November 17, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends.
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:19):
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
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Speaker 1 (02:18):
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You're listening to wag Life Bob went back with farm
us Today. Friends, Well, year Round E fifteen would be
a tremendous boost for rural America. That's what we hear
in this report from Chad Smith.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
At a time when the farm economy is facing a
downward turn, farmers and ranchers are looking for expanded market opportunities.
Faith Parum, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation,
said increased biofuel production could be one avenue to increase
farm revenue and boost the entire rural economy.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Biofuels drive study demand for corn and swytheans. They create
eight jobs at ethanol and biodiesel plants. They also attract
a lot of local investment and keep energy dollars circulating
in rural communities.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
One simple solution for increasing biofuel demand would be to
allow for year round E fifteen in American gas pumps.
She said demand for homegrown corn would boom at the
same time as a big crop settles into bins across
the country.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, year round E fifteen would add billions of bushels
of new corn demand. It would improve farm income and
really help provide long term market stability for corn growers.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
She said, there's a straightforward path to make this possibility
a reality, so right now we.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Rely on the EPA to give short term waivers to
let us sell it in the summers. What we really
need is a congressional fix to get year round E
fifteen that's not relying on those emergency waivers. This will
allow industries and producers to have some stability and know
that they'll be able to blend E fifteen ethanol year round.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Learn more on the market Intel page at FB dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington, Well Friends.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
The past couple of seasons have challenging for the potato industry,
but not because of poor crop yields or bad weather.
Glenn Wagan reports for.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
US trade uncertainty, contract cancelations, and a soft overall farm
economy have made the last two to three years difficult
for Northwest growers. Chris Boyd, executive director the Washington State
Potato Commission, says, farmers understand that some years are going
to be great and some years not so great.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
And so we're kind of used to that cyclical cycle,
and we know that, you know, what comes around goes
around type of attitude, and so yeah, we've kind of
come off for two, you know, a couple tough years.
But I think that there's optimism that that will improve,
because it always has in the past.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Boyd says while there are many reasons to feel discouraged
right now, he and local growers are keeping their heads up.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
You know, personally, I feel pretty good. I kind of
like where we're at, and I think that we're headed
in the right direction, and I think that this economy
will turn a little bit around for agriculture, at least
for the potato industry.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Once again, that was Chris Boyd, executive director the Washington
State Potato Commission. I'm Glenn Bagin reporting.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Jim Pillin, the Governor of Nebraska, recently returned from a
trade mission to Israel, calling it quote a remarkable trip.
He said, the state of Nebraska and Israel have a
unique relationship trade.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
That's really kind of remarkable.

Speaker 8 (05:20):
Right.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
Israel's about ten million people, so not a gigantic country.
There'd be seven to eight million Jews in Israel. But
the kosher plant in Hastings is the only source of
kosher beef from the United States Israel. So we certainly
played a role that helped to support that fiscal Zigglebein
is an acidic Jew that owns a plant in Hastings.

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I think he gets to Hastings a couple of times
a month.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
The kosher plant's name is Noah's Arc Processors, and the
Trade Mission promoted Nebraska agriculture through several of the company's
contacts in Israel.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
We met with a bunch of their customer bases and
explaining Nebraska beef, Nebraska family owned beef, Nebraska angus genetics,
families that are creating the best products in the world.
And so his plant, he's going to go from five
hundred animals a day to be slaughtered to twelve hundred,
so help him grow Nebraska businesses is really fun. It's
extraordinarily unique.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Pillon and the Trade Mission promoted how much of the
agriculture is family owned in Nebraska, and it was something
that resonated with the israelis.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
Nebraska black angus, and as I told him, you know
what's really incredible about it is all of the black
angus genetic improvement is taking place in the sandhills of
Nebraska by Nebraska family ownly inches that are doing world
class genetic improvements that no publicly traded company can come close.
Family owned generational stuff. And that's all we talked about

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in Israel.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Governor Jim Pillen out of Nebraska joining US farm News.
You're listening to ag Life.

