October 27, 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.
The part of agriculture and efforts to address chronic disease
in children and improve nutrition for America is recognized within
a recently announced series of initiatives. Rod Bain has our story.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The announcement from the Trump administrations Make America Healthy Again Commission.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
We have one hundred and twenty eight recommendations.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
A strategy of initiatives addressing chronic disease and children and
improve nutrition for Americans, according to Commission Chair and Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. The strategy,
according to Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins, features a prominent role
for our nation's farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I am encouraged by the roadmap that this report presents.
It shows where opportunities exist to improve technology, research and outcomes.
America's farmers and ranchers dedicate their lives to the noble
cause of feeding our country and the world, and in
doing so have created the safest, most affordable, and most
abundant food supply in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Additionally, USDA is proposing various efforts for better nutrition in
the context of agricultural production. One example is improved soil
health tools that crop growers can utilize.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Also, USDA's upcoming Regenerative Pilot program is built to address
on farm resource concerns while also providing farmers with usable
outcomes based conservation plans. Additionally, we will leverage existing funding
from research agencies to produce applied science informing farmer decision
making on regenerative agriculture.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Meanwhile, work is ongoing between AHHS and USDA in creating
updated national dietary recommendations for the next five years.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Will continue to actively work with Secretary Kennedy and crafting
the dietary guidelines, which will be out very soon. Vederal
nutrition advice must be sound, simple and clear. These guidelines
will prioritize whole, healthy, and nutritious foods such as whole fat, fairy, fruits, vegetables,
and meats, and suggest limiting highly processed foods and those

(02:20):
high in sugar.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Additional initiatives within the strategy's five pillars with agricultural connection,
further research into precision agriculture methods and innovations and streamlinding,
certification and approval processes in realms such as organic agriculture
and various farm inputs. Roadband reporting for the US Department

(02:43):
of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well Friends, FSA offices across the country open last week.
We'll have a story. Also, we'll look at the impacts
of tariffs on wheat moving out of the Pacific Northwest.
You're listening to wag Life Bob Quinn. Here are some
farm news this morning. Friends. Farm Service Agency offices reopening
on a limited basis. Chad Smith has our story.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
USDA recently announced that Farm Service Agency offices will soon
be open again despite the ongoing stalemate in funding the
federal government. Brian Glenn, director of government affairs for the
American Farm Bureau Federation, talked about the reopening process.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Secretary Rollins announced on Fox that Thursday, October twenty third,
all twenty one hundred county Farm Service Agency offices are opening.
USTA will call back to employees to staff each county
Farm Service Agency office five days a week.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Glenn said the offices are reopening to provide vital services
to farmers and ranchers.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
The county farm Service Agency offices will carry out programs
such as disasterrade, marketing assistance, loans, indemnity programs, dairry margin coverage,
and more. Farm safety net programs like ARC and PLC
payments to ensure sure farmers and ranchers receive the payments
and commitments so they can continue to plan for their

(04:05):
next season.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Glenn said this may be standard operating procedure for some
time as the government shutdown drags on.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
Unfortunately, a resolution to the shutdown is not really in sight,
and Congressional Republicans and Democrats are still out of stalemate.
So the Senate has voted several times on this House
pass funding bill and it has failed every time. But
there are triggers coming up that will put additional pressure
on Congress to get something done.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
One of the key upcoming pressure points on Congress is
Supplemental Nutrition Program funding, which runs out of money on
November first. Chad Smith, Washington, Well.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Friends, farmers are feeling the squeeze from low commodity prices,
no exports, and higher input cost. Congresswoman Angie Craig from Minnesota,
the ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, says she's
concerned about the future for many family farmers in a Marria.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
The caraffs, they've inflated input costs and they've reduced demand,
and it's shutting us out of market. It's literally squeezing
farmers from all sides. I'm truly worried. We've got bankruptcies
up over fifty percent in Minnesota. And I come from
a family. My grandfather was a farm foreman, and that
farmer lost the job in the nineteen eighties farm crisis,
and my grandfather lost his job. So this is all

(05:23):
very personal to be we're seeing it the stress in
Minnesota among family farmers.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
She's not sure why aid for farmers is delayed by
the administration while tax dollars went overseas.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Interestingly, enough had time to organize a bill out for Argentina,
our second largest competitor for Sabean, to the tune of
something like forty billion dollars. So I truly am just
stunned at everything that's hitting our family farmers, and of
course stunned that the administration isn't acknowledging and moving faster here.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Gig Edgie's concerned with the White House plan to lower
US beef prices by importing beef from.

