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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. We
start off with the USDA look at apple production.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
If you enjoy the fall flavors of apples, not just
an autumn, but anytime. USDA Research economis Catherine Weber notes
this year has projected US apple production.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The twenty twenty five US apple crop is forecasts at
eleven point five billion pounds according to the August USDA
NAS Crop Production Report. The twenty twenty five apple crop
marks the third season in the last decade that annual
production exceeded eleven billion pounds based on seven NASS surveyed states.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
If those forecasts hold up, apple production will be up
six percent year over year, but similar to production numbers
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
In Washington, the largest apple producing state, the crop is
forecast to be eight billion pounds seven percent higher, or
five hundred and twenty million pounds more last year.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The majority of the Evergreen state's apple crop, eighty percent,
goes to the fresh market.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
This fresh market share is higher than the next three
apple producing states, New York Michigan and Pennsylvania, which each
had a fresh market share closer to fifty percent over
the last five seasons.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'll look at production forecast and other apple growing states include.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
In New York, twenty twenty five, apple production is forecast
to increase twelve percent year over year, ranking second and
apple production behind Washington with one point four five billion pounds.
If realized, New York's apple crop will be the largest
since twenty twenty two. Pennsylvania is forecast to produce four
hundred and thirty million pounds of apples in twenty twenty five,
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which represents four percent of US production. This year's forecast
is similar to last year, and overall fruit quality is
reported as high. Virginia and Oregon are each forecast to
produce one hundred and sixty five million pounds of apples
this year. The twenty twenty five apple crop and Oregon
is up thirty eight percent year every year and is
the largest crop since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Regarding twenty twenty five apple production forecast by variety.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The US Apple Association expects a record size honeycrisp crop
in twenty twenty five twenty six if realized, Honeycrisp would
rank third in apple varieties by volume for the first time,
surpassing Granny Smith by continuing to trail behind the Gala
and by delicious.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Also of note a rise of fresh apple exports.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Fresh apple exports are higher, imports are lower. In the
last two seasons and marketing year twenty twenty four to
twenty five, the United States exported approximately twenty five percent
of its fresh market apple production volume, the same share
as last season. US fresh apple exports and marketing year
twenty twenty four to twenty five total one point eight
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five billion pounds by volume and one billion pounds by value.
In twenty twenty four to twenty five, the fresh apple
export volume was one hundred and twenty nine million pounds
lower than last season, the nineteen percent higher than the
previous three year average.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
D C.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Farm use ahead. You're listening to aglife, Bob Quinn. Here
was some farmer news this morning. Friends. The Purdue University
CME Group AG Economy Barometer Index rose three points in
October to a reading of one twenty nine. Farmers are
in the planning stages for twenty twenty six, and the
index detailed farmer plans for next year. While facing low
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corn prices.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Thirty percent, roughly three out of ten, said they anticipated
making no changes. Twenty seven percent said they would adopt
lower cost seed traits, twenty nine percent said they would
reduce phosphorus rates, and just eleven percent said they would
reduce seating rates. Sixteen percent said they reduced nitrogen rates
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Another question included finding out whether farmers thought things were
on the right or wrong track.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Responses continued to be very consistent. Seventy two percent said
right to direction. That compares to seventy one percent who's
felt that way in September, sixty nine percent who felt
that way in August, and seventy four percent who felt
that way in July.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Doctor James mintert Purdue University with US Well Friends the
National Potato Council express sharp disappointment over the US Japan
Trade agreement. NPC CEO cam Quarrels says President Trump was
unable to finally open access to the Japanese market for
US fresh potatoes.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
We were very optimistic given all of the Tara fleverage
that President Trump had created specifically on Japan.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Unfortunately, Quarrel says, the meeting between President Trump and Japan's
Prime minister did not include any mention of US fresh
potato access.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
As he was meeting with the new Japanese Prime minister,
we were really hopeful that he was going to be
able to get this Fresh Potato Market Act sas request
that again is thirty years old. Finally, to the finish.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Line moving forward, Quaro says, it's back to the grindstone.
We know the.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Market is there in Japan. We know that the technical
hurdles to our accessing that market have been dealt with,
and really it's just a question of can the President
break past this Japanese protectionism. If he can, it's one
hundred and fifty million dollars a year in new US
AG exports.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That would be a great way to immediately cut into
a growing ag trade deficit that built up in recent years.
The American Farm Bureau Women Leadership Committee will celebrate the
International Year of the Woman Farmer. Chad Smith has more.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
The United Nations is recognizing twenty twenty six as the
International Year of the Woman Farmer, with hopes of spotlighting
the contributions of women in agriculture and agribusiness. Lisa Werry,
a Pennsylvania farmer and member of the American Farm Bureau
Women's Leadership Committee, says this is an important time to
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acknowledge the contributions of women in rural America.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Some of the key goals and objectives are to recognize
and empower, to address barriers, to promote gender equality and
support economic growth, and to enhance access with our education,
markets and other resources for women in the sector.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
She said.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
The American Farm Bureau Women's Committee has a full slate
of programming for the year ahead, including the upcoming ACE Summit.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Which is Advocate, cultivate, and empower. We're going to do
that in DC in June, and that's going to roll
right into the Women in Egg Survey, which will explore
women's leadership and involvement, access to the industry, and identify
barriers and opportunities to provide actionable insights to strength and
engagement and support systems. But the big thing is about
how women play a vital role in American agriculture.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
She says.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
The survey is open to all women, not just those
who directly make an income from production agriculture.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
The survey is open to individuals eighteen and older from
the United States to Puerto Rico who have an interest
or involvement in agriculture, and also those that work in production, agriculture, agribusiness, education, aguacy,
and related fills.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Learn more and take the survey at women in agsurvey
dot com Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Chinese buyers have begun some modest purchases of US suite
and sorghum as. China's Cabinet last week announced it will
suspend a twenty four percent retaliatory tariff on US goods
and roll back duties of up to fifteen percent on
some American agriculture shipments starting this week, while retaining a
ten percent based levy now. The move unveiled after high
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level talks between the US and China signals of thought
and agricultural trade tensions. But for key US exports, such
as soybeans, the benefit remains a little muted. Beijing will
keep a thirteen duty on US soybeans, making them less
competitive than Brazilian supplies on the world market. Farm US
this morning, you're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson, and this
is your agribusiness update.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
After several challenging years, California walnut growers were optimistic this
fall as harvest met with more favorable market conditions. The
industry entered the twenty twenty five to twenty six marketing
year essentially sold out of supply, which growers expect will
make it easier to sell this year's crop, projected at
seven hundred and ten thousand tons at higher prices. Strong
export demand, a new domestic marketing push, and mild summer
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growing conditions that produce high quality nuts have buoyed that industry.
The USDA's nationalid Statistics Service will release several key agg
reports in November, including the monthly WASDI report that wasn't
issued last month due to the government shutdown. According to
a post on its website, NAS will release the crop
production and world egg supply and demand estimates on November fourteenth.
