October 22, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley. This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends,
this morning, we start off with some good news about
US beef being exported into Indonesia. Earlier last month, the
Indonesian halal Authority moved to reaccredit the only US hulal

(00:22):
certifying company in the US approved for Indonesia, now that
accreditation had been suspended back in March, effectively halting US
beef exports to Indonesia. That could be changing. As we
hear in this report this.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Morning, US beef recently regained access to Indonesia as a
barrier over halal certification was cleared, as US Meat Export
Federation Vice President for Asia Pacific Jieyang explains, the only
halal certifier for Indonesia in the US was blocked earlier
this year.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
March this year, the BPGPH, the Indonesian authority in charge
of the halari certification, raised a question about one of
the hallar certifiers based in Omaha and the question about
is it compliant to the Indonesian requirement and from their

(01:11):
finding from the plant audit which is not HALLAR certified plant,
but unfortunately they cancel the accreditation to the Hallar certifying body.
There is only one Hallar certifying body who issued the
Hallar certificate for export to Indonesia, so that resulted in

(01:32):
the de facto suspension of US beef since then, last.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Year Indonesia imported ninety three million dollars of US beef
and that number is set to grow now that the
regulatory hurdle is cleared. According to Calvian's Beef Board CEO Greg.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Haynes, Southeast Asian, especially Indonesia, have tons of opportunity for
the US beef industry. They have a high population, they
had a developing economy, the more disposable income to be
able to spend on good food and high quality for products.
Their coal chain infrastructure is getting developed so that they
can get the products, both frozen products and even airship

(02:09):
fresh products into the market and the consumers there seem
to really enjoy the product when they try it, so
being able to get those products in with some of
those changes now in Helal, I think are going to
be really huge for our industry.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
For more, please visit usmef dot org for the US
Meat Export Federation.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
I'm John Harrith.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well friends, Even with the federal government shutdown, New World
screw worm prevention efforts continue. Will have a story also,
the pair and apple harvest is wrapping up in the
Pacific Northwest. Will take a look at the size and
quality of the crop. You're listening to wag life bokqwhen
here are some farmer used this morning, friends. Harvest season

(02:47):
wrapping up or will be soon for pair and apple
growers in the Pacific Northwest. John Devaney, president of the
Washington State Tree Fruit Association, says both crops are looking
pretty good in twenty twenty five, Following some challenges in
recent years.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
For both the apple and pear crops. They're looking to
be at the upper end of the average ranges where
they're both big crops this year.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Which is good news for the tree fruit industry, but
not too surprising.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
Particularly for pears. Last year we had an unusually small
pear crop due to some weather factors that severely reduced
the crop size. Those trees do like to bounce back
after they've had a small.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Crop, and bounce back they did.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
We're looking at a paar crop that's you know, ample,
and that's great news for those who were disappointed by
not having as many pairs as they wanted last year.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
So pair lovers Davany says, should be in pretty good
shape this year availability wise.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
I know, I was back in Washington, d C. Just
about two weeks ago with some industry folks talking to
members and staff on the hill, and one of the
staff was complaining that she had found too many Argentine
pairs in the grocery store and was wondering why they
were not enough Northwest pairs available. And we explained about
that lower crop size, and the great news, of course
being that we will not have that problem this year.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Devanny says they're expecting good prices, so consumers should be
able to enjoy this year's ample crop well. Friends. Efforts
to combat the advancing New World screw worm continues. Larie
Boyer has the details.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
The government shutdown doesn't affect essential or emergency work, meaning
efforts to combat the New World screwworm are still underway.
Aaron Sporre, executive vice president of the Colorado Cattleman's Association,
says the concern is that construction of the sterile fly
facility could face delays and ensuring Mexico maintains its monitoring
efforts remains critical as the pest moves closer to the

(04:37):
US border.

