November 7, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn.
With you for the next hour. We're talking about agricultural
production here in the valley and all across the country.
Well friends, we start off with a story looking at
building pork demand here in the US. The Food and
Nutrition Conference and expo, known as fence E, brings together

(00:21):
health and wellness professionals for networking and education. Emily Krauss,
director of Nutrition, Health and Wellness Initiatives with the National
Pork Board, says the event provides the pork industry with
a valuable opportunity to share the pork story by using
science based information to highlight its nutritional benefits and role

(00:42):
in a healthy diet.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
This audience, in particular, is really receptive to hearing science
based information. This is the prime example of where we
can really share our nutrition research and dive into the
weeds with this audience. They also love hearing about how
pork is nutritious, but how it's flavorful.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Krause said fence E was a great opportunity to showcase
pork and partners and share more about the National Pork
Board's new campaign Taste what Pork Can Do, which highlights
the flavor, versatility, and nutrition pork brings to every meal, and.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
This is really the biggest event that we've had that
we can bring taste what pork can do to register
dietitians since we launched earlier this year, and it's an
opportunity for them to talk with producers. This is my
third year doingfency with National Pork Board, and time and
time again, we'd love to see how dietitians really respond

(01:38):
to having producers at our booth. We engaged with over
eight hundred attendees.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Krause said the attendance at fence E provided valuable opportunities
to connect with professionals across the dietary industry, including retail dietitians.
She shared that the National Pork Board introduced a message
focused on seasonal themes, helping dietitians incorporate pork into their
own company promotions during the upcoming holiday season. Friends, Coming up,

(02:05):
we have a story on international oil prices and factors
surrounding oil prices and how that translate to gas prices
here in the US. That's ahead on today's edition of
Aglife Bob. When here were some farm news this morning, friends, Well,
since nineteen seventy six, there have been twenty one federal
government shutdowns and this is now one of the longest.

(02:27):
As it drags on, Cam Quarrels, CEO of the National
Potato Council, says, other countries are loving it.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, absolutely, every moment that we're shut down. None of
our competitors around the world are shut down, and they're
very happy to fill the void any type of little
competitive kickup from the United States. Our competitors are very
very happy to step in and try to claimless market.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
So who gets the blame?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
We are in the how.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Long can you keep your hand on the hot stove
phase of this, And honestly, this kind of happens with
every shutdown is both parties blame each other, you know,
and usually that blame they're started partially right, you know.
It's kind of like, if you're blame them all, you
got the right one.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But both sides have really dug in their heels, and then.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Really it's just who's going to blank first, And you know,
part of getting them for that blanking is just when
the political pain gets heaped on them.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
As the shutdown drags on. Economist warn that even with
FSA offices back open. The absence of key USDA reports
is crippling every corner of the agg economy, from commodity
markets to cattle prices and farm level business planning. Meanwhile, friends,
oil prices continue the trend we've seen for several months.

(03:42):
Prices don't deviate much week to week, holding in the
low to mid sixty dollars range. Patrick Dehan is the
senior petroleum analyst with gasbuddy dot com.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
It's really a balance of new Russian sanctions that President
Trump announced in the last couple of weeks. Those sanctions
pretend actually curbing the flow of oil out of Russia.
On the other side of the seemingly same equition on
oil production, OPEC met over the weekend and decided to
again increase oil output for the month of December. Before
we all start jumping up and down at how great

(04:15):
that might be for pushing oil lower. The group also
agreed that they were going to pause further increases that
would have taken effect January, February and March of twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
De Haan said one thing that could move the oil
price stalemate is a trade agreement between the US and China.
He says if the trade increases because of a reduction
in tariffs, that could push global oil demand up slightly
on the potential that it could improve both the American
and Chinese economies.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
But for now, you know, the seasonal downturn in gas
prices really being checked by some of the potential for sanctions. Overall,
gas prices largely pretty quiet across the country. The national
average at about two ninety nine a gallon this morning,
it likely will PERNK back above the three dollars.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Mark Patrick de Haan gas buddy joining us. The Texas
Sorghum Producers recently took a trade trip to Asia to
expand trade opportunities. Wayne Cleveland, the executive director of the
Texas Sorghum Producers, said, they've had some success in Vietnam.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
We were there two years ago overheard out from ben One,
which is their big private owned feed company, had mentioned
he wanted speed that didn't turn his slash on his pangasios,
which is basically catfish. We got him a paraload to
sorghum and they started crushing it. Megan Bollos out of it,
so we flew into herchie Mint City, which is in
the South. A lot of people call it Saigon and