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Reuters says the report will provide the government's first estimate
of US corn and SOYBEW production since September. October saw
a modest rise in US farm sentiment, as the Purdue
University CME Group EG Economy Barometer index rose three points
to one twenty nine. The slight rise was fueled primarily
by an increase in the index of current conditions at
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one thirty eight points above September. Meanwhile, the index of
future expectations rose a single point to one twenty nine.
Farmer's appraisal of current conditions continues to be fueled by
record high profits in the beef sector.
Speaker 11 (09:36):
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Speaker 4 (10:28):
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It's time for California agg today on the AG Information
Network I in Haley's ship Well. California farm advocates say
they are closer than ever to changing a decades old
world that's kept autonomous tractors off state farms. Even though
California entreprenewers are leading the way in farm robotics, a
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regulation that was written back in nineteen seventy seven still
requires someone to be sitting at the controls whenever a
tractor is running. That role was created long before driverless
vehicles were even imagined, and it's made it tough for
farmers to use the latest technology. Brian Little with the
California Farm Bureau says the regulation is obviously out of date.
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He told egg Alert, the Farm Bureau's weekly publication.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That something needs to change.
Speaker 13 (11:31):
Last August, cal OSHA clarified that driverless tractors can be
used when no workers are around. Advocates say that's progress,
but that they're still pushing for a full rule change.
Sonoma County Farmer and Atonomy CEO Tim Butcher says working
with regulators has been key, adding that we want the
same thing, which is worker safety. The state's Standards Board
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is expected to release a report soon outlining possible next
steps for autonomous tractors in the state of California.
Speaker 11 (12:04):
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to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon funge side at Bloom for ated resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wouldn't tough at all. Maravon fungicide
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Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf We.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
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Speaker 14 (12:34):
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Speaker 15 (12:51):
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Speaker 13 (12:57):
This is California agg today on the Egg Information Network.
Finds more agricultural news at agginfo dot net.
Speaker 16 (13:05):
When a PCA writes a recommendation and a tree nut
orchard needs to be careful to cover himself, I'm Patrick
Cavanaugh with the California tree Nut Report, part of the
Vast ag Information Network. Anthony Dunnell is the owner of
Russian Duddele consulting.
Speaker 17 (13:20):
The California code as it relates to PCAs that grower
is not responsible for the application if his organization is
not making the application. So if a PCA writes a recommendation,
hands that over to the grower, the grower out goes
out and makes the application, it's beyond the PCA's control
and whoever makes the application assumes responsibility for what comes
out of those nozzles. So in that case, when you
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look at that, a grower can write a recommendation for
a herbicide application or insecch side application, and if the
grower goes out and makes the application, the winds blown
eighteen miles an hour and a half of it winds
up two counties over, then that's on the grower or
whoever made the application, And there's nothing that most that
grower from naming the PCA in a lawsuit, and then
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you have so again, it's really critical to include those
warning in those cautionary statements in that recommendation because that
absolves him of those things, right, And the more that
you do that.
Speaker 16 (14:16):
It can happen. A PCA can write a recommendation and
you know.
Speaker 17 (14:20):
I'm a PCA, and having been a PCA at one point,
I can tell you that I wrote a recommendation, somebody
else made a bad application on it. You can bet
you the next time I write that, if I didn't
include that in my recognition, I'm going to do it
next time.
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Speaker 14 (15:02):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basl.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 14 (15:09):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still wanted to devour this feew?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
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Speaker 18 (15:17):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
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 15 (15:26):
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read and follow label directions.
Speaker 16 (15:32):
With the ag Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 19 (15:36):
It's another agnews update, a rescheduled WISTI and premium beef
demand more after this.
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became assistance engineer, before I got started in aerospace, I
was a kid making discoveries. I did my first lab experiment.
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Speaker 19 (16:16):
USDA pushing the November World agg Supply and Demand Estimates
ORD and the crop production Bundle to Friday, November fourteenth,
eleven am Eastern Time. It makes the report the first
full post shutdown read on yields, exports, and feed residual
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It's a keyphivot for bases and hedging into the end
of the year. Will be the first major report from
USDA since the government closed in China. Doctor Fred Gail
notes crushers or bleeding red ink after paying up for
Brazilian beans, signaling potential openings for US soy if policy
momentum and price parity hole Closer to home. Mississippi River's
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historic low water continues to thin toe sizes and spike freight.
It's widening the basis spreads between the Gulf and Pacific Northwest,
forcing some farmers to juggle on farm storage, delivery windows,
and cash needs. In the meantime, consumer demand keeps rewarding
quality certified Angus beef capping another powerhouse year with record
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prime volume, sending a clear price signal for genetics. It's
another agnews update.
Speaker 20 (17:36):
At the American Veterinary Medical Association Annual Convention in Denver,
we caught up with Michael Gerghi from Student Loan Advisor.
Speaker 21 (17:43):
I think the biggest thing to remember when it comes
down to student loans and student loan forgiveness is that
you have to be very, very vigilant because it really
can be one of the biggest empowering choices of your
life to go out and get this degree inside of
the veterinary field, or it can be a tremendous roadblock
if it's not managed properly. So we really try and
encourage that. The overarching theme and the top line piece
of advice that we give the books.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
There's more valuable information on AVMA dot.
Speaker 19 (18:05):
Org American Cattle News, what's happening in the cattle markets,
and what's ahead this week, more after this.
Speaker 18 (18:17):
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became assistance engineer, before I got started in aerospace, I
was a kid making discoveries. I did my first live experiment.
I've run off science school in four h and four
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and see how you can help at four h dot org.
Speaker 19 (18:47):
Oliver's slope is with blue line futures in Chicago e've all.
Speaker 22 (18:52):
For live cattle and feeder cattle futures marked multi year
highs to start the week, as uncertainty around future prices
with the administerrys push to lower beef prices for consumers kept
things interesting now since the start of the week's evol
has come back in a little bit, but daily average
ranges are still relatively wide. The fourteen day average true
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range for January feeder cattle reached a high of eight
thirteen earlier in the week, and for April live cattle
that fourteen day average true range reached four seventy two.
Headline risks still loom, with analysts keeping close eyes on
the Southern border as it pertains siscrew worm, which has
halted the cattle imports from Mexico for some time. There
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was some speculation earlier in the week that there was
talk of putting together a plan to reopen that border,
but no official statement or dates have been made. Traders
and analysts will also be keeping a close eye on
trade negotiations with Brazil, which were hit with beef tariffs
earlier in the year. This morning's wholesale box beef report
was mixed. We saw Choice Scotts forty cents higher to
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three seventy eight sixty seven and Slight Cuts twenty nine
cents lower to three fifty nine to twenty three. Yesterday's
five area average price for life series was reported at
two twenty nine to seventy nine. That's steady with the
prior day's report and daily Solder yesterday was reported at
one hundred and fourteen thousand head.