Speaker 9 (06:49):
It's another ag news update. Global soy flows to burger
economics and milk margins all ahead after this.

Speaker 10 (07:00):
I'm Russkohler, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heatstroke is life threatening. Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures,
high body temperature, hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce
your risk during the heat of the day by working
earlier or later, allow time for water and rest breaks
by drinking two to four cups of water each hour.

Speaker 8 (07:22):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.

Speaker 9 (07:28):
China's scale up farm model is straining low crop prices,
rising land rids, and negative oil seed crush margins, which
could readdirect soybean demand and bases later this season. Even
as Brazil ready's another big harvest closer to home. Ground
beefs affordability still hinges on imported lin trim. Cutting those

(07:52):
in flows would spike retail prices, choking food service demand,
so cattle and cowflows remain tied to open trade, not isolation.
Dairy stayed expansionary this summer, with milk up three point
six percent and milk fat up five point three percent,

(08:12):
but softer class prices and slipping butter values. Are now
leaning on mailbox checks as fluid cells lags, and keep
an eye on feed and coverage is year end approaches
out West Arizona Producers showing how to stretch scarce water,
precision irrigation, reuse and conservation, tillage keeping forage and specialty

(08:37):
crops moving while trimming withdraws. I'm Tony Saint Shame's It's
another agnews update meat Blue.

Speaker 11 (08:46):
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(09:09):
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Speaker 9 (09:15):
American Cattle News, what's the value of hey more after this?

Speaker 10 (09:25):
I'm Russ Kohler, a dairyman from Utah. Safety Know your limits.
Heatstroke is life threatening. Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures,
high body temperature, hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce
your risk during the heat of the day by working
earlier or later, allow time for water and rest breaks
by drinking two to four cups of water each hour.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Doctor Mark Johnson is an Oklahoma state beef breeding specialist.
On the value of hay is.

Speaker 12 (10:00):
The value of hay right now in Oklahoma. And so
we walked back through a little bit of history. But
it's interesting how we got here addressing this question of
what is hayworth in August to twenty twenty five. If
we look back over the last three years, it's.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
Been kind of a bumpy road.

Speaker 12 (10:16):
That big drought in twenty twenty two didn't leave us
with a lot of hay inventory. As we go back
and forth from there, and just taking a look at
what has happened in twenty twenty five, hay was actually
at relative to the ten year average price on a
national basis across all types of hay, hay was more
expensive than normal. In January, we actually saw that seasonal

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increase up until May go up by twenty some dollars
a ton.

Speaker 13 (10:42):
Since that time, there's been ample moisture.

Speaker 12 (10:45):
Mother Nature's cooperated with us, probably seeing a few more
acres that became hay meadows this year, and as a
result here in Oklahoma when we finally got into hayfields
in the past month, the reports of yields have been good.
And we're all asking that question from both sides of
this equation, whether we have hay to sell or we

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need to procure it and buy it. The way it
looks right now, some of those early forecasts for hay
being more expensive this year probably overestimated. It looks like
average hay price for the year is going to be down.
That is the report for most all around the country
now as we look out west where they're still in
a drought, but the only higher prices of hey we

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see in the past couple months are coming from some
of the western states. So bottom line, what can we expect.
It looks like a good year for end users.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 13 (11:40):
This is Dairy Radio Now, Milkie Monday, Dave.

Speaker 14 (11:45):
The government shutdown ended last week and thousands of government
employees went back to work. We also learned that US
dairy cow's never stopped working and in September produced four
point zero percent more milk than a year ago, with
more in the string and healthy gains and output per cow.