Speaker 8 (04:38):
A lot of what Mexico is doing right now is
passive surveillance, and what they need to be doing is
active surveillance. And so may continue to push from CCA,
MCBA and then from the USDA and higher level from there,
and so you know, this is an immediate threat to
those border states like Texas and others. But it's like

(05:00):
the cattle industry, and we all know the cattle industry,
this can have wide effects and hopefully cross our fingers
as the winter months calm and colder weather coms that
will see that slow down of it spreading further north.
But I think the beef industry is for sure taking
this serious once again.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
That was Aaron Sporer. She is the executive vice president
of the Colorado Cattleman's Association.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Laurie Boyer reporting for US this morning, Well, farmers are
deep into this year's harvest and ideas for field meals
may start to dwindle. No worries though. Ashley Martinez is
a chef dietitian and member of the National Pork Boards
and partners community of health and wellness professionals. She's ready
to help heat up those tailgate style field meals with

(05:46):
some fresh, flavorful ideas straight from the heart of pork country.

Speaker 9 (05:52):
A crop pot cold pork and not only making the
traditional pulled pork sandwich, but it with lots of vegetables. So,
especially if you're feeding ten to fifteen people, you want
to think, how can I stretch this, but also how
can I add more ingredients that are going to be

(06:14):
better for me and those that I'm.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Feeding, Martinez said. Crockpot recipes are simple and a delicious
way to add vegetables to harvest meals. As well, they
give farmers these sustainable energy they need through balanced nutrition
packed with vitamins and minerals while keeping things easy and
flavorful out in the field. All pork should be cooked
to a minimum of one hundred and forty five degrees
fahrenheit with a three minute rest time.

Speaker 9 (06:41):
Make that the night before, let it sit in the
crockpot on medium high for about eight to ten hours,
and then you can just take that with you. Grab
some whole wheat burger buns, whole wheat bagels, whole wheat bread,
You could also do some brown rice in a separate icemaker.
You could take that with you as well, But it's

(07:03):
just a very easy way to serve a hot meal
that's nourishing and delicious.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Visit Taste whatporkcn do dotorg Farm News. This morning, you're
listening to wag Life.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
It's another agnews update. Well, corn exports are leading the pace.
Produce scrowers facing pressure, tight cattle supplies and turkey stocks Titan.

Speaker 10 (07:27):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.

Speaker 11 (07:29):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work and it resulted on
a strike on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.

Speaker 10 (07:45):
Never assumed the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit click before you Dig
dot com before you start work. A message from the
pipeline operators for Ag Safety Campaign.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
USDA reporting corn exports fifty two million bush last week,
well above last year's pace, while wheat shipments also gained.
Soyting slow to 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

(08:17):
vegetable farms squeezed by competition and higher expenses, and 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
cattle supplies. In the meantime, turkey production is lagging, and

(08:40):
it's doing it with fewer pol 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 wheed shipments remain strong. Produce growers face structural headwinds,

(09:04):
cattle markets stay tight, and consumers can expect higher turkey
prices this Thanksgiving. It's another ang news update, Dad, what
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Speaker 5 (09:43):
American Cattle News, Well we're approaching another potential government shut down.
More after this.

Speaker 10 (09:53):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.

Speaker 11 (09:55):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work, and it resulted on
a strike on a natural gays popular Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.

Speaker 10 (10:11):
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 ag safety campaign.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
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 13 (10:37):
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, and Congress is once again

(10:58):
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

(11:19):
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

(11:39):
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 and both chambers are very highly interested in

(12:02):
passing full appropriations for the first time in over eighteen months.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is Dairy Radio.

Speaker 14 (12:14):
Now.

Speaker 15 (12:15):
I'm John Clutter, traveling the countryside for Feedwork's USA. Today
we're with Katie Carpenter of a in the Classroom in
New York. Tell us about in a Classroom, Katie, Hi.

Speaker 16 (12:25):
John Well, New York. Agriculture in the Classroom is an
outreach program of Cornell University. Our job is to help
pre K through twelfth grade teachers use food and agriculture
as a context for learning. We take what they have
to teach those core academic content standards and give teachers
opportunities to help make those connections to the natural world.
We want to make sure their students have authentic learning

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experiences and can feel and grow a connection to be
more agriculturally literate.

