October 29, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Valley, This is Aglife. My name is Bob Quinn,
with you for the next hour talking about agricultural production
here in the valley and all across the country. Well friends,
this morning we start off with a look back at
the September Quarterly Hog and Pig Report with Rod Bain.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
What were some of the main takeaways associated with USDA's
latest quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report Livestock Aalys. Michael McConnell
first provides the breakdown on hog and pig inventories as
of September.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
First, the hog heard is estimated be seventy four point
four to seven million head of hogs, that's about one
percent lower than a year ago. Within that, there's about
five point nine three million thousand bores in the breeding herd,
which is about two percent lower than a year ago.
And for market hogs, it's estimated to be sixty eight
point five to four million head of hogs, which is
about one percent lower than a yer ago.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Some of the wise behind the inventories Within the September
Hogs and Pigs Report, the number.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Of pigs that were born in wings between June and
August came as thirty four point eight million head that
was three percent lower than a year ago that was
due to fair wings was where two point eight eight
million had three percent scent lower than any ago, which
is partially offset by pigs perliterate at eleven point eighty two,
which is one percent higher.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Than a year ago.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Farrowing intentions by hog producers at the next quarter indicate looking.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Forward, between September November, AUK producers intended to farrow two
point eight six million sows, which is two percent lower
than a year ago. And then for the period between
December twenty twenty five and February twenty twenty six, producers
indicated they were playing on farrowing two point eight two
million sous, which is about the same as what we
did last year.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So, in breaking down the potential signals within the report
that Connell believes.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hawk supplies are going to be a little bit tighter
for the remainder of this year and into twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
And that expected trend is due to.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
The relatively lower amounts of farrowing as well as the
reduced pig crop from last year that we saw. In
the previous quarter. The breeding herd has contracted a little
bit relative to a year ago, and that also kind
of indicates that hawk supplies going forward likely to be
a little bit tighter.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
And mcconna adds this trend appears to have somewhat begun
this summer.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Flatter rates were relatively light relative to a year ago
for much of the summer. In fact, a couple weeks ago,
we've got our first year year increase in hogslaughter for
the first time since May.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
What impact expected from the tider hog a pig supplies.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
The roatley later slaughter has been supportive of live hog prices,
and we've also seen it in the relatively supportive wholesale
port prices as well. So that's something to keep an
eye on going forward to see if the tighter hog
supply continues to provide that support on prices.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Rod Bade, reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, Friends, Coming up, we take a look at the
Pacific Northwest cherry harvest that's ahead on Aglife, Bob Quinn.
Here were some farm US Today friends. Cherry growers in
the Pacific Northwest wound up topping early season estimates for
what turned out to be one of their more productive seasons.
Carly Lang, Northwest Cherry Growers, director of domestic Promotions, says

(02:44):
it was a very good year at least production wise.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
I mean going into the season, we were estimating a
twenty two point five million bucks cross in. This season
started out, I mean, everything looked perfect, the fruit quality,
everything was lining up perfectly. And then once the season
started quickly, we started running into some pricing and supply
issues like fruit backing up, and that was a real struggle.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But growers are dealing with it the best they can.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
I mean, at the end of the day, we came
out at twenty three point six so four point six
percent increase over our estimate, which is great.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And the retail pricing line, says, was another challenge.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
The pricing struggle at retail and trying to get retailers
to drop their price where it needs to be in
order to move the volume. The retail pricing just wasn't
at that point. And the growers are really struggling this
year and it was another hard year for them, and
I think this makes the fifth year of the growers
really struggling and not coming out on top, which is

(03:40):
sad to see.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Lying says it was the largest crop in six years,
so it's nice to see they're starting to work their
way back up. Agriculture groups across the United States want
more information before they decide whether to support the President's
plan to buy beef from Argentina in an attempt to
lower the price of beef for US consumers. In South Dakota,
Stockgrowers Executive director Doris Loying says importing Argentine beef won't

(04:04):
help American cattle producers, but it might prompt the implementation
of mandatory country of origin labeling, or m COOL, on
all beef.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
The only thing that I can see is, yes, you
might go to the beef counter, you might be able
to buy beef. But here is where the m COOL
would certainly come into effect, because if we had product
of the US label, born, bred, raised and slaughtered here
in the United States, our consumers deserve to know that.

(04:34):
Our consumers need to know if this cheap beef is
going to come from Argentina or Brazil or someplace else.
We need to know that. So of the outcome hoping
that the m COOL will become effective in law, I
think that would be the only good outcome of this
purchasing of some beef or lower prices at the counter.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Conversely, South Dakota Cattleman Association President Larren Simmons says he
doesn't think m COOL would provide price relief in the
retail meat case.