(05:43):
called on Hume and then called on more customers. We
think we have a really good in there.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
While in Vietnam, the US announced a trade framework agreement
between the two countries.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Of course, while we're there. It's the framework for the
Vietnam trade agreement. Sorghum got a little kind of bad
end of the stick. We got a little two percent
tariffs that we're going to be able to probly work
our way out of.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Wayne Cleveland, Texas sorghum producers this morning and finally, friends
after leaders between the two countries met last week, China
will suspend retaliatory tariffs on US imports, including duties on
some farm goods. While Beijing confirmed that this week, US
soybeans still face a thirteen percent tariff, Reuters said China's

(06:23):
Tariff Commission of the State Council is eliminating duties of
up to fifteen percent imposed on some US agricultural goods
on November ten. Tariffs of ten percent introduced in response
to President Trump's Liberation Day duties will stay in place.
Traders say that despite the tariff cut, importers looking at
US soybeans still face a tariff of thirteen percent, which

(06:46):
makes US shipments more expensive for commercial buyers compared to
Brazil's soybean shipments farm US. This morning, you're listening to Aglife.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
It's another agnews update trade diploma see take center stage
for US Chinese relations ethanol output slips.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
Here's farmer and landowner John Pruf.

Speaker 8 (07:09):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and we're
going to clear the lands we could farm through it.
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
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Speaker 6 (07:36):
This week's President Trump, President she summoned signaled a reset
in US China trade relations, pairing tariff discussions with renewed
access for key farm commodities like corn, beef and soybeans.
China state owned COFCO confirming a small test purchase of

(07:57):
six point six million bushels of soybeans. That's their first
of the twenty twenty five crop. It hints the progress
ahead of broader agreements. Ethanol output easing one point nine
percent last week to one pointz nine million barrels per day,
but stocks and exports increase, reinforcing the US's strong global position.

(08:24):
Now on the home front, AG America reports that fewer
than one in four farm families have a formal succession plan.
Rais's concerns as nearly half of US farmland could change
hands in the next two decades. Rivo Bank's fall harvest
outlook underscores tightening margins, citing high input costs and trade

(08:47):
instability as key threats for profitability heading into twenty twenty six.
It's another AG News update.

Speaker 9 (08:56):
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Speaker 6 (09:25):
Benz Deal American Cattle News, a member of the HALSAG
Committee weighing in on tariffs and trade.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
More after this, here's farmer and landowner John Prouve.

Speaker 8 (09:39):
We purchased the land about three years ago and there
was an old farmstead on there with trees, and you're
going to clear the lands.

Speaker 10 (09:44):
We could farm through it.

Speaker 8 (09:45):
We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we
didn't call to get it located. The work on our
property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but it could have been
much worse.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one to one or visit clickbefore youdig dot
com before you start work. A message from the pipeline
operators for egg Safety Campaign.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Eric Sorenson is a representative from Illinois, member of the
House Agg Committee.

Speaker 11 (10:12):
Right, because another thing that we have to understand here
tony is when we talk about trade and tariffs, these
are things that the United States has done to itself. Right,
the rest of the world isn't dealing with the trade war.
The trade war is what we are having to deal
with by our own hand. And so when we look
at what China has done, you know, China was slighted

(10:35):
in the first Trump presidency to the point where they
went and made best friends with Brazil and with Argentina,
and we now were seeing the problem because our soybean
farmers now don't have an export market. You know, and
I was critical in the previous administration as well that
we need to open up more markets.

Speaker 12 (10:53):
We need to do that everywhere.

Speaker 13 (10:55):
I would like to see more market stability for our
exports and dan and into South Africa and the rest
of South America and into Europe.

Speaker 11 (11:05):
And then also looking at why on earth would this
administration feel it is right to bail.