Speaker 15 (12:53):
You're training people who may or may not end up
in agriculture.

Speaker 16 (12:56):
That is exactly it. My vision for Agricultural EDIC is
that our students who start school at kindergarten until they graduate,
every year they have a chance to connect with food
and agriculture, whether that's making people syrup in their classroom,
doing a deep exploration of corn, and maybe even eventually

(13:16):
joining FFA if that opportunity exists for them, and taking
agricultural education in classes. We don't know where their journey
will lead them, but we do know that they're going
to eat. We know that they're going to be making
informed decisions as consumers someday. So we want them by
the time that they leave high school. Our mission is
to make sure that they can understand and communicate the

(13:38):
source and value of agriculture in their daily lives.

Speaker 15 (13:41):
Give us a specific slice of egg in the classroom,
what it's like.

Speaker 16 (13:45):
Sure, So some of our favorite experiences is working with
classroom teachers. So we especially love to give teachers these
opportunities and kind of build an experience for them. So,
for example, in third grade, they may be learning about circumference,
and so our classroom teachers who have gone through our programming,
find our lessons and resources. They may decide to make

(14:07):
maple syrup with their students, but they're learning about circumference.
So they go outside and they're able to measure the
circumference of a maple tree and then make informed decisions
of how many taps could we put into this tree.
So taking opportunities that exist in the natural world and
an agriculture to make direct connections with their classroom curriculum.

Speaker 15 (14:27):
That's fascinating. So you have an interesting background all of
your own that really brought you to this point in
your career.

Speaker 16 (14:35):
So I grew up in the very northern portion of
New York, so I was lucky to spend a lot
of time on my grandfather's hate crop operation and really
gain an influence of education and agriculture. I come from
a long line of teachers. Was a really natural connection
for me and my world kind of all came together
in seventh grade when I joined a FFA and started

(14:56):
taking AIG education classes that really change the trajectory of
my life.

Speaker 15 (15:01):
You were a state officer for FFA I was.

Speaker 16 (15:04):
It was such a transformational moment in my growth in
agricultural education. It was the moment of spending time with
agriculture teachers that I knew that this is what I
wanted to do for the rest of my life. And
that led me to the best experiences of working for
the educators as an intern which evolved into working at

(15:25):
the oswag FFA camp, which evolved into doing a summer
internship with National Forage and learning. All these different aspects
of agricultural education just continued to put me on the
path of knowing that this is where I meant to be.

Speaker 15 (15:38):
You know, from the outside, and Katie, that officer team
really looks special. It looks like you're making lifelong friendships
on that team. Can you can you at testify to that.

Speaker 16 (15:48):
The friends and now colleagues that I met while being
part of agricultural education are people that I still call
on every day. So one of the really cool things
a young woman who was a state officer a few
years after me, hosted on social media that she was
doing an open house for Western New York Energy ethanol

(16:09):
production in West and Madina in Western New York, and
I messaged her, and because we already had this existing relationship,
Amanda and I were able to talk and we actually
hosted a virtual field trip at their operation, and we
had thousands of students from across New York State to
learn about the largest corn buyer in New York State,
why that's important, the products that they're making, and how

(16:32):
they are sure to use every byproduct of that of
that corn for usable products in our everyday lives. So
small connections that may seem small when you're seventeen or
eighteen years old, that lead to lifelong opportunities to connect
and learn from one another and share that with others.

Speaker 15 (16:51):
Any carpenter of the agg of a classroom program from
Cornell on John Clutter traveling on the countryside for FEEDBCK
to USA.

Speaker 17 (17:02):
Growing trinas can be volatile up and down pricing. Sometimes
when you don't make much money at all, That's when
off farm income is so important. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with
a California Trina report part of the bast Hag Information Network.
David Fippen is a partner with Prevail and Fippen a grower,
packer and shipper of amans.

