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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. Well, friends,
Autumn may signal gardening season coming to an end for
the year, or at least changing for the year, but
there are ways to extend that a little more deeper
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into fall and prepare a garden for next spring. Rod
Bain has our opening report today.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now that we are in the start of autumn, add
the wide down of the gardening season for those growing flowers,
fruit and vegetables, a gardener's focus shifts to getting their
garden prepared for overwintering add a good shape for next spring.
What are some things to consider when it comes to
fall garden prep. Cythia Domicghidi of Kansas State University Extension
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offers advice starting with if you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Have a large area that you garden, consider looking at
cover crops. Some cover crops can be planted early fall time,
and that's a great way to protect your soil through
the winter and contribute nutrients back into the soil for
your spring planting.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Then there are the basic fall prep tips for getting
a garden ready for overwintering.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To keep in mind, you can start cleaning up plant
debris to prevent overwintering diseases and pests. Another thing to
think about is if you would like to grow bulbs,
Planting those in the fall is important to get them
to bloom in the spring. Some people have good intentions
and they buy the bulbs, the tulips and daffodils and hyacinths,
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but they don't get them in the ground in time
and they miss out on that spring blooming.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What if the garden bug continues to itch for the
gardener in the early fall?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What idea You could also consider growing a fall crop
of leafy greens and you can continue reseeding those until
you get into a hard freeze. And leafy greens can
be harvested at any point. Really, if you harvest them
when they're young, they're considered microgreens. Really, But that's a
fun crop to grow in the fall because you can
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get regrowth and extend your gardening season basically.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And when that first frost occurs. What are protection considerations
for tender vegetables.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Some options are to individually cover plants. Some people eatn
use empty plastic milk jugs where they cut the bottom
of the jug out and they can place that over
the top of a sensitive plant. But you can also
use blankets or sheet of plastic to create a low
tunnel or row cover over multiple plants to get them
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through those first few frosts of the fall season and
extend the amount of time that you're able to be harvesting.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I've Rodbin reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
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Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well Friends. The USDA Wetland Restoration Program terms thirty five
years old this year. We'll take a look at that
coming up on today's edition of Baglife. Bob Gwen back
with some farm us A Sparning Friends Well. A recent
analysis of the original wetland Reserve program examined the impact
of wetland restoration on water quality and economies. Todd Gleeson
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has more for us out of the Midwest. The study
uses thirty years of water quality data to estimate the
effect of restored wetlands on nitrogen and phosphorus loads in
the Mississippi River basin. By comparing water quality before and
after restoration, the U OFVI ag economists isolated the impact
of agricultural nutrient loads. Says Maren Skidmore.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They're really enormously successful relative to their size at reducing
nitrogen in the surface water. So our estimate of the
first wetland easement in the subwater shed is that we
find a sixty two percent decrease in ammonia in the
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nearby subwater shehed and thirty seven percent in total kills
on nitrogen. Those are two different chemical forms that nitrogen
can take. Of course, nitrogen moves through the nitrogen cycle,
and different conservation staff members might take a different type
of water sample, so we have different ways to measure nitrogen,
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but in either case, we're finding really meaningful decreases from
even just this one hundred acre restoration.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Wetland restoration can be a cost effective way to reduce
nitrogen loads in drinking water, particularly in areas with high
baseline levels. Now Skidmore estimates the payback period for this
initial investment in wetland restoration is about twenty years. The
Wetland Reserve Program, established thirty five years ago and now
part of the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, pays land owners
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to restore these wetlands on their property. The program aims
to restore wetlands to their natural state, providing benefits for
both the environment and for future generations.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It's this leg see that you can share with your family,
and because of the nature of these permanent easements, it's
something you know is going to be shared with the
next generation.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Landowners who joined the program told Skidmore they did it
to leave a legacy for their kids and grandkids. Now
their families have a blast fishing and hunting on their
land together, and someday they hope to pass on a
healthy and thriving farm. University of Illinois Extension, I'm Todd Clason.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well friends, US soybeans sales to China have been a
big part of the agriculture news headlines in recent months.
Nebraska soybean growers find themselves in a unique situation. Nebraska
Governor Jim Pillen said the state doesn't need to export soybeans.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
We heard lots about soybeans needing to be sold to China. Well,
we don't have to Nebraska. With the Norfolk crush plants
coming online last year, in the AGP plant in David
City coming online, those two plants took up the last
twenty five percent of soy beans that had to be
exported so in Nebraska soybating farmers. We don't export. It's
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the vision of agriculture that we process of products create value.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Here the Tall Grass Pipeline and Nebraska is carrying carbon
dioxide from ethanol manufacturing plants to a sequestration site in Wyoming.
Combine that with Nebraska's expanding ethanol production, and Pilln said,
the biofuels economy in the state is strong.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Now with the carbon capture the ethanol plants, we have
double in size. We have extraordinary growth on the horizon.
And then that doesn't even talk about the bioeconomy that
things that will be continuing to make from carbon above
the ground. It's going to be loaded down like polypropylene,
and these are billion dollar plants. We have extraordinary business
growth creating incredible opportunity and careers that nobody can conceive.
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Yet it's exciting times.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Looking at the overall ag economy in Nebraska, he said,
it's taken significant steps forward.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
We are number one now in cattle. Texas is number two.
Because of the carbon capture the Targraphs pipeline. The northern
state has been able to do it. We kept politics
out kind of true. Iowa renewable fields groups true the
white flat again, said Nebraska's number one, and thats a all.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillin with US Farm News this morning.
You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It's another agnews update, a strong supply signal for the
year ahead, corn beans and wheat more after this.
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USDA's November World Eggs supply demand Estimates or WASD reports
set a solid supply tone, with major US crops all
showing comfortable production and ample ending stocks. Corn production landing
at sixteen point eight billion bushels on a one hundred
eighty six bushel yield, exports up to three point one
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billion bushels after record fall shipments. Ending stocks climbed to
two point two billion. USDA raised the season average price
to four dollars. Soybeans tightened slightly is lower carry in
and and a trim fifty three bushel yield pulled supplies
down sixty one million bushels. Exports reduced to one point
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sixty four billion as early season competition from Brazil and
Argentina narrowed US advantages. USDA raised the season average price
to ten fifty wheat in the opposite direction, boosted by
a record all wheat yield, lifting production to nearly two
billion bushels with use unchanged. Added supply pushed ending stocks higher,
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nudging prices down to five dollars. It's another agnews update.
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American Cattle News. What happened in the markets last week,
We'll recap them right after this.
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Oliver's slope is with blue lining futures in Chicago. Recapping
last week's markets.
Speaker 13 (10:29):
Features fin much of the week in a choppy train,
but found their footing in Friday session.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
At the closed February live cattle futures.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Fifty seven cents higher to two nineteen fifty two for
the week, that was still twenty two cents lower January.
Theuter cattle futures gained two dollars and ten cents on Friday,
which put prices ninety seven cents higher for the week
to three twenty fifty five and over on this outside
to Sember, lean hog futures gained four to two cents,
is settling at seventy eight to fifty that was still
ninety cents lower for the week. This morning's wholesale box
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IF report had a weaker tone, Choice cuts two eighty
nine lower to three seventy sixty eight and SLT cuts
a slid fifty cents to three fifty four fifty three.
