October 24, 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,
there's some science behind those fall colors we're seeing. Rod
bain starts us.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Off taking a drive this fall to a forest park
or scenic byway near or far to observe the beauty
of trees transforming colors from greed to all sorts of
shades of red, yellow, at orange. Cythia Dobicghidi looks at
this phenomenon not just from an artistic perspective.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's actually quite interesting to study why leaves change color
in the fall.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
That approach comes from her background as a Kansas State
University Extension horticulture expert.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
What you actually are seeing is that the leaves aren't
necessarily changing color. They're revealing colors.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Or put another way, the colors have always been present
within the leaves. Those fall color pigments, however, are overshadowed
by nature's process in the suburb.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
There fill in the plant leaves that's capturing the energy
from the sun and making food for the plants. We're
seeing the green that's being produced from all of.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
That chlorophyll production is slowed down in the autobuts as
sunlight decreases and days grow shorter, so.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
The leaves lose their green color and the other pigments
are now being revealed. They're visible now.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
For you plant pathologists out there my career or just interest.
You made all the fall color pigments that leaves contained
several components.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So some of those pigments that you're starting to see
or you may see, depending on what varieties of plants
are around, will show orange and yellow pigment. Those pigments
are created by xanthophylls and kerotens. Tannins in the plant
are producing the brown colors that you see. Anthocyanins will

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create reds and purple pigments, and the timing and intensity
of the fall color varies depending on tree type, but
also the environmental conditions.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
That is why the fall color leaf display on any
given tree can vary from year to year, from brilliant
colors in the canopy to leaves already on the ground That.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Can be the result of temperature changes, rainfall, sunlight, the
soil moisture, all of those things, even just wind blowing
the leaves off the trees.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Bill mcghidi adds other ways to appreciate the transition to
fall colors, whether in a national forest or for your
own backyard tree.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's actually a really interesting thing to track if you're
into journaling and keeping records of what colors. Maybe even
taking photos of what your trees look like from one
year to the next and comparing those could be kind
of interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Broad Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, Friends, more groups are weighing in on the size
of the cattle herd and the impact it's having on
consumer prices. We'll have a story coming up on today's
edition of Baglife. Bob Quinn rivers and farm News this Morning.
Friend Well. As a way to lower retail beef prices,
President Trump has said the United States could purchase beef
from Argentina. That's after the US gave Argentina a twenty

(03:09):
billion dollar financial bailout, a deal Argentina's central banks said
was signed on Monday of this past week. ARCAF USA
CEO Bill Bullard says importing beef won't reduce retail beef prices.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
One of the reasons that our herd size is the
lowest in seventy years. Is because we have allowed excessive
imports to displace domestic production, which eliminates opportunities for US
producers to expand and rebuild their herts. So we have
been declining our cattle industry for decades. A recent drought

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has accelerated that process, and now the solution has to
be to rebuild and expand the domestic herd, and bringing
in more imports will counter that effort. We believe this
is a wrongheaded approach, especially when consumers cannot distinguish the
Argentinian beef from US beef, and therefore the packers don't

(04:07):
have to lower the price of that cheaper imported beef
because they're still allowed to put a product of USA
label on an exclusively Argentinian product that is in the
US marketplace.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Bullard says implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling or
m COOL on all beef would be a more effective solution.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
This will incentivize the packers to lower the imported beef
price for consumers, and it would give consumers the opportunity
to choose either a cheaper price or to choose to
support the American cattle farmer or Rancher. The other thing
we need to do is restore competition in the marketplace,
because right now we do not have a competitive market.

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Four packers control eighty percent of the box beef market.
They are able to interfere with competitive market forces, so
consumers are paying prices that are h than what a
competitive market would otherwise predict. So we need to manage imports,
and we need to restore competition by protecting producers against
anti competitive practices and unfair practices. And until we do that,

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we should not expect that we will rebuild our US.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Herd Bullard says, another possible solution would be to get
the big four beef packers JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and National
Beef involved.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Another alternative mitigation measure would be for the president to
ask the global packers to curtail their exports. Because last year,
for example, we exported three billion pounds of beef, and
that's about eleven percent of our domestic production. So if
the goal is to increase domestic supplies, we could do
that immediately simply by keeping the product that would otherwise

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be exported in the domestic market to add to the
supplies that should theoretically lower beef prices, but for the
fact that the meat packers are still in control of
the prices because they're interfering with competitive forces. So this
has been a long term, chronic problem. It's become acute
right now because we reach the point of the straw

