraska's benefited from that.
Speaker 24 (23:13):
Too, He says. The US dairy industry's history saw a
lot of expansion west.
Speaker 25 (23:18):
It gets back to the point that a lot of
the dairy growth in the past forty or fifty years
was out west California. But that bloom is certainly off
the roads and a cost of doing business in California
for dairies and other operations and really high, and so
probably thirty years ago you saw some migration from California
to New Mexico and also Idaho, and those are good
places to dairy. The regulatory climate's very friendly, there's land
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that's available, but their challenges they don't have as much water.
Speaker 24 (23:44):
So US dairy operations began expanding back to the east
a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 25 (23:50):
Really in the past fifteen twenty years, what you've seen
is this further move back to the east.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
There was a fairly.
Speaker 25 (23:56):
Significant movement into the Great Lakes area fifteen twenty years ago, Michigan,
Ohio and northern Indiana. And now what we're seeing is
some of that is more centrally located in the Great
Plains along that H twenty nine corridor. There, that land
tends to be lower, there are fewer population centers nearby,
and obviously you have the access to the feed grains
and water too.
Speaker 24 (24:16):
He says, there's a lot to consider when decided to
make a move like that. Again, that's Chris Galen of
the National Milk Producers Federation.
Speaker 26 (24:23):
With California AGG today I in Hayley Ship. This is
the ag information Network depopulation. We've all already identified in
this five part series on egg prices that highly pathogenic
avian influenza is a huge factor in the current rise
to egg prices. Part of that is because of the
impact it has on flocks. The US primary control strategy
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for HPAI, defined by the World Organization for Animal Health,
is depopulation. When HPAI is detected, entire flocks are destroyed
to prevent the virus from spreading. With the mortality rate
near one hundred percent, This is considered the most humane
and effective control method, though it results in substantial losses
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for farmers, according to market intel shared by the American
Farm Bureau USDAAPHIS offers an indemnity program that compensates growers
for poultry and eggs destroyed due to HPAI. However, this
indemnity does not cover the costs associated with the long
recovery period. It can take up to a year for
a farm to clean, restock, and raise new chicks to
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egg laying age, and during this time farms often operate
without income. Beyond the financial burden, the loss of an
entire flock is a traumatic experience for farm families.
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Speaker 1 (26:47):
Bob when here are some farm news this morning, friends.
While recent wildfires have devastated the agricultural landscape in Oklahoma
and some of surrounding states, doctor Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State
University Extension specialist in agricultural and food policy, talks about
what producers hit by wildfires should keep in mind.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 29 (27:08):
I think always the first thing is safety getting back
into those areas, make sure the hotspots are out, make
sure you're cleared to get back into those areas. And
then it's assessing damages safely, so walking through the pastures,
or we lost some barns, we lost some pins, we
lost some machinery. These were big fires, they were hot fires.
There was a lot of damage done across residential and
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agricultural areas, But just focusing on agriculture. Pictures and video
are going to be really important early on. Document those losses,
get them into the appropriate organizations, whether that's Farm Service
Agency for disaster programs, whether that's your crop insurance agent
if you happen to have some cropping losses, whether that's
your insurance company if it's a barn or something that's
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covered under insurance, Get those documents in quickly, get their
losses reported quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There are different programs available to help producers recover from
disaster losses like wildfires.
Speaker 29 (28:06):
We've got a fact sheet coming out here in the
next couple of weeks that will actually walk through each
one of those programs that are for each different kind
of loss that a producer experiences. And just focusing on
cattle for the moment, because so much of this time
of year is grassland.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
First of all.
Speaker 29 (28:22):
If we lost cattle or any other kind of livestock
in the fire, commercial livestock. Then there's a program called
the Livestock Indemnity Program that can be used to help
pay up to seventy five percent of the market value
of those cattle losses.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
She said. The livestock indemnity program is unique.
Speaker 29 (28:39):
Now, this is a unique program in that it's not
just the cattle that died in the fire, but if
you had cattle that had injuries that they had to
be euthanized, they're also eligible for that program. Or if
they had injuries where they had to be culled from
the herd, they're also eligible for this program. If you
can recoup some market value by selling them as coal coal,
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then you can actually still get some money there, but
it'll be the difference between what you got at the
sale barn and what that program would actually pay. So
that's the livestock indemnity program is through the Farm Service Agency.
You need to get in again a notice of loss,
get that in place, and start collecting that documentation.
Speaker 24 (29:19):
For that program.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Doctor Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University Extension with US Well Friends.
The USDA suspended five hundred million dollars in funding for
food banks across America. The agency said the previous administration
quote created unsustainable expectations for the Emergency Food Assistance Program
and pointed to spending authority under the Commodity Credit Corporation.
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Food banks are now left wondering if they'll be able
to receive any food from the USDA in the near future.
And At Hacker, vice president of Strategy and Communications with
the Food Bank of Iowa in the Midwest, said this
makes donations more important than ever.
