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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,
this morning, we start off with a little turkey talk
from the USDA.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What does Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl have in common
besides football? In the food safety realm USDA food safety
expert Meredith Correther says, for her and her colleagues operating
the Agriculture Department's meet at Poultry Hotline.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Thanksgiving is our food safety super Bowl. We really lean
into Thanksgiving because there are just so many food safety
points to make and so many things to consider.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If one thinks about it, the person responsible for cookie
that Thanksgiving meal may be under stress for a myriad
of reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
A lot of times tensions are high with timelines, with
trying to impress loved ones, or the pressures of.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Doing this for the first time, etc.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
So there's a lot goes on.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
There's a lot of them things that people might miss
or might not feel like they have time to do,
and unfortunately, some of those shortcuts impact food.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Safety and that could lead to cooks missing something in
the meal prep process. Advanced planning plays a key role
in a successful and safe Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What you're making, how you're making it, where you're taking it,
how long you need to prepare it and cooking and
whatnot all factors into each other for the ultimate plan
of success.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Meredith reminds us that preparing a frozen versus a fresh
turkey has different food safety considerations. Ample time must be
given for a frozen turkey to thaw twenty four hours
for every four to five pounds of meat to thaw
on the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Using a refrigerator is the safest way to thaw the
turkey just because it's constantly out of safe temperature, and put.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
The frozen turkey in a bowl to catch any thaw
juices and avoid spillage. Plan to purchase a fresh turkey,
look for the use or freeze by date on the
packaging that has a user.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Freeze by date on it, not a cell by date
a user freeze by date on it. The poultry industry side,
those used by dates are fine to use, meaning if
you buy a fresh turkey that hasn't used buyer best
by date on it, you can keep that turkey in
the refrigerator until that date.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
While even still somewhat frozen turkey can be cooked at
an oven where it cannot be cooked, is it a
deep fryer?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
If you put frozen anything into hot oil, the ice
crystals turn into steam immediately, and then when there's such
a high quantity of that happening, it can cause the
deep fryer oil or the hot oil to bubble up
and bubble out, which is then when you see those
terrible deep frier videos happening now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Meredith Cruthers acknowledges there have been some very unique questions
pose the staffers of the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline
over the decades regarding Thanksgiving meal food safety.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The turkey was brinding in a trash bag, and then
we put it in the oven and there was still
trash bag, and now there's melted plastic, and can we
still eat the turkey? Somebody tried to thaw their turkey
in a dishwasher or in the shower.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Maybe some obvious or even.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not so I'm reasons we wouldn't recommend doing that.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
One trend notice by Correthers is fewer of these unique
food safety questions over time on the hotline. Chief servises.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
People call and learn and then in theory pass that
information onto others. And a lot of what we learn
in cooking comes from cooking with others. And then our
team meet Poultry Hotline, plus the rest of our Food
Safe the education team put out some very helpful resources.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We have a Thanksgiving meal food safety question, or any
query concerning food safety. Call USDAS Meat and Poultry Hotline
one eight eight eight MP hotline. I'm Rod Bain, reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And Farm ws ahead. This is Aglife, Bob Quin. Here
was some farm news this morning. Friends.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The American Farm Bureau Federation's annual Thanksgiving cost survey results
show a slight dip in this year's cost. Chad Smith
has our story.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Every year, volunteer shoppers from the American Farm Bureau Federation
helped determine the average cost of feeding ten people for
a Thanksgiving meal. Faith Parum, an economist with AFBF, said
consumers should expect some slight relief at the grocery store.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
According to our volunteer shoppers, the average cost of Thanksgiving
for ten people is about fifty five dollars and eighteen cents.
That's about five dollars and fifty two cents in person.
This is a decrease of more than five percent from
last year and marks the third straight years of declines.
But it's really important to note that these declines don't
erase the dramatic increases that led to that record high
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
She said, the basket of goods showed mixed results on
price increases versus decreases.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
So we saw some increases in five of our twelve items,
and that was really largely driven because of produce prices.
Produce prices are typically highly volatile, and so we saw
fresh produce like sweet potatoes and vendue trays increase. Half
of our ingredients this year did decrease, the biggest one
being turkey. So turkey is down sixteen percent, and that's
largely because the price of a frozen bird has fallen.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Palm said, food prices often reflect changes in the broader
arm economy.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
On one end, it's due to commodity prices that get
paid to our farmers, So for example, weak prices we're
pretty low this year, so we see decreases in things
like bread and stuffing. On the other end, fresh produce
prices have dealt with labor struggles, They have seen increase
in transportation cost. All of that increases the price of
those goods.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You can learn more at fb dot org, Forward Slash
News Chad Smith, Washington, Well Friends, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The time of the year for farmers to begin prepping
for the operating line of credit for next year. Mike
Davis with our report.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Austin Pifer, an associate attorney with AG and Business Legal
Strategies in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says lenders will want to see,
among other things, a cash flow projection for next year.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
What are you going to plant, how much it's going
to cost to put in, how much do you expect
to make taking it out. They want to see that
you have a good margin on that you're not just
barely scraping by, but you've got enough profit so that
there's some protection for the bank if things turn south.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Piper says, your banker will also need to see your
up to date ballance sheet.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
They want to see that you've got more than enough
money to meet your short term obligations with short term assets.
In general, they'll want to see that you're solvent too.
They've got ratios they're looking for that. They're rags and
policies provide for that. Say, okay, when these numbers are
in this range, the loan's probably going to be gone.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
As always, you should consult a CPA and tax attorney
for further assistance. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Washington raspberry growers have to be happy with the size
and quality of this year's crop. Gavin Willis, the executive
director of the Washington Raspberry Commission, says this year's harvest
numbers show weigh twenty three percent jump over last year.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yes, we do have the numbers in and we're looking
for this year at hair over sixty eight million pounds,
which is seven highest that we've ever had in the
state and the highest since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And the quality of this year's raspberries, Wellis says, by
all accounts, has been outstanding as well.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Yeah, quality was good. I think like the well timed range,
they're avoiding too much moisture, which can always be a
quality issue on the fruit, on the leaves. The moisture
levels there we're good. But also like a couple of
well time to range, I'll keep the dust down during
harvist as well, which is always beneficial for fruit quality,
and you get too much dust stired up in the
field that can impact the quality of fruit adage developing.
So yeah, i'd sayled a really good year for quality.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But moving forward Wellis says the challenges aren't likely to
go away, and.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Then they're always looking in a big picture at water
ways that we can make things better in the future,
whether it's improved labor availability is there are ways that
we can go to more automation, especially like in harvest
and processing that type of stuff. So I'd say it's
kind of like the typical story of farming. There's struggles there,
but guys are able to adapt and find ways to
get through it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Washington State produces ninety percent of the frozen raspberries in
the US Farm News. You're listening to AG Life's.
Speaker 11 (07:58):
Another ag news up to policy, fuel, protein and inputs
all moving, but keep an eye on tariffs, plant grind,
hug supply, and fertilizer.