Yesterday's five area average price for live series that was
reported at two twenty five to fifty eight, which is
on the softer side of what we saw through the
first part of the week. Daily slaughter came in at
one hundred and twenty thousand head Thursday afternoon. That's eight
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thousand more than last week, but thirteen thousand head less
than the same day last year. The week to day
total for slaughter four hundred and seventy one thousand head,
which is fourteen thousand head less in the same period
last year. Live cattle and feeder cattle seaball were lower
on Friday, with live Cattle's index finishing the session seventy
nine ticks slower to twenty three oh seven. The feeder
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cattle volatility index dropped seventy eight ticks at twenty four
to twenty five. Though both of these are off the
recent eyes, they are at elevated levels relative to what
we've seen throughout the year.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Cash sales last week in the South at two hundred
and twenty eight dollars. In the North that was three
to five lower, dress three point fifty one to three
fifty five, down seven to nine American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Now.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for feetwork at USA. Today,
I'm with an old friend, Dwayne Spaulding up ninety seven milk. Dwayne,
tell us what ninety seven milk is all about.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
To me?
Speaker 16 (12:21):
About getting a good healthy product back in our schools
as a choice. The children are only allowed to have
skim in one percent, and as a ex dairy farmer,
I feel that two percent in hole should go back
in as a choice. I grew up on a dairy
farm in Colba schoo in New York. My parents were
born in the Depression. They had a work work, work
very hard, and I was able to pay my mortgage
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take care of a family on agriculture, and I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
I have a love for it.
Speaker 16 (12:51):
I want to step up to the plate for my parents, myself,
the children. Let's get home milk as a choice back
in school, and also maybe we can save some farms.
Speaker 15 (12:58):
There's great people on the nine.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Yeah, there are.
Speaker 16 (13:01):
Actually it's kind of small, to be honest with you.
Jen has started down in Pennsylvania and Nelson Troutman painted
a bail what five years ago now, and we saw
it in the Farmshine paper and we went wow. So
we ended up taking a trip down they started the
ninety seven milk campaign movement, so we went down.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
We said, goush, this is kind of simple.
Speaker 16 (13:19):
Some Amish, Mennonites English farms got together and so we've
kept it very, very simple because as everyone knows, you
really can't find a lot of help.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
So there's Jahoy, myself.
Speaker 16 (13:30):
And and Diefendorff. We travel fair to fair and antique tractor shows.
This is our fifth year and we can't stop. Things
are happening. The first couple of years we bought it
out of our own pockets and then different dairies, you
know Ronnie Brook batten Kill King's dairy, Dygerts. Everyone got
seeing what we were doing and we're and we're really
shaking the bushes and getting somewhere. So they've really stepped
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up to the plate. They actually donate a lot of
milk rusts at the fairs. I have to tell you
this is actually incredible. We're handing out one thousand and
fifteen hundred to two thousand bottles or glasses a day, and.
Speaker 11 (14:05):
The visits with the children, the parents, the grandparents. It
makes you want to do more legislatively.
Speaker 15 (14:10):
You are making some headway.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
We've been to all many four times with whole milk.
Speaker 16 (14:14):
We go down there three to five hundred bottles, rub
elbows with the Senators and the Assembly. We're gaining a
lot of friends. We're going to keep going back as
many times as it takes. We've got to get this done.
We want to get this done for our neighbors. And
it doesn't matter the size of the farm. This is
for everyone. And this is a healthy product that needs
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to be back in school especially. I see the healthy
children myself having different allergies, skin allergies that they never
had before, and I think milk would be a good
start to fixing. For a quick example, they say there's
like seventy million children across the United States in our
public schools. Okay, time's one eight ounce bottle of chocolate
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milk in the morning. Now, if we do it at
lunch two times a day, that's a lot of tonnage
across America that we could get healthy food back into
our children.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
That would be fabulous.
Speaker 16 (15:07):
And I actually would ask any farmer that would all
across America, if you want to take time come to
a fair where we are set in the booth. I
had a farmery that rode up here to the Washington
County Fair with me. He sat in the booth for
three hours and on the way home he goes, Dwayne,
I have to thank you. He goes, you guys are
very professional. You know exactly what you're talking about. The teachers,
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the parents, they see that the children need it for
the rain development, the muscle structure, the bone development, the teeth,
the development. So everyone is highly, highly concerned. We need
to become a huge team across America, get more round
bails out there and get this whole milk back in school.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
There's going to be a lot of Jerry farmers that
are listening to your boys. What do you want them
to do?
Speaker 16 (15:53):
Well, you can do a real simple thing. Everyone, take
one round veil. Get it on your road crossing, get
it on the edge of your lone on your driveway.
You would be stunned at the huge impact that that's
making a loan. And then if you want to make
a small contribution, you can send it to ninety seven
milk dot com. That's really helped us so many people donating.
Now we call down. They send us the posters and
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this and that and hand out cards, the bumper stickers.
We used to have to pay for that. We don't
have to anymore because everyone's really stepping up to the plate.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Also, it doesn't hurt to call your US senator.
Speaker 16 (16:24):
Definitely, John. Thank you for mentioning that it's in their
hands right now. All across America. Call your senator. It's
in their hands now. We could finish this off. This
would be incredible if we could get this back in school.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
There is a bill. Gt. Thompson has it in the
AG bill this year. I think it comes up for
a vote.
Speaker 16 (16:42):
That would be incredible if we could get this fixed
and get it done.
Speaker 15 (16:45):
Dwin' Spalding with ninety seven milk, thanks for being.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
With us today, John, thank you very much for having me.
Greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 15 (16:50):
I'm John Clark, traveling on the countryside for Feedwork's USA.
Speaker 17 (16:56):
Thinking about the almaine industry. No, it's not big AG.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part
of the VASTAG Information Network. Clarice Turner as president and
CEO of the almed Border, California.
Speaker 18 (17:10):
They're under one hundred acres about seventy percent of them.
So this whole notion of a big ag, it's like, well, actually,
when you look at the facts, not big agg. It's
a lot of families, is what it is. So that
makes me very proud in terms of representing the industry.
And then the other thing that I would say is
that you know, for every drop of water we're producing
for crop, it's the wood, the hull of the shell
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and the kernel, and nothing goes to waste. So it
is zero waste and upcycling at its finance.
Speaker 17 (17:36):
Now we'll go to Dave Fippen, he's co owner of
Travail and Fippen, a big almond grower, packer and shipper,
talking about the markets that his company goes too.
Speaker 19 (17:46):
Japan's been our big market. Dubai is a big market
for this company. We go into Western Europe about twenty
percent of our volume. But all the markets are important.
There isn't one more important than the other.
Speaker 17 (17:56):
But and of course India is the biggest sixport market
for Calilifornia almonds.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
India has just really as you mentioned, they've become the
biggest user of California almonds. So thank god for that.
And let's hope it keeps going.
Speaker 17 (18:08):
You want to get this on your calendar. The twenty
twenty five Almond Conference is scheduled for December tenth through
the twelfth and Sacramento. Just search Almond Conference to get
the information.
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Today we're talking with aphis and white flies about sophena
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The AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. The pushback continues
in Washington, d c. Against President Trump's plan to import
beef from Argentina as a way to lower the price
of beef in the United States. Senator Cindy Hyde Smith
of Mississippi says they've gotten a lot of negative feedback.
