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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, in all across the country. Well, friends,
has been forty years with the Conservation Reserve Program. Rod
Bain has a look.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty twenty five marks the fortieth anniversary of what many
consider the Agriculture Department's flagship conservation program. The person perhaps
most connected to the creation of the Conservation Reserve Program
in nineteen eighty five, former Agriculture Secretary Job Block. He
shared some of his thoughts on CRP a decade ago.
(00:33):
During the program's thirtieth anniversary. The reagane Administration Cabinet member recalls.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
In order to have farm program supports, you'd have to
take out ten or fifteen percent of your ground, and
some of us really good ground. For my idea wealth,
if we're going to set something aside, let's do something
that can protect the soil and get some of this
fragile land out of production.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So, after some debate, Secretary Block managed to include CRP
as part of the nineteen eighty five Farm Bill. Considering
how the program has owning scope a wide ranging support.
Over four decades. What might think CRP is perhaps John
Block's legacy as Secretary of Agriculture, He says, though it's
just one example of what he tried to do while
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in office.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I consider my legacy is working hard to reform farm programs,
and that was part of the reform. But we also
got rid of setting this land aside the good land.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And some of that approach comes from blocks experience as
a farmer, several decades of experience where he operated his
Illinois farm and enrolled his farmland into CRP.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We've had CRP land on our farms, and a lot
of our farms are not erosive, but we have got
some fields. It might be pretty flat for the most part,
but then there's a river or stream down at the
bottom and it's rough down in there. Instead of trying
to farm that, which would get a lot of erosion,
we'd put it in CRP.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The fact that CRP has grown into more than just
the soil conservation tool over its forty years is well.
In job Block's words.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's blossomed in the more than I ever really anticipating.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
In part because of its growing popularity with outdoor recreationalists
from outdoor sports participants to those hiking longstream banks protected
by CRP land. There is the variety of cover crops
planted on CRP lad, some with potential as energy feedstock,
much of it part of wildlife habitat.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There's insistence if you've got to have the right kind
of crops or foliage growing there, and grass and lagoobs
so that all of the butterflies and bugs and everything
you'll have a habitat. It just turned into more than
I have imagine.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Importing beef from South America. Well, farm groups are weighing
in on the issue. We'll have that story coming up
on Agglife. Bob Quinn here at farm News This Morning Friends.
President Trump has recently suggested importing Argentinian beef to lower
consumer cost in the meatcase. Chad Smith has details on
how that would impact the beef sector.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
When President Donald Trump proposed buying beef from Argentina to
boost supply and bring down retail prices, the cattle market
reaction was almost instantaneous. John Newton, vice president of public
policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said, we've already
seen a negative market impact from simply talking about the plan.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
We saw limit down movements in the futures market for
three straight weeks in a row that impeded the ability
for cattle farmers to manage risk through the use of
LARP contracts. You have to remember that the cattle market's
one of the healthiest part of the farm economy right now,
and the notion of even importing beef to ultimately reduce
cattle prices is a detriment to farmer income.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Newton said, The already shaky farm economy cannot sustain a
blow to the one sector that's not experiencing a downturn.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
If you take out the ad hoc federal support that
Congress has provided, net farm income is actually down and
crop farm cash receipts are down seventy one billion dollars
from three years ago. So it's the cattle side of
the balance sheet that is supporting the farm economy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Newton said. Cattle farmers and ranchers are barely beginning to
get their feet under the after several years of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Trying to lower beef prices, when that is the part
of the farm economy that supporting rural America creates a
lot of uncertainty, especially as American farmers are beginning to
think about rebuilding the herd. The notion that we need
to lower beef prices would be a one to two
punch that the farm economy just cannot handle.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Meanwhile, US cattle producers are very concerned about President Trump's
plan to buy Argentinian beef cattle as a move designed
to lower US beef prices for consumers. Colin Woodhall, CEO
of the National Cattleman's Beef Association, said they're disappointed with
the President's plan.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
We understand what he is trying to do, but what
he does not realize is that in trying to bring
the price of beef down for the consumer, it means
he's going to bring down the price being paid for
cattle for US producers. So, in fact, this is a
direct attack on US cattle producers, and it negates so
much of the work that we have done over the
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years to build the overall quality of our product, quality
that we're very proud of. When you see the amount
of beef that is grading choice and prime, the consumer
likes what we are giving them, and they've made it
very clear that they want more of it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Despite the high price of beef. What All says, demand
is at an all time high because of the taste
and quality.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That's why demand remains at almost a forty year high,
and that the consumer is still buying our great product.
And unfortunately, the president's plan will have a huge impact
on how we as cattle producers can capitalize on that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What All said, the President needs to talk to cattle
producers about this kind of idea and the impact it
can have.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
We've had a great relationship with the White House and
with the Secretary of Agriculture. They know that we are
good partners and we have facts and figures. Just come
visit with us and we can talk through any issue
that pops up. But there also needs to be a
realization from the President from the Secretary that any offhanded comments,
innocuous as they may think that it is, can have
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huge ramifications on the marketplace. And we saw that on
Friday when the future's market is just absolutely crashed, and
that cost this industry and a lot of counter producers
a lot of money. He said.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Last week's market downturn came after comments about a plan
that wasn't even fully developed at the time. Well friends,
Brazil's farmers are planting a record number of corn and
soybean acres for the upcoming crop season. CONAB, Brazil's Food
supply and Statistics agency, released its first outlook for the
new crop cycle and projects an increase in planted area now.
(06:38):
The expansion is driven by growing domestic demand for biofuels
and strong export performance out of that country. University of
Illinois Farmdock article says despite the expected acreage growth, gross
margins for both crops are likely to decline significantly due
to rising production cost and lower prices. KNAB predicts Brazil's
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soybean acre will increase by three and a half percent
for this year's crop. Farm news this morning, you are
listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
It's another ag news update. Trade and livestock headlines collide.
This week tariff stay firm with China and their hung
market sends new signals more after this.
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Today, President Trump's proposal to import more Argentine beef drawing
broad opposition from US cattle groups, who warn it would
barely affect retail prices but could undercut her rebuilding. US
Cattleman's Association, Farm Bureau, National Farmers Union, all urging Washington
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to strengthen domestic transparency and competition rather than depending on
foreign beef. Pushback comes as the US Trade Representative holds
the line with roughly fifty five percent tariffs on Chinese goods,
a managed trade stance meant to preserve leverage all Beijing
Way soybean purchases and market access talks continue. At the
(08:31):
same time, China's hog sector speeding up slaughter to ease
over capacity, lifting pork output seven percent year over year,
pulling hog prices down to about seventy cents a pound.