Speaker 13 (11:12):
Out Argentina before we actually help solidify our own farmers.
You know, look in the end, our producers, they don't
want to bail out. They want better policy. You know,
our producers want somebody who's going to champion the Mississippi
River to make sure that we're so resilient here that

(11:32):
we're understanding what we need to do for our inland
ports that we're extending our locks on the river system
so that we can get our exports to market faster.
We need to be able to innovate as opposed to
this administration which is just allowing this constriction of the
entire agg market.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is Dairy Radio.

Speaker 14 (12:01):
Now it's time for our feet for him Friday with
doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois.

Speaker 15 (12:09):
Hello, Mike, we.

Speaker 16 (12:09):
Welcome to today's feed FORARM and Our topic is going
to be microtoxin mitigation. This was presented at the four
State Extensive Conference doctor Joel Pandelski from ARM and Hammer,
and it's really interesting where do these microtoxins built come from?
And basically they are a secondary matemelite that produced by
fungi that can occur in the field or in storage itself.

(12:32):
He reported that in a twenty twenty four survey of
twelve thousand samples around the world, actually eighty five percent
of these grains contain one or more of the microtoxins.
He points out that one of the real risks would
be the added effect. In other words, if you have
one microtoxin at least dairy cattle can tolerate one microtoxin
fairly will when he started getting two or three. They

(12:54):
can really have impact on the count. Impacts include in
the digestive tract. It can have destructive attests in the
small intestine. A larger testing and of course effect a
rumined function and slow down those microbes as well. Testing
is possible for microtoxins if the results are really quite variable.
In fact, if you look at a big bunker feeds touffs,

(13:14):
he illustrated that depending where you were in that feedbunk,
the numbers could jump all over the map. Apple toxin
is one microtoxin our listeners may not be aware of,
but certainly is an important one because that's regulated by Fdaight.
If you find microtoxins in the milk, that milk no
longer can be sold to consumers or made us made
into dairy products as well, and effects not only the

(13:37):
milk sales but also the cow at high levels as well.
So the game plan here is threefold. Number one to
prevent negative effects that may be due to binding, to
remove the ability of the microtoxin to have impacts in
the room or affect the small intestinal wall and cause
damage there. Number two. The approach is to provide protection

(14:01):
of the ciular level, especially in the small intestine where
you can see some leakings that can occur as well,
and then build in resilience, in other words, so the
count can handle if there's a challenge that comes to
the count can handle that as well. Accommonly, we're going
to see some products that you has sell wall products
out there as binders. We can also see some of
the bentonites that be in the marketplace, and these vent

(14:24):
nights I finally ground as well. To test some of
these products on the marketplace, they use what they call
a cytotoxicity test, in which they take epithelial cells and
expose them to the microtoxins and see how these cells act.
As well. We can also look at some of the
results come looking intestinal barrier function proteins that will protect

(14:44):
the gut as well and leads to the resiliency. Resiliency
really will look at trying to bind these products and
protect the gut as well. He also then looked at
more difficult ones. He indicated that don Don is the
most difficult one. ESPEC state foragers to control. Athletoxins generally
will affect grain as well. And as a carcentergen for

(15:06):
human there and of course climate effects really become key
in microtoxin formation. So our takeome messager's bill include number
one that if you're going to use a product to
reduce and help dairy cattle, it has to be well researched.
Be sure you ask for the research results. Number two,
try to target the microtoxin. Different products will affect different microtoxins.

(15:28):
They must be cost effective, certainly out there on the
dairy farm, and easily to apply out on the dairy
farm without no restriction. Well, that completes the program for today. Thanks, Hey,
I have a great day.

Speaker 14 (15:38):
Thank you, Mike. That's doctor Mike Hutchins, Professor Emeridis from
the University of Illinois, featured every Friday here on our
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Speaker 20 (16:56):
Crazy in the California. I'm an industry is a lot
to be thank you full for all the work they do.
I'm Patrick Cabana with a California tree Nut Report, part
of the AG Information Network. Joseph Connall is a long
time farm advisor working with tree nut growers. He's an
emeritus status with UCA and R, but he has a
lot of history with the almond industry. Says it's a

(17:19):
great industry to be part of.