Speaker 15 (12:03):
Yeah, well it was a big, big, bearish number we
got on Monday afternoon. Of course, this report was supposed
to be issued back in October. Because of the cover
and shutdown, it didn't come out until November tenth. But yeah,
a four percent was the headline number. When you look
at a component adjusted number, it's up six point one percent.
I mean, these are big, big numbers, and it's all

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because of well, I shouldn't say all, but the vast
majority of it is because of cows. We've added cows
at the fastest pace we've added probably in like forty years,
at mid nineteen eighties, the last time you have to
go back, in the last fifteen months, we're up two
point eight percent on cow numbers. That's two hundred and
fifty eight thousand animals added to the herd in the

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last fifteen months. Last time we did that, like I said,
was back in the nineteen eighties. So we've got a
lot of cows, and we've got a lot of milk,
and the markets are kind of trying to figure this
whole thing out and weigh it against demand, which seems
to be spotty and lackluster at best. Because if you
look around at and say, hey, gee, the bright spot
in the US this year had been exports. Well, now
you look over at Europe and global prices and they've

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been coming down on products like well, butter and cheese,
for example. But I think it's mainly the cheese market
that's reeling from a lack of exports at the moment.
If we look at the butter market, global prices are
coming down, but the US price has also come down,
almost like an equidistant dynamic. So we're still in a
very good spot to export butter. I think when the

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government reopens and fall over the next couple months, when
we start to get some of the export data numbers,
we're going to see that we've exported quite a bit
of butter here recently, but she still has some headwinds.

Speaker 14 (13:37):
Quickly and closing thoughts on the shutdown, what did it
cost the dairy industry? Do you think?

Speaker 15 (13:42):
Yeah, great question, Lee, I don't know that I have
a great answer for you, except I would say, you know,
I think people did pull back a little bit on spending.
Of course, if you've been you know, not getting paid
for the past month, you're probably not spending like you
used to. And so the way I look at it,
and I'd like to be optimistic, is that this reopening
actually give us a little bit of a burst, especially
this time of year, as we go into the holidays

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and people want to feel a little bit more joyful
about things, and so you might actually see a little
bit more of a burst in demand that is currently
not really expected. But I think the main issue for
the dairy industry is we haven't gotten the reports, we
haven't gotten the numbers, so it's hard. We've been flying
blind for the past five weeks and that's going to
start to change here over the next couple months. Amen.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Thank you, David.

Speaker 14 (14:24):
David Gourzowski, Stonemake's dairy group broker in Chicago.

Speaker 16 (14:28):
Here's dairy farmer Hank Wagner and his daughter Laura with
another simple miracle moment.

Speaker 17 (14:33):
Some of you might think that it is common sense
to take care of what you have. For some people,
it is depending on our beliefs or our habits.

Speaker 18 (14:41):
If we take care of the things in our life,
they will last longer and retain their value. This truth
applies to the car in your garage and all of
the other things that you own.

Speaker 17 (14:53):
This powerful principle also is connected to the people or
relationships in our life. Unfortunately, sometimes the people in our
lives get less attention than our possessions.

Speaker 18 (15:05):
What habit can you change to take better care of
something or someone in your life? And please don't discount
the value of taking good care of yourself. There are
many miracles attached to taking care of what we have.

Speaker 16 (15:18):
That's Hank Wagner and Laura Rodd's, author of the book
Simple Miracles for More Go to Become Better Leaders dot com.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
This is dairy radio now.

Speaker 16 (15:27):
The latest step at increasing sterifly production to counter potential
New World screw warb entry into our nation is now
reached opening of a production facility in northeastern Mexico, As
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins said in August during a visit
to Oklahoma.

Speaker 18 (15:44):
Sterle New World screwroom flies are one of the most
important tools, probably the most important at our disposal.

Speaker 16 (15:49):
The Tampico Sterofly production site joins an existing facility in
Southern Mexico one with USDA investment and renovation, will double
production once that is completed. Domestically, the Agriculture Department is
constructing a sterifly dispersal facility in South Texas and is
expediting designed and construction of a long term production site.

