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Speaker 1 (00:00):
State's promoting agriculture is common among the vessels used our
state Departments of Agriculture and State far Bureaus, and in
the case of the Jayhawks, state It's State far Bureau
offers an avenue for producers to promote and sell their
goods at value added products. For as Kylie Stout explades,
when we.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Speak with farmers that we work with, their number one
challenge is marketing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
How can we reach more consumers?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How can we do that with minimal effort when they
have been working all day providing labor.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
To create the products or work the cattle.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That led to Kansas Far Bureau developing an odd lined
store shop Kansas farms.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A lot of times they work with us just to
outsource that because we can do it, and we can
provide a bigger outreach that they're not able to do
on their own, and we put on direct to marketing
workshops for them. We try to bring all the resources
and partner with other organizations to make sure they have
every tool available to them in their toolkit.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The convenias factor of sales avenues like shop kants as
farms are not lost on Kylie. Are those producers who
utilize their online presence.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A lot of the farmers that we work with don't
want to commit to a weekly farmers market.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
They want to be home with their family.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Makes sense, and so we provide a digital platform for
farmers to be able to sell their products twenty four
to seven to consumers.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Nor the irony that Kansas farm goods and value added
products the day we visited with Kylie were being sold
not just out of Farmer's Market, but the Great American
Farmers Market in Washington, d C. Earlier this summer. Yet,
she says, many producers are aware they need.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
To use all access points available to them to be
able to market their products. So this is one avenue
being at a farmer's market. The online availability is another.
Shipping nationwide is another. Wholesale models and grocery stores is one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Way to diversify revenue streams as well as make connections
with customers, even if virtually in part it's education not
just about the source of food, but Kansas agriculture. While
the state perhaps best known for wheat at small grades
at beef.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The sandtail plum jelly, the sandhil plum is the Kansas
state fruit. Thanks to a group of fifth graders who
wrote to the governor and said.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
This should be our state fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So it grows wild out in the western fields of
Kansas and we're proud to be promoting it in our
nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It is, I think, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sweeter than a regular plum, but of course in the
jelly context, it's going to be sweeter because of the
added sugars that make it so great on a piece
of toast in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
For your breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Technological advances in US agriculture are not slowing down. Bob
Larsen reports.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We are seeing today's technological advancements everywhere, even in agriculture
where AI and automation are becoming increasingly common, and Keith
the Selka CEO and co founder of NWFM Northwest Farm
Management says it's not slowing down.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I think with the emergence of AI and then the
advancement it's robotics, autonomy, drones, a lot of the scanning
capabilities with these advanced cameras. It's really going to lend
itself well to helping the farmers kind of augment maybe
what they don't have in terms of human resources.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
When you're trying to cover a lot of ground. Biselka says,
these new capabilities can be crucial.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Just in terms of like tractor autonomy or autonomous vehicles.
A lot of those are coming into play now. You're
seeing more and more companies develop or have developed successful
tractors or sprayers, and those are I think you're going
to see a real kind of surgeence of those in
the near future.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And Baselka says this is in real.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Time the scanning capabilities knowing what's on the crop, crop size,
crop growth growth curves over course of the season, start
to look for like pest, the mildew tree condition.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Go to the Northwest Farm Management website at NWFM dot
biz for more information.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It's a tough time for production agriculture in the US,
especially in grain farming. Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde Smith
so things are heading in the wrong direction.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well, you don't have to talk to many farmers to
quickly understand that we're heading in a dark direction there,
particularly on the road crop side of things. And we
all know it's the input costs, the interest rates through
the root, the crop prices aren't what they need to be,
and farm bankruptcies are soaring. There's many reasons for that,
but this is a serious, serious thing. You are going
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to see producers literally go out of business if we
don't give them a bridge a landline right now.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The reason farmers need a bridge is that the one
big beautiful Bill's programs don't start until next year.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Farmers can't wait that long. They will not be able
to meet their financial obligations, their current debt. And also
why you're trying to secure financing for next year's crop,
you know, without a bridge, and we're going to have
to get there last year. You know, I was a
part of working on that and we were successful, but
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I mean, it is like it was work, It was major,
it was a challenge, and that's one of the times
that you hit the Senate floor and you're going to
the leaders and then you're having to run over to
the house side and say, this is not the way
this is going to end. We have got to get
this supplemental out the door. And we were able to
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do that, but it was touch and go. I mean,
it's one of those times that you know, I'm so
guilty of diving in neck deep, but there was so
much anxiety with that because so much was at stake.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
She calls the farm crisis a national security issue.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
This go around, I think it's going to be a
little easier to get it passed because everybody is hearing
from their producers. You know, everybody's hearing throughout their states,
and they understand that this is a national security problem.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Again. That is Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Two longtime ag leaders will receive awards from the us
ME and Export Federation at the Organization Strategic Planning Conference
in November. Ted mckinne, CEO of the National Association of
State Departments of Agriculture, will receive the Michael J. Mansfield
Award for his dedication to trade relations, including his time
as the first USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
I remember on those many many travels. I think after well,
I got cut short by a year with COVID, But
in my two and a half years, we did a
half just shy of a half a million international air miles,
and we had another two hundred and fifty plan for
that final year but got cut out. There may have
been a trip that I was on where I didn't
see an MAF representative, but I don't remember it. We
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always sought them out because they're very wise to that market.
They know the people, the culture, the ups and the downs,
and the dynamics of trade, including barriers to trade, and
so I remember the fondly and it just adds a
great deal even more meaning to a receipt of this ward.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Dermot Hayes, who recently retired as an Iowa State University
professor and continues to serve as a consulting economist for
both the National Pork Board and National Pork Producers Council,
will receive the USMEF Distinguished Service Award. Hayes provided critical
market research during negotiations of several US free trade agreements,
including those with South Korea, Columbia, and Central America. All
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are now major destinations for US pork exports.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Last year I went to Guatemala to look at the
market there and met with your representatives, and that just
loom me away. Central America's is one huge opportunity. I
think eighty percent of the pork in Honduras is sourced
out of the US. That's all the pork consumed in
that country. And then there's Southeast Asia. There's as many
people in Southeast Asia as there are in China, and
so as their economies grow because of free trade, then
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the US pork industry will have fantastic opportunities.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
For more, please visit USMEF dot org for the US
ME and Export Federation. I'm John Arath.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
It's another ANG news update. Producers facing mixed signals this
week and partial SNAP funding on the way more after this.
Speaker 12 (08:09):
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USDA says only about half of November SNAP benefits will
go out under court orders during the government shutdown. It's
a factor that could temper near term grocery demand in
some markets, while uncertainty lingers export inspections closed October with
the corn moved briskly supportive for bids near barge and
(09:04):
unit train capacity, while soybean slowed, leaving cash strength more
dependent on crush and steady vessel programs out of both
the Gulf and Pacific Northwest. On inputs, a RABO research
note flags China's crop protection sector shifting from low cost
(09:24):
production to innovation and overseas integration. It's a pivot that
could reshape pesticide availability and pricing over time and at
the food and wholesale level. Several produce lines ease proteins
were mixed into holiday buying, and vegetable oil prices softened
(09:46):
even as shell eggs ticked tire and butter slipped. A
good week to sharpen selective forward buys and bases decisions.