Analyst of Robobanks say the oversupply could tighten by mid
twenty twenty six. Influence seeing feed grain flows and export
(08:53):
demand together headlines mark a week where cattle trade and
feed markets all hinge on Poulas see not production. It's
another agnews update, Brian.
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Speaker 7 (09:33):
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Today.
Speaker 16 (10:12):
Arland Suderman is with stoneacts he saw the cattle market
collapse on Friday after President headline driven marketplace at some points.
Speaker 18 (10:22):
Again, as we are again being a headline driven marketplace,
we saw the cattle market collapse on Friday after President
Trump and made comments late on Thursday about having a
deal in place in order to be able to bring
the price of beef down. He confirmed with the comment
yesterday what he was referring to was importing more beef
(10:43):
from Argentina. We're still pretty scant on details of that.
We do import some beef from Argentina. Apparently the President
trying to ramp up the scope of those imports that
we get from Argentina in order to increase the supply
of beef in the unit in the States, and that
was the big part of the sell off that we
(11:05):
saw in the markets on Friday. The beef markets are
actually bouncing today with that confirmation. Kind I think relieved
that it didn't include removing the fifty percent terrify on
Brazilian beef.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
That's Arlan Suderman with stone Ax. Now. Doctor Daryl Peel,
Oklahoma State Livestock Marketing Economists says expending beef imports from
Argentina would actually do little to reduce US prices. In
his latest analysis, he explains that while Argentina is the
world's fifth largest beef exporter, the role in US supply
(11:41):
remains small, accounting for just two point one percent total
imports so far this year. He does say Argentina consumes
most of their own beef, leaving limited export capacity. American
Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Now investing in our future. The National Dairy Leadership Scholarship
Program support students who want to contribute to the dairy community.
And joining us with an update is Nicole Iosh, Chief
Sustainability Officer with the National Milk Producers Federation. Nicole, the
Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program has been going on for years.
(12:22):
How are things this year?
Speaker 19 (12:23):
Well, this year we have the opportunity to award four
individuals with scholarships. They had research topics ranging from the
room and microbiome, precision dairy technologies, milking performance metrics, and
other topics. They're really wonderful individuals who I know have
a great future within the dairy industry and contributing to
(12:47):
all the great work that makes dairy farming, dairy processing possible.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
Supporting these individuals with their careers in dairy probably more
important now than ever before.
Speaker 19 (12:58):
Huh yes, yeah, thank you. We so appreciate being able
to sustain this program, and it's only possible through the
generous individuals and organizations who contribute each year. We have
a number of ways to help support the program right now.
In fact, we have an online raffle with great prizes
like American Express gift cards, Target gift cards, Cabot Cheese Box,
(13:22):
and anyone can participate in that raffle. It's online and
the URL is a little long, but I'll say it
out loud here and you can always find it again
on our n MPF LinkedIn page, But it's go dot
rally up dot com, slash NMPF hyphen Raffle hyphen twenty
twenty five. And if you can't find it, you can
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always reach out to us via our web page at
n NPS dot org. On that web page you can
also make a general donation, So if you're not interested
in the raffle, but you do want to contribute, we
always have a link on our web page to donate
to help sustain the program, and that donation would be
tax deductible, and we appreciate anyone's interest in helping to
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make this program possible.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
You mentioned this year's winners. Is there a set number
of recipients each year for the scholarship program or does
it depend on the funds that are raised.
Speaker 19 (14:18):
It's a great question. We typically receive about forty applications
each year, though it varies year to year, and we
award anything from two to five awards. It really depends
on the pool of applications we get and the strength
of those applications, and of course, as you mentioned, depends
(14:39):
somewhat on how much fundraising we're able to do that
prior year.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Well, the program's been awarding scholarships for years now. Have
you been able to measure any of the past recipient's success.
Speaker 19 (14:50):
That's a great question. You know, we did do a
review of past recipients over the past fifteen years and
found that all of them stayed within US agriculture or
food production. So whether that's working in academia, or if
that working in industry and different companies, input suppliers, whether
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that's working in consulting, whether that's working back on the farm.
But in the past fifteen years, all of our awardees
have stayed within agriculture or food production and processing, and
a good chunk of them have even stayed within dairy
as well. So we feel pretty good that the program
is achieving its goal of supporting that next generation of
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dairy professionals and agriculture professionals.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Nicole, thank you for the time today. Is there anything
else you'd like to share about the National Dairy Scholarship Program.
Speaker 19 (15:43):
One thing I'd add is we really MPF is really
proud to manage this program because it's one of the
few that's really a national program for dairy professionals. There
are a lot of more local ones, but this is
really our national program, and it's one where we really
focus on some reporting those students. So our funds go
directly to the students so that they can continue whatever
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they need in their graduate work, whether that's attending conferences,
whether that's supplies. We really just feel good about being
able to support people in a hard time in their life,
when they're students and they're not maybe able to support
themselves financially, we're able to help bring in a little
bit of that to bridge the gap while they do
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important work of studying and researching before they're out in
the working world again.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Thanks Nicole. Nicole Iosh, chief Sustainability Officer with the National
Milk Producers Federation. Find more at NMPF dot org. I'm
Bill Baker Dairy Radio.
Speaker 20 (16:43):
Now there's a lot of annualine perennial weeds and tree
hut orchards, and you've got to stay on top of
it before they go dormant. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the
California Trina Report, part of the Vastat Information at Work.
George Angelis is a weed management and an ecology advisor
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of UCE Cooperative Extension in Ta Larry, Kings and Fresno Counties.
Speaker 21 (17:09):
We still deal with a lot of pernal weeds and
a lot of tree crops, so right now it's probably
the best way to go after them. Rafter harvest.
Speaker 20 (17:14):
Yeah, if you have time, get after those weeds, all
of them.
Speaker 21 (17:18):
Don't let those weeds go dormant. I would try to
go after them right now and try to apply some
post merger beside. Once we move into the winter season,
a lot of those weeks go dormant and re sprout
from rhizomes you know, the following season. Though, it's always
best to go after them right now that they're rapidly
up taking nutrients to go to dormancy, so it's always
best to try to go after them right now after harvest.
Speaker 20 (17:38):
In more news, gills, millibug of ects, pistachios, almonds, and grapes.
Adults are about two to five millimeters long, pinkish gray
and covered with white wax that give the appearance of
two stripes along the back, but pure females in large
nymphs produce white wax filaments up to ten millimeters long.