Speaker 7 (05:58):
Argentinaministration didn't reach out to me and ask what I
thought of this, because I would have told them that
this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my
entire life. The idea that you're going to continue with
additional ad groups prop a key competitor again. I mean,
I don't know what the hell they're thinking. To be
honest with you, you know, I encourage the Biden administration
to go find more export markets for America's farmers. I

(06:20):
have encouraged the Trump administration to stop and off all
of our friends over across the country right now. Honestly,
I can't explain what they're doing and thinking, but everything
they're doing just continues to worsen the environment in farm country.
And I know I've got some farmers back home who
are very concerned about the direction of the country, and
farmers are going to need assistance.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Representative Angie Craig out of Minnesota this morning, Well, friends
of trade war has an impact on the farming community,
but the depth and extent haven't been fully determined. Earlier
this year, many producers reported challenges in getting some of
the fertilizers they need as the trade war with China
has continued that's really impacted farmers in the Midwest growing soybeans.

(06:59):
For north West wheat growers, it's been the price rather
than the tariffs that has impacted sales the most. Casey
Chumram is the executive director of the Washington Grain Commission.

Speaker 8 (07:12):
For the last twenty four months, we've had really advantageous
prices for customers. Of course, the prices are much lower
than we would like to see as farmers, but we
have been kind of saying that the wheat is on sale,
and our customers have been taking advantage of that. Our
total commercial sales for the last marketing year, which ended

(07:33):
the end of May, we were way up both for
overall usue and then for software that we grow here
in the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Chumras says, the Grain Commission continues to look at ways
to get growers involved in trade efforts. Far Mews, you're
listening to WAG Life.

Speaker 9 (07:49):
It's another ag news up to USDA rolling out a
plan for long term relief for the beef industry. More
after this.

Speaker 10 (07:59):
At the American vet Orinary Medical Association Annual Convention in Denver,
we caught up with doctor Kerry Ryan pet cloning and
genetic preservation expert with Viagin in Cedar Park, Texas.

Speaker 11 (08:09):
We've been working with dogs and cats for three years.
We're the only company in the United States that clones
dogs and the only company in the world that clones cats,
and we've also been cloning horses in livestack for about
fifteen years. So I think this will be here to stay,
and I think as we get better and better at it,
the costs will come down and people will be more
and more interested in it.

Speaker 10 (08:25):
There's more information at AVMA dot org.

Speaker 9 (08:28):
USDA's new beef plan targeting stability with a USDA Interior
Grazing Action plan to reopen idle federal allotments, issue faster permits,
stronger disaster tools, cheaper inspection over time for small processing plants,
and a product of USA labeling overhaul going into effect January.

(08:54):
First retchin farm groups broadly applauding this structure, but warning
imported talks to import large volumes of Argentinean beef would
depress herd rebuild economics without meaningfully lowering retail prices well.
Australia's record pace exports continue to backfill US lean needs

(09:18):
as American cattle supply set at seventy five year lows.
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Speaker 9 (10:14):
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Speaker 10 (10:22):
More after this at the American Veterinary Medical Association Annual
Convention in Denver, we caught up with doctor Kerry Ryan,
pet cloning and genetic preservation expert with Viagin in Cedar Park, Texas.

Speaker 11 (10:34):
We've been working with dogs and cats for three years
We're the only company in the United States that clones
dogs and the only company in the world that clones cats.
And we've also been cloning horses in livestack for about
fifteen years. So I think this will be here to stay.
And I think as we get better and better at it,
the costs will come down and people will be more
and more interested in it.

Speaker 10 (10:50):
There's more information at AVMA dot org.

Speaker 9 (10:53):
Speaking at the White House to reporters, Donald Trump.