Speaker 7 (05:05):
Forever. Proponents of m COOL said that prices would get
better if we just had mchool. Well, now we haven't
had mcool for ten years and prices that are at
all all time high, and so that argument really didn't
hold water. You know, consumers are showing time and time
again that where they get it from at the total
consumer level really is far down on their priorities to

(05:26):
trace the afety, its quality. It's all those things at
the top of the priority list when it comes to
buying beef, and country of origin is is down a
long ways for the average consumer. Course, if you're not
the average consumer, you have plenty of opportunities buy in
this product that you know where it came from. And
so our members have always recognized that that choice is
there and that flapping a label on as far as

(05:47):
where it comes from really isn't going to change that.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Deman ad groups aren't the only people wanting more details
from the President about his plan to buy some Argentine beef.
Many US senators and representatives do as well. One of
them is SOUTHA go to Congressman Dusty Johnson.

Speaker 8 (06:01):
I start with some pretty significant questions. I start as
a skeptic. I just think that prices are good now,
but there are plenty of years when producers, when cattle
folks have terrible prices, and it's often best to let
markets work when you can. I mean, right now, the
high price is selling producers to add some inventory, and

(06:22):
they want to move in that direction. But when we
have headlines like this, it just makes them unpredictable. They
don't really know whether or not they should be making
the investment and buying more grassland and more pasture land
and buying more cattle. I don't think this is good
long term for the American beef supply, and so of
course I want to see the specifics, but I do
have concerns. I mean, what we really need is more

(06:44):
American beef, not more Argentinian beef in the American market place.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now. The beef purchase from Argentina comes after the US
gave Argentina a twenty billion dollar financial bailout, a deal
Argentina's Central Bank said was signed on Monday, October twentieth,
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(08:01):
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(08:23):
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totaling two point five to five million metric tons corn
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Speaker 9 (09:26):
American Cattle News Live cattle losing over sixteen dollars, feeders
thirty five dollars in a week. More after this, here's
farmer and businessman James Wood.

Speaker 11 (09:38):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before he began work and it resulted on
a strike on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.

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Speaker 9 (10:04):
Peeder cattle market is lost over thirty five dollars in
just a few days. Zach Tyndall with Producers Livestock.

Speaker 15 (10:13):
Whatever happened in Washington last week, it sure feels to
me like somebody looked crossways at President Trump and he
didn't like it. Middle of the week we had a
tweet from him basically taking credit for the cattle prices
and telling farmers they just need to realize that the
consumer can't afford the product at this time and they
need to basically take one for everybody else and see

(10:34):
their prices go down. And that's what really started this deal.
Now Thursday night into Friday, Mexico said that they're going
to meet with the US or would like to meet,
plan to meet, would like to get the border back
open for feeder cattle imports. If it was up to Mexico,
I think the border would have been open a long
time ago. They never wanted the border clothes to begin with.

(10:55):
But anyway, those are the headlines. That's kind of what's
pushing the market. We haven't had any concrete evidence of
a meeting even being lined up anything that's going to
come out of that meeting at the US is even
willing to talk or discuss potential plans, and for all
we know, if this meeting does take place, you know,
we get to the end of it in the US
could definitely say, hey, we're not ready to open the
border yet and we have no timetable, and we're in

(11:16):
the same boat. We are not saying we add back
to everything on the feeder cattle that we've taken off
here but that's kind of what's pushed us here, and
then box beef continues to work higher. So basically the
short and short of it is, cattle are in the headlines.
You've got a lot of fund managed money position that
was long in feeder cattle market, and the best place
to be is on the sidelines.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
And that's what we've seen.

Speaker 15 (11:34):
Basically, open limit lower today, expanded limit lower tomorrow. I've
expanded limit again. But you know, we trade a little
bit in the first couple of minutes, and then fifteen
minutes or a.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Half hour, we're lockdown the limit.

Speaker 15 (11:44):
Don't leave that level on the feeder cattle, and I
think that's just the funds getting.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
Out as kicked as the cat.

Speaker 9 (11:48):
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Speaker 1 (11:54):
This is Dairy Radio now.

Speaker 14 (11:57):
On our Wellness Wednesday, Part two of Ring from down Under.
Here's John Clark.

Speaker 16 (12:02):
Today we're at Ian Sawyer of Feedworks Australia. Ian tell
us a little bit about the feed structure over there.