Speaker 19 (20:12):
That's Oliver's slope with blue line futures. In Chicago last week,
cash sells two thirty five to two thirty six in
the South. That doesn't count the reports of one to
two dollars over the top that doesn't get reported in
the north. Two thirty down eight box dressed at three
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sixty off ten. American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 20 (20:44):
Prescribed fire benefits to the farm landscape our topic today
on our Producer Tuesday, brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. From a recent PDP dairy signal, we hear
from Jake Pulfer, a prescribed fire coordinator with Pheasants Forever, Inc.
And how long has prescribed burning been around, so.
Speaker 23 (21:02):
Prescribe fire has actually been around in one form of
another for more than ten thousand years. In order to survive,
they noticed that it brought around certain crops of food
like raspberries, blueberries. It also helped control brush and keep
woodlands and forests more open so that it allowed for
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easy hunting access.
Speaker 20 (21:26):
He discusses why prescribe burns on the farm are so important.
Speaker 23 (21:30):
There's a real need for us to increase the amount
of acreage that is getting burned in the state of
Wisconsin annually. And I think that you know, we've mentioned
the kind of the community aspect that can come around
to help get these fires done. And one of the
most emergent ways that that's kind of happening here in
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Wisconsin is with Prescribe Burn Associations, which is appeared to
appear organization of landowners. It can be formal informal, but
it's just people coming together to share equipment, to share
their expertise, you know, attending fire training workshop. So attending
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one of those if you want more information, but then
also just give me a call. I love chatting about
this stuff. Otherwise, you know, you can talk to your
local farm build biologists and they will come out and
they will talk to you, and we all of us
are able to, you know, look at a piece of
land with you and give you an idea of how
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we would safely burn that.
Speaker 20 (22:36):
Britta Peterson, a biologist with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever,
offers her two cents.
Speaker 24 (22:42):
No, my kind of big takeaway is that fire is good,
but you have to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So as a landowner, it is.
Speaker 24 (22:49):
A useful and beneficial tool, but as we've talked about,
it does take some preparation, whether it just want it,
but I need to hire somebody, or if you're putting
in that time to learn.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
So fire is a good thing, it just takes some preparation.
Speaker 23 (23:01):
Yeah, I don't think that you can stress enough how
much training is important. Certainly you can learn how to
do fire, but trial and error can lead to some
pretty disastrous mistakes. So taking the time to reach out
to those that have practice, that are knowledgeable, and just
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asking questions might be the easiest way to start yourself
on your fire journey. And I was on a fire
training earlier this year and one of the participants said
that fire is a team sport and that really resonates
with me because all of us within the prescribed fire
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community actively want to help those that are just getting
into fire or are curious about fire and help them
grow their their knowledge and ability to help contribute to
the number of acres that are getting burned.
Speaker 20 (24:06):
And you A's Jake Poulfer, Prescribe Fire coordinator with Pheasants
Forever ink and Britta Peterson, a biologist with Pheasants Forever
and also Quail Forever. Here on Dairy Radio. Now Here's
dairy farmer Hank Wagner and his daughter Laura with another
simple miracle moment.
Speaker 24 (24:22):
Our society today does not do a very good job
at nurturing family ties or believing in our children.
Speaker 25 (24:28):
Many children today are being raised in broken homes or
are being neglected because their parents are too busy to
give their children the attention they hunger for and need. Sadly,
that forces our children to find other ways to get attention.
Speaker 24 (24:41):
They may have the opportunity to find it in a
coach or teacher, but many times they find themselves in
dangerous or abusive relationships. They can also resort to other
unfortunate activities that will get them some of the attention
that they need.
Speaker 25 (24:55):
We can set ourselves up for regular miracles by daily
exercising a belief, and people develop habits that regularly send
I believe in you messages. There are people around you
who desperately need someone to believe in them. You can
be that person.
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That's Hank Wagner and Laura Rodd's, author of the book
Simple Miracles for More Go to Become Better Leaders dot.
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Taking a drive this fall to a forest park or
scenic byway near or far to observe the beauty of
tree leaves transforming colors from greed to all sorts of
shades of reds, yellow, at orange. Cynthia Dolbaghidi looks at
this phenomenad not just from an artistic perspective.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
It's actually quite interesting, saying to study why needs change
color in the fall.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Per approach based on her background as a Kansas State
University Extension horticulture expert, also taking a scientific angle at
tree leaf transformation in the autumn, Any Bailey of the
US Forest Service who looks at how this brigged summer
months impact what we see in the.
Speaker 27 (26:20):
Fall caused the leaves to be not their full leaf
size this year.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I'm Rod Bain coming up. We look at the science
of the fall colors in this edition of Agriculture USA.
The start of autumn and the start of the fall
color season for those who love a road trip to
their national forest or hometown park to see the changing
of leaf colors in the autumn buds. And there perhaps
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is no more known representation of this phenomenon than in
the forest of New England.
Speaker 27 (26:50):
You can see widespread swaths of these hardwood trees such
as sugar maple, American beach, yellow birch, paper birch ash.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They're all color revealing various shades of gold, red, and orange,
according to Amy Bailey, a US Forest Service technician in
New Hampshire. Add While several of you the transformation of
fall colors with natural artistry, abid Kansas State University Extension
horticultural expert Cynthia DOBAGHII and others see it from a
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scientific perspective.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
What you actually are seeing is that the leaves aren't
necessarily changing color. They're revealing colors.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So fall leaf fad dancing. Get that out of your
head and think of fall color changes scientifically. The zinga
fall colors are always present within the leaves. Fall color pigments, however,
are overshadowed by nature's process in the suburb.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
The chlorophyll in the plant leaves that's capturing the energy
from the sun and making food for the plants. We're
seeing the green that's being produced from.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All of that chlorophyll production is slowed down in the
autumn months. Sunlight decreases and days grow shorter, so the.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Leaves lose their green color and the other pigments are
now being revealed.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
They're visible now for you. Plant pathologists out there by
career are just interest You may know the fall colored
pigments of leaves catain several coponits.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Some of those pigments that you're starting to see, or
you may see, depending on what varieties of plants are around,
will show orange and yellow pigment. Those pigments are created
by xanthophylls and caroteens tannins in the plant are producing
the brown colors that you see. Anthocyanins will create reds
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and purple pigments. And the timing and intensity of the
fall color varies depending on tree type, but also the
environmental conditions.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That is why the fall color leaf display on any
given tree can vary from year to year. What else
determines the colors of the fall weather of the sprig
and suburb.
Speaker 27 (28:59):
Usually what makes really brilliant color is a summer that's
been somewhat moist, so the trees are healthy, and the
nights are getting longer and are getting colder, and then
a sunny day it's going to allow the leaf to
still make some sugars, and the sugars are going to
help keep the leaf on the tree and expressing these
colors that are now available yet.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Aby Bailey of the Forest Service says of weather earlier
this year in her home region of New England, we.
Speaker 27 (29:26):
Got approximately twenty four into the rain in April, May
and June, which is twice what you usually get.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That wet period, creating both fungal and insect attacks of foliage.