Speaker 22 (19:34):
Oh my goodness, have we gotten reaction. I saw Mark
Wwayne Mullen this morning. He said, my phone has been
ringing since four am. I am hearing from people that
I've never heard from in years, some that I've never
heard from before at all. And I know what the
president's intentions were. His intentions were the mother that's pushing
that shopping cart going down that aisle, trying to feed
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her family, and he thinks we've got to bring beef
prices down for that mone. He has had a lot
of schooling since he made that statement, a lot of
information given to him and education that this is a
global market. Let me explain how this works. And I
know that he was kind of comparing this to the
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eggs when they were so high when he got into office.
You can't replace an egg with anything else you eat.
The egg, it goes in cakes, it goes in pies,
it goes in bread. You know, you can't replace that
with anything else. And I understand, you know, and of
course the high path avent influenza a platter factor in that,
and I understand we've got some concern about that again
in a few countries right now. But just getting him
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to the point of, we know what you're trying to do,
but this market needs to be a true market without
any intervention from government and their other choices. Unlike eggs.
I mean, if the price of beef because of the
shortage that we're looking at right now, because of all
the circumstances of what created that shortage. But you have
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other proteins you can do this, chicken, lamb, pork, turkey,
you name it. You have other choices there. So let
the market be the market.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Gil Matta's Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde Smith.
Speaker 23 (21:14):
President Donald Trump announced trade progress with a number of
countries on a swing through Asia, and well detailed still
need to be worked out, the talks offer positive signs
for exports of US beef and pork, according to US
beat Export Federation President and CEO Dan Halstrom.
Speaker 24 (21:28):
Starting with Malaysia. The US historically has faced numerous non
tariff trade barriers into the Malaysian region. We're excited to
see some of those barriers eliminated. US pork has made
strides in recent years in Malaysia and there's room for
further growth, but I think the larger potentials for US
beef similar situation Vietnam. There, the issue is tariff relief
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on tariffs is going to be mandatory so we can
compete on a level playing field. So hopefully this is
the first step in obtaining that. Thailand another one prohibitively
high tariff rates. There's also been noted. Another market that's
a much smaller market is Cambodia, which is probably more
of a beef market than a pork market opportunity, but
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the commitment there for duty free access is also encouraging.
Won't be a big market, but honestly, in a whole
Southeast Asia region, you add all these markets together, it
is significant.
Speaker 23 (22:22):
There were also positive signs for a resumption of red
meat sales into China.
Speaker 24 (22:25):
The escalation of terrace is essential and it's been holding
back demand obviously on both pork and beef. Fifty seven
percent duty on pork. You know, there's business being done,
but there'd be a lot more if we were back
down to more reasonable levels. And the same thing on beef,
and of course the real issue on beef really doesn't
have anything to do directly today with tarras. It's all
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about access on client registration. But that being said, there
are some good signs outside of beef and pork. There's
resumption of trade in the soybean sector and some commitments
going forward, so I think that positive there. Besides the
impact for soybeans, it confirms and ag exports are being
looked at and prioritized.
Speaker 23 (23:05):
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Speaker 10 (23:08):
As farmers finish off the harvest this season, they all
acknowledge that the job would be impossible without the support
of a spouse and or other family members. Tim Jack
is with Van Stratton Farms in Wisconsin, which farms about
two eight hundred acres of cabbage a year. He said,
as soon as harvest wraps up, it's time for farmers
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like him to thank their supportive spouses.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
It's always when we get done, her and I go
for a nice dinner.
Speaker 25 (23:35):
We try to do you order cabbage.
Speaker 26 (23:38):
Cole's Law normally comes with the melso.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Yeah, Jack Farms with his father in law, and he
gave a shout out to all spouses and employees for
their support during the harvest season, which can get crazy
at times.
Speaker 25 (23:50):
Yeah, a big shout out to all the farm wives,
all the help, you know, the farm help that everybody has.
Speaker 26 (23:56):
Wont be able to do with Augia.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Farm wives do a lot by.
Speaker 25 (23:59):
Themselves as here, so definitely won't be able to do
without them.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Again.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
That is Tim Jack of Van Stratton Farms in Wisconsin.
Speaker 27 (24:09):
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Speaker 3 (24:15):
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Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about insecticide
from basf We.
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Speaker 12 (26:03):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird.
Speaker 20 (26:07):
And you still wanted to devour this field?
Speaker 12 (26:10):
No way, way, bro.
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There you have it, folks.
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read and follow label directions.
Speaker 27 (26:25):
This is California ag Today on the ag Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Bob went back with some farm news this morning. Friends. Well,
with just two weeks left in the twenty twenty five
hurricane season, it appears the East Coast and especially the southeast,
escape the impact of a land falling hurricane for the
first time in a decade. Mike Davis has our story.
Alex Da Silva, lead hurricane expert with ACU Weather, says
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steering mechanisms like the Bermuda high played a role in
sparing the continental US.
Speaker 25 (26:59):
What we saw this was this Bermuda high was a
little bit further to the east than what we typically see.
So in a typical year, maybe it's a little bit
further to the west, but this year it was a
little further to the east, and overall it was a
little bit on the weaker side. So as a result,
most of the storms that formed this season went around
the periphery of that Bermuda High and went out to sea.
Speaker 28 (27:22):
De Silva says Chantal made landfall as a tropical storm,
and Hurricane Erin brought rain in August. Even without making landfall.
Speaker 25 (27:30):
They were close enough to the United States, such as Erin,
for example, which still did bring direct impacts to the
United States. So Chantal was the only storm that actually
made direct landfall to the United States. But we had
other storms this year that still came close enough, like Erin,
for example, which still brought tropical storm force wind gusts
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and rain and coastal flooding to the United States despite
not making direct landfall.
Speaker 28 (27:58):
The last year a hurricane did not make direct landfall
to the US was twenty fifteen. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, friends, it's been a milestone year for John Deere.
Chad Smith has an update.
Speaker 26 (28:11):
Twenty twenty five has been an exciting year for the
John Deere See and Spray technology, which hit a major milestone.
Josh Ladd, marketing manager at John Deere, said, See and
Spray covered a lot of acres this year. We actually
covered over five million acres across North America. That's in
the United States and Canada. And just to put that
into perspective, we're talking about a size of ground that's
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larger than the state of New Jersey. We saw across
those acres and average savings of nearly fifty percent.
Speaker 29 (28:39):
And the best part is we're not even done for
the year. We know that as harvest is wrapping up,
we're going to have customers across the US and parts
of Canada that are going to be doing some clean
up passes with fallows. So I'm very excited for the
acres yet to be covered the rest of the season.
Speaker 26 (28:52):
He talked about the feedback John Deere has received from producers.
We had over one thousand machines in field, which was
just new customers, new states, even new countries that had
an opportunity to experience Sea and Spray firsthand. Last year
we talked about that with this technology, there was a
lot of conversation and belief of there's no way that
a sprayer going fifteen miles an hour is able to
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detect a weed a quarterage by quarterage and appropriately spray
deliver that weed mortality. And this last year we saw
so many operations that were able to experience that value
firsthand and ultimately see a yield improvement as well. We
did recently release a white paper that shows that in
soybeans using targeted application with Sea and Spray, we saw
a yield improvement of up to four point eight bushels
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per acre with the average improvement of two bushels and acre,
so not only the ability to save product, but now
also deliver a better yield outcome at harvest. After releasing
a software update that included three big feature updates in
twenty twenty five, he talked about what's next for Sea
and Spray.
