November 24, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends.
These Swine Health Information Centers WEEN to Finish Biosecurity initiative
focuses on strengthening biosecurity practices from weening through marketing. Doctor

(00:21):
Lisa Beckton with the Swine Health Information Center or SHICK,
she is the Associate director, stated that the effort is
a collaborative partnership among the National Pork Board, the Foundation
for Food and Agriculture Research, and SHICK, all working together
to help producers reduce disease risk throughout the production phase.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
When we get to do research, that's great, But when
we get to do additional research because additional funding, that's
even better. And again we can address some of these
big hairy issues that producers face when we look at
biosecurity not only on farm, but in transportation.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Transportation plays a vital role in the pork industry every day.
Introducing Risk to Disease Management.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Gathered feedback from producers to identify what are the things
that they struggle with the most and where are areas
that we can help. That's why there is a conscious
decision between the producer groups that we needed to really
focus on weiing to harvest biosecurity because what happens there
can backflow back to sell farms and really cause issues.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Producers rely on strict cleaning and sanitation both inside and
outside of the trucks. Preventing organic material from entering farms
and animal areals helps reduce the risk of spread such
as pers especially during the peak season of fall manure application.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's very important that we learned that the younger age
pigs such as nursery age pigs, can be more susceptible
to outbreaks, and so it may be beneficial to wait
to do when you we're pumping until your pigs are
a bit older within the site. It also again is
important to have sanitation of equipment and then making sure
people that are applying when don't come into the farm

(02:10):
where clean boots and coveralls coming into the area to apply,
because again you can carry those pathogens on your body,
on your clothes, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Doctor Becton stated that research has shown layering biosecurity practices
to be highly effective. For example, after cleaning a trader,
anyone re entering should wear clean boots, which is a
simple but powerful step. She added that these are practical
measures producers can implement immediately on the farm to enhance
herd protection. More information at swinehealth dot org. Well Friends

(02:41):
of the Trump administration has proposed a sweeping set of
changes to the Endangered Species Act, setting up a fight
with conservation groups that say the revisions would sharply weaken
protections for imperiled wildlife. Now, the draft rules would allow
economic considerations to factor into decisions about safeguarding habitat and species.
The proposal would also eliminate automatic protections for newly listed

(03:05):
threatened species, instead requiring case by case regulations, and reduce
the role of future climate related threats enlisting decisions. Environmental
groups warn the administration is trying to narrow what qualifies
as quote harm under the law by excluding many forms
of habitat modification. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgham said
the changes will protect species while quote respecting the livelihoods

(03:28):
of Americans who depend on our land and resources. We'll
have more farm news coming up. You're listening to wag Life.
Bob Quinn back with some farm News This Morning Friends
country of origin labeling back. In the headlines, Lorie Boyer
has our report.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
With President Donald Trump's announcement to reopen beef imports from Argentina,
questions are surfacing about whether it's time to bring back
mandatory country of origin labeling. Mike Strand's vice president of
Advocacy for the National Farmers' Union, shares an affuse perspective
on the issue.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
There's been an impact on political interest in approving legislation
to reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling. After all, if
there's going to be more imports from other countries into
our beef marketplace, there ought to be mandatory labeling laws
on the books to make sure that consumers have the
right to know where the beef comes from, and a clear,
strong labeling regime in place to make sure that those