Speaker 30 (29:58):
Everything's pretty biguous and uncertain, but it is for everybody
right now, whether whether you're a nonprofit or a university,
or a federal agency or a farmer, we're all kind
of navigating through ambiguous times. So the thing that people
keep reading about is the cancelation of funds through the
Commodity Credit Corporation that puts in jeopardy sixteen truckloads of
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USDA food that Food Bank of Iowa is expecting to
receive between April and July. It's about four hundred thousand
pounds of food. We haven't received confirmation that those loads
are canceled. We're seeing signs that some may not make
it here. So bottom line, we might see all of
those loads, we might see some of those loads or
we might see none of that, and the only way
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to make that up is to purchase more food.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Even though things look rough now, Hacker says she still
believes in the abilities of communities across the state to
help out their neighbors and keep them from going hungry.
Speaker 30 (30:53):
Now, it's not unusual to see delays in USDA food
for various reasons at any time, but this it doesn't
look that said, even though the CCC Food puts those
sixteen truckloads in jeopardy, we have been assured that entitlement
and bonus food through USA will still be available. Of course,
that can always change too, So all we can do
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at this point is, you know, monitor the situation. Food
Bank of Iowa and the Iowa Food Bank Association and
Feeding America are all monitoring the situation, and our mission,
of course will continue. It has to continue because we
have rising in record levels of need for food assistants,
so it means we've purchased more food. Purchasing more food
means we're going to have to fundrate more. But our
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community has always been generous and have shown us that,
you know, they will rise to meet the needs.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All donations appreciated and every little bit helps. Hacker said
the best donation for them to receive is monetary donations,
as they can stretch it dollars further than any of
normal consumers can.
Speaker 30 (31:51):
Even though food prices have gone up twenty twenty five
percent over the last four years, we can still buy
food a lot more inexpensively than an individual can because
we're buying it by.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
The truckload and we have those retail relationships.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Hacker also adds that this emphasizes how important it is
for lawmakers to get a bipartisan farm bill approved, which
will help solidify funding for food banks farm US. This morning,
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The Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. President Trump
signed an executive order to increase domestic production of critical minerals,
including potash. The President directed federal agencies to compile lists
of pending mineral projects and expedite their review in coordination
with the National Energy Dominance Council. The President also directed
the Interior Secretary to prioritize critical mineral production on federal
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lands over other activities. The US Geological Survey says America
imported ninety one percent of its potash in twenty twenty three,
a proposal from the US Trade Representative to impose new
fees on ocean carriers with ties to China could take
a major toll on US farmers and ranchers. Two thirds
of all agricultural exports by volume are shipped overseas, and
the cost of transporting exports to international trading partners could
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increase dramatically. And American Farm Bureau report says bolk exports
could face an additional three hundred and seventy two to
nine hundred and thirty million dollars in annual transportation costs.
And the European Union delayed its first round of retaliatory
tariffs until mid April. The EU originally planned to lift
a suspension on previously installed retaliatory tariffs on April first.
That would have been in response to America's twenty five
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percent duties on steel and aluminum imports. An EU spokesman
says this delay provides additional time for more negotiations with
the US. The delayed duties cover twenty six billion euros
worth of American exports, including bourbon.
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From the EG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob Quent back to wrap up ag life
for today friends. While a lot of planning and decisions
going to the construction of a new farm shop or
storage building. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
Lisa Bockledge, marketing director at Morton Buildings, says the company
is making it easier for farmers to start the planning
process us with its three D Studio.
Speaker 20 (35:02):
We're very excited to introduce this free online tool that
enables farmers to design their own farm shop or storage building.
With three D Studio, farmers can visualize their Morton building
design with modern layouts, dimensions and colors that fit their
style and needs. They can zoom in and move around
the building to fully engage in the design both interior
and exterior. It's an easy way to for farmers to
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explore options and zero in on the design that's right
for them. This includes selecting windows, doors, and choosing other
components such as porch, mezzanine, skylights, and cupolas, and the
three D studio is intuitive and simple to use.
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Backledge says one unique feature allows farmers to accurately plan
for their specific space needs this season.
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As farmers prepare their machinery for spring planting, they may
be experiencing tight space to store and move their equipment
around the farm shop. Our three D studio can help
them design a new more spacious farm shop to meet
the current as well as future needs. Users of the
three D Studio determine the ideal dimensions of their buildings
based on the exact size the machinery, vehicles and equipment
they plan to store. There's an ad for scale section
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to easily add pieces of machinery scale to the size
of each machine and arrange them in the layout of
the building. In addition, farmers can include space in their
design for other uses such as storage of trucks, recreational vehicles,
office space, and even for hobbies.
Speaker 12 (36:18):
Once the new building design is finished, the next step
for farmers is to set up a consultation with the
local Morton Buildings team.
Speaker 20 (36:26):
Users of the three D Studio can simply save their
building design for future reference and share it with Morton
at any time for sales consultation. Their local sales consultant
will work with them to ensure the building design meets
their vision, needs and budget, and that it's designed and
engineered proper specifications. The farmer can also print out the
design share it with others through email and social media.