Three generations occur per year. Overwintering nips could survive in
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bark crevices and move to buds at bud break during
the season. Honeydew from feeding supports black sooty mold, which
hurts quality in the tree nuts.
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Speaker 13 (19:12):
The Northwest paar harvest should be wrapping up soon, with
forecasts some let's calling for a sixty percent increase over
last year's disaster crop that was hit by untimely freezing temperatures.
John Devaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association,
says that's great news.
Speaker 15 (19:30):
But it doesn't mean that it was without the hiccups.
Though a lot of our pair growers were impacted by
the unfortunate closure of one of the remaining canneries, the
del Monte Pear Cannery here just before the start of
the season, and that caused a fair bit of disruption.
Speaker 13 (19:46):
The time and of the closure, to Vanny says, was
not ideal.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
Some growers that were thinking that they had some of
their fruit contracted to go to that facility were then
having to pivot fairly quickly to finding an alternate market.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
In reality, though, de Vany says this has been coming.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
It's been a change in the industry. A lot of
consumers are moving away from canned product towards fresh, which
is a longer term trend that folks have been watching.
Speaker 13 (20:13):
The Vany says the USDA has provided some help.
Speaker 15 (20:17):
They have resources availble to help cushion market shocks like that,
and they did commit twenty million dollars to do additional
both canned and fresh pair purchases which will help smooth
out that transition as some growers maybe pivot away from
having as much of their fruit plan for the cannery
market again.
Speaker 13 (20:33):
That is John Devaney, president of the Washington State Tree
Fruit Association, and he says many growers had already incurred
the cost of growing and cultivating that fruit through the season.
US dairy market's going to be a challenge to completely
understand mc home, the general manager for the farm First
Dairy Cooperative in Wisconsin, says even he's not sure why
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the milk markets are doing what they're doing.
Speaker 22 (20:58):
I wish I was smart enough to explain them. Mits
it seems like milk right now is a little bit tight,
But it's going to take somebody smarter than me to
figure out how come milk is tight and the milk
prices are solo seventeen dollars for the next pursueable future
six months. It's just not where the farmers need to be,
and it's certainly not where we would like things to
be because with the price and everything and costs, I
just think it's hard for anybody to make it. But
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let alone farmers. We're not getting the price for their
milk that I think they deserve.
Speaker 13 (21:22):
Us dairy farmers are incredibly efficient producers, which can make
it hard to get good prices for their products and
co products correct.
Speaker 22 (21:31):
And that's the one thing. When you put in perspective
of what all of the rest of us do for
a job, and they do for a job, it doesn't
make any sense that if you get better at your job,
you should make more money. And that just isn't the
way it is. All of our farmers, our components in
the last four or five years, butterfat, protein, other solid
somatic salad has all the farmers are gotten better. But
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yet you're still turning around and we're having the prices
that we had and thirty forty years ago. It makes
no sense. And that's hard to run their businesses or
our businesses when you don't see any light at the
end of the tunnel.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Again.
Speaker 13 (22:04):
That's nick home of the farm First Dairy Cooperative in Wisconsin.
Profitability and the ethanol segment is there thanks to a
slight rise in the profit margins in the third quarter.
Through the first half of September, Dan O'Brien and agricultural
economists with Kansas State University Extension talked about the profitability
of the US ethanol sector that uses roughly thirty five
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percent of a corn crop in any given year.
Speaker 23 (22:30):
The calculations through the first three weeks of September are
looking pretty good, you know, profits based on I guess
that IWA model kind of straddling Illinois, Nebraska, and parts
of Kansas at least showing about twenty four cents a
gallon in terms of profitability. Ethanol price jumped up here
of late, with the anthonol price going higher and the
corn price sideways to lower. That's when you get profits
(22:52):
like this. So for the last three months you've had
about plus that's profitability in July August about nineteen twenty
cents in here's first three weeks September twenty fourth.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Since how long profitability will last depends on several factors,
including whether grain storegum can gets used in more ethanol production.
Speaker 23 (23:09):
Unless an ethanol plant is closing down for some type
of refurbishing or whatever, it would seem to be a
pretty time to run. Really, I guess how long will
we maintain pretty decent motor fuel prices and that bringing
ethanol along as well in the light of the US economy,
and then if also add in moderate strength in even
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grain sorgum music. In fact, talking with the USDA economist
Steve Ramsey, out of the ers indicated that we've had
strong grain sorgument into ethanol, which is the price for
the grain circument industry. Given the weakness we've been seeing
in exports overall, I guess that'll be the story as
we look at the ethanol market. That again low price
feedstocks coming into whatever we have for the ethanol market,
(23:52):
and if that holds up at least decently, then you'd
hope for a time of at least okay profitability for
ethanol plants.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Again, as Dane in of Kansas State Extension.
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
Bob quin here at farm News This Morning Friends. President
Trump has recently suggested importing Argentinian beef to lower consumer
cost in the meatcase. Chad Smith has details on how
that would impact the beef sector.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
When President Donald Trump proposed buying beef from Argentina to
boost supply and bring down retail prices, the cattle market
reaction was almost instantaneous. John Newton, vice president of public
policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said, we've already
seen a negative market impact from simply talking about the plant.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
We saw limit down movements in the futures market for
three straight weeks in a row that impeded the ability
for cattle farmers to manage risk through the use of
LARP contracts. You have to remember that the cattle market's
one of the healthiest part of the farm economy right now,
and the notion of even importing beef to ultimately reduce
cattle prices is a detriment to farmer income.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Newton said, the already shaky farm economy cannot sustain a
blow to the one sector that's not experiencing a downturn.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
If you take out the ad hoc federal support that
Congress has provided, that farm income is actually down and
crop farm cash receipts are down seventy one billion dollars
from three years ago. So it's the cattle side of
the balance sheet that is supporting the farm economy.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Newton said, Cattle farmers and ranchers are barely beginning to
get their feet under them after several years of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Trying to lower beef prices when that is the part
of the farm economy that is supporting rural America creates
a lot of uncertainty, especially as American farmers are beginning
to think about rebuilding the herd. The notion that we
need to lower beef prices would be a one to
two punch that the farm economy just cannot handle.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Chad Smith, Washington Friends.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Of recent report takes a look at tariffs and the
impact on American agriculture this year and next. Mike Davis
has our story.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
John Appel, vice president of Category Management with Farmers Business Network,
says their report indicates old inventory in the supply chain
kept some input prices relatively low.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
All of that channel inventory has been depleted, and all
of the inbound product that's come into the US since
that time has been subject to tariffs of varying extents, right,
And so we know that that now that's structurally part
of the cost in the market already in the channel today,
and so that's going to be felt by farmers going
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forward into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
Here, but Appel says, with tariffs not appearing to go
away anytime soon, expect even higher input prices. In twenty
twenty six, right.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
After we release through, there was another addition one hundred
percent tariff floated on China, right, So that one's still
in the air, but we know, you know, right now
it seems like that baseline twenty percent tariff that's been
pretty much a fixture, and so what's been moving up
and down has really been the reciprocal tariffs, and that's
gone from ten percent all the way up north of
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one hundred percent, right, So that's the piece that is
kind of a moving target, but we think that at
least that twenty percent and additional tariffs are probably going
to be part of the part of the math going forward.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
I'll Peil advises that the best strategy for farmers will
be to lock in prices and supply early. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, friends, let's talk soybeans here this morning. While you're
in that cab. Combining soybeans might be worth thinking about
next season. Soybean crap. Todd Gleason has a quick discussion
with University of Illinois crop scientist Connor Seibel about some
of the work being done at the Urbana Champagne campus.
