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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. We're talking about agricultural
production here in the valley and all across the country. Well, friends,
let's talk turkey this morning with Rod Bain.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What does Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl have in common
besides football? In the food safety realm USDA food safety
expert Meredith Corruthers says, for her and her colleagues operating
the Agriculture Departments Meat and Poultry Hotline.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Thanksgiving is our food safety super Bowl of the year
from actual football 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 cooking
that Thanksgiving meal may be under stress for a myriod
of reasons.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
A lot of times tensions are high with timelines, with
trying to impress loved ones, or the pressures of doing
this for the first time, etc.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That could lead cooks missing something in the meal prep process,
taking shortcuts that could result in a food safety issue.
It also leads to questions, lots of questions that the
Beaten Poultry Hotline have fielded for forty years now, Meredith
Coruthers acknowledges there have been some very unique questions pose
the staffers of the Beaten Poultry Hotline over the decades
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regarding Thanksgiving meal food safety.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The turkey was brining 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.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A dishwasher or in the shower, maybe some obvious or
even not so obvious reasons, we wouldn't recommend doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yet one tread noticed by Coruthers is fewer of these
unique food safety questions over time on the hot line.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
She survises 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 Meat Poultry Hotline, plus the rest of
our foods. If the education team put out some very
helpful sources, we develop partnerships, and we do as much
as we can to really get food safety information into
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the hands of consumers.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Available to answer that food safety question during the Thanksgiving
season and any time of year USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline.
The number de call is what eight eight eight MP Hotline.
Food safety questions can also be emailed at MP hotliede
at USDA dot gov. I'm Rodbaine reporting for the US
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Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Farm News coming up. You're listening to Waglife Bob Quinn.
Here was some farm news today. Friends. Will the Whole
Milk for Healthy Kids Act recently passed the Senate. Chad
Smith has more on the important first step in the process.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Dairy farmers and school children received some welcome news this
week with the passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy
Kids Act. John Newton, vice president of public Policy and
Economic Analysis for the American Farm per Federation, said this
legislation is long overdue and will allow kids to make
healthy choices at breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Finally, allow schools participating in the National School Lunch Program
to offer flavored and unflavored, organic or non organic, whole,
reduced fat, low fat, and fat free fluid milk. It
really expands the opportunities and products available to children as
they consider having dairy on their lunch plate.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
It's been proven that whole milk choices are healthy for students.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
They contribute to healthy children and healthy outcomes. American Farm
Bureau Dairy farmer members have been pushing for this for
a very very, very long time, and I think seeing
the Senate passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids
Act is going to be welcome news in the dairy
world and really across the pharmaconomy.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Newton said there were some key champions shepherding the bill
through the Senate, and now it heads to the second
Legislative chamber.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Without those leaders in the Senate pushing this over the
finish line, I don't think we'd be having this conversation today. Well,
now it goes right back over to the House, and
we've already seen Chairman Thompson pledged to get this over
the finish line in the House so we can go
to the President's desk. We all know how important whole
milk back in schools is going to be.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You can learn more at FB dot org. Chad Smith, Washington,
Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
An update on some trade US Meet Export Federation Chairman
Elect J Tyler, Executive vice president of corporate Affairs for
Boise based Agribeef Company, recently traveled to the UK on
a trade mission with Idaho's Governor Brad Little.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
We have a report on that this morning.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Us ME and Export Federation share elect J Tyler of
AGRIBEF recently returned from a state trade mission to the
United Kingdom.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
I was part of the delegation, went over with the
Governor of Idaho, who's the rancher himself, talking about the
new trade deal.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Talked a lot about the beef deal, but.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
We also realized that there's some opportunities for pork obviously
if they can work out some of the details on that.
Where the UK is taking a lot of pork from
the European Union right now, so I think it's in
the range of between two and three billion dollars. That
so there's an opportunity for pork and certainly is not
op dounity for bea if we can get duty free
access to the British market.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
They discuss lingering non tearff trade issues that need to
be resolved to give US beef and pork better access
to the UK. While the UK's ban on hormone use
in beef production gets most of the attention, there are
other significant barriers that must be addressed.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
They've been aligned with the EU for so long and
they're so dependent on important export with the European Union
that we're not sure what exactly those requirements are going
to be. But there's a lot of other access issues
that are creating friction that we hope we can see
some movement on, as some of the PHIDO sanitary regulations. Labeling,
I mean they label right now everything going to the
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UK is still part of the EU. It's labeled in
eight languages, each individual pieces labeled. So there's a lot
of things like that that are details that make the
trade more difficult, So hopefully we can work some of
those things out.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Tyler says there is certainly demand for US red meat there.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
It's a different type of product than is really produced
in the UK. It's high quality grain fed beef products.
I feel like the steakhouse segment is really strong there
and I think that would be a nice niche for
US products. A lot of what's produced there's more sort
of grass fed products, and I think they see there's
potential opportunity in the States for some of their products
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and some lean and things like that, but there is
definitely an opportunity for high quality grain fed products from
the States going over.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
To the UK.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
For more, please visit us MEF dot org for the
USB and Export Federation.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm John Harrith, Well friends. President Trump late last week
lifted the forty percent tear eff C imposed in July
on Brazilian food imports, reversing a policy that had raised
US consumer costs and strained agricultural markets. The move removes
duties on Brazilian beef, coffee, cocoa, and fruit beginning this month,
and may trigger refunds for tariffs already paid, according to
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a White House order now. The rollback follows similar actions
last week easing food teriffs from other countries as the
administration reassesses trade measures that contributed to higher grocery prices
some farm used. This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
It's another agnews update, disaster check, stronger green movement firm, coal,
cow prices all ahead more after this.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (07:18):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work, and it resulted on
a strike on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse. Never
assume the location or depth of underground lines. Always call
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before you start work. A message from the pipeline operators
for ag Safety Campaign.
Speaker 11 (07:44):
USDA opening the next round of Federal Disaster relief with
the SdRP Stage two applications starting November twenty fourth to
cover shallow loss quality and uncovered crop, tree, bush and
bind damage from twenty twenty three through twenty twenty four,
alongside new signups for milk loss and on farm stored
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commodity programs to help rebuild cash flow. Export wise weekly
inspection showing Coren leading the charge at roughly eighty point
eight million bushels, soybeans holding steady above forty three million
and more moderate wheat and sorghum volumes. Mexico, Japan, Spain,
and Key Asian buyers are driving demand on the cattle side.
(08:30):
Texas A and m Agrolife economists Doctor David Anderson notes
Southern planes col cow prices near one hundred sixty five
dollars per hundred way far stronger than typical fall lows,
even as cow beef cutout and nineties trim e seasonally.
USDA's latest wasdy also trimming beef and pork output this
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year while raising milk production and cutting butter, cheese and
powder prices. It's another agnews d.
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Speaker 11 (09:29):
American Cattle News The World Eggs applying demand estimate or
was the report big for row crops? But what about livestock?
More after this.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:42):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work, and it resulted on
a strike on a natural Gays pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore youdig dot com
before you start work. A message from the pipeline operators
for agg Safety Campaign.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
University of Nebraska, Lincoln livestock economist Elliott Dennis.
