November 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A national coalition of US farmers, has launched an advocacy
campaign to highlight the country's growing agricultural labor shortages. USDA
data shows that nearly seventy percent of crop workers from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two were forum born, and
the number of seasonal H two A visa workers has

(00:20):
increased more than sevenfold since two thousand and five. Christy Boswell,
advisor to the Grow Adhered campaign and a former USDA official,
says a strong, stable workforce is essential to keep farms
in business and food affordable.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Many have turned to the h TA Agricultural Visa Program,
which provides farm employers with temporary and seasonal access to
foreign labor. The program has grown exponentially out of sheer necessity,
but the program is incredibly bureaucratic and expensive. As is
often said, you shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to
hire a farm worker. Also, as a seasonal program program

(01:00):
is not available to fill your round needs.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Brandon Batton, with Triple B Farms in North Carolina, says
the biggest threat to his operation is not weather or markets,
but a lack of workers.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Labor is my biggest challenge every year. It seems to
become more and more of a headache. About a decade ago,
out of necessity, we did transition to the H two
A program because the local workforce was not available, was
not reliable, and quite frankly, couldn't get the job done.
And as expensive and onerous as the program is, it's
more expensive to plant a crop and not be able

(01:35):
to get at harvest. In light of these labor challenges,
we have mechanized our operation as much as we can
to reduce reliance on labor. But with the high value
crops and the crops we grow here in North Carolina,
we have to have a certain amount to get those
to the shields.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
He says. It's a lot on the shoulders to find
help as a family farm.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, I am the HR department, I am the
legal department, I am the accounting department, and I rely
on some of these people to help me get these
workers here.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
He says.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
He speaks for a lot of farmers and ranchers dealing
with the uncertainty.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
What keeps me awake at night is am I going
to be the generation that ends it? Does this all
end with me? And my children are old enough now
to take an interest in the farm, so I wrestle
with him. I doing them, you know, a favor, or
doing them a disservice by finding the seed and love
for agriculture that they may never get.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
The harvest grow it here represents a variety of commodities,
from livestock and dairy to fruits and vegetables. It's planning
listening sessions across the country to push for a more
reliable workforce. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing in supplemental
sre reallocation volumes for the twenty twenty six and twenty

(02:45):
twenty seven renewable Fuel Standard volumes. Clean Fuels America share
the potential impact on US swaving farmers and processors, with
the EPA Administrator Lee Zeld and the EPA is CO
proposing to either fully one hundred percent or partially fifty
percent account for twenty twenty three to twenty twenty five
small refinery exemptions that were granted this year. By adding

(03:08):
a supplemental volume in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven,
Clean Fuels America says that US soybean farmers and processors
could lose between three point two billion dollars and seven
point five billion dollars in crop value over the next
two years if the epaight does not completely reallocate recently
exempted RFS volumes. In a letter to Zelden, Clean Fuels

(03:31):
America says, facing Chinese tariffs and growing global competition from
Argentina and Brazil, America's farmers could not afford to lose
the value that US biomass based diesel brings. A fifty
percent reallocation will include four hundred ninety million gallons lost
in biomass based diesel production and one point four billion

(03:52):
dollars in lost farm revenue. The National Dairy Council has
announced these smart Swaps initiative to help of the challenges
that school nutrition professionals face as they were to meet
evolving USDA's school meal standards. Katie Boomback, Vice President of
School Nutrition for the National Dairy Council, said meeting those

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standards requires a balancing act while still.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Trying to serve meals that are kids friendly, that are appealing,
and also gets excited about school mill programs. While we
have dairy centric recipes who we've done, sample breakfast menus,
and lastly, culinary and educational training materials. It was back
in twenty twenty four when USDA finalized new meal pattern
requirements for both the National School Launch and School Breakfast programs. First,

(04:41):
there is more manu flexibility at breakfast. The rule removes
the minimum daily green requirements, which had schools more freedom
to feature nutrient rich dairy zuds like cheese and yogurts.
And then during this school year there were also the
new product specific sugar limens.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
USDA data show that many school nutrition breakfast programs do
not meet the new sugar limit requirements, so schools need
help adapting it.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
With these tighter limits on a sure and on sodium.
There was a concern that popular dairy foods like flavor milk, yogurt,
and cheese could be reduced or even removed from school
breakfast menus. So rather than seeing this as a stepback,
they very check off solid as an opportunity. It's a
chance to support schools by developing practicals from art, recipe