Speaker 29 (29:50):
One of the other things that we're really excited about
for the twenty twenty six season is we're introducing a
new unlimited license that specifically designed for high use operations
for Sea and Spray. So for a customer that are
maybe doing broad scale application or doing some custom application
for other farmers in their area. This unlimited option is
going to simplify the paraker planning and give them more
control over some of those in season decisions we know
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they're going to have to make. I always say, with
See and Spray, it's not a matter of if, but
just a matter of when. And so we think about
new crop models that we continue to work on. We
talk to customers with small grains and sugar beets and
nuts and potatoes and everything in between, and we continue
to make progress on those models.
Speaker 26 (30:25):
Lad talked about the steps farmers can take to access
the technology.
Speaker 29 (30:29):
For any questions on See and Spray, the deer dot
com website is a great resource for some of those
high level questions that you may have. But once you
want to take the technology for a test under experience
it on your own farm, I would really encourage you
to talk to your John Dere dealer. They are a
phenomenal resource. They're well staffed, they're well trained, they've been
with us on this journey for See and Spray over
the last few years, and they can really set your
operation up for success, whether you're looking to do a
(30:51):
demo or maybe jump in head first with a See
and Spray premium or See and Spray Ultimate machine once again.
Speaker 26 (30:55):
That's Josh Ladd of John Deere Chad Smith reporting well Friends.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
In the first set of government estimates since September, Friday's
anticipated World agg Supply and Demand or WADI report offered
mixed outlooks for major US crops. Trimming projected corn and
soybean yields, while leaving wheat production unchanged. USDA lowered the
national corn yield to one hundred and eighty six bushels
and acre. Exports were raised, and ending stocks were projected
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at two point one billion bushels. The average farm price
rose to four dollars a bushel, soybean yields was cut
to fifty three bushels an acre farm US. You're listening
to ag Life.
Speaker 30 (31:33):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. Well LANDA Lakes and Microsoft announced a multi
year strategic plan, marking a new chapter in their shared
commitment to agriculture innovation. Building on five years of successful collaboration,
the alliance will focus on co developing AI powered tools,
including a digital assistant called oz oz Is built on
(31:54):
models with Azure AI foundry and uses Landa Lake's agricultural
data to help farmers make in decisions, aim to optimize operation,
maximize yield, and mitigate risk. Well House Committee on Ag
Chair G. T. Thompson and Pennsylvania expressed his relief after
the vote to reopen the federal government, but Thompson says
there's no question this shutdown inflicted unnecessary pain on farm families,
(32:16):
rural communities, and those who depend on critical USDA services. Now,
he says, extending the current Farm bill will give US
time to finalize Farm Bill two point zero, a bipartisan
package that builds on the One Big Beautiful Bill. Chinese
purchases of soybeans from the US appear to have stalled,
just two weeks after the US touted a wide ranging
trade trup between the two countries, Bloomberg reports. Traders who
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ask not to be identified, said they were not aware
of any new shipments, and the pause is causing significant uncertainty.
Stoneheck's reports. Singapore insiders say many experts view China's commitment
to be more of a diplomatic gesture than a firm agreement.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer,
you have to go digital.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Hmm.
Speaker 14 (32:58):
Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and online publication
or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (33:07):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know, it's
easy for us to find them during the day, as
most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup truck
or farm equipment with the radio on, listening to this
(33:30):
station for the AG Information Network of the West News.
If you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
or service, give us a call and we'll connect you
directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners. Reach real
farmers right here, right now as they listen to what
is important to their farm operation. They trust us, They'll
trust you.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
From the EG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for
to they friends well. The snowbirds from can are heading
in a different direction after harvest and the first snowfall.
Dennis Sky has our final report. The harvest season is
complete or nearly wrapped up across Canada, and none too soon,
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with much of the country having experienced its first snowfall.
For some, that signals a desire to escape cold weather. Historically,
many middle aged and older Canadians who spent several winter
weeks or months in southern American states, with Florida and
Arizona being primary destinations. While Mexico and the Caribbean islands
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have long been favored by some Canadians, according to vacation
travel agents, there is a growing interest in southwestern regions
of Europe, especially Portugal and Spain. Angela Weir is the
co founder of a travel agency based in London in
southwestern Ontario. A large part of Weir's business caters to
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rural and farm clients wanting to escape cold weather. Her
winter business has largely revolved around finding longer term accommodations
for clients in southern US states, but she says that
recently travel agencies have seen a major shift in the
places that Canadians are wanting to spend time this winter.
Speaker 31 (35:14):
Any of the travel agencies that really focus in on
southern destinations within the US are seeing a huge decline.
We are seeing lots of people that are now wanting
to go to all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, to
Mexico and doing trips to Europe.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Angela Weir says there are several factors changing the winter
migration habits. The exchange rate for Canadian dollars is high
in both the US and in European countries, with the
Canadian dollar taking about a thirty percent hit. But she
says that money just tends to go a lot further
in Europe as long as you stay away from the
big cities. But we're says, the US tariff situation and
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the general American political tension does come up quite a bit.
Speaker 31 (35:58):
A lot of it is the politics. People are of
course very angry with tariff. They're choosing to spend their
dollars elsewhere. Politics aside. People are finding that Europe is
actually more affordable than what they had thought previously. Sometimes
Europe is not that much more expensive.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So for many Canadians, their annual migratory flight is changing
from south to southeast across the Atlantic Ocean. According to
travel agent Angela Weir, the snowbirds are building new winter
communities away from their historic southern US roosts.
Speaker 26 (36:30):
The snowbirds.
Speaker 31 (36:31):
People who would normally go down to Florida for the winter,
who would go to Arizona for the winter, they're actually
starting to do extended stays, doing villas, doing condos through
the winter months. Maybe not for three months, but they're
going to destinations like Spain, Portugal. They still want to
get away from that snow and to not go to
the US.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis Guy with that. Friends, out
of time for today, thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow
morning with another edition A Bad Life
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,
Autumn may signal gardening season coming to an end for
the year, or at least changing for the year, but
there are ways to extend that a little more deeper
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into fall and prepare a garden for next spring. Rod
Bain has our opening report today.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now that we are in the start of autumn, add
the wide down of the gardening season for those growing flowers,
fruit and vegetables, a gardener's focus shifts to getting their
garden prepared for overwintering add a good shape for next spring.