Speaker 16 (10:12):
Yeah, I mean, the WAA report gives the kind of
supply and demand estimates for there, but you know, a
little known is that we also have kind of the
beef segment in the pork segment in the wa Z
as well, but it's kind of a quarterlease. So from
kind of corn production. Really, the expectation, trade expectation was
that they would be at one hundred and eighty four
bushels and acre. November came in at about one eighty six,
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and that was a little bit down from September about
one eighty six point seven bushels per acre. Beans were
kind of similar, so trade was expecting a little bit
higher than what it came in. But really, when we
think about, you know, where we're getting this kind of
information has a lot to do with kind of private reports,
and a lot of information from USDA was suggesting that
they didn't have all of the money available to actually
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do the full surveying. So when we think of about
kind of where we'll be at in the next month,
will be probably a more accurate of where we're at
than kind of the November. So I'm kind of like
a wait and see on some of the kind of
the corn stuff, but you know, has some implications for
the beef industry. So when we think about kind of
where that is for beef production, they're kind of estimating
basically reduced steer hepper slaughter and really kind of slowering marketings.
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Really even into the first half of twenty twenty six.
They have some other estimates on kind of beef imports.
But it's important to know that these beef imports talk
about kind of expected changes, and so even for twenty
twenty five and twenty six, we've talked a lot about Argentina,
they're saying beef import forecasts are essentially unchanged. So just
kind of show you that, you know, even though an
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announcement can be made. Kind of where that gets built
into these reports has a lot to do with kind
of where the market moves and we sell. How the
market reacted this past Friday.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now for.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Feedbrick's USA on John Clark and with me is a
very special guest, Corey Geiger of Kobank. That you really
are a farm boy who's just followed his dreams.
Speaker 17 (12:06):
Just say I'm a Wisconsin farm boy and I have
followed my dreams. And I've had a lot of servant
leaders in my life I learned from and showed me
the way. And maybe that's one of the reasons I've
been involved in so many organizations over time, because I
think it's important to pay that forward.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Tell us about this book that's out now.
Speaker 18 (12:24):
My second book is out.
Speaker 17 (12:25):
It's called The Wisconsin Farm They Built and it just
won three different writing awards. I'd say it's a good
novel that actually happened, so that means it's nonfiction, but
I use a process called creative nonfiction, so I narrate
what happened. It's based on our sixth generation family farm.
There's chapters and They're about the love of Alice and
the death of Alice.
Speaker 18 (12:44):
But Alice is.
Speaker 17 (12:44):
Spelt Allis is an Alice Chalmers Corporation. It was one
time one of the United States biggest employers. People working
in manufacturing had a lot to do with to win
World War Two. But my grandpa had all Alice Challenger's tractors.
There's stories in there about the little nursery rhyme, little
misstufet sat under muffet eating your curds in way, and
so the evolution of dairy. How we at once time
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fed liquid way to hogs. We raised over a couple
million feeder pigs and he eventually made it to Isewa.
It was a Wisconsin feeder pig co op. But now
we have the technology to extract that way to the
most complete amino acids known.
Speaker 18 (13:21):
Humanity and make some great dairy products with it.
Speaker 17 (13:24):
I also set that up like what does the future
hold for dairy and family farming?
Speaker 10 (13:28):
Where can they find this book on.
Speaker 17 (13:30):
My website Coreygeiger dot com. It's also available on Amazon
and Barnes and Noble. You can go to your favorite
bookstore and ask it. They can order it from Ingram
and get it to you within days and sold all
fifty states, So there's multiple ways to go ahead and
get the book.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Your full time gig. In terms of being a dairy analyst,
what's going on with capacity for both fluid and processing
milk and the United States.
Speaker 17 (13:52):
So dairy is growing in the United States Between now
in twenty twenty six, there's seven billion dollars of new
dairy processing capacity coming online. Now a big part of that,
about four billion of that is cheese, a lot of
the American style cheese than cheddar. So we're going to
have one billion pounds of new cheese coming online in
the next three years. But there's other innovations taking place
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as well. There's parts of the country that are building
new fluid processing plants. Now, beverage milk hasn't been growing
strong lately, but the consumer's evolving. So if you're building
a new plant today, that technology it's going in. We're
filtering out the lactose. There's a movement in consumers circles
to consume less sugar. Lactose is of course milk sugar,
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and so those plants that are going in are filtering
that out. And then there's some of those plants are
doubling down on protein and really fortifying milk but twice
as much protein in it. So those are some of
the activities taking place.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
The whole milk is a category as it seems to
be growing.
Speaker 17 (14:51):
Yeah, there was a war at one time on saturated fats,
and we're coming to learn in their studies being taking
place at the male clinic. I think when this science
comes back and the research is done, is going to
show that these are really important for cognitive ability, especially
with development of young people as they grow and mature.
Speaker 18 (15:08):
So whole milk is a great source of that.
Speaker 17 (15:10):
Maybe the dietary guidelines from USDA and FDA aren't recognizing
that yet, Americans are voting with their pocketbook, and whole
milk sales have been growing here last ten years.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Listening to you and being on the nustrition side of
the business, it seems like there's going to be clamoring
for butterfat.
Speaker 18 (15:26):
That is absolutely fair.
Speaker 17 (15:27):
We're really, quite frankly, can't make enough butter fat yet
in this country.
Speaker 18 (15:31):
We're importing butter the product.
Speaker 17 (15:33):
It's gone from ten million pounds of imported butter to
one hundred and twenty three million pounds over the last
thirteen years.
Speaker 18 (15:39):
That's one way to measure that. John.
Speaker 17 (15:41):
Another way is we're skimming off a lot of our
butterfat and sending milk proteins around the world, but we're
keeping butterfat here because of the high demand.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
One of the other categories that's growing on the cheese
side is the Hispanic cheese.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
Back in the nineteen seventies, this cheese called mozzarella was
just a little infant a couple pounds, and then came pizza,
and mozzarella now the number one cheese consume the United States.
So we're at now one pound per capita, and just
twenty years ago we were at one third of a pound.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
So you've been with Kobank for a couple of years now.
Speaker 17 (16:09):
Yes, co bank stands for cooperative banks, so we work
with a lot of not only dairy farmers, but dairy
processors as a member of the farm credit system. And
the conversations that I'm able to have with customers of
Coobank are helping shape the future dairy and help grow
dairy funding new product innovation, and that's a big part
there is dynamic and growing and it's a seventy six
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billion dollar category in the grocery store there. He is
the largest category in grocery and it's going to keep growing.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
Very exciting industry to be part of. For Fevers USA
on John Clark.
Speaker 19 (16:42):
Well, the Armband Industry Conference is coming up December tenth
through the twelve in Sacramento, and as usual, it's free registration.
I'm Patrick Cavana with the California Trina Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. Rebecca Bailey is the organizer of
the and conference.
Speaker 20 (17:01):
Tell us more.
Speaker 21 (17:02):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, we feel we're very proud that it
is a free complementary conference to all attendees. So there's
just so much valuable information, whether it's again through the
breakout sessions or the trade show. We have more than
two hundred companies exhibiting at the trade show, and this
is just such a great place for growers to come
(17:22):
and get information that they can take back to their
orchards and that will hopefully, you know, help them long term,
especially from a profitability standpoint and what they can be
doing on their operations. So we're happy that it is
a free opportunity for them to come, and even better
than that, if you are not able to attend, which
we hope that everyone does, because there's so much value
(17:42):
to being in person. All of our sessions are recorded
and they will be available at the end of conference,
probably likely in early January, but all of those sessions
will be recorded and can be viewed at a later
time as well.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
That's Rebecca Bailey with the Armed Border, California. So just
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again December tenth through the twelfth.