(04:20):
are clearly labeled as such.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Strand says the National Farmers Union has been a strong
supporter of m COOL back into policy since its creation
in early two thousands. Recently, Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and
several colleagues reintroduced legislation to reinstate and COOL, renewing the
debate over transparency in beef labeling.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
And we opposed it's clawing back in twenty fifteen month
Congress struck it down. I think that we're at a
different time now and consumers really want to know about
where the food comes from, especially when it's very clear
we're going to be importing more beef. So we're hopeful
that there's some legislative avenue to get this done.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Mike Strands with a National Farmer's Union.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Lori Boyer reporting for US this morning, Well friends, the
Environmental Protection Agency announced a new proposed Waters of the
US rule, and the reaction from US agriculture groups is
mostly positive. Mary Thomas Hart, the chief counsel for the
National Cattleman's Beef Association, talked about the proposal.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yes, it is once again wotis week.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
So you know, coming into the new administration, we kind
of urged EPA to let whattis lie focus on other priorities.
But we said, you know, if you're going to rewrite
the Lotus rule, if you're going to give us a
new definition of whattis, make it really good. And certainly
EPA delivered on that promise. So today we saw an
announcement of a new proposed WODAS definition that very nearly

(05:44):
follows in CBA's exact recommendations not only the EPA and
prior administrations, but also to the Supreme Court in our
MCUs pre written in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
The new proposal does a much better job at following
the Supreme Court decision and the landmark Sackett versus EPA case.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
You know, I think it's important to start with the
Sacket decision that we got from the Supreme Court pretty
recently that put EPA in a much smaller box when
it comes to asserting federal jurisdiction over waters and water
bodies and wetlands across the United States. The unfortunate part
of that decision was that it was dropped during an
administration that was maybe reluctant at best to follow it.

(06:20):
So we had some kind of half hearted attempts to
implement that rule, and that was what we saw in
the wods definition that came out of the Biden administration. Fortunately,
we have an administration that really saw that Supreme Court
decision for what it was and worked really hard to
put together a definition that balances protection of our nation's
natural resources with protecting the interests of farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
She talked about how the proposal better protects farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
I think the most important thing that we see in
this rule is an attempt or an effort to make
sure that any landowner, not just a technical expert, not
just an attorney, not just a wetland specialist, can go
out look at water features on their property and at
least make a preliminary determination about whether that feature is
going to be subject to federal permitting. And they do
that by requiring a two part test, or having a

(07:07):
two part test for potentially jurisdictional waters.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
It better defines what constitutes a water body under federal jurisdiction.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Any jurisdictional water not only will have relatively permanent flow,
but will also have physical features like beds and banks
to indicate that it carries enough water to actually kind
of make a mark on the land. Right, So we
want to make sure that we're not regulating every trickle,
but we also want to make sure that we're regulating
water that's flowing fairly continuously. And I think with this rule,

(07:36):
we're going to see every ephemeral out and most intermittent
features out. So a water body has to be carrying
water at least seasonally in order to be federally jurisdictional.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Mary Thomas Hart, National Catalman's Beef Association with US Farm US.
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
It's another agnews update. Global soy flows to burger economics
and milk margins. All ahead after this.

Speaker 8 (08:06):
I'm Russkohler, a dairyman from Utah. Safety. Know your limits.
Heatstroke is life threatening.

Speaker 9 (08:12):
Know the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later,
allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.

Speaker 10 (08:28):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
China's scale up farm model is straining low crop prices,
rising land rids, and negative oil seed crush margins, which
could readdirect soybean demand and bases later this season, even
as Brazil ready's another big harvest closer to home, ground
beefs affordability still hinges on imported lin trim cutting Those

(08:57):
in flows would spike retail price is choking food service demand,
so cattle and cowflows remain tied to open trade, not isolation.
Dairy stayed expansionary this summer with milk cup three point
six percent and milk fat up five point three percent,

(09:18):
but softer class prices and slipping butter values are now
leaning on mailbox checks as fluid cells lags, and keep
an eye on feed and coverage is year end approaches
out West Arizona producers showing how to stretch scarce water,
precision irrigation, reuse and conservation, tillage keeping forage and specialty

(09:42):
crops moving while trimming withdraws. I'm Tony Saint Shane's it's
another agnews update meat.

Speaker 11 (09:50):
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Blue wonders do they really work as well as name brands. Yes,
generics and name medications do work the same, even though
they may look different. Generics have the same key ingredients.
FDA approval is equally rigorous for generics to make sure
there is safe and effective as name brands, and Blue

(10:11):
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Speaker 7 (10:14):
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Speaker 11 (10:14):
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Speaker 7 (10:18):
Drugs, American Cattle News. What's the value of hey? More
after this.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
I'm Russ Kohler, a dairyman from Utah.

