October 3, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, you're listening to AG Life. I'm Dwayne Murley
for Bob Quinn. Canada is looking for new export markets.
Dennis Guy reports from Canada, taking a page from Prime
Minister Mark Kearney's playbook. The head of the Bank of
Canada also thinks that Canada has waited far too long
to reduce its economic dependence on the United States. Tiff

(00:24):
maclum was in Saskatchewan to promote global trade opportunities to
Western Canadian business leaders to break free of its reliance
on the US economy. Maclum is arguing that Canadian business
needs to diversify its markets and to develop new opportunities
for its products and services.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
There are clear and enduring benefits of diversifying, growing new
markets for our exports, built scale and competitiveness, diversification as resilience.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Canada's top economist went on to say that the world
has changed over the past twenty five years. The US
is no longer the single largest market. It is one
of the top three markets on the planet, with China
and the European Union closing in on top spot position,
and maclum is seeing signs that Canadian businesses are making

(01:15):
stronger efforts to find new markets, and Canadian importers are
looking for new suppliers as well. That said, Tiff Macklum
admitted that he thinks the United States will likely be
Canada's largest trading partner, at least for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, seventy five percent of Canada's exports go to the
United States. Just look at a map. It's been very
easy to exports the United States, but it's gotten a
lot harder. We've been talking about diversifying trade for a
long time now. Businesses are now putting more effort in
figuring out how to get product to new markets, how
to develop those markets. Many domestic businesses they import, they're
looking for new suppliers.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Canada's largest long term concern is that President Trump's tariff
agenda will become entrenched. If that is the case, Bank
of Canada Governor Tiff Macklum believes that trade diversity away
from the US is a necessity for future prosperity, and
if Canada continues to tie its fortunes to the United

(02:13):
States under an ongoing tariff regime, the Canadian economy will
only stagnate.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We are very integrated with the United States.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
For the simple arithmetic, Governor, is.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
That twenty five percent of our GDP is exports the
United States. If tariffs stay roughly where they are, we're
projecting slow growth. And it's slow because the economy needs
to adjust to this new reality. With the United.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
States reporting from Canada, I'm Dennis guy.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
What are the odds of a new farm bill getting
through Congress's fall? Bob Larson has the answer.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
With Congress back to work following the August RECESSMENTY wonder
what our chances are of getting a new farm bill done?
I ask US Representative Dan Newhouse if he thinks it
will get the much needed attention sometime soon.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
Short answers, Yes, Absolutely passed HR one and that was
signed in the law on July fourth, which, as the
Chairman likes, as they had the Lion's Share of the
farm Bill embedded in.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
It, which new House says should make a new farm
bill a bit easier.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Many of the important things that we were working on
were covered in HR one, and so the skinny farm
bill are the things that are left to do, which
is about twenty five percent I guess overall, are things
that should be much easier to accomplish.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
And the egg chair new House says, is on.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Board Chairman Thompson, who was with me in the district
here just a few weeks ago, has told us and
farmers that he has visited with that he wants to
get this done as soon as possible.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So new House says, we need to get this done.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Agriculture needs to have the provisions that are afforded to
the industry through a modern farm bill. There's so many
challenges already that farmers are facing. The federal government should
not be counted amongst those challenges.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Do you know what to expect from corn silage infected
Southern rust? The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy
team is going to focus on that very topic on
their next seminar Tuesday, October the seventh. It'll be from
noon till one Central time. Iowa State University Extension and
Outreach Dairy specialist Fred Hall talks about the program.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
We've got doctor Addie Soogan, who's a ruminant nutritionist out
of the University of Florida. In the South, they've had
exposure to this for a long time, the Southern rest
and he's done some really good research on how that
affects cornstyl age, especially how it affects the silage fermentation

(04:47):
and the ending nutritional value and bunk life, So that's
going to be pretty important. We're pretty convinced that depending
upon the severity of the rust in your silage, there
could be a lot less milk pretend than you would
have guessed after seeing this silage come through the chopper.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
And kind of talk about that a little bit more
as far as the effects that it actually does have
on the silage, because a lot of that silage is
already either in a bag or on a pile already,
So is there anything that can be done with that
silage that's already been harvested?