Speaker 12 (36:45):
To learn more and try out the new tool, go
to Morton Buildings dot com and click on three d Studio,
Chad Smith reporting, and.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that, friends, arount of time for today. Thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition, A Bagli
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 all across the country. Wholesale egg
prices have slowly declined over the past month. But what's
behind the trend and how does it translate to the
retail level. Rod Bain starts us off today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
A drop in wholesale egg prices a sign, according to
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins that USDA efforts in preventing high
path avian influenza in egg leg poultry flocks, and lower
egg supplies are living.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
In the right direction absent any unforeseen significant depopulation event.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Secretary, visiting with the reporters, recently discussed changes with
the New York wholesale egg price. Since USDA's five prong
strategy was announced.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The wholesale egg prices are down nearly fifty percent from
their peak. In fact, the New York wholesale egg price
was at its historic peak on February twenty sixth, the
day we rolled a plan out at eight dollars and
fifty Since the price tag has fallen every day since
that peak, with that same egg price dropping to four
dollars and eight since as of March.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The team one reason behind lowering wholesale egg prices in
recent weeks increased supplies do in part to a short
term solution.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Turkey and South Korea have boats confirmed they will be
increasing breaker egg imports into the US.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
With potential of additional nations exporting eggs to the US. Yet,
as USDA Chief of Staff Kaylee Boeller emphasized, we.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Believe the market condition wouldn't make sense once at price
here in the US get to a certain point. So
at the moment in time we're in now, the imports
makes sense. But as market conditions of jobs and IG
prices limit, we wouldn't expect as many imports coming in.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Secretary Rollins acknowledged that some market factors going forward dictate
what egg prices might look like on the retail level.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We recognize it takes time for these reductions at the
wholesale level to translate to price reductions at the retail level.
I know that for some of us are shopping, we've
seen the prices immediately, but then we'll hear from other
people in other parts of the country where they have
yet seed at reduction on their grocery store shelf, but
as we know, it always takes some time and depending
on the part of the country and other factors as
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to why some of that retail hasn't caught up yet
but will very soon.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then there is coming up perhaps the most significant
season for egg demand.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We also recognize the Easter is just a few short
weeks of way, and demand is always unusually high during
this season.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The USDA Chief of Staff ads at additional concern regarding
the Easter season at egg prices.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
We're approaching spring migration, so that leaves a lot of
uncertainty in terms of potential outbreak high path. We want
consumers to be able to enjoy as as they usually do,
but they have to make these determinations on their own
with their families, and we want the Easter holidays to
be just as memorable as they always have been, despite
the situation we're having on.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
HBAI, I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of
Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, friends, we're thinking about cherries from the Pacific Northwest
now the season is upon us. We'll have a story
coming up also a look at corn planting intentions. You're
listening to ad Life Bob Quhen here was some farm
news this morning. Friends. Well, when it comes to Northwest
cherries being a popular spring and summer purchase for consumers,
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many factors come into play, including harvest, quantity, quantity, and price.
Northwest Cherry Growers president bj Thurlby says, there's a price
range that is kind of a win win, so.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
We know that four ninety nine and three ninety nine
is kind of in there in the sweet spot. California
did a really good job of making sure they're pricing
at retail was heavier to that range, which the year
before it was not. And they had a huge crop
the year before and so was our crop.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And last year, Thrillby says, went extremely well across the board.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
From a consumer standpoint, I think we presented everything we
possibly could have. We had great fruit, we had the
right price on it, and then because California was normal
timing last year, we ended up with some big cherry
displays over Memorial Day, which you know, before we even started,
a lot of cherry displays stayed right up front and
that had a very positive impact on the season.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Overall.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That is not always easy.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We battle for cherry shellsface every year. It's not like
Apple's where they have the most shell space in the
produce department to start with and they have the most
shell space to finish with. Cherry's, we lose that shells
face and goes to something else, and we've got to
recreate it every year.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thereby says from the growers he's talked with, things look
promising for the upcoming crop, but added that it's still early.
Well friends, farmers may plant more corn this spring than
initial reports estimate. Jim McCormick, co founder of agmarket dot net,
says people may be surprised at how high the demand
for corn seed is this spring.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The usc Outfook Forum was at ninety four million when
we looked at the numbers. How we generate this data,
We interviews producers. We also talk to our coharts over
at John Stewart Associates and what their commercials are seeing.