Speaker 17 (12:08):
Well, interestingly, very similar to the United States. We certainly
have feed businesses and we have independent consultancy groups and
we have a couple of the US consultancy groups we're
operating down in that part of the world as well.
What we see is a coming together of people that
are manufacturing feed and supplying that to the dairy producers.

(12:31):
The typical Australian system will be to graze and to
feed grain based supplement during milking twice a day, so
we are two ex milking almost invariably and it'll be
grazing and anything from two to three kilos per day
through to about twelve kilos per day fed in in
two wax, one on the morning milking and one on

(12:52):
the afternoon milking.

Speaker 16 (12:54):
Tell us a little bit about size of dairies in Australia.

Speaker 17 (12:57):
Average herd size about three hundred and thirty still dominated
by the family owned farm, but we have farms, you know,
plenty of farms above a thousand cows these days, typically
in corporate hands or you know, we do have that
large family farm business, that multi generational family farm business.
Largest single enterprise is probably ten thousand cows on a site.

(13:21):
We have a couple of the large investment equity businesses
have brought up land and farms, but those are still
sort of grazing based farms around about five hundred to
one thousand cows.

Speaker 16 (13:31):
So when you're grazing that many cow as, it strikes
me that you've really got to be intense with your
land usage.

Speaker 17 (13:37):
Yeah, very much so. I mean one of the key
scenarios around good efficient grazing management, both in Australia and
New Zealand Island, wherever you go for grazing is we
have to get our utilized tons per hectare up in
the same way that what we harvest in mad siloce
tons per year per acre is crucial. Will the same
applies if we're doing rye grass or temperate pastures. So

(13:58):
we very much focus on trying to integrate homegrown forage
growth and harvest by mouth or harvest for conserve forage
as pylos or hay with our producers and then integrate
purchased inputs into those systems. In a twice a day
footing scenario. We can get to nine or ten thousand
liters per cow in those sort of systems.

Speaker 16 (14:18):
So you did mention New Zealand a sort of just
a heart for you. Is that very similar to Australia.

Speaker 17 (14:24):
Yes, well, it's an awful lot closer than the United States,
and we do get over there reasonably regularly. Is it
the same it's a grazing based system, but with a
much lower production per cow, typically about four thousand liters
and your lactation. Over in New Zealand, they have no
grain industry, so a lot of the grain and the
starch that's going into cows as being imported out of
Australia or sometimes from the USA. They have very high

(14:47):
land cost eighty thousand dollars key we per hectare for
dairy land, so they have a real emphasis on efficiency
of forage growth and harvest. I might say that potentially
with that land cost and the amount of repayments back
to the bank, there's no money left to buy things
from outside. But there's certainly still a growth of interest

(15:08):
in per cow productivity, not just per hectare productivity.

Speaker 16 (15:12):
Ian Saver with Feedwick's Australia. Thank you so much for
being with us today. Very interesting.

Speaker 17 (15:16):
Thank you, Jonas, an absolute pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 16 (15:19):
I'm John Clark, traveling in the countryside for Feedwick's USA.

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Naval Lawrenceworm the number one pest in almonds. You have
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(17:03):
of almonds. He comments on sanitation and did many growers
get it done even with the lower prices.

Speaker 23 (17:10):
I think most growers still did it. Somehow they found
the means to do it, but there were some outliers
that weren't able to and some of them weren't able
to afford the mating disruption, which is a new tool
in our toolbox.

Speaker 22 (17:21):
Which many growers utilize, that mating disruption.

Speaker 23 (17:25):
But overall, it looks to me like the rejects are
going to be well under three percent, which is where
they were last year, and if you remember the prior
year in twenty three, it was four percent. In twenty
three it was mainly you mentioned naval orange worm. Last
year we had a tremendous amount of brown spot, which
comes from a plant bug. So it looks I'm not

(17:45):
saying there isn't any brown spot this year, because there is,
but it's a lot less than what we saw the
prior year. So naval orange worm. It's not out of control,
you know, it's about normal. I think it's going to
be under two percent. But anyhow, quality is up and
you know just in time.

Speaker 22 (18:01):
That's David Fippen, an almond grower and processor.