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Speaker 8 (18:39):
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Speaker 22 (18:40):
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Speaker 19 (19:03):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The snowbirds from Canada are heading in a different direction
after harvest and the first snowfall.
Speaker 19 (19:11):
Denis Sky has more on their new destination.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The harvest season is complete or nearly wrapped up across
Canada and none too soon, with much of the country
having experienced its first snowfall. For some, that signals a
desire to escape cold weather. Historically, many middle aged and
older Canadians who spent several winter weeks or months in
southern American states, with Florida and Arizona being primary destinations,
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while Mexico and the Caribbean islands have long been favored
by some Canadians. According to vacation travel agents, there is
a growing interest in southwestern regions of Europe, especially Portugal
and Spain. Angela Weir is the co founder of a
travel agency based in London in the southwestern Ontario. A
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large part of Weir's business caters to rural and farm
clients wanting to escape cold weather. Her winter business has
largely revolved around finding longer term accommodations for clients in
southern US states, but she says that recently travel agencies
have seen a major shift in the places that Canadians
are wanting to spend time this winter.
Speaker 24 (20:22):
Any of the travel agencies that really focus in on
southern destinations within the US are seeing a huge decline.
We are seeing lots of people that are now wanting
to go to all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, to Mexico,
and doing trips to Europe.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Angela Weir says there are several factors changing the winter
migration habits. The exchange rate for Canadian dollars is high
in both the US and in European countries, with the
Canadian dollar taking about a thirty percent hit. But she
says that money just tends to go a lot further
in Europe as long as you stay away from the
big cities. But We're says the US tariff situation and
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the general American political tension does come up quite a bit.
Speaker 25 (21:07):
A lot of it is the politics.
Speaker 24 (21:08):
People are of course very angry with tariffs, They're choosing
to spend their dollars elsewhere.
Speaker 25 (21:13):
Politics aside.
Speaker 24 (21:14):
People are finding that Europe is actually more affordable than
what they had thought previously.
Speaker 25 (21:19):
Sometimes Europe is not that much more expensive.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So for many Canadians, their annual migratory flight is changing
from south to southeast across the Atlantic Ocean. According to
travel agent angungle Weir, the snowbirds are building new winter
communities away from their historic southern US roosts.
Speaker 24 (21:38):
The snowbirds people who would normally go down to Florida
for the winter, who would go to Arizona for the winter,
they're actually starting to do extended stays, doing villas, doing
condos through the winter months. Maybe not for three months,
but they're going to destinations like Spain, Portugal.
Speaker 25 (21:55):
They still want to get away from that snow and
to not.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Go to the US from Canada, I'm gonna sky.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Beef and pork variety meats are the centerpiece of a
new promotion by the USBAT Export Federation staff in Mexico.
The marketing program, called Cantina Vibes, focuses on fast, affordable
dining for bars and casual restaurants, starting in regions where
Variety meat dishes are familiar. According to Riberto Trevino, trade
manager for USMEF Mexico.
Speaker 26 (22:21):
They use a lot of different variety meats in the
central part of Mexico, in the cantinas, in casual dining restaurants.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
We have an activity in the fair of.
Speaker 26 (22:29):
San Marcos that they are like twelve million people that
go there in a period of three weeks, three to
four weeks to the fair. When we talk about Barretti
meats in port we talk about poor jao ears, brains, snout,
so much, et cetera. In beef we are promoting a
small intersign also liver and sweetbread like for example, with
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the pork snout, we are doing tacos, we are doing
soapeest we are doing tostadas. So in different cantina dishes
with Warreti meat.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Because the success in Central Mexico, canteina Vibes has expanded
to the northern part of the country where consumers are
less familiar with variety meat dishes but are attracted to
the lower cost, high quality US pork and beef.
Speaker 26 (23:10):
Really good quality and the consistency is amazing, and of
course it is very affordable for those cantina because if
you want to go to our cantina, maybe you can
have like an appetizer that is going to be for
free if you are drinking or something, and it is affordable,
and that's very important for us.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Not all variety meat is affordable.
Speaker 26 (23:30):
I need I know that fieldbreads are a little bit
more expensive with a small intestine or focused so much.
Sports now are very affordable and you can have like
a poor Giao taco or a polar sope with guacamole
for about I don't know my may a dollar. So
it's very affordable and it's very important for those kinds
of restaurants and castle dining.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Variety meat promotions in Mexico are made possible through funding
from USDA, the National Pork Board, and the Beef checkof Program.
Speaker 27 (23:56):
It's sign for California at today on the egg inferm network,
I am Hayley's ship. Well, if you are planning a
full Thanksgiving spread this year, the California Farm Bureau says
you're going to be paying more than most families across
the country. The American Farm Bureau's annual survey puts the
cost of dinner for ten here in the state at
about seventy three dollars. That's compared to roughly fifty five
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dollars nationally and about sixty two dollars across the West.
A big part of that difference comes from the basics
that anchor the meal. The survey's sixteen pound frozen turkey
averages just under thirty dollars in California and the prices
billed from there. At the same time, farmers receive only
fifteen point nine cents of every food dollar. That's according
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to the US Department of Agriculture, and California growers now
shoulder ten and a half percent of all US production expenses,
the highest share in the country. Still, the commitment holds,
as Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglas says, California farmers and
ranchers continue to provide high quil food for families across
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the nation. Nationally, Thanksgiving costs are down five percent. Here,
higher production costs tell the story. To take a look
at all of those staples and the prices associated, visit
us at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 22 (25:16):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sofena
insecticide from basf We just get nailed with it, So
tell us how are you feeling really, really weird and
you still want to devour this few?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No way, bro.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 22 (25:32):
Sofena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphids and wifelies
so they can't eat, and when they can't eat, they
can't destroy.
Speaker 23 (25:39):
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Speaker 1 (26:20):
Bob Quinn here are some Farm News Today friends. While
the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act recently passed the Senate,
Chad Smith has more on the important first step in
the process.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Dairy farmers and school children receive some welcome news this
week with the passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy
Kids Act. John Newton, vice President of Public Policy and
Economic Analysis for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said this
legislation is long overdue and will allow kids to make
healthy choices at breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Finally, allow schools participating in the National School Lunch Program
to offer flavored and unflavored, organic or non organic whole,
reduced fat, low fat, and fat free fluid milk. It
really expands the opportunities and products available to children as
they consider having dairy on their lunch plate.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
It's been proven that whole milk choices are healthy for students.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
They contribute to healthy children and healthy outcomes. American Farm
Bureau dairy farmer members have been pushing for this for
a very, very, very long time, and I think seeing
the Senate passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids
Act is going to be welcome news in the dairy
world and really across the pharm economy.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Newton said there were some key champions shepherding the bill
through the Senate, and now it heads to the second
Legislative Chamber.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Without those leaders in the Senate pushing this over the
finish line, I don't think we'd be having this conversation today. Well,
now it goes right back over to the House, and
we've already seen Chairman Thompson pledge to get this over
the finish line in the House so they can go
to the President's desk. We all know how important whole
milk back in schools is going to be.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
You can learn more at fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington,
Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
An update on some trade. US Meet Exports Federation Chairman
Elect Jay Tyler, Executive vice president of corporate Affairs for
Boise based Agribeef Company, recently traveled to the UK on
a trade mission with Idaho's Governor Brad Little. We have
a report on that this morning.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
US Meat Expert Federation share Elect j Tyler of Agribeef
recently returned from a state trade mission to the United Kingdom.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
I was part of the delegation, went over with the
Governor of Idaho, who's the rancher himself, talked about the
new trade deal, talked a lot about the beef deal,
but we also realized that there's some opportunities for pork
obviously if they can work out some of the details
on that. Where the UK's taking a lot of pork
from the European Union right now, so I think it's
in the range of between two and three billion dollars
(28:41):
that so there's an opportunity for pork, and certainly is
an opportunity for beef if we can get duty free
access to the British market.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
They discuss lingering non teariff trade issues that need to
be resolved to give US beef and pork better access
to the UK. While the UK's ban on hormone use
in beef production gets most of the attention, there are
other significant barriers that must be addressed.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
They've been a lot with the EU for so long,
and they're so dependent on important export with the European
Union that we're not sure what exactly those requirements are
going to be. But there's a lot of other access
issues that are creating friction that we hope we can
see some movement on as some of the phido sanitary
regulations labeling, I mean they label right now everything going
(29:20):
to the UK is still part of the EU. It's
labeled in eight languages, each individual piece is labeled, so
there's a lot of things like that that are details
that make the trade more difficult.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
So hopefully we can work some of those things out.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Tyler says, there is certainly demand for US red meat there.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
It's a different type of product than it's really produced
in the UK. It's you know, high quality grain fed
beef products. I feel like the steakhouse segment is really
strong there and I think that would be a nice
niche for US products. A lot of what's produced there's
more sort of grass fed products, and you know, I
think they see there's potential opportunity in the States for
(29:56):
some of their products and some lean and things like that.