It's another agnews update.
Speaker 15 (10:00):
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philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(10:20):
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Speaker 11 (10:28):
Com American Cattle News. Can we see the price of
beef come down before rebuilding the herd?
Speaker 16 (10:36):
More?
Speaker 11 (10:37):
After this?
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Speaker 11 (11:08):
Doctor daryl'peel, Oklahoma State Livestock Economists.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
You know beef prices are record high pretty much across
the board. Consumers have been willing to pay that, and
you know, the market is working. Beef production is falling
because of where we are with cattle inventories, so there
is less beef. The market's going to ration that to
the folks that want it the most and have the
means to pay the most, and all of that's working.
So you know, it's not clear to me that we
(11:34):
need to if you will mess with the market a
little bit. Some of it comes down to the last
you know, CPI report on inflation, beef was kind of
identified as one of the markets that's up the most,
and there's other markets as well. But the thing is,
no one market causes inflation. Inflation is a general concept
where a lot of markets are going up, and beef
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happens to be going up coincidentally, not for any broad
based reason. That's affecting other markets as well. So even
if we had no inflation, beef prices would still be
high because of the supply fundamentals that we have and
the demand fundamentals, and so you know, it's kind of
being rolled into a lot of other issues here, I think,
and that's unfortunate because then you know, it gets kind
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of confusing and causes some additional issues you and O.
It's going to depend on again, this attention that's been
focused on it kind of from an inflation perspective, may
not let it because beef prices aren't going to come
down and there's really nothing anybody can do to change that.
We're already importing a lot of beef. There's no additional
imports that fundamentally are going to change that very much.
(12:38):
And again that's mostly affecting the ground beef market for
the most part, so there's certainly nothing that's going to
change stake prices, for example. And so you know, hopefully
things settle down and we get some of the headlines
out of the beef market, and the beef markets will
take care of themselves if that happens.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 18 (13:02):
Now it's time for Ask the Event with doctor Ryan Leiderman,
director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek and Ryan Today,
you have two pathogens that fascinate you. But this is
from a scientific standpoint.
Speaker 19 (13:14):
I don't know what farmers are going to find this
stuff super interesting as I do, but to me, it
is just fascinating both of which can cause pneumonia. So
the first one will be salmonilla. It is pretty common
on a lot of dairies and it seems like it's
getting more common. And salinil is interesting. So salmonil's a
bacteria that can cause infection the animal, and it can
make animals very sick and even cause death. And some
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of the strains of salmonilla that infect cattle can also
infect humans and make humans very sick or even a
cause of death for humans. So it's nothing to mess with.
Every animal, humans included, have an immune system, but part
of it are called white blood cells. They move around
in the blood and you can almost think of white
blood cells like a giant pac man looking for bacteria.
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They kind of chase them down and eat them and
gobble them up and destroy them, and that's how your
body fights infection. And so imagine that these pac men
find these salmonilla and they eat them. But lo and
behold salmonilla. It actually found a way to hide in
the white blood cells and it lives in the white
blood cells. So if you think about this, if the
white blood cells are like you know, police driving around
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in their cop cars to pick up the bad guys.
Salmonilla has found a way to hide and live in
the cop car. There's not a more interesting defense mechanism
than learning to live and hide within the very thing
that is seeking to destroy you. That's what makes salmonilla
so problematic. Many of these other bacteria have never come
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up with this mechanism, and so the white blood cells
eat them and they destroy the bacteria and the animal
gets better. Salmonilla is quite different in the fact that
it can actually hide and live and thrive within the
actual white blood cell that is trying to kill it.
It's fascinating as far as I'm concerned, and the fact
that salmonilla has developed this over time, I think is
particularly interesting. Another thing that I think is fascinating is
(15:04):
a different bacteria. It's called michael plasma. People might know
in the dairy industry for michael plasma messtitis in adult
cous or microplasma pneumonia, not typical in young calves. But
michael Plasma, nonetheless is another type of bacteria, and it
has developed some ways to make animals sick that are
actually quite unique. So it kind of a gross analogy.
(15:25):
But in all and you're sick, and you just cough
up some phlegm. The reason that you're able to cough
up phlegm is because of a thing called the mucalcilliary escalator. Okay,
And what they are is, imagine your lungs. Inside your
lungs are covered with billions of tiny, tiny, tiny microscopic
little hairs called cilia, and these hairs called the escalator
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because they act like an escalator stand an airport. This
escalator system. These little hairs kind of beat and they
keep kind of pushing stuff out from the depths of
your lungs all the way up and to the point
where they get it far enough to the top of
the line that you can actually cough it out. And
imagine if we didn't have this mucocilary escalator, or calves
didn't have it. Eventually, over time, I mean, you just
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live your life. You're going to breathe some dust, and
so this mucocillary escalator is super important at getting dust
and gunk out of your lungs and also very important
to present prevent pathogens like pneumonia causing bacteria. And so
imagine if you're standing at the top of an escalator
and you're trying to get to the bottom, but the
escalator is going up. Okay, that's how the mucocillary escalator works,
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and that makes it very hard for bacteria to cause
a pneumonia infection. And Michaelplasma knows that that makes it hard,
so it developed a way to secrete a toxin that
paralyzes the mucocilary escalator. Well, now you can just very
casually walk down the escalator to the bottom, and that's
what Michael Plasma does. It has a hard time getting
down the escalator because it's constantly pushing it back up.
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So it developed a way to say, fine, we'll just
unplug you, and they secrete this tox and then they
paralyze the mucocillary escalator, which is a very big part
of the natural defense mechanism, and then it just waltz
as casually down into the lungs and sets up a
rip in pneumonia in these caves. And I also think
that whole concept is just fascinating how Michael Plasma over
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time had developed this mechanism to defeat the muclecillary escalator
and paralyze it. You know, I tip my hat to
Michael Plasma for coming up with such a unique way
to overcome that problem. So just a couple of things
that I think as producers are out there dealing, you know,
maybe with Michael plasma pneumonia in their calves, or or
salmonilla infection and some cows or in some calves. The
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more we understand about how they make animals sick, the
more we can better battle them. And I also just
think interesting bit of science and physiology.
Speaker 18 (17:41):
Well, thank you, Ryan. We're out of time now, but
that's doctor Ryan Lierman, director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.
If you have a question for Ryan, simply email him
at Ask the Vet at Crystal Creek Natural dot com.
Speaker 20 (17:56):
And I'm and Gower talks about our operation. It's shared
among the family members. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California
TRENA Report, part of the VASAG Information Network. John Lee
Dunn Farms up in northern California.
Speaker 21 (18:10):
My husband and I personally owned sixty acres of in
the Dunnegan area. Then we have one hundred acres of
independence in our buckles. And then my family, the Henderson family.
We have a farm management company called Henderson Farms.
Speaker 20 (18:29):
And they've been conscientiously caring for almonds and walnut orchards
in northern California since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 21 (18:35):
So we have farm management company. You know, some of
them are owned by us personally, like the orchards my
husband and I have, and then my brother has some
orchards and my brother in law, so we have our
own orchards, and then we have some orchards that are leased,
and then we have some that are managed where we
manage them for other people and we do everything from
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planting to taking care of the orchard and then harvesting it.
And then we have for process sina fe.