What are some things to consider when it comes to
fall garden prep. Cythia Domicghidi of Kansas State University Extension
(00:49):
offers advice starting with if you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Have a large area that you garden, consider looking at
cover crops. Some cover crops can be planted early fall time,
and that's a great way to protect your soil through
the winter and contribute nutrients back into the soil for
your spring planting.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Then there are the basic fall prep tips for getting
a garden ready for overwintering.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To keep in mind, you can start cleaning up plant
debris to prevent overwintering diseases and pests. Another thing to
think about is if you would like to grow bulbs,
Planting those in the fall is important to get them
to bloom in the spring. Some people have good intentions
and they buy the bulbs, the tulips and daffodils and hyacinths,
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but they don't get them in the ground in time
and they miss out on that spring blooming.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What if the garden bug continues to itch for the
gardener in the early fall?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What idea You could also consider growing a fall crop
of leafy greens and you can continue reseeding those until
you get into a hard freeze. And leafy greens can
be harvested at any point. Really, if you harvest them
when they're young, they're considered microgreens. Really, But that's a
fun crop to grow in the fall because you can
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get regrowth and extend your gardening season basically.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And when that first frost occurs. What are protection considerations
for tender vegetables.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Some options are to individually cover plants. Some people eatn
use empty plastic milk jugs where they cut the bottom
of the jug out and they can place that over
the top of a sensitive plant. But you can also
use blankets or sheet of plastic to create a low
tunnel or row cover over multiple plants to get them
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through those first few frosts of the fall season and
extend the amount of time that you're able to be harvesting.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I've Rodbin reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
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Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well Friends. The USDA Wetland Restoration Program terms thirty five
years old this year. We'll take a look at that
coming up on today's edition of Baglife. Bob Gwen back
with some farm us A Sparning Friends Well. A recent
analysis of the original wetland Reserve program examined the impact
of wetland restoration on water quality and economies. Todd Gleeson
(03:16):
has more for us out of the Midwest. The study
uses thirty years of water quality data to estimate the
effect of restored wetlands on nitrogen and phosphorus loads in
the Mississippi River basin. By comparing water quality before and
after restoration, the U OFVI ag economists isolated the impact
of agricultural nutrient loads. Says Maren Skidmore.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They're really enormously successful relative to their size at reducing
nitrogen in the surface water. So our estimate of the
first wetland easement in the subwater shed is that we
find a sixty two percent decrease in ammonia in the
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nearby subwater shehed and thirty seven percent in total kills
on nitrogen. Those are two different chemical forms that nitrogen
can take. Of course, nitrogen moves through the nitrogen cycle,
and different conservation staff members might take a different type
of water sample, so we have different ways to measure nitrogen,
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but in either case, we're finding really meaningful decreases from
even just this one hundred acre restoration.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Wetland restoration can be a cost effective way to reduce
nitrogen loads in drinking water, particularly in areas with high
baseline levels. Now Skidmore estimates the payback period for this
initial investment in wetland restoration is about twenty years. The
Wetland Reserve Program, established thirty five years ago and now
part of the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, pays land owners
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to restore these wetlands on their property. The program aims
to restore wetlands to their natural state, providing benefits for
both the environment and for future generations.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It's this leg see that you can share with your family,
and because of the nature of these permanent easements, it's
something you know is going to be shared with the
next generation.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Landowners who joined the program told Skidmore they did it
to leave a legacy for their kids and grandkids. Now
their families have a blast fishing and hunting on their
land together, and someday they hope to pass on a
healthy and thriving farm. University of Illinois Extension, I'm Todd Clason.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well friends, US soybeans sales to China have been a
big part of the agriculture news headlines in recent months.
Nebraska soybean growers find themselves in a unique situation. Nebraska
Governor Jim Pillen said the state doesn't need to export soybeans.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
We heard lots about soybeans needing to be sold to China. Well,
we don't have to Nebraska. With the Norfolk crush plants
coming online last year, in the AGP plant in David
City coming online, those two plants took up the last
twenty five percent of soy beans that had to be
exported so in Nebraska soybating farmers. We don't export. It's
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the vision of agriculture that we process of products create value.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Here the Tall Grass Pipeline and Nebraska is carrying carbon
dioxide from ethanol manufacturing plants to a sequestration site in Wyoming.
Combine that with Nebraska's expanding ethanol production, and Pilln said,
the biofuels economy in the state is strong.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Now with the carbon capture the ethanol plants, we have
double in size. We have extraordinary growth on the horizon.
And then that doesn't even talk about the bioeconomy that
things that will be continuing to make from carbon above
the ground. It's going to be loaded down like polypropylene,
and these are billion dollar plants. We have extraordinary business
growth creating incredible opportunity and careers that nobody can conceive.
(06:50):
Yet it's exciting times.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Looking at the overall ag economy in Nebraska, he said,
it's taken significant steps forward.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
We are number one now in cattle. Texas is number two.
Because of the carbon capture the Targraphs pipeline. The northern
state has been able to do it. We kept politics
out kind of true. Iowa renewable fields groups true the
white flat again, said Nebraska's number one, and thats a all.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillin with US Farm News this morning.
You're listening to AAG life.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It's another agnews update, a strong supply signal for the
year ahead, corn beans and wheat more after this.
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USDA's November World Eggs supply demand Estimates or WASD reports
set a solid supply tone, with major US crops all
showing comfortable production and ample ending stocks. Corn production landing
at sixteen point eight billion bushels on a one hundred
eighty six bushel yield, exports up to three point one
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billion bushels after record fall shipments. Ending stocks climbed to
two point two billion. USDA raised the season average price
to four dollars. Soybeans tightened slightly is lower carry in
and and a trim fifty three bushel yield pulled supplies
down sixty one million bushels. Exports reduced to one point
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sixty four billion as early season competition from Brazil and
Argentina narrowed US advantages. USDA raised the season average price
to ten fifty wheat in the opposite direction, boosted by
a record all wheat yield, lifting production to nearly two
billion bushels with use unchanged. Added supply pushed ending stocks higher,
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nudging prices down to five dollars. It's another agnews update.
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American Cattle News. What happened in the markets last week,
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Oliver's slope is with blue lining futures in Chicago. Recapping
last week's markets.
Speaker 13 (10:29):
Features fin much of the week in a choppy train,
but found their footing in Friday session.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
At the closed February live cattle futures.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Fifty seven cents higher to two nineteen fifty two for
the week, that was still twenty two cents lower January.
Theuter cattle futures gained two dollars and ten cents on Friday,
which put prices ninety seven cents higher for the week
to three twenty fifty five and over on this outside
to Sember, lean hog futures gained four to two cents,
is settling at seventy eight to fifty that was still
ninety cents lower for the week. This morning's wholesale box
(11:00):
IF report had a weaker tone, Choice cuts two eighty
nine lower to three seventy sixty eight and SLT cuts
a slid fifty cents to three fifty four fifty three.
Yesterday's five area average price for live series that was
reported at two twenty five to fifty eight, which is
on the softer side of what we saw through the
first part of the week. Daily slaughter came in at
one hundred and twenty thousand head Thursday afternoon. That's eight
(11:22):
thousand more than last week, but thirteen thousand head less
than the same day last year. The week to day
total for slaughter four hundred and seventy one thousand head,
which is fourteen thousand head less in the same period
last year. Live cattle and feeder cattle seaball were lower
on Friday, with live Cattle's index finishing the session seventy
nine ticks slower to twenty three oh seven. The feeder
(11:44):
cattle volatility index dropped seventy eight ticks at twenty four
to twenty five. Though both of these are off the
recent eyes, they are at elevated levels relative to what
we've seen throughout the year.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Cash sales last week in the South at two hundred
and twenty eight dollars. In the North that was three
to five lower, dress three point fifty one to three
fifty five, down seven to nine American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Now.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
I'm John Clark, traveling the countryside for feetwork at USA. Today,
I'm with an old friend, Dwayne Spaulding up ninety seven milk. Dwayne,
tell us what ninety seven milk is all about.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
To me?