(05:32):
updates and also sample breakfast menus that meet these news
standards while keeping dairy foods on the menu and on
student trees.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Bombback. So they began the initiative by focusing on recipes.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Our school team reviewed the existing school breakfast offerings and
identified opportunities to reduce and sugar and sodium while still
maintaining that great taste nutrition and also practicality for school
kitchens and that work. We updated fifteen existing breakfast recipes
that we know our students favorite. We just updated them

(06:06):
slightly to meet the news standards and also fit into
the new school menus. And two we created ten brand
new breakfast recipes that were inspired by some of the
current food trends, and we're also designed to steal some
of those menu gaps that we identified by.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Our school team.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
So all together, smart Shauce now offers twenty five new
or updated standardized dairy recipes.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
The National Dairy Council, RAND, Student Taste House, and Bombback
talked about the student feedback.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Some fun examples include a few cool reportable options like
apple pie overnight, Oh, there's a strawberry pancake yogurt park day,
and a frozen yogurt park because they're wonderfully honest, there's
no filter. A few of our favorite comments from students
included quotes put this on our school meals with an
explanation point and then a case is really good to

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now have ten, but it was a great reminder that
testing is essential, but the sounds good on paper doesn't
always imminate or land by students.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
With the help of state and regional Chekhov teams, those
taste tests included approximately twenty five hundred students. After collecting
and analyzing over two two hundred and fifty samples that
we collected from coast to coast, US Wheat Associates has
published the twenty twenty five US Crop Quality Report now.
The report provides essential objective information to help global wheat

(07:29):
buyers purchase the wheat they need at the best possible value.
Find out crop quality reports and related information at uswe
to dot orgon thatt US Wheat dot orgon. You're listening
to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Merley.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
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Speaker 7 (07:55):
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Speaker 7 (08:13):
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Speaker 6 (08:20):
Org, USDA pushing the November World agg Supply and Demand
Estimates ORD and the crop production Bundle to Friday, November fourteenth,
eleven am Eastern Time. It makes the report the first
full post shutdown read on yields, exports, and feed residual

(08:45):
It's a keyphivot for bases and hedging into the end
of the year. Will be the first major report from
USDA since the government closed in China. Doctor Fred Gail
notes crushers or bleeding red ink after paying up for
Brazil billion beans, signaling potential openings for US soy if
policy momentum and price parity hole Closer to home. Mississippi

(09:08):
River's historic low water continues to thin toe sizes and
spike freight. It's widening the basis spreads between the Gulf
and Pacific Northwest, forcing some farmers to juggle on farm storage,
delivery windows, and cash needs. In the meantime, consumer demand
keeps rewarding quality certified ANGUS beef capping another powerhouse year

(09:32):
with record prime volume, sending a clear price signal for genetics.
It's another agnews update.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
At the American Veterinary Medical Association annual convention in Denver,
we caught up with Michael Gerghi from Student Loan Advisor.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
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the veterinary field, or it can be a tremendous roadblock
if it's not managed properly. So we really try and
encourage that as an overarching theme and the top line
piece of advice that we give the books.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
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Speaker 6 (10:09):
Org, American cattle news, what's happening in the cattle markets,
and what's ahead this week more after this.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
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became a systems engineer, before I got started in aerospace,
I was a.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
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Speaker 7 (10:40):
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Speaker 6 (10:49):
Oliver's slope is with blue line futures in Chicago.

Speaker 10 (10:53):
E've all for live cattle and feeder cattle futures mark
multi year highs to start the week as uncertainty around
drew prices with the administration's pushed to lower beef prices
for consumers kept things interesting. Now since the start of
the week's evol has come back in a little bit,
but daily average ranges are still relatively wide. The fourteen
day average true range for January feeder cattle reached a

(11:15):
high of eight thirteen earlier in the week, and for
April live cattle, that fourteen day average true range reached
four seventy two. Headline risks still loom, with analysts keeping
close eyes on the Southern border as it pertains siscrew worm,
which has halted the cattle.

Speaker 11 (11:30):
Imports from Mexico for some time.

Speaker 10 (11:33):
There was some speculation earlier in the week that there
was talk of putting together.