But there is definitely an opportunity for high quality grain
fed products from the States going over to the UK.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
For the US ME and Export Federation, I'm John Harrith, Well, friends,
there's an understandable temptation to cut cost wherever possible on
the farm when the bottom line is getting squeezed. One
place you don't want to cut corners, though, we hear
is in soil testing. Todd Schomberg, senior agronomist at Tilt
Agronomy in Wisconsin, says there's a lot of important information
(30:27):
that comes from a successful soil test, So.
Speaker 28 (30:31):
Knowing that balance is very important because then it helps
you make decisions on how much fertilizer you may need
or manure. So your deposits are your mare, your fertilizer,
all that sort of nutrient put in, and then your
crop makes the withdrawal.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
So over time that can change.
Speaker 28 (30:49):
And one of the things I always thought is maybe
sooner or later we actually have to soil sample less
because we would know exactly how much deposits and withdrawals
we make, and then we would see that and it
would help us project forward.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Soils are unique, which is why it's important to regularly
test them.
Speaker 28 (31:05):
But the soil is unique and it has a buffering capacity.
That's hard to tell that all the time, So we
do need to take these soil samples every couple of
years to three years to kind of help us know
that and when to take them.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Agronomist Todd Schomberg with us this morning, farm Us. You're
listening to aag Life.
Speaker 29 (31:25):
From the Egg information that worked on Bob Larson with
your agribusiness update. Groups like the American Soybean Association applauded
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers
for proposing a more workable version of the Waters of
the US rule for agriculture. The National Cattleman's Beef Association
Chief council Mary Thomas Hart says this WATACE announcement acknowledges
(31:46):
the government should work to protect lakes, rivers, and oceans
rather than regulating ditches and ponds on family farms and
ranches to Traders with knowledge of the deal told Reuters
that China bought at least fourteen cargoes of US soybeans.
It's the largest Chinese purchase since early in twenty twenty five,
and the most significant since in October summit between President
Trump and President Shi Jinping in South Korea. China's state
(32:09):
owned grain trader Cofco bought at least eight hundred and
forty thousand metric tons in December and January, bringing the
total to almost one million metric tons, and Omaha Steak
president and CEO Nate Rempy says unfortunately, America's beef bills
will likely keep climbing. He told Fox News that the
nation's shrieking cattle supply and continued record demand are driving
(32:31):
the possibility of ten dollars per pound ground beef that
could stretch family budgets for some time. Rempy says we
need to get our arms around this in the US,
adding prices won't likely come down in a significant way
until twenty twenty seven.
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From the AG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for today friends.
While on North Dakota State University professor found something surprising
during his study of the global grain trade. Chad Smith
wraps us up today.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Doctor William Wilson, a Distinguished Professor SIR in the Agribusiness
and Applied Economics Department at North Dakota State University, recently
undertook a study of the global grain trade. The international
grain trading industry has undergone significant and rapid changes during
the last fifty years. He said. The study took a
fresh look at the competitiveness of the global grain trade.
Speaker 30 (34:20):
Yeah, this is a new study that was reaching to
published and applied economics perspectives and policy where we're taking
a fresh look at the competitive and global grain trade.
The sinistry has changed radically. We use Barry micro economic
data on shipping its sales and found the market is
really not dominated by a handful of companies as traditionally thought. Instead,
(34:40):
there's really no dominant player and in fact the industry
would be considered fiercely competitive.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
The last study in twenty twelve said four companies control
seventy three percent of the global grain trade. Wilson said
his study showed those four companies controlled only about thirty
percent of the market. Instead, some new players are shaking
up the green trade.
Speaker 30 (35:01):
It's not inconsequential that since about twenty fourteen we've seen
the growth of state back trading entities. One is by
the name of Kafko, which is Chinese, and then in
Russia there's a group of firms that control the industry
that are backed by the Kremlin. More recently, a trading
company was bought by Salik, which is Saudi Arabia Sovereign
(35:22):
Investment Fund, and Louis Dreyfus was invested by Abu Dhabi
Investment Fund. We have a growth of the state backed
entities which is changing the structure of the industry quite sharply.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
He talked about how these findings will affect people participating
in the industry during the years ahead.
Speaker 30 (35:40):
Competition is thought to be good or I kind of
take the view of the reason why there's big firms
is because they're small firms. The reason why they're small
firms is because they're big firms. But at the end
of the day, the competition is more intense and previous thought.
As a result of that, margins become more compressed and
the competitors seek to be better competitors, providing more tofferentiation
(36:00):
and the wider range of options and flexibility. So ultimately
it's good for consumers en this case, farmers predominantly from
North America.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Based on his extensive research, Wilson said the industry should
continue to remain fiercely competitive.
Speaker 30 (36:14):
By definition, because of the large number of firms we have.
We indicated that there's thirty eight firms and the competitive fringe.
So you have four down into players and thirty eight
in the competitor to fringe, plus half a dozen state
back entities. It's fiercely, fiercely competitive. Will that continue in
the future. I suspect that it will at least in
the next five to ten.
Speaker 25 (36:33):
Years, driven by a number of things.
Speaker 30 (36:34):
But partly food security which fosters the development of state
back trading companies, but also of the events around climate
and deforestration, and all of these points to more wroneously
competitive environment during that time period.
Speaker 18 (36:48):
Again.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
That's doctor Bill Wilson of North Dakota State University. Chad
Smith reporting
Speaker 1 (36:54):
With that friends, arount of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad
Life
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you for the next hour. We're talking about agricultural
production here in the valley and all across the country. Well, friends,
let's talk turkey this morning with Rod Bain.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What does Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl have in common
besides football? In the food safety realm USDA food safety
expert Meredith Corruthers says, for her and her colleagues operating
the Agriculture Departments Meat and Poultry Hotline.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Thanksgiving is our food safety super Bowl of the year
from actual football 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 cooking
that Thanksgiving meal may be under stress for a myriod
of reasons.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
A lot of times tensions are high with timelines, with
trying to impress loved ones, or the pressures of doing
this for the first time, etc.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That could lead cooks missing something in the meal prep process,
taking shortcuts that could result in a food safety issue.