Speaker 24 (29:59):
First thing we've been looking at because there's a lot
of talk about it planning date, the value of early
planting that holds true. It doesn't win every year going
the earliest, but it still holds pretty hig yield levels
and potentials. An advantage there as well, as you can
put the beans in a little earlier, maybe colder, we
wouldn't be want to be putting in the corn, and
then when the prime windows come up, we can get
the corn in get it off to a good start.
So we're seeing a good trade off there, so early
planet soybean a little bit behind. Then that is how
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do you manage early swebeen versus traditionally planted after the corn.
We're seeing actually like fertilizer responses or tend to be
a little better on the later planet. A little counter
intuit if you think early planning, higher yield, better response potential.
But when you're planeted late, they grow so fast the
soil can't keep up. So that's some of the fertilizer
work we've been seeing on swebeans.
Speaker 23 (30:38):
Is this the.
Speaker 25 (30:39):
Nitrogen work that you've been thinking about, because I hear
about that all the time, but I'm not sure that
that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 24 (30:46):
Yep, So the niggen work wuld be doctor Giovanni Presipontes
and doctor Emerson Naziger working on some nigen on sowybeans
inconclusive in spots, we're looking mostly at phosphorus applications on
the springtime on there.
Speaker 25 (30:56):
I wanted to make sure we got that out because
I knew that sometimes you hear about nitrogen work and
farmers can be owned. I should put nitrogen on soybean's
The answer is no, not yet, But you're working on
something entirely different correct, fosfors and then sulfur, and some
of the sulfur comes with nitrogen, but really a sulfur
response that we're seeing there. Yep, anything else before I
let you go.
Speaker 24 (31:15):
Harvest is coming up. Seed size looks like it might
be a little smaller this year, So my big thing
for the farmers is walk behind those combines and make
sure we're getting as much seed. Harvest loss is on
my mind going into the next few weeks. With the
seed size, I think we're going to have corn and bean's.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Connor Cybel, University of Illinois crop scientist, this morning.
Speaker 17 (31:33):
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Well.
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feedback questions for the water year assessment. High premiums on
Brazilian cargo are discouraging soybean buyers in China, keeping them
from securing its soybean supply in December and January. Reuter
says the development could prompt the Chinese government to tap
state reserves for their near term needs. China covered its
needs through November with hefty buys from Argentina in recent weeks,
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but still needs much more. Escalating US China trade tensions
continue to shut American soybeans from the market. The top
Senate Republican is warning the White House that American farmers
will continue to suffer if they don't reopen certain farm
loans during the government shutdown. Senate majority of leader John
Thune says farmers need access to marketing assistance loans so
they can meet cash flow needs during harvest and as
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they make planning decisions for next year. Administration officials say
they've no plans to shift money around for AAG loans.
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
Bob Quin back to wrap up baglife for today, friends,
farmers need to look at the big picture when preparing
for next year. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
As farmers analyze this season's harvest results and begin making
decisions for the next growing season, LG Seeds agronomist grant
Otal encourages them to think big picture.
Speaker 26 (34:22):
Some things are going to be highly variable. In my area,
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 with LGCS can
give you the tools to succeed. We have access to
a year over year database where we can identify which
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hybrids are performing in specific environments and conditions. Because every
year is going to bring different challenges, so use those agronomists,
use those relationships with your dsms, and through us, we
can provide you the data to create a bigger picture
than just whatever's went in your plot in your neck
of the woods.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's tempting to go with the plot winner when choosing
corn hybrids, but Total encourages growers to expand that lens.
Speaker 26 (35:05):
Plot winners are great 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 in your field. 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
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finishing in that top half of all the data sets
we're looking at.
Speaker 16 (35:29):
Because just like we think.
Speaker 26 (35:30):
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.
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 4 (35:45):
Growers know their fields better than anyone and manage each
of them differently. Seed decisions should be no different. According
to ODAL.
Speaker 26 (35:53):
As a genetics company, we like to sell our products
as solutions to 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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to permot success in their operation.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
It'll also encourages growers to check fields before harvest for
a more accurate assessment of hybrid performance.
Speaker 26 (36:24):
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 to alter a harvest window.
It's going to be important to get out ahead of
the combine and take a look and see how those
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plants 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 to complement
what's going on with that, you'd to build a bigger picture.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
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.
Chadsmith reporting with that Friends about a time. Forday, thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
Baglife
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, in all across the country. Well, friends,
has been forty years with the Conservation Reserve Program. Rod
Bain has a look.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty twenty five marks the fortieth anniversary of what many
consider the Agriculture Department's flagship conservation program. The person perhaps
most connected to the creation of the Conservation Reserve Program
in nineteen eighty five, former Agriculture Secretary Job Block. He
shared some of his thoughts on CRP a decade ago.
(00:33):
During the program's thirtieth anniversary. The reagane Administration Cabinet member recalls.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
In order to have farm program supports, you'd have to
take out ten or fifteen percent of your ground, and
some of us really good ground. For my idea wealth,
if we're going to set something aside, let's do something
that can protect the soil and get some of this
fragile land out of production.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So, after some debate, Secretary Block managed to include CRP
as part of the nineteen eighty five Farm Bill. Considering
how the program has owning scope a wide ranging support.