Speaker 11 (11:37):
A plan to reopen that border, but no.

Speaker 10 (11:39):
Official statement or dates have been made, and traders and
analysts will also be keeping a close eye on trade
negotiations with Brazil, which.

Speaker 11 (11:47):
Were hit with beef tariffs earlier in the year. This
morning's wholesale box beef report was mixed.

Speaker 10 (11:52):
We saw Choice Scotts forty cents higher to three seventy
eight sixty seven and slight Cuts twenty nine cents lower
to three fifty nine to twenty three. Yesterday's five area
average price for life series was reported at two.

Speaker 11 (12:03):
Twenty nine to seventy nine.

Speaker 10 (12:05):
That's steady with the prior day's report and daily slaughter
yesterday was reported at one hundred and fourteen thousand head.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
That's Oliver's Slope with blue line futures in Chicago. Last
week cash cells two thirty five to two thirty six
in the south. That doesn't count the reports of one
to two dollars over the top. That doesn't get reported
in the north two thirties down eight box stressed at
three sixty off ten. American Cattle News.

Speaker 12 (12:38):
This is Dairy Radio Now.

Speaker 13 (12:41):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the country. Sorry for Piedwick's USA. Today,
I with Matt Stoles of stoll Spoo's Family. Deary, tell
us about stole Swoo's family, Derry Hey.

Speaker 14 (12:50):
So Yeah.

Speaker 15 (12:50):
We're a small creamery located right in Vernon Center, New York,
and we source our milk from three of our partners.
They each have small family farms and their family. They
are part of the family. They are part of the family.
So we make our cheese curds, yogurt, and fluid milk.
They're at the creamery. We've got a creamery store that

(13:12):
you know, you can stop in and purchase our products
right there at the creamery.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Call ahead and we'll give you a tour.

Speaker 13 (13:17):
How does this creamery start.

Speaker 15 (13:19):
Yeah, so my uncle and to my brothers and to
my cousins started the creamery.

Speaker 16 (13:25):
That was back in twenty ten.

Speaker 15 (13:26):
They saw the decline in the small family farms across
the state, and our goal primarily has been to keep
the small family farms as a viable economical option for
the small families in the state.

Speaker 13 (13:42):
Here again, run through this the product mix that you have,
because you have a pretty unique product mix.

Speaker 15 (13:47):
Yeah, yeah, So we have nine different flavors of cheese curds,
we have seven different flavors of yogurts, and then we
have our chocolate milk, fluid milk or white milk, and
then our latte mocha flavored milks. And we also have
a lineup of smoothies. So we have our uh strawberry, mango,
blueberry vanilla, and triple berry flavor smooth.

Speaker 13 (14:10):
And who comes up with these flavors?

Speaker 14 (14:12):
Is that that?

Speaker 15 (14:13):
Well, I can't take the credit too much for that.
I've got to give the credit to my partner and
our CEO, Vern Stulfus for that. And his mother is uh,
my aunt has been instrumental in creating the flavors and uh,
just playing with the flavors in her kitchen to where
they get the correct uh you know, correct hit every time.

Speaker 16 (14:36):
And uh yeah, after a.

Speaker 15 (14:38):
Few months, he comes, he comes out with it. We
throw it in the vat and we try it out
and it's, uh.

Speaker 16 (14:42):
It tends to be hit.

Speaker 13 (14:44):
You are an award winning deary, tell us about your
awards that you just received.

Speaker 15 (14:47):
Yeah, so we've been very blessed with receiving two awards
here at the State Fair. The one award was the
Award of Excellence on our plane yogurt. Uh and that
is our you know, basic most basic yoga. It's our
playing yogurt, your flag ship yogurt.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (15:02):
So so it's uh, it's a hit on a lot
of things. Ingredients. A lot of people use it as
an ingredient substitute for sour cream.

Speaker 17 (15:11):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (15:11):
The list goes on and on, and then also our
another award we received today was our was the uh
Flavored Milk of the Year Award, and that is uh
something we're very we're proud of. And I've got to
give all the credit to our dairy farmers. They have
excellent quality and they focus on quality one hundred percent

(15:32):
of the time. And uh yeah, also have a great
team back at the creamery. They do an excellent job
in maintaining quality and uh so, yeah.

Speaker 13 (15:40):
Tell us a little bit about that because it's got
to be a priority for you and your team. Uh quality.