Speaker 13 (10:56):
The ranchers, let's say, who have done done a great job.
I've lost their shirts for many many years. They've really
been decimated, and I helped them a lot. I put
tariffs on things coming in to the country, including beef,
and that gave them a chance to finally have a
decent industry. We are going to be talking to them.

(11:17):
They're great people, but they've been hurt for twenty five
thirty years. They've been losing because other countries have taken
advantage of them. And by putting tariffs on they've been
able to make a few dollars. They've been able to
have an industry. But I also want to keep the
beef prices low. So I'll be talking with the ranchers
and I'll be speaking with a lot of different people,
including Scott and Howard, and we'll do something because prices

(11:40):
are way down in our country. Energy is way down.
I think you're going to see two dollars gasoline very soon.
I see that it's two fifty in a lot of places.
Two dollars and fifty cents. We were heading to five,
six and seven dollars. If Biden didn't go back to
my policy toward the end, you would have seen. But
he didn't go back to the full policy, and he
missed the most important thing.

Speaker 14 (11:59):
So we were up.

Speaker 13 (12:00):
You know, we were way up. I think you're going
to see two dollars ghastline. Who could even break that number.
That's a big difference. The only cost that's really up
is beef, and the fake news only wants to talk
about beef. And what I did is I made it
possible for those people to survive. They're incredible people, but
they were being decimated by other countries and I didn't

(12:22):
want that to happen. So prices are way down, groceries
are down. Everything's down. Energy is way down, even interest rates.
With a bad chairman of the FED, he's terrible, as
is a fool, but even interest rates are down.

Speaker 9 (12:37):
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Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 15 (12:46):
Karen Murphy, market intelligence manager at high Ground Dairy in Chicago, Kara.
The continuing government shutdown last week cost the dairy industry
the September melt production and cold storage reports, leaving the
markets with a lot of uncertainty. We did get a
report from China on its September dairy imports. Butter was

(13:06):
one of the main takeaways.

Speaker 16 (13:08):
Yeah, absolutely, Butter imports were really interesting in the month
of September. They soared above ten thousand metric tons during
the month for the first time ever. Now, of course,
this year, China has been importing a lot of butter
from New Zealand and we saw those imports increases well
during the month and New Zealand's market shares up to
eighty four percent of China's total butter import market. We're

(13:28):
seeing more butter come into China from Argentina, the United
Kingdom and of Denmark. Of course, this is really fascinating
as well as the US butter market is maintaining such
a significant discount to these other markets like Europe and
New Zealand. But Chinese buyers just remain uninterested in US product.

Speaker 15 (13:44):
Well that's a sad situation, but hopefully that turns around soon.
What about cheese.

Speaker 16 (13:49):
Cheese has been really interesting as well this year. You
have to remember China does have a free trade agreement
with New Zealand, so their cheese imports have been really
big this year. Especial the year today their afe eighteen percent,
almost twenty percent there, but some interesting things for China
as well, as they did pick up more cheese from
Australia and Denmark and France as well. There has been

(14:10):
some interesting movements though in the dairy markets. As of October,
we've seen European cheese prices have fallen below the US
on the European Energy Exchange, So this is going to
change some things up in the global marketplace. New Zealand
remains the highest in prist right now, but we could
see some shifts and cheese imports into the nation as
these price disparities grow.

Speaker 15 (14:30):
How about way, I understand the US is still supplying
some way needs to China.

Speaker 16 (14:36):
Yeah, China buys a lot of US way. A lot
of that way is going into the hog feed market,
so that's something big there. We did see shipments to
China from the US in September decline just a little bit,
only zero point five percent one hundred and thirty metric tons,
not very much, still up. The big thing we're watching here, though,
is that the Chinese government has mentioned to farmers that

(14:59):
they want to reduce hog supplies in regards to some
of these falling hog prices, and they're cutting subsidies here.
So going forward, we really want to pay attention to
this market as it's a big one for WAY, and
it's the hog population in China starts to come down,
we might see some of those Way shipments decline as well.

Speaker 15 (15:18):
Thank you, Kara Kara Murphy, market intelligence manager at high
Ground Dairy in Chicago.