Speaker 9 (10:33):
Safety. Know your limits. Heat stroke is life threatening. Know
the symptoms confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, high body temperature,
hot dry skin, and profuse sweating. Reduce your risk during
the heat of the day by working earlier or later.
Allow time for water and rest breaks by drinking two
to four cups of water each hour.

Speaker 10 (10:52):
This public service message is brought to you by Farm
Bureau and the US AGG Centers.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Doctor Mark Johnson is an Oklahoma state beef breeding specialist
on the value of hay?

Speaker 12 (11:04):
What is the value of hay right now in Oklahoma?
And so we walk back through a little bit of history.
But it's interesting how we got here addressing this question
of what is hay worth in August to twenty twenty five.
If we look back over the last three years, it's
been kind of a bumpy road. That big drought in
twenty twenty two didn't leave us with a lot of
hay inventory. As we go back and forth from there,

(11:28):
and just taking a look at what has happened in
twenty twenty five, hay was actually at relative to the
ten year average price on a national basis across all
types of hay, hay was more.

Speaker 13 (11:40):
Expensive than normal.

Speaker 12 (11:41):
In January, we actually saw that seasonal increase up until
May go up by twenty some dollars a ton.

Speaker 13 (11:48):
Since that time, there's been ample moisture.

Speaker 12 (11:51):
Mother Nature's cooperated with us, probably seeing a few more
acres that became hay meadows this year, and as a
result here in Oklahoma when when we finally got into
hayfields in the past month, the reports of yields have
been good.

Speaker 13 (12:05):
And we're all asking that question.

Speaker 12 (12:07):
From both sides of this equation, whether we have hay
to sell or we need to procure it and buy it.
The way it looks right now, some of those early
forecasts for hay being more expensive this year probably overestimated.
It looks like average hay price for the year is
going to be down. That is the report from most
all around the country now as we look out west

(12:28):
where they're still in a drought, but the only higher
prices of hey we see in the past couple months
are coming from some of the western states. So bottom line,
what can we expect it looks like a good year
for end users.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 13 (12:46):
This is Dairy Radio now Helki Monday.

Speaker 14 (12:50):
Karen Murphy, market intelligence manager at high Ground Dairy in Chicago,
Cara US dairy exports. We're pretty impressive in August with
cheeses especially garnering a lot of attention and sales.

Speaker 8 (13:02):
Tell us about it.

Speaker 15 (13:03):
Yeah, total chies sales actually hit another record high on
a thirty day adjusted basis.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
During the month, we saw really big shipments to.

Speaker 15 (13:11):
Japan, Australia and South Korea mostly made a big Cheddar sailings.
But I have to say here, you know this data
was from August. We are going to get September data
on Monday. More importantly, though, in October, we saw European
cheese prices substantially fall. US prices have come down more
in line with it. Both of them are trending around
the buck fifty per pound mark. But expect more competition

(13:34):
from Europe coming into twenty twenty six than we saw
this year, so we might not see those elevated levels
that we saw throughout twenty twenty five moving into the
new year.

Speaker 14 (13:42):
Yeah, and that's a big concern because we need to
have those exports.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
How about butter, absolutely well.

Speaker 15 (13:47):
Butter exports continued another impressive month. They've been up substantially
this year the world markets New Zealand and Europe. They
continued to remain at a dollar fifty premium to the
US product, so we'll likely keep seeing those butter exports
continue through twenty twenty six so long as that price
disparity is so large.

Speaker 14 (14:04):
Powder is still a drag on the market, though, yeah
they do.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Dry Way is the outlier here.