Speaker 15 (15:46):
Yeah, so you know, quality is one hundred percent safety
and quality is what you know. Us as a cream
we focus on quality. Starts at the farm an equality
uh dairy products starts with equality cow experience and quality
raw milk. And so that's our primary focus is quality.

Speaker 13 (16:03):
So you're a little unique in a small creamery sense
that you're not really a producer dealer. You do have
a few different farms that it comes from. But there's
somebody within the sound of our voice who's thinking about
processing their own milk. What would you tell them.

Speaker 15 (16:15):
Well, you know, it's a it's a great opportunity to
expand your economic options on the farm. Start small, work
your way, you know, work your way into the marketplace,
and the customers will tell you if your product's great.
You know it's uh you know, that's.

Speaker 16 (16:29):
One one thing that we try do.

Speaker 18 (16:33):
We try to.

Speaker 15 (16:36):
Promote you know, we are glad to give tours to
other you know, other creamery startups, uh, farms that are
looking to do this in the future. You know, it's
something that we could all work together to promote New
York agriculture.

Speaker 13 (16:49):
And if you don't mind, you you've kind of come
upon this naturally because dad is also involved in the
dairy business.

Speaker 15 (16:55):
Yeah, so I grew up on a family dairy farm
and uh my father is a cheesemaker. He makes a
Gouda cheese. Well different, different, different type is what we've
got going on. But yeah, so it runs in the family.
I've got an oncle that has a creamery. Yeah, definitely
something that we're excited about.

Speaker 13 (17:12):
Matt Stoss with Ooswoo's Family, Dary, thank you so much
for being.

Speaker 15 (17:16):
With us today.

Speaker 14 (17:17):
Man. Thank you.

Speaker 19 (17:17):
John.

Speaker 13 (17:18):
I'm John Clark, traveling countryside for Feedword USA.

Speaker 20 (17:24):
There's many countries around the world that produce walnuts, but California.
You bet on it, you can bet on it produces
the highest quality walnut. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California
Tree Nut Report, part of the Vastag Information Network. Robert
Vloop is President and CEO of the California Walnut Board

(17:44):
and Commission. Talking about that quality.

Speaker 21 (17:47):
High quality, consistent high quality from the beginning to the
end of the season. That's the case with everybody. And
then we have a trusted and there's there's a trust
factor that comes into dealing with our walnuts, our handlers, growers,
and there's confidence behind.

Speaker 12 (18:00):
What we are able to deliver.

Speaker 21 (18:02):
You know, we're working hard to make sure that the
trade in our international markets where we ship sixty five
percent of our crop, are well aware of the crop
conditions and what do you expect, so.

Speaker 20 (18:12):
That as they ship that crop around the world, that
quantity stays with it. And domestic shipments are strong too.
But more and more Americans can certainly eat more walnuts.

Speaker 21 (18:22):
Well, we certainly can, and not only here, but I
think we see that around the world. There are places
that you know, they measure it in kilos and we're
measuring and announcers and so there is a room for growth.

Speaker 16 (18:32):
We have seen enough tick.

Speaker 21 (18:34):
Over the last couple of years, but it's it's still
not nearly what I think the potential is. And we
were working hard to get that frequency of the purchase.
The repurchase's got to come up.

Speaker 20 (18:44):
That's Robert Verloup with the California Wallnut Board and Commission.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
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(19:09):
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Speaker 22 (19:17):
Today we're talking with aphis and white flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF.

Speaker 23 (19:22):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us, how
are you feeling really, really weird and you still want
to devour this field? No way, bro, There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (19:33):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wifelies
so they can't eat, and when they can't eat, they
can't destroy.

Speaker 24 (19:40):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.