Speaker 21 (17:20):
Yeah, it really is. The almond industry is amazing industry
when you think about it. When I started initially as
a farm advisor back in the late seventies, at that time,
the industry had been expanding and they had something like
three hundred million pounds of production, and our egg economists,
to Davis, were wondering what in the world they're going
to do with all those nuts, and they were talking

(17:41):
about the fact that almonds might begin to be overplanted. Well,
as you know, it didn't really work out that way,
and the industry was so good at marketing, and the
almond board has been excellent at expanding markets over the years,
and we've kept up with our increasing acreage and production,
you know, for the first to a billion pounds, and
then the two billion pounds and now over three billion

(18:02):
pounds a couple of years ago. So it's been an
amazing industry. I don't know of any other industry that's
increased production like that without having a disastrous price situation.

Speaker 20 (18:12):
And of course the armin industry is in a downturn
right now, but it surely will come out of that
downturn soon.

Speaker 21 (18:18):
You know, partly related to the pandemic and shipping and
supply chains and all of those things.

Speaker 22 (18:24):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sephena
insecticide from basf.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
We just get nailed with it.

Speaker 12 (18:30):
So tell us how you feeling really, really weird.

Speaker 22 (18:34):
And you still want to devour this field?

Speaker 6 (18:37):
No way, bro.

Speaker 10 (18:39):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (18:40):
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Speaker 23 (18:48):
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Speaker 15 (18:53):
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(19:15):
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Patrick Cavanaugh.

Speaker 24 (19:26):
Dairy producers are closely watching for signs of how agriculture
and nutrition policy may evolve, especially when it comes to
making America healthy again. Stephanie Hoff has more.

Speaker 25 (19:39):
What are some of those key differences between President Trump's
first and second term that dairy producers should take note of.
We're hearing it today from someone who is inside the administration,
Greg Dowd. Along with us he's the National Milk Producers
Federation President and CEO. Before arriving at NMPF, he was

(19:59):
working trained negotiations for President Trump, serving as Chief Agricultural
Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
This was from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one. He says,
this time around, make America great Again came with make
America healthy again. But how does day fit into that conversation?

Speaker 10 (20:20):
We're having a time here.

Speaker 26 (20:23):
What they are talking about is really an important change
in how we feed ourselves as human beings, and the
fact that you know, we've got to get away from
all this ultra process stuff that we're in.

Speaker 10 (20:35):
I think everybody kind of agrees with that.

Speaker 26 (20:37):
It's just a matter of how you define it, And
I don't know what that is and what that looks like.
And we need to get back to more protein in
our diet. We need to get back to more whole
foods in our diet. What is that definition. I don't
know what it means, but I think for us in dairy,
there is this huge recognition that fat and dairy isn't
bad for you.

Speaker 10 (20:57):
It's good for you.

Speaker 26 (20:58):
It's brain food critical thing that helps your body function.
And we're not saying that you need to drink a
gallon of milk a day or anything like that.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
You know, it's all in moderation.

Speaker 26 (21:08):
But I think there is an overwhelming realization of the
nutrition and the importance of protein and the products that
we make in dairy, from cheese to butter, to yogurt
to cottage cheese. You know, the combination of protein and
the right kinds of saturated fat.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
We see this now as human beings.

Speaker 26 (21:30):
And this time the best term that I saw is,
you know, all this old dietary guideline stuff, it isn't
science anymore. It's become dogma, and we need to get
past it and get back to what we know about
the science and nutrition today.

Speaker 25 (21:44):
Even though we're still waiting on nutrition guidelines right nowhing's
really set in stone. We're seeing the industry kind of
move forward with this Maha thing, Walmart making an announcement,
Starbucks releasing high protein drinks. The only cottage cheese plant
in Wisconsin has to expand because the demand is so high.

Speaker 26 (22:01):
Well, and if you look at the grocery store, whole
milk and two percent in terms of fluid mill capture
the vast majority of the shelf space.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
What does that mean?

Speaker 26 (22:10):
That means and consumers know that that's you know, that's
what they buy because they know it's good for you,
they know that's what is good for their kids, et cetera.
We've got to get the dietary guidelines to be more
of a reflection of what was really going on in
the real world. And I, frankly, I think we're going
to see that, and I'm going to be really interested.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
To see what it looks like.

Speaker 25 (22:32):
Does Darry have the presidents here.