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In many jurisdictions, the owner of a dog is held
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California Fall Pumpkin patches are the latest seasonal trend in
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(24:17):
with the public. In San Joaquin County, grower James Chinkiolo
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(24:38):
bit slower paced and not a mess of people. According
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state are using agritourism to reach consumers and strengthen rural communities.
University of California Agritourism coordinator Rachel Callahan says interest has
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(25:02):
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Speaker 27 (26:15):
With California AGG Today on the AG Information Network, I
am Haley's ship.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Bob Quinn. Here were some farm us today friends, Cherry
growers in the Pacific Northwest wound up topping early season
estimates for what turned out to be one of their
more productive seasons. Carly Lang, Northwest Cherry Growers, director of
domestic Promotions, says it was a very good year at
least production wise.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
I mean going into the season, we were estimating a
twenty two point five million bucks cross and this season
started out, I mean, everything looked perfect, the fruit quality,
everything was lining up perfectly. And then once the season
started quickly, we started running into some pricing and supply
issues like fruit backing up, and that was a real struggle.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
But rowers are dealing with it the best they can.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I mean, at the end of the day, we came
out at twenty three point six so four point six
percent increase over our estimate, which is great.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
And the retail pricing line, says was another challenge.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
The pricing struggle at retail and trying to get retailers
to drop their price where it needs to be in
order to move the volume. The retail pricing just wasn't
at that point, and the growers are really struggling this year,
and it was another hard year for them. And I
think this makes the fifth year of the growers really
struggling and not coming out on top, which is sad

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to see.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Lyg says it was the largest crop in six years,
so it's nice to see they're starting to work their
way back up. Agriculture groups across the United States want
more information before they decide whether to support the President's
plan to buy beef from Argentina in an attempt to
lower the price of beef for US consumers. In South Dakota,
Stock Grower Association executive director Doris Laying says importing Argentine

(27:54):
beef won't help American cattle producers, but it might prompt
the implementation of mandatory country of Origin LAKE or m
COOL on all beef.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
The only thing that I can see is, yes, you
might go to the beef counter, you might be able
to buy beef. But here is where the m COOL
would certainly come into effect, because if we had product
of the US label, born, bred, raised and slaughtered here
in the United States, our consumers deserve to know that.

(28:24):
Our consumers need to know if this cheap beef is
going to come from Argentina or Brazil or someplace else.
We need to know that. So of the outcome hoping
that the m COOL will become effective in law. I
think that would be the only good outcome of this
purchasing of some beef or lower prices at the counter.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Conversely, South Dakota Cattleman Association President Warren Simmons says he
doesn't think m COOL would provide price relief in the
retail meat case.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Forever. Proponents of m COOL said that prices would get
better if we just had M goool. Well now we
haven't had M goool for ten years and prices that
are at all time high, and so that argument really
didn't hold water. You know, consumers are showing time and
time again that where they get it from at the
total consumer level really is far down on their priorities

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to trace the safety, its quality. It's all those things
at the top of the priority list when it comes
to buying beef, and country of origin is now in
a long ways for the average consumer. Course, if you're
not the average consumer, you have plenty of opportunities buying
this product that you know where it came from. And
so our members have always recognized that that choice is
there and that flapping a label on as far as

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where it comes from really isn't going to change the demand.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
AD groups aren't the only people wanting more details from
the President about his plan to buy some Argentine beef.
Many US senators and representatives do as well. One of
them is South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
I start with some pretty significant questions. I started as
a skeptic. I just think that prices are good now,
but there are twenty of years when producers, when cattle folks,
have terrible prices, and it's often best to let markets
work when you can. I mean, right now, the high
price is selling producers to add some inventory, and they

(30:12):
want to move in that direction. But when we have
headlines like this, it just makes them unpredictable. They don't
really know whether or not they should be making the
investment and buying more grassland and more pasture land and
buying more cattle. I don't think this is good long
term for the American beef supply, and so of course
I want to see the specifics, but I do have concerns.
I mean, what we really need is more American beef,

(30:35):
not more Argentinian beef in the American market place.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Now, the beef purchase from Argentina comes after the US
gave Argentina a twenty billion dollar financial bailout, a deal
Argentina's Central Bank said was signed on Monday, October twentieth. Meanwhile, friends,
the strength of the beef market has been a silver
lining for some farmers. These higher prices are supplementing low
commodity and dairy prices in farm country. Brad Telan, owner

(30:59):
of Long Prairie Livestock out of the Midwest, shares results
of their weekly cattle auction, with the baby calf market
reaching market highs for yet another week.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Strong market than babycas.