Over four decades. What might think CRP is perhaps John
Block's legacy as Secretary of Agriculture, He says, though it's
just one example of what he tried to do while
(01:12):
in office.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I consider my legacy is working hard to reform farm programs,
and that was part of the reform. But we also
got rid of setting this land aside the good land.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And some of that approach comes from blocks experience as
a farmer, several decades of experience where he operated his
Illinois farm and enrolled his farmland into CRP.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We've had CRP land on our farms, and a lot
of our farms are not erosive, but we have got
some fields. It might be pretty flat for the most part,
but then there's a river or stream down at the
bottom and it's rough down in there. Instead of trying
to farm that, which would get a lot of erosion,
we'd put it in CRP.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The fact that CRP has grown into more than just
the soil conservation tool over its forty years is well.
In job Block's words.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's blossomed in the more than I ever really anticipating.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
In part because of its growing popularity with outdoor recreationalists
from outdoor sports participants to those hiking longstream banks protected
by CRP land. There is the variety of cover crops
planted on CRP lad, some with potential as energy feedstock,
much of it part of wildlife habitat.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There's insistence if you've got to have the right kind
of crops or foliage growing there, and grass and lagoobs
so that all of the butterflies and bugs and everything
you'll have a habitat. It just turned into more than
I have imagine.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Rod Bain, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Importing beef from South America. Well, farm groups are weighing
in on the issue. We'll have that story coming up
on Agglife. Bob Quinn here at farm News This Morning Friends.
President Trump has recently suggested importing Argentinian beef to lower
consumer cost in the meatcase. Chad Smith has details on
how that would impact the beef sector.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
When President Donald Trump proposed buying beef from Argentina to
boost supply and bring down retail prices, the cattle market
reaction was almost instantaneous. John Newton, vice president of public
policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said, we've already
seen a negative market impact from simply talking about the plan.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
We saw limit down movements in the futures market for
three straight weeks in a row that impeded the ability
for cattle farmers to manage risk through the use of
LARP contracts. You have to remember that the cattle market's
one of the healthiest part of the farm economy right now,
and the notion of even importing beef to ultimately reduce
cattle prices is a detriment to farmer income.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Newton said, The already shaky farm economy cannot sustain a
blow to the one sector that's not experiencing a downturn.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
If you take out the ad hoc federal support that
Congress has provided, net farm income is actually down and
crop farm cash receipts are down seventy one billion dollars
from three years ago. So it's the cattle side of
the balance sheet that is supporting the farm economy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Newton said. Cattle farmers and ranchers are barely beginning to
get their feet under the after several years of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Trying to lower beef prices, when that is the part
of the farm economy that supporting rural America creates a
lot of uncertainty, especially as American farmers are beginning to
think about rebuilding the herd. The notion that we need
to lower beef prices would be a one to two
punch that the farm economy just cannot handle.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Chad Smith, Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Meanwhile, US cattle producers are very concerned about President Trump's
plan to buy Argentinian beef cattle as a move designed
to lower US beef prices for consumers. Colin Woodhall, CEO
of the National Cattleman's Beef Association, said they're disappointed with
the President's plan.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
We understand what he is trying to do, but what
he does not realize is that in trying to bring
the price of beef down for the consumer, it means
he's going to bring down the price being paid for
cattle for US producers. So, in fact, this is a
direct attack on US cattle producers, and it negates so
much of the work that we have done over the
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years to build the overall quality of our product, quality
that we're very proud of. When you see the amount
of beef that is grading choice and prime, the consumer
likes what we are giving them, and they've made it
very clear that they want more of it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Despite the high price of beef. What All says, demand
is at an all time high because of the taste
and quality.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That's why demand remains at almost a forty year high,
and that the consumer is still buying our great product.
And unfortunately, the president's plan will have a huge impact
on how we as cattle producers can capitalize on that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What All said, the President needs to talk to cattle
producers about this kind of idea and the impact it
can have.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
We've had a great relationship with the White House and
with the Secretary of Agriculture. They know that we are
good partners and we have facts and figures. Just come
visit with us and we can talk through any issue
that pops up. But there also needs to be a
realization from the President from the Secretary that any offhanded comments,
innocuous as they may think that it is, can have
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huge ramifications on the marketplace. And we saw that on
Friday when the future's market is just absolutely crashed, and
that cost this industry and a lot of counter producers
a lot of money. He said.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Last week's market downturn came after comments about a plan
that wasn't even fully developed at the time. Well friends,
Brazil's farmers are planting a record number of corn and
soybean acres for the upcoming crop season. CONAB, Brazil's Food
supply and Statistics agency, released its first outlook for the
new crop cycle and projects an increase in planted area now.
(06:38):
The expansion is driven by growing domestic demand for biofuels
and strong export performance out of that country. University of
Illinois Farmdock article says despite the expected acreage growth, gross
margins for both crops are likely to decline significantly due
to rising production cost and lower prices. KNAB predicts Brazil's
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soybean acre will increase by three and a half percent
for this year's crop. Farm news this morning, you are
listening to WAG Life.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
It's another ag news update. Trade and livestock headlines collide.
This week tariff stay firm with China and their hung
market sends new signals more after this.
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Today, President Trump's proposal to import more Argentine beef drawing
broad opposition from US cattle groups, who warn it would
barely affect retail prices but could undercut her rebuilding. US
Cattleman's Association, Farm Bureau, National Farmers Union, all urging Washington
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to strengthen domestic transparency and competition rather than depending on
foreign beef. Pushback comes as the US Trade Representative holds
the line with roughly fifty five percent tariffs on Chinese goods,
a managed trade stance meant to preserve leverage all Beijing
Way soybean purchases and market access talks continue. At the
(08:31):
same time, China's hog sector speeding up slaughter to ease
over capacity, lifting pork output seven percent year over year,
pulling hog prices down to about seventy cents a pound.
Analyst of Robobanks say the oversupply could tighten by mid
twenty twenty six. Influence seeing feed grain flows and export
(08:53):
demand together headlines mark a week where cattle trade and
feed markets all hinge on Poulas see not production. It's
another agnews update, Brian.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
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Today.
Speaker 16 (10:12):
Arland Suderman is with stoneacts he saw the cattle market
collapse on Friday after President headline driven marketplace at some points.
Speaker 18 (10:22):
Again, as we are again being a headline driven marketplace,
we saw the cattle market collapse on Friday after President
Trump and made comments late on Thursday about having a
deal in place in order to be able to bring
the price of beef down. He confirmed with the comment
yesterday what he was referring to was importing more beef
(10:43):
from Argentina. We're still pretty scant on details of that.