Speaker 20 (19:02):
The operations very vertically integrated. Now John Lee talks about
the growing season. There weren't many heat spikes this past summer,
but then rain came at harvest.
Speaker 21 (19:12):
You know, we were able to dodge it pretty well,
but and it didn't always materialize. But you're always worried
about that next storm.
Speaker 20 (19:18):
That's Northern California arm and grower John Leegue done.
Speaker 22 (19:22):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 23 (19:29):
So tell us how you feeling really really weird and
you still want to devour this.
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Few No way bro. There you have it, folks.
Speaker 22 (19:38):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 24 (19:46):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
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 more most farmers are
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Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
President Trump drew the ire of the US cattle industry
after proposing to import more beef Argentina to help lower
beef priises at US grocery stores. Christian Level, the senior
director of programs for Farm Action, says he was not
happy with Trump, saying that producers need to take less
money to help lower cattle prices.
Speaker 25 (20:46):
The president's comments on social media were disrespectful to me
and the cattle producers across the United States. I don't
know what the president's advisors are telling him, but they
are wrong. It's not the American ranch that controls the
price of beef in this country. It's the giant corporations
who control meat packing. And there's only four of them,
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and recent estimates say they control eighty to eighty five
percent of the market. They are a monopoly, and this
monopoly is about as corrupt as they come. It seems
like every time you turn around, there's a new price
fixing lawsuit. For too long, this meat packing monopoly has
profited off the backs of the American consumer. They've squeezed
out independent cattle producers. That set up the scenario where
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you have something like a multi year drought that all
of a sudden, cattle inventory numbers are as low as
they are.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He questions if enough beef can be purchased from Argentina
to make a big difference for beef prices.
Speaker 25 (21:43):
Argentina is a country that they themselves consume a lot
of beef, so they have their own domestic demand that
they have to meet. It's also been raised Argentina is
a country that does have active foot and Mouth disease cases.
That is a very highly contagious disease that has been
eradicated here in the United States for quite some time.
Every pound of beef that we import from a country
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with active FMD cases represents a risk to our industry
and our food supply. I'm not convinced that just importing
beef solves the consolidation problem that we had. Earlier this month,
Tyson and Cargill had to settle. I believe it was
close to eighty eight million dollars that they're going to
pay out to consumers for a price fixing lawsuit related
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to beef that goes back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
While farmers will hopefully get more financial help during the downturn,
lovel says it is indicative of larger problems.
Speaker 25 (22:36):
I'm pretty sure we're going to see another government bailout
that will provide short term relief. We're concerned that some
of that money does end up in the largest operators,
and so all of those things are important factors in that.
But it's also important to realize that's not a sustainable
solution when you look at the last twelve months. There
was a bailout last winter. There was money that was
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in this one big beautiful bill package over the summer,
and now we're hearing about another farm or bailout this fall. Yeah,
that's a band aid, but totally unsustainable for the American taxpayers.
Totally unsustainable on a government spending and it's a red
flag that something is wrong.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
He talks about what direction the President and his administration
should be going in.
Speaker 25 (23:19):
We want the President to double down on domestic cattle
production and domestic beef production. American ranchers, as I mentioned,
they are the critical component of our ability to produce
the safest, highest quality, most sustainable beef of anywhere in
the world. Importing beef is not the answer here. We've
got to rebuild the nation's cowherd, and in order to
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do that, ranswers have to have the right to incentives
and they have to have a fair market. So what
I would encourage the President to take a look at
is restoring the mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Love Will also pointed out that beef is one of
the few products that doesn't have a country of origin label.
If you like the flavor of pepper's, but aren't a
big fan of the heat of some bring to your meals.
Oregon State University has two mild hob and euros you
might like. Oregon State University Professor Jim Myers says, you
can grow them yourself.
Speaker 26 (24:12):
Being something that's maybe ten days to two weeks earlier
than a traditional habit narrow, but then has this mile
pungency with a very strong fruity flavor that these have.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Myers says, they cook up nicely.
Speaker 26 (24:26):
Chefs I've worked with really like these because you can
have that intense flavor without having a lot of pungency there,
and then adjust the pungency to whatever you want in
a particular dish.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
He spent several years developing the mild Thing and the
not a Hota I've always liked.
Speaker 26 (24:43):
And they have narrow peppers because they have this wonderful
fruity fragrance and aroma and flavor, but then they get
some masked by the heat and they having narrow.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Type growing them. Myers cells kind of depends on where
you live.
Speaker 26 (24:58):
The mild thing is better adapted to the sitting Northwest.
It's one of my favorite because it's got a little
more of the fruity aroma to it than ajata is
more broadly adapted across the US, and maybe not quite
as intensive.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Flavor again, Adas Oregon State University Professor Jim Myers. I'm
Dwayne Merley, and you're listening to AGG Live. Thank you
for being with us today.
Speaker 27 (25:23):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
Speaker 17 (25:27):
I am Hayley's ship Well.
Speaker 27 (25:29):
A new report from the USDA's Economic Research Service highlights
the importance of California agriculture across the nation and around
the world. The state's farms and ranches brought in sixty
one point two billion dollars in cash receipts for twenty
twenty four, a three point six percent increase from the
previous year. With more than four hundred commodities, California produces
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nearly half of the nation's vegetables and over three quarters
of its fruits and nuts. Very products led the way
at eight point sixty one billion dollars, followed by almonds, grapes, cattle,
in calves, and lettuce. Also in the top ten strawberries, pistachios, tomatoes, carrots,
and broilers. On the global front, exports totaled twenty two
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point four billion dollars in twenty twenty three, a five
point nine percent drop from twenty twenty two. Top exports
included almonds, pistachios, dairy wine, and walnuts. Now California also
leads in organic agriculture sales, rows twenty one point seven
percent since twenty nineteen to reach eleven point eight billion
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dollars in twenty twenty three, with one point seven eight
million acres certified under the nation's only state run organic program.
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You're listening to AGG Live. Thank you for being with us.
This morning, President Trump drew the ire of the US
cattle industry after proposing to import more beef Margentina to
help lower beef prices at US grocery stores. Level. The
senior director of programs for Farm Action says he was
not happy with Trump, saying that producers need to take
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less money to help lower cattle prices.
Speaker 25 (28:11):
The President's comments on social media were disrespectful to me
and the cattle producers across the United States. I don't
know what the President's advisors are telling him, but they
are wrong. It's not the American rancher that controls the
price of beef in this country. It's the giant corporations
who control meat packing. And there's only four of them,
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and recent estimates say they control eighty to eighty five
percent of the market. They are a monopoly, and this
monopoly is about as corrupt as they come. It seems
like every time you turn around, there's a new price
fixing lawsuit. For too long, this meat packing monopoly has
profited off the backs of the American consumer. They've squeezed
out independent cattle producers. That set up the scenario where
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you have something like a multi year drought that all
of a sudden, cattle inventory numbers are as low as
they are.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
He questions if enough beef can be purchased from Argentina
to make a big difference for beef prices.
Speaker 25 (29:08):
Argentina is a country that they themselves consume a lot
of beef, so they have their own domestic demand that
they have to meet. It's also been raised Argentina is
a country that does have active foot and Mouth disease cases.
That is a very highly contagious disease that has been
eradicated here in the United States for quite some time.