That was followed by a late summer extreme heat period
producing drought conditions.
Speaker 27 (29:41):
These trees are just kind of completely stressed and maxed
by this heat and drought.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The impacts the fall colors. Subtrees of New England are
undergoing a premature transition period. Others, especially those either with
fungal or pest damage or with roots in shallow soils,
reveal brown colored perhaps leaves. So now you know some science,
how can you add that to your appreciation of the
fall leaf color transformation? Cynthia Domcghiee offers these ideas, whether
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viewing fall colors at a national forest or your own
backyard tree, It's.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Actually a really interesting thing to track if you're into
journaling and keeping records of what colors. Maybe even taking
photos of what your trees look like from one year
to the next and comparing those could be kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
This has been Agriculture USA. A broad Bain, reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Bob Quinn. Here were some farmer US this morning friends.
The Purdue University CMME Group ag Economy Barometer Index rose
three points in October to a reading of one twenty nine.
Farmers are in the planning stages for twenty twenty six,
and the index detailed farmer plans for next year. While
facing low corn prices.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Thirty percent, roughly three out of ten said they anticipated
making no changes. Twenty seven percent said they would adopt
lower cost seed traits, twenty nine percent said they would
reduce phosphorus rates, and just eleven percent said they would
reduce seating rates. Sixteen percent said they reduced nitrogen rates
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Another question included finding out whether farmers thought things were
on the right or wrong track.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Responses continued to be very consistent. Seventy two percent said
right direction. That compares to seventy one percent who felt
that way in September, sixty nine percent who felt that
way in August, and seventy four percent who felt that
way in July.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Doctor James mintert Purdue University with US Well Frensley National
Potato Council express sharp disappointment over the US Japan Trade agreement.
NPC CEO cam Quarrels says President Trump was unable to
finally open access to the Japanese market for US fresh potatoes.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
We were very optimistic given all of the tariff leverage
that President Trump had created specifically on Japan.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Unfortunately, Quaro says, the meeting between President Trump and Japan's
Prime minister did not include any mention of US fresh
potato access.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
As he was meeting with the new Japanese Prime minister,
we were really hopeful that he was going to be
able to get this fresh potato market access request that
again is thirty years old. Finally, to the finish.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Line moving forward, Quaro says, it's back to the grindstone.
We know the.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Market is there in Japan, we know that the technical
hurdles to our accessing that market have been dealt with,
and really it's just a question of can the President
break past this Japanese protectionism. If he can, it's one
hundred and fifty million dollars a year in new US
AG exports.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That would be a great way to immediately cut into
a growing ag trade deficit that built up in recent years. Well, friends,
fall is a great time of year for farmers to
look back at what worked this year, scout fields for resistance,
and perhaps consider changes that need to be made for
twenty twenty six. Glenn Wagen reports.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Curtis Rainbolt with bas says it's important for growers to
look back on their insect pest management determine what worked
was what didn't work.
Speaker 28 (33:29):
Unlike you know, resistance in weeds, which can be a
little bit easier to spot, it's a little harder to
tell with insects because they kind of move in move out.
It's not quite as obvious.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
So if you dive.
Speaker 28 (33:42):
Back into what happened the last season, what your applications were,
maybe something you've been using successfully for multiple seasons but
it just wasn't quite right. Take note of that and
that may be a potential case of insecticide resistance.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Rainbow added, growers need to take the time to ask
their university specialists, those at your nearby extension office about
what the industry is seeing locally and how to bez
address those pest and weed problems. Rainboldt added, as growers
looked to the season ahead, it's important to choose insecticides
with different modes of action to reduce selection pressures. He
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acknowledged that this is a difficult economy for many in
the farming community.
Speaker 28 (34:23):
Even in a depressed market, quality is something that growers
can still benefit from, you know, growing a crop of
the highest quality got a nice size profile, so using
some of our vetter insecticides can help with that as well.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Rainbold added growers that used insecticides with unique modes of
action closed out twenty twenty five with healthier plans, better standability,
and an extended harvest window. I'm Glenn Bogan.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Reporting Chinese buyers have begun some modest purchases of US
Suite and Sorcum as China's Cabinet last week announced it
will suspend a twenty four percent recabatory tariff on US
goods and roll back duties of up to fifteen percent
on some American agriculture shipments starting this week, while retaining
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a ten percent base levy now. The move, unveiled after
high level talks between the US and China, signals the
thaw and agricultural trade tensions, But for key US exports,
such as soybeans, the benefit remains a little muted. Beijing
will keep a thirteen percent duty on US soybeans, making
them less competitive than Brazilian supplies on the world market.
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Farm News. This morning, you're listening to ag Life. Bob
Quinn back to wrap up ag Life for today. Friends.
While the part of agriculture in efforts to address chronic
disease in children and improve nutrition for America is recognized
within a recently announced series of initiatives. Rod Main has
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our closing report.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The announcement from the Trump administrations Make America Healthier GAG Commission.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
We have a hundred twenty eight recommendations.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
A strategy of initiatives addressing chronic disease and children and
improve nutrition for Americans, according to Commission Chair and Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior. The strategy,
according to Agriculture Secretary of Brook Rawlins, features a prominent
role for our nation's farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 29 (36:23):
I am encouraged by the roadmap that this report presents.
It shows where opportunities exist to improve technology, research and outcomes.
America's farmers and ranchers dedicate their lives to the noble
cause of feeding our country and the world, and in
doing so have created the safest, most affordable, and most
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abundant food supply in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Additionally, USDA is proposing various efforts for better nutrition in
the context of agricultural production. One example is improved soil
health tools that crop growers can utilize.
Speaker 29 (37:01):
Also USDA's upcoming Regenerative Pilot program is built to address
on farm resource concerns while also providing farmers with usable
outcomes based conservation plans. Additionally, we will leverage existing funding
from research agencies to produce applied science in forming farmer
decision making on regenerative agriculture.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Meanwhile, work is ongoing between AHHS and USDA in creating
updated national dietary recommendations for the next five years.
Speaker 29 (37:35):
We'll continue to actively work with Secretary Kennedy and crafting
the dietary guidelines, which will be out very soon. Federal
nutrition advice must be sound, simple and clear. These guidelines
will prioritize whole, healthy, and nutritious foods such as whole fat, fairy, fruits, vegetables,
and meats, and suggests limiting highly processed foods in those
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high in sugar.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Additional initiatives within the strategy's five pillars with agricultural connection,
further research into precision agriculture methods and innovations, and stream
winding certification and approval processes in realms such as organic
agriculture and various farm inputs. Rodbane reporting for the US
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Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
With that friends around of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Aglife
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. We
start off with the USDA look at apple production.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
If you enjoy the fall flavors of apples, not just
an autumn, but anytime. USDA Research economis Catherine Weber notes
this year has projected US apple production.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The twenty twenty five US apple crop is forecasts at
eleven point five billion pounds according to the August USDA
NAS Crop Production Report. The twenty twenty five apple crop
marks the third season in the last decade that annual
production exceeded eleven billion pounds based on seven NASS surveyed states.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
If those forecasts hold up, apple production will be up
six percent year over year, but similar to production numbers
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
In Washington, the largest apple producing state, the crop is
forecast to be eight billion pounds seven percent higher, or
five hundred and twenty million pounds more last year.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The majority of the Evergreen state's apple crop, eighty percent,
goes to the fresh market.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
This fresh market share is higher than the next three
apple producing states, New York Michigan and Pennsylvania, which each
had a fresh market share closer to fifty percent over
the last five seasons.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'll look at production forecast and other apple growing states include.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
In New York, twenty twenty five, apple production is forecast
to increase twelve percent year over year, ranking second and
apple production behind Washington with one point four five billion pounds.