(06:11):
breaking the camel's back, so to speak, and it's time
now to institute genuine reforms so we can restore our
national security by rebuilding our production domestic supply chain.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wellard says, we need to find a balance between cattle
prices and the retail meat case.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Because we are losing producers at an alarming right. We've
lost nearly one hundred and seven thousand of them in
the five year period between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two,
and this threatens national security when we're unable to be
self sufficient in the production of such an important protein sources.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Beat Additionally, Boulard says, the timing is.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Terrible because many producers are just now selling their year's
production and at a time when the market is reacting
negatively to the president's message. So we're working on this
diligently with the administration and trying to get them to
at least provide mitigations, if not completely reverse the course.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Bouldered and his organization encouraged President Trump to quote manage imports,
restore mandatory country of origin labeling for beef, and put
an end to the monopolistic control that packers and retailers
have over the beef supply chain. Doing so and his
word would incentivize American ranchers to rebuild and expand the
US herd. You're listening to aglife.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
It's another agnews update. Argentina beef headlines look overstated ethanol's
footprint widening more. After this, You're.

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Speaker 5 (08:11):
Latest analysis from Oklahoma State University's doctor Darryl Peel says
more Argentine beef would barely touch US retail prices. Our
Jetenas supplies about two point one percent of US beef imports,
mostly lean processing product, leaves little room to move the
overall market even if volumes increase. In Washington, Global Ethanol

(08:36):
Summit spotlighting ethanol is compatible with aviation and maritime sessions,
stressing scalable low carbon fuels. Airline speakers noted the US
burns roughly twenty two billion gallons of jet fuel annually,
long run opportunity for ethanol to jet pathways, while marine

(08:58):
panels pointed to rapidly growing demand for low carbon bunker fuels.
On crops, Australia's twenty five twenty six production forecasts near
sixty four point two million tons. It's up eight point
eight percent with stronger wheat and canola yields and more
barley acreage, reinforcing global supply and capping price rallies into

(09:24):
twenty twenty six. It's another agnews update.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
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Speaker 5 (09:57):
American Cattle News President and Donald Trump making comments about
beef and ranchers more after this, you're going.

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To need meat.

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Speaker 5 (10:36):
Colin wood All, CEO, National Cattleman Speef Association.

Speaker 13 (10:40):
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

(11:02):
years to build the overall quality of our product, a
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. And
that's why demand remains at almost a forty year high,

(11:22):
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.
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

(11:42):
any offhanded comment, as innocuous as they may think that
it is, can have 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 couttle producers a lot of money and for

(12:02):
nothing more than just a passing comment on a plan
that wasn't even fully formed. And that is unfortunate that
this is not just about what could happen to us
financially if the President moves forward with this plan. But
what has already hit us as cattle producers just simply
because of his.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Compidence American Cattle News.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is Dairy Radio.

Speaker 11 (12:27):
Now it's time for our feed Forum Friday with doctor
Mike Cutchins, Professor Emeritis from the University of Illinois.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Hello, Mike, or.

Speaker 14 (12:34):
Come to today's feed form and our topic is going
to be discussion on shortcorn for corn size production. This
has appeared in the August issue of the journal Dairy Science,
and this is research done by Michigan State Group. What
do you mean by short corn bill? And basically, these
are new hybrids that have a mutation that has a
shorter statue. In other words, there's less distance between the

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internetes of the cornstock. And of course interested on this
would be number one, greater standability, but still maintain corn heels.
But if you're making corn silage, the question is what
effects would that have on the amount and the quality
of the corn silage. And that's what Michigan State looked at.
They took forty hosting cows and they were in midleactation
and they looked at three different short novel hybrids compare

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that to a normal tall corn silage and then brown
mid or BMR. It was a Latin square designed for
sixty three days and they looked at the combinations of
these five different types of corn products in Michigan. Besides
being a shorter internote area, it also tends to have
a more erect leave and therefore has a shorter plant height.
Here are the results Bill that are kind of interesting.

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First of all, starch levels are actually up about one
percent in the short corn silage, primarily because obviously a
more concentration of the starch itself with less plant material,
and that stars levels ran right around a twenty five
percent for the control ones and a twenty six percent
in the novel corn short corn side as well, and

(14:02):
because of the increase in stars, not surprisingly, Bill, the
NDF levels went down about one percent as well. There
was no difference in dry matter intake. These cows averaged
about fifty seven pounds of dry matter intake all five
of the corn silages being fed.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
The novel corn.