Every pound of beef that we import from a country
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with active FMD cases represents a risk to our industry
and our food supply. I'm not convinced that just importing
beef solves the consolidation problem that we have. Earlier this month,
Tyson and Cargill had to settle. I believe it was
close to eighty eight million dollars that they're going to
pay out to consumers for a price fixing lawsuit related
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to beef that goes back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
While farmers will hopefully get more financial help during the downturn,
Lovell says, it is indicative of larger I'm.
Speaker 25 (30:01):
Pretty sure we're going to see another government bailout that
will provide short term relief. We're concerned that some of
that money does end up in the largest operators, and
so all of those things are important factors in that.
But it's also important to realize that's not a sustainable
solution when you look at the last twelve months. There
was a bailout last winter, there was money that was
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in this one big beautiful bill package over the summer,
and now we're hearing about another farmer bailout this fall. Yeah,
that's a band aid, but totally unsustainable for the American taxpayer.
It's totally unsustainable on a government spending and it's a
red flag that something is wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
He talks about what direction the president and his administration
should be going in.
Speaker 25 (30:44):
We want the president to double down on domestic cattle
production and domestic beef production. American ranchers, as I mentioned,
they are the critical component of our ability to produce
the safest, highest quality, most sustainable beef of anywhere in
the world. Beef is not the answer here. We've got
to rebuild the nation's cowherd, and in order to do that,
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rnswers have to have the right incentives and they have
to have a fair market. So what I would encourage
the President to take a look at is restoring the
mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Love Will also pointed out that beef is one of
the few products that doesn't have a country of origin label.
The Trump administration announced the series of trade deals and
frameworks with several Asian countries, some of which include new
market access for US ethanol. The deals also include additional
opportunities for corn and corn products like distillers, dride greens,
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and solubles. My name is Dwyane Merley and you're listening
to agg Life. Thank you for being with us this morning.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
From the Egg Information Network. I Bob Larson and this
is your agribusiness update. Well, the Meat Institute was pleased
to hear about the White House trade deals with Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand,
and Vietnam. Meat Institute President Julianna Potts says we applaud
the elimination of onerous registration requirements and the reinforcement of sound,
internationally recognized science in determining market access. She says, we're
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grateful to Trade Representative Jamison Greer and Assistant USTR Julie
Callahan for their hard work on tariff and non tariff
trade barriers. The US Senate voted fifty two to forty
eight two and tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, in
a bipartisan rebuke of President Trump's trade policy. The tariffs
imposed under emergency power in July added a fifty percent
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duty on goods from Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats in support,
and while the measure is unlikely to advance in the
House or survive a veto, it highlights growing frustration over
the use of emergency powers for trade. The White House
issued a fact sheet on recent US negotiations with China
as stating China has agreed to lift all retaliatory tariffs
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on US egg products imposed during Trump's second term. Agrimarketing
dot Com reports this includes tariffs on chicken, wheat, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef,
aquatic products, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. China responded to new
US tariffs in March with a twenty percent retaliatory teff
on US soybeans and other egg products.
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My name's Dwayne Merley, and you're listening to ag Life.
Thank you for being with us this morning. Both vine
respiratory disease does not take a season off. BRD remains
a costly challenge for dairy herds every year. Doctor Kurt Vleaitstra,
a professional service veterinarian with Berenger Engelheim, says selecting the
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right vaccine is a big part of protecting a dairy
cav's health and future performance.
Speaker 28 (34:31):
BRD accounts for almost twenty five percent of pre weened
helfer deaths and so death within the first sixty days
of life, and more than half of ween heifer deaths
so those that occur after sixty days but before they
get into the lactating herd. So it's significant. It's a
compounding disease that never really seems to run out of
opportunities to take money from producers. You know, there's studies
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that have shown that Heifer's challenge with respiratory disease within
the first three months of life are more likely to
have at least three months later than those that didn't.
And then research is also shown that Heffer's challenge with
respiratory disease early in life are likely to produce less
milk in their first lactation and that may even carry
on into later lactations. That's why a strong vaccination program
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can help set calves up to better battle any future
respiratory challenges.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Valistra talked about questions producers need to ask their veterinarians
when setting up a vaccination program.
Speaker 28 (35:26):
So, selecting a respiratory vaccine, there's probably three main components
to think about and ask your veterinarian about. So rout
of administration injectable vaccines intranasal vaccines are the primary way
to go, especially for respiratory vaccine protection. Vaccine type. Should
I be used in a modified live or are there
some instances where maybe a killed vaccine would be better
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in an adjuvant type? And we don't necessarily talk about
that as much, but it is equally as important. So
what type of adgument? Does it even have an adjumentt
and what type and what role does that adgument play
and building long lasting immunity for young calves, it can
be important to prioritize a vaccine that stimulates an immune response,
even in the presence of internal and of bodies that
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come from feeding a high quality classroom.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
There are steps producers can take to ensure the vaccination
program delivers the best results possible for their herds.
Speaker 28 (36:19):
Good questions to ask your veterinarian would be when's the
right time to vaccinate so that maternal antibody doesn't block response,
And it's important to point out that the decline of
maternal antibodies is different for every bug, every bacteria, every virus,
and then there's variation from calf to cast. So maybe
considering a vaccine that works alongside your classroom program instead
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of being blocked by them. Also, how to stressors like
weening and transportation, weather events, seasonality, things like that affect
vaccine performance and can you kind of set it and
forget it or do you need to adjust your vaccine
schedule around some of those events and which diseases pose
the greatest threat to the herd in your area? And
also just because is that disease is there. Do we
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have effective vaccines against those diseases. It's a lot easier
and more economical to prevent disease, and it is to treat.
By the time we see calves that are sick, it's
already well into the course of the disease and some
damage is done again.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That is doctor Kerr of Leiitstra, a professional service veterinarian
with Bearinger Engelheim, and he went on to say that
maintaining a clean, comfortable environment with plenty of clean air,
fresh water, quality nutrition and strong biosecurity can round out
a good BRD prevention protocol. For more information, log onto
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cattle first dot com. That's cattle first dot com. Rabobank
says food inflation continues to outpace overall inflation, and restaurants
or feeling the pressure of nine straight quarters of declining traffic. However,
there are some chains that are bucking the trend and
growing in visits as well as spending
State's promoting agriculture is common among the vessels used our
state Departments of Agriculture and State far Bureaus, and in
the case of the Jayhawks, state It's State far Bureau
offers an avenue for producers to promote and sell their
goods at value added products. For as Kylie Stout explades,
when we.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Speak with farmers that we work with, their number one
challenge is marketing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
How can we reach more consumers?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How can we do that with minimal effort when they
have been working all day providing labor.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
To create the products or work the cattle.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That led to Kansas Far Bureau developing an odd lined
store shop Kansas farms.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A lot of times they work with us just to
outsource that because we can do it, and we can
provide a bigger outreach that they're not able to do
on their own, and we put on direct to marketing
workshops for them. We try to bring all the resources
and partner with other organizations to make sure they have
every tool available to them in their toolkit.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The convenias factor of sales avenues like shop kants as
farms are not lost on Kylie. Are those producers who
utilize their online presence.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A lot of the farmers that we work with don't
want to commit to a weekly farmers market.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
They want to be home with their family.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Makes sense, and so we provide a digital platform for
farmers to be able to sell their products twenty four
to seven to consumers.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Nor the irony that Kansas farm goods and value added
products the day we visited with Kylie were being sold
not just out of Farmer's Market, but the Great American
Farmers Market in Washington, d C. Earlier this summer. Yet,
she says, many producers are aware they need.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
To use all access points available to them to be
able to market their products. So this is one avenue
being at a farmer's market. The online availability is another.
