October 1, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, I'm Dwayne Murley and welcome to AGLFE. Pork
is often called a friend to all foods thanks to
its versatility and being a carrier food. As one of
the most widely consumed proteins globally, it's a natural fit
for various meals. Emily Krause, director of Nutrition, Health and
Wellness Initiatives at the National Pork Board, says pork is

(00:23):
well received within the industry's health and wellness community called
pork and partners.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Dietitians other healthcare professionals are really gravitating towards that because
oftentimes when people think of healthcare professionals, they think we're
demonizing certain foods, and often that's not the case. We
want people to consume all types of foods, but make
choices that they are supporting the foods that make them
feel good, and so we want to see all foods
fit on the plate.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Younger consumers have a different approach to food than previous generations.
Rather than seeing pork as the main dish, they view
it as an ingredient.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Put it into a mixed then you can have all
these different flavors and food groups really come together, and
you're often having more fruits, vegetables, and grains which provide
more nutrients. So we say it's a carrier food. It's
a carrier not only for nutrition but also flavor.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
As a registered dietitian, Kraus emphasizes the importance of eating
more fruits and vegetables and says incorporating pork as an
ingredient is a delicious, practical way to help achieve that goal.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
As a dietitian working for the National Pork Board, when
I can say there's research to show that when pork
is on the plate, people consume more fruits and vegetables.
That is a huge win for people that are focusing
on nutrition. We also have research that shows the one
hundred and eleven flavor nuances of pork.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Through the Pork and Partners, community health and wellness professionals
can access research, educational materials, and continuing education resources. Meanwhile,
consumers can explore pork dot org for various recipes that
highlight pork as a taste, the convenient and balance protein.
Washington continues to produce more apples than any other state,

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with this year's crop forecast to be at or near
a record. As for the available apple varieties. John Devaney,
president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, says the
top of the list has not changed well.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Gala continues to be the number one variety and forecasting
to be about eighteen percent of our state's apple crop.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Next The Veiny says that Granny Smith has been displaced
at number two.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
What's interesting is that honey crisp continues to grow in
volume and it's quite popular, as a lot of folks know,
and it would be in the number two position this year,
forecast to be around fifteen percent of the.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Crop, and for the first time, the Vanie says, Cosmic
Crisp makes the top five.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
It sure has. In fact this year it's about forecast
about nine point six percent. They're just short of ten
percent of the crop and breaks into the top five
and Briety's forecast for the first time.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's also expected to continue growing.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That Vriety is continuing to take off towards the stars,
as its name would suggest, and it reflects a lot
of the investment our growers have continued to make over
many years in developing new varieties and looking for novelties
and new taste experiences for consumers within the apple category
to make sure that we can meet the needs of
diverse customers.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Gala is number one at eighteen percent of production, followed
by Honey Chris but fifteen percent, moving ahead of both
at Red Delicious and Granny's Smith, which Red Delicious is
at fourteen point seven percent and Granny's Smith at twelve percent.
Cosmic Chris makes its first appearance in the top five
at nine point six percent, up from just one percent

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in twenty twenty and six percent in twenty twenty three.
The value of farmland in the Midwest, particularly the ice
states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, have not always been exceptional
when compared to the rest of the United States. From
before President Abraham Lincoln established the USDA in eighteen sixty

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two until about nineteen fifty, all US farmland was about
the same price. The widespread adoption of hybrid seed corn
was the big change the seth of Midwest apart and
began to outpace the value of farmland in other parts
of the nation. Now, it was the export market of
the nineteen seventies that really changed things, and here's how

(04:32):
Todd Keithy from Purdue University explains it.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
But really, starting in the early seventies to mid seventies
when you really start to see a gap between Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana and the US and aggregate. And then among those
three states the i states, Iowa seems to be the
most dynamic but has the steepest inclines and declines, and
then Indiana, at least over sort of the last kind
of fifteen to twenty years, has been sort of the