It also leads to questions, lots of questions that the
Beaten Poultry Hotline have fielded for forty years now, Meredith
Coruthers acknowledges there have been some very unique questions pose
the staffers of the Beaten Poultry Hotline over the decades
(01:19):
regarding Thanksgiving meal food safety.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The turkey was brining 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.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A dishwasher or in the shower, maybe some obvious or
even not so obvious reasons, we wouldn't recommend doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yet one tread noticed by Coruthers is fewer of these
unique food safety questions over time on the hot line.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
She survises 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 Meat Poultry Hotline, plus the rest of
our foods. If the education team put out some very
helpful sources, we develop partnerships, and we do as much
as we can to really get food safety information into
(02:05):
the hands of consumers.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Available to answer that food safety question during the Thanksgiving
season and any time of year USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline.
The number de call is what eight eight eight MP Hotline.
Food safety questions can also be emailed at MP hotliede
at USDA dot gov. I'm Rodbaine reporting for the US
(02:30):
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Farm News coming up. You're listening to Waglife Bob Quinn.
Here was some farm news today. Friends. Will the Whole
Milk for Healthy Kids Act recently passed the Senate. Chad
Smith has more on the important first step in the process.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Dairy farmers and school children received some welcome news this
week with the passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy
Kids Act. John Newton, vice president of public Policy and
Economic Analysis for the American Farm per Federation, said this
legislation is long overdue and will allow kids to make
healthy choices at breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Finally, allow schools participating in the National School Lunch Program
to offer flavored and unflavored, organic or non organic, whole,
reduced fat, low fat, and fat free fluid milk. It
really expands the opportunities and products available to children as
they consider having dairy on their lunch plate.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
It's been proven that whole milk choices are healthy for students.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
They contribute to healthy children and healthy outcomes. American Farm
Bureau Dairy farmer members have been pushing for this for
a very very, very long time, and I think seeing
the Senate passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids
Act is going to be welcome news in the dairy
world and really across the pharmaconomy.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Newton said there were some key champions shepherding the bill
through the Senate, and now it heads to the second
Legislative chamber.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Without those leaders in the Senate pushing this over the
finish line, I don't think we'd be having this conversation today. Well,
now it goes right back over to the House, and
we've already seen Chairman Thompson pledged to get this over
the finish line in the House so we can go
to the President's desk. We all know how important whole
milk back in schools is going to be.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You can learn more at FB dot org. Chad Smith, Washington,
Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
An update on some trade US Meet Export Federation Chairman
Elect J Tyler, Executive vice president of corporate Affairs for
Boise based Agribeef Company, recently traveled to the UK on
a trade mission with Idaho's Governor Brad Little.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
We have a report on that this morning.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Us ME and Export Federation share elect J Tyler of
AGRIBEF recently returned from a state trade mission to the
United Kingdom.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
I was part of the delegation, went over with the
Governor of Idaho, who's the rancher himself, talking about the
new trade deal.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Talked a lot about the beef deal, but.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
We also realized that there's some opportunities for pork obviously
if they can work out some of the details on that.
Where the UK is taking a lot of pork from
the European Union right now, so I think it's in
the range of between two and three billion dollars. That
so there's an opportunity for pork and certainly is not
op dounity for bea if we can get duty free
access to the British market.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
They discuss lingering non tearff trade issues that need to
be resolved to give US beef and pork better access
to the UK. While the UK's ban on hormone use
in beef production gets most of the attention, there are
other significant barriers that must be addressed.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
They've been aligned with the EU for so long and
they're so dependent on important export with the European Union
that we're not sure what exactly those requirements are going
to be. But there's a lot of other access issues
that are creating friction that we hope we can see
some movement on, as some of the PHIDO sanitary regulations. Labeling,
I mean they label right now everything going to the
(05:36):
UK is still part of the EU. It's labeled in
eight languages, each individual pieces labeled. So there's a lot
of things like that that are details that make the
trade more difficult, So hopefully we can work some of
those things out.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Tyler says there is certainly demand for US red meat there.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
It's a different type of product than is really produced
in the UK. It's high quality grain fed beef products.
I feel like the steakhouse segment is really strong there
and I think that would be a nice niche for
US products. A lot of what's produced there's more sort
of grass fed products, and I think they see there's
potential opportunity in the States for some of their products
(06:14):
and some lean and things like that, but there is
definitely an opportunity for high quality grain fed products from
the States going over.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
To the UK.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
For more, please visit us MEF dot org for the
USB and Export Federation.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm John Harrith, Well friends. President Trump late last week
lifted the forty percent tear eff C imposed in July
on Brazilian food imports, reversing a policy that had raised
US consumer costs and strained agricultural markets. The move removes
duties on Brazilian beef, coffee, cocoa, and fruit beginning this month,
and may trigger refunds for tariffs already paid, according to
(06:50):
a White House order now. The rollback follows similar actions
last week easing food teriffs from other countries as the
administration reassesses trade measures that contributed to higher grocery prices
some farm used. This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
It's another agnews update, disaster check, stronger green movement firm, coal,
cow prices all ahead more after this.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (07:18):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work, and it resulted on
a strike on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse. Never
assume the location or depth of underground lines. Always call
eight one one or visit clickbefore you dig dot com
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before you start work. A message from the pipeline operators
for ag Safety Campaign.
Speaker 11 (07:44):
USDA opening the next round of Federal Disaster relief with
the SdRP Stage two applications starting November twenty fourth to
cover shallow loss quality and uncovered crop, tree, bush and
bind damage from twenty twenty three through twenty twenty four,
alongside new signups for milk loss and on farm stored
(08:06):
commodity programs to help rebuild cash flow. Export wise weekly
inspection showing Coren leading the charge at roughly eighty point
eight million bushels, soybeans holding steady above forty three million
and more moderate wheat and sorghum volumes. Mexico, Japan, Spain,
and Key Asian buyers are driving demand on the cattle side.
(08:30):
Texas A and m Agrolife economists Doctor David Anderson notes
Southern planes col cow prices near one hundred sixty five
dollars per hundred way far stronger than typical fall lows,
even as cow beef cutout and nineties trim e seasonally.
USDA's latest wasdy also trimming beef and pork output this
(08:52):
year while raising milk production and cutting butter, cheese and
powder prices. It's another agnews d.
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American Cattle News The World Eggs applying demand estimate or
was the report big for row crops? But what about livestock?
More after this.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:42):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work, and it resulted on
a strike on a natural Gays pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore youdig dot com
before you start work. A message from the pipeline operators
for agg Safety Campaign.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
University of Nebraska, Lincoln livestock economist Elliott Dennis.
Speaker 16 (10:12):
Yeah, I mean, the WAA report gives the kind of
supply and demand estimates for there, but you know, a
little known is that we also have kind of the
beef segment in the pork segment in the wa Z
as well, but it's kind of a quarterlease. So from
kind of corn production. Really, the expectation, trade expectation was
that they would be at one hundred and eighty four
bushels and acre. November came in at about one eighty six,
(10:35):
and that was a little bit down from September about
one eighty six point seven bushels per acre. Beans were
kind of similar, so trade was expecting a little bit
higher than what it came in. But really, when we
think about, you know, where we're getting this kind of
information has a lot to do with kind of private reports,
and a lot of information from USDA was suggesting that
they didn't have all of the money available to actually
(10:57):
do the full surveying. So when we think of about
kind of where we'll be at in the next month,
will be probably a more accurate of where we're at
than kind of the November. So I'm kind of like
a wait and see on some of the kind of
the corn stuff, but you know, has some implications for
the beef industry. So when we think about kind of
where that is for beef production, they're kind of estimating
basically reduced steer hepper slaughter and really kind of slowering marketings.