We've also talked to a lot of seed sellers and
they're seen across the board, the demand for corn and
is ferocious. There's some genetics that inner certain areas that
have actually run out because that demands so strong, and
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hints that's why we think when it's all said and
done on the thirty first, they're going to come in
at least at ninety five point three nine million acres.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He'll say. It's all about profit opportunities in corn that
are not there for soybeans.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
When you look at the spring price of corn, it's
a nickel above where it was a year ago, while
beans are a dollar below a year ago. And the
fact of the matter is, when you look at the
current price of beans, no one's making money. The cost
of money where it is. Does it make a lot
of sense to borrow a bunch of money to plan
a crop that at this point you are almost guaranteed
to not make money, where at least on the corn
it feels like you got a fighting chance, or at
least you are making some money. It may not be great,
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but the profitability is there, and those are why those
dynamics say the corn acres are going to be up
and bean acres are going to be down. Eighty two
point seventy five million acres is our bean numbers, and yes,
that is down from eighty four in the outlook form,
and down dramatically from this past year of eighty seven point.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh five McCormick said, agmarket dot net is predicting higher
all wheat numbers than USDA estimates.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
We are looking for a little bit all wheat acres
looking at the water wheat numbers, So we are just
a smidge higher right now. Like I said, we're not
look for atting dramatic. This would be too shocking. I mean,
the fact of the matter is, I think the big
numbers are going to be the corn of beings. So
the out look form wheat acres of forty seven million,
we're at about forty seven point eight two million, so
just a shade above it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Jim McCormick, ag market dot net and now an update
on snowpack. Several Western Mountain ranges note significant increase in
snowpack over the month of March, increasing water equivalency levels
for several parts of the region. Rod Bain has a report.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Days away from the end of the Western Mountain snowpack
accumulation season, and USDA borologist Brad Rippy says much of
the region's rages received a significant boost of snow.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
March has been a pretty good month for a lot
of our western watersheds.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Much of the accumulation is recorded in the northern two
thirds of the western region.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Our most abundant snowpack stretches from southern and eastern Oregon
and northern California northeastward into north central Montana.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The Northern Cascades reporting less than ninety percent of average
snowpack for the season in sub locales. But the main
area of concern remains much of the Southwest.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Even with a couple of March storm systems, we are
still seeing snowpack numbers broadly less than seventy five percent
of average in Arizona, New Mexico and extending into southern
sections of Utah and Colorado.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Raising concerns about spring and summer water runoff deficiencies this year.
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Farm News this morning. You're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
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rate steady. More after this.
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So let me say that it is going to be
very difficult to have a precise assessment of how much
of inflation is coming from tariffs from and that's already
the case. You may have seen that goods inflation moved
up pretty significantly in the first two months of the year.
Trying to track that back to actual tariff increases given
what was tariff and what was not very very challenging.
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So some of it, the answer is clearly some of it.
A good part of it is coming from tariffs. But
we'll be working and so will other forecasters, to try
to find the best possible way to separate non tariff
inflation from tariff inflation.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
On declining cinema, we.
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Do understand that sentiment has fallen off pretty sharply, but
economic activity is not yet, and so we're watching carefully.
So I would tell people that the economy seems to
be seems to be healthy. We understand that that sentiment
is quite negative at this time, and that probably has
to do with, you know, turmoil at the beginning of
an administration that's making you know, big changes in areas
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of policy, and that's probably part of it. I do
think the underlying unhappiness people have about the economy, though,
is more is more about the price level.
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Org, American Cattle News. Use what's happening with retail meat
prices and consumer demand more after this.
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Tyler Cousins is the director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
So if we look at the retail beef price in
February is actually eight sixty four per pound, which was
an increase of seven percent from last year and actually
the highest.
Speaker 13 (10:50):
On record or retail beef prices.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Now the record beef price.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
It's noteworthy as it comes during February, which is often
considered a slow month for beef demand and for meat
demand in general. This is due, you know, kind of
the slowing of this meat demand and beef demand during
this these you know, kind of first quarter of the year.
You know, it's kind of you think of what's going on.
We're kind of in the middle of winter and just
people aren't outside realing as much, so that demand does
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slow down. So seeing this, this record beef price in
February is definitely noteworthy in something to watch, and I
kind of flagged that because you know, we kind of
get as we get closer to the Memorial Day, that's
kind of the unofficial start to grilling season in summer
and people being outside more, and definitely we see a
little bit more of an uptick in just overall retail
beef prices. So something to watch here in the coming
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of months. As far as other beef prices that were reported,
ground beef actually reached, it almost reached six dollars per
pound in Februaries, five to ninety six per pound. It's
actually a record, an increase of nine percent from last year.
Rose reached the record of eight dollars per pound in February,
which was an increase of nine percent from last year.
Stake skim in at a record of twelve oh one
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per pound in February, which was an increase of two
percent from last year and the first time time that
the price for mistakes have actually reached above twelve dollars
per pounds. So overall February's retail beef prices were higher,
and a few more record prices were set there on
some of those cuts, which is a noteworthy thing that
I had noted kind of for this time frame that
we're in as we kind of head into getting closer
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to the speak billing demand season.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 15 (12:28):
It's time for our feed Forum Friday with doctor Mike Hutchins,
Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Hello, Mike, Well, welcome to.
Speaker 16 (12:34):
Today's feed form, and we're going to talk a little
bit about an update on room and protected the fining
sources available to dairy farms here in the United States.
Horts Derriman does a survey each year. They reported that
there were seven different commercial companies producing product with a
room protecting the finding forty two percent of the dairy
farms were actually balancing rations based on amino acids, and
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sixteen percent of their herds in the survey were purchasing.