Speaker 7 (31:10):
I mean the babycas week after week seemed to be steady.
The strong them good cruff, bread and beefcasts fourteen fifty
to sixteen seventy five on a.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Babycaf Brad Telan with the auction market report out of
the Midwest this morning. Find me as you're listening to
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Speaker 28 (31:26):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson and this
is your agribusiness update. President Trump responded to backlash against
his plan to import beef from Argentina to help lower
beef prices and grocery stores. In a truth social post,
Trump said cattleman should be grateful for his tariff policies.
Bloomberg reports the plan has drawn the ire of ranchers,
who say it could crush the US beef industry. Experts

(31:49):
also say the plan would do little to lower prices
at meat counters. Treasury Secretary Scott Pissent expects China will
not impose export controls on rare earth mineral exports and
the the U won't impose one hundred percent tariffs on China.
Pacent says trade negotiations with China have gone very well
ahead of President Trump's meeting with Chinese Premier Shi Jinping.

(32:10):
He says President Trump gave him maximum leverage when he
threatened one hundred percent tariffs on the Chinese. Pascent says
we also agreed on substantial agricultural purchases from American farmers.
President Trump announced an immediate end to trade negotiations with Canada.
The Guardian reports it's a result of Trump's opposition to
a TV ad from Canada that quoted former President Ronald Reagan.

(32:32):
The ad from the provincial government of Ontario uses experts
from a nineteen eighty seven speech when the former president
said trade barriers hurt every American worker. Trump posted on
social media that Canada had fraudulently used in advertisement, which
he called fake.

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Speaker 28 (33:44):
From the EGG Information Network.

Speaker 10 (33:46):
I'm Bob Larson with today's Agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up bag life for Today Friends,
Bovine respiratory disease doesn't take a season off. Chad Smith
has our final report.

Speaker 29 (33:57):
BRD remains a costly challenge for dairy hurd every year.
Doctor Kurt Leitzstra, a professional services veterinarian with Berenger Ingelheim,
says selecting the right vaccine is a big part of
protecting a dairy calf's health and future performance.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
VRD accounts for almost twenty five percent of pre weened
heifer deaths and SO deaths within the first sixty days
of life, and more than half of ween Heffer death
so those that occur after sixty days but before they
get into the lactating herd. So it's significant. It's a
compounding disease that never really seems to run out of
opportunities to take money from producers. You know, there's studies

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that have shown that Heffer's challenge with respiratory disease within
the first three months of life are more likely to
have at least three months later than those that didn't.
And then research is also shown that Heffer's challenge with
respiratory disease early in life are likely to produce less
milk in their first lactation, and that may even carry
on into later lactations. That's why a strong vaccination program

(34:54):
can help set calves up to better battle any future
respiratory challenges.

Speaker 29 (34:58):
Bleitztra talked about question producers need to ask their veterinarians
when setting up a vaccination program.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
So, selecting a respiratory vaccine, there's probably three main components
to think about and ask your veterinarian about. So rout
of administration, injectable vaccines intranasal vaccines are the primary way
to go, especially for respiratory vaccine protection. Vaccine type Should
I be used in a modified live or are there
some instances where maybe a killed vaccine would be better

(35:26):
in an adjument type? And we don't necessarily talk about
that as much, but it is equally as important. So
what type of adgument doesn't even have an adgument and
what type and what role does that adgement play in
building long lasting immunity for young caves, it can be
important to prioritize a vaccine that stimulates an immune response,
even in the presence of internal land of bodies that
come from feeding a high quality clastrum.

Speaker 29 (35:48):
There are steps producers can take to ensure the vaccination
program delivers the best results possible for their herds.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Good questions to ask your veterinarian would be when's the
right time to vaccinate, that maternal antibody doesn't block response,
And it's important to point out that the decline of
maternal antibodies is different for every bug, every bacteria, every virus,
and then there's variation from calf to calf. So maybe
considering a vaccine that works alongside your classroom program instead

(36:16):
of being blocked by them. Also, how to stressors like
weening and transportation, weather events, seasonality, things like that affect
vaccine performance and can you kind of set it and
forget it or do you need to adjust your vaccine
schedule around some of those events? And which diseases pose
the greatest threat to the herd in your area? And
also just because that disease is there, do we have

(36:36):
effective vaccines against those diseases. It's a lot easier and
more economical to prevent disease than it is to treat.
By the time we see calves that are sick, it's
already well into the course of the disease and some
damage is done.

Speaker 29 (36:49):
Maintaining a clean, comfortable environment with plenty of clean air,
fresh water, quality nutrition, and strong biosecurity can round out
a good BRD prevention protocol. For more information, visit cattlefirst
dot com. Chad Smith reporting with.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
That Friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining us.
Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad Life.