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most stable a lot of years, sort of the lowest,
even though East kind of hang in the middle between
illinoi and Iowa. And then also because I used to
work at Herest, Illinois, I started putting together because the
farmers would like there's a.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Rivalry between Iowa and Illinois.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Anytime I would say, like the Iowa numbers went down,
the crowd with cheer. You can't not have something the
crowd and cheer for.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
They probably should not have cheered. The rivalry is great. However, Iowa,
as the most dynamic landmarket, tends to lead with both
the highest highs and the steepest declines.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I've heard a number of people say that what happens
in Indiana happened in Iowa.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Last year.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Iowa's cash rent for the crop season, we're down about
twenty dollars an acre. Illinois was down about five dollars
an acre. Indiana cash rent this year increased by one
point five to two percent statewide, continuing a trend from
previous years. Now. The price of Indiana farmland, likewise has
not yet followed the trend lower. Iowa State's farmland value survey,

(05:57):
released in December showed a drop of about three percent
on average, and that's far different than Indiana.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, so if we look at the survey results across
the state of Indiana, we've seen sort of middle level increases.
So think about like twenty twenty twenty twenty one, where
we have like a real uptick. We're not there, but
they're not exactly flat. They're moving up a little bit
higher than the rate of inflation. But we've seen sort
of a sort of three to seven or eight percent

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increase across the state. For top quality land, we're now
looking at almost fifteen thousand dollars an acre fourteen eight
twenty six. For average, we're twelve two point fifty. And
then at the poor quality land, we're looking at about
nine seven hundred and sixty one. I guess is what
we have Here's about almost ten thousand per acre, and
if you're third YouTube for Farmland Values Perdue, you'll find

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two recent ag CAVS videos from Todd at Keithy.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
One on land for Sale and one on land for rent.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Rule mental health that has gained more attention and less
stigma over the past few years. According to Terry Moore
of the American far Bureau Federation.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
There is a lot to be encouraged about. Our overarching
goal is to break the stigma that has long existed
around mental wellness. We really have devoted a lot of
time and energy and resources to building up a program
to ensure that every single farmer and rancher out there
knows that there's help available to them. There are a
number of organizations that do national pulling to kind of
monitor those attitudes and are people more receptive to it,

(07:30):
and so we're seeing a positive trend in that regard. Unfortunately,
we know the reality is we still face a high
level of suicide in rural communities in rural America, and
so that's why we're not going to let up on this.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
I'm Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 8 (07:47):
American Cattle news. Well, we're approaching another potential government shut down.
More after this.

Speaker 9 (07:57):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.

Speaker 10 (07:59):
Far about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere. The
contractor working on my property did not have the lines
located before he began work, and it resulted on a
strike on a natural gays pipeline. Fortunately no one was hurt,
but it could have been much worse.

Speaker 9 (08:15):
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Speaker 8 (08:25):
President Donald Trump scrapping a meeting with top congressional Democratic
leaders to discuss government funding could lead to a government
shut down. Tanner Beamers with the National Cattleman's Beef Association.

Speaker 11 (08:40):
Every year, Congress has to pass twelve appropriations bills to
keep the government fully funded. In recent years, all those
twelve bills kind of get strung together into one piece
of what we call omnibus spending legislation. But typically that
has to happen every year by a September thirtieth deadline.
This year is no different front and Congress is once

(09:01):
again headed towards that September thirtieth deadline, with only three
out of those twelve bills passed by both the House
and the Senate. And that's not altogether uncommon for us
to be at this stage in the game in these days. Anyway,
a government shut down at this juncture does not benefit anybody.
You know, anytime we have a government shut down, it

(09:22):
tends to be a massive disruption, not just to the
cattle sector, but to American business and just across the country.
It's just not an ideal situation to find oneself in.
It's entirely unnecessary, and that's why we're supportive of the CR.
We have been also very supportive of previous continuing resolutions,
and I think what makes this one so important is

(09:42):
because you know, the entirety of the fiscal year twenty
twenty five was funded under a continuing resolution from the
previous year. We don't typically like to see crs extended
further than a couple month, months or weeks in Congress.
This one is extending it to November twenty first, because
congressional leadership in both chambers are very highly interested in

(10:05):
passing full appropriations for the first time in over eighteen months.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
American Cattle News, it's another agnews update. Well, corn exports
are leading the pace. Produce growers facing pressure tight cattle
supplies and turkey stocks Titan.

Speaker 9 (10:23):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.

Speaker 10 (10:25):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began murk and it resulted on
a strike on a natural Gays pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.