Speaker 12 (08:08):
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Speaker 11 (08:37):
The Supreme Court sounded skeptical of using emergency powers for
broad tariffs that on Wednesday, it's a shift that could
change how the White House pressures trading partners like China,
Brazil and India and could ripple through equipment and input cost.
On the fuel side, plants pushed a new weekly record
(08:58):
at one point one two million barrels per day of ethanol.
It's boosting stocks even as exports soften and gasoline demand eases,
and it's signaling a well supplied market into winter. In proteins,
Ravobanks's producers cautious on expansion in twenty twenty six. China
(09:20):
is trimming their sole numbers, Brazil is gaining share, and
disease risk are keeping the outlook fragile. Even with firm prices.
In Europe and North America, inputs remain tense. India's light
ureat tender. Europe, steady buying and China's limited exports are
keeping nitrogen firm, phosphate tight after China's export approvals lapsed,
(09:44):
and for operations looking to add revenue without buying cattle,
contract grazing continues to pencil in. It's another Agnews update.
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Org American Cattle News. Is the price of beef too high?
Big question answers after this.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
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any ignition connected to just any transmission and just any vehicle,
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just anyone. But this is not just any car. It's
a certified pre own Mercedes Benz. Every detail has been
inspected and road tested by highly skilled Mercedes Benz technicians,
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to buy one simple.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
Authorized for Saints Ben's Steel, is the price of beef
too high? Colin Woodhalls, CEO National Cattleman's Beef Association, explains.
Speaker 17 (11:10):
Yes, we are seeing a strong market for cattle and
it's one that has helped us heal up after many
challenging years, and it's also given us an opportunity to
remind the administration in Congress that we too are consumers
and the increase in the prices that we're paying for
inputs for our farms and ranches also is at play.
(11:33):
There have been a lot of discussions about supply and
demand and where we stand with beef. Because of the
ongoing drought, we have seen the lowest domestic cattle herd
that we've seen in about seventy years. But because of
all of our effort to make the most of our cattle,
we have not seen a shortage of beef and that
(11:56):
drives us to really the crux of this entire discussion,
and that is consumer demand. We are seeing demand for
our product at a level that we haven't seen in
almost forty years, and it's the quality of our product
that is driving the consumers demand for beef. When the
(12:16):
consumer goes to their grocery store, they have a lot
of meat proteins they can choose from. They want beef.
They're choosing beef, and they're willing to pay the price
because of the eating experience that they're getting. So this
has given us a great opportunity to express this message
to the President to Congress to just let the markets work.
(12:39):
We do not need government intervention. Let the markets work.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 18 (12:52):
Now it's time for our feet for on Friday with
doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois. Hello, Mike, Well, welcome.
Speaker 19 (12:59):
To today's farm and our topic is going to be
looking at beef on dairy. We're seeing a very large
trend right now in the US. We're breeding our dairy
cattle to a beef bull semen and the reason for
that these animals, we call them black calves, are now
selling for over a thousand dollars one or two weeks
after birth from these cows and have a real impact
(13:20):
on dairy economy and in fact some cases this is
the difference between being a profitable dairy farm or just
breaking eating with current prices. What do these animals look
like though? First of all, these black calves that are
basically angus and Holdstein crosses, they have high quality cargets
for consumers, improvement and feed efficiency as well, and premium
price compared to stages hosting straight hosting animals being freed out. Basically,
(13:47):
the beef industry is going through an interesting time change.
We used to have thirty nine million beef cows there
to produce beef caves. We're down twenty eight million head
here in the United States, primarily because of us some
of the fires and some of the economics now. But
right now beef really is selling at a very very
high price. Right now, beef is expensive. It's about it
(14:08):
if you look depending on the cut, the national average
about eight dollars per pound for beef compared to pork
at three fifty poultry at two thirty two twenty five.
But yet consumers still like beef in their diets as well.
Right now, there are about five million beef on dairy
animals in feed lots, and they're going to provide about
twenty four percent of the market share here in twenty
(14:29):
twenty four to twenty five. We also know in terms
of beef semen sales, we are now selling ten million
units of beef semen that used to be three million.
Now you can see a tremendous increase there. A lot
of herds, about a third of these animals are being
fed on beef on dairy, and they're using about a
(14:51):
ten million units a sex semen, which means now we
can predict more female chaots to rather than having a
fifty to fifty blend coming out there. As well, because
of this action, we've seen a shortage of heifers in
the United States right now. Heifer's has increased roughly about
two thousand dollars where we were a couple of years ago,
(15:11):
and we've seen them over three thousand dollars right now
in some of our markets here in the Midwest and
in Northeast and in California as well. So certainly there's
some strategies here as well. We know that in a
part of another speaker and some of are talked about
the Jersey calves have left value because they are slower
(15:32):
growing here, and of course since these calves are now
going into the beef area, slow down in the meal
of markets as well. One of the areas we're really
looking at is some of the liver apps uses, as
peers at beef ond area have a higher rate of this,
and there's some research looking at causes of this. It
looks like it's going to happen in early life of
these young calves as well. Angus bulls are not the same.
(15:55):
They are now being selected very carefully for hostings with
using EPDA. EPDs best similar to a PTA in dairy
cattle as well. So our take on missus Bill, I
certainly dairy farmers have alternatives to consider when breeding that count.
Do I use beef bull or do I use a
sex semen animal or conventional seaman? Here economics will be important.
(16:16):
It looks like dairy beef will be here for the
next year year and a half as the beef heard
is starting to grow back here in the United States here,
So do you help your strategies here here in dairy farms.
Will that completes the program for today? Thanks? Hey, I
have a great day.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Thanks Mike.
Speaker 18 (16:29):
That's doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here in our feed for him Friday
on Dairy Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Now PARD disaster assistance announcements Monday.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Announcing Stage two of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaded at a virtual Obedia call
with reporters. Add Stage one of SdRP covery calendar years
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four also continues. In addition,
signe ups were announced for the Milk Loss Program and
on Farm Stored Commodity Loss Program. Far Production at Conservation
Under Secretary Richard FORDYCE says sign up for all three
(17:03):
programs begins this coming Monday, November twenty fourth.
Speaker 18 (17:06):
The Milk Loss Program and on Farm Storage Commodity Loss
Program will be opened through January twenty third, while SdRP
Stages one and two will be opened through April the thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Details at all disaster assistant site ups are available at
local Farm Service Agency offices or oddline at FSA dot
USDA dot Gov Slash Resources SLASH Programs. Click on the
link to twenty twenty three twenty four Disaster Assistants. I'm
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 20 (17:33):
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Speaker 21 (17:37):
The Big Almond Industry Conference is coming up December tenth
through the twelfth and Sacramento is titled Cultivating a Healthier Future.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
that vast ag information Network. Rebecca Bailey, she's the organizer
of the Alma Industry Conference. She comments on a very
(17:58):
popular part of the AMEN comference and that's the State
of the Industry that happens the first day on Wednesday.