Speaker 6 (05:26):
In fred I think what we need to do is
understand that this effects the enzyme action as the silage fermats.
So once you have the fermentation completed, your best way
to deal with this is have your nutritionous sample the

(05:48):
silage and build your ration around what's actually in your
silage pile, trying to mitigate effects after the fact, just
as they're going to work very well for you. So
the best way is to build that ration so you
are in fact bringing the right nutrition to the animal and.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
So who would you like to see watch the webinar.
Who's your targeted audience there?

Speaker 7 (06:16):
Bread, I think.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
We've got two major groups we want to have at
this dairyman of course because ultimately you're the ones calling
the shots on your dairy. Then the second group is
the nutritionists that are serving dairymen. They've had a lot
of experience with things coming through the pipeline this year

(06:41):
and getting them up to speed for sure on how
this southern rust is going to affect. The sil test
result gives them a heads up, So we like to
have those two folks attend.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you talked about the nutrition value of the silage
affect advice southern rust. Is there a formula? I mean,
is it a certain percentage of nutrition that's been affected
or how does that all play into the mix?

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Yeah, I'm not certain that there is any kind of
equation because we have levels of rust in fields. You
may come to one sixth inch phase where you know,
it seems like it's really highly infected, and as you
get into the pile you may find that, okay, it's

(07:33):
not near as severe as it was on the first sample.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
To learn more about this webinar on Tuesday October seventh,
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Speaker 8 (08:27):
In their first move of twenty twenty five, Federal Reserve
cut its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point,
aiming to ease borrowing cost While inflation remains stubborn. Farmers
may see slightly lower interest on operating loans and landnotes,
though high input costs continued a weigh. Lower transportation costs, though,

(08:48):
are helping corn and soybean exports move. USDA reporting Gulf
corn inspection serge forty three percent year over year Pacific
Northwest volumes also climbing, but soybeing demand remains weaker, especially
without China in the market. Housing data showing rural areas
gaining share. While large metro single family construction fell nearly

(09:11):
four percent last quarter, rural micro counties grew almost two percent,
marking five straight quarters of gains. Multifamily construction also expanding
in smaller markets and in dairy, butter prices dropped to
their lowest since twenty twenty one, with cheese also slipping
on strong supply. Eggs are holding steady, but USDA confirmed

(09:35):
eight new bird flu cases. Milk output continues strong, up
three point four percent from last year. It's another Agnews update.

Speaker 11 (09:44):
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Speaker 8 (10:11):
Benz Deals American Cattle News Brazil has become a major
exporter of beef to the US until now more after this.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
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Speaker 8 (10:51):
Brazil has been a major exporter of beef to the US.
Kept BACKUS is with the National Cattleman's Beef Associations.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
We raised these comments back in March when we submitted
a whole sweep of outstanding issues and recommendations to the
US Trade Representative's office. We know that is something they've
been looking at very closely. We've had, you know, multiple
meetings with the USDA as well, and then going back
into the Biden administration, we had numerous communications to Secretary

(11:21):
of Bilsack, who chose not to take action on this.
So you know, this is something we repeatedly bring up.
I think the latest development with President Trump increasing the
reciprocal tariff from ten to fifty percent, I think that's
a very that's a very positive step forward. We think that,
you know, when you combine that fifty percent tariff with
the other tariff that Brazil faces for beef that puts

(11:44):
them at a seventy six point four percent tariff through
the rest of the year, we think that's a good start.
We think that, you know, ultimately to get Brazil to
to improve their behaviors into to gain that consumer trust
that is needed here in the US, and we need
to suspend their access. We need to have a thorough
audit and investigation process to improve our inspections and make

(12:08):
sure that you know that they are being held to
the same standards as everyone else. Clearly, there is going
to be a demand for beef in the United States.
We are going to fill the vast majority of that.
But any country that wants to participate here, any country
that wants to try to develop a presence in the
US market, they need to be held accountable without exception.