(11:20):
Really even into the first half of twenty twenty six.
They have some other estimates on kind of beef imports.
But it's important to know that these beef imports talk
about kind of expected changes, and so even for twenty
twenty five and twenty six, we've talked a lot about Argentina,
they're saying beef import forecasts are essentially unchanged. So just
kind of show you that, you know, even though an
(11:41):
announcement can be made. Kind of where that gets built
into these reports has a lot to do with kind
of where the market moves and we sell. How the
market reacted this past Friday.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
American Cattle News. This is Dairy Radio Now for.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Feedbrick's USA on John Clark and with me is a
very special guest, Corey Geiger of Kobank. That you really
are a farm boy who's just followed his dreams.
Speaker 17 (12:06):
Just say I'm a Wisconsin farm boy and I have
followed my dreams. And I've had a lot of servant
leaders in my life I learned from and showed me
the way. And maybe that's one of the reasons I've
been involved in so many organizations over time, because I
think it's important to pay that forward.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Tell us about this book that's out now.
Speaker 18 (12:24):
My second book is out.
Speaker 17 (12:25):
It's called The Wisconsin Farm They Built and it just
won three different writing awards. I'd say it's a good
novel that actually happened, so that means it's nonfiction, but
I use a process called creative nonfiction, so I narrate
what happened. It's based on our sixth generation family farm.
There's chapters and They're about the love of Alice and
the death of Alice.
Speaker 18 (12:44):
But Alice is.
Speaker 17 (12:44):
Spelt Allis is an Alice Chalmers Corporation. It was one
time one of the United States biggest employers. People working
in manufacturing had a lot to do with to win
World War Two. But my grandpa had all Alice Challenger's tractors.
There's stories in there about the little nursery rhyme, little
misstufet sat under muffet eating your curds in way, and
so the evolution of dairy. How we at once time
(13:07):
fed liquid way to hogs. We raised over a couple
million feeder pigs and he eventually made it to Isewa.
It was a Wisconsin feeder pig co op. But now
we have the technology to extract that way to the
most complete amino acids known.
Speaker 18 (13:21):
Humanity and make some great dairy products with it.
Speaker 17 (13:24):
I also set that up like what does the future
hold for dairy and family farming?
Speaker 10 (13:28):
Where can they find this book on.
Speaker 17 (13:30):
My website Coreygeiger dot com. It's also available on Amazon
and Barnes and Noble. You can go to your favorite
bookstore and ask it. They can order it from Ingram
and get it to you within days and sold all
fifty states, So there's multiple ways to go ahead and
get the book.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Your full time gig. In terms of being a dairy analyst,
what's going on with capacity for both fluid and processing
milk and the United States.
Speaker 17 (13:52):
So dairy is growing in the United States Between now
in twenty twenty six, there's seven billion dollars of new
dairy processing capacity coming online. Now a big part of that,
about four billion of that is cheese, a lot of
the American style cheese than cheddar. So we're going to
have one billion pounds of new cheese coming online in
the next three years. But there's other innovations taking place
(14:14):
as well. There's parts of the country that are building
new fluid processing plants. Now, beverage milk hasn't been growing
strong lately, but the consumer's evolving. So if you're building
a new plant today, that technology it's going in. We're
filtering out the lactose. There's a movement in consumers circles
to consume less sugar. Lactose is of course milk sugar,
(14:36):
and so those plants that are going in are filtering
that out. And then there's some of those plants are
doubling down on protein and really fortifying milk but twice
as much protein in it. So those are some of
the activities taking place.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
The whole milk is a category as it seems to
be growing.
Speaker 17 (14:51):
Yeah, there was a war at one time on saturated fats,
and we're coming to learn in their studies being taking
place at the male clinic. I think when this science
comes back and the research is done, is going to
show that these are really important for cognitive ability, especially
with development of young people as they grow and mature.
Speaker 18 (15:08):
So whole milk is a great source of that.
Speaker 17 (15:10):
Maybe the dietary guidelines from USDA and FDA aren't recognizing
that yet, Americans are voting with their pocketbook, and whole
milk sales have been growing here last ten years.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Listening to you and being on the nustrition side of
the business, it seems like there's going to be clamoring
for butterfat.
Speaker 18 (15:26):
That is absolutely fair.
Speaker 17 (15:27):
We're really, quite frankly, can't make enough butter fat yet
in this country.
Speaker 18 (15:31):
We're importing butter the product.
Speaker 17 (15:33):
It's gone from ten million pounds of imported butter to
one hundred and twenty three million pounds over the last
thirteen years.
Speaker 18 (15:39):
That's one way to measure that. John.
Speaker 17 (15:41):
Another way is we're skimming off a lot of our
butterfat and sending milk proteins around the world, but we're
keeping butterfat here because of the high demand.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
One of the other categories that's growing on the cheese
side is the Hispanic cheese.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
Back in the nineteen seventies, this cheese called mozzarella was
just a little infant a couple pounds, and then came pizza,
and mozzarella now the number one cheese consume the United States.
So we're at now one pound per capita, and just
twenty years ago we were at one third of a pound.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
So you've been with Kobank for a couple of years now.
Speaker 17 (16:09):
Yes, co bank stands for cooperative banks, so we work
with a lot of not only dairy farmers, but dairy
processors as a member of the farm credit system. And
the conversations that I'm able to have with customers of
Coobank are helping shape the future dairy and help grow
dairy funding new product innovation, and that's a big part
there is dynamic and growing and it's a seventy six
(16:30):
billion dollar category in the grocery store there. He is
the largest category in grocery and it's going to keep growing.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
Very exciting industry to be part of. For Fevers USA
on John Clark.
Speaker 19 (16:42):
Well, the Armband Industry Conference is coming up December tenth
through the twelve in Sacramento, and as usual, it's free registration.
I'm Patrick Cavana with the California Trina Report, part of
the vastag Information Network. Rebecca Bailey is the organizer of
the and conference.
Speaker 20 (17:01):
Tell us more.
Speaker 21 (17:02):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, we feel we're very proud that it
is a free complementary conference to all attendees. So there's
just so much valuable information, whether it's again through the
breakout sessions or the trade show. We have more than
two hundred companies exhibiting at the trade show, and this
is just such a great place for growers to come
(17:22):
and get information that they can take back to their
orchards and that will hopefully, you know, help them long term,
especially from a profitability standpoint and what they can be
doing on their operations. So we're happy that it is
a free opportunity for them to come, and even better
than that, if you are not able to attend, which
we hope that everyone does, because there's so much value
(17:42):
to being in person. All of our sessions are recorded
and they will be available at the end of conference,
probably likely in early January, but all of those sessions
will be recorded and can be viewed at a later
time as well.
Speaker 19 (17:57):
That's Rebecca Bailey with the Armed Border, California. So just
search for Almond Conference and you can register right there
again December tenth through the twelfth.
Speaker 14 (18:06):
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Speaker 22 (18:34):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 22 (18:40):
So tell us, how are you feeling really really weird
and you still wanted to devour this few? No way, bro,
There you have it, folks. Safena insecticide is specifically engineered
to disorient aphis and wifelies so they can't eat, and
when they can't eat, they can't destroy.