(16:12):
All efforts to protect our nation's cattle and livestock supply
from the threat of New World screw worm. I'm Rod Bain,
reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 19 (16:27):
A lot of walnuts are used in food service. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. Robert Forloupe is President and CEO
of the California Walnut Boarding Commission.

Speaker 20 (16:41):
We talk about retail all the time, but the other
area that can influence consumption is in the food service arena,
so restaurants and feeding operations, you know, colleges, universities, large
mass feeders, and so on. And we have a food
service program that's going after that segment. Many people don't
realize that in the United States, fifty of our food
dollar goes to food service operations, and so we need

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to be there. We need to be on the menu.
And we have a chef by the name of Robert
Denhei who's our chef and residence, who's our expert, and
he's working with some of these larger feeding organizations like
Ara Mark and t deekso that feed millions of people
per year, hospitals, as I said, schools and universities, et cetera,
where we need to get on the menu. And he's
worked with some very interesting recipes around cream where you

(17:27):
just take walnut water in a blender and you can
make a soft, a very fluid cream versus a very
thick one, and chefs can use that as a different
base for a variety of different things like soups and gravies,
if you will. And then he's also shown chefs how
to use walnuts as a meat replacement. And certainly with
our younger generations, more and more of them are looking
for the plant based meat.

Speaker 19 (17:48):
And that's Robert Bloop with the Walnut Commission.

Speaker 21 (17:51):
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Speaker 22 (18:20):
Today, we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf We just.

Speaker 9 (18:25):
Get nailed with it.

Speaker 22 (18:27):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still want to devour this field?

Speaker 23 (18:33):
No way, bro. There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (18:36):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wifelies
so they can't eat, and when they can't eat, they
can't destroy.

Speaker 24 (18:43):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions with.

Speaker 25 (18:49):
The ag Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. Artificial intelligence is
making its way into US agriculture. Heather Hampton Nodle, president
of Noble Farms in Illinois, recently spoke on AI at
the Rural Economic Outloot Conference at Oklahoma State University. She
says that technology is already in operation in American agriculture.

Speaker 26 (19:11):
One that's exciting on the horizon. There are some versions
of it in the marketplace, but for example, in barn
cameras where you might have confinement or feeding operations and
say you have thousands of animals there there are technologies
that can kind of track each animal individually and show
signs of maybe illness or are they going to need
an antibiotic or are they going to need some other form
of treatment, long before we would notice it with our

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human eye. It provides that kind of amazing kind of
early warning detection and sometimes even diagnosis.

Speaker 25 (19:38):
She talked about where producers can start to work with
the technology.

Speaker 26 (19:42):
Well, one that really comes to mind, especially where people
have cash crops in particular, like a food based crop.
Some of these weeding technologies that are being beta tested
right now and somewhere on the market where they have
like the call it sea and spray type that can
help so much to reduce labor and increase your efficiency
and also decrease your input costs for the chemical itself. Yes,

(20:03):
there is a tech fee attached to it, but it's
still generally is offset by significant savings across the board.

Speaker 25 (20:09):
Connectivity seems to be one of the biggest hurdles connectivity.

Speaker 26 (20:13):
I refer to it as the mesh because it's not
only the physical connectivity, either through satellite or cellular, but
then the ability to compute. So we have so much data.
It's said that one forty acre cornfield has as much
data as the entire Library of Congress. Okay, so if
we were to actually take that data in season and say,
what can I add now to this crop? If I

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can apply sulfur for a quarter an acre twenty five cents,
and that's going to in this moment, If I apply
it in the next two days, that can help me
increase my yield by approximately ten bushel. I want to
do that, and artificial intelligence allows us to see so
much more than what we can with the naked eye.

Speaker 25 (20:50):
For producers who have not yet try it, AI NODAL
encourage small steps like using AI tools to summarize farm
magazine articles or to sie is research insights that they
may not have time to read. The recent World Dairy
Expo shows a familiar name as its winner of the
Industry Person of the Year award, Jim Mulherne, the now

(21:12):
former CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation, and he
said he was completely honored by the award.