Speaker 18 (17:24):
You know the secret and all these young guys ask me,
and I say, you need off arm income. If you're
gonna be in agriculture, you need some form of off
arm income. If your wife is a school teacher, or
she works for a bank, or you just have some
o their interests, maybe you personally have a harvesting company,
or pretty much that's what it takes. And it reminds
me of all those years that I served in leadership

(17:46):
in farm credit. Seventy two percent of the farm credit
loans in America were supported by off farm income. So
that pretty much the story. It was forty years ago
and it is today.

Speaker 17 (17:56):
In Morning's Johnna Lee Done in Northern California grows on.
She comments on heavy pressure, naval orange worm and ants.

Speaker 19 (18:04):
We had naval orange worm pressures again. I think we
think it was worse this year than even last year.
And we just the naval orange worm pressure just seems
to get worse and worse every year. This year we
struggled with ant damage, which you always get a little
bit of it. But my husband and I personally, we have
a block of independent sent man one. It was hard
to keep the ants at bay when those amons are

(18:24):
on the ground, and we got some pretty good damage
from the ants.

Speaker 20 (18:27):
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Speaker 17 (19:25):
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Speaker 14 (19:28):
The potato industry has struggled over the last couple of
years with lighter consumer demand resulting in some contracts getting
reduced or terminated altogether. Now, is that going to be
an issue during the rest of twenty twenty five and
into the future. Chris Avoid, executive director of the Washington
State Potato Commission, says statewide, growers reduce the acres planted

(19:52):
yet an effort to correct the balance problem. But despite
that effort, he noted, there's still a concern that there
could be too many potatoes to perfect growing weather, not
only in the Northwest, but also nationwide.

Speaker 21 (20:05):
So that can be actually devastating for our fresh potato growers,
you know, the ones who are selling potatoes to grocery
stores and restaurants and food service. That is for the
most part, I mean some of it's done on contracts,
but a significant portion is done just kind of on
the open market. And when you have strong deals and
good growing conditions all across the country, that could point

(20:27):
them towards and over supply. Over production of potatoes.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
Boy says, while many questions remain for growers, there is
one thing he's competent of. As harvest continues and the
holidays draw closer, it's going to.

Speaker 21 (20:40):
Be a good year for consumers. They're going to have
excellent potato quality and a good supply in the grocery stores,
and hopefully you know a fair price that's for good
for the consumer and a good prices that's good for
the grower.

Speaker 14 (20:51):
A gam that is Chris Voight with the Washington State
Potato Commission. Farmers and ranchers should make plans now to
attend the Farm Bureaus Invention January ninth through the fourteenth
of twenty twenty six at the Anaheim Convention Center in California.
Nikki Jones, director of Event Marketing for IDAGG, says, they'll

(21:13):
have a lot going on at the convention.

Speaker 22 (21:15):
We'll be in sunny Anaheim, California this year, where attendees
can take advantage of a full lineup of engaging workshops,
tours of Southern California landmarks and agriculture, and energizing general
sessions featuring our closing General Session speaker Heisman Trophy winner
Tim Tebow.

Speaker 14 (21:31):
And Joon says the convention offers a workshop topic for
almost every interest.

Speaker 22 (21:37):
Topics for our workshops fall into four different tracks, public policy,
consumer engagement, member engagement, and rural development. Some of our
featured topics include the Make America Healthy again movement the
farm bill and ag economic outlooks.

Speaker 14 (21:52):
Joon says to make note of two important dates for
the convention.

Speaker 22 (21:56):
This year's convention takes place January ninth through the fourteenth,
twenty twenty six. We ask that attendees register themselves either
with their state Farm Bureau or on our website at
Annualconvention dot FB dot org by December twelfth to reserve housing.

Speaker 14 (22:09):
And again for more information, log onto Annual Convention dot
FB dot orgon that's Annual Convention dot fb dot orgon JAYE.
Tyler is the cherry lect for the US Meat Expert
Federation and recently traveled to the United Kingdom on a
trade mission with Idaho Governor Brad Little. The group met

(22:31):
with farmers, importers, and trade officials to discuss the trade
agreement framework recently announced by President Trump.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I was part of the delegation.