So this was based on a presentation by doctor Clay
Zimmerman from the Walchems Company. So when you look at
these different products, you want to look at three factors.
The first one is what level of the finding is
in the product. Ideally, hopefully it's close to seventy percent
of the finding in the product itself. The next question
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is what percent is roumin protected so it's not degraded
by the room microbes. Ideally, that number would be hopefully
over eighty percent, and then what percent of the finding
is available and a small intestine to be absorbed, and
again we'd like to have a nice higher number there
as well. So generally speaking, if we can get end
up available somewheres around forty percent, we call metabolize the
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finding available. That would be a real plus that the
count could then utilized in the bloodstream to be built
into milk protein and other needs for that essential amino acid.
So there are several different studies that were reported here.
They look at different products and each product performed better
than control. That was the good news, producing typically one
pound more milk here and in most case this is
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about a ten to five point increase in milk protein,
which has a real economic value as well. So as
ended up looking at energy corrected milk that was increased
about one point three pounds both of the products in
the study compared to the control. That study was down
at Virginia, Delaware did a ten midlelactation study and they
took one product and looked at three different levels of
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it and discovered there was kind of a sweet spot
in there. All three levels did increase milk yield. However,
the best level was increasing milk production by about one
point three pounds and five hundreds of increase in milk protein.
Ohio State did another study in which they looked at
again three x three latin square looking at three different
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products here and again one product performed much better than
the other one did, especially at higher levels in the
feeding program. And then also looked at some studies coming
out of Michigan State and a VPI that looked at
what was the amount of scoring availability and both of
these using various techniques. One was a stable is I
hope found that Summer's around fifty four fifty five percent
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was biologically available for that dairy cow in the feeding program.
So certainly the level of it is going to be important.
Look for the research results. It's worked quite well, so
our take a messages. There are number of different products
out there, all of them seem to be performing quite
nicely based on the research that was reported here. Who
can expect to increase about ten fund percent increase in
milk protein and maybe a slight increase in milk production
(15:26):
leading energy correct and milk and there could be some
real savings depending on which product you're using. Somewhere's around
five or six cents differences between these various programs. Well,
that completes the program for today. Thanks, Hey, have a
great day.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Thank you Mike.
Speaker 15 (15:38):
That's doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor emeritus from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here in our feed Forum Friday on
Dairy Radio. Now, the Animal Egg Alliance invites you to
their twenty twenty five summits and that's coming up April
thirty through May second in Arlington, Virginia, Logan Hall with
the Animal Egg Alliance.
Speaker 17 (15:55):
So this year's twenty twenty five Stakeholder Summit theme is
Food for Thought, a dishing on sustainability and someone is
a one of a kind conference. It's attended by a
diverse group of decision makers, including representatives and farmers, ranchers,
allied industries, food processors, grocery stores, university, government officials, and
media across the entire food chain. So we've got a
(16:19):
packed agenda this year. I've got to say, you know,
every year i'd say that we host an incredible summit,
but personally I have to say that I feel like
this session of speakers. We're going to have a former
Google executive and he'll be talking about serving up sustainability
conversations using AI as well as having cybersecurity, biosecurity and activism.
(16:41):
So there'll be another panel that really highlights those three
components as well as then talking about shaping the future
of food and really what is that recipe here those
ingredients to build trust.
Speaker 15 (16:55):
That's Logan Hall with the Animal Egg Alliance Big meeting
coming up April thirtieth through a second in Arlington, Virginia,
with more details at Animal Egg Alliance dot org. I'm
Bill Baker, Dairy Radio and now.
Speaker 18 (17:10):
A novel perennial cover crop for orchard crops. So I'm
Patrick Kavanaugh with a California tree nut report part of
the vastag Information Network. Kelsey Finn is a PhD student
in the Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group. But you see Davis,
she talks about this new cover crop she's working with
and this is part of her dissertation for a PhD.
Speaker 19 (17:31):
This is a hybrid grass species called hybrid Poa bolbosa,
more commonly known as Oakville bluegrass, and it's being introduced
as a perennial cover crop in orchard systems because of
its unique ability to go dormant in the springtime, so
it circumvents a lot of barriers to adoption for orchard
growers to have a cover crop because it will go dormant.
(17:52):
It's very drought resistant, so it requires very little water,
no extraight irrigation, and it is a pretty low lying
grass species that can still improve soil health to the orchard.
And so we're trying to address the question if the
cover crop can improve the structural soil properties that often
sometimes suffer in the trap to row of an orchard
from equipment traffic, and if those changes and improvements to
(18:14):
structural properties can increase the water holding capacity of the
soil and then potentially actually bring water savings to the
soil from the cover crop. Right now, there's a lot
of concern among growers about cover cropping because of the
perceived water use of the cover crop.
Speaker 20 (18:28):
So we're trying to answer that question.
Speaker 18 (18:29):
They're only in year one of the research and they
want to go at least another year on this.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
any origin.
Speaker 21 (18:38):
Theories callers, oh hey, Yeah, it's Seva fungicide from BASF,
a category leader in disease control.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
How do you explain these healthy.