Speaker 14 (14:16):
Silas produced about one and a half to four and
a half pounds more milk varied from one hybrid to
the other compared to the tall corn silage and the
BMR milk production in these midleccation cows averaged about seventy
one and a half pounds of milk. The butterfat test
was slightly higher in the tall corn soilages at four
point four to three percent. The shorter corn siages had

(14:37):
four point three zero, probably again reflecting a little more
of a starch load in these cows as well. The
taller corn, interestingly and BMR has had higher NDF digestibilities
compared to the shorter corn silages, but the short corn
silages had higher starch digestibility when fed to these cows.
No differences in terms of protein digestibility terms of yeal.
It was pretty interesting. Two of the shorter stature corn

(15:00):
sidges had very similar dry matter yields per acre under
those conditions they're in Michigan compared to the tall corn
side as well, there was no differences in feed efficiency
went fed to these dairy cows. So the takehome message
here would be that short stature corn may be a
useful highbred to look at here in the future, but
it's not be a mom Some of our listeners know

(15:21):
that several of the companies that produce a brown mid
rip corn is no longer produce it here in the
near future. Standability could be a real plus here in
the future, But the Michigan State people cautioning that this
is just one study done under different environmental conditions, could
be different if it was conducted in the areas in
the United States. Well, that completes the program for today. Thanks, Hey,
I have a great day.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Thanks Mike.

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As b prices continue to rise, President Trump says he's
looking outside the US to bring in additional supply. He
says this would increase the supply of beef in the
US and help bring down grocery prices. Ground beef prices
are up thirteen percent in the pastlast year, with steak
almost up seventeen percent. Coming up on Monday, we'll look
at the markets with Lee Milk. I'm Bill Baker Dary Radio.

Speaker 17 (17:08):
Now Soil help at the whole amin orchard recycling. I'm
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part of the beast ag Information Network. Brent Holts is
a UCA and R farm advisor for San Joaquin County
and he has done enormous research on whole orchard recycling.

Speaker 18 (17:29):
I think some of our new research is looking very promising.
The first orchard I recycled was a stone food orchard
that I recycled that was only at a thirty ton
per acre rate once it was recycled, and some of
the new orchards are at sixty tons per acre rate.
And so I we're putting a lot more material into
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the increases of carbon and organic matter. And one of

(17:53):
the exciting things we're seeing, you know, especially if we're
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efficiency after whole archerd recycling.

Speaker 17 (18:01):
Holts think that those woodchips are acting like a sponge.

Speaker 18 (18:04):
And they're holding moisture in so we think we're going
to see improved water efficiencies with whole orchard recycling. And
those woodchips contain a lot of nutrients, you know, nitrogen
and potassium and phosphorus, so when they decompose, eventually that's
also going to be released to the tree. So we
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we hope that growers can eventually get carbon credits for

(18:27):
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of whole orchard recycling, which are usually now in excess
of one thousand dollars an acre.

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I'm Mike Davis, South Dakota Attorneys General, Marty Exactly and
several other attorneys at Generals. They're pushing for the correct
use of a product of the USA label for US beef.
He has said it's similar to the country of origin
labeling pushed from years past. It's the same concept.

Speaker 21 (21:33):
So what we've experienced across the United States and here
in South Dakota, there's a mislabeling of beef by certain manufacturers.
What we have going is before coming in from Mexico
and other places and they're putting product of the USA
labeling on it. So a couple ranchers here in South
Dakota filed lawsuit. We filed the brief to assist we
initially won and it was appealed by the manufacturers, and

(21:57):
so I led a group of about a dozen of
US Attorneys General, Republican and Democrat. They're standing up for
ranchers and saying, we have high quality beef in the
United States, and here in South Dakota, we take pride
in our herds. We keep our herds safe and healthy,
vaccinations and other sometimes costly means to keep that hurt healthy,
and we just feel it's a mislabeling and it's a
falsehood to call beef from another country product.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Of the USA.

Speaker 19 (22:21):
There is a possibility that this case could advance as
far as the Supreme Court.

Speaker 21 (22:25):
It could the manufacturers did what's called an interim appeal
when they appealed it to the A Circuit Corp of Appeals.
It's when I felt I need help, and I reached
out to several Attorneys General and they've been gracious, they've
been helpful. They know how important this is to their
ranchers and really to the consumers. I mean, when a
consumer walks into the market and sees product of the USA,
they just expect it's from that healthy hrd here in
the United States.