Speaker 26 (22:34):
Yes, he absolutely does, any and all of agriculture for
that matter. And I think, you know, there's a recognition
that it isn't just one thing. It isn't just the
tax code, or isn't the reduction and the regulatory burden,
or it isn't just the trade side of the equation.
They're working on all of these things, and I think
from my perspective from being in there working on the

(22:54):
trade things, we just have to be patient. We have
to keep in mind that it wasn't all just a
couple of weeks that we've had under secretaries at the
Department of Agriculture. We just all we edwa was the
secretary and a deputy. So we still are getting people
in place. They're still, you know, getting their staffs in
place to do what they want to do here. And

(23:15):
so it's hard to believe that what we've only been
nine months now or not even nine months in this
administration and everything that's happened.

Speaker 10 (23:23):
I know the uncertainty has been crazy. But what I
would say.

Speaker 26 (23:26):
Is just be a little patient and let this kind
of stuff unfold a little bit. For those of us
in the dairy industry, it's come in our direction, and
I think we're really going.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
To like it.

Speaker 25 (23:35):
I know you're working on bringing home milk into schools.
How close are we on getting that done?

Speaker 10 (23:39):
Oh my goodness, we're close.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
We are so close.

Speaker 26 (23:42):
We're down to one senator here. Great conversations about it.
I wish I had a better feel for a timeline
and when we get this sorted out.

Speaker 25 (23:50):
But optimism from Greg Dowd that despite uncertainty in the
political sphere, dairy has a role to play in the
administration's vision for US Healthy America. Greg calls MAHA or
make America Healthy Again, a movement as consumers are already
putting their dollars toward clean labels or natural colors, sugars

(24:12):
and fats, or higher protein foods at the grocery store,
for example, it just so happens dry checks all of
those boxes. Greg daud as the President and CEO of
the National Milk Producers Federation. I'm Stephanie Hoff.

Speaker 27 (24:26):
It's time for California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. California voters have now approved Proposition fifty,
a constitutional amendment allowing temporary changes to congressional district maps
in response to partisan redistricting actions in Texas. Supporters say

(24:47):
the measure ensure's flexibility and fairness and representation, but some
groups expressed concern about its potential impact. The California Farm Bureau,
which represents more than twenty six thousand farms and ranch
families voiced disappointment following the measure's passage. Farm Bureau President
Shennon Douglas said that while we respect the will of

(25:08):
the voters, the passage of Prop. Fifty represents another setback
for Californians, particularly those in rural areas. She warned that
the measure could weaken representation across the state by favoring
jerrymandering and reshaping districts in ways that simply don't make sense,
setting examples such as Modoc and Marin being placed in

(25:30):
the same district. Douglas added that fair end independent redistricting
is essential for rural communities that depend on lawmaker's understanding
of issues like land use, water, and infrastructure. She said
the organization will continue advocating for independent redistricting and strong
representation for agricultural regions.

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Speaker 22 (26:14):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about sefena
insecticide from basf.

Speaker 12 (26:19):
We just get nailed with it. So tell us, how
are you feeling.

Speaker 10 (26:22):
Really really weird.

Speaker 12 (26:25):
And you still want to devour this few? No way, bro.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
There you have it, folks.

Speaker 22 (26:30):
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 23 (26:38):
He'll protect your alfalfa from aphids with sefena insecticide. Always
read and follow label directions.

Speaker 27 (26:44):
With California AGG today on the AG Information Network, I
am Haley's ship, Bob.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
When here were some farm news this morning, friends. Well,
since nineteen seventy six, there have been twenty one federal
government shutdowns and this is now one of the longest.
As it drags on, cam worrels see EO of the
National Potato Council says other countries are loving it.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, absolutely, every moment that we're shut down. None of
our competitors around the world are shut down, and they're
very happy to fill the void any type of little
competitive pickup from the United States. Our competitors are very
very happy to step in and try to claim this market.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
So who gets to blame?