Shipping nationwide is another. Wholesale models and grocery stores is one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Way to diversify revenue streams as well as make connections
with customers, even if virtually in part it's education not
just about the source of food, but Kansas agriculture. While
the state perhaps best known for wheat at small grades
at beef.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The sandtail plum jelly, the sandhil plum is the Kansas
state fruit. Thanks to a group of fifth graders who
wrote to the governor and said.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
This should be our state fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So it grows wild out in the western fields of
Kansas and we're proud to be promoting it in our
nation's capital.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It is, I think, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sweeter than a regular plum, but of course in the
jelly context, it's going to be sweeter because of the
added sugars that make it so great on a piece
of toast in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
For your breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Technological advances in US agriculture are not slowing down. Bob
Larsen reports.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We are seeing today's technological advancements everywhere, even in agriculture
where AI and automation are becoming increasingly common, and Keith
the Selka CEO and co founder of NWFM Northwest Farm
Management says it's not slowing down.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I think with the emergence of AI and then the
advancement it's robotics, autonomy, drones, a lot of the scanning
capabilities with these advanced cameras. It's really going to lend
itself well to helping the farmers kind of augment maybe
what they don't have in terms of human resources.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
When you're trying to cover a lot of ground. Biselka says,
these new capabilities can be crucial.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Just in terms of like tractor autonomy or autonomous vehicles.
A lot of those are coming into play now. You're
seeing more and more companies develop or have developed successful
tractors or sprayers, and those are I think you're going
to see a real kind of surgeence of those in
the near future.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And Baselka says this is in real.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Time the scanning capabilities knowing what's on the crop, crop size,
crop growth growth curves over course of the season, start
to look for like pest, the mildew tree condition.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Go to the Northwest Farm Management website at NWFM dot
biz for more information.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It's a tough time for production agriculture in the US,
especially in grain farming. Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde Smith
so things are heading in the wrong direction.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Well, you don't have to talk to many farmers to
quickly understand that we're heading in a dark direction there,
particularly on the road crop side of things. And we
all know it's the input costs, the interest rates through
the root, the crop prices aren't what they need to be,
and farm bankruptcies are soaring. There's many reasons for that,
but this is a serious, serious thing. You are going
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to see producers literally go out of business if we
don't give them a bridge a landline right now.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The reason farmers need a bridge is that the one
big beautiful Bill's programs don't start until next year.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Farmers can't wait that long. They will not be able
to meet their financial obligations, their current debt. And also
why you're trying to secure financing for next year's crop,
you know, without a bridge, and we're going to have
to get there last year. You know, I was a
part of working on that and we were successful, but
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I mean, it is like it was work, It was major,
it was a challenge, and that's one of the times
that you hit the Senate floor and you're going to
the leaders and then you're having to run over to
the house side and say, this is not the way
this is going to end. We have got to get
this supplemental out the door. And we were able to
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do that, but it was touch and go. I mean,
it's one of those times that you know, I'm so
guilty of diving in neck deep, but there was so
much anxiety with that because so much was at stake.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
She calls the farm crisis a national security issue.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
This go around, I think it's going to be a
little easier to get it passed because everybody is hearing
from their producers. You know, everybody's hearing throughout their states,
and they understand that this is a national security problem.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Again. That is Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Two longtime ag leaders will receive awards from the us
ME and Export Federation at the Organization Strategic Planning Conference
in November. Ted mckinne, CEO of the National Association of
State Departments of Agriculture, will receive the Michael J. Mansfield
Award for his dedication to trade relations, including his time
as the first USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
I remember on those many many travels. I think after well,
I got cut short by a year with COVID, But
in my two and a half years, we did a
half just shy of a half a million international air miles,
and we had another two hundred and fifty plan for
that final year but got cut out. There may have
been a trip that I was on where I didn't
see an MAF representative, but I don't remember it. We
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always sought them out because they're very wise to that market.
They know the people, the culture, the ups and the downs,
and the dynamics of trade, including barriers to trade, and
so I remember the fondly and it just adds a
great deal even more meaning to a receipt of this ward.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Dermot Hayes, who recently retired as an Iowa State University
professor and continues to serve as a consulting economist for
both the National Pork Board and National Pork Producers Council,
will receive the USMEF Distinguished Service Award. Hayes provided critical
market research during negotiations of several US free trade agreements,
including those with South Korea, Columbia, and Central America. All
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are now major destinations for US pork exports.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Last year I went to Guatemala to look at the
market there and met with your representatives, and that just
loom me away. Central America's is one huge opportunity. I
think eighty percent of the pork in Honduras is sourced
out of the US. That's all the pork consumed in
that country. And then there's Southeast Asia. There's as many
people in Southeast Asia as there are in China, and
so as their economies grow because of free trade, then
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the US pork industry will have fantastic opportunities.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
For more, please visit USMEF dot org for the US
ME and Export Federation. I'm John Arath.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
It's another ANG news update. Producers facing mixed signals this
week and partial SNAP funding on the way more after this.
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USDA says only about half of November SNAP benefits will
go out under court orders during the government shutdown. It's
a factor that could temper near term grocery demand in
some markets, while uncertainty lingers export inspections closed October with
the corn moved briskly supportive for bids near barge and
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unit train capacity, while soybean slowed, leaving cash strength more
dependent on crush and steady vessel programs out of both
the Gulf and Pacific Northwest. On inputs, a RABO research
note flags China's crop protection sector shifting from low cost
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production to innovation and overseas integration. It's a pivot that
could reshape pesticide availability and pricing over time and at
the food and wholesale level. Several produce lines ease proteins
were mixed into holiday buying, and vegetable oil prices softened
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even as shell eggs ticked tire and butter slipped. A
good week to sharpen selective forward buys and bases decisions.
It's another agnews update.
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Speaker 11 (10:28):
Com American Cattle News. Can we see the price of
beef come down before rebuilding the herd?
Speaker 16 (10:36):
More?
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Doctor daryl'peel, Oklahoma State Livestock Economists.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
You know beef prices are record high pretty much across
the board. Consumers have been willing to pay that, and
you know, the market is working. Beef production is falling
because of where we are with cattle inventories, so there
is less beef. The market's going to ration that to
the folks that want it the most and have the
means to pay the most, and all of that's working.
So you know, it's not clear to me that we
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need to if you will mess with the market a
little bit. Some of it comes down to the last
you know, CPI report on inflation, beef was kind of
identified as one of the markets that's up the most,
and there's other markets as well. But the thing is,
no one market causes inflation. Inflation is a general concept
where a lot of markets are going up, and beef
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happens to be going up coincidentally, not for any broad
based reason. That's affecting other markets as well. So even
if we had no inflation, beef prices would still be
high because of the supply fundamentals that we have and
the demand fundamentals, and so you know, it's kind of
being rolled into a lot of other issues here, I think,
and that's unfortunate because then you know, it gets kind
(12:16):
of confusing and causes some additional issues you and O.