Speaker 15 (14:09):
It did mark the highest month in August on a
thirty day adjusted basis. Since March of twenty twenty three,
we saw a lot more Way move to China, which
is that top market, and we also saw some of
those high protein Ways that WPC greater than eighty percent
move up as well too, on that global demand for
those high protein products. On the other side, though, non

(14:29):
fat dry milk remains lackluster in general.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Down to our biggest market Mexico.

Speaker 15 (14:33):
Down to the Philippines Indonesia, non fat dry milk is
just not the in vogue dairy protein source at the moment.
US is also priced above major competitors, so we'll likely
keep seeing those drag in the meantime.

Speaker 14 (14:46):
We continue to see rising milk production globally. This is
not boeing well for prices here at home, is it?

Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, it is not.

Speaker 15 (14:53):
Europe just posted their September milk production astounding figures out
of there. New Zealand also published their oct hob Or
milk production. It's truly impressive to see the amount of
milk coming out of places around the globe, even in
Latin America. And actually this month we saw China milk
production increase as well, so lots of milk everywhere across

(15:13):
the world.

Speaker 14 (15:14):
Thank you, Kara Kara Murphy, market intelligence manager at high
Ground Dairy in Chicago.

Speaker 16 (15:19):
Here's dairy farmer Hank Wagner and his daughter Laura with
another simple miracle moment.

Speaker 17 (15:25):
Some people think they cannot be thankful until their circumstances
give them reason to be thankful. We believe that thankfulness
should have little to do with our circumstances.

Speaker 18 (15:33):
We have all seen people who are incredibly blessed and
have every reason to be thankful, and yet choose not
to be. And we have likely witnessed people who have
some tough challenges in their life and still are very thankful.

Speaker 17 (15:45):
If we are thankful for our belongings, our health, or
our relationships. Those things will increase.

Speaker 18 (15:51):
Think about a place and initiate more thankfulness in that area.
Consider starting a thankfulness list or daily thankfulness routines. Always
something to be thankful for.

Speaker 16 (16:02):
That's Hank Wagner and Laura Rodd's, author of the book
Simple Miracles for More Go to Become Better Leaders dot com.

Speaker 13 (16:09):
This is Dairy Radio Now.

Speaker 16 (16:11):
Disaster Assistant sign ups and required information and Farm Production
and Conservation Under Secretary Richard ford Ice providing examples of
what qualifying losses under the Milk Loss Program and on
Farm Stored Crop Loss Program both begin sign ups today.

Speaker 19 (16:27):
The Milk Loss Program, that's going to be a program
that's going to pay milk producers that had to dump
milk due to a qualifying natural disaster. So like, as
an example, the dairy had milk cows, there was a storm,
roads were impassable, the truck couldn't make it to the
dairy to pick up the milk, so the milk had
to be dumped. That is the program where we're paying
for that dumped milk or lost milk. Another one is

(16:50):
the on Farm Stored Commodity Loss Program. And that program
will pay producers that loss commodities that were stored on
the farm due to one of those qualifying weather events
that created either partial damage or complete loss of that
onform stored commodity. And so an example, there would be
a grain bind maybe that was flooded, the water entered

(17:13):
the structure, damage a portion or all of the grain
stored in that green bent. And we're going to be
able to help producers offset those losses through the onform
Stored Commodity Loss program.

Speaker 16 (17:24):
And that's Farm Production and Conservation Under Secretary Richard Fordyce.
And I'm Bill Baker. Darry Radio now.

Speaker 20 (17:32):
An almond growers exploring mating disruption for naval orangeworm because
her naval orange worm problems is still increasing. I'm Patrick
Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part of the
VASTAG Information Network. John A. Lee Dunn is a third
generation almond grower in the community of Done Again, which
is in northern California.

Speaker 21 (17:53):
In fact, we have somebody coming to speak to us
in a lot of months about the mating disruption. Because
you know it's doing some thing, you assume it's doing something,
but it's hard to quantify it when you see the
pressure worse and worse every year. And also just because
you have them, if your neighbors don't have them.