Speaker 16 (12:21):
About getting a good healthy product back in our schools
as a choice. The children are only allowed to have
skim in one percent, and as a ex dairy farmer,
I feel that two percent in hole should go back
in as a choice. I grew up on a dairy
farm in Colba schoo in New York. My parents were
born in the Depression. They had a work work, work
very hard, and I was able to pay my mortgage
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take care of a family on agriculture, and I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
I have a love for it.
Speaker 16 (12:51):
I want to step up to the plate for my parents, myself,
the children. Let's get home milk as a choice back
in school, and also maybe we can save some farms.
Speaker 15 (12:58):
There's great people on the nine.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Yeah, there are.
Speaker 16 (13:01):
Actually it's kind of small, to be honest with you.
Jen has started down in Pennsylvania and Nelson Troutman painted
a bail what five years ago now, and we saw
it in the Farmshine paper and we went wow. So
we ended up taking a trip down they started the
ninety seven milk campaign movement, so we went down.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
We said, goush, this is kind of simple.
Speaker 16 (13:19):
Some Amish, Mennonites English farms got together and so we've
kept it very, very simple because as everyone knows, you
really can't find a lot of help.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
So there's Jahoy, myself.
Speaker 16 (13:30):
And and Diefendorff. We travel fair to fair and antique tractor shows.
This is our fifth year and we can't stop. Things
are happening. The first couple of years we bought it
out of our own pockets and then different dairies, you
know Ronnie Brook batten Kill King's dairy, Dygerts. Everyone got
seeing what we were doing and we're and we're really
shaking the bushes and getting somewhere. So they've really stepped
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up to the plate. They actually donate a lot of
milk rusts at the fairs. I have to tell you
this is actually incredible. We're handing out one thousand and
fifteen hundred to two thousand bottles or glasses a day, and.
Speaker 11 (14:05):
The visits with the children, the parents, the grandparents. It
makes you want to do more legislatively.
Speaker 15 (14:10):
You are making some headway.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
We've been to all many four times with whole milk.
Speaker 16 (14:14):
We go down there three to five hundred bottles, rub
elbows with the Senators and the Assembly. We're gaining a
lot of friends. We're going to keep going back as
many times as it takes. We've got to get this done.
We want to get this done for our neighbors. And
it doesn't matter the size of the farm. This is
for everyone. And this is a healthy product that needs
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to be back in school especially. I see the healthy
children myself having different allergies, skin allergies that they never
had before, and I think milk would be a good
start to fixing. For a quick example, they say there's
like seventy million children across the United States in our
public schools. Okay, time's one eight ounce bottle of chocolate
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milk in the morning. Now, if we do it at
lunch two times a day, that's a lot of tonnage
across America that we could get healthy food back into
our children.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
That would be fabulous.
Speaker 16 (15:07):
And I actually would ask any farmer that would all
across America, if you want to take time come to
a fair where we are set in the booth. I
had a farmery that rode up here to the Washington
County Fair with me. He sat in the booth for
three hours and on the way home he goes, Dwayne,
I have to thank you. He goes, you guys are
very professional. You know exactly what you're talking about. The teachers,
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the parents, they see that the children need it for
the rain development, the muscle structure, the bone development, the teeth,
the development. So everyone is highly, highly concerned. We need
to become a huge team across America, get more round
bails out there and get this whole milk back in school.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
There's going to be a lot of Jerry farmers that
are listening to your boys. What do you want them
to do?
Speaker 16 (15:53):
Well, you can do a real simple thing. Everyone, take
one round veil. Get it on your road crossing, get
it on the edge of your lone on your driveway.
You would be stunned at the huge impact that that's
making a loan. And then if you want to make
a small contribution, you can send it to ninety seven
milk dot com. That's really helped us so many people donating.
Now we call down. They send us the posters and
(16:15):
this and that and hand out cards, the bumper stickers.
We used to have to pay for that. We don't
have to anymore because everyone's really stepping up to the plate.
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Also, it doesn't hurt to call your US senator.
Speaker 16 (16:24):
Definitely, John. Thank you for mentioning that it's in their
hands right now. All across America. Call your senator. It's
in their hands now. We could finish this off. This
would be incredible if we could get this back in school.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
There is a bill. Gt. Thompson has it in the
AG bill this year. I think it comes up for
a vote.
Speaker 16 (16:42):
That would be incredible if we could get this fixed
and get it done.
Speaker 15 (16:45):
Dwin' Spalding with ninety seven milk, thanks for being.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
With us today, John, thank you very much for having me.
Greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 15 (16:50):
I'm John Clark, traveling on the countryside for Feedwork's USA.
Speaker 17 (16:56):
Thinking about the almaine industry. No, it's not big AG.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part
of the VASTAG Information Network. Clarice Turner as president and
CEO of the almed Border, California.
Speaker 18 (17:10):
They're under one hundred acres about seventy percent of them.
So this whole notion of a big ag, it's like, well, actually,
when you look at the facts, not big agg. It's
a lot of families, is what it is. So that
makes me very proud in terms of representing the industry.
And then the other thing that I would say is
that you know, for every drop of water we're producing
for crop, it's the wood, the hull of the shell
(17:30):
and the kernel, and nothing goes to waste. So it
is zero waste and upcycling at its finance.
Speaker 17 (17:36):
Now we'll go to Dave Fippen, he's co owner of
Travail and Fippen, a big almond grower, packer and shipper,
talking about the markets that his company goes too.
Speaker 19 (17:46):
Japan's been our big market. Dubai is a big market
for this company. We go into Western Europe about twenty
percent of our volume. But all the markets are important.
There isn't one more important than the other.
Speaker 17 (17:56):
But and of course India is the biggest sixport market
for Calilifornia almonds.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
India has just really as you mentioned, they've become the
biggest user of California almonds. So thank god for that.
And let's hope it keeps going.
Speaker 17 (18:08):
You want to get this on your calendar. The twenty
twenty five Almond Conference is scheduled for December tenth through
the twelfth and Sacramento. Just search Almond Conference to get
the information.
Speaker 12 (18:19):
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Speaker 20 (18:47):
Today we're talking with aphis and white flies about sophena
insect Aside from basf we.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
Just get nailed with it.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
So tell us how you feeling really, really weird.
Speaker 20 (18:57):
And you still wanted to devour this field?
Speaker 12 (19:00):
No way, bro.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 20 (19:03):
Sefena 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 21 (19:10):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sephena insecticide always
read and follow label directions with.
Speaker 17 (19:16):
The AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh. The pushback continues
in Washington, d c. Against President Trump's plan to import
beef from Argentina as a way to lower the price
of beef in the United States. Senator Cindy Hyde Smith
of Mississippi says they've gotten a lot of negative feedback.
Speaker 22 (19:34):
Oh my goodness, have we gotten reaction. I saw Mark
Wwayne Mullen this morning. He said, my phone has been
ringing since four am. I am hearing from people that
I've never heard from in years, some that I've never
heard from before at all. And I know what the
president's intentions were. His intentions were the mother that's pushing
that shopping cart going down that aisle, trying to feed
(19:54):
her family, and he thinks we've got to bring beef
prices down for that mone. He has had a lot
of schooling since he made that statement, a lot of
information given to him and education that this is a
global market. Let me explain how this works. And I
know that he was kind of comparing this to the
(20:15):
eggs when they were so high when he got into office.