Speaker 20 (19:46):
With the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
A national coalition of US farmers, has launched an advocacy
campaign to highlight the country's growing agricultural labor shortages. USCA
data shows that nearly seventy percent of crop workers from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two were forum born, and
the number of seasonal H two A visa workers has

(20:09):
increased more than sevenfold since two thousand and five. Christy Boswell,
advisor to the Grow Adhered campaign and a former USDA official,
says a strong, stable workforce is essential to keep farms
in business and food affordable.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Many have turned to the H TWA Agricultural Visa program,
which provides farm employers with temporary and seasonal access to
foreign labor. The program has grown exponentially out of sheer necessity,
but the program is incredibly bureaucratic and expensive. As is
often said, you shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to
hire a farm worker. Also, as a seasonal program the

(20:49):
HRA program is not available to fill year round needs.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Brandon Batton, with Triple B Farms in North Carolina, says
the biggest threat to his operation is not weather or markets,
but a lack of workers.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Labor is my biggest challenge. Every year. It seems to
become more and more of a headache. About a decade ago,
out of necessity, we did transition to the H two
A program because the local workforces was not available, was
not reliable, and quite frankly, couldn't get the job done.
And as expensive and onerous as the program is, it's
more expensive to plant a crop and not be able

(21:24):
to get at harvest. In light of these labor challenges,
we have mechanized our operation as much as we can
to reduce reliance on labor. But with the high value
crops and the crops we grow here in North Carolina,
we have to have a certain amount to get those
to the shields.

Speaker 12 (21:39):
He says.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's a lot on the shoulders to find help as
a family farm.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
You know, I am the HR department, I am the
legal department, I am the accounting department, and I rely
on some of these people to help me get these
workers here.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
He says that he speaks for a lot of farmers
and ranchers dealing with the uncertainty.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
What keeps me awake at night, is am I going
to be the generation that does this all? In with me?
And my children are old enough now to take an
interest in the farm. So I wrestle with am I
doing them, you know, a favor, or doing them a
disservice by finding the seed and love for agriculture that
they may never get.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
The harvest grow it here represents a variety of commodities,
from livestock and dairy to fruits and vegetables. It's planning
listening sessions across the country to push for a more
reliable workforce. Record high cattle prices offering a significant financial
opportunity for those producers who leverage smart marketing and risk

(22:35):
management strategies. That's according to doctor Jeans Mitge, a livestock
economist at the University of Arkansas.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Prices are really high.

Speaker 25 (22:43):
We looked at kind of volatility in the market and
how there are still some pretty big swings in the
market in either direction. Plus fifteen dollars a hundredweight and
minus fifteen dollars a hondrew weight depending on the week
and the location you're talking about, and so maybe taking
some of that risk off the table is still an
important consideration. Lots of ways to do that, Like mentioned
livestock risk protection, there's futures markets, options, forward contracting, or

(23:04):
are all available with LARP. In the past couple of
years they've increased the subsidies on it to make the
primes a little bit more affordable for producers, which is good,
but again, cattle prices are really really high, and so
the premiums on doing some of these risk management is
going to be more expensive, and I think that's an
important consideration as well, with where the cattle market currently is,
the futures market's pricing in seasonality, and so being aware

(23:26):
that if you're going to market some cattle in the
spring and looking at what LARP is currently offering, it
might not match up exactly just because of how strong
of a caf market that we're currently in.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's a great time to be cattle producers with the
high prices. But Mitchell says there are important things to remember.

Speaker 25 (23:41):
With risk management. If that's something that you're considering doing
for the first time, my advice is always just to
take it's low, and make sure that you're aware of
how the product works and set reasonable expectations for what
that product can do to your bottom line. Again, I
like to compare risk management products to buying insurance on
your house. Right, you don't jump up and down excited
when your house burns down and you get a payment

(24:03):
from your insurance, Right, it's there to protect you in
case something like that does happen. Same thing with risk management.
The best scenario is still for the market to improve,
but you have that product in place in case something
adverse does happen. So I think that's kind of the
advice I tell people.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
It's also important to think about the long term.

Speaker 25 (24:18):
With Kyler, price is really really high right now, What
are some ways that you can invest that money back
into your operation to kind of set yourself up for
success in the future. What type of improvements can you
make in terms of productivity and efficiency and kind of
setting yourself up for success in the next couple of years.
I think is another thing to be thinking about right
now as well.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Again, that's doctor James Mitchell with the University of Arkansas.

Speaker 26 (24:41):
It's time for California Egg today on the AGG Information Network.

Speaker 16 (24:45):
I am Hailey's ship.