Speaker 20 (18:09):
They we're talking about mating disruption.

Speaker 21 (18:11):
Puffers naval orange worms don't when they fly around, they
don't know the difference between property lines, right.

Speaker 20 (18:16):
And that's so true with mating disruption. You need to
have an area wide adoption of this particular strategy. For
naval orangeworm, they're confused.

Speaker 21 (18:25):
The past, right, and so that's that's the trick, right.
Maybe it would be more effective if you know everybody
did it, but that.

Speaker 20 (18:31):
Is the key for success when all your neighbors are
doing it too.

Speaker 21 (18:35):
It's coffee too, you know, it's and the prices and
amons haven't been you know, they've they've been tough these
last few years. It's going up and there's a you know,
all of us are excited to see the mine price
going up, but it's been a tough few years. So
you know, it's been hard to for a lot of
growers to justify any extra cop that's all.

Speaker 20 (18:54):
And grower John Lee Dunn.

Speaker 22 (18:56):
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Speaker 23 (19:24):
Today we're talking with aphis and wife flies about sefena
insecticide from basf.

Speaker 24 (19:29):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us how
you feeling really really weird and you still wanted to
four this few?

Speaker 7 (19:37):
No way, bro.

Speaker 8 (19:39):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 23 (19:40):
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Speaker 25 (19:47):
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Speaker 20 (19:53):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.

Speaker 26 (19:56):
Members of the US Meat Export Federation gathered in Indianapolis
for the group's annual strategic Planning Conference and elected Jay
Tyler as the organization's new chair. Tyler as executive vice
president for Corporate Affairs for Agribeef Company, based in Boise, Idaho.
He laid out his priorities for the Red Meat Export
Organization for the coming year.

Speaker 13 (20:16):
The priorities for USMEF.

Speaker 27 (20:17):
The bit relatively consistent we're going to follow that path
going forward, is that we're going to need to continue
to differentiate our product. We are the gold standard for
products when you look at beef, pork, and lamb around
the world.

Speaker 13 (20:28):
This product is highly sought after.

Speaker 27 (20:31):
The USMF it's really great at marketing, and so making
sure that we continue to market the differentiation and really
focus on what makes these products so good and continue
to drive demand is really going to be one of
the key focuses. The second one, I think is to
defend the markets where we've built really good market share
over the years. These are markets like Japan, Korea, Mexico,

(20:52):
where we've had long standing partnerships, where the business has
been very developed. There may be some question about our
reliability as a supply with a lot of the political
things going on. We got to make sure that those
customers that we've worked with for years and years know
how important they are to us and how important those
relationships are to us and our business. The third focus

(21:13):
area for US would be to diversify. And this is
not just something further short term. This is also as
we head into the next fifty years, because we've been
around for fifty years, is really focusing on diversifying our markets.
So we can't replace China, but we can build our
future business in markets that are now developing. So those
would be markets like in the African Continent or South America,

(21:35):
Latin America, Southeast Asia. So these markets are developing and
we need to diversify into those markets and start building
our future business.

Speaker 26 (21:43):
For more, please visit USMEF dot org for the USB
and Export Federation.

Speaker 13 (21:48):
I'm John Harrith.

Speaker 28 (21:49):
Nebraska swathem growers find themselves in a unique situation. Nebraska
Governor Jim Pillon so as Nebraska does not need to
export swabeings.

Speaker 29 (22:00):
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 and the AGP plant in
David City coming online, those two plants took up the
last twenty five percent soybeans that had to be exported.
So in Nebraska, soybeating farmers, we don't export it's the

(22:21):
vision of agriculture that we process of products creak value.

Speaker 28 (22:25):
Here, the Tallgrass Pipeline in Nebraska is carrying in carbon
dioxide from ethanol manufacturing plants to a sequestration site in Wyoming.
Combining that with Nebraska's expanding ethanol production and Pillin says,
the biofuels economy in Nebraska is strong now.