Speaker 22 (18:04):
Oh, definitely. Yeah, State of the Industry that always takes
place the first day of conference in the afternoon, So
it'll be at two pm on that Wednesday afternoon. Yeah,
you'll get to hear from our president and CEO, Clarice Turner,
our Board of Directors Chair Bob Silvera, and then some
other folks within the board and also within leadership at
the Almond boards.
Speaker 21 (18:24):
That is a big session to learn about where the
almond industry is.
Speaker 22 (18:28):
That's always a great session for attendees to just come
and kind of hear what that pulse is on the industry,
where things are, where they see the future of things going,
as well as really honing in on what the Almond
Board is doing to represent the industry, specifically our almond
growers and processors.
Speaker 21 (18:46):
That's Rebecca Bailey with the almed Bard of California. Again.
The conference is December tenth to the twelfth and Sacramento
free registration Cultivating a Healthier Future. Just search Almond Conference
and you have a lot of information there about this conference.
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With the AG Information Network. I'm packed Kavanaugh.
Speaker 24 (20:01):
While a late year run a warmer weather, it's always
delightful for producers and livestock, it's important to be ready
for when that first cold snap hits. Doctor Nate Hawes,
a doctor of veterinary medicine for Biovet in Wisconsin, said
there are things to watch out for when winter sets in.
One has to do with parasites, so we do deal
(20:22):
with flies and actoparasites, tick slice, things like that. Farmers
at this time of year are really waiting for that
hard frost so they can start to clear their pastures
of some of those nasty things, and that's always a problem.
My bigger concern that I run into, and I see
this in some of our areas of our territories out
in the West, is the heat stress and the long
term heat stress. Anything over mid seventies is constituting heat
stress in these dairy cows. If that last run of
(20:43):
warm weather before winter is part of extended hot weather,
it can take a toll on Gary cattle. So what
we end up seeing is production losses, possibility of issues
with gestation and breeding. So we're always on the lookout
for that, and it's kind of a trailing indicator, right.
We don't always see those acute cases, but we will
see is kind of a slump going on and on
over weeks. And so what we try to do is
(21:03):
maintain hydration, keep those animals eating, part and parcel for
what Biovet does with our direct fed microbias and our
nutritional supplements, and so that's one of the biggest things
that I'm going to be looking for, Steve. Temperature swings
can cause respiratory issues in cattle.
Speaker 16 (21:16):
They can.
Speaker 25 (21:17):
Actually we'll see respiratory issues more in the summer than
we see in the winter time in the veterinary world,
and that's kind of counterintuitive, right, But the reason for
that is cows have a horrible time blowing off heats.
They only have so much surface area for these huge
masses that they have, So one way they get rid
of heat is a increased respiration. And so sometimes you
have an an with a low level pneumonia or low
level respiratory issue, you won't even see it until they
start really exerting that breath and oftentimes happen just trying
(21:37):
to blow off that heat. So that's always a problem
that we see with cattle. It's a little bit different
than what we think of in the wintertime. Wintertime, we
think of colds from the human standpoint. Their respiratory issues
oftentimes manifest themselves with the stress of the heat and
over the months of that hot period of time during
the summer. Haw said, proper nutrition can help cattle with
a transition to the bitter cold of winter if we
can smooth out their gas room, intestinal track and nets. Again,
(21:58):
what we do is trying to keep them consistent you
mentioned earlier to ups and downs. You know, we may
have fifty degrees tonight and eighty degrees tomorrow. That's really
hard on an animal. Well, the same thing happens physiologically
inside the animal. So anything we can keep those animals
on a proper plane of nutrition so they can enter
that winter period of time where honestly they get a
little chance arrest from the heat stress, that's going to
benefit those cows in the long run.
Speaker 24 (22:17):
Again, that is doctor Nate Hawes, a doctor veterinary medicine
for BIOVET in Wisconsin. The United Nations is recognizing twenty
twenty six as the International Year of the Women Farmer,
with hopes of spotlighting and the contributions of women in
agriculture and agribusiness. Lisa Wherry, a Pennsylvania farmer and member
(22:39):
of the American Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Committee, says this
is an important time to acknowledge the contributions of women
in rural America.
Speaker 26 (22:47):
Some of the key goals and objectives are to recognize
and empower, to address barriers, to promote gender equality and
support economic growth, and to enhance access with our education
market send other resources for women in the sector.
Speaker 17 (23:02):
She said.
Speaker 24 (23:03):
The American Farm Bureau Women's Committee has a full slate
of programming for the year ahead, including the upcoming ACE Summit.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
Which is Advocate, cultivate, and empower. We're going to do
that in DC in June, and that's going to roll
right into the Women in Egg Survey, which will explore
women's leadership and involvement, access to the industry, and identify
barriers and opportunities and provide actionable insights to strength and
engagement and support systems. But the big thing is about
how women play a vital role in American agriculture.
Speaker 24 (23:32):
She says the survey is open to all women, not
just those who directly make an income from production agriculture.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
The survey is open to individuals eighteen and older from
the United States to Puerto Rico who have an interest
or involvement in agriculture, and also those that work in
production agriculture, agribusiness, education, aguacy, and related fills.
Speaker 24 (23:54):
To learn more, log onto women in agsurvey dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The latest step up at increasing Sterofly production to counter
potential New World screw worb 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 13 (24:16):
Steril new World screwroom flies are one of the most
important tools, probably the most important.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
At our disposal.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
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 Sterofly dispersal facility in South Texas and is
expediting designed and construction of a long term production site.
(24:44):
All efforts to protect our nation's cattle and livestock supply
from the threat of New World screw worm.
Speaker 27 (24:52):
It's time for California add Today on the ag Information Network,
I am Hailey ship Well a sobering story as we
get into our agricultural news today. Del Monte Foods is
shaking up California's cling peach industry after filing for bankruptcy
and tossing out long term contracts worth more than a
half a billion dollars. According to our recent agalers from
(25:14):
the California Farm Bureau, the company walked away from agreements
with members of the California Canning Peach Association. Some of
those contracts were just signed this year and we're supposed
to last until two thousand and forty four. That decision
has left several dozen growers suddenly without a buyer set
Our county farmer and Association chair Ronji Davitt put it plainly,
(25:37):
a lot of growers are affected, and third generation grower
Richard Leal told Aglert the loss could turn out to
be devastating. He'd even pulled out a productive almond orchard
to plant peaches for del Monte. Now the Association has
filed a five hundred and fifty five million dollar claim
in bankruptcy court, but experts say growers will probably see
(25:58):
little or none of that money. For now, everyone is
watching the December fourth auction of del Monte's Modesto Cannery,
hoping a new buyer steps in and keeps the market alive.
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Speaker 23 (26:53):
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flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
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Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 27 (27:06):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. For more agnews, check us out
online at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Bob went back with some farm news this morning. Friends.
We have a special report a look at grain marketing.
This past week, we had a chance to be at
the Farm Broadcasting Annual Convention. Caught up with Naomi Bloom.