We do import some beef from Argentina. Apparently the President
trying to ramp up the scope of those imports that
we get from Argentina in order to increase the supply
of beef in the unit in the States, and that
was the big part of the sell off that we
(11:05):
saw in the markets on Friday. The beef markets are
actually bouncing today with that confirmation. Kind I think relieved
that it didn't include removing the fifty percent terrify on
Brazilian beef.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
That's Arlan Suderman with stone Ax. Now. Doctor Daryl Peel,
Oklahoma State Livestock Marketing Economists says expending beef imports from
Argentina would actually do little to reduce US prices. In
his latest analysis, he explains that while Argentina is the
world's fifth largest beef exporter, the role in US supply
(11:41):
remains small, accounting for just two point one percent total
imports so far this year. He does say Argentina consumes
most of their own beef, leaving limited export capacity. American
Cattle News.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
This is Dairy Radio.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Now investing in our future. The National Dairy Leadership Scholarship
Program support students who want to contribute to the dairy community.
And joining us with an update is Nicole Iosh, Chief
Sustainability Officer with the National Milk Producers Federation. Nicole, the
Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program has been going on for years.
(12:22):
How are things this year?
Speaker 19 (12:23):
Well, this year we have the opportunity to award four
individuals with scholarships. They had research topics ranging from the
room and microbiome, precision dairy technologies, milking performance metrics, and
other topics. They're really wonderful individuals who I know have
a great future within the dairy industry and contributing to
(12:47):
all the great work that makes dairy farming, dairy processing possible.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
Supporting these individuals with their careers in dairy probably more
important now than ever before.
Speaker 19 (12:58):
Huh yes, yeah, thank you. We so appreciate being able
to sustain this program, and it's only possible through the
generous individuals and organizations who contribute each year. We have
a number of ways to help support the program right now.
In fact, we have an online raffle with great prizes
like American Express gift cards, Target gift cards, Cabot Cheese Box,
(13:22):
and anyone can participate in that raffle. It's online and
the URL is a little long, but I'll say it
out loud here and you can always find it again
on our n MPF LinkedIn page, But it's go dot
rally up dot com, slash NMPF hyphen Raffle hyphen twenty
twenty five. And if you can't find it, you can
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always reach out to us via our web page at
n NPS dot org. On that web page you can
also make a general donation, So if you're not interested
in the raffle, but you do want to contribute, we
always have a link on our web page to donate
to help sustain the program, and that donation would be
tax deductible, and we appreciate anyone's interest in helping to
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make this program possible.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
You mentioned this year's winners. Is there a set number
of recipients each year for the scholarship program or does
it depend on the funds that are raised.
Speaker 19 (14:18):
It's a great question. We typically receive about forty applications
each year, though it varies year to year, and we
award anything from two to five awards. It really depends
on the pool of applications we get and the strength
of those applications, and of course, as you mentioned, depends
(14:39):
somewhat on how much fundraising we're able to do that
prior year.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Well, the program's been awarding scholarships for years now. Have
you been able to measure any of the past recipient's success.
Speaker 19 (14:50):
That's a great question. You know, we did do a
review of past recipients over the past fifteen years and
found that all of them stayed within US agriculture or
food production. So whether that's working in academia, or if
that working in industry and different companies, input suppliers, whether
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that's working in consulting, whether that's working back on the farm.
But in the past fifteen years, all of our awardees
have stayed within agriculture or food production and processing, and
a good chunk of them have even stayed within dairy
as well. So we feel pretty good that the program
is achieving its goal of supporting that next generation of
(15:35):
dairy professionals and agriculture professionals.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Nicole, thank you for the time today. Is there anything
else you'd like to share about the National Dairy Scholarship Program.
Speaker 19 (15:43):
One thing I'd add is we really MPF is really
proud to manage this program because it's one of the
few that's really a national program for dairy professionals. There
are a lot of more local ones, but this is
really our national program, and it's one where we really
focus on some reporting those students. So our funds go
directly to the students so that they can continue whatever
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they need in their graduate work, whether that's attending conferences,
whether that's supplies. We really just feel good about being
able to support people in a hard time in their life,
when they're students and they're not maybe able to support
themselves financially, we're able to help bring in a little
bit of that to bridge the gap while they do
(16:28):
important work of studying and researching before they're out in
the working world again.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Thanks Nicole. Nicole Iosh, chief Sustainability Officer with the National
Milk Producers Federation. Find more at NMPF dot org. I'm
Bill Baker Dairy Radio.
Speaker 20 (16:43):
Now there's a lot of annualine perennial weeds and tree
hut orchards, and you've got to stay on top of
it before they go dormant. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the
California Trina Report, part of the Vastat Information at Work.
George Angelis is a weed management and an ecology advisor
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of UCE Cooperative Extension in Ta Larry, Kings and Fresno Counties.
Speaker 21 (17:09):
We still deal with a lot of pernal weeds and
a lot of tree crops, so right now it's probably
the best way to go after them. Rafter harvest.
Speaker 20 (17:14):
Yeah, if you have time, get after those weeds, all
of them.
Speaker 21 (17:18):
Don't let those weeds go dormant. I would try to
go after them right now and try to apply some
post merger beside. Once we move into the winter season,
a lot of those weeks go dormant and re sprout
from rhizomes you know, the following season. Though, it's always
best to go after them right now that they're rapidly
up taking nutrients to go to dormancy, so it's always
best to try to go after them right now after harvest.
Speaker 20 (17:38):
In more news, gills, millibug of ects, pistachios, almonds, and grapes.
Adults are about two to five millimeters long, pinkish gray
and covered with white wax that give the appearance of
two stripes along the back, but pure females in large
nymphs produce white wax filaments up to ten millimeters long.
Three generations occur per year. Overwintering nips could survive in
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bark crevices and move to buds at bud break during
the season. Honeydew from feeding supports black sooty mold, which
hurts quality in the tree nuts.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
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With the AG Information Network, I'm Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 13 (19:12):
The Northwest paar harvest should be wrapping up soon, with
forecasts some let's calling for a sixty percent increase over
last year's disaster crop that was hit by untimely freezing temperatures.
John Devaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association,
says that's great news.
Speaker 15 (19:30):
But it doesn't mean that it was without the hiccups.
Though a lot of our pair growers were impacted by
the unfortunate closure of one of the remaining canneries, the
del Monte Pear Cannery here just before the start of
the season, and that caused a fair bit of disruption.
Speaker 13 (19:46):
The time and of the closure, to Vanny says, was
not ideal.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
Some growers that were thinking that they had some of
their fruit contracted to go to that facility were then
having to pivot fairly quickly to finding an alternate market.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
In reality, though, de Vany says this has been coming.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
It's been a change in the industry. A lot of
consumers are moving away from canned product towards fresh, which
is a longer term trend that folks have been watching.