If realized, New York's apple crop will be the largest
since twenty twenty two. Pennsylvania is forecast to produce four
hundred and thirty million pounds of apples in twenty twenty five,
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which represents four percent of US production. This year's forecast
is similar to last year, and overall fruit quality is
reported as high. Virginia and Oregon are each forecast to
produce one hundred and sixty five million pounds of apples
this year. The twenty twenty five apple crop and Oregon
is up thirty eight percent year every year and is
the largest crop since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Regarding twenty twenty five apple production forecast by variety.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The US Apple Association expects a record size honeycrisp crop
in twenty twenty five twenty six if realized, Honeycrisp would
rank third in apple varieties by volume for the first time,
surpassing Granny Smith by continuing to trail behind the Gala
and by delicious.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Also of note a rise of fresh apple exports.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Fresh apple exports are higher, imports are lower. In the
last two seasons and marketing year twenty twenty four to
twenty five, the United States exported approximately twenty five percent
of its fresh market apple production volume, the same share
as last season. US fresh apple exports and marketing year
twenty twenty four to twenty five total one point eight
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five billion pounds by volume and one billion pounds by value.
In twenty twenty four to twenty five, the fresh apple
export volume was one hundred and twenty nine million pounds
lower than last season, the nineteen percent higher than the
previous three year average.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
D C.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Farm use ahead. You're listening to aglife, Bob Quinn. Here
was some farmer news this morning. Friends. The Purdue University
CME Group AG Economy Barometer Index rose three points in
October to a reading of one twenty nine. Farmers are
in the planning stages for twenty twenty six, and the
index detailed farmer plans for next year. While facing low
(03:29):
corn prices.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Thirty percent, roughly three out of ten, said they anticipated
making no changes. Twenty seven percent said they would adopt
lower cost seed traits, twenty nine percent said they would
reduce phosphorus rates, and just eleven percent said they would
reduce seating rates. Sixteen percent said they reduced nitrogen rates
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Another question included finding out whether farmers thought things were
on the right or wrong track.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Responses continued to be very consistent. Seventy two percent said
right to direction. That compares to seventy one percent who's
felt that way in September, sixty nine percent who felt
that way in August, and seventy four percent who felt
that way in July.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Doctor James mintert Purdue University with US Well Friends the
National Potato Council express sharp disappointment over the US Japan
Trade agreement. NPC CEO cam Quarrels says President Trump was
unable to finally open access to the Japanese market for
US fresh potatoes.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
We were very optimistic given all of the Tara fleverage
that President Trump had created specifically on Japan.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Unfortunately, Quarrel says, the meeting between President Trump and Japan's
Prime minister did not include any mention of US fresh
potato access.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
As he was meeting with the new Japanese Prime minister,
we were really hopeful that he was going to be
able to get this Fresh Potato Market Act sas request
that again is thirty years old. Finally, to the finish.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Line moving forward, Quaro says, it's back to the grindstone.
We know the.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Market is there in Japan. We know that the technical
hurdles to our accessing that market have been dealt with,
and really it's just a question of can the President
break past this Japanese protectionism. If he can, it's one
hundred and fifty million dollars a year in new US
AG exports.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That would be a great way to immediately cut into
a growing ag trade deficit that built up in recent years.
The American Farm Bureau Women Leadership Committee will celebrate the
International Year of the Woman Farmer. Chad Smith has more.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
The United Nations is recognizing twenty twenty six as the
International Year of the Woman Farmer, with hopes of spotlighting
the contributions of women in agriculture and agribusiness. Lisa Werry,
a Pennsylvania farmer and member of the American Farm Bureau
Women's Leadership Committee, says this is an important time to
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acknowledge the contributions of women in rural America.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Some of the key goals and objectives are to recognize
and empower, to address barriers, to promote gender equality and
support economic growth, and to enhance access with our education,
markets and other resources for women in the sector.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
She said.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
The American Farm Bureau Women's Committee has a full slate
of programming for the year ahead, including the upcoming ACE Summit.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Which is Advocate, cultivate, and empower. We're going to do
that in DC in June, and that's going to roll
right into the Women in Egg Survey, which will explore
women's leadership and involvement, access to the industry, and identify
barriers and opportunities to provide actionable insights to strength and
engagement and support systems. But the big thing is about
how women play a vital role in American agriculture.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
She says.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
The survey is open to all women, not just those
who directly make an income from production agriculture.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
The survey is open to individuals eighteen and older from
the United States to Puerto Rico who have an interest
or involvement in agriculture, and also those that work in production, agriculture, agribusiness, education, aguacy,
and related fills.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Learn more and take the survey at women in agsurvey
dot com Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Chinese buyers have begun some modest purchases of US suite
and sorghum as. China's Cabinet last week announced it will
suspend a twenty four percent retaliatory tariff on US goods
and roll back duties of up to fifteen percent on
some American agriculture shipments starting this week, while retaining a
ten percent based levy now. The move unveiled after high
(07:47):
level talks between the US and China signals of thought
and agricultural trade tensions. But for key US exports, such
as soybeans, the benefit remains a little muted. Beijing will
keep a thirteen duty on US soybeans, making them less
competitive than Brazilian supplies on the world market. Farm US
this morning, you're listening to ag Life.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson, and this
is your agribusiness update.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
After several challenging years, California walnut growers were optimistic this
fall as harvest met with more favorable market conditions. The
industry entered the twenty twenty five to twenty six marketing
year essentially sold out of supply, which growers expect will
make it easier to sell this year's crop, projected at
seven hundred and ten thousand tons at higher prices. Strong
export demand, a new domestic marketing push, and mild summer
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growing conditions that produce high quality nuts have buoyed that industry.
The USDA's nationalid Statistics Service will release several key agg
reports in November, including the monthly WASDI report that wasn't
issued last month due to the government shutdown. According to
a post on its website, NAS will release the crop
production and world egg supply and demand estimates on November fourteenth.
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Reuters says the report will provide the government's first estimate
of US corn and SOYBEW production since September. October saw
a modest rise in US farm sentiment, as the Purdue
University CME Group EG Economy Barometer index rose three points
to one twenty nine. The slight rise was fueled primarily
by an increase in the index of current conditions at
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one thirty eight points above September. Meanwhile, the index of
future expectations rose a single point to one twenty nine.