Speaker 23 (22:40):
Went over with the Governor of Idaho, who's the rancher himself,
talk about the new trade deal. Talked a lot about
the beef deal, but we also realized that there's some
opportunities for pork obviously if they can work out some
of the details on that were the UK is taking
a lot of cork from the European Union right now,
so I think it's in the range of between two
and three billion dollars. That so there's an opportunity for

(23:02):
pork and certainly is an opportunity for bee people we
can get duty free access to the British market.

Speaker 14 (23:06):
Tyler notes there is a strong potential for both US
beef and pork in the United Kingdom, but lingering non
tariff barriers to US products must be addressed to provide
full access.

Speaker 23 (23:18):
They've been aligned with the EU for so long and
they're so dependent on important export with the European Union
that we're not sure what exactly those requirements are going
to be. But there's a lot of other access issues
that are creating friction that we hope we can see
some movement on in some of the FIDO sanitary regulations. Labeling,
I mean they label right now everything going to the

(23:39):
UK still part of the EU's labeled in eight languages.
Each individual piece is labeled, So there's a lot of
things like that that are details that make the trade
more difficult.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
So hopefully we can work some of those things out again.

Speaker 14 (23:51):
That is Jade Tyler, the chair elect for the US
to meet Export Federation. In June, the United Kingdom open
to duty free teriffreak quota for US beef with a
twenty twenty five volume of about eighty five hundred metric tons.
That country is currently a large pork importer, buying around
two point seven billion dollars in twenty twenty four, nearly

(24:13):
all of it European Union pork, which enters the country
tearra free. I'm Dwayne Murley and this is ZAG Live.

Speaker 24 (24:22):
It's time for California Egg today on the AG Information Network,
I am Hailey's ship. Most people see almonds as a
healthy snack, but half of every almond is the hull,
the outer layer traditionally used in dairy feed. With a
smaller dairy hrdan halls now being traded below production cost.
The Almond Board of California is looking for new ways

(24:44):
to add value to this resource. Formed in twenty seventeen,
the Board's Biomass Working Group is exploring how halls can
become food ingredients. Chairman Michael Kelly said this biomass working
group is where business eats science. Almond halls are rich
in fiber, natural sugars, and minerals to explore their potential.

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The board partnered with product innovation firm Matson to develop
sample foods including a high fiber bar roasted hull coffee
and bread enriched with Hall powder. Adding just ten percent
hullpowder can actually qualify foods for an upcycled claim, which
has been gaining traction with waste conscious consumers. Almond Bard

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Associate director of Food Research and Technology, Guangwei Huang said,
we are about to begin a new journey to generate
more revenue from almond halls. Several companies in the almond
industry are already investing in Haull cleaning systems to prepare
for food safe approval.

Speaker 20 (25:43):
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Speaker 1 (26:48):
Bokquin here were some farmer us this morning. Friends. Harvest
season wrapping up or will be soon for pair and
apple growers in the Pacific Northwest. John Devaney, president of
the Washington State Tree Fruit Associate, says both crops are
looking pretty good in twenty twenty five, following some challenges
in recent years.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
For both the apple and pear crops. They're looking to
be at the upper end of the average ranges where
they're both big crops this year.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Which is good news for the tree fruit industry, but
not too surprising.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
Particularly for pears. Last year we had an unusually small
pear crop due to some weather factors that severely reduced
the crop size. Those trees do like to bounce back
after they've had a small.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Crop, and bounce back they did.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
We're looking at a paar crop that's you know, cample,
and that's great news for those who were disappointed by
not having as many pairs as they wanted last year.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
So pair lovers Davany says, should be in pretty good
shape this year availability wise.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
I know, I was back in Washington, d C. Just
about two weeks ago with some industry folks talking to
members and staff on the hill, and one of the
staff was complaining that he had found too many Argentine
pairs in the grocery store and was wondering why there
were not enough Northwest pairs available. We explained about that
lower crop size, and the great news, of course being
that we will not have that problem this year.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Devanny says they're expecting good prices, so consumers should be
able to enjoy this year's ample crop.