It's going to depend on again, this attention that's been
focused on it kind of from an inflation perspective, may
not let it because beef prices aren't going to come
down and there's really nothing anybody can do to change that.
We're already importing a lot of beef. There's no additional
imports that fundamentally are going to change that very much.
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And again that's mostly affecting the ground beef market for
the most part, so there's certainly nothing that's going to
change stake prices, for example. And so you know, hopefully
things settle down and we get some of the headlines
out of the beef market, and the beef markets will
take care of themselves if that happens.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
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Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 18 (13:02):
Now it's time for Ask the Event with doctor Ryan Leiderman,
director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek and Ryan Today,
you have two pathogens that fascinate you. But this is
from a scientific standpoint.
Speaker 19 (13:14):
I don't know what farmers are going to find this
stuff super interesting as I do, but to me, it
is just fascinating both of which can cause pneumonia. So
the first one will be salmonilla. It is pretty common
on a lot of dairies and it seems like it's
getting more common. And salinil is interesting. So salmonil's a
bacteria that can cause infection the animal, and it can
make animals very sick and even cause death. And some
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of the strains of salmonilla that infect cattle can also
infect humans and make humans very sick or even a
cause of death for humans. So it's nothing to mess with.
Every animal, humans included, have an immune system, but part
of it are called white blood cells. They move around
in the blood and you can almost think of white
blood cells like a giant pac man looking for bacteria.
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They kind of chase them down and eat them and
gobble them up and destroy them, and that's how your
body fights infection. And so imagine that these pac men
find these salmonilla and they eat them. But lo and
behold salmonilla. It actually found a way to hide in
the white blood cells and it lives in the white
blood cells. So if you think about this, if the
white blood cells are like you know, police driving around
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in their cop cars to pick up the bad guys.
Salmonilla has found a way to hide and live in
the cop car. There's not a more interesting defense mechanism
than learning to live and hide within the very thing
that is seeking to destroy you. That's what makes salmonilla
so problematic. Many of these other bacteria have never come
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up with this mechanism, and so the white blood cells
eat them and they destroy the bacteria and the animal
gets better. Salmonilla is quite different in the fact that
it can actually hide and live and thrive within the
actual white blood cell that is trying to kill it.
It's fascinating as far as I'm concerned, and the fact
that salmonilla has developed this over time, I think is
particularly interesting. Another thing that I think is fascinating is
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a different bacteria. It's called michael plasma. People might know
in the dairy industry for michael plasma messtitis in adult
cous or microplasma pneumonia, not typical in young calves. But
michael Plasma, nonetheless is another type of bacteria, and it
has developed some ways to make animals sick that are
actually quite unique. So it kind of a gross analogy.
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But in all and you're sick, and you just cough
up some phlegm. The reason that you're able to cough
up phlegm is because of a thing called the mucalcilliary escalator. Okay,
And what they are is, imagine your lungs. Inside your
lungs are covered with billions of tiny, tiny, tiny microscopic
little hairs called cilia, and these hairs called the escalator
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because they act like an escalator stand an airport. This
escalator system. These little hairs kind of beat and they
keep kind of pushing stuff out from the depths of
your lungs all the way up and to the point
where they get it far enough to the top of
the line that you can actually cough it out. And
imagine if we didn't have this mucocilary escalator, or calves
didn't have it. Eventually, over time, I mean, you just
(16:08):
live your life. You're going to breathe some dust, and
so this mucocillary escalator is super important at getting dust
and gunk out of your lungs and also very important
to present prevent pathogens like pneumonia causing bacteria. And so
imagine if you're standing at the top of an escalator
and you're trying to get to the bottom, but the
escalator is going up. Okay, that's how the mucocillary escalator works,
(16:30):
and that makes it very hard for bacteria to cause
a pneumonia infection. And Michaelplasma knows that that makes it hard,
so it developed a way to secrete a toxin that
paralyzes the mucocilary escalator. Well, now you can just very
casually walk down the escalator to the bottom, and that's
what Michael Plasma does. It has a hard time getting
down the escalator because it's constantly pushing it back up.
(16:51):
So it developed a way to say, fine, we'll just
unplug you, and they secrete this tox and then they
paralyze the mucocillary escalator, which is a very big part
of the natural defense mechanism, and then it just waltz
as casually down into the lungs and sets up a
rip in pneumonia in these caves. And I also think
that whole concept is just fascinating how Michael Plasma over
(17:12):
time had developed this mechanism to defeat the muclecillary escalator
and paralyze it. You know, I tip my hat to
Michael Plasma for coming up with such a unique way
to overcome that problem. So just a couple of things
that I think as producers are out there dealing, you know,
maybe with Michael plasma pneumonia in their calves, or or
salmonilla infection and some cows or in some calves. The
(17:34):
more we understand about how they make animals sick, the
more we can better battle them. And I also just
think interesting bit of science and physiology.
Speaker 18 (17:41):
Well, thank you, Ryan. We're out of time now, but
that's doctor Ryan Lierman, director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.
If you have a question for Ryan, simply email him
at Ask the Vet at Crystal Creek Natural dot com.
Speaker 20 (17:56):
And I'm and Gower talks about our operation. It's shared
among the family members. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California
TRENA Report, part of the VASAG Information Network. John Lee
Dunn Farms up in northern California.
Speaker 21 (18:10):
My husband and I personally owned sixty acres of in
the Dunnegan area. Then we have one hundred acres of
independence in our buckles. And then my family, the Henderson family.
We have a farm management company called Henderson Farms.
Speaker 20 (18:29):
And they've been conscientiously caring for almonds and walnut orchards
in northern California since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 21 (18:35):
So we have farm management company. You know, some of
them are owned by us personally, like the orchards my
husband and I have, and then my brother has some
orchards and my brother in law, so we have our
own orchards, and then we have some orchards that are leased,
and then we have some that are managed where we
manage them for other people and we do everything from
(18:55):
planting to taking care of the orchard and then harvesting it.
And then we have for process sina fe.
Speaker 20 (19:02):
The operations very vertically integrated. Now John Lee talks about
the growing season. There weren't many heat spikes this past summer,
but then rain came at harvest.
Speaker 21 (19:12):
You know, we were able to dodge it pretty well,
but and it didn't always materialize. But you're always worried
about that next storm.
Speaker 20 (19:18):
That's Northern California arm and grower John Leegue done.
Speaker 22 (19:22):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sephena
insecticide from BASF.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
We just get nailed with it.
Speaker 23 (19:29):
So tell us how you feeling really really weird and
you still want to devour this.
Speaker 12 (19:34):
Few No way bro. There you have it, folks.
Speaker 22 (19:38):
Safena insecticide is specifically engineered to disorient aphis and wife
flies so they can't eat, and when they can't eat,
they can't destroy.
Speaker 24 (19:46):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
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 more most farmers are
behind the wheel of the pickup truck or farm equipment
with the radio on, listening to this station for the
AG Information Network of the West News. So reach real
farmers right here, right now as they listen to what's
(20:13):
important to their farm operation. Give us a call and
we'll connect you with our local farming community. They trust us,
so they'll trust you with the AG Information Network. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
President Trump drew the ire of the US cattle industry
after proposing to import more beef Argentina to help lower
beef priises at US grocery stores. Christian Level, the senior
director of programs for Farm Action, says he was not
happy with Trump, saying that producers need to take less
money to help lower cattle prices.