Speaker 19 (22:45):
And we need to make sure it is. It's hard
to understand how important this issue is, especially if you
don't live in beef producing states.

Speaker 21 (22:52):
You know, one of the challenges that they don't always
seem to understand it. I'm fortunate I have a ranch
and a farm, and so I'm able to have conversations
with them. What that means. I've actually had twenty eight
attorney generals come hunting on my ranch, and so I
had an opportunity to introduce them to some of what
the experiences we have in South Dakota. They're always good conversations.
But when you look at the eleven attorney generals that
joined this, it's really from the egg states. It's from

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South Dakota, Wyoming, you have North Dakota, you have New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma.
It's those attorney generals that live in beef country and
know how important this really is.

Speaker 19 (23:23):
Again, out of the South Dakota attorneys at General Marty
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Speaker 1 (26:51):
Bob quennever some farm news this morning. Friends, Well, even
if they haven't finished harvesting this year's crop, US farmers
are already turning their tention to next year. Mike Zizzolo,
president of Global Come Out of the Analytics, expects to
see some movement in the corn market in early twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 23 (27:10):
I think there should be I have said to clients
and subscribers for several months now that I believe that
any contract in the corn whether it's d twenty five
or March twenty six or May or July twenty sixth,
should be able fundamentally to get up towards a technical
area that I would say is fundamentally justified. And that's
around the four fifty five four to sixty five area

(27:32):
on the board. And part of that is because I
believe the yield is lower than what USDA is suggesting.
In fact, this week I went from a one to
eighty four point two national yield down to about a
one eighty three point five national yield, with the idea
I might even drop it one more time.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
He said. Corn in different locations struggled with pest and
disease during the growing season and that will affect final yield.

Speaker 23 (27:57):
The western corn belt has disease pressure, the central and
east and corn belt have drought pressures. And I think
that's really showing up. I've had two clients in north
central Illinois call me within four or five days of
one another who twenty thirty days ago were telling me
they were definitely going to have a record corn yield.
They've called me they're almost done with their corn shelling
and said, I'm not going to have a record. It's

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probably going to be around to twenty two thirty, which
is way off my record.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Zizzolo knows there will be a big crop coming.

Speaker 23 (28:25):
In, but I think we've just simply forgotten the idea
that our world stocks to use levels in corn are
at twenty one point three percent, and what that means
is we're ath a lowest. It's twenty twelve, so you
can talk about two billion bushels carry over all you
want in terms of twenty five twenty six carryover, but
we are still historically very very tight, and I would
say razor thin when it comes to world ending stocks,

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especially until Brazil gets their next crop off.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
He said, four dollars sixty cents a bushel corn is
a possibility heading into the new year.

Speaker 23 (28:57):
Last thing I'll say about that four to sixty area
as a reason for why I think it could get there,
as I really do think that Ukrainian and Russian wheat
and corn crops are still not in the ben yet
and I've seen numbers go up in wheat. As far
as production for Russia, I'm just real skeptical about that
given their weather pattern even now during corn harvest and
getting in winter wheat planting again.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Mike Zizzolo Global, come out of the analytics with us
this morning, our friends. Let's talk cotton a little bit. Here.
The National Cotton Council says cotton producers are in tough
economic environment. Jody Campeaci, vice president of Economics and Policy
Analysis with the National Cotton Council, talked with Cotton Newsline

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about the market and demand for US cotton.

Speaker 24 (29:42):
Prices still remain at lower levels, but production costs are high.
With US cotton, of course, most of our cotton is exported,
and we continue to face competition from other exporting countries,
particularly Brazil, as they've been increasing their production. There's also
the situation of US terror policy and that is still
impacting demand. Really just kind of uncertainty. One thing I

(30:04):
want to mention is with these lower prices and higher
production costs, recently would get some additional support from farm
build provisions under the One Big Beautiful Act. However, most
of that support won't come until the end of twenty
twenty six, so we have been talking to USDA and
the administration about the need for additional support for growers.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now, that's not all. The ncc is busy with.