Speaker 18 (28:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Friends' efforts to combat the advancing New World screw worm continues.
Larie Boyer has the details.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
The government shutdown doesn't affect essential or emergency work, meaning
Efforts to combat the New World screwworm are still underway.
Erin Sporre, executive vice president of the Colorado Cattleman's Association,
says the concern is that construction of the sterile fly
facility could face delays, and ensuring Mexico maintains its monitoring
efforts remains critical as the pest moves closer to the

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US border.

Speaker 8 (28:42):
A lot of what Mexico is doing right now is
passive surveillance, and what they need to be doing is
active surveillance. And so we continue to push from CCA,
MCBA and then from the USBA and higher level from there,
and so you know, this is an immediate threat to
those border states like Texas and others. But just like

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the cattle industry, and we all know the cattle industry,
this can have wide effects and hopefully cross our fingers,
as the winter months come and colder weather comes, that
will see that slow down of it spreading further north.
But I think the beef industry is for sure taking
this serious.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
Once again, that was Aaron Sporer. She is the executive
vice president of the Colorado Cattleman's Association.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Laur Boyer reporting for US this morning. Well, friends, Did
you know that high altitudes can have a significant impact
on cattle herds? Kaylin Stearns, a graduate research assistant at
Oklahoma State University, talked about high altitude disease and congestive
heart failure in beef cattle.

Speaker 25 (29:47):
High altitude disease is a non infectious disease in beef
cattle that usually impacts cattle above five thousand feet of elevations,
more common in the Mountain West, but essentially, the lack
of oxygen at those elevation causes hypertension, which then leads
to remodeling of the pulmonary arteries and due to lack
of blood flow because of the remodeling, the animal will

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then die and there's no treatment or cure for this disease,
and the only recommendation that they have is to take
those animals from areas of higher elevations to areas of
lower elevation to try to alleviate the stress.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
To help manage the challenge, producers in higher elevations use
a pulmonary arterial pressure or PAP score.

Speaker 25 (30:27):
So PAP scores were invented as a way for producers
to help try to mitigate the risk of high altitude
disease and their beef cattle herds. So a PAP score
essentially measures the pressure at the pulmonary artery and a
license atnarian. Usually they'll run a catheter from the jugular
all the way to the pulmonary artery and then take
a systolic and distolic measurement very similar to human blood pressure.

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It's both measured in millimeters of mercury, and from there
then they take a mean PAP score and those producers
can then use selection decisions to decide whether or not
they want to keep that animal determine their survivability at
high altitude, So scores will range anywhere from thirty to
greater than fifty, and the lower scores are more desirable.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Don't assume cattle are immune to congestive heart failure just
because they're at lower elevations.

Speaker 25 (31:13):
Bovine congestive heart failure is more found at lower elevations.
It's more common in the feed yards, and essentially the
stress from being asked to perform and being pushed on
feed causes these animals to experience some stress and then
this will once again causes an elevation and their blood
pressure and hypertension, which then leads to remodeling of their

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heart once again. So it differs slightly because it's obviously
found in lower elevations. But I do think when we
discuss high altitude disease in bovine congestive heart failure, I
do think we're talking about two sides a very similar coin.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Kaitlin sterns with research out of Oklahoma State University. This morning,
some farm to us. You're listening to aag life.

Speaker 26 (31:56):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson, and this
is your agribusiness update. The government shutdown is hitting the
nation's farmers and ranchers in multiple ways. Politico points out
the shutdown is stalling delivery of farm loans, the release
of critical market reports, and the administration's plan for emergency assistance.
Roe crop producers have been weathering uncertainty for months, including

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tariff troubles and high input costs. Politico says, every day
the government is open adds to the anxiety in farm country.
The US and China have begun charging competing port fees
on ocean shipping firms that move everything from holiday toys
to crude oil. Reuter says the new fees will make
the high seas, a key front in the continuing trade

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war between the world's largest economies. China has started collecting
the levees on US owned, operated, built, or flagged vessels,
but clarified that Chinese built ships are exempt from the
same levees. Speaking of China, their soybean imports jumped year
over year in September. Bank of America Global Research said
in a note two clients that soybean imports by Vaultam