Speaker 26 (24:46):
Mom said, eat your vegetables, and maybe you would have
if they taste it a little sweeter. Fast forward a
few decades in plants breeding, and voila. Today's Brussels sprouts
are winning new fans and delighting old ones at Cafe Cruise,
Roasta Cheria and bar In Sokel. Chef Cesar Palomino Sadano

(25:06):
loves seeing warry diner's surprise when they realize that they
actually like Brussels sprouts. Modern varieties are milder and sweeter
than the bitter ones many remember from childhood. Thanks to
Dutch scientists who identified the compounds behind that harsh flavor
and breeders who refined them out, California farms like Bridoni

(25:30):
and Hitchcock have built thriving businesses on the vegetables resurgence,
growing flavorful sprouts from Santa Cruz to Ventura. Chefs, food shows,
and social media have helped to boost their popularity, turning
a once dreaded side dish into a culinary star. From
roasted to shaved with bacon and parmesan, these little green

(25:51):
gems have earned a permanent place on the menu for
a bigger bite of this story from California Bountiful. Visit
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Speaker 22 (26:23):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf We just.

Speaker 23 (26:28):
Get nailed with it, So tell us how you feeling
really really weird.

Speaker 18 (26:33):
And you still wanted to devour this view? No way, bro.

Speaker 16 (26:37):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (26:38):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wifelies
so they can't eat, and when they can't eat, they
can't destroy.

Speaker 24 (26:46):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.

Speaker 26 (26:51):
This is California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
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Speaker 1 (26:58):
Good morning, my name's Dwayne Murley, and you're listening to
AG Live. The annual Global Ethanol Summit, hosted by the
US Greens and Bioproducts Council recently concluded in Washington, d C.
Jacob Canabele, director of market Development for the Missouri Corn
Growers Association, talked about what went on at the event.

Speaker 17 (27:19):
There are participants from all across the globe. We're talking
folks from the oil industry, people in agriculture industries that
are all interested in ethanol, and other countries. I believe
there's almost forty two different countries that are represented here
at this conference. And some of the opportunities that we
talk about are just enabling time for collaboration between people
at these different conferences. So we're collaborating to better seat

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the needs of each of these countries and further opportunities
that would be mutually beneficial.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Given what's going on with trade in tariffs, this is
an opportune time for finding more marketing opportunities.

Speaker 17 (27:52):
It's no brainer that here in the US we need
to find new places and new markets to take our
corn in order for us to keep moving our ever
increasing corn. So other countries they may have needs for
corn or corn based products such as ethanol or DDGs.
So opportunities like the Global Ethanol Summit allow us to
learn more about those developing markets and convey the message
that the US is willing and able to meet those

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needs to be a trade partner in the future.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Canabled talked about what he learned at the SURES event.

Speaker 17 (28:20):
Everybody's talking trade right now, and you know, it's easy
to talk about terrifts, but I've been learning a lot
from other countries the importance of non tariff trade barriers
that are out there. These are just obstacles that, whether
it be regulations or different inspections, whatnot, that pose serious
issues for US products coming into their products, or maybe
even vice versa. So these are conversations that help bring

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those obstacles to lights that we might be able to
take those messages back to the decision makers, the regulators,
or even lawmakers in order to overcome.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Those There are other opportunities for ethanol outside of traditional
fuel uses.

Speaker 17 (28:53):
I guess another key takeaway is just the different opportunities
that you know, maybe the average farmer doesn't think about.
We talk about fuel ethanol quite a bit, but we
had some speakers in from Nigeria that we're talking about
the ever increasing need for ethanol for clean cooking within
their country. You know, they're using charcoal or coal for
a lot of their cooking needs inside and they're looking
for alternatives to that that would be able to meet

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their cooking needs and offer more safe product.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Again, that's Jacob Canable with the Missouri Corn Growers' Association.
Caros and trade continued to leave the discussion in US
agriculture and the American sheep industry is no exception. Peter Orwick,
executive director of the American Sheep Industry Association, says caros
are negatively impacting the sheep industry.

Speaker 14 (29:39):
Trade with China is down about forty percent. There's no
question that there's a huge impact on our trade. So
what we've been doing, as with a lot of the
agriculture group, is you're looking at markets everywhere else. We're
looking at those opportunities to sell well and find new
customers for us on that side.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
At the same time, the industry is exploring growth and
domestic consumption that's been supported by an increase in lamb
processing plants across the country.