Speaker 3 (27:22):
We are in the how long can you keep your
hand on the hot stove phase of this, And honestly,
this kind of happens with every shutdown is both parties
blame each other, you know, and usually that blame they're
sort of partially right, you know. It's kind of like
if you blame them all together.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
The right one, but both sides have really dug in
their heels and then.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Really it's just who's going to blink first, And you know,
part of getting them to that blinking is just when
the political pain get keeps on them.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
As the shutdown drags on, economist warn that even with
FSA offices back open, the absence of key USDA reports
is crippling every corner of the agg economy, from comm
outity markets to cattle prices and farm level business planning. Meanwhile, friends,
oil prices continue the trend we've seen for several months.
Prices don't deviate much week to week, holding in the

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low to mid sixty dollars range. Patrick Dehan is the
senior Petroleum analyst with gasbuddy dot.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Com, it's really a balance of new Russian sanctions that
President Trump bnounced the in the last couple of weeks,
those sanctions potentially curbing the flow of oil out of Russia.
On the other side of the seemingly same equition on
oil production, OPEK met over the weekend and decided to
again increase oil output for the month of December. Now
before we all start jumping up and down at how

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great that might be for pushing oil lower. The group
also agreed that they were going to pause further increases
that would have taken effect January, February and March of
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
De Haan said one thing that could move the oil
price stalemate is a trade agreement between the US and China.
He says, if the trade increases because of reduction in tariffs,
that could push global oil demand up slightly. On the
potential that it could improve both the American and Chinese economies.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
But for now, you know, the seasonal downturn and gas
prices really being checked by some of the potential for sanctions. Overall,
gas prices largely pretty quiet across the country. The national
average at about two ninety nine a gallon this morning,
it likely will perk back above the three dollars.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Mark Patrick Dehan Gas Buddy joining US well Friends the
Environmental Protection Agency could significantly impact the future of biomass
based renewable diesel production. Todd Gleeson has our story.

Speaker 28 (29:36):
The three key EPA actions and recent bonds are the
proposed renewable volume Obligations or rvos for twenty twenty six
and twenty twenty seven. Those were released in June, A
comprehensive rulemaking on small refinery exemptions granted between twenty eighteen
and twenty twenty four released in July, and the Reallocation
Policy Framework for small Refinery exemptions published in September, and

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when examined the individually, writes the farm doc team from
the University of Illinois, each decision represents a meaningful policy development. However,
when analyzed collectively through the lens of biomass based diesel rvos,
their combined impact appears to create conditions for a dramatic
increase in domestic biomass based diesel production, it says agricultural

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economist Todd Hubbs. The end result, he says, will be
all about how the small refinery exemptions are reallocated.

Speaker 29 (30:28):
Well, it depends on if they do a one or
fifty percent reallocation, but we think they're going to do
one or the other. They haven't finalized yet, but it
is a really strong growth in biomass based on inside
the RFS, the renewable volume allegations. Hey, if we're at
five point five, you know, a billion ring gallons during

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twenty twenty five, you know in twenty twenty six we
could be anywhere from seven point two three to seven
point three four depending on how the reallocation goes ring
gallons and the biomass based diesel set. So it's a
pretty good amount of growth and in somewhat strong for
our soybean oil and other vegetable oil and feedstocks that

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go into biomass based diesel.

Speaker 28 (31:12):
So, the combined effect of higher renewable volume obligations rvos,
tighter restrictions on small refinery exemptions SRIS, and mandatory reallocation
mechanism is set to increase the required volume of biomass
based diesel for calendar years twenty twenty six and twenty
twenty seven. Market analysis suggest these revised mandates will represent

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about a fifty percent increase over the current three year period.
You may read more about these policy shifts and the
implications per sabing demanded in a series of articles. Todd
Hubs from Oklahoma State University and Scott Irwin from the
University of Illinois are posting to the farm doc Daily website.
I'm Illinois Extensions, Todd Gleeson farm US.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
This morning, you're listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 30 (31:57):
From the Information That Work Iybobblers, and this is your
agribusiness update. Last week, Donald Trump and Shijinping reached a
trade and economic deal designed east tensions between the US
and China. China agreed to suspend all retaliatory tariffs, including
tariffs on chicken, wheat, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, fruits, vegetables,
and dairy China agreed to purchase at least twelve million

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metric tons of US soybeans this year and at least
twenty five million in twenty twenty six, twenty seven, and
twenty eight. The Energy Information Administration says the US is
heading toward a record amount of ethanol exports this year.
Through July. American fuel ethanol exports averaged one hundred and
thirty eight thousand barrels per day, the highest since they
began collecting export data in twenty ten, and nine percent

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more than last year's record. Increased exports to the Netherlands
accounted for most of the growth. India, the UK, and
Canada also continued to import substantial volumes of fuel ethanol.
The ninety eighth National FFA Convention and Expo has ended
after welcoming our record seventy three thousand plus attendees from
across the country to downtown Indianapolis. FFA members in their

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blue jackets filled the Indiana Convention Center, Lucas Oil Stadium,
Indiana State Fairgrounds, and other venues in Central Indiana, making
a positive impact on the community. More than thirteen thousand
students and teachers expanded their knowledge and expertise by taking
port in one hundred and forty one workshops.