Farmer's appraisal of current conditions continues to be fueled by
record high profits in the beef sector.
Speaker 11 (09:36):
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Speaker 4 (10:28):
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Richie Brothers that is open to the public. Visit orbauction
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Speaker 13 (10:42):
It's time for California agg today on the AG Information
Network I in Haley's ship Well. California farm advocates say
they are closer than ever to changing a decades old
world that's kept autonomous tractors off state farms. Even though
California entreprenewers are leading the way in farm robotics, a
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regulation that was written back in nineteen seventy seven still
requires someone to be sitting at the controls whenever a
tractor is running. That role was created long before driverless
vehicles were even imagined, and it's made it tough for
farmers to use the latest technology. Brian Little with the
California Farm Bureau says the regulation is obviously out of date.
(11:25):
He told egg Alert, the Farm Bureau's weekly publication.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That something needs to change.
Speaker 13 (11:31):
Last August, cal OSHA clarified that driverless tractors can be
used when no workers are around. Advocates say that's progress,
but that they're still pushing for a full rule change.
Sonoma County Farmer and Atonomy CEO Tim Butcher says working
with regulators has been key, adding that we want the
same thing, which is worker safety. The state's Standards Board
(11:55):
is expected to release a report soon outlining possible next
steps for autonomous tractors in the state of California.
Speaker 11 (12:04):
Increasing your almond yield can seem like a tough nut
to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon funge side at Bloom for ated resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wouldn't tough at all. Maravon fungicide
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(12:25):
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Speaker 14 (12:27):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf We.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Just get nailed with it.
Speaker 14 (12:34):
So tell us how you feeling really really weird and
you still wanted to devour this few No way, bro.
There you have it, Folks, 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 15 (12:51):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 13 (12:57):
This is California agg today on the Egg Information Network.
Finds more agricultural news at agginfo dot net.
Speaker 16 (13:05):
When a PCA writes a recommendation and a tree nut
orchard needs to be careful to cover himself, I'm Patrick
Cavanaugh with the California tree Nut Report, part of the
Vast ag Information Network. Anthony Dunnell is the owner of
Russian Duddele consulting.
Speaker 17 (13:20):
The California code as it relates to PCAs that grower
is not responsible for the application if his organization is
not making the application. So if a PCA writes a recommendation,
hands that over to the grower, the grower out goes
out and makes the application, it's beyond the PCA's control
and whoever makes the application assumes responsibility for what comes
out of those nozzles. So in that case, when you
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look at that, a grower can write a recommendation for
a herbicide application or insecch side application, and if the
grower goes out and makes the application, the winds blown
eighteen miles an hour and a half of it winds
up two counties over, then that's on the grower or
whoever made the application, And there's nothing that most that
grower from naming the PCA in a lawsuit, and then
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you have so again, it's really critical to include those
warning in those cautionary statements in that recommendation because that
absolves him of those things, right, And the more that
you do that.
Speaker 16 (14:16):
It can happen. A PCA can write a recommendation and
you know.
Speaker 17 (14:20):
I'm a PCA, and having been a PCA at one point,
I can tell you that I wrote a recommendation, somebody
else made a bad application on it. You can bet
you the next time I write that, if I didn't
include that in my recognition, I'm going to do it
next time.
Speaker 12 (14:32):
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Speaker 14 (15:02):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basl.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 14 (15:09):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still wanted to devour this feew?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
No way, bro.
Speaker 18 (15:17):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 14 (15:19):
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 15 (15:26):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 16 (15:32):
With the ag Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 19 (15:36):
It's another agnews update, a rescheduled WISTI and premium beef
demand more after this.
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became assistance engineer, before I got started in aerospace, I
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Speaker 19 (16:16):
USDA pushing the November World agg Supply and Demand Estimates
ORD and the crop production Bundle to Friday, November fourteenth,
eleven am Eastern Time. It makes the report the first
full post shutdown read on yields, exports, and feed residual
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It's a keyphivot for bases and hedging into the end
of the year. Will be the first major report from
USDA since the government closed in China. Doctor Fred Gail
notes crushers or bleeding red ink after paying up for
Brazilian beans, signaling potential openings for US soy if policy
momentum and price parity hole Closer to home. Mississippi River's
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historic low water continues to thin toe sizes and spike freight.
It's widening the basis spreads between the Gulf and Pacific Northwest,
forcing some farmers to juggle on farm storage, delivery windows,
and cash needs. In the meantime, consumer demand keeps rewarding
quality certified Angus beef capping another powerhouse year with record
(17:28):
prime volume, sending a clear price signal for genetics. It's
another agnews update.
Speaker 20 (17:36):
At the American Veterinary Medical Association Annual Convention in Denver,
we caught up with Michael Gerghi from Student Loan Advisor.
Speaker 21 (17:43):
I think the biggest thing to remember when it comes
down to student loans and student loan forgiveness is that
you have to be very, very vigilant because it really
can be one of the biggest empowering choices of your
life to go out and get this degree inside of
the veterinary field, or it can be a tremendous roadblock
if it's not managed properly. So we really try and
encourage that. The overarching theme and the top line piece
of advice that we give the books.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
There's more valuable information on AVMA dot.
Speaker 19 (18:05):
Org American Cattle News, what's happening in the cattle markets,
and what's ahead this week, more after this.
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became assistance engineer, before I got started in aerospace, I
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and see how you can help at four h dot org.
Speaker 19 (18:47):
Oliver's slope is with blue line futures in Chicago e've all.
Speaker 22 (18:52):
For live cattle and feeder cattle futures marked multi year
highs to start the week, as uncertainty around future prices
with the administerrys push to lower beef prices for consumers kept
things interesting now since the start of the week's evol
has come back in a little bit, but daily average
ranges are still relatively wide. The fourteen day average true
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range for January feeder cattle reached a high of eight
thirteen earlier in the week, and for April live cattle
that fourteen day average true range reached four seventy two.
Headline risks still loom, with analysts keeping close eyes on
the Southern border as it pertains siscrew worm, which has
halted the cattle imports from Mexico for some time. There
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was some speculation earlier in the week that there was
talk of putting together a plan to reopen that border,
but no official statement or dates have been made. Traders
and analysts will also be keeping a close eye on
trade negotiations with Brazil, which were hit with beef tariffs
earlier in the year. This morning's wholesale box beef report
was mixed. We saw Choice Scotts forty cents higher to
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three seventy eight sixty seven and Slight Cuts twenty nine
cents lower to three fifty nine to twenty three. Yesterday's
five area average price for life series was reported at
two twenty nine to seventy nine. That's steady with the
prior day's report and daily Solder yesterday was reported at
one hundred and fourteen thousand head.