Speaker 24 (30:26):
A couple other things that we're working on at NCCDS.
We recently launched the Plant Not Plastic campaign basically to
encourage more cotton versus main and made five consumptions. We
also have been working on something called the bi American
Cotton Act, which was recently introduced in the Senate, and
it would actually incentivize the use of US cotton consumptions.
A lot of things kind of going on, and we're

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hoping to see some positive changes in the US cotton
market going forward.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
More information about the Plant Not Plastic campaign visit Plant
Not Plastic dot org. Well Friendsly, Trump administration will release
about three billion dollars in assistance to US farmers despite
the government shutdown, Administration officials told CBS News. The US
Department of Agriculture is also planning to resume operations this

(31:13):
week at the Farm Service Agency, which runs financial assistance
and loan programs for farmers. According to a USDA spokesperson,
many of the agency's operations were shuttered due to the
government shutdown. President Trump told the Department to give out
the three billion dollars in aid by tapping a fund
that was used in his first term to aid farmers.

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Officials said President Trump's committed to supporting America's farmers and ranchers,
and this action will release billions in assistance for farmers
that Democrats in Congress have held up for twenty days.
The USDA spokesperson is quoted as saying farm us This morning,
you're listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 25 (31:57):
The information network on bobb Ler and in this is
your agribusiness update. The Associated Press reports the US may
purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down the
price of beef in US grocery stores. The move comes
after President Trump promised to address the issue to help
keep inflation and check US beef prices have been stubbornly
high for several reasons, including drought and reduced imports from

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Mexico due to the New World screwworm. The National Corners
Association says California is an example of what could be
achieved around the country after that state enacted a law
allowing E fifteen fuels. It's estimated that if Californians had
access to E fifteen and twenty twenty five, it would
have created a demand of nearly twelve percent of the
expected corns supply this year. NCGA President Joe Bauer says

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now Congress needs to extend access to year round E
fifteen to every state. The EPA is proposing supplementalsre reallocation
volumes to the twenty twenty six and twenty seven Renewable
Fuel Standard volumes. EPA is co proposing to either fully
or partially account for twenty twenty three to twenty five
small refinery exemptions granted here by adding a supplemental volume

(33:02):
in twenty twenty six and twenty seven. In a letter
to EPA administrator Lee Zelda and Clean Fuels says US
soybean farmers and processors could lose between three point two
and seven and a half billion dollars in crop value
over the next two years if EPA doesn't completely reallocate
recently exempted RFS volumes.

Speaker 26 (33:18):
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Speaker 15 (33:48):
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Speaker 25 (34:17):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with your
agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Bob Gwen back to wrap up ag life for today.
Friends well. David Newman, National Pork Boards new CEO has
a long standing passion for pork and is guiding the
organization with the leadership of the fifteen member board and
direction from a new three year strategic plan.

Speaker 27 (34:38):
What's most important to me is just really one is
focus aligning our staff, aligning with our state partners, aligning
with the allied industry and also our producers of course,
and really aligning to our strategic priorities. Back in March,
our board approved a new strategic plan, something that really

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the starts to create some focus for the entire organization,
so demand, how we work with states, and a national
SWINEHIL strategy.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Newman says. One focus of the strategic plan is strengthening
pork demand, emphasizing the Pork Act and Order to ensure
pork becomes more relevant to more Americans.

Speaker 27 (35:21):
The reality is is that aligns very strategically to the
Act and order. The very founding thing that the checkof
was built on, right is the Pork Promotion, Research and
Consumer Information Act. So this new and recent push to
demand with the taste of pork can do campaign just
being literally brought into the world back in May. Part

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of my long term strategies of course, to really make
sure we keep our eye on the prize and that
we focus on what the consumer needs, and we need
to focus on what our producers need, and so without
swinging that pendulum too far from one side to the other,
it's about a steady push bush over the long term
to focus on demand, because if we create a pull strategy,

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we're going to be in a position where we can
drive profitability for our farmers.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
This is a transformational moment for the entire sector as
the industry continues to build a bigger appetite for pork.

Speaker 27 (36:16):
You look at what's happening in the current marketplace. If
you think about competing proteins, you think about the growing
population and demographics of this country. You think about the
fact that more people are eating at home than ever,
and how pork meets the culinary needs of people with
taste and flavor and convenience and nutrition. All of those things,

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to me are positive and they look up and they
say that the future is really, really bright. So if
we keep our eye on the prize here at Portboard,
with the responsibility of managing the farmer's money the way
we should, then I think that it helps position those
individuals that I'm sitting across the table from to not
only be able to be profitable and provide for their families,

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but potentially to hand that off to another generation in
the future.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
David Newman, CEO National Pork Board, with that, friends, amount
of time for today, Thanks for joining us back Monday
morning with another edition of Aglife