Speaker 21 (18:45):
Crops 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 6 (18:53):
So a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it, Seva fungicide from BASF.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Lord.
Speaker 22 (19:00):
Is it always The best place to reach a farmer
with a farming solution message is when they're well farming.
It's easy to find them during the day as most
farmers are behind the wheel of the pickup truck or
farm equipment with the radio on, listening to this station
for the ag Information Network of the West News. So
reach real farmers right here, right now as they listen
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They trust us, so they'll trust you with the.
Speaker 18 (19:31):
AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
A drop in wholesale egg prices aside, According to Agriculture
Secretary Brook Rawlins that USDA efforts at both preventing high
path aviat influenza in egg laying poultry flocks and lower
egg supplies are moving in.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The right direction absent any unforeseen significant depopulation event.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The Secretary, visiting with the reporters Thursday, noted the almost
one month, almost fifty percent decrease in the New York
sale egg price since USDA's five pronged strategy was announced,
that price at four dollars eight cents a dozen on Wednesday.
She acknowledges at sub cases, the reduction and wholesale egg
prices still needs to translate to the retail level, and
(20:14):
also with Easter and demand for eggs growing as the
holiday approaches.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Their noting set.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Prices are exponentially down, and we're really really encouraged by that.
There is always a possibility those prices could tick back up.
The wholesale egg prices are down nearly fifty percent from
their peak. In fact, the New York wholesale egg price
was at its historic peak on February twenty sixth, the
day we rolled the plan out, at eight dollars and
fifty three cents against that wholesale The price tag has
(20:42):
fallen every day since that peak, with that same egg
price dropping to four dollars and eight cents as of
March nineteenth. So we also recognize the Easter is just
a few short weeks away and demand is always unusually
high during the season. We also recognize that it takes
time for these reductions at the wholesale level to translate
to price productions at the retail level. I know that
(21:02):
for some of us are shopping, we've seen the prices immediately,
but then we'll hear from other people in other parts
of the country where they have yet to see that
reduction on their grocery store shelf. But as we know,
it always takes some time and depending on what part
of the country and other factors as to why some
of that retail hasn't caught up yet but will very soon.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Rodbane reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 23 (21:29):
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Learn more at ligos dot com backslash Crops. I'm Roger McGowan.
In twenty twenty four, the US Supreme Court held that
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(21:50):
when final agency action causes injury, rather than when the
regulation was issued. The court's decision marks a pivotal shift
and how and when federal regulations can be contested, potentially
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(22:12):
they are first affected and be able to have their
case heard. This has been the Agricultural Law and Tax Report.
I'm Roger McGowen.
Speaker 24 (22:23):
There may be some literal movement in the months ahead
for the US dairy industry. During the recent Commodity Classic,
the conversation included discussions about the possibility of US dairies
relocating to Nebraska and other states with more favorable infrastructure.
Chris Galen is with a National Milk Producers Federation.
Speaker 25 (22:43):
From a town called Steward in southeast Nebraska, near Lincoln.
What's happened in the past generation is really not just Nebraska,
but northwest Iowa, which borders Nebraska, southeast South Dakota, which
also borders Nebraska and Iowa, and even western Michigan. That's
called the I twenty nine corridor, and that area has
seen a lot of growth of new greenfield dairy farms
(23:05):
as well as processing plants, either new plants or expanded plants.
A lot of it's in south Dakota and somewhat in
northwest Iowa, but Nebraska's benefited from that.
Speaker 24 (23:13):
Too, He says. The US dairy industry's history saw a
lot of expansion west.
Speaker 25 (23:18):
It gets back to the point that a lot of
the dairy growth in the past forty or fifty years
was out west California. But that bloom is certainly off
the roads and a cost of doing business in California
for dairies and other operations and really high, and so
probably thirty years ago you saw some migration from California
to New Mexico and also Idaho, and those are good
places to dairy. The regulatory climate's very friendly, there's land
(23:41):
that's available, but their challenges they don't have as much water.
Speaker 24 (23:44):
So US dairy operations began expanding back to the east
a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 25 (23:50):
Really in the past fifteen twenty years, what you've seen
is this further move back to the east.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
There was a fairly.
Speaker 25 (23:56):
Significant movement into the Great Lakes area fifteen twenty years ago, Michigan,
Ohio and northern Indiana. And now what we're seeing is
some of that is more centrally located in the Great
Plains along that H twenty nine corridor. There, that land
tends to be lower, there are fewer population centers nearby,
and obviously you have the access to the feed grains
and water too.
Speaker 24 (24:16):
He says, there's a lot to consider when decided to
make a move like that. Again, that's Chris Galen of
the National Milk Producers Federation.