Speaker 19 (20:12):
That's Oliver's slope with blue line futures. In Chicago last week,
cash sells two thirty five to two thirty six in
the South. That doesn't count the reports of one to
two dollars over the top that doesn't get reported in
the north. Two thirty down eight box dressed at three
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sixty off ten. American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
This is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 20 (20:44):
Prescribed fire benefits to the farm landscape our topic today
on our Producer Tuesday, brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. From a recent PDP dairy signal, we hear
from Jake Pulfer, a prescribed fire coordinator with Pheasants Forever, Inc.
And how long has prescribed burning been around, so.
Speaker 23 (21:02):
Prescribe fire has actually been around in one form of
another for more than ten thousand years. In order to survive,
they noticed that it brought around certain crops of food
like raspberries, blueberries. It also helped control brush and keep
woodlands and forests more open so that it allowed for
(21:25):
easy hunting access.
Speaker 20 (21:26):
He discusses why prescribe burns on the farm are so important.
Speaker 23 (21:30):
There's a real need for us to increase the amount
of acreage that is getting burned in the state of
Wisconsin annually. And I think that you know, we've mentioned
the kind of the community aspect that can come around
to help get these fires done. And one of the
most emergent ways that that's kind of happening here in
(21:52):
Wisconsin is with Prescribe Burn Associations, which is appeared to
appear organization of landowners. It can be formal informal, but
it's just people coming together to share equipment, to share
their expertise, you know, attending fire training workshop. So attending
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one of those if you want more information, but then
also just give me a call. I love chatting about
this stuff. Otherwise, you know, you can talk to your
local farm build biologists and they will come out and
they will talk to you, and we all of us
are able to, you know, look at a piece of
land with you and give you an idea of how
(22:34):
we would safely burn that.
Speaker 20 (22:36):
Britta Peterson, a biologist with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever,
offers her two cents.
Speaker 24 (22:42):
No, my kind of big takeaway is that fire is good,
but you have to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So as a landowner, it is.
Speaker 24 (22:49):
A useful and beneficial tool, but as we've talked about,
it does take some preparation, whether it just want it,
but I need to hire somebody, or if you're putting
in that time to learn.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
So fire is a good thing, it just takes some preparation.
Speaker 23 (23:01):
Yeah, I don't think that you can stress enough how
much training is important. Certainly you can learn how to
do fire, but trial and error can lead to some
pretty disastrous mistakes. So taking the time to reach out
to those that have practice, that are knowledgeable, and just
(23:25):
asking questions might be the easiest way to start yourself
on your fire journey. And I was on a fire
training earlier this year and one of the participants said
that fire is a team sport and that really resonates
with me because all of us within the prescribed fire
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community actively want to help those that are just getting
into fire or are curious about fire and help them
grow their their knowledge and ability to help contribute to
the number of acres that are getting burned.
Speaker 20 (24:06):
And you A's Jake Poulfer, Prescribe Fire coordinator with Pheasants
Forever ink and Britta Peterson, a biologist with Pheasants Forever
and also Quail Forever. Here on Dairy Radio. Now Here's
dairy farmer Hank Wagner and his daughter Laura with another
simple miracle moment.
Speaker 24 (24:22):
Our society today does not do a very good job
at nurturing family ties or believing in our children.
Speaker 25 (24:28):
Many children today are being raised in broken homes or
are being neglected because their parents are too busy to
give their children the attention they hunger for and need. Sadly,
that forces our children to find other ways to get attention.
Speaker 24 (24:41):
They may have the opportunity to find it in a
coach or teacher, but many times they find themselves in
dangerous or abusive relationships. They can also resort to other
unfortunate activities that will get them some of the attention
that they need.
Speaker 25 (24:55):
We can set ourselves up for regular miracles by daily
exercising a belief, and people develop habits that regularly send
I believe in you messages. There are people around you
who desperately need someone to believe in them. You can
be that person.
Speaker 20 (25:10):
That's Hank Wagner and Laura Rodd's, author of the book
Simple Miracles for More Go to Become Better Leaders dot.
Speaker 26 (25:16):
Com snakes Zombie's public speaking. The list of fears is endless,
but the real danger is in your hand when you're
behind the wheel. Distracted driving is what's really scary, and
even deadly eyes forward, don't drive distracted.
Speaker 11 (25:30):
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Taking a drive this fall to a forest park or
scenic byway near or far to observe the beauty of
tree leaves transforming colors from greed to all sorts of
shades of reds, yellow, at orange. Cynthia Dolbaghidi looks at
this phenomenad not just from an artistic perspective.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
It's actually quite interesting, saying to study why needs change
color in the fall.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Per approach based on her background as a Kansas State
University Extension horticulture expert, also taking a scientific angle at
tree leaf transformation in the autumn, Any Bailey of the
US Forest Service who looks at how this brigged summer
months impact what we see in the.
Speaker 27 (26:20):
Fall caused the leaves to be not their full leaf
size this year.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I'm Rod Bain coming up. We look at the science
of the fall colors in this edition of Agriculture USA.
The start of autumn and the start of the fall
color season for those who love a road trip to
their national forest or hometown park to see the changing
of leaf colors in the autumn buds. And there perhaps
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is no more known representation of this phenomenon than in
the forest of New England.
Speaker 27 (26:50):
You can see widespread swaths of these hardwood trees such
as sugar maple, American beach, yellow birch, paper birch ash.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They're all color revealing various shades of gold, red, and orange,
according to Amy Bailey, a US Forest Service technician in
New Hampshire. Add While several of you the transformation of
fall colors with natural artistry, abid Kansas State University Extension
horticultural expert Cynthia DOBAGHII and others see it from a
(27:19):
scientific perspective.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
What you actually are seeing is that the leaves aren't
necessarily changing color. They're revealing colors.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So fall leaf fad dancing. Get that out of your
head and think of fall color changes scientifically. The zinga
fall colors are always present within the leaves. Fall color pigments, however,
are overshadowed by nature's process in the suburb.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
The chlorophyll in the plant leaves that's capturing the energy
from the sun and making food for the plants. We're
seeing the green that's being produced from.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All of that chlorophyll production is slowed down in the
autumn months. Sunlight decreases and days grow shorter, so the.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Leaves lose their green color and the other pigments are
now being revealed.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
They're visible now for you. Plant pathologists out there by
career are just interest You may know the fall colored
pigments of leaves catain several coponits.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Some of those pigments that you're starting to see, or
you may see, depending on what varieties of plants are around,
will show orange and yellow pigment. Those pigments are created
by xanthophylls and caroteens tannins in the plant are producing
the brown colors that you see. Anthocyanins will create reds
(28:40):
and purple pigments. And the timing and intensity of the
fall color varies depending on tree type, but also the
environmental conditions.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That is why the fall color leaf display on any
given tree can vary from year to year. What else
determines the colors of the fall weather of the sprig
and suburb.
Speaker 27 (28:59):
Usually what makes really brilliant color is a summer that's
been somewhat moist, so the trees are healthy, and the
nights are getting longer and are getting colder, and then
a sunny day it's going to allow the leaf to
still make some sugars, and the sugars are going to
help keep the leaf on the tree and expressing these
colors that are now available yet.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Aby Bailey of the Forest Service says of weather earlier
this year in her home region of New England, we.