(12:29):
This is it's not a right to sell in the US,
it's a privilege and they need to earn that.

Speaker 8 (12:34):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is Darry Radio.

Speaker 12 (12:41):
Now it's time for our Feed Forum Friday with doctor
Mike Cutchens, Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois.

Speaker 13 (12:47):
Hello, Mike, Well, welcome to today's feet Form and our
topic is going to be looking an update on caf
feeding and this is based on a presentation by our
PhD grad student here at the University Illinois, and she
did a series of cast studies here in one of
our areas was calf scours and we know death loss
can be quite high related to losses of calf scolars
can be caused by disease, of course, but also on

(13:10):
farm such as the vaccination of the cow, clostrum levels
in the young calf, cleanliness of the calving area, and
the feeding of the calf, the use of electrolytes antibiotics
to be a factor, and also the amount of dry
matter in the milk replacer for feeding milk replacer. We
do know that if we don't get the right levels

(13:31):
of milk replacer, then we don't have the right osmoality
in the digestive tract. And we do know that nutrients
such as caseine and cilium, which is basically some of
us take that as fiber sources, are important aspects in
terms of the diet as well. Another aspect you looked
at were B vitamins, and we know that B one
vitamins thiamen important for nerve function, B three niosin, B

(13:55):
six peroxidine which is used for immunity, and B twelve
which is basically a colbinamine which is important for glog
coose utilization as well. So what she did, Bill is
she conducted four different studies here and looked at different
levels of dry matter in milk replacer, the role of
caseine andcilium in the feeding program, which were pluses at

(14:17):
this point, and also looked at the evaluating the dry
matter content of feces to evaluate scolaring score. And they
found that once we got milk replacers that were up
at eighteen percent or higher in dry matter content in
the liquidid, that was a problem for scolaring as well,
and the caseine and silium were pluses and manure scores

(14:40):
were correlated very nicely to dry matter content.

Speaker 14 (14:43):
They did the B vitamin study as well and had
no response in health, and I guess Bill that was
surprised a little bit. However, they also did some gene
measurement here and they found that we were turning certain
genes on that could be important in terms of immunity
long term at this point, leading to improvement in in
health in these chaos. And finally she did another study

(15:03):
she did with bulwine plasma protein sources, basically extracting the
protein from blood from slaughtered animals here, and some farmers
would call that chocolate milk because some of these products
would have kind of a brown hue to the milk replacer,
and there was no difference in health response in her
studies here with bul wine plasma protein, no difference in

(15:25):
average daily gain or intake or metabolizable energy, and there's
no effect on cortisol. Cortisol ends up being an indication
of animal health and immunity as well. And then a
little flatpop for projects. She also looked at measuring using
an infrared thermometer to measure temperature of animals without having
it to use a thermometer, so kind of a hands

(15:45):
off situation, and the good news is that they could
measure heat stress on these animals, but not disease. They
discovered that using a directial thermometer would be much more
diagnostic to be using on these animals, So take all
messages are one. Dry matter levels and milk replacers are important.
Should be summers around thirteen to fifteen percent. Feeding a

(16:06):
bee vitamins can be beneficial in some cases, and wold
wine plasma proteins to a no response in our study. Well,
that completes a program for today. Thanks, Hey, have a
great date.

Speaker 12 (16:16):
Thank you Mike. That's doctor Mike Kutchens, Professor emeritus from
the University of Illinois, featured every Friday here on our
feed Forum Friday on Dairy Radio. Now the public is
receiving increased education on what to watch out for regarding
New World screw worm and how it affects livestock.

Speaker 15 (16:30):
This one's particularly problematic because the maggot will infest living
tissues and consumes those on a living animal. It'll get into,
say the umbilicus of a newborn calf, onto a cut,
onto say a de horning wound. Those types of things
are some of the primary places that we might see
this and it will kind of continue to make those

(16:52):
wounds worse and continue to eat tissue if it's left untreated.