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Speaker 30 (34:13):
A variety of trucks, trailers and more will be up
for auction November thirteenth, and a fully unreserved auction with
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up aglie for to their friends,
harvest means a couple of things and bringing in a
crop while planning for the next season's crop. Chad Smith
has our story.

Speaker 31 (34:33):
John Trelore, senior technical agronomist for Novo Nessis, said harvest
appears to be going well. The growers already have concerns
for next year.

Speaker 32 (34:43):
For the most part, so it's been above average for yields.
Corn's been average or above average. A little bit of
disease pressure in some of the higher moisture areas this year,
but all in all, I think harvest is going quite well.
But of course, top of mind for most people I
talk to is the input costs for next year. Quite
a bit of concern around those input costs, and in

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particular phosphorus. We just see that's been high for a while,
continues to remain high. That's always top of mind for
growers starting to plan for twenty twenty six. Growers are
looking for better ways to mitigate stress, right. They're looking
for new solutions, looking for integrated solutions. They know there's
not really a silver bullet up there that can take
care of everything, so they really want to think about

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that systematic approach to some of these challenges that are
on farm, and of course biologicals can play a key
role in solving some of those challenges.

Speaker 31 (35:34):
He said, it's important to be systematic when planning for
possible fertility challenges, and nova nessis has some good building
blocks for your fertility program and.

Speaker 32 (35:44):
When we look at these building blocks that we can
employ to help meet these challenges, again thinking about the
science and the data behind them that kind of prove
that they work and prove that they can help solve
these challenges. If we're looking at something that can help
solubilize phosphorus, like our jump Star technology, there's thirty years
worth of data. There's tissue tests, there's grain yields, there's

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testing under different fertility regimes, and you put it all
together and you can say, you know, this could really
work for me. Right, so I'm trying to extend my
soybean window plant earlier in those cool soils. Here's a
piece that can be used within an integrated fertility system
to really help my beans get up and out of
the ground and drive that phosphorus in early. So I
think it really comes down to thinking about it as
a systematic, integrated approach and really evaluating digging a little

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bit deeper into the inputs and the science and agronomy
behind them that'll help be successful. Especially when it comes
to biologicals.

Speaker 31 (36:35):
No Bonessis knows there is no one size fits all
solution that works on every farm.

Speaker 32 (36:41):
We're continuing to release new organisms and strains of organisms
and biomolecules. We're also interested in formulations that are easier
to use so that things like the liquid jumpstart or
are improved granule. But we're also thinking about delivery methods
and from there we can really be prescriptive in that approach.
We can say, okay, you're looking at enhancing your nodulation here,

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why don't we think about making sure that LCO is
employed on that farm to enhance that modulation process. Being
very deliberate and prescriptive with our BioSolutions enables the success
of biologicals on farm.

Speaker 31 (37:15):
True Lore talks about how growers can take advantage of
the prescriptive BioSolutions approach in their planning for next year.

Speaker 32 (37:23):
You know, I really think it comes down to understanding
the challenges you face on your farm and know what
technologies are OUTLRE it helps solve that challenge. Do some research,
dig into the data, dig into the agonomics behind it
and the modes of action, and then talk to your retailer.
We've got great retail partners across the country. You talk
to your agronomius and your seed dealers about what products
fit best. I mean we can start with the soybean world,

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the basin oculants, the rhizobia products like our Celtech xc
our optimized fxcds, and then we can build on these
yield and performance drivers. We can build on the LCO
components and things like nod Pro, we can build on
the phosphors solubilizing technology with Jumpstarter, and we can really
take that systematic approach that will allow growers to be
successful once again.

Speaker 31 (38:05):
That's John Trelore with Novonesis. For more information, you can
go to prescriptive dot novonesis dot com. Chad Smith reporting.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
With that friends, about a time for today, thanks for
joining us. Back Monday morning with another edition of Aglife