You can't replace an egg with anything else you eat.
The egg, it goes in cakes, it goes in pies,
it goes in bread. You know, you can't replace that
with anything else. And I understand, you know, and of
course the high path avent influenza a platter factor in that,
and I understand we've got some concern about that again
in a few countries right now. But just getting him
(20:39):
to the point of, we know what you're trying to do,
but this market needs to be a true market without
any intervention from government and their other choices. Unlike eggs.
I mean, if the price of beef because of the
shortage that we're looking at right now, because of all
the circumstances of what created that shortage. But you have
(21:01):
other proteins you can do this, chicken, lamb, pork, turkey,
you name it. You have other choices there. So let
the market be the market.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Gil Matta's Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde Smith.
Speaker 23 (21:14):
President Donald Trump announced trade progress with a number of
countries on a swing through Asia, and well detailed still
need to be worked out, the talks offer positive signs
for exports of US beef and pork, according to US
beat Export Federation President and CEO Dan Halstrom.
Speaker 24 (21:28):
Starting with Malaysia. The US historically has faced numerous non
tariff trade barriers into the Malaysian region. We're excited to
see some of those barriers eliminated. US pork has made
strides in recent years in Malaysia and there's room for
further growth, but I think the larger potentials for US
beef similar situation Vietnam. There, the issue is tariff relief
(21:50):
on tariffs is going to be mandatory so we can
compete on a level playing field. So hopefully this is
the first step in obtaining that. Thailand another one prohibitively
high tariff rates. There's also been noted. Another market that's
a much smaller market is Cambodia, which is probably more
of a beef market than a pork market opportunity, but
(22:12):
the commitment there for duty free access is also encouraging.
Won't be a big market, but honestly, in a whole
Southeast Asia region, you add all these markets together, it
is significant.
Speaker 23 (22:22):
There were also positive signs for a resumption of red
meat sales into China.
Speaker 24 (22:25):
The escalation of terrace is essential and it's been holding
back demand obviously on both pork and beef. Fifty seven
percent duty on pork. You know, there's business being done,
but there'd be a lot more if we were back
down to more reasonable levels. And the same thing on beef,
and of course the real issue on beef really doesn't
have anything to do directly today with tarras. It's all
(22:47):
about access on client registration. But that being said, there
are some good signs outside of beef and pork. There's
resumption of trade in the soybean sector and some commitments
going forward, so I think that positive there. Besides the
impact for soybeans, it confirms and ag exports are being
looked at and prioritized.
Speaker 23 (23:05):
For more, please visit USMBF dot org.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
As farmers finish off the harvest this season, they all
acknowledge that the job would be impossible without the support
of a spouse and or other family members. Tim Jack
is with Van Stratton Farms in Wisconsin, which farms about
two eight hundred acres of cabbage a year. He said,
as soon as harvest wraps up, it's time for farmers
(23:28):
like him to thank their supportive spouses.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
It's always when we get done, her and I go
for a nice dinner.
Speaker 25 (23:35):
We try to do you order cabbage.
Speaker 26 (23:38):
Cole's Law normally comes with the melso.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Yeah, Jack Farms with his father in law, and he
gave a shout out to all spouses and employees for
their support during the harvest season, which can get crazy
at times.
Speaker 25 (23:50):
Yeah, a big shout out to all the farm wives,
all the help, you know, the farm help that everybody has.
Speaker 26 (23:56):
Wont be able to do with Augia.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Farm wives do a lot by.
Speaker 25 (23:59):
Themselves as here, so definitely won't be able to do
without them.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Again.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
That is Tim Jack of Van Stratton Farms in Wisconsin.
Speaker 27 (24:09):
It's time for California add today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hayley's ship.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well.
Speaker 27 (24:15):
As the year winds down, I know a lot of
folks in the almond industry are trying to finish up
their continuing education. If that's you, I came across something
that might make things a whole lot easier. The Almond
Learning Hub offers more than one hundred and twenty courses
with over thirty hours of California Department of Pesticide Regulation
continuing Education units and more than fifty hours of Certified
(24:39):
Crop Advisor units. And the best part is that everything
is completely free. So whether you're a grower, a pesticide applicator,
a handler, or working in another part of the industry.
There are courses designed specifically for what you do. Once
you log in, you can browse the navigation menu or
check out the many tools and resources that help you
find exactly what you need. It is all set up
(25:01):
so you can jump in quickly without having to dig
around or figure out complicated instructions. Also important, you can
take these courses on your own schedule. Topics range from
pest management, to orchard and soil health to seasonal best practices,
and new material is added regularly so that there is
always something useful to learn. So if you still need credits,
(25:21):
it's a great time to check out Almond Learning hub
dot com, sign in and get them wrapped up before
the end.
Speaker 28 (25:27):
Of the year.
Speaker 12 (25:29):
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Speaker 20 (25:57):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about insecticide
from basf We.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Just get nailed with it.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird.
Speaker 20 (26:07):
And you still wanted to devour this field?
Speaker 12 (26:10):
No way, way, bro.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 20 (26:12):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wi
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 21 (26:20):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 27 (26:25):
This is California ag Today on the ag Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Bob went back with some farm news this morning. Friends. Well,
with just two weeks left in the twenty twenty five
hurricane season, it appears the East Coast and especially the southeast,
escape the impact of a land falling hurricane for the
first time in a decade. Mike Davis has our story.
Alex Da Silva, lead hurricane expert with ACU Weather, says
(26:53):
steering mechanisms like the Bermuda high played a role in
sparing the continental US.
Speaker 25 (26:59):
What we saw this was this Bermuda high was a
little bit further to the east than what we typically see.
So in a typical year, maybe it's a little bit
further to the west, but this year it was a
little further to the east, and overall it was a
little bit on the weaker side. So as a result,
most of the storms that formed this season went around
the periphery of that Bermuda High and went out to sea.
Speaker 28 (27:22):
De Silva says Chantal made landfall as a tropical storm,
and Hurricane Erin brought rain in August. Even without making landfall.
Speaker 25 (27:30):
They were close enough to the United States, such as Erin,
for example, which still did bring direct impacts to the
United States. So Chantal was the only storm that actually
made direct landfall to the United States. But we had
other storms this year that still came close enough, like Erin,
for example, which still brought tropical storm force wind gusts
(27:52):
and rain and coastal flooding to the United States despite
not making direct landfall.
Speaker 28 (27:58):
The last year a hurricane did not make direct landfall
to the US was twenty fifteen. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, friends, it's been a milestone year for John Deere.
Chad Smith has an update.
Speaker 26 (28:11):
Twenty twenty five has been an exciting year for the
John Deere See and Spray technology, which hit a major milestone.
Josh Ladd, marketing manager at John Deere, said, See and
Spray covered a lot of acres this year. We actually
covered over five million acres across North America. That's in
the United States and Canada. And just to put that
into perspective, we're talking about a size of ground that's
(28:33):
larger than the state of New Jersey. We saw across
those acres and average savings of nearly fifty percent.