Speaker 16 (16:56):
Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary for Market tag A Regulatory Programs, Lauren
Stubb says only those who dealt with NWS at the
height of our country several decades ago might know what
to look out for or understand the potential impacts. Hence
the importance of education and vigilance of what to watch
regarding a possible New World screw worm case.

Speaker 12 (17:17):
That's USDA Radio's Rod Bain reporting and I'm Bill Baker
Dairy Radio.

Speaker 17 (17:21):
Now come on, we all need and can always eat
more almends to get to the minimum daily need. I'm
Patrick Kavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of the
vastag Information Network. Alena Himbler is Associate director of Nutrition
Research for the Almend Border California.

Speaker 18 (17:42):
Consumption in the US is per capita higher than India
because people are eating higher quantities and a portion size
of almonds in the US tends to be about an ounce.

Speaker 17 (17:52):
And she mentions India because India is the largest export
market for almonds and they do eat quite a few
almonds there every day.

Speaker 18 (18:00):
However, yeah, we still do have a lot of work
to do. We've done a great job at ABC of
really changing consumer perceptions so that people in the US
they know almonds are healthy. However, consumption is still quite low.
You know, we're recommending that people eat one serving of
nuts per day, and people are really nowhere close to
that at all. So we do have a lot of

(18:21):
work to do in terms of bringing consumption up to
the levels that the science recommends.

Speaker 17 (18:27):
And that's Elena Hamber, Associate director of Nutrition Research for
the Armored Border California. In more news, the twenty twenty
five California won The production is forecast it at seven
hundred and ten thousand tons, up eighteen percent from twenty
twenty four's production. That crop is coming from three hundred
and sixty five thousand acres.

Speaker 19 (18:47):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but which one?

Speaker 14 (19:02):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (19:02):
And how receptive is this age group to your sales
pitch during non work social time. Maybe the best place
to reach a farmer with a farming solution message is
when they are well, quite frankly farming. You know it's
easy for us to find them during the day, as
most farmers are behind the wheel of a pickup truck
or farm equipment with the radio on, listening to this

(19:24):
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If you'd like to deliver information about your terrific product
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trust you with the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.

(19:50):
Oil prices continue to hold steady, remaining in the mid
sixty dollars per barrel range, where prices have leveled off
for a few months. Patrick Dehon, ahead of a t
olium analysis at gasbuddy dot com, says oil prices are
not expected to be much higher in the coming weeks
thanks to demand moving lower. He also said thanks to
opex production increase and lighter demand, he expects oil prices

(20:14):
to move downward in the not too distant future. Now
if that does occur and a surplus of oil occurs globally,
he expects the United States to decrease oil production.

Speaker 20 (20:24):
So long as oil prices remain low, we have seen
the US rig count start to decline. In fact, the
rig count now below maintenance levels, meaning that there is
the potential that the lower rig count we are seeing
today will translate in time to a drop in US
oil production. That is something that will likely oil companies

(20:45):
respond to the lower price of oil by cutting additional drilling.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
When it comes to fuel prices, Dehon says some areas
of the country have seen relief over recent weeks following
pipeline shutdowns due to refinery maintenance and unexpected out eages.
But now that both of those issues appear to be resolved,
Dehon knowed the gasoline prices in states like Washington slipped
nine cents per gallon just last week.

Speaker 20 (21:12):
Diesel price as well, they've started to ease a little
bit as well, though not as much as gasoline. Diesel
prices still in Washington state averaging about five oh four
that's down about a penny in the last week. When
it comes to gas prices, motors need not be in
any hurry to fill their tanks. I do expect that
that nine cent in decline in average prices will continue

(21:32):
for the next couple of weeks again.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
That is Patrick Dehon with gas Buddy. The dry markets
have been back and forth since last week and have
struggled to find a direction. Brian Doherty Total Farm Marketing
said there are multiple reasons behind the market swings.