She is senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing, and
we're talking about marketing this past year's crop. Naomi, I'm
reading your extensive biography here that is in the program,
(27:39):
and you have been talking about cash grains. We watch
here every once in a while on TV we see
on Market to Market. You run the program today talking
to these folks about about grain marketing in particular. You
kind of just zeroed in on corn. Give me about
thirty seconds of what you told farm broadcasters.
Speaker 28 (27:54):
Yeah, so, looking at the corn market, we've got a
friendly demand story that's there and that's the base of
support for this market in general.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
But of course what's in question is the yield number.
Speaker 28 (28:04):
Many in the industry feels that the yield number needs
to come down. It's at one eighty six right now,
but based on farmer conversations, I really think that numbers
too high. But the reality is that the USDA likely
does not address that final number until the January wazday.
So between now and then, we're in a situation where
corn prices fundamentally don't have a reason to fall apart.
But at the same time, we're stuck and we don't
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have enough bullish news to get the market to rally
through short term resistance on these daily charts at the moment.
So so for producers, you know, we want to be
thinking about timing of cash sales and just being really
potentially patient until we get the January USDA report.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Naomi with Total Farm Marketing, and Naomi, you say that
the USDA numbers need to come down because you've heard
from things in the countryside.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
What are you hearing, Well, here's the biggest thing.
Speaker 28 (28:54):
So normally every year when I'm asking producers, tell me
you know what's happening in your at your farm, at
your backyard, And what I usually hear every year is, well,
my crop's okay. But if you go five miles down
the road, so and so has an issue, and so
when I hear that, I know things are okay in general.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
This year, I didn't hear that once.
Speaker 28 (29:11):
What I heard, primarily from Iowa is how the yields
were for many, many less than last year because of
that southern rust. Guys you know, hadn't really dealt with
it before, so they didn't know you needed to spray it.
More than one time. I had a lot of clients
who said that their yields were about twenty bushels below
last year. And so there's I think a significant portion
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of the country that battled with this, and definitely there's
portions of the crop that were fine and great, But
I'm skeptical that the entire crop is able to be
a record above last year's one seventy nine number. So
I feel like, when all is said and done on
that January Wazdi, I'm looking to see if we can
get that yield number closer to one eighty or one
eighty one. I think that keeps us in the realm
of reality.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You're looking for a significant absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I am, I am.
Speaker 28 (29:54):
But here's how the USDA offsets that. So we know
that the ethanol demand is awesome. We know that our
sports definitely strong, close to that three billion bushel mark,
But there is the question of the feed demand. They've
got almost record feed demand penciled in, and I think
the dairy industry is the only industry that has more
animals in general right now. But when we look at
the rest of the protein complex, I don't think we're
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feeding that much livestock to quantify that much demand. So
that's a number where the USDA can massage and bring
the demand category down to offset potentially lower yield. But
ultimately I think it's going to be great for a
competition for acres heading into spring. I think that it's
an opportunity for producers that when we get into January
(30:39):
and February. A lot of times there can be a
seasonal rally into January on hopes of a better USDA
report or on poor weather in South America. But sometime
between January, middle of January and middle of February is
a lot of times your best opportunity for winter cash
green marketing, so corn that you have in the beans
(31:00):
that you have in the bin, that's your chance to
get more current with sales because then we don't have
too much to talk about after that until we get
into our planting season in the United States.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I asked you before we started if you thought some
of these bind doors might be coming open, because we
have had a spike in the market over the last
week or so, in particular in soybeans, I would say,
and you said, no, not until January. And I said,
well why not now?
Speaker 28 (31:24):
Yeah, So when we were talking, I was thinking about corn.
I don't think the corn bin's open until January. But
on the soybean side, I think a lot of producers
have rewarded the over one dollar rally that we have
seen since early October and they have gotten current with sales.
So this opportunity over the past week, what a great
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thing for producers, especially on the bean side, to reward
the rally that's been there.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Naomi Bloom Total Farm Marketing with us. You're listening to
WAG Life.
Speaker 16 (31:55):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. A record setting seventy three thousand plus members,
alumni and supporters from across the country. We're in Indianapolis
recently for the ninety eighth National FFA Convention. In Expo.
The school based National Youth Leadership Development Organization has over
a million forty two thousand student members in roughly ninety
four local FFA chapters in all fifty states, Puerto Rico,
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and the US Virgin Islands. The annual convention offers attendees
the opportunity to explore careers, celebrate their achievements, participate in
service projects, and more. At the National Milk Producers Federation's
annual meeting, there were feelings that America's dairy farmers are
thriving in the marketplace, even as labor shortages and of
all little policy environment remain challenging. With eleven billion dollars
(32:38):
in new investments underway nationwide, Federation President Greg Dowd said
US dairy is well positioned for growth. Dowd says, there's
going to be uncertainty, but we're in an expansion mode
and I love it. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins led the
largest usdagg trade mission in the history of the US
to Mexico City recently. Forty one US businesses, thirty three
co ops and ag advocacy groups, six state departments of agriculture,
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and one hundred and fifty other participants conducted more than
five hundred business to business meetings over three days. This
was a critical opportunity for American businesses to further trade
ties and for USDA to continue its response to the
new World screwworm in Mexico.
Speaker 29 (33:15):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one?
Speaker 21 (33:29):
Oh, and how.
Speaker 29 (33:30):
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 station for
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Speaker 16 (34:12):
You from the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with
today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Bob went back to wrap up aglie for today with
a look at this week in history. On this date
in eighteen sixty three, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Now,
the Civil War had entered its third year, and for
three days, more than ninety thousand soldiers from the Army
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of the Potomac and about seventy five thousand troops from
the Army of Northern Virginia had fought at a crossroads
in Pennsylvania's fruit growing hill country. The clash between the
Union and Confederate soldiers in the market town of Gettysburg
stands as the largest land battle ever fought in the
Western Hemisphere. This day in history, President Abraham Lincoln came
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to the site to consecrate a cemetery in their honor.