Speaker 13 (20:13):
The Vany says the USDA has provided some help.
Speaker 15 (20:17):
They have resources availble to help cushion market shocks like that,
and they did commit twenty million dollars to do additional
both canned and fresh pair purchases which will help smooth
out that transition as some growers maybe pivot away from
having as much of their fruit plan for the cannery
market again.
Speaker 13 (20:33):
That is John Devaney, president of the Washington State Tree
Fruit Association, and he says many growers had already incurred
the cost of growing and cultivating that fruit through the season.
US dairy market's going to be a challenge to completely
understand mc home, the general manager for the farm First
Dairy Cooperative in Wisconsin, says even he's not sure why
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the milk markets are doing what they're doing.
Speaker 22 (20:58):
I wish I was smart enough to explain them. Mits
it seems like milk right now is a little bit tight,
But it's going to take somebody smarter than me to
figure out how come milk is tight and the milk
prices are solo seventeen dollars for the next pursueable future
six months. It's just not where the farmers need to be,
and it's certainly not where we would like things to
be because with the price and everything and costs, I
just think it's hard for anybody to make it. But
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let alone farmers. We're not getting the price for their
milk that I think they deserve.
Speaker 13 (21:22):
Us dairy farmers are incredibly efficient producers, which can make
it hard to get good prices for their products and
co products correct.
Speaker 22 (21:31):
And that's the one thing. When you put in perspective
of what all of the rest of us do for
a job, and they do for a job, it doesn't
make any sense that if you get better at your job,
you should make more money. And that just isn't the
way it is. All of our farmers, our components in
the last four or five years, butterfat, protein, other solid
somatic salad has all the farmers are gotten better. But
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yet you're still turning around and we're having the prices
that we had and thirty forty years ago. It makes
no sense. And that's hard to run their businesses or
our businesses when you don't see any light at the
end of the tunnel.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Again.
Speaker 13 (22:04):
That's nick home of the farm First Dairy Cooperative in Wisconsin.
Profitability and the ethanol segment is there thanks to a
slight rise in the profit margins in the third quarter.
Through the first half of September, Dan O'Brien and agricultural
economists with Kansas State University Extension talked about the profitability
of the US ethanol sector that uses roughly thirty five
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percent of a corn crop in any given year.
Speaker 23 (22:30):
The calculations through the first three weeks of September are
looking pretty good, you know, profits based on I guess
that IWA model kind of straddling Illinois, Nebraska, and parts
of Kansas at least showing about twenty four cents a
gallon in terms of profitability. Ethanol price jumped up here
of late, with the anthonol price going higher and the
corn price sideways to lower. That's when you get profits
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like this. So for the last three months you've had
about plus that's profitability in July August about nineteen twenty
cents in here's first three weeks September twenty fourth.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Since how long profitability will last depends on several factors,
including whether grain storegum can gets used in more ethanol production.
Speaker 23 (23:09):
Unless an ethanol plant is closing down for some type
of refurbishing or whatever, it would seem to be a
pretty time to run. Really, I guess how long will
we maintain pretty decent motor fuel prices and that bringing
ethanol along as well in the light of the US economy,
and then if also add in moderate strength in even
(23:29):
grain sorgum music. In fact, talking with the USDA economist
Steve Ramsey, out of the ers indicated that we've had
strong grain sorgument into ethanol, which is the price for
the grain circument industry. Given the weakness we've been seeing
in exports overall, I guess that'll be the story as
we look at the ethanol market. That again low price
feedstocks coming into whatever we have for the ethanol market,
(23:52):
and if that holds up at least decently, then you'd
hope for a time of at least okay profitability for
ethanol plants.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Again, as Dane in of Kansas State Extension.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
It's time for California Act Today. On the AG Information Network,
I am Haley's ship. Huge news for families across California
and beyond. Major outlets from The New York Times to
EBC News are now reporting a major win in children's health.
A new study led by doctor David Hill at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia shows peanut allergies in children have
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plummeted thanks to the early and often approach to introducing peanuts.
About sixty thousand kits have avoided developing peanut allergies. It
all began with the groundbreaking LEAP study, short for Learning
Early about Peanut Allergy. That research showed that giving babies
small amounts of peanut products early in life could dramatically
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reduce the risk of allergy. The findings led to national
guidelines in twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen encouraging early introduction
for most infants. Now this dozen mean that every baby
should start with peanuts right away. Always check with your
pediatrician for guidance or if you have any questions. But
one thing is for certain. Early introduction is reshaping how
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we think about preventing food allergies. If you'd like more
details on that study, just head on over to our
website aginfo dot net.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
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
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming, and decades
(25:44):
of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations. For over forty years, the Egg Information Network
has been providing news and information for the most important
industry in the world, agriculture. The Egg Information Network gives
you worldwide updates from local producers to regional organizations, from
major crops like wheat and corn, to animal agriculture, to
(26:06):
specially crops like apples, almonds, and cherries. We report on
stories that mean the most to you online at aginfo
dot net. The AGG Information Network trusted in transparent journalism,
lasting for the next generation.
Speaker 14 (26:18):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Hailey Ship. For more agnews, check us out
online at aginfo dot net.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Bob quin here at farm News This Morning Friends. President
Trump has recently suggested importing Argentinian beef to lower consumer
cost in the meatcase. Chad Smith has details on how
that would impact the beef sector.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
When President Donald Trump proposed buying beef from Argentina to
boost supply and bring down retail prices, the cattle market
reaction was almost instantaneous. John Newton, vice president of public
policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said, we've already
seen a negative market impact from simply talking about the plant.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
We saw limit down movements in the futures market for
three straight weeks in a row that impeded the ability
for cattle farmers to manage risk through the use of
LARP contracts. You have to remember that the cattle market's
one of the healthiest part of the farm economy right now,
and the notion of even importing beef to ultimately reduce
cattle prices is a detriment to farmer income.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Newton said, the already shaky farm economy cannot sustain a
blow to the one sector that's not experiencing a downturn.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
If you take out the ad hoc federal support that
Congress has provided, that farm income is actually down and
crop farm cash receipts are down seventy one billion dollars
from three years ago. So it's the cattle side of
the balance sheet that is supporting the farm economy.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Newton said, Cattle farmers and ranchers are barely beginning to
get their feet under them after several years of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Trying to lower beef prices when that is the part
of the farm economy that is supporting rural America creates
a lot of uncertainty, especially as American farmers are beginning
to think about rebuilding the herd. The notion that we
need to lower beef prices would be a one to
two punch that the farm economy just cannot handle.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Chad Smith, Washington Friends.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Of recent report takes a look at tariffs and the
impact on American agriculture this year and next. Mike Davis
has our story.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
John Appel, vice president of Category Management with Farmers Business Network,
says their report indicates old inventory in the supply chain
kept some input prices relatively low.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
All of that channel inventory has been depleted, and all
of the inbound product that's come into the US since
that time has been subject to tariffs of varying extents, right,
And so we know that that now that's structurally part
of the cost in the market already in the channel today,
and so that's going to be felt by farmers going
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forward into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
Here, but Appel says, with tariffs not appearing to go
away anytime soon, expect even higher input prices. In twenty
twenty six, right.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
After we release through, there was another addition one hundred
percent tariff floated on China, right, So that one's still
in the air, but we know, you know, right now
it seems like that baseline twenty percent tariff that's been
pretty much a fixture, and so what's been moving up
and down has really been the reciprocal tariffs, and that's
gone from ten percent all the way up north of
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one hundred percent, right, So that's the piece that is
kind of a moving target, but we think that at
least that twenty percent and additional tariffs are probably going
to be part of the part of the math going forward.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
I'll Peil advises that the best strategy for farmers will
be to lock in prices and supply early. I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, friends, let's talk soybeans here this morning. While you're
in that cab. Combining soybeans might be worth thinking about
next season. Soybean crap. Todd Gleason has a quick discussion
with University of Illinois crop scientist Connor Seibel about some
of the work being done at the Urbana Champagne campus.