Speaker 25 (20:46):
The president's comments on social media were disrespectful to me
and the cattle producers across the United States. I don't
know what the president's advisors are telling him, but they
are wrong. It's not the American ranch that controls the
price of beef in this country. It's the giant corporations
who control meat packing. And there's only four of them,
(21:07):
and recent estimates say they control eighty to eighty five
percent of the market. They are a monopoly, and this
monopoly is about as corrupt as they come. It seems
like every time you turn around, there's a new price
fixing lawsuit. For too long, this meat packing monopoly has
profited off the backs of the American consumer. They've squeezed
out independent cattle producers. That set up the scenario where
(21:31):
you have something like a multi year drought that all
of a sudden, cattle inventory numbers are as low as
they are.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He questions if enough beef can be purchased from Argentina
to make a big difference for beef prices.
Speaker 25 (21:43):
Argentina is a country that they themselves consume a lot
of beef, so they have their own domestic demand that
they have to meet. It's also been raised Argentina is
a country that does have active foot and Mouth disease cases.
That is a very highly contagious disease that has been
eradicated here in the United States for quite some time.
Every pound of beef that we import from a country
(22:04):
with active FMD cases represents a risk to our industry
and our food supply. I'm not convinced that just importing
beef solves the consolidation problem that we had. Earlier this month,
Tyson and Cargill had to settle. I believe it was
close to eighty eight million dollars that they're going to
pay out to consumers for a price fixing lawsuit related
(22:26):
to beef that goes back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
While farmers will hopefully get more financial help during the downturn,
lovel says it is indicative of larger problems.
Speaker 25 (22:36):
I'm pretty sure we're going to see another government bailout
that will provide short term relief. We're concerned that some
of that money does end up in the largest operators,
and so all of those things are important factors in that.
But it's also important to realize that's not a sustainable
solution when you look at the last twelve months. There
was a bailout last winter. There was money that was
(22:57):
in this one big beautiful bill package over the summer,
and now we're hearing about another farm or bailout this fall. Yeah,
that's a band aid, but totally unsustainable for the American taxpayers.
Totally unsustainable on a government spending and it's a red
flag that something is wrong.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
He talks about what direction the President and his administration
should be going in.
Speaker 25 (23:19):
We want the President to double down on domestic cattle
production and domestic beef production. American ranchers, as I mentioned,
they are the critical component of our ability to produce
the safest, highest quality, most sustainable beef of anywhere in
the world. Importing beef is not the answer here. We've
got to rebuild the nation's cowherd, and in order to
(23:40):
do that, ranswers have to have the right to incentives
and they have to have a fair market. So what
I would encourage the President to take a look at
is restoring the mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Love Will also pointed out that beef is one of
the few products that doesn't have a country of origin label.
If you like the flavor of pepper's, but aren't a
big fan of the heat of some bring to your meals.
Oregon State University has two mild hob and euros you
might like. Oregon State University Professor Jim Myers says, you
can grow them yourself.
Speaker 26 (24:12):
Being something that's maybe ten days to two weeks earlier
than a traditional habit narrow, but then has this mile
pungency with a very strong fruity flavor that these have.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Myers says, they cook up nicely.
Speaker 26 (24:26):
Chefs I've worked with really like these because you can
have that intense flavor without having a lot of pungency there,
and then adjust the pungency to whatever you want in
a particular dish.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
He spent several years developing the mild Thing and the
not a Hota I've always liked.
Speaker 26 (24:43):
And they have narrow peppers because they have this wonderful
fruity fragrance and aroma and flavor, but then they get
some masked by the heat and they having narrow.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Type growing them. Myers cells kind of depends on where
you live.
Speaker 26 (24:58):
The mild thing is better adapted to the sitting Northwest.
It's one of my favorite because it's got a little
more of the fruity aroma to it than ajata is
more broadly adapted across the US, and maybe not quite
as intensive.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Flavor again, Adas Oregon State University Professor Jim Myers. I'm
Dwayne Merley, and you're listening to AGG Live. Thank you
for being with us today.
Speaker 27 (25:23):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
Speaker 17 (25:27):
I am Hayley's ship Well.
Speaker 27 (25:29):
A new report from the USDA's Economic Research Service highlights
the importance of California agriculture across the nation and around
the world. The state's farms and ranches brought in sixty
one point two billion dollars in cash receipts for twenty
twenty four, a three point six percent increase from the
previous year. With more than four hundred commodities, California produces
(25:53):
nearly half of the nation's vegetables and over three quarters
of its fruits and nuts. Very products led the way
at eight point sixty one billion dollars, followed by almonds, grapes, cattle,
in calves, and lettuce. Also in the top ten strawberries, pistachios, tomatoes, carrots,
and broilers. On the global front, exports totaled twenty two
(26:15):
point four billion dollars in twenty twenty three, a five
point nine percent drop from twenty twenty two. Top exports
included almonds, pistachios, dairy wine, and walnuts. Now California also
leads in organic agriculture sales, rows twenty one point seven
percent since twenty nineteen to reach eleven point eight billion
(26:36):
dollars in twenty twenty three, with one point seven eight
million acres certified under the nation's only state run organic program.
Speaker 17 (26:45):
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(27:05):
I always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 22 (27:08):
Today we're talking with aphids and wife flies about sefena
insecticide from basf.
Speaker 23 (27:13):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us how
you feeling really, really weird and you still wanted to
devour this few? No way, bro, there you have it, folks.
Speaker 22 (27:24):
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 (27:32):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.
Speaker 27 (27:38):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
Find more agricultural news at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You're listening to AGG Live. Thank you for being with us.
This morning, President Trump drew the ire of the US
cattle industry after proposing to import more beef Margentina to
help lower beef prices at US grocery stores. Level. The
senior director of programs for Farm Action says he was
not happy with Trump, saying that producers need to take
(28:08):
less money to help lower cattle prices.
Speaker 25 (28:11):
The President's comments on social media were disrespectful to me
and the cattle producers across the United States. I don't
know what the President's advisors are telling him, but they
are wrong. It's not the American rancher that controls the
price of beef in this country. It's the giant corporations
who control meat packing. And there's only four of them,
(28:32):
and recent estimates say they control eighty to eighty five
percent of the market. They are a monopoly, and this
monopoly is about as corrupt as they come. It seems
like every time you turn around, there's a new price
fixing lawsuit. For too long, this meat packing monopoly has
profited off the backs of the American consumer. They've squeezed
out independent cattle producers. That set up the scenario where
(28:55):
you have something like a multi year drought that all
of a sudden, cattle inventory numbers are as low as
they are.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
He questions if enough beef can be purchased from Argentina
to make a big difference for beef prices.
Speaker 25 (29:08):
Argentina is a country that they themselves consume a lot
of beef, so they have their own domestic demand that
they have to meet. It's also been raised Argentina is
a country that does have active foot and Mouth disease cases.
That is a very highly contagious disease that has been
eradicated here in the United States for quite some time.