Speaker 23 (18:57):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena in secticide.
Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 19 (19:03):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The snowbirds from Canada are heading in a different direction
after harvest and the first snowfall.
Speaker 19 (19:11):
Denis Sky has more on their new destination.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The harvest season is complete or nearly wrapped up across
Canada and none too soon, with much of the country
having experienced its first snowfall. For some, that signals a
desire to escape cold weather. Historically, many middle aged and
older Canadians who spent several winter weeks or months in
southern American states, with Florida and Arizona being primary destinations,
(19:39):
while Mexico and the Caribbean islands have long been favored
by some Canadians. According to vacation travel agents, there is
a growing interest in southwestern regions of Europe, especially Portugal
and Spain. Angela Weir is the co founder of a
travel agency based in London in the southwestern Ontario. A
(20:00):
large part of Weir's business caters to rural and farm
clients wanting to escape cold weather. Her winter business has
largely revolved around finding longer term accommodations for clients in
southern US states, but she says that recently travel agencies
have seen a major shift in the places that Canadians
are wanting to spend time this winter.
Speaker 24 (20:22):
Any of the travel agencies that really focus in on
southern destinations within the US are seeing a huge decline.
We are seeing lots of people that are now wanting
to go to all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, to Mexico,
and doing trips to Europe.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Angela Weir says there are several factors changing the winter
migration habits. The exchange rate for Canadian dollars is high
in both the US and in European countries, with the
Canadian dollar taking about a thirty percent hit. But she
says that money just tends to go a lot further
in Europe as long as you stay away from the
big cities. But We're says the US tariff situation and
(21:03):
the general American political tension does come up quite a bit.
Speaker 25 (21:07):
A lot of it is the politics.
Speaker 24 (21:08):
People are of course very angry with tariffs, They're choosing
to spend their dollars elsewhere.
Speaker 25 (21:13):
Politics aside.
Speaker 24 (21:14):
People are finding that Europe is actually more affordable than
what they had thought previously.
Speaker 25 (21:19):
Sometimes Europe is not that much more expensive.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
So for many Canadians, their annual migratory flight is changing
from south to southeast across the Atlantic Ocean. According to
travel agent angungle Weir, the snowbirds are building new winter
communities away from their historic southern US roosts.
Speaker 24 (21:38):
The snowbirds people who would normally go down to Florida
for the winter, who would go to Arizona for the winter,
they're actually starting to do extended stays, doing villas, doing
condos through the winter months. Maybe not for three months,
but they're going to destinations like Spain, Portugal.
Speaker 25 (21:55):
They still want to get away from that snow and
to not.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Go to the US from Canada, I'm gonna sky.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Beef and pork variety meats are the centerpiece of a
new promotion by the USBAT Export Federation staff in Mexico.
The marketing program, called Cantina Vibes, focuses on fast, affordable
dining for bars and casual restaurants, starting in regions where
Variety meat dishes are familiar. According to Riberto Trevino, trade
manager for USMEF Mexico.
Speaker 26 (22:21):
They use a lot of different variety meats in the
central part of Mexico, in the cantinas, in casual dining restaurants.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
We have an activity in the fair of.
Speaker 26 (22:29):
San Marcos that they are like twelve million people that
go there in a period of three weeks, three to
four weeks to the fair. When we talk about Barretti
meats in port we talk about poor jao ears, brains, snout,
so much, et cetera. In beef we are promoting a
small intersign also liver and sweetbread like for example, with
(22:51):
the pork snout, we are doing tacos, we are doing
soapeest we are doing tostadas. So in different cantina dishes
with Warreti meat.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Because the success in Central Mexico, canteina Vibes has expanded
to the northern part of the country where consumers are
less familiar with variety meat dishes but are attracted to
the lower cost, high quality US pork and beef.
Speaker 26 (23:10):
Really good quality and the consistency is amazing, and of
course it is very affordable for those cantina because if
you want to go to our cantina, maybe you can
have like an appetizer that is going to be for
free if you are drinking or something, and it is affordable,
and that's very important for us.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Not all variety meat is affordable.
Speaker 26 (23:30):
I need I know that fieldbreads are a little bit
more expensive with a small intestine or focused so much.
Sports now are very affordable and you can have like
a poor Giao taco or a polar sope with guacamole
for about I don't know my may a dollar. So
it's very affordable and it's very important for those kinds
of restaurants and castle dining.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Variety meat promotions in Mexico are made possible through funding
from USDA, the National Pork Board, and the Beef checkof Program.
Speaker 27 (23:56):
It's sign for California at today on the egg inferm network,
I am Hayley's ship. Well, if you are planning a
full Thanksgiving spread this year, the California Farm Bureau says
you're going to be paying more than most families across
the country. The American Farm Bureau's annual survey puts the
cost of dinner for ten here in the state at
about seventy three dollars. That's compared to roughly fifty five
(24:18):
dollars nationally and about sixty two dollars across the West.
A big part of that difference comes from the basics
that anchor the meal. The survey's sixteen pound frozen turkey
averages just under thirty dollars in California and the prices
billed from there. At the same time, farmers receive only
fifteen point nine cents of every food dollar. That's according
(24:41):
to the US Department of Agriculture, and California growers now
shoulder ten and a half percent of all US production expenses,
the highest share in the country. Still, the commitment holds,
as Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglas says, California farmers and
ranchers continue to provide high quil food for families across
(25:02):
the nation. Nationally, Thanksgiving costs are down five percent. Here,
higher production costs tell the story. To take a look
at all of those staples and the prices associated, visit
us at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 22 (25:16):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sofena
insecticide from basf We just get nailed with it, So
tell us how are you feeling really, really weird and
you still want to devour this few?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No way, bro.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
There you have it, folks.
Speaker 22 (25:32):
Sofena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphids and wifelies
so they can't eat, and when they can't eat, they
can't destroy.
Speaker 23 (25:39):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 20 (25:45):
The best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they're well farming. It's easy to
find them during the day, as most farmers are behind
the wheel of the pickup truck or farm equipment with
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(26:05):
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so they'll trust you.