Speaker 29 (22:43):
With the carbon capture, the ethanol plants will 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 dollars plants. We have extraordinary business growth creating incredible

(23:04):
opportunity and careers that nobody can conceive. Yet it's exciting times.

Speaker 28 (23:09):
Looking at the overall ag economy in Nebraska, Pillin says,
it's taken significant steps forward.

Speaker 29 (23:15):
We are number one now in cattle seating. Texas is
number two. Because of the carbon capture the Tagraphs pipeline.
Northern state has been able to do it. We kept
politics out kind of true. Iowa renewble fields groups through
the White Flag in said Nebraska's number one and that.

Speaker 28 (23:31):
At all again, that is Nebraska Governor Jim Pillin the
past couple of seasons have been challenging for the potato industry,
but not because of poor crop yields are bad weather,
Glenn Vaughan has more.

Speaker 30 (23:45):
Trade uncertainty, contract cancelations, and a soft overall farm economy
have made the last two to three years difficult for
Northwest growers. Chris Voyd, executive director the Washington State Potato Commission, says,
farmers understand that some years are going to be great
and not so great.

Speaker 31 (24:01):
And so we're kind of used to that cyclical cycle
and we know that, you know, what comes around goes
around type of attitude, and so yeah, we've kind of
come off for two, you know, a couple tough years.
But I think that there's optimism that that will improve
because it always has in the past.

Speaker 30 (24:20):
Boyd says while there are many reasons to feel discouraged
right now, he and local growers are keeping their heads up.

Speaker 31 (24:25):
You know, personally, I feel pretty good. I kind of
like where we're at, and I think that we're headed
in the right direction, and I think that this economy
will turn a little bit around for agriculture, at least
for the potato industry.

Speaker 30 (24:37):
Once again, that was Chris Boyd, executive director of the
Washington State Potato Commission. I'm Glenn Boggin reporting.

Speaker 28 (24:42):
I'm Dwayne Merley.

Speaker 32 (24:44):
It's time for Camlifornia agg today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. If you needed one more reason
to appreciate the folks who grow our food, here it
is Walnuts may actually help you sleep better. According to
a new randomized controlled trial highlighted by the California Walnuts Commission,

(25:05):
eating a simple handful of walnuts with dinner each day
could improve overall sleep quality and cut down on daytime grogginess.
Researchers at the University of Barcelona followed seventy six healthy
young adults through an eight week walnut versus no walnut rotation.
The walnut phase clearly came out ahead. Participants showed higher

(25:29):
levels of melatonin markers in evening urine samples, better sleep
quality scores, and even fell asleep about one point three
minutes faster. Lead researcher doctor Maria Esquerdo Pallito said this
is the first randomized controlled trial to show that daily
walnut consumption, measurably improved objective sleep quality and increased melatonin

(25:53):
levels during evening hours with more than one in three
American adults not getting enough sleep. That is in current news.
So tonight add a few to your dinner and let
the growers help tuck you in.

Speaker 22 (26:06):
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 a 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

(26:26):
aside number one at Bloom for all the right reasons.
Always read and follow label directions.

Speaker 23 (26:34):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf.

Speaker 24 (26:39):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us, how
are you feeling really really weird and you still wanted
to four this feel?

Speaker 7 (26:47):
No way way, bro.

Speaker 13 (26:49):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 23 (26:50):
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 25 (26:57):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena in sect aside.
Always read and follow label directions.