The brief Gettysburg Address marked a defining moment in the
Civil War. Todd Gleeson, University of Illinois reads the address
for US.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we're engaged in the Great Civil War, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield
of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
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of that field as a final resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It's all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
(35:57):
who struggled here have rated it far above our power
to add or detract. The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us, that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full masure of devotion. That we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain, that this nation under God shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that government of the people,
(36:41):
by the people, for the people shall not perish from
the earth.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Todd Gleeson Gettysburg Address, As we look back at history
with that, friends, out of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition of Bag
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,
this morning, we start off with a little turkey talk
from the USDA.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What does Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl have in common
besides football? In the food safety realm USDA food safety
expert Meredith Correther says, for her and her colleagues operating
the Agriculture Department's meet at Poultry Hotline.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Thanksgiving is our food safety super Bowl. We really lean
into Thanksgiving because there are just so many food safety
points to make and so many things to consider.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If one thinks about it, the person responsible for cookie
that Thanksgiving meal may be under stress for a myriad
of reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
A lot of times tensions are high with timelines, with
trying to impress loved ones, or the pressures of.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Doing this for the first time, etc.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
So there's a lot goes on.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
There's a lot of them things that people might miss
or might not feel like they have time to do,
and unfortunately, some of those shortcuts impact food.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Safety and that could lead to cooks missing something in
the meal prep process. Advanced planning plays a key role
in a successful and safe Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What you're making, how you're making it, where you're taking it,
how long you need to prepare it and cooking and
whatnot all factors into each other for the ultimate plan
of success.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Meredith reminds us that preparing a frozen versus a fresh
turkey has different food safety considerations. Ample time must be
given for a frozen turkey to thaw twenty four hours
for every four to five pounds of meat to thaw
on the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Using a refrigerator is the safest way to thaw the
turkey just because it's constantly out of safe temperature, and put.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
The frozen turkey in a bowl to catch any thaw
juices and avoid spillage. Plan to purchase a fresh turkey,
look for the use or freeze by date on the
packaging that has a user.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Freeze by date on it, not a cell by date
a user freeze by date on it. The poultry industry side,
those used by dates are fine to use, meaning if
you buy a fresh turkey that hasn't used buyer best
by date on it, you can keep that turkey in
the refrigerator until that date.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
While even still somewhat frozen turkey can be cooked at
an oven where it cannot be cooked, is it a
deep fryer?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
If you put frozen anything into hot oil, the ice
crystals turn into steam immediately, and then when there's such
a high quantity of that happening, it can cause the
deep fryer oil or the hot oil to bubble up
and bubble out, which is then when you see those
terrible deep frier videos happening now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Meredith Cruthers acknowledges there have been some very unique questions
pose the staffers of the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline
over the decades regarding Thanksgiving meal food safety.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The turkey was brinding in a trash bag, and then
we put it in the oven and there was still
trash bag, and now there's melted plastic, and can we
still eat the turkey? Somebody tried to thaw their turkey
in a dishwasher or in the shower.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Maybe some obvious or even.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not so I'm reasons we wouldn't recommend doing that.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
One trend notice by Correthers is fewer of these unique
food safety questions over time on the hotline. Chief servises.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
People call and learn and then in theory pass that
information onto others. And a lot of what we learn
in cooking comes from cooking with others. And then our
team meet Poultry Hotline, plus the rest of our Food
Safe the education team put out some very helpful resources.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We have a Thanksgiving meal food safety question, or any
query concerning food safety. Call USDAS Meat and Poultry Hotline
one eight eight eight MP hotline. I'm Rod Bain, reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And Farm ws ahead. This is Aglife, Bob Quin. Here
was some farm news this morning. Friends.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The American Farm Bureau Federation's annual Thanksgiving cost survey results
show a slight dip in this year's cost. Chad Smith
has our story.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Every year, volunteer shoppers from the American Farm Bureau Federation
helped determine the average cost of feeding ten people for
a Thanksgiving meal. Faith Parum, an economist with AFBF, said
consumers should expect some slight relief at the grocery store.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
According to our volunteer shoppers, the average cost of Thanksgiving
for ten people is about fifty five dollars and eighteen cents.
That's about five dollars and fifty two cents in person.
This is a decrease of more than five percent from
last year and marks the third straight years of declines.
But it's really important to note that these declines don't
erase the dramatic increases that led to that record high
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
She said, the basket of goods showed mixed results on
price increases versus decreases.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
So we saw some increases in five of our twelve items,
and that was really largely driven because of produce prices.
Produce prices are typically highly volatile, and so we saw
fresh produce like sweet potatoes and vendue trays increase. Half
of our ingredients this year did decrease, the biggest one
being turkey. So turkey is down sixteen percent, and that's
largely because the price of a frozen bird has fallen.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Palm said, food prices often reflect changes in the broader
arm economy.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
On one end, it's due to commodity prices that get
paid to our farmers, So for example, weak prices we're
pretty low this year, so we see decreases in things
like bread and stuffing. On the other end, fresh produce
prices have dealt with labor struggles, They have seen increase
in transportation cost. All of that increases the price of
those goods.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You can learn more at fb dot org, Forward Slash
News Chad Smith, Washington, Well Friends, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The time of the year for farmers to begin prepping
for the operating line of credit for next year. Mike
Davis with our report.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Austin Pifer, an associate attorney with AG and Business Legal
Strategies in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says lenders will want to see,
among other things, a cash flow projection for next year.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
What are you going to plant, how much it's going
to cost to put in, how much do you expect
to make taking it out. They want to see that
you have a good margin on that you're not just
barely scraping by, but you've got enough profit so that
there's some protection for the bank if things turn south.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Piper says, your banker will also need to see your
up to date ballance sheet.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
They want to see that you've got more than enough
money to meet your short term obligations with short term assets.
In general, they'll want to see that you're solvent too.
They've got ratios they're looking for that. They're rags and
policies provide for that. Say, okay, when these numbers are
in this range, the loan's probably going to be gone.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
As always, you should consult a CPA and tax attorney
for further assistance. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Washington raspberry growers have to be happy with the size
and quality of this year's crop. Gavin Willis, the executive
director of the Washington Raspberry Commission, says this year's harvest
numbers show weigh twenty three percent jump over last year.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yes, we do have the numbers in and we're looking
for this year at hair over sixty eight million pounds,
which is seven highest that we've ever had in the
state and the highest since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And the quality of this year's raspberries, Wellis says, by
all accounts, has been outstanding as well.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Yeah, quality was good. I think like the well timed range,
they're avoiding too much moisture, which can always be a
quality issue on the fruit, on the leaves. The moisture
levels there we're good. But also like a couple of
well time to range, I'll keep the dust down during
harvist as well, which is always beneficial for fruit quality,
and you get too much dust stired up in the
field that can impact the quality of fruit adage developing.
So yeah, i'd sayled a really good year for quality.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But moving forward Wellis says the challenges aren't likely to
go away, and.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Then they're always looking in a big picture at water
ways that we can make things better in the future,
whether it's improved labor availability is there are ways that
we can go to more automation, especially like in harvest
and processing that type of stuff. So I'd say it's
kind of like the typical story of farming. There's struggles there,
but guys are able to adapt and find ways to
get through it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Washington State produces ninety percent of the frozen raspberries in
the US Farm News. You're listening to AG Life's.
Speaker 11 (07:58):
Another ag news up to policy, fuel, protein and inputs
all moving, but keep an eye on tariffs, plant grind,
hug supply, and fertilizer.
Speaker 12 (08:08):
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Speaker 11 (08:37):
The Supreme Court sounded skeptical of using emergency powers for
broad tariffs that on Wednesday, it's a shift that could
change how the White House pressures trading partners like China,
Brazil and India and could ripple through equipment and input cost.
On the fuel side, plants pushed a new weekly record
(08:58):
at one point one two million barrels per day of ethanol.
It's boosting stocks even as exports soften and gasoline demand eases,
and it's signaling a well supplied market into winter. In proteins,
Ravobanks's producers cautious on expansion in twenty twenty six. China
(09:20):
is trimming their sole numbers, Brazil is gaining share, and
disease risk are keeping the outlook fragile. Even with firm prices.