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Work is being done in off ground harvesting of almonds.
This is an industry goal to keep the almonds off
the ground where they could be subjected to pathogens. Traditionally,
almonds are shaken to the ground where moisture is lowered
for a week or so. Research shows that moisture can
be removed from stockpiles at the Hullo Sheller with special

(17:47):
tubes in the stockpile and fans removing the moisture. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Tree Nut Report, part of
the Vastag Information Network. Tim Birmingham is a director of
Quality Assured and Industry Services for the Almond Board of California.

Speaker 21 (18:03):
We love to see that that not only helps with
just removing the moisture, but that also helps with concealed damage.
If the nuts are held at a higher moisture for
too long of a period of time, that could result
in this this phenomenon called concealed damage, in which the
product wants it's roasted or further process. It will manifest
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little bit of off flavors associated with that development of

(18:25):
the dark centers. And if you drive the product properly
under relatively cool conditions, so you don't give it excess heat,
but you drive off that moisture, that will help with
concealed damage. So we love that companies are looking at
investment in drying technologies, you know, at various stages of
the process, including stockpiling. This sounds really great and I
think it's going to help with the concealed damage for sure.

Speaker 20 (18:46):
This is another example how the almond industry is always
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Speaker 23 (19:52):
The recent announcement by President Trump about bringing him beef
from Argentina to help lower beef prices in the US
continues to to send shock waves through the industry. Jennifer Karaco,
the senior livestock editor for DPN and a beef producer,
talked about her initial reaction to that idea.

Speaker 24 (20:11):
Well, at first, I thought to myself, did he really
say that? I mean, I think that was what most
of us thought, and we obviously saw him do some
things on the poultry side that made us see that
there's a possibility that this could happen. So then once
it affected the markets, how do we need to react

(20:31):
to this?

Speaker 23 (20:32):
The comments follow Remarch Mag's secretary Brook Rollins, who said
they were working on a plan to incentive by is
it beef producers to begin rebuilding their herds.

Speaker 24 (20:41):
She wasn't very specific. You know, we thought incentives, What
does that mean that we want to help rebuild the herd?
Does that mean that there's going to be money towards
keeping replacement heifers? Or what is it? And then I
believe it was the next day or a couple days
after her original comment about it that she said, no,
it's not going to be any government funding. So, you know,

(21:03):
we're all still kind of baffled, Well, what is it
then that's gonna help people keep heifers back?

Speaker 23 (21:09):
Karac talks about why it is not a good idea.

Speaker 24 (21:13):
Obviously, we need to support American beef producers. That's a
number one. We need to be understanding what they're dealing
with right now, and the good that they are experiencing.
As far as markets go. We all know in agriculture
that their cycles and it wasn't all that long ago
that beef prices were not very good. We know that

(21:35):
we will build back to what we can when the
time comes, and right now isn't the time for us,
at least personally. And I think a lot of beef
producers would say that.

Speaker 23 (21:46):
She said, rebuilding her numbers in the US will take time.

Speaker 24 (21:50):
If we keep heifers back this year, they get old
enough to breed by next year, then they just state
for nine months, calve the following year, and then those
calves are put in the feed lots and are old
enough to harvest. It's really four years from now again.

Speaker 23 (22:10):
That is Jennifer Carrico, the senior Livestock editor for DTN
and a beef producer. Even if they have not finished
harvesting this year's crop, US farmers are already turning their
attention to twenty twenty six. Mike Zuzalo, president of Global
Commodity ANALYSTICS, expect to see some movement in the corn
market in early twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
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 these twenty five
or March twenty six or May or July twenty six,
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 or sixty five area on

(22:54):
the board. And part of that is because I believe
the yield is lower than what USDA is suggests. I think,
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 23 (23:10):
He said corn a different locations struggled with passing disease
during the growing season, and that well effect final yields.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
The western corn belt has disease pressure, the central and
eastern 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 probably going

(23:39):
to be around to twenty two thirty, which is way
off my record.

Speaker 23 (23:43):
Zuzalo knows there will be a big corn crop coming in,
but I.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
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 worth a lowess.
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 fin when it

(24:07):
comes to world ending stocks, especially until Brazil gets their
next crop off.