Speaker 21 (21:49):
I think the reason the market can't get enough traction
right now is simply that there's just a little bit
more product than is needed right now. And if you
look at the milk production reports, I think they say
everything melt production per cow is up, melk cows are up. Efficiency,
that's the malf production p kW really important. Good feed,
cheap feed. You've got a lot of good things. But

(22:10):
the big catalysts maybe behind this idea the herd haulding
together or growing a little bit month in and month out.
Is this very very very nice price for beef calves
or calves, and so it's a balancing act between breeding
for beef and trying to hold heifers back and not
hold heifers back. So I think there's just a lot
of dynamics.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
The late August early September balance and the butter price
has not happened yet.

Speaker 21 (22:35):
It is a product that is very attracted to the
marketplace right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if we
see the butter market all of a sudden start to
make a turn and move, at least respectively back toward
the areas where it came from, looking for that two
dollars the two fifty area. To get overly optimistic on that,
I think we have to have some strong expectation that

(22:55):
world inventories are getting narrowed down, or that demand is
going to increase with dairy trade reflects all of that,
and the global dairy trade is not head of a
strong track record as of late. In fact, has been
a week one. So you've got a weak international market,
you've got apple inventory, and it's a good bargain.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
He encourages producers to be patient because more demand will
cycle in.

Speaker 21 (23:19):
Well, what I'm trying to do is temper attitudes that
we're at market clearing prices that are reducing the cow herd,
that the dairy herd worldwide is on the decline, and
that we're ready to see a big run higher. Unfortunately,
we're still in the expansion phase right now, and part
of this might be the growing pains of looking at
expansion of plants that can handle inventory. We we need more

(23:40):
cows and more cows, more inventory, more product at a
lower level, at least for a while.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Again, that is Brian Doherty with Total Farm Marketing. Consumer
demand for products like cheese, butter, and yogurt that rely
on protein and butterfat content continues to drive dairy sales
growth in the United States and abroad. Over the past decade,
milk delivered to US dairy processing plants has become more
nutrie and dance with higher levels of the two key

(24:08):
components to meat rising demand. However, the pace of growth
in butterfat content has far exceeded protein, which creates challenges
for US cheddar and American style cheesemakers that rely on
a more balanced ratio of the two. Corey Geiger is
the lead dairy economist at Cobank, and he says that

(24:29):
US dairy producers did an exceptional job increasing butterfat levels
and milk to meat demand. You're listening to AG Live.

Speaker 22 (24:37):
It's time for California AGG today on the AGG Information Network.
I am Hayley's ship. California has officially hit a new
milestone in agriculture. According to the California Department of Food
and Agriculture. In twenty twenty four hour, farmers, growers, and
ranchers produced a staggering sixty one billion dollars worth of

(24:58):
crops and livestock, up nearly four percent from the previous year.
That's the first time the state's production value has topped
sixty billion dollars. If it's a national competition, we're winning.
California remains the top producer in the nation for dairy,
with milk bringing in eight point six billion dollars. California

(25:19):
also provides roughly half of the nation's fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Almonds follow at five point seven billion dollars, grapes at
five point six billion dollars, and cattle in calves at
nearly five billion dollars. Other key contributors include lettuce at
three point seven billion, strawberries at three point five billion,
pistachios at two billion, tomatoes at one point six, Garrett's

(25:43):
at one point six and broilers at one point four
billion dollars. These numbers highlight the enormous scale and impact
of California agriculture or Farmers, ranchers, and growers continue to
drive record breaking production year after year, keeping the states
at the forefront of American agriculture.

Speaker 19 (26:01):
For the last forty years, the Egg Information Network has
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Speaker 10 (26:30):
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Speaker 1 (27:01):
Let's take a look athalados information from the US the
ape in regards to soybeans and winter wheat.