Speaker 32 (27:03):
With California AGG. Today on the AG Information Network, I
Am Hailey's ship.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Bob quinn Back was in farmer used this morning Friends
country of origin labeling back. In the headlines, Lorie Boyer
has our report.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
With President Donald Trump's announcement to reopen beef imports from Argentina,
questions are surfacing about whether it's time to bring back
mandatory country of origin labeling. Mike Strand's vice president of
Advocacy for the National Farmers Union, shares an affuse perspective
on the issue.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
There's been an impact on political interest in approving legislation
to reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling. After all, if
there's going to be more imports from other countries and
to our beef marketplace, there ought to be mandatory labeling
laws on the books to make sure that consumers have
the right to know where the beef comes from and
a clear, strong labeling regime in place to make sure

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that those are clearly labeled as such.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Strand says the National Farmers Union has been a strong
supporter of m cool back in a policy since the
creation in early two thousands. Recently, Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
and several colleagues reintroduced legislation to reinstate and COOL, renewing
the debate over transparency in beef labeling, and.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
We opposed it's clawing back in twenty fifteen month Congress
struck in account. I think that we're at a different
time now and consumers really want to know about where
the food comes from, especially when it's very clear we're
going to be importing more beef. So we're hopeful that
there's some legislative avenue to get this done.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Mike Strands with the National Farmers Union.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Laur Boyer reporting for US this morning, friends, is the
end of twenty twenty five approaches, it's time to start
looking ahead to the new year. Naomi Bloom, the senior
market advisor with Total Farm Marketing, spoke during a presentation
at the twenty five National Association Farm Broadcasting Convention in
Kansas City. She said, twenty twenty five has been an

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interesting year in the US corn market.

Speaker 33 (28:57):
So right now in the United States, we had record
corn acres planted this past year, and for the most part,
we had pretty decent weather all the way up until August,
and then on the August USDA report, the USDA felt
that corn yield was going to be this record amount
of one hundred and eighty eight bushels, and that was
just astounding to the market and led to the perception

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that we would have corn everywhere and we were looking
at four dollar corn futures. But then something happened in
Iowa and portions of Missouri with Southern rust.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Southern rust had never shown up in the Midwest a
major corn producing state, which was Iowa, and took corn
farmers by surprise at harvest.

Speaker 33 (29:39):
My clients in Iowa have never really dealt with Southern
rust before, and so it was a new thing. They
sprayed once, not twice, not three times, and so at
harvest they were a little surprised with the dramatic yield reduction.

Speaker 20 (29:52):
I only had.

Speaker 33 (29:53):
One client in Iowa who had for him better than
last year yields. Everyone else in Iowa that I were
with was literally twenty bushels below last year. This is Iowa,
so this has the potential to become a big deal.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Bloom still expects further lowering of the US corn yield
early in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 33 (30:11):
I think in the future you're going to see the
corn yield number come down, and that shows up on
the January WASDI Now that's critical for the corn market.
That's the cornerstone piece that we need for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Now here's the deal.

Speaker 33 (30:22):
Corn demand is the bright spot in this whole marketplace.
Corn demand for ethanol solid, you know, closer to five
point five billion bushels, so a third of what we
grow goes right to ethanol. We're having record corn exports
this year of three billion bushels.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Fantastic Naomi Bloom Total Farm marketing this morning, well friends,
another presentation at that Farm Broadcasting Convention, Global Come Out
of the Analytics President Mike Zuzzolo talked with broadcasters about
some of the biggest macro economic factors affecting the markets.

Speaker 34 (30:55):
I think the big thing that I see in twenty
twenty six, as we get ready to change years, is
what we're seeing kind of in Wednesday's trade, where we've
got a very good bid in the US dollar at
this point, and we've got a very strong break to
the downside in the energy markets. I think this is
going to be one of the keys to twenty twenty
six as far as corn and beans, and wheat especially

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being able to hold any kind of gains. Otherwise, we're
probably going to continue to trade more of a weather
and supply driven market. What we're all looking for, I
think is a demand low, and I think that starts
with the crude oil, and it starts with the crude
oil going higher and the dollar going lower.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
There's an oversupply next year.

Speaker 34 (31:32):
But the problem is is that the funds and the
commodity markets in general, I think are seeing twenty twenty
six as oversupplied right now, with wheat and crude oil
as the leaders. And so those are the two commodities
that I'll be putting my key focus on as we
get ready for the end of the year to see
if we do indeed go lower, if that signal is
low in the market, and then we can look to

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maybe the wheat, the corn, and the beans all finding
some demand off of that.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Mike Zuzzolo, Global Commodity Analytics with US Farm Years. This morning,
you are listening to Waglife.