Speaker 23 (24:11):
He said, four dollar and sixty cent of borsh of
corn is a possibility heading into the new year.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Last thing I'll say about that four to sixty area
as a reason for why I think it could get
there is I really do think that Ukrainian and Russian
wheat and corn crops are still not in the vin yet,
and I've seen numbers go up and 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 23 (24:38):
That is Mike Zuzelo of Global Commodity ANALYSTICS.

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Speaker 1 (27:06):
Bockqwhen here's some farmer use today friends. Public support for
MAHA the Trump administrations Make America Healthy Again movement remains high,
but perceptions have become more negative. Todd Gleeson has more
from the University of Illinois's Farmdock Team.

Speaker 26 (27:22):
The MAHA Commission was established through executive order in February.
It's tasked with advising President Donald Trump on the most
effective strategies to address childhood chronic diseases. The Commission's initial report,
released in May, identified what it claims are four key
contributing factors. These include poor diet, the accumulation of environmental chemicals,

(27:44):
lack of physical activity, chronic stress, and over medication. It
also critiqued certain aspects of the food system, particularly the
use of some food additives and pesticides. Agricultural economists at
the University of Illinois have been tracking how Americans feel
about my moa, including says Maria Klatsena, nikes, how they
feel about different agricultural products.

Speaker 27 (28:06):
So We've been asking about support across commodity types for
a while now, and we recently compared results from May
twenty twenty two, so about three years ago, and then
in August, and we did find slight declines in support
for field crops and sugar crops. The largest increase we
saw was for livestock, sort of in line with this
national excitement about protein.

Speaker 26 (28:27):
Some of these reflect how leadership at the federal level
are framing Maha. It's clearly been a concern for row
crop agriculture and food companies. Base ingredients for many food
products come from farm fields. Farmers use fertilizers and pest
sites to increase productivity. Calasint to Nikes says the CPGs,
or consumer packaged goods food companies, we're glad to see

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the friendly shift from the May Maha report to the
one released in August. Still, she says they're concerned about
both federal and state level regulations spurred by the Mahamud.

Speaker 27 (29:00):
I think the piece that's probably not being talked about
enough here is the state law piece. A lot of
these sort of voluntary agreements that people are committing to
are on the same timelines as state requirements. They're saying
it's a voluntary agreement, but really it's they want to
sell into that state, and so they're going to comply.

(29:20):
If you are a CpG company, it is very difficult
to keep product off of shelves in a particular state.
Like I talked to lots of companies about is it
possible to segregate and create a West Virginia specific or
a Texas specific space, And that's not possible for them.

Speaker 26 (29:37):
You will buyag Economists says this is because the litigation
piece spurred by Moham will land on food companies, not retailers.
If a retailer sells an incorrect product in a state,
that's not on them. It's the responsibility of the CpG
that has to navigate a web of regulatory does and
don'ts the cross state lines. Those following the federal developments

(29:59):
say the in DC is that the MAHA trajectory is
likely to outlive the Trump administration. For instance, its unlikely
companies will add food dyes back into their products. Still,
there is not a federal legal structure requiring companies to
stay the course. There is no regulatory agenda yet and
no laws being passed by Congress. This is why state

(30:21):
lines will matter. It's all complicated, but from the u
of I survey work, there remains good news for farmers.

Speaker 27 (30:29):
It's worth not losing the big picture that the American
public is generally very supportive of farmers and thinks of
farmers and agriculture as being very important. Again and again
we see in surveys that consumers have national security questions
and concerns about food production and want to make sure
that we're producing food in the US, and are very
supportive of policy supporting agriculture. Should agriculture want to engage

(30:53):
with MAHA in some of these ways and change production practices,
the public is also generally supportive of subsidy sort of
situations to allow for transitions in production practices.