Speaker 9 (10:41):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore you Dig dot
com before you start work a message from the pipeline
operators for agg safety campaign.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
USDA reporting corn exports fifty two million bushels last week,
well above last year's pace, while wheat shipments also gain
soybeing slow the head of harvest. Produced growers face rising
pressure as imports expend to nearly fifty billion dollars and
labor costs continue climbing, leaving many US fruit and vegetable

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farms squeezed by competition and higher expenses. In the cattle sector,
National Herd remains near seventy year lows, keeping beef prices firm.
Imports are filling gaps, while beef on dairy CAFs grow
to represent a significant share of fed kettle supplies. In
the meantime, turkey production is lagging, and it's doing it

(11:36):
with fewer pole placements and below average frozen stocks. Wholesale
prices are already climbing, and HPAI, highly pathogenic avian influenza
has cut nearly two hundred thousand birds since August. It's
adding to holiday supply concerns. Overall, corn and wheat shipments

(11:56):
remain strong. Produced growers face structural headwinds, cattle markets stay tight,
and consumers can expect higher turkey prices this Thanksgiving. It's
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This is dairy radio Now.

Speaker 14 (12:44):
Just like daycare, calf housing can lead to animals getting sick.
We're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services
with Crystal Creek, and this month's Ask the Vet. Ryan,
when calves get together, just like humans, say, run the
risk of sickness and disease.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (12:59):
Yeah, So when you look at post wing calves in
a group house setting, there's some standard diseases that we
tend to run into, and respiratory disease and calfood diarrhea
are the two biggies. And if a calf has pneumonia,
there's essentially one of two precipitating factors. It's either going
to be an environmental cause of pneumonia, which is typically
from poor air quality and the environment and that can

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be poor ventilation in the air has high levels of ammonia,
which are irritating and can predispose a lungs to infection,
or there's high levels of dust or of bacteria or
other viruses in air, and that i'll put stress on
the respiratory tract and can predispose them to pneumonia. So
those are environmental causes, and let's just we'll kind of
set those off to the side and assume that calves

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in this colmingled sense are in an area with good
air quality and do not have environmental risk factors. And
then that brings in the second cause of pneumonia, which
is contagious pneumonia. And that's what I think we tend
to see the most of in these calves that are
in group house settings, and contagious ammonia makes the most
sense because here you have this population of calves that
were often individually raised in the prewen phase, and they

(14:03):
had solid dividers and they kind of kept to themselves
and they didn't share their bugs, and all of a sudden,
the dividers get pulled and the camps get moved and
they get, you know, put in groups of five, ten, twenty, whatever,
and all of a sudden, next thing, you know, they
got nose contact and they're sharing the water and the
drinker and they're just spreading all of their bugs about
with each other. And that's where we tend to see

(14:23):
these contagious diseases. Proliferate tends to happen generally around If
you wean it eight weeks, you tend to see these around,
you know, month two to three type of deal is
when these contagious diseases tend to break out. The two
most common causes are michael plasma pneumonia and salmonilla pneumonia.
And I'll just share a story from an excellent professor
I had vet school. One time. He was giving a

(14:45):
lecture on post ween calf contagious disease, and I'm sitting
in the front row of the class in the middle
of his lecture, and he pauses. There's a glass, a
clear glass of water, and he pauses to take a drink,
and as he's taking a sip of this water, he
coughts its kneezes in the glass and then he hands
it to me in the front row and he's like, here,
drink this, and I'm like, that's disgusting. I'm not going

(15:07):
to drink this. And he said, well, now, imagine you're
a post wing calf and one of the other calves
has michael plasma pneumonia, and when it was getting a drink,
it just coughed of michaelplasma into that water. All these
other calves now are going to have to drink from
that one shared water which has now just been contaminated
with whatever infectious disease that calf had semnil michaelplasm, et cetera.

(15:28):
You want to talk about a memorable lecture. I don't
know how many hundreds or even thousands of lectures I've
sat in that were not memorable that I've completely forgotten.
But when a guy hawks a lougi into a glass
of water and hands it to you to drink, You're
going to remember that. And then you think about what
these postwing calves experience, and they're often experiencing this where
sick calves are touching noses with each other or sharing

(15:51):
group waters, and then it's very easy to understand how
this disease can just proliferate through a.

Speaker 16 (15:56):
Pen of calves.