Speaker 35 (32:05):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update. Recent droughts in California push the cost of
surface water for farmers and other users up by four
hundred and eighty seven dollars per acre foot, according to
a new study by researchers at the University of California Davis,
more than triple the cost of water during an average year.
Researchers found greater use of California's aquifers to store surface

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water during wet years could help stabilize water prices in
drought years and benefit farms and the state's economy. President
Trump is preparing significant tariff cuts and new trade agreements
aimed at easing high food prices, a top concern for
voters heading into twenty twenty six. The administration announced framework
deals with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Ecuador that would

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reduce tariffs and other barriers on imports of beef, bananas, coffee,
and other staples. Officials say the effort is designed to
lower grocery bills that have remained elevated for years, and
American beef bills are set to keep climbing, according to
Omaha Steak President and CEO Nate Rempey, who cautioned that
the nation's shrinking cattle supply and record demand could stretch
family budgets for years. Nate Rempey says, by the third

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quarter of twenty twenty six, families could see ten dollars
a pound ground beef. Rempy's comments come the same day
the White House announced several trade deals with terror productions
on certain goods like beef from Argentina.

Speaker 36 (33:24):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
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and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?

Speaker 14 (33:38):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (33:38):
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

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Speaker 13 (34:22):
From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update. Bob went back to wrap up aglie for
today friends. Well, November's end is the official conclusion of
this year's Atlantic hurricane season, a season that appears to
be quieter than forecast. Rod Bain wraps us up.

Speaker 37 (34:38):
We are just a couple of weeks away from the
official end of the Atlantic hurricane.

Speaker 38 (34:43):
Season November thirtieth to be exact. Accord to usdab or
ologist Brad Rippy, usually those final weeks of the hurricane
season are quiet. On occasion, a late November system turns
into a tropical store. It may come as a surprise
considering this Atlantic hurricade season has been quieter that expected.

Speaker 37 (35:02):
As we reached this mid November point, we have seen
to this date thirteen named tropical cyclones and five hurricanes.

Speaker 38 (35:09):
That's compared to the Bay National Hurricanes Center forecast of
thirteen to nineteen name storms add six to ten hurricanes
at the August update that slightly lowered projections.

Speaker 37 (35:21):
With the August update, that number was ratcheted down to
thirteen to eighteen named storms and five to nine hurricanes.
Based on that August forecast, we are at the very
low end of that forecast. In a technical sense, they
were right at least with the August update, but both
of those numbers on the very lowest end thirteen named
storms and five hurricane.

Speaker 38 (35:41):
What were some of the conditions behind the lower tropical
storm count.

Speaker 37 (35:45):
We saw a displaced minsoon across the African continent, and
that put those thunderstorm clusters into a more hostile environment
for development. Perhaps a bigger factor this year was the
fact that we saw very hostile winds across the western Atlantic.
We saw a dip in the jet stream that tended
to rip any developing cyclones apart.

Speaker 13 (36:06):
As a result, we did not.

Speaker 37 (36:07):
See a single landfalling US hurricane in twenty twenty.

Speaker 38 (36:12):
Five, and in fact, only two tropical storms impacted the
mainland United States in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 37 (36:19):
Only one of those actually made landfall in the United States.
Back in late June, we had tropical storm Berry move
into the Mexican Gulf Coast. Berry later in a remnant form,
contributed to the deadly flooding in south central Texas, and
that occurred in the early hours of fourth of July.
A little bit later on, we saw a tropical storm Chantal,

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and that storm did effect the east coast of the
United States, but it was a relatively innocuous tropical storm
and did not cause any significant concerns.

Speaker 38 (36:48):
I'm broad Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that, friends, around of time for today. Thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bag Life.