Speaker 26 (31:06):
That's the public, but not MAHA, which consensus for the
moment suggest is unlikely to bend in a way that
would create compromise on its four core contributing factors, including
the use of pesticides free University of Illinois Extension. I'm
Todd Clason.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
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Speaker 28 (31:31):
From the Aguinformation Network on Bob Lurson and this is
your agribusiness update. Cattle industry folks will be celebrating American
Beef in Baker City, Oregon, next Saturday, November First. Attendees
at the Baker City Armory, we'll hear the latest ranching
topics from award winning journalist Laura Logan along with celebrated
speaker and the voice of Rural America Trent Loose. The

(31:52):
day will be capped with a performance by Nashville recording
artist Mark McKay. Tickets for both are at event bright
dot com. On a Celebrating American Beef, The Trump administration
is ready to release about three billion dollars in assistance
to farmers despite the government shutdown. Administration officials told CBS
News the USDA resumed operations yesterday at the Farm Service Agency,

(32:14):
which runs financial assistance and loan programs for farmers. The
USDA spokesman says President Trump is committed to supporting Americans,
farmers and ranchers and this action will release billions in
assistance for farmers that Democrats have held up for three weeks.
And there's a crisis in farm country as recent trade
policies and reactions from other countries have wreaked havoc on
our commodity markets. Crop prices are plummeting, input costs are

(32:37):
projected to reach record levels, and the number of farm
bankruptcies is rapidly rising. The National Farmers Union urges everyone
to tell Congress and President Trump that family farmers need
immediate economic assistance and reforms that restore fairness and agriculture.

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Speaker 28 (33:50):
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agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up baglie for today friends. Well.
Farm Service agency offices every year opened on a limited
basis despite the government shutdown. Chad Smith has some details
for us this morning.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
USDA recently announced that Farm Service Agency offices will soon
be opened again despite the ongoing stalemate in funding the
federal government. Brian Glenn, director of Government affairs for the
American Farm Bureau Federation, talked about the reopening process.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
Secretary Rollins announced on Fox that Thursday, October twenty third,
all twenty one hundred county Farm Service Agency offices are opening.
USTA will call back to employees to staff each county
Farm Service Agency office five days a week.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Glenn said the offices are reopening to provide vital services
to farmers and ranchers the county.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Farm Service Agency offices will carry out programs such as disasterrade,
marketing assistance, loans, indemnity programs, dairry margin coverage, and more
Farm safety net programs like ARC and PLC payments to
ensure farmers and ranchers receive the payments and commitments so
they can continue to plan for their next season.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Glenn said this may be standard operating procedure for some
time as the government shutdown drags on.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
Unfortunately, a resolution to the shutdown is not really in sight,
and Congressional Republicans and Democrats are still out of stalemate.
So the Senate has voted several times on this House
Pass funding bill and it has failed every time. But
there are triggers coming up that will put additional pressure
on Congress to get something done.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
One of the key upcoming pressure points on Congress is
Supplemental Nutrition Program funding, which runs out of money on
November first. Chad Smith, Washington Well Friends of the.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
American Sheep Industry is feeling the effects of tariffs and
looking at domestic expansion. Lorie Boyer has our report.

Speaker 29 (35:53):
Peter Orwick, executive director of the American Sheep Industry Association,
shares an update on the state of the industry, and
tariffs are impacting sheep and.

Speaker 30 (36:02):
Wool trade with China is down about forty percent. There's
no question that there's a huge impact on our trade.
So what we've been doing, as with a lot of
the agriculture group, is you're looking at market everywhere else.
We're looking at those opportunities to sell wool and find
new customers for us on that side.

Speaker 29 (36:22):
In a landmarket, Orwick says, a US all remains a
preferred currency, giving American lamm a competitive edge and solid
profit margins compared to imports. At the same time, the
industry is exploring growth and domestic consumption supported by an
increase in land processing plants across the country.

Speaker 30 (36:37):
We were looking the other day at the number of
lamb plants overall, and we have six hundred operations across
America that process lamb, and I think that's just reflective
again the demand that there is for lamb meet and
it might be more of the farmer's market, it might
be more the direct to consumer, but we still do

(37:00):
have the large commercial plants. They're handling thousands of lambs
per week.

Speaker 29 (37:05):
Peter Orwick of the American sheep Industry Association

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Laurie Boyer with that report this morning, and with that friends,
out of time for today, thanks for joining us back
tomorrow morning with another edition of Baglife