In Europe and North America, inputs remain tense. India's light
ureat tender. Europe, steady buying and China's limited exports are
keeping nitrogen firm, phosphate tight after China's export approvals lapsed,
(09:44):
and for operations looking to add revenue without buying cattle,
contract grazing continues to pencil in. It's another Agnews update.
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Org American Cattle News. Is the price of beef too high?
Big question answers after this.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
If this were just any door, and this were just
any ignition connected to just any transmission and just any vehicle,
then perhaps it would be okay to buy it from
just anyone. But this is not just any car. It's
a certified pre own Mercedes Benz. Every detail has been
inspected and road tested by highly skilled Mercedes Benz technicians,
(10:54):
and it's all backed by an unlimited mileage warranty for
up to five years, which makes the decision of where
to buy one simple.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
Authorized for Saints Ben's Steel, is the price of beef
too high? Colin Woodhalls, CEO National Cattleman's Beef Association, explains.
Speaker 17 (11:10):
Yes, we are seeing a strong market for cattle and
it's one that has helped us heal up after many
challenging years, and it's also given us an opportunity to
remind the administration in Congress that we too are consumers
and the increase in the prices that we're paying for
inputs for our farms and ranches also is at play.
(11:33):
There have been a lot of discussions about supply and
demand and where we stand with beef. Because of the
ongoing drought, we have seen the lowest domestic cattle herd
that we've seen in about seventy years. But because of
all of our effort to make the most of our cattle,
we have not seen a shortage of beef and that
(11:56):
drives us to really the crux of this entire discussion,
and that is consumer demand. We are seeing demand for
our product at a level that we haven't seen in
almost forty years, and it's the quality of our product
that is driving the consumers demand for beef. When the
(12:16):
consumer goes to their grocery store, they have a lot
of meat proteins they can choose from. They want beef.
They're choosing beef, and they're willing to pay the price
because of the eating experience that they're getting. So this
has given us a great opportunity to express this message
to the President to Congress to just let the markets work.
(12:39):
We do not need government intervention. Let the markets work.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 18 (12:52):
Now it's time for our feet for on Friday with
doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois. Hello, Mike, Well, welcome.
Speaker 19 (12:59):
To today's farm and our topic is going to be
looking at beef on dairy. We're seeing a very large
trend right now in the US. We're breeding our dairy
cattle to a beef bull semen and the reason for
that these animals, we call them black calves, are now
selling for over a thousand dollars one or two weeks
after birth from these cows and have a real impact
(13:20):
on dairy economy and in fact some cases this is
the difference between being a profitable dairy farm or just
breaking eating with current prices. What do these animals look
like though? First of all, these black calves that are
basically angus and Holdstein crosses, they have high quality cargets
for consumers, improvement and feed efficiency as well, and premium
price compared to stages hosting straight hosting animals being freed out. Basically,
(13:47):
the beef industry is going through an interesting time change.
We used to have thirty nine million beef cows there
to produce beef caves. We're down twenty eight million head
here in the United States, primarily because of us some
of the fires and some of the economics now. But
right now beef really is selling at a very very
high price. Right now, beef is expensive. It's about it
(14:08):
if you look depending on the cut, the national average
about eight dollars per pound for beef compared to pork
at three fifty poultry at two thirty two twenty five.
But yet consumers still like beef in their diets as well.
Right now, there are about five million beef on dairy
animals in feed lots, and they're going to provide about
twenty four percent of the market share here in twenty
(14:29):
twenty four to twenty five. We also know in terms
of beef semen sales, we are now selling ten million
units of beef semen that used to be three million.
Now you can see a tremendous increase there. A lot
of herds, about a third of these animals are being
fed on beef on dairy, and they're using about a
(14:51):
ten million units a sex semen, which means now we
can predict more female chaots to rather than having a
fifty to fifty blend coming out there. As well, because
of this action, we've seen a shortage of heifers in
the United States right now. Heifer's has increased roughly about
two thousand dollars where we were a couple of years ago,
(15:11):
and we've seen them over three thousand dollars right now
in some of our markets here in the Midwest and
in Northeast and in California as well. So certainly there's
some strategies here as well. We know that in a
part of another speaker and some of are talked about
the Jersey calves have left value because they are slower
(15:32):
growing here, and of course since these calves are now
going into the beef area, slow down in the meal
of markets as well. One of the areas we're really
looking at is some of the liver apps uses, as
peers at beef ond area have a higher rate of this,
and there's some research looking at causes of this. It
looks like it's going to happen in early life of
these young calves as well. Angus bulls are not the same.
(15:55):
They are now being selected very carefully for hostings with
using EPDA. EPDs best similar to a PTA in dairy
cattle as well. So our take on missus Bill, I
certainly dairy farmers have alternatives to consider when breeding that count.
Do I use beef bull or do I use a
sex semen animal or conventional seaman? Here economics will be important.
(16:16):
It looks like dairy beef will be here for the
next year year and a half as the beef heard
is starting to grow back here in the United States here,
So do you help your strategies here here in dairy farms.
Will that completes the program for today? Thanks? Hey, I
have a great day.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Thanks Mike.
Speaker 18 (16:29):
That's doctor Mike Cutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois,
featured every Friday here in our feed for him Friday
on Dairy Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Now PARD disaster assistance announcements Monday.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Announcing Stage two of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaded at a virtual Obedia call
with reporters. Add Stage one of SdRP covery calendar years
twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four also continues. In addition,
signe ups were announced for the Milk Loss Program and
on Farm Stored Commodity Loss Program. Far Production at Conservation
Under Secretary Richard FORDYCE says sign up for all three
(17:03):
programs begins this coming Monday, November twenty fourth.
Speaker 18 (17:06):
The Milk Loss Program and on Farm Storage Commodity Loss
Program will be opened through January twenty third, while SdRP
Stages one and two will be opened through April the thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Details at all disaster assistant site ups are available at
local Farm Service Agency offices or oddline at FSA dot
USDA dot Gov Slash Resources SLASH Programs. Click on the
link to twenty twenty three twenty four Disaster Assistants. I'm
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
Speaker 20 (17:33):
D C.
Speaker 21 (17:37):
The Big Almond Industry Conference is coming up December tenth
through the twelfth and Sacramento is titled Cultivating a Healthier Future.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
that vast ag information Network. Rebecca Bailey, she's the organizer
of the Alma Industry Conference. She comments on a very
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popular part of the AMEN comference and that's the State
of the Industry that happens the first day on Wednesday.
Speaker 22 (18:04):
Oh, definitely. Yeah, State of the Industry that always takes
place the first day of conference in the afternoon, So
it'll be at two pm on that Wednesday afternoon. Yeah,
you'll get to hear from our president and CEO, Clarice Turner,
our Board of Directors Chair Bob Silvera, and then some
other folks within the board and also within leadership at
the Almond boards.