Speaker 15 (15:57):
But think about that, if you're dealing on your farm
with a group of post wing calves that are sick. Oftentimes,
what we'll do to investigate a problem, if this is serious,
is we might take one or two sick calves and
euthanize them and have their body sent to the state
lab for analysis, where they'll look at intestinal lymph nodes.
For salmonilla, they'll cut open the lungs and look for

(16:17):
what bacteria or viruses are causing the pneumonia, and then
from there we can implement appropriate strategies, whether it's a
vaccination strategy or disinfection strategy, or putting a colin dioxide
water treatment in to treat the water to help prevent
this contagious spread, whatever the appropriate steps are. Step one
is to get a diagnosis of what's going on, and

(16:38):
then we can respond appropriately from there.

Speaker 14 (16:40):
So what should CAF owners do now to keep the
threat of spreading any sickness or disease.

Speaker 15 (16:44):
A good vaccination program is really helpful, and anything that
can mitigate stresses on the immune system are good practices
to implement to try to have these caves just tip
the scale in their favor to keep the immune slash
bacteria teeter totter in the animal's favor, and disinfection. Anything
that can lighten the load of exposure to these animals

(17:07):
automatically reduces the right side of the teeter totter, which
is the bacterial challenge. Anytime you can bring that challenge
down on through good sanitation or disinfection processes, the animals
at more of an edge against fighting the infection and
keeping the immune system going.

Speaker 17 (17:21):
Thanks Ryan.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek.

Speaker 18 (17:25):
In the annual KAPKA Conference in Agra Expo in Rito,
Nevada is October nineteenth to the twenty first. There's a
lot of continuing education credit hours and a lot to
do there. I'm Patrick kavanaughh with the California Tree NAT Report,
part of the vastag Information Network. Paul Kroud is a

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PCA in the sandlandis Obispo area. He works for Hellna
Agri Enterprises. He manages their agronomy and organic business for
the Western United States. This will see his twentieth KAPKA Conference.

Speaker 19 (18:02):
At conference this year, I want to say we have
the most number of DPRCEE hours in the last ten years.
We have nineteen and a half hours available for our attendees.
Everything from biological information, organic to rodents, to laws and rigs,
to the latest information from DPR on regulation. So it's

(18:25):
going to be really diverse. I think everybody's going to
have something that really affects them. There's a ton of
value there, both in the CE as well as the
opportunities during the trade show. There is a number of
great events taking place in the trade show itself. That's
something that we launched last year where we have continuing
education in the trade show so people be able to

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spend time with their exhibitors and then get in some
CE as well.

Speaker 20 (18:50):
Go to Kapa dot com for more information. You've probably
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and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one? Oh,
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Speaker 6 (19:56):
Plant germplasm. When it comes to survival of people on
our planet, it rinks right up there with resources such
as air, water, sunlight as essential a critical resource to protect.

Speaker 21 (20:08):
The source of material. If something came through and wiped
out a crops this is how we're safeguarding to bring
it back.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Eric Galerdo is one of several curators of USDA germ
Plasm collections across the country, designed not only to protect
the genetic diversity of plant species, but, as colleague Rebecca
Pobulis explains, a big part of.

Speaker 22 (20:29):
The mission or the germ plasm collections, it is to
not just maintain the health of the collection, but to
actually distribute it so it gets used.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
As new varieties of foods and products of consumer interest
become available through cross breeding efforts. Ibroad Bay coming up
the importance of plant genetic and seed bakes in this
edition of Agriculture USA. Assuring our nation and the world
protects plant genetic diversity for the food fibrin feed crops

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we produce and in turn sure food secure domestically and internationally.
That is the primary focus of a network of USDA
Agricultural Research Service GED banks.

Speaker 23 (21:08):
We are part of the National Plan germ Plasm System,
which is part of the Agricultural Research Service, and we
maintain the world largest collection of crop genetic resources.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Seventeen repository facilities across the country. According to Zach Stancil,
he is one of the genetic collection curators with the
USDA's Plant Resources Genetic Unit in Upstate New York, a
collection featuring diverse offerings for apples, grapes, vegetables, and the
newest crop within the National Plant germ Plasm System, the
genetic material Collection. Stancil overseas hemp.