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jumped more than thirteen percent last month versus one point
two percent in August. Imports from Brazil were up twenty
four percent, which compares with a one point four percent
year over year decline in August. However, purchases from the
US were down more than sixteen percent on an annual basis,
in line with the previous months.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
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safe on a road. Every year, accidents happen when tractors
and traffic share the same space. Whether you're behind the
wheel of a tractor or a car, here's what you
need to remember. Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass
on hills or curves. Farmers, make sure your slow moving
vehicles signs and lights are visible and everyone sailor, especially

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on rule roads. One moment a caution can save a life.
Let's work together to keep our roads and our farms safe.
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Speaker 1 (34:20):
Bob Quent back to wrap up ike lie for today friends,
Farmers need to look at the big picture when preparing
for twenty twenty six. Chad Smith has our wrap up report.

Speaker 27 (34:28):
As farmers analyze this season's harvest results and begin making
decisions for the next growing season, lg SED's agronomist grant
Otal encourages them to think big picture.

Speaker 15 (34:39):
Some things are going to be highly variable.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
In my area.

Speaker 28 (34:42):
Rain was a limiting factor, but When we're thinking about
big picture decision making, it's really important to consider the
data set that we're referencing. So let's take a look
about how your agronomists and your DSM.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
With lgceds can give you the tools to succeed.

Speaker 28 (34:57):
We have access to a year over year database, or
we can identify which hybrids are performing in specific environments
and conditions, because every year is going to bring different challenges,
So use those agronomous, use those relationships with your dsms,
and through us, we can provide you the data to
create a bigger picture than just whatever is went in
your plot in your neck of the woods.

Speaker 27 (35:16):
It's tempting to go with the plot winners when choosing
corn hybrids, but total encourages growers to expand that lens.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Plot winners are great.

Speaker 28 (35:24):
Every single year, though, is going to provide a different challenge,
and every data point is unique, so we got to
put everything into context. What's winning the plot next door
might not be the same story about what's going on.

Speaker 15 (35:34):
In your field.

Speaker 28 (35:35):
Consider the strengths of each individual hybrid and understand that
conditions can change on a year to year basis. Let's
look for the hybrids that are performing year over year,
that are constantly finishing in that top half of all
the data sets we're looking at because just like we
think about some of the best athletes of our time,
they're the ones that don't go pro based on one performance,
but the ones who are delivering year after year after year.

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And it's no different with hybrid selection. So look for
consistency and look for year over year performance over what's
just winning one plot and having a great year.

Speaker 27 (36:04):
Growers know their fields better than anyone and manage each
of them differently. Seed decision should be no different. According
to ODAL.

Speaker 28 (36:12):
As a genetics company, we like to sell our products
as solutions the problems, and not every problem is going
to be the same across all different growing environments production histories.
So what we want to do is encourage our growers
to use data that best reflects the challenges that are
associated to their fields and find what products are consistently
performing year over year in those environments and use those

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fermount success in their operation.

Speaker 27 (36:36):
It'll also encourages growers to check fields before harvest for
a more accurate assessment of hybrid performance.

Speaker 28 (36:43):
Different plants are going to have different statures, different plant
hells different plant standability, and whenever we're thinking about the
holistic picture for what works for our operation, we might
need some different characteristics to maximize our success. We need
something that's going to be standing out there in late
November to give us the flexibility ultra harvest window. It's
going to be important to get out ahead of the
combine and take a look and see how those plants

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are holding on and then build a whole picture on
this year. We had a lot of disease issues, so
wish hybrids were standing up to the challenge throughout the
season and use all of those factors.

Speaker 20 (37:16):
To compliment what's going on.

Speaker 15 (37:17):
With that, you'll to build a bigger picture.

Speaker 27 (37:19):
For support in taking stock of the twenty twenty five
growing season and preparing for the next one. Reach out
to your local LG Seeds agronomist or visit lgseeds dot com.
Chad Smith reporting

Speaker 1 (37:32):
With that, friends, abount of time for today, Thanks for
joining us back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad
Life