Speaker 27 (21:19):
Just an incredible honor to get this award. It's something
that I never in my life thought i'd never receive.
So when I got the call that I was selected,
I was like, I look at that list of people
who have preceived this award. It's like the Hall of
Fame of dairy. So to be considered among what I
considered the elites of this industry is really just a
tremendous honor. I am very humbled by it. You know,

(21:39):
I wondered at first, and it kind of sunk in
and Corey Geiger, former Hordes Deryman editor now at Cobank,
had reached out to me, and Corey is one of
the people who had put my name forward, And just
a tremendous respect for Corey individually, but also the entire
world are export board of directors that time and energy
these folks put into this tremendous annual event. We all

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thanks to all of them for the service they provide.

Speaker 25 (22:02):
While he did retire, he still keeps an eye on
what's going on in the dairy industry.

Speaker 27 (22:07):
It is a tough time, but it's not unusual for
this industry. We're used to that, right, I go back
for a now forty year career where much of that
time I was engaged in various dairy policy battles, and
that cycle of supply demand balance is one that's always
been a challenge, and the policy challenge is to get
effective policies to help deal with that, and we've been
more or less successful in doing that over the years.

(22:29):
You take away all of the challenges that we have,
this is still an incredible industry. We look at the
dairy industry for the world very very bright future because
of the need for high quality protein and that certainly
is what milk and dairy products provide.

Speaker 25 (22:42):
He says he's very optimistic about the future of dairy
because of the people who make it work every day.

Speaker 27 (22:48):
And then you look at the US in the context
of that world dairy industry, and this is the strongest,
most productive, efficient dairy industry, the North American model, I
should say, because it's really US and Canada productive and
efficient dairy model in the world. So it's really a
matter of getting some of these trade policies right so
we have greater access to world markets. But I am

(23:08):
and have been for years, very bullish on the future
of this industry. Yeah, we're gonna have challenges. We're going
to have times when prices are not as strong as
they need to be to cover costs. But when you
look long term, this is a great, strong industry because
of the people and the quality of the product that
we produce.

Speaker 25 (23:26):
Again, that's Jim mulhern, winner of the World Dairy Expos
Dairy Industry Person of the Year Award. You are listening
to AG Live this morning. My name is Dwyane Murley.
Thank you for being with us today.

Speaker 28 (23:39):
It's time for California AGG Today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. California's cotton sector is heading into
one of the toughest seasons in decades, with growers across
the state's cutting acres as global demand stays sluggish and
prices refuse to budge. Pima, the state's signature premium fiber,
would need to claim and passed two dollars a pound

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for farmers to break even, yet it has stuck closer
to a dollar twenty five to a dollar fifty throughout
twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Upland cotton has
not fared much better, hovering around the same price as
growers saw thirty years ago. According to a recent AG
alert from the California Farm Bureau, the situation is playing
out statewide in a significant way. The California Cotton Ginners

(24:24):
and Growers Association expects twenty twenty five production to fall
to about four hundred thousand bales, far below the typical
six hundred thousand, with acreage down roughly a third from
last year. Even in historically strong cotton regions like Kings
and Fresno Counties, reductions are shaping the landscape, and it's
not only farmers feeling the impact. Gins Trucking companies and

(24:47):
support businesses are taking hits as fewer acres move through
the system. With the weak global textile demand and softer
US exports, the industry is bracing for another challenging year.

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Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf We just.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
Get nailed with it.

Speaker 22 (25:33):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still wanted tovour this few?

Speaker 9 (25:40):
No way, bro.

Speaker 23 (25:42):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (25:43):
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 24 (25:50):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.