Speaker 23 (21:42):
Right now, we have five hundred and twenty two unique
varieties of hemp collected from about forty different countries. It
has almost an uncountable number of uses.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Yet, as Stancel notes, as hemp was once a historic
fiber crop in the nation prior to becoming illegal for
several decades, genetic material and research associated with it is
well several decades behind other crops. Plant Resource Genetic Unit
colleague Rebecca Povelis curates the Vegetable Germplasm Collection, noted for

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the largest.

Speaker 22 (22:14):
Collection of Nato germplasm in the world on site that's
well over six thousand different types of tomatoes.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Part of plant Genebag's role and agricultural diversity is not
just as a seed or plant repository, but in many
ways a historical agricultural repository as well. Begudieri's oversees the
Apple genetic collection at PRGU. He calls it a beloved
collection by those who utilize materials for research and development

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of new crop varieties and those who appreciate the family tree,
so to speak, of apples.

Speaker 16 (22:46):
Because of airs efforts to go and collect germplasm, we
kind of were able to piece together the story of
apple coming out of Asia through cloning and grafting some
of the cultivars that we have have been around since
the Roman period. So we have the Lady apple, which
can trace back its wage thousand plus years, or the
Roxbury Russet, which is truly one of the first American
apples that were developed here.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
The excitement about genetic research and development of new varieties
of various crops is one found across the board. Aaron
Galerno says, the ARS grape collection she curates has a nickname,
one provided by geneticis at shared facilities at Cornell University
a candy store.

Speaker 21 (23:22):
It is a place that they get to go shopping
for new flavors for resistance and s various diseases. If
they're looking for something with more color or specific type
of color, they walk through my collection and find what
they want.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
The excitement, in several instances carries over to consumers, whether
they are enjoying, say, cotton candy flavored grapes, or, as
Ben Gudieris points out in the case of apples, the
love and loyalty of multiple popular varieties.

Speaker 16 (23:49):
One thing that really excites and resonates consumers is the
aspect of novelty. The red flush apples are becoming a
popular thing. Typically, the apple pigments are just on the skin,
and some apples produce a lot of pigments in the flesh.
The bide into it, and it's this kind of novel
surprise that actually those bread pigments have a nutritional value
as an antioxidant for human consumption.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
A big part of efforts by g bank curators like
Rebecca Pavlis is documenting and distributing germ plasms, whether native,
wild or hybrid, for research or commercial purposes. And that
is where the ARS germ Plasm Resources Information Network comes.

Speaker 22 (24:24):
In a database that has an online portal drink Global.
Anyone can go to this website and take a look
at our complete balogue of what plants and varieties we
have on hand. And this is also where breeders can
go to actually.

Speaker 21 (24:36):
Order the material.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
This has been Agriculture USA Broadbane reporting for the US
Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 24 (24:46):
It's time for California Egg today on the ag Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. The US Department of Justice, or
the DOJ, and the US Department of Agriculture have now
formalized a new partnership that is aimed at protecting competition
in agricultural markets. The two agencies signed a memorandum of
understanding on September twenty sixth that focuses on key inputs

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such as feed, fertilizer, fuel, seed, and equipment. According to
the DOJ's Antitrust Division, the agreement strengthens existing coordination and
establishes new channels for regular consultation between attorneys, economists, and
technical experts. Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater said, antitrust enforcement

(25:31):
insures free market competition for agricultural inputs, loaring costs for
farmers and prices for consumers. She goes on to say
that America's farmers deserve nothing less than the best the
Antitrust Division and USDA can do to promote competitive markets
that free them to feed America. The National Farmers' Union
welcomed the move, citing rising input costs and corporate consolidation

(25:55):
as urgent challenges and if you, President Rob LaRue said,
and agriculture is at a breaking point. We commend the
USDA and DOJ for hearing NFUS call to action and
stepping up to confront these challenges.

Speaker 25 (26:10):
A large selection of over two thousand used pieces of
construction equipment and other top brand assets will be up
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and ninth. Registration for this absolute unreserved auction is open
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For the last forty years, the Egg Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today, from fuel to fertilizer.
Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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the AG Information Network trusted in transparent journalism for generations.