Speaker 29 (28:39):
And the best part is we're not even done for
the year. We know that as harvest is wrapping up,
we're going to have customers across the US and parts
of Canada that are going to be doing some clean
up passes with fallows. So I'm very excited for the
acres yet to be covered the rest of the season.
Speaker 26 (28:52):
He talked about the feedback John Deere has received from producers.
We had over one thousand machines in field, which was
just new customers, new states, even new countries that had
an opportunity to experience Sea and Spray firsthand. Last year
we talked about that with this technology, there was a
lot of conversation and belief of there's no way that
a sprayer going fifteen miles an hour is able to
(29:13):
detect a weed a quarterage by quarterage and appropriately spray
deliver that weed mortality. And this last year we saw
so many operations that were able to experience that value
firsthand and ultimately see a yield improvement as well. We
did recently release a white paper that shows that in
soybeans using targeted application with Sea and Spray, we saw
a yield improvement of up to four point eight bushels
(29:33):
per acre with the average improvement of two bushels and acre,
so not only the ability to save product, but now
also deliver a better yield outcome at harvest. After releasing
a software update that included three big feature updates in
twenty twenty five, he talked about what's next for Sea
and Spray.
Speaker 29 (29:50):
One of the other things that we're really excited about
for the twenty twenty six season is we're introducing a
new unlimited license that specifically designed for high use operations
for Sea and Spray. So for a customer that are
maybe doing broad scale application or doing some custom application
for other farmers in their area. This unlimited option is
going to simplify the paraker planning and give them more
control over some of those in season decisions we know
(30:10):
they're going to have to make. I always say, with
See and Spray, it's not a matter of if, but
just a matter of when. And so we think about
new crop models that we continue to work on. We
talk to customers with small grains and sugar beets and
nuts and potatoes and everything in between, and we continue
to make progress on those models.
Speaker 26 (30:25):
Lad talked about the steps farmers can take to access
the technology.
Speaker 29 (30:29):
For any questions on See and Spray, the deer dot
com website is a great resource for some of those
high level questions that you may have. But once you
want to take the technology for a test under experience
it on your own farm, I would really encourage you
to talk to your John Dere dealer. They are a
phenomenal resource. They're well staffed, they're well trained, they've been
with us on this journey for See and Spray over
the last few years, and they can really set your
operation up for success, whether you're looking to do a
(30:51):
demo or maybe jump in head first with a See
and Spray premium or See and Spray Ultimate machine once again.
Speaker 26 (30:55):
That's Josh Ladd of John Deere Chad Smith reporting well Friends.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
In the first set of government estimates since September, Friday's
anticipated World agg Supply and Demand or WADI report offered
mixed outlooks for major US crops. Trimming projected corn and
soybean yields, while leaving wheat production unchanged. USDA lowered the
national corn yield to one hundred and eighty six bushels
and acre. Exports were raised, and ending stocks were projected
(31:21):
at two point one billion bushels. The average farm price
rose to four dollars a bushel, soybean yields was cut
to fifty three bushels an acre farm US. You're listening
to ag Life.
Speaker 30 (31:33):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. Well LANDA Lakes and Microsoft announced a multi
year strategic plan, marking a new chapter in their shared
commitment to agriculture innovation. Building on five years of successful collaboration,
the alliance will focus on co developing AI powered tools,
including a digital assistant called oz oz Is built on
(31:54):
models with Azure AI foundry and uses Landa Lake's agricultural
data to help farmers make in decisions, aim to optimize operation,
maximize yield, and mitigate risk. Well House Committee on Ag
Chair G. T. Thompson and Pennsylvania expressed his relief after
the vote to reopen the federal government, but Thompson says
there's no question this shutdown inflicted unnecessary pain on farm families,
(32:16):
rural communities, and those who depend on critical USDA services. Now,
he says, extending the current Farm bill will give US
time to finalize Farm Bill two point zero, a bipartisan
package that builds on the One Big Beautiful Bill. Chinese
purchases of soybeans from the US appear to have stalled,
just two weeks after the US touted a wide ranging
trade trup between the two countries, Bloomberg reports. Traders who
(32:39):
ask not to be identified, said they were not aware
of any new shipments, and the pause is causing significant uncertainty.
Stoneheck's reports. Singapore insiders say many experts view China's commitment
to be more of a diplomatic gesture than a firm agreement.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer,
you have to go digital.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Hmm.
Speaker 14 (32:58):
Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and online publication
or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (33:07):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know, it's
easy for us to find them during the day, as
most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup truck
or farm equipment with the radio on, listening to this
(33:30):
station for the AG Information Network of the West News.
If you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
or service, give us a call and we'll connect you
directly with our community of loyal farmer listeners. Reach real
farmers right here, right now as they listen to what
is important to their farm operation. They trust us, They'll
trust you.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
From the EG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for
to they friends well. The snowbirds from can are heading
in a different direction after harvest and the first snowfall.
Dennis Sky has our final report. The harvest season is
complete or nearly wrapped up across Canada, and none too soon,
(34:12):
with much of the country having experienced its first snowfall.
For some, that signals a desire to escape cold weather. Historically,
many middle aged and older Canadians who spent several winter
weeks or months in southern American states, with Florida and
Arizona being primary destinations. While Mexico and the Caribbean islands
(34:33):
have long been favored by some Canadians, according to vacation
travel agents, there is a growing interest in southwestern regions
of Europe, especially Portugal and Spain. Angela Weir is the
co founder of a travel agency based in London in
southwestern Ontario. A large part of Weir's business caters to
(34:54):
rural and farm clients wanting to escape cold weather. Her
winter business has largely revolved around finding longer term accommodations
for clients in southern US states, but she says that
recently travel agencies have seen a major shift in the
places that Canadians are wanting to spend time this winter.
Speaker 31 (35:14):
Any of the travel agencies that really focus in on
southern destinations within the US are seeing a huge decline.
We are seeing lots of people that are now wanting
to go to all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, to
Mexico and doing trips to Europe.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Angela Weir says there are several factors changing the winter
migration habits. The exchange rate for Canadian dollars is high
in both the US and in European countries, with the
Canadian dollar taking about a thirty percent hit. But she
says that money just tends to go a lot further
in Europe as long as you stay away from the
big cities. But we're says, the US tariff situation and
(35:54):
the general American political tension does come up quite a bit.
Speaker 31 (35:58):
A lot of it is the politics. People are of
course very angry with tariff. They're choosing to spend their
dollars elsewhere. Politics aside. People are finding that Europe is
actually more affordable than what they had thought previously. Sometimes
Europe is not that much more expensive.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So for many Canadians, their annual migratory flight is changing
from south to southeast across the Atlantic Ocean. According to
travel agent Angela Weir, the snowbirds are building new winter
communities away from their historic southern US roosts.
Speaker 26 (36:30):
The snowbirds.
Speaker 31 (36:31):
People who would normally go down to Florida for the winter,
who would go to Arizona for the winter, they're actually
starting to do extended stays, doing villas, doing condos through
the winter months. Maybe not for three months, but they're
going to destinations like Spain, Portugal. They still want to
get away from that snow and to not go to
the US.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis Guy with that. Friends, out
of time for today, thanks for joining us. Back tomorrow
morning with another edition A Bad Life
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