Speaker 23 (27:08):
As we removed to the soybeans, seventy nine percent of
the US crop dropping leaves by September twenty eighth, That
is two points ahead of the five year average, but
equal to this time a year ago. The reason that
the number is lightly ahead of that five year average
is due to some rapid progress, primarily in the south,
extending into the far southern corn belt, again due to
that late summer dry spell, and we do see now

(27:30):
in Illinois eighty nine percent of the crop dropping leaves,
well ahead of the five year average of seventy six percent.
Similar picture in Tennessee seventy five percent dropping leaves. Five
year average is sixty three percent. Soybean harvest progress is
pretty much on par with what we see with corn.
We see nineteen percent of the US soybeans harvested by
September twenty eighth, That is one point behind the five

(27:51):
year average and five points behind last year's twenty four percent.
We see that little bit of a mix between the
above normal progress for harvest in the southeastern part of
the corn belt, compared with some delays in the far
north and west. On the slow side, Minnesota actually having
a pretty good week for harvest. They jumped from three

(28:11):
to twenty two percent harvested during the week ending September
twenty eighth, but that is still behind the five year
average of twenty nine percent. On the flip side, we
see numbers that are well ahead of average and greater
than twenty percent harvested in states like Indiana twenty four
percent harvested, in Illinois and Ohio both at twenty one
percent harvested. Soybean conditioned picking up slightly for the week

(28:33):
ending September twenty eighth, sixty two percent good to excellent,
up a point from last week. Eleven percent is very
poor to poor, down a point from last week.

Speaker 20 (28:42):
That puts this.

Speaker 23 (28:43):
Year's crop very close but slightly below last year's condition
at this time, when we were sitting at sixty four
percent good to excellent and eleven percent very poor to poor.
Most of the trouble spots for soybeans are outside the
heart of the Midwest and directly related to the dryness
of late summer early autumn. Ucky, for example, sitting right
now at thirty six percent very poor to poor. Twenty

(29:04):
eight percent of the soybeans rated very poor to poor
in Tennessee. As we move into the southern corn belt,
Illinois appears to be the hardest hit state by some
of that late summer drought twenty two percent very poor
to poor there. Taking a look at our winter week
planting progress for the weekending September twenty eighth, just over
one third thirty four percent of the intended US winn

(29:24):
we acreage planted by the twenty eighth of September, two
points behind the five year average, three points behind last
year's thirty seven percent. Planting is underway in all eighteen
reporting states, with progress ranging from three percent complete in
North Carolina all the way up to sixty eight percent
complete in drought affected Washington State. We do see on
the plane planting progress getting past the halfway mark in

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Colorado now fifty nine percent planted, and also in Montana
and Nebraska at fifty six and fifty seven percent planted, respectively.
We also see significant planting progress in South Dakota, as
they have reached sixty percent planted. Winter weet emergents looking
good so far, but there's certainly some areas that could
use some rain. That is particularly true in the mid

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South and the Northwest areas that have been very dry
late summer into autumn. Thirteen percent of the winter wheat
acreage has emerged. That is one point ahead of the
five year average of twelve percent, but equal to last
year's thirteen percent. We're seeing good emergence so far, even
very dry Washington State forty percent emerged five year average
thirty two percent, but that crop in the Northwest will

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need rain soon for a proper establishment of the crop.
That is also true where planting is underway in the
lower Midwest and the Mid South, as some of those
areas have been very dry over the last couple of months.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
That is the latest information from the USDA in regards
to soybeans and winter wheat.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Well the ED Information Network, this is your agribusiness update.
Well AC Secretory Brook Rawlins warns US farm production inputs
are significantly more costly than four years ago, putting pressure
on farmers bottom line. Since twenty twenty eight, seed expenses
increased eighteen percent, fuel and oil increase thirty two percent,
fertilizer increased thirty seven percent, and interest expenses were up

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a whopping seventy three percent. The USDA and Department of
Justice will work together to take a hard look and
scrutinize competitive conditions in the agricultural marketplace, including antitrust enforcement
that promotes free market competition. Consumer demand for products like cheese, butter,
and yogurt that rely on protein and butterfat content continues
to drive dairy sales growth in the US and abroad.