Speaker 24 (27:08):
On the AG Information Network, I am Hayley's ship.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
A recent announcement from Treasury Secretary of Scott Descent has
upset the nation's soybean farmers. In a post on X
said the US will offer financial support to Argentina to
help prop up its alien economy. Now, Argentina is a
key competitor of American producers in the world soybean market,
and almost immediately after that post A reported twenty shiploads

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of Argentine soybeans were purchased by China after the Argentine
government announced that it would waive taxes on soybean exports.
American Soybean Association president Caleb Ragland was not pleased with
the developments. He says soybean farmers have been clear for
months in saying the administration needs to establish a trade
deal with China, and he goes on to say that

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China is the world's top soybean customer and the United
States top export market. The US has made zero sales
to China in the new crop marketing year because of
a twenty percent retaliatory tariff imposed by China in response
to US taros. A new climate analysis reveals that US
flooding events are significantly increasing despite no apparent change in

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annual precipitation amounts. Mike Davis reports.

Speaker 13 (28:25):
A new study from Acuweather shows rainfall amounts over the
past sixty years have not significantly increased, but the severity
of rain events has and that makes a big difference.
Acuweather Senior meteorologist Brett Anderson.

Speaker 17 (28:40):
The days with one inch or more rainfall have increased
about nine percent since nineteen sixty five, which is not
a lot. However, the days with four inch rainfall events
have increased by seventy percent since nineteen sixty five, so
you can see the difference there. So it's really the
big rainfall amount, especially two inches or more, we're really
seeing the biggest.

Speaker 13 (28:59):
Up to Anderson says. The extreme weather resulting from climate
change is well documented.

Speaker 17 (29:05):
It's been a lot of localized flooding.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Of course.

Speaker 17 (29:08):
You know, obviously as a country, we continue to grow
and we're putting more people in harms away in areas
that are prone to flooding, but we're also laying down
a lot more concrete, of course, and with that more
with more concrete, more extreme rainfall. A lot of that
rain is not get absorbed. It's rushing down into lower
elevations where people continue to build, or we're seeing much

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more impact with that.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
He says.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
This particularly impacts agriculture in the months leading up to planting.

Speaker 17 (29:38):
Season flooded fields, of course, and which could certainly delay planting.
That's a big one right there. The biggest increase we're
expecting in the future for extreme rainfall is probably going
to be in the spring and winter you know again,
especially the spring with the crop planting. More extreme rainfall
means more delays.

Speaker 13 (29:59):
I'm Mike Davis.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Senator Charles Grassley, Tammy Baldwin, and Jony Ernst are reintroducing
bipartisan legislation, the Fertilizer Research Act, that would require the
US Department of Agriculture to conduct a study on competition
and trends in the fertilizer market and their subsequent impacts
on price now. Senator Grassley, as you know, is a

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longtime family farmer and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Senator Ernst says fertilizer is an essential tool our farmers
rely on to maintain healthy soil and improve crop yields.
She says she's working hard to drive down fertilizer costs
and make life more affordable for both farmers and consumers
by gaining a better understanding of the fertilizer industry. This

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research will provide the fundamental knowledge needed to give farmers
much needed clarity now. The Fertilizer Research Act is endorsed
by the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association,
the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers Union and
many other organizations that support farmers. This is focus on ag.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
From the AG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.

Speaker 19 (31:13):
Well.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
The USDA is awarding eight point three million dollars in
funding to help eleven US recipients address their trade barriers
and expand international market access for US specialty crops. The
funding is provided through the Foreign Agricultural Service and helps
producers combat trade barriers and promote their goods internationally. Trade
and Foreign AG Affairs Under Secretary Luke Lindberg says, our

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market development programs are bringing the bounty of American agriculture
to people around the world. The USDA's National agg Statistic
Service is about to begin data collection for the Quarterly
Milk Production Survey. The information allows NASS to accurately measure
and report conditions and trends in the US milk industry
over the course of a year. This survey, conducted four

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times a year, asks milk producers for the number of
milk cows in the herd, the number of cow's milk,
and total milk production. New data from the Energy Information
Administration says American ethanol output dropped to a four month low,
while inventories increased. Production fell to an average of one
point zero two four million barrels a day during the
week ending September nineteenth. That's down from one point zero

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five to five million barrels produced during the previous week
and is the lowest level since May. In the Midwest,
which produces the largest amount of ethanol, production fell one
point four percent, the lowest in four months.