Speaker 26 (24:23):
With California AGG today I in Hayley Ship. This is
the ag information Network depopulation. We've all already identified in
this five part series on egg prices that highly pathogenic
avian influenza is a huge factor in the current rise
to egg prices. Part of that is because of the
impact it has on flocks. The US primary control strategy
(24:47):
for HPAI, defined by the World Organization for Animal Health,
is depopulation. When HPAI is detected, entire flocks are destroyed
to prevent the virus from spreading. With the mortality rate
near one hundred percent, This is considered the most humane
and effective control method, though it results in substantial losses
(25:08):
for farmers, according to market intel shared by the American
Farm Bureau USDAAPHIS offers an indemnity program that compensates growers
for poultry and eggs destroyed due to HPAI. However, this
indemnity does not cover the costs associated with the long
recovery period. It can take up to a year for
a farm to clean, restock, and raise new chicks to
(25:30):
egg laying age, and during this time farms often operate
without income. Beyond the financial burden, the loss of an
entire flock is a traumatic experience for farm families.
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Speaker 28 (26:10):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sofena
insecticide from basf We.
Speaker 13 (26:15):
Just get nailed with it.
Speaker 28 (26:16):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still wanted to devour this field?
Speaker 9 (26:23):
No way, bro. There you have it, folks.
Speaker 28 (26:26):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 27 (26:33):
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Speaker 26 (26:39):
This is California AGG today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. For more agnews, check us out
online at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Bob when here are some farm news this morning, friends.
While recent wildfires have devastated the agricultural landscape in Oklahoma
and some of surrounding states, doctor Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State
University Extension specialist in agricultural and food policy, talks about
what producers hit by wildfires should keep in mind.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 29 (27:08):
I think always the first thing is safety getting back
into those areas, make sure the hotspots are out, make
sure you're cleared to get back into those areas. And
then it's assessing damages safely, so walking through the pastures,
or we lost some barns, we lost some pins, we
lost some machinery. These were big fires, they were hot fires.
There was a lot of damage done across residential and
(27:31):
agricultural areas, But just focusing on agriculture. Pictures and video
are going to be really important early on. Document those losses,
get them into the appropriate organizations, whether that's Farm Service
Agency for disaster programs, whether that's your crop insurance agent
if you happen to have some cropping losses, whether that's
your insurance company if it's a barn or something that's
(27:54):
covered under insurance, Get those documents in quickly, get their
losses reported quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There are different programs available to help producers recover from
disaster losses like wildfires.
Speaker 29 (28:06):
We've got a fact sheet coming out here in the
next couple of weeks that will actually walk through each
one of those programs that are for each different kind
of loss that a producer experiences. And just focusing on
cattle for the moment, because so much of this time
of year is grassland.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
First of all.
Speaker 29 (28:22):
If we lost cattle or any other kind of livestock
in the fire, commercial livestock. Then there's a program called
the Livestock Indemnity Program that can be used to help
pay up to seventy five percent of the market value
of those cattle losses.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
She said. The livestock indemnity program is unique.
Speaker 29 (28:39):
Now, this is a unique program in that it's not
just the cattle that died in the fire, but if
you had cattle that had injuries that they had to
be euthanized, they're also eligible for that program. Or if
they had injuries where they had to be culled from
the herd, they're also eligible for this program. If you
can recoup some market value by selling them as coal coal,
(29:00):
then you can actually still get some money there, but
it'll be the difference between what you got at the
sale barn and what that program would actually pay. So
that's the livestock indemnity program is through the Farm Service Agency.
You need to get in again a notice of loss,
get that in place, and start collecting that documentation.
Speaker 24 (29:19):
For that program.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Doctor Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University Extension with US Well Friends.
The USDA suspended five hundred million dollars in funding for
food banks across America. The agency said the previous administration
quote created unsustainable expectations for the Emergency Food Assistance Program
and pointed to spending authority under the Commodity Credit Corporation.
(29:43):
Food banks are now left wondering if they'll be able
to receive any food from the USDA in the near future.
And At Hacker, vice president of Strategy and Communications with
the Food Bank of Iowa in the Midwest, said this
makes donations more important than ever.
Speaker 30 (29:58):
Everything's pretty biguous and uncertain, but it is for everybody
right now, whether whether you're a nonprofit or a university,
or a federal agency or a farmer, we're all kind
of navigating through ambiguous times. So the thing that people
keep reading about is the cancelation of funds through the
Commodity Credit Corporation that puts in jeopardy sixteen truckloads of
(30:20):
USDA food that Food Bank of Iowa is expecting to
receive between April and July. It's about four hundred thousand
pounds of food. We haven't received confirmation that those loads
are canceled. We're seeing signs that some may not make
it here. So bottom line, we might see all of
those loads, we might see some of those loads or
we might see none of that, and the only way
(30:42):
to make that up is to purchase more food.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Even though things look rough now, Hacker says she still
believes in the abilities of communities across the state to
help out their neighbors and keep them from going hungry.