Speaker 14 (30:09):
We were looking the other day at the number of
lamb plants overall, and we have six hundred operations across
America that process lamb, and I think that's just reflective
again the demand that there is for lamb meet and
it might be more the farmer's market, it might be
more the director consumer, but we still do have the

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large commercial plants that are handling thousands of lambs per week.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Again, that is Peter Orwick, executive director of the American
Sheep Industry Association. You are listening to agg Life. My
name is Dwayne Murley. We appreciate you joining us today.

Speaker 16 (30:51):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson and this
is your agribusiness update. Well, the spread of yellow nuts
edge and aggressive weed that thrives and coastal conditions has
put a damper on an otherwise phenomenal period for California
cilantro growers. The weed is found in the major cilantro
growing regions of the state, including Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis, Obispo,

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and Monterey Counties. According to the University of California Extension,
nuts edge competes for water and nutrients and can block
out sunlight if not removed before it spreads. The national
Cattleman's Beef Association says the President's plan to increase beef
imports from Argentina in an attempt to lower beef prices
is misguided. NCBA CEO Colin Woodall says efforts to manipulate

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markets only risk damaging the livelihoods of American producers while
doing little to impact what consumers pay. He says the
US already faces a deep trade imbalance with Argentina that
will only be made worse by the President's plan. The
Senate once again pushed back against tariffs put in place
by President Trump, voting against the fifty percent tariff on

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Brazilian beef imports. Senators voted fifty two to forty eight
two and the national emergency declared by true up with
five Republicans joining Democrats and approving the move. Politico says
it's the first in a series of three resolutions intended
to stop the President's tariffs on Brazil and Canada, as
well as other countries.

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Speaker 16 (33:02):
From the ag Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
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Speaker 1 (33:07):
Good morning, my name's Dwayne Murley and you are listening
to AGG Live. Thank you for being with us today.
Dennis Guy reports that Canada believes US tariffs will continue
despite a hearing before the highest court in the US.

Speaker 12 (33:23):
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that he personally wants
to attend next month's Supreme Court hearing on his tariff policies.
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments beginning on
November fifth as to whether the President can unilaterally impose
tariffs under emergency powers and is acting legally in his

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bypassing of Congress. The case involves the import tariffs against Canada, Mexico,
and China over allegations of fentanyl trafficking, as well as
Trump's reciprocal tariffs imposed on dozens of other countries. Mexico
and Canada do have some tariff protection for products that
are compliant under the USMCA. The overall USMCA agreement comes

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up for review and renegotiation next year, but Canada is
still suffering under some of the toughest US tariff actions
for some of its largest export sectors, the auto industry,
along with steel, aluminum, as well as Canada's softwood lumber.
The lumber export industry was limping along under an existing

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thirty five percent tariff, but last week another ten percent
tariff was placed on all non US lumber. David eb
Premier of British Columbia and the largest softwood lumber exporter
into the US marketplace, says what now amounts to more
than forty five percent tariffs on Canadian lumber makes it

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less competitive than even Russian lumber going into the United States.

Speaker 27 (34:56):
This additional tariff means that Canadian w has a higher
tariff rate going to the United States than Russia at US.
Let that sink in, there's a higher tariff on Canadian
would going to the United States than Russia, an international
pariah who has launched a war of aggression on Ukraine.
Doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 12 (35:15):
And President Trump recently stated that more lumber tariffs could
be added in the new year. One of the chief
Canadian negotiators of the original North American Free Trade Packed,
the first NAFTA signed in the early nineteen nineties, was
John Weeks. In a recent interview, Weeks made the point
that since that time, the US market's importance in the

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world has changed. It is no longer the largest or
wealthiest market. Yet a lot of Canadians seem to be
holding on to the hope that Trump's tariff war will
disappear when the USMCA is renegotiated next year or when
Trump eventually leaves office. To that, John Weeks says, don't
bet on it.

Speaker 19 (35:57):
We're not even sure that the United States really wants
snaffted to continue. We have to be prepared and we
have to look at how to do things with other partners.
The United States accounts for about thirteen percent of world trade,
so there's another eighty seven percent. It makes a lot
of sense to have better partnerships. While two lower tier
US courts have already ruled that Trump's terriff actions are

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in fact illegal, there is no guarantee that the Supreme
Court will rule against the US president's existing tariff policies.
A Republican majority on the highest US court has repeatedly
voted in favor of the president, even expanding presidential powers,
and Canada has watched all that happen. Reporting from Canada,

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I'm Dennis Guy.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
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