Speaker 24 (29:59):
First thing we've been looking at because there's a lot
of talk about it planning date, the value of early
planting that holds true. It doesn't win every year going
the earliest, but it still holds pretty hig yield levels
and potentials. An advantage there as well, as you can
put the beans in a little earlier, maybe colder, we
wouldn't be want to be putting in the corn, and
then when the prime windows come up, we can get
the corn in get it off to a good start.
So we're seeing a good trade off there, so early
planet soybean a little bit behind. Then that is how
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do you manage early swebeen versus traditionally planted after the corn.
We're seeing actually like fertilizer responses or tend to be
a little better on the later planet. A little counter
intuit if you think early planning, higher yield, better response potential.
But when you're planeted late, they grow so fast the
soil can't keep up. So that's some of the fertilizer
work we've been seeing on swebeans.
Speaker 23 (30:38):
Is this the.
Speaker 25 (30:39):
Nitrogen work that you've been thinking about, because I hear
about that all the time, but I'm not sure that
that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 24 (30:46):
Yep, So the niggen work wuld be doctor Giovanni Presipontes
and doctor Emerson Naziger working on some nigen on sowybeans
inconclusive in spots, we're looking mostly at phosphorus applications on
the springtime on there.
Speaker 25 (30:56):
I wanted to make sure we got that out because
I knew that sometimes you hear about nitrogen work and
farmers can be owned. I should put nitrogen on soybean's
The answer is no, not yet, But you're working on
something entirely different correct, fosfors and then sulfur, and some
of the sulfur comes with nitrogen, but really a sulfur
response that we're seeing there. Yep, anything else before I
let you go.
Speaker 24 (31:15):
Harvest is coming up. Seed size looks like it might
be a little smaller this year, So my big thing
for the farmers is walk behind those combines and make
sure we're getting as much seed. Harvest loss is on
my mind going into the next few weeks. With the
seed size, I think we're going to have corn and bean's.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Connor Cybel, University of Illinois crop scientist, this morning.
Speaker 17 (31:33):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson, and this
is your agribusiness update.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Well.
Speaker 17 (31:37):
The University of Washington, Washington State Climate Office, Oregon State University,
and Oregon Climate Services is asking for your participation to
help document weather in climate impacts of the twenty twenty
five water year in Washington, Oregon, in Idaho. The anonymous
survey asks about impacts and response actions that were implemented
during the twenty twenty five water year due to their
abnormally dry or wet can The survey also asks for
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feedback questions for the water year assessment. High premiums on
Brazilian cargo are discouraging soybean buyers in China, keeping them
from securing its soybean supply in December and January. Reuter
says the development could prompt the Chinese government to tap
state reserves for their near term needs. China covered its
needs through November with hefty buys from Argentina in recent weeks,
(32:24):
but still needs much more. Escalating US China trade tensions
continue to shut American soybeans from the market. The top
Senate Republican is warning the White House that American farmers
will continue to suffer if they don't reopen certain farm
loans during the government shutdown. Senate majority of leader John
Thune says farmers need access to marketing assistance loans so
they can meet cash flow needs during harvest and as
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they make planning decisions for next year. Administration officials say
they've no plans to shift money around for AAG loans.
Speaker 12 (32:53):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on 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's sailor, especially on rule roads. One moment
(33:15):
of caution can save alike. Let's work together to keep
our roads and our farm safe. This message was brought
to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
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
news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
(33:46):
of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations.
Speaker 17 (33:51):
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
Bob Quin back to wrap up baglife for today, friends,
farmers need to look at the big picture when preparing
for next year. Chad Smith wraps us up.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
As farmers analyze this season's harvest results and begin making
decisions for the next growing season, LG Seeds agronomist grant
Otal encourages them to think big picture.
Speaker 26 (34:22):
Some things are going to be highly variable. In my area,
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 with LGCS can
give you the tools to succeed. We have access to
a year over year database where we can identify which
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hybrids are performing in specific environments and conditions. Because every
year is going to bring different challenges, so use those agronomists,
use those relationships with your dsms, and through us, we
can provide you the data to create a bigger picture
than just whatever's went in your plot in your neck
of the woods.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's tempting to go with the plot winner when choosing
corn hybrids, but Total encourages growers to expand that lens.
Speaker 26 (35:05):
Plot winners are great 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 in your field. 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
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finishing in that top half of all the data sets
we're looking at.
Speaker 16 (35:29):
Because just like we think.
Speaker 26 (35:30):
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.
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 4 (35:45):
Growers know their fields better than anyone and manage each
of them differently. Seed decisions should be no different. According
to ODAL.
Speaker 26 (35:53):
As a genetics company, we like to sell our products
as solutions to 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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to permot success in their operation.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
It'll also encourages growers to check fields before harvest for
a more accurate assessment of hybrid performance.
Speaker 26 (36:24):
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 to alter a harvest window.
It's going to be important to get out ahead of
the combine and take a look and see how those
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plants 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 to complement
what's going on with that, you'd to build a bigger picture.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
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.
Chadsmith reporting with that Friends about a time. Forday, thanks
for joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of
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