Speaker 30 (30:53):
Now, it's not unusual to see delays in USDA food
for various reasons at any time, but this it doesn't
look that said, even though the CCC Food puts those
sixteen truckloads in jeopardy, we have been assured that entitlement
and bonus food through USA will still be available. Of course,
that can always change too, So all we can do
(31:14):
at this point is, you know, monitor the situation. Food
Bank of Iowa and the Iowa Food Bank Association and
Feeding America are all monitoring the situation, and our mission,
of course will continue. It has to continue because we
have rising in record levels of need for food assistants,
so it means we've purchased more food. Purchasing more food
means we're going to have to fundrate more. But our
(31:35):
community has always been generous and have shown us that,
you know, they will rise to meet the needs.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All donations appreciated and every little bit helps. Hacker said
the best donation for them to receive is monetary donations,
as they can stretch it dollars further than any of
normal consumers can.
Speaker 30 (31:51):
Even though food prices have gone up twenty twenty five
percent over the last four years, we can still buy
food a lot more inexpensively than an individual can because
we're buying it by.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
The truckload and we have those retail relationships.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Hacker also adds that this emphasizes how important it is
for lawmakers to get a bipartisan farm bill approved, which
will help solidify funding for food banks farm US. This morning,
you're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 31 (32:21):
The Information Network. This is your agribusiness update. President Trump
signed an executive order to increase domestic production of critical minerals,
including potash. The President directed federal agencies to compile lists
of pending mineral projects and expedite their review in coordination
with the National Energy Dominance Council. The President also directed
the Interior Secretary to prioritize critical mineral production on federal
(32:43):
lands over other activities. The US Geological Survey says America
imported ninety one percent of its potash in twenty twenty three,
a proposal from the US Trade Representative to impose new
fees on ocean carriers with ties to China could take
a major toll on US farmers and ranchers. Two thirds
of all agricultural exports by volume are shipped overseas, and
the cost of transporting exports to international trading partners could
(33:06):
increase dramatically. And American Farm Bureau report says bolk exports
could face an additional three hundred and seventy two to
nine hundred and thirty million dollars in annual transportation costs.
And the European Union delayed its first round of retaliatory
tariffs until mid April. The EU originally planned to lift
a suspension on previously installed retaliatory tariffs on April first.
That would have been in response to America's twenty five
(33:28):
percent duties on steel and aluminum imports. An EU spokesman
says this delay provides additional time for more negotiations with
the US. The delayed duties cover twenty six billion euros
worth of American exports, including bourbon.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
It's been popping up in orchards and vineyards all over
in the origin.
Speaker 21 (33:45):
Dearies callers, Oh hey, yeah, it's Seva fund aside from BASF,
a category leader in disease control.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
How do you explain these healthy crops well, longer.
Speaker 21 (33:53):
Lasting residual Plus, it's built for current regulatory standards and
prepared for what's to come, which improves crop marketing.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Flexible a fungicide that is out of this world. I
knew it Sevia fungicide from BASF for is it always
reading all aggressions.
Speaker 22 (34:09):
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
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(34:30):
mean the most to you online at aginfo dot net.
The Egg Information Network trusted and transparent journalism lasting for
the next generation.
Speaker 13 (34:38):
From the EG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob Quent back to wrap up ag life
for today friends. While a lot of planning and decisions
going to the construction of a new farm shop or
storage building. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
Lisa Bockledge, marketing director at Morton Buildings, says the company
is making it easier for farmers to start the planning
process us with its three D Studio.
Speaker 20 (35:02):
We're very excited to introduce this free online tool that
enables farmers to design their own farm shop or storage building.
With three D Studio, farmers can visualize their Morton building
design with modern layouts, dimensions and colors that fit their
style and needs. They can zoom in and move around
the building to fully engage in the design both interior
and exterior. It's an easy way to for farmers to
(35:22):
explore options and zero in on the design that's right
for them. This includes selecting windows, doors, and choosing other
components such as porch, mezzanine, skylights, and cupolas, and the
three D studio is intuitive and simple to use.
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Backledge says one unique feature allows farmers to accurately plan
for their specific space needs this season.
Speaker 20 (35:42):
As farmers prepare their machinery for spring planting, they may
be experiencing tight space to store and move their equipment
around the farm shop. Our three D studio can help
them design a new more spacious farm shop to meet
the current as well as future needs. Users of the
three D Studio determine the ideal dimensions of their buildings
based on the exact size the machinery, vehicles and equipment
they plan to store. There's an ad for scale section
(36:04):
to easily add pieces of machinery scale to the size
of each machine and arrange them in the layout of
the building. In addition, farmers can include space in their
design for other uses such as storage of trucks, recreational vehicles,
office space, and even for hobbies.
Speaker 12 (36:18):
Once the new building design is finished, the next step
for farmers is to set up a consultation with the
local Morton Buildings team.
Speaker 20 (36:26):
Users of the three D Studio can simply save their
building design for future reference and share it with Morton
at any time for sales consultation. Their local sales consultant
will work with them to ensure the building design meets
their vision, needs and budget, and that it's designed and
engineered proper specifications. The farmer can also print out the
design share it with others through email and social media.
Speaker 12 (36:45):
To learn more and try out the new tool, go
to Morton Buildings dot com and click on three d Studio,
Chad Smith reporting, and.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that, friends, arount of time for today. Thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition, A Bagli
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