Speaker 21 (18:24):
That is a big session to learn about where the
almond industry is.
Speaker 22 (18:28):
That's always a great session for attendees to just come
and kind of hear what that pulse is on the industry,
where things are, where they see the future of things going,
as well as really honing in on what the Almond
Board is doing to represent the industry, specifically our almond
growers and processors.
Speaker 21 (18:46):
That's Rebecca Bailey with the almed Bard of California. Again.
The conference is December tenth to the twelfth and Sacramento
free registration Cultivating a Healthier Future. Just search Almond Conference
and you have a lot of information there about this conference.
Speaker 14 (19:01):
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Speaker 23 (19:29):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 20 (19:34):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us, how
are you feeling really really weird and you still wanted
to four this few? No way, bro, There you have it, folks.
Speaker 23 (19:45):
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 15 (19:52):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 21 (19:57):
With the AG Information Network. I'm packed Kavanaugh.
Speaker 24 (20:01):
While a late year run a warmer weather, it's always
delightful for producers and livestock, it's important to be ready
for when that first cold snap hits. Doctor Nate Hawes,
a doctor of veterinary medicine for Biovet in Wisconsin, said
there are things to watch out for when winter sets in.
One has to do with parasites, so we do deal
(20:22):
with flies and actoparasites, tick slice, things like that. Farmers
at this time of year are really waiting for that
hard frost so they can start to clear their pastures
of some of those nasty things, and that's always a problem.
My bigger concern that I run into, and I see
this in some of our areas of our territories out
in the West, is the heat stress and the long
term heat stress. Anything over mid seventies is constituting heat
stress in these dairy cows. If that last run of
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warm weather before winter is part of extended hot weather,
it can take a toll on Gary cattle. So what
we end up seeing is production losses, possibility of issues
with gestation and breeding. So we're always on the lookout
for that, and it's kind of a trailing indicator, right.
We don't always see those acute cases, but we will
see is kind of a slump going on and on
over weeks. And so what we try to do is
(21:03):
maintain hydration, keep those animals eating, part and parcel for
what Biovet does with our direct fed microbias and our
nutritional supplements, and so that's one of the biggest things
that I'm going to be looking for, Steve. Temperature swings
can cause respiratory issues in cattle.
Speaker 16 (21:16):
They can.
Speaker 25 (21:17):
Actually we'll see respiratory issues more in the summer than
we see in the winter time in the veterinary world,
and that's kind of counterintuitive, right, But the reason for
that is cows have a horrible time blowing off heats.
They only have so much surface area for these huge
masses that they have, So one way they get rid
of heat is a increased respiration. And so sometimes you
have an an with a low level pneumonia or low
level respiratory issue, you won't even see it until they
start really exerting that breath and oftentimes happen just trying
(21:37):
to blow off that heat. So that's always a problem
that we see with cattle. It's a little bit different
than what we think of in the wintertime. Wintertime, we
think of colds from the human standpoint. Their respiratory issues
oftentimes manifest themselves with the stress of the heat and
over the months of that hot period of time during
the summer. Haw said, proper nutrition can help cattle with
a transition to the bitter cold of winter if we
can smooth out their gas room, intestinal track and nets. Again,
(21:58):
what we do is trying to keep them consistent you
mentioned earlier to ups and downs. You know, we may
have fifty degrees tonight and eighty degrees tomorrow. That's really
hard on an animal. Well, the same thing happens physiologically
inside the animal. So anything we can keep those animals
on a proper plane of nutrition so they can enter
that winter period of time where honestly they get a
little chance arrest from the heat stress, that's going to
benefit those cows in the long run.
Speaker 24 (22:17):
Again, that is doctor Nate Hawes, a doctor veterinary medicine
for BIOVET in Wisconsin. The United Nations is recognizing twenty
twenty six as the International Year of the Women Farmer,
with hopes of spotlighting and the contributions of women in
agriculture and agribusiness. Lisa Wherry, a Pennsylvania farmer and member
(22:39):
of the American Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Committee, says this
is an important time to acknowledge the contributions of women
in rural America.
Speaker 26 (22:47):
Some of the key goals and objectives are to recognize
and empower, to address barriers, to promote gender equality and
support economic growth, and to enhance access with our education
market send other resources for women in the sector.
Speaker 17 (23:02):
She said.
Speaker 24 (23:03):
The American Farm Bureau Women's Committee has a full slate
of programming for the year ahead, including the upcoming ACE Summit.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
Which is Advocate, cultivate, and empower. We're going to do
that in DC in June, and that's going to roll
right into the Women in Egg Survey, which will explore
women's leadership and involvement, access to the industry, and identify
barriers and opportunities and provide actionable insights to strength and
engagement and support systems. But the big thing is about
how women play a vital role in American agriculture.
Speaker 24 (23:32):
She says the survey is open to all women, not
just those who directly make an income from production agriculture.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
The survey is open to individuals eighteen and older from
the United States to Puerto Rico who have an interest
or involvement in agriculture, and also those that work in
production agriculture, agribusiness, education, aguacy, and related fills.
Speaker 24 (23:54):
To learn more, log onto women in agsurvey dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The latest step up at increasing Sterofly production to counter
potential New World screw worb 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 13 (24:16):
Steril new World screwroom flies are one of the most
important tools, probably the most important.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
At our disposal.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
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 Sterofly dispersal facility in South Texas and is
expediting designed and construction of a long term production site.
(24:44):
All efforts to protect our nation's cattle and livestock supply
from the threat of New World screw worm.
Speaker 27 (24:52):
It's time for California add Today on the ag Information Network,
I am Hailey ship Well a sobering story as we
get into our agricultural news today. Del Monte Foods is
shaking up California's cling peach industry after filing for bankruptcy
and tossing out long term contracts worth more than a
half a billion dollars. According to our recent agalers from
(25:14):
the California Farm Bureau, the company walked away from agreements
with members of the California Canning Peach Association. Some of
those contracts were just signed this year and we're supposed
to last until two thousand and forty four. That decision
has left several dozen growers suddenly without a buyer set
Our county farmer and Association chair Ronji Davitt put it plainly,
(25:37):
a lot of growers are affected, and third generation grower
Richard Leal told Aglert the loss could turn out to
be devastating. He'd even pulled out a productive almond orchard
to plant peaches for del Monte. Now the Association has
filed a five hundred and fifty five million dollar claim
in bankruptcy court, but experts say growers will probably see
(25:58):
little or none of that money. For now, everyone is
watching the December fourth auction of del Monte's Modesto Cannery,
hoping a new buyer steps in and keeps the market alive.
Speaker 14 (26:10):
Increasing your almond yield can seem like a tough nut
to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon Funge's side at Bloom for added resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wasn't tough at all. Maravon Funge
(26:30):
a side number one at Bloom for all the right reasons.
Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 23 (26:38):
Today we're talking with aphis and wife flies about sophena
insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 20 (26:43):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us how
you feeling really, really weird and you still wanted to
devour this few? No way, bro, There you have it, folks.