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The pace of growth in butterfat content has far exceeded protein,
which creates challenges for cheesemakers. Cobank Dairy Economus Corey Geiger says,
for ten years the market couldn't supply enough of it,
and now there's an oversupply. It's almost too much of
a good thing. The August Rural Main Street Index shows
one fifth of grain growers will experience a negative cash
flow in twenty twenty five. For the seventh time this year,

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the overall economic index sank below growth neutral, falling to
thirty eight and a half in September from forty eight
point one in August. Elevated interest rates, higher input costs,
and below break even prices caused the downward pressure on
far bland.

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Speaker 4 (33:04):
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agribusiness update.

Speaker 16 (33:09):
When it comes to core crop maturity of late a
slowing period is noted USDA b or elogist brad rippy.
From the latest Crop Progress report for the period ending
September twenty.

Speaker 23 (33:19):
Eighth, seventy one percent of the crop fully mature and
is three percentage points behind a five year average of
seventy four percent and just slightly behind last year's seventy
three percent. What is holding that national number down is
some delayed maturity in some of our northern and western.

Speaker 16 (33:34):
State with five of eighteen reporting states indicating core maturity
at least ten percentage points behind their states five year average.

Speaker 23 (33:42):
That list includes Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas, and
the state that has the least corn mature by September
twenty eighth is North Dakota forty one percent five year
average there is fifty six percent.

Speaker 16 (33:54):
Meanwhile, cord harvest is at eighteen percent as of September
twenty eighth, one percentage point behind this SABE time last year.

Speaker 23 (34:01):
The corn harvest number for the week ending September twenty
eighth eighteen percent of the US corn harvested on that date,
one point behind the five year average two percentage points
behind last year is twenty percent, and we do see
a bit of a convergence where it's a little quicker
in the drought affected southeastern part of the corn belt
compared to some delays in the western corn belt. The

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only state not reporting any harvest progress at all by
September twenty eighth is North Dakota, and the five year
average there is not particularly high, but it is five percent,
so getting off to a little bit of a late
start in North Dakota due to that late maturation. As
we move southward into Nebraska, eleven percent harvested there. Seventeen
percent is the five year average. But as you moved

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to the east into the southern and eastern corn belt,
we find the Missouri leads to the midwest forty percent harvested.
That's ahead of the five year average of thirty four percent.
In Illinois twenty one percent harvested, also ahead of the
five year average of eighteen percent. Corn condition for the
week ending September twenty eighth absolutely no change from the
previous week. That is to be somewhat expected as we

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get late in the year. Of course, once the corns mature,
you're not going to change that condition unless it is
toppled by wind or storm, so locked in right now,
it seems like at sixty six percent good to excellent,
ten percent very poor to poor. As I mentioned, no
change from last week, and that brings this crop back
up above where we were this time of year ago
sixty four percent good to excellent and twelve percent very

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poor to poor. So we may well end up slightly
above last year's final condition if this trend continues. Looking
at the individual states, we do see a handful of
Midwestern state above fifteen percent very poor to poor, specifically
Illinois and Michigan both at sixteen percent very poor to poor.
That is due to that late summer early autumn drought.
As you move outside the corn bell, we also see

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numbers above fifteen percent very poor to poor in Pennsylvania
and Tennessee, both of those states affected by drought as
well late in the season. As we moved to the soybeans,
seventy nine percent of the US crop dropping leaves by
September twenty eighth at is two points ahead of the
five your average, but equal to this time a year ago.
The reason that the number is lightly ahead of that
five year average is due to some rapid progress, primarily

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in the south, extending into the far southern corn belt,
again due to the late summer dry spell, and we
do see now in Illinois eighty nine percent of the
crop dropping leaves, well ahead of the five year average
of seventy six percent. Similar picture in Tennessee seventy five
percent dropping leaves. Five year average is sixty three percent.

Speaker 16 (36:27):
Broadbaine reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
The USDA will issue a second Emergency Commodity Assistance Program
payment to eligible producers for the twenty twenty four crop year.
Of the authorized ten billion dollars in ECAP assistance. The
USDA's Farm Service Agency has already provided over eight billion
dollars in payments to eligible producers to mitigate the impacts
of increased input costs and following commodity prices. You've been

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listening to ag Life. I'm Dwayne Merley.