Speaker 25 (32:30):
A large selection of over two thousand used pieces of
construction equipment and other top brand assets will be up
forbidding in the Richie Brothers Sacramento Sale event October eighth
and ninth. Registration for this absolute unreserved auction is open
to the public and completely free, so make sure to
visit urbauction dot com to view our available inventory of
truck tractors, excavators, compact trackloaders, trailers and more. This exclusive

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auction will be conducted entirely online, but we're still happy
to welcome you on site for in person inspections. Once again,
visit rbauction dot com to learn more.

Speaker 20 (32:59):
For over forty years, the agg 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

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mean the most to you online at aginfo dot net
The Egg Information Network. Trusted and transparent journalism lasting for
the next generation.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
From the Egg Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
In the midst of harvest season, while some crops like
wheat and rice are near to completely harvested, others such
as cord and soybeads will soon be.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
No matter if your role is a.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
Producer driving a cobbine, a driver holly grade to the
local elevators, or a motorist on country roads surrounded by farmland,
safety needs to be kept in mind.

Speaker 26 (33:53):
All gets going. The days are getting shorter, so you're
going to see these big pieces of equipment out onto
the roadway later into the evening. We're getting darker earlier
in the evening, so the chances that agg equipment is
going to meet with the motoring public is pretty good
this time of year.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Dan Ninan of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety
says both farm equipment drivers ad motorists need safety reminders
when they are on the road this time of year.

Speaker 26 (34:16):
So left turns on the farmsteads is something that we
need to talk about. Ag equipment will be making turns
into farmsteads. The motoring public you have to obey the
law and you can only pass farm equipment in passing zones.
You can't pass it in no passing zones. But we
see a lot of collisions that occur between the motoring
public and the farming community when the tractors in the
combines are turning left into farmsteads about the same time

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that the motoring public is trying to pass. So there
needs to be that awareness out there and to share
the road.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
Meanwhile, farmers need to make safety checks of machinery and
have personal protection and safety equipment available prior to the
start of harvest for the season.

Speaker 26 (34:52):
For each day, we always want to take a look
at the fire extinguishers that are in the shed and
in the combine. Are they charged? Are they ready to go?
The first staid kits? Do you have a farm first
aid kit that stopped and ready to go?

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Need in ads if a grower's area uses nine one
one signs for emergency notification.

Speaker 26 (35:10):
Have a notebook in every vehicle combine tractor, pickup truck,
minivan that might go from farmstead to farmstead because farmers
are now renting more property than ever before, that would
have that nine one one sign. So if you have
an emergency that you can get that nine one one
sign and be able to give them that nine one
one number right away, which is going to tell the
dispatcher what fire department, what ambulance, what law enforcement agency

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to be able to respond.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
And even though most cell phone customers pay a nine
one one fee that allows vectoring to find GPS location, that.

Speaker 26 (35:41):
Takes time, and in an injury or in a cardiac event,
time as muscle. Do we need to shorten up that
time from the time that we dial nine one one
till the time that we can get medical resources there to.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Be able to help.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
National Farmers Union members from across the country recently held
their annual legislative fly in at Washington, d C. One
of the top concerns that members raised was the continued
lack of a farm bill. Mike Strams was the vice
president of Advocacy for the National Farmers Union.

Speaker 27 (36:11):
Farmers Union members from across the country shared their stories
about how the farm economy is. If it isn't in
a crisis, it's well on its way to one. Right now,
the economic indicators are not looking good. There are alarm
bells sounding and lights flashing on the dashboard, so to speak,
when it comes to the farm economy. We shared a
lot of stories and statistics about how that is shaping

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up and how that is impacting Farmers Union members at
their farm and their communities around the country.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
He said the National Farmers Union was pushing for local
food procurement agreements in the farm bill earlier this year.

Speaker 27 (36:43):
We spent a lot of time talking about the funding
freezes and program cuts that happened right at the beginning
of the Trump administration. There was, for instance, a very
popular program that we heard a lot about from farmers
across the country that helped local farmers connect with institutions
and community organizations and school to sell produce and farm
products locally. That was cut and eliminated at the beginning

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of the administration.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Again, that is Mike Strands, vice president of Advocacy for
the National Farmers Union, and he said there are bills
of both the House and Senate and at ensuring farmers
received a large share of the retail dollar by channeling
more of their food directly into local communities and institutions.
Thanks for joining us for agglife. I'm Dwayne Merley.