Speaker 27 (29:26):
Got approximately twenty four into the rain in April, May
and June, which is twice what you usually get.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That wet period, creating both fungal and insect attacks of foliage.
That was followed by a late summer extreme heat period
producing drought conditions.
Speaker 27 (29:41):
These trees are just kind of completely stressed and maxed
by this heat and drought.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The impacts the fall colors. Subtrees of New England are
undergoing a premature transition period. Others, especially those either with
fungal or pest damage or with roots in shallow soils,
reveal brown colored perhaps leaves. So now you know some science,
how can you add that to your appreciation of the
fall leaf color transformation? Cynthia Domcghiee offers these ideas, whether
(30:10):
viewing fall colors at a national forest or your own
backyard tree, It's.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Actually a really interesting thing to track if you're into
journaling and keeping records of what colors. Maybe even taking
photos of what your trees look like from one year
to the next and comparing those could be kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
This has been Agriculture USA. A broad Bain, reporting for
the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Bob Quinn. Here were some farmer US this morning friends.
The Purdue University CMME Group ag Economy Barometer Index rose
three points in October to a reading of one twenty nine.
Farmers are in the planning stages for twenty twenty six,
and the index detailed farmer plans for next year. While
facing low corn prices.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Thirty percent, roughly three out of ten said they anticipated
making no changes. Twenty seven percent said they would adopt
lower cost seed traits, twenty nine percent said they would
reduce phosphorus rates, and just eleven percent said they would
reduce seating rates. Sixteen percent said they reduced nitrogen rates
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Another question included finding out whether farmers thought things were
on the right or wrong track.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Responses continued to be very consistent. Seventy two percent said
right direction. That compares to seventy one percent who felt
that way in September, sixty nine percent who felt that
way in August, and seventy four percent who felt that
way in July.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Doctor James mintert Purdue University with US Well Frensley National
Potato Council express sharp disappointment over the US Japan Trade agreement.
NPC CEO cam Quarrels says President Trump was unable to
finally open access to the Japanese market for US fresh potatoes.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
We were very optimistic given all of the tariff leverage
that President Trump had created specifically on Japan.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Unfortunately, Quaro says, the meeting between President Trump and Japan's
Prime minister did not include any mention of US fresh
potato access.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
As he was meeting with the new Japanese Prime minister,
we were really hopeful that he was going to be
able to get this fresh potato market access request that
again is thirty years old. Finally, to the finish.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Line moving forward, Quaro says, it's back to the grindstone.
We know the.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Market is there in Japan, we know that the technical
hurdles to our accessing that market have been dealt with,
and really it's just a question of can the President
break past this Japanese protectionism. If he can, it's one
hundred and fifty million dollars a year in new US
AG exports.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That would be a great way to immediately cut into
a growing ag trade deficit that built up in recent years. Well, friends,
fall is a great time of year for farmers to
look back at what worked this year, scout fields for resistance,
and perhaps consider changes that need to be made for
twenty twenty six. Glenn Wagen reports.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Curtis Rainbolt with bas says it's important for growers to
look back on their insect pest management determine what worked
was what didn't work.
Speaker 28 (33:29):
Unlike you know, resistance in weeds, which can be a
little bit easier to spot, it's a little harder to
tell with insects because they kind of move in move out.
It's not quite as obvious.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
So if you dive.
Speaker 28 (33:42):
Back into what happened the last season, what your applications were,
maybe something you've been using successfully for multiple seasons but
it just wasn't quite right. Take note of that and
that may be a potential case of insecticide resistance.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Rainbow added, growers need to take the time to ask
their university specialists, those at your nearby extension office about
what the industry is seeing locally and how to bez
address those pest and weed problems. Rainboldt added, as growers
looked to the season ahead, it's important to choose insecticides
with different modes of action to reduce selection pressures. He
(34:19):
acknowledged that this is a difficult economy for many in
the farming community.
Speaker 28 (34:23):
Even in a depressed market, quality is something that growers
can still benefit from, you know, growing a crop of
the highest quality got a nice size profile, so using
some of our vetter insecticides can help with that as well.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Rainbold added growers that used insecticides with unique modes of
action closed out twenty twenty five with healthier plans, better standability,
and an extended harvest window. I'm Glenn Bogan.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Reporting Chinese buyers have begun some modest purchases of US
Suite and Sorcum as China's Cabinet last week announced it
will suspend a twenty four percent recabatory tariff on US
goods and roll back duties of up to fifteen percent
on some American agriculture shipments starting this week, while retaining
(35:09):
a ten percent base levy now. The move, unveiled after
high level talks between the US and China, signals the
thaw and agricultural trade tensions, But for key US exports,
such as soybeans, the benefit remains a little muted. Beijing
will keep a thirteen percent duty on US soybeans, making
them less competitive than Brazilian supplies on the world market.
(35:31):
Farm News. This morning, you're listening to ag Life. Bob
Quinn back to wrap up ag Life for today. Friends.
While the part of agriculture in efforts to address chronic
disease in children and improve nutrition for America is recognized
within a recently announced series of initiatives. Rod Main has
(35:52):
our closing report.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The announcement from the Trump administrations Make America Healthier GAG Commission.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
We have a hundred twenty eight recommendations.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
A strategy of initiatives addressing chronic disease and children and
improve nutrition for Americans, according to Commission Chair and Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior. The strategy,
according to Agriculture Secretary of Brook Rawlins, features a prominent
role for our nation's farmers and ranchers.
Speaker 29 (36:23):
I am encouraged by the roadmap that this report presents.
It shows where opportunities exist to improve technology, research and outcomes.
America's farmers and ranchers dedicate their lives to the noble
cause of feeding our country and the world, and in
doing so have created the safest, most affordable, and most
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abundant food supply in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Additionally, USDA is proposing various efforts for better nutrition in
the context of agricultural production. One example is improved soil
health tools that crop growers can utilize.
Speaker 29 (37:01):
Also USDA's upcoming Regenerative Pilot program is built to address
on farm resource concerns while also providing farmers with usable
outcomes based conservation plans. Additionally, we will leverage existing funding
from research agencies to produce applied science in forming farmer
decision making on regenerative agriculture.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Meanwhile, work is ongoing between AHHS and USDA in creating
updated national dietary recommendations for the next five years.
Speaker 29 (37:35):
We'll continue to actively work with Secretary Kennedy and crafting
the dietary guidelines, which will be out very soon. Federal
nutrition advice must be sound, simple and clear. These guidelines
will prioritize whole, healthy, and nutritious foods such as whole fat, fairy, fruits, vegetables,
and meats, and suggests limiting highly processed foods in those
(37:58):
high in sugar.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Additional initiatives within the strategy's five pillars with agricultural connection,
further research into precision agriculture methods and innovations, and stream
winding certification and approval processes in realms such as organic
agriculture and various farm inputs. Rodbane reporting for the US
(38:21):
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
With that friends around of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Aglife
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