Speaker 28 (25:56):
This is California agg Today on the ag Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at agginfo dot net.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Bob went back with farm us Today friends, Well, year
round E fifteen would be a tremendous boost for rural America.
That's what we hear in this report from Chad Smith.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
At a time when the farm economy is facing a
downward turn, farmers and ranchers are looking for expanded market opportunities.
Faith Parum, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation,
said increased biofuel production could be one avenue to increase
farm revenue and boost the entire rural economy.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Biofuels drive study demand for corn and swathbeans. They create
jobs at ethanol and biodiesel plants. They also attract a
lot of local investment and keep energy dollars circulating in
rural communities.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
One simple solution for increasing biofuel demand would be to
allow for year round E fifteen in American gas pumps.
She said demand for homegrown corn would boom at the
same time as a big crop settles into bins across
the country.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yeah, year around E fifteen would add billions of bushels
of new corn demand. It would improve farm income and
really help provide long term market stability for corn growers.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
She said, there's a straightforward path to make this possibility
a reality.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
So right now we rely on the EPA to give
short term waivers to let us sell it in the summers.
What we really need is a congressional fix to get
year round E fifteen that's not relying on those emergency waivers.
This will allow industries and producers to have some stability
and know that they'll be able to blend E fifteen
ethanol year round.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Learn more on the Market Intel page. At fb dot org.
Chad Smith, Washington, Well Friends.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
This season there may be more grain bags across road
crop agriculture than ever before, and it might be important
to recycle those bags. Generally, these are one use bags,
and so once they're empty, they need to have a
new use, and recycling might very well be worthwhile. Chris
de Clerk is an irrigation specialist at Delta Plastics. They

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have a secondary company called the Revolution Company and they
will come anywhere across road crop country to pick up
grain bags as long as they're gathered together, generally speaking
across the Midwest. Chris says he's been with Delta Plastics
about fifteen years, but recently has been working through the
recycling program.

Speaker 29 (28:12):
I've been with the company about fifteen years, but I
am now also in charge of running a recycling program
where we bring in ag plastics, we recycle those plastic
ag components, and we make plastic trash.

Speaker 30 (28:25):
Bags out of them.

Speaker 29 (28:27):
Yeah, it's the top of bag plastic they use once
they find a way to dispose of it in some way,
hopefully recycle it in some way and then buy the
in the next season.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
The company is looking at helping producers and others find
a way to properly dispose of those bags if they
don't have another use. Sometimes they do find uses for
the plastic on the farm, but these are two hundred
feet long. They are enormous pieces of plastic. He talked
about farmers preparing the bags for pickup.

Speaker 29 (28:52):
It's a rather easy kind of step through model if
they have the machinery to roll it up. There are
grain bag rollers that are out there that you can
hook up to a tractor, to a pto and just
basically wind that big long bag up until it rolls
tight into a roll, almost like a haybell almost looking

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plastic roll.

Speaker 30 (29:14):
We'll come get it. If they're rolled tight.

Speaker 29 (29:16):
Like that, and we have forty thousand pounds of it
on site.

Speaker 30 (29:21):
I don't know exactly how many rolls. That is, all rolls.

Speaker 29 (29:24):
Aren't created totally equal, but if you have around that weight,
we'll come get it and dispose of it for you,
so you don't have to pay for it to be
disposed of, and we'll recycle it down into another product.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
They use the plastic to make things like trash bags
for kitchens.

Speaker 29 (29:39):
It's a good product for us to take and to
make other products from all we ask from the end user.
It could be a farmer, it could be a co op,
it could be a waste disposal that are looking to
keep these grain bags out of the landfill. Is that
you just have the weight, you roll it up tight.
You be ready for a truck that we're going to send,
which is a fifty three foot dryand trailer, and you

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need to have a bobcat. You need to have a
ramp ready to go. That driver will pull up in
a dry location. He or she more than likely won't
even get out of the truck, but you'd be ready
to have the equipment necessary to load him up and
in a couple hours we can be gone.

Speaker 30 (30:16):
It's at no fee to the end user.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
He said that they'd be grateful if a farmer would
wrap the plastic baiales up in twin.