Speaker 27 (26:13):
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Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Bob Quinn here are some Farm News Today friends. While
the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act recently passed the Senate,
Chad Smith has more on the important first step in
the process.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Dairy farmers and school children receive some welcome news this
week with the passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy
Kids Act. John Newton, vice President of Public Policy and
Economic Analysis for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said this
legislation is long overdue and will allow kids to make
healthy choices at breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Finally, allow schools participating in the National School Lunch Program
to offer flavored and unflavored, organic or non organic whole,
reduced fat, low fat, and fat free fluid milk. It
really expands the opportunities and products available to children as
they consider having dairy on their lunch plate.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
It's been proven that whole milk choices are healthy for students.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
They contribute to healthy children and healthy outcomes. American Farm
Bureau dairy farmer members have been pushing for this for
a very, very, very long time, and I think seeing
the Senate passage of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids
Act is going to be welcome news in the dairy
world and really across the pharm economy.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Newton said there were some key champions shepherding the bill
through the Senate, and now it heads to the second
Legislative Chamber.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Without those leaders in the Senate pushing this over the
finish line, I don't think we'd be having this conversation today. Well,
now it goes right back over to the House, and
we've already seen Chairman Thompson pledge to get this over
the finish line in the House so they can go
to the President's desk. We all know how important whole
milk back in schools is going to be.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
You can learn more at fb dot org. Chad Smith, Washington,
Well Friends.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
An update on some trade. US Meet Exports Federation Chairman
Elect Jay Tyler, Executive vice president of corporate Affairs for
Boise based Agribeef Company, recently traveled to the UK on
a trade mission with Idaho's Governor Brad Little. We have
a report on that this morning.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
US Meat Expert Federation share Elect j Tyler of Agribeef
recently returned from a state trade mission to the United Kingdom.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
I was part of the delegation, went over with the
Governor of Idaho, who's the rancher himself, talked about the
new trade deal, talked a lot about the beef deal,
but we also realized that there's some opportunities for pork
obviously if they can work out some of the details
on that. Where the UK's taking a lot of pork
from the European Union right now, so I think it's
in the range of between two and three billion dollars
(28:41):
that so there's an opportunity for pork, and certainly is
an opportunity for beef if we can get duty free
access to the British market.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
They discuss lingering non teariff trade issues that need to
be resolved to give US beef and pork better access
to the UK. While the UK's ban on hormone use
in beef production gets most of the attention, there are
other significant barriers that must be addressed.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
They've been a lot with the EU for so long,
and they're so dependent on important export with the European
Union that we're not sure what exactly those requirements are
going to be. But there's a lot of other access
issues that are creating friction that we hope we can
see some movement on as some of the phido sanitary
regulations labeling, I mean they label right now everything going
(29:20):
to the UK is still part of the EU. It's
labeled in eight languages, each individual piece is labeled, so
there's a lot of things like that that are details
that make the trade more difficult.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
So hopefully we can work some of those things out.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Tyler says, there is certainly demand for US red meat there.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
It's a different type of product than it's really produced
in the UK. It's you know, high quality grain fed
beef products. I feel like the steakhouse segment is really
strong there and I think that would be a nice
niche for US products. A lot of what's produced there's
more sort of grass fed products, and you know, I
think they see there's potential opportunity in the States for
(29:56):
some of their products and some lean and things like that.
But there is definitely an opportunity for high quality grain
fed products from the States going over to the UK.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
For the US ME and Export Federation, I'm John Harrith, Well, friends,
there's an understandable temptation to cut cost wherever possible on
the farm when the bottom line is getting squeezed. One
place you don't want to cut corners, though, we hear
is in soil testing. Todd Schomberg, senior agronomist at Tilt
Agronomy in Wisconsin, says there's a lot of important information
(30:27):
that comes from a successful soil test, So.
Speaker 28 (30:31):
Knowing that balance is very important because then it helps
you make decisions on how much fertilizer you may need
or manure. So your deposits are your mare, your fertilizer,
all that sort of nutrient put in, and then your
crop makes the withdrawal.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
So over time that can change.
Speaker 28 (30:49):
And one of the things I always thought is maybe
sooner or later we actually have to soil sample less
because we would know exactly how much deposits and withdrawals
we make, and then we would see that and it
would help us project forward.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Soils are unique, which is why it's important to regularly
test them.
Speaker 28 (31:05):
But the soil is unique and it has a buffering capacity.
That's hard to tell that all the time, So we
do need to take these soil samples every couple of
years to three years to kind of help us know
that and when to take them.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Agronomist Todd Schomberg with us this morning, farm Us. You're
listening to aag Life.
Speaker 29 (31:25):
From the Egg information that worked on Bob Larson with
your agribusiness update. Groups like the American Soybean Association applauded
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers
for proposing a more workable version of the Waters of
the US rule for agriculture. The National Cattleman's Beef Association
Chief council Mary Thomas Hart says this WATACE announcement acknowledges
(31:46):
the government should work to protect lakes, rivers, and oceans
rather than regulating ditches and ponds on family farms and
ranches to Traders with knowledge of the deal told Reuters
that China bought at least fourteen cargoes of US soybeans.
It's the largest Chinese purchase since early in twenty twenty five,
and the most significant since in October summit between President
Trump and President Shi Jinping in South Korea. China's state
(32:09):
owned grain trader Cofco bought at least eight hundred and
forty thousand metric tons in December and January, bringing the
total to almost one million metric tons, and Omaha Steak
president and CEO Nate Rempy says unfortunately, America's beef bills
will likely keep climbing. He told Fox News that the
nation's shrieking cattle supply and continued record demand are driving
(32:31):
the possibility of ten dollars per pound ground beef that
could stretch family budgets for some time. Rempy says we
need to get our arms around this in the US,
adding prices won't likely come down in a significant way
until twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 20 (32:44):
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Speaker 5 (33:42):
From the AG Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Bob went back to wrap up aaglie for today friends.
While on North Dakota State University professor found something surprising
during his study of the global grain trade. Chad Smith
wraps us up today.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Doctor William Wilson, a Distinguished Professor SIR in the Agribusiness
and Applied Economics Department at North Dakota State University, recently
undertook a study of the global grain trade. The international
grain trading industry has undergone significant and rapid changes during
the last fifty years. He said. The study took a
fresh look at the competitiveness of the global grain trade.
Speaker 30 (34:20):
Yeah, this is a new study that was reaching to
published and applied economics perspectives and policy where we're taking
a fresh look at the competitive and global grain trade.
The sinistry has changed radically. We use Barry micro economic
data on shipping its sales and found the market is
really not dominated by a handful of companies as traditionally thought. Instead,
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there's really no dominant player and in fact the industry
would be considered fiercely competitive.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
The last study in twenty twelve said four companies control
seventy three percent of the global grain trade. Wilson said
his study showed those four companies controlled only about thirty
percent of the market. Instead, some new players are shaking
up the green trade.
Speaker 30 (35:01):
It's not inconsequential that since about twenty fourteen we've seen
the growth of state back trading entities. One is by
the name of Kafko, which is Chinese, and then in
Russia there's a group of firms that control the industry
that are backed by the Kremlin. More recently, a trading
company was bought by Salik, which is Saudi Arabia Sovereign
(35:22):
Investment Fund, and Louis Dreyfus was invested by Abu Dhabi
Investment Fund. We have a growth of the state backed
entities which is changing the structure of the industry quite sharply.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
He talked about how these findings will affect people participating
in the industry during the years ahead.
Speaker 30 (35:40):
Competition is thought to be good or I kind of
take the view of the reason why there's big firms
is because they're small firms. The reason why they're small
firms is because they're big firms. But at the end
of the day, the competition is more intense and previous thought.
As a result of that, margins become more compressed and
the competitors seek to be better competitors, providing more tofferentiation
(36:00):
and the wider range of options and flexibility. So ultimately
it's good for consumers en this case, farmers predominantly from
North America.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Based on his extensive research, Wilson said the industry should
continue to remain fiercely competitive.
Speaker 30 (36:14):
By definition, because of the large number of firms we have.
We indicated that there's thirty eight firms and the competitive fringe.
So you have four down into players and thirty eight
in the competitor to fringe, plus half a dozen state
back entities. It's fiercely, fiercely competitive. Will that continue in
the future. I suspect that it will at least in
the next five to ten.
Speaker 25 (36:33):
Years, driven by a number of things.
Speaker 30 (36:34):
But partly food security which fosters the development of state
back trading companies, but also of the events around climate
and deforestration, and all of these points to more wroneously
competitive environment during that time period.
Speaker 18 (36:48):
Again.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
That's doctor Bill Wilson of North Dakota State University. Chad
Smith reporting
Speaker 1 (36:54):
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