Every pound of beef that we import from a country
(29:29):
with active FMD cases represents a risk to our industry
and our food supply. I'm not convinced that just importing
beef solves the consolidation problem that we have. Earlier this month,
Tyson and Cargill had to settle. I believe it was
close to eighty eight million dollars that they're going to
pay out to consumers for a price fixing lawsuit related
(29:51):
to beef that goes back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
While farmers will hopefully get more financial help during the downturn,
Lovell says, it is indicative of larger I'm.
Speaker 25 (30:01):
Pretty sure we're going to see another government bailout that
will provide short term relief. We're concerned that some of
that money does end up in the largest operators, and
so all of those things are important factors in that.
But it's also important to realize that's not a sustainable
solution when you look at the last twelve months. There
was a bailout last winter, there was money that was
(30:21):
in this one big beautiful bill package over the summer,
and now we're hearing about another farmer bailout this fall. Yeah,
that's a band aid, but totally unsustainable for the American taxpayer.
It's totally unsustainable on a government spending and it's a
red flag that something is wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
He talks about what direction the president and his administration
should be going in.
Speaker 25 (30:44):
We want the president to double down on domestic cattle
production and domestic beef production. American ranchers, as I mentioned,
they are the critical component of our ability to produce
the safest, highest quality, most sustainable beef of anywhere in
the world. Beef is not the answer here. We've got
to rebuild the nation's cowherd, and in order to do that,
(31:05):
rnswers have to have the right incentives and they have
to have a fair market. So what I would encourage
the President to take a look at is restoring the
mandatory country of origin labeling.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Love Will also pointed out that beef is one of
the few products that doesn't have a country of origin label.
The Trump administration announced the series of trade deals and
frameworks with several Asian countries, some of which include new
market access for US ethanol. The deals also include additional
opportunities for corn and corn products like distillers, dride greens,
(31:36):
and solubles. My name is Dwyane Merley and you're listening
to agg Life. Thank you for being with us this morning.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
From the Egg Information Network. I Bob Larson and this
is your agribusiness update. Well, the Meat Institute was pleased
to hear about the White House trade deals with Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand,
and Vietnam. Meat Institute President Julianna Potts says we applaud
the elimination of onerous registration requirements and the reinforcement of sound,
internationally recognized science in determining market access. She says, we're
(32:07):
grateful to Trade Representative Jamison Greer and Assistant USTR Julie
Callahan for their hard work on tariff and non tariff
trade barriers. The US Senate voted fifty two to forty
eight two and tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, in
a bipartisan rebuke of President Trump's trade policy. The tariffs
imposed under emergency power in July added a fifty percent
(32:28):
duty on goods from Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats in support,
and while the measure is unlikely to advance in the
House or survive a veto, it highlights growing frustration over
the use of emergency powers for trade. The White House
issued a fact sheet on recent US negotiations with China
as stating China has agreed to lift all retaliatory tariffs
(32:48):
on US egg products imposed during Trump's second term. Agrimarketing
dot Com reports this includes tariffs on chicken, wheat, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef,
aquatic products, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. China responded to new
US tariffs in March with a twenty percent retaliatory teff
on US soybeans and other egg products.
Speaker 17 (33:08):
Increasing your almond yield can seem like a tough nut
to crack, but it doesn't have to be. Protect your
crop with Maravon funga side and Bloom for added resiliency
against frost, long lasting, broad spectrum disease control, and proven
yield results. See that wouldn't tough at all. Maravon funge
a side number one in Bloom for all the right reasons.
(33:28):
Always read and follow label directions.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
For over forty years, the Egg Information Network has been
providing news and information for the most important industry in
the world, agriculture. The Egg Information Network gives you worldwide
updates from local producers to regional organizations, from major crops
like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture to specially crops
like apples, almonds and cherries. We report on stories that
(33:52):
mean the most to you online at aginfo dot net.
The Egg Information Network. Trusted and transparent journalism lasting for
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Speaker 5 (34:00):
From theag Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
My name's Dwayne Merley, and you're listening to ag Life.
Thank you for being with us this morning. Both vine
respiratory disease does not take a season off. BRD remains
a costly challenge for dairy herds every year. Doctor Kurt Vleaitstra,
a professional service veterinarian with Berenger Engelheim, says selecting the
(34:26):
right vaccine is a big part of protecting a dairy
cav's health and future performance.
Speaker 28 (34:31):
BRD accounts for almost twenty five percent of pre weened
helfer deaths and so death within the first sixty days
of life, and more than half of ween heifer deaths
so those that occur after sixty days but before they
get into the lactating herd. So it's significant. It's a
compounding disease that never really seems to run out of
opportunities to take money from producers. You know, there's studies
(34:53):
that have shown that Heifer's challenge with respiratory disease within
the first three months of life are more likely to
have at least three months later than those that didn't.
And then research is also shown that Heffer's challenge with
respiratory disease early in life are likely to produce less
milk in their first lactation and that may even carry
on into later lactations. That's why a strong vaccination program
(35:15):
can help set calves up to better battle any future
respiratory challenges.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Valistra talked about questions producers need to ask their veterinarians
when setting up a vaccination program.
Speaker 28 (35:26):
So, selecting a respiratory vaccine, there's probably three main components
to think about and ask your veterinarian about. So rout
of administration injectable vaccines intranasal vaccines are the primary way
to go, especially for respiratory vaccine protection. Vaccine type. Should
I be used in a modified live or are there
some instances where maybe a killed vaccine would be better
(35:49):
in an adjuvant type? And we don't necessarily talk about
that as much, but it is equally as important. So
what type of adgument? Does it even have an adjumentt
and what type and what role does that adgument play
and building long lasting immunity for young calves, it can
be important to prioritize a vaccine that stimulates an immune response,
even in the presence of internal and of bodies that
(36:09):
come from feeding a high quality classroom.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
There are steps producers can take to ensure the vaccination
program delivers the best results possible for their herds.
Speaker 28 (36:19):
Good questions to ask your veterinarian would be when's the
right time to vaccinate so that maternal antibody doesn't block response,
And it's important to point out that the decline of
maternal antibodies is different for every bug, every bacteria, every virus,
and then there's variation from calf to cast. So maybe
considering a vaccine that works alongside your classroom program instead
(36:40):
of being blocked by them. Also, how to stressors like
weening and transportation, weather events, seasonality, things like that affect
vaccine performance and can you kind of set it and
forget it or do you need to adjust your vaccine
schedule around some of those events and which diseases pose
the greatest threat to the herd in your area? And
also just because is that disease is there. Do we
(37:01):
have effective vaccines against those diseases. It's a lot easier
and more economical to prevent disease, and it is to treat.
By the time we see calves that are sick, it's
already well into the course of the disease and some
damage is done again.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That is doctor Kerr of Leiitstra, a professional service veterinarian
with Bearinger Engelheim, and he went on to say that
maintaining a clean, comfortable environment with plenty of clean air,
fresh water, quality nutrition and strong biosecurity can round out
a good BRD prevention protocol. For more information, log onto
(37:37):
cattle first dot com. That's cattle first dot com. Rabobank
says food inflation continues to outpace overall inflation, and restaurants
or feeling the pressure of nine straight quarters of declining traffic. However,
there are some chains that are bucking the trend and
growing in visits as well as spending
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