Speaker 29 (30:24):
Yeah, it would be good if they had one piece
of twine wrapped around the bags so it didn't look
like kind of spaghetti like.

Speaker 30 (30:32):
The tighter the roll, the better it fits inside of
the van. And usually a user.

Speaker 29 (30:37):
After one time of loading them up and kind of
understanding the standard operating procedures, will get better at doing
this and the roll to roll tight and we'll understand
how the fit these rolls.

Speaker 30 (30:48):
Are these bags into the back of the drive ind.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Chris de klerk Revolution Company recycling grain bags. Farm News,
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commodity prices dropped in October for the second straight month.
The United Nations Food and agg Organization says prices were
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From THEAG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today friends.
While a world record wheat harvest took place in Texas
last summer, Chad Smith wraps us up.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
The new class Jaguar twelve hundred when wheat harvesting outside
of Dalhart, Texas during the summer. The goal was to
determine what the eleven hundred ten horsepower machine could accomplish
in demanding conditions over a full day, and the result
was a world record. They finished with four five hundred
and fifteen tons of wheat ledge in twelve hours, shattering

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the previous record Matt James forage harvest product manager for
Kloss talks about the long twelve hour day.

Speaker 31 (33:59):
I was actually pretty easy. That was the easiest twelve
hours I think I've ever had with the cabbying so
much quieter than the old cabs. The ride, the new
cap suspension, the footpegs, all the automization of the new
machine because we have camp pilots doing it on the
wind row, you have the ground speed control with Siamo
Soft performance, and then with autofil filling the truck, you know,

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you just push some buttons and drive for a mile
or two around those big circles and turn around and
come back. So it was actually really easy compared to
farming at home. The crop was actually pretty dry because
it was June tewond and West Texas some moistures roughly
sixty percent moisture, and we did over two hundred and
sixty six truckloads.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
He talked about what the world record means for dairy
operators and custom harvesters.

Speaker 31 (34:48):
With the world record, we really wanted to show what
the true capacity of the machine was at. And you
can see with this capacity, we're over two minutes and
seventeen seconds filling these huge semis, and but it shows
us is we can go to less machine than the field,
or we can get that field harvested sooner.

Speaker 30 (35:04):
So like some of these bigger.

Speaker 31 (35:05):
Dairies is at the end crops are getting dry, so
with a bigger machine, we can get that crop harvested off,
so you're going to have a better nutritional value. Or
for a custom guy, it means you can go and
do more acres in that season and send it out.
But also by having less machines in the field, the
trucks leave the field more consistently and then go to
the pile more consistently, so you can get a better

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pack because you've got more consistency versus trucks leaving.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
At the same time, Jane said they came up with
the world record idea as a way to show how
tough the Jaguar twelve hundred is.

Speaker 31 (35:38):
Wheat Ledge is a really really tough crop to harvest.
It's tart on the machine, it doesn't fall right, So
we really want to show the toughness of this May
one thousand series and truly not even using a university
study or whatever, but using Guinness World Records, so a
really official place to mark this accomplishment of what a
machine can do over twelve hours.

Speaker 30 (35:59):
It's about a marathon race.

Speaker 31 (36:00):
It's not about what one truckload you can shop, but
it's all about what we could do in twelve hours
and really coming up with a realistic what other customers
could accomplish out there as well.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
The world record attempt showed how much more a farmer
can get done with this machine during harvest.

Speaker 31 (36:16):
So we started at eight o'clock in the morning and
then we finished at eight pm. And throughout that twelve
hour interval with the Jag one thousand, two hundred, which
is one and ten horsepower, with our new fifteen foot payhead,
the PU forty five hundred, we recorded over four thousand,
five hundred and fifteen tons in that time, which was

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a huge accomplishment. We really broke the record by around
one o'clock in the afternoon, so it was a pretty
easy record to break with this new big machine.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
For more information about the record setting Jaguar twelve hundred
go to closs dot com. Chad Smith reporting

Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that friends, out of time for today, thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition A bag
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