Speaker 23 (26:53):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
He'll protect you r alfalfa from afids with sophena insecticide.
Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 27 (27:06):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. For more agnews, check us out
online at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Bob went back with some farm news this morning. Friends.
We have a special report a look at grain marketing.
This past week, we had a chance to be at
the Farm Broadcasting Annual Convention. Caught up with Naomi Bloom.
She is senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing, and
we're talking about marketing this past year's crop. Naomi, I'm
reading your extensive biography here that is in the program,
(27:39):
and you have been talking about cash grains. We watch
here every once in a while on TV we see
on Market to Market. You run the program today talking
to these folks about about grain marketing in particular. You
kind of just zeroed in on corn. Give me about
thirty seconds of what you told farm broadcasters.
Speaker 28 (27:54):
Yeah, so, looking at the corn market, we've got a
friendly demand story that's there and that's the base of
support for this market in general.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
But of course what's in question is the yield number.
Speaker 28 (28:04):
Many in the industry feels that the yield number needs
to come down. It's at one eighty six right now,
but based on farmer conversations, I really think that numbers
too high. But the reality is that the USDA likely
does not address that final number until the January wazday.
So between now and then, we're in a situation where
corn prices fundamentally don't have a reason to fall apart.
But at the same time, we're stuck and we don't
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have enough bullish news to get the market to rally
through short term resistance on these daily charts at the moment.
So so for producers, you know, we want to be
thinking about timing of cash sales and just being really
potentially patient until we get the January USDA report.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Naomi with Total Farm Marketing, and Naomi, you say that
the USDA numbers need to come down because you've heard
from things in the countryside.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
What are you hearing, Well, here's the biggest thing.
Speaker 28 (28:54):
So normally every year when I'm asking producers, tell me
you know what's happening in your at your farm, at
your backyard, And what I usually hear every year is, well,
my crop's okay. But if you go five miles down
the road, so and so has an issue, and so
when I hear that, I know things are okay in general.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
This year, I didn't hear that once.
Speaker 28 (29:11):
What I heard, primarily from Iowa is how the yields
were for many, many less than last year because of
that southern rust. Guys you know, hadn't really dealt with
it before, so they didn't know you needed to spray it.
More than one time. I had a lot of clients
who said that their yields were about twenty bushels below
last year. And so there's I think a significant portion
(29:31):
of the country that battled with this, and definitely there's
portions of the crop that were fine and great, But
I'm skeptical that the entire crop is able to be
a record above last year's one seventy nine number. So
I feel like, when all is said and done on
that January Wazdi, I'm looking to see if we can
get that yield number closer to one eighty or one
eighty one. I think that keeps us in the realm
of reality.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You're looking for a significant absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I am, I am.
Speaker 28 (29:54):
But here's how the USDA offsets that. So we know
that the ethanol demand is awesome. We know that our
sports definitely strong, close to that three billion bushel mark,
But there is the question of the feed demand. They've
got almost record feed demand penciled in, and I think
the dairy industry is the only industry that has more
animals in general right now. But when we look at
the rest of the protein complex, I don't think we're
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feeding that much livestock to quantify that much demand. So
that's a number where the USDA can massage and bring
the demand category down to offset potentially lower yield. But
ultimately I think it's going to be great for a
competition for acres heading into spring. I think that it's
an opportunity for producers that when we get into January
(30:39):
and February. A lot of times there can be a
seasonal rally into January on hopes of a better USDA
report or on poor weather in South America. But sometime
between January, middle of January and middle of February is
a lot of times your best opportunity for winter cash
green marketing, so corn that you have in the beans
(31:00):
that you have in the bin, that's your chance to
get more current with sales because then we don't have
too much to talk about after that until we get
into our planting season in the United States.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I asked you before we started if you thought some
of these bind doors might be coming open, because we
have had a spike in the market over the last
week or so, in particular in soybeans, I would say,
and you said, no, not until January. And I said,
well why not now?
Speaker 28 (31:24):
Yeah, So when we were talking, I was thinking about corn.
I don't think the corn bin's open until January. But
on the soybean side, I think a lot of producers
have rewarded the over one dollar rally that we have
seen since early October and they have gotten current with sales.
So this opportunity over the past week, what a great
(31:44):
thing for producers, especially on the bean side, to reward
the rally that's been there.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Naomi Bloom Total Farm Marketing with us. You're listening to
WAG Life.
Speaker 16 (31:55):
From the AGG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. A record setting seventy three thousand plus members,
alumni and supporters from across the country. We're in Indianapolis
recently for the ninety eighth National FFA Convention. In Expo.
The school based National Youth Leadership Development Organization has over
a million forty two thousand student members in roughly ninety
four local FFA chapters in all fifty states, Puerto Rico,
(32:18):
and the US Virgin Islands. The annual convention offers attendees
the opportunity to explore careers, celebrate their achievements, participate in
service projects, and more. At the National Milk Producers Federation's
annual meeting, there were feelings that America's dairy farmers are
thriving in the marketplace, even as labor shortages and of
all little policy environment remain challenging. With eleven billion dollars
(32:38):
in new investments underway nationwide, Federation President Greg Dowd said
US dairy is well positioned for growth. Dowd says, there's
going to be uncertainty, but we're in an expansion mode
and I love it. Egg Secretary Brook Rawlins led the
largest usdagg trade mission in the history of the US
to Mexico City recently. Forty one US businesses, thirty three
co ops and ag advocacy groups, six state departments of agriculture,
(33:01):
and one hundred and fifty other participants conducted more than
five hundred business to business meetings over three days. This
was a critical opportunity for American businesses to further trade
ties and for USDA to continue its response to the
new World screwworm in Mexico.
Speaker 29 (33:15):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one?
Speaker 21 (33:29):
Oh, and how.
Speaker 29 (33:30):
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 station for
(33:53):
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.
Speaker 16 (34:12):
You from the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with
today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Bob went back to wrap up aglie for today with
a look at this week in history. On this date
in eighteen sixty three, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Now,
the Civil War had entered its third year, and for
three days, more than ninety thousand soldiers from the Army
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of the Potomac and about seventy five thousand troops from
the Army of Northern Virginia had fought at a crossroads
in Pennsylvania's fruit growing hill country. The clash between the
Union and Confederate soldiers in the market town of Gettysburg
stands as the largest land battle ever fought in the
Western Hemisphere. This day in history, President Abraham Lincoln came
(35:02):
to the site to consecrate a cemetery in their honor.
The brief Gettysburg Address marked a defining moment in the
Civil War. Todd Gleeson, University of Illinois reads the address
for US.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we're engaged in the Great Civil War, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield
of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
(35:37):
of that field as a final resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It's all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
(35:57):
who struggled here have rated it far above our power
to add or detract. The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
(36:18):
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us, that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full masure of devotion. That we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain, that this nation under God shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that government of the people,
(36:41):
by the people, for the people shall not perish from
the earth.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Todd Gleeson Gettysburg Address, As we look back at history
with that, friends, out of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back Monday morning with another edition of Bag
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