October 30, 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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well friends.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
USDA researchers are using innovations such as artificial intelligence to
locate microbes in irrigation surface water contaminants that could cause
a food born illness. Rod Bain starts us.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Off a connection between irrigation surface water at potential byicrobial
contabinants that could create a food born illness. Cases of
such bacteria are leafy vegetables. Almost fifty years ago found
irrigation water providing pathways for microbes. But as USDA researcher
Yakov Pachevski recalls Congressional at federal establishment of standards for

(00:44):
microbes from a food safety perspective led to questions such as.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
How representative is the small samples that we can take
for the big source of water like irrigation pone Tidditional Lake.
And then these questions were most critical for surface water.
Surface water is more susceptible to microdo pollution and if
there are any technologists to potential help answer these question.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
The tech question stemming from desires for both data and
cost efficiencies. So Pachetski and colleagues at the USDA Agricultural
Research Station at Beltsville, Maryland, began studies incorporating artificial intelligence.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Remote something in proximal sensing, including artificial intelligence to process
results of measurements.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Sensors are bitting light waves both in water sources and
through aerial drones collect data. Artificial intelligence crunching this data
creates maps to break down contabinets at microbial levels. Pochetski says,
while technology provides broader sources and breakdowns of information, the
human element at the farm level continues to be an

(01:48):
essential factor.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
We work with real farms because the irrigation happens on
the real farms. Farmers in Georgia and farmers of Maryland
were most supportive for us, and we are really thankful
to these people who allow us to do the measurements
and to discuss.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Things with them.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
The result of incorporated innovations of microbial detection and surface
irrigation water more effective, cost efficient, and quicker methods of
detection of potential contabinants and Potchevski says, these technologies are
approaching broader use and application all.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
The components that we are looking now are commercially available.
So it's just a matter of companies or consultants or
groups of enthusias just taking this thing, combining them together,
and beginning to use.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Recently, Pochevski was honored for his work receiving the Samuel J.
Hayman's Service to America Metal the Savvy for his contributions
as a civil servant to the public. Broad Bane reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, Friends, producers are concerned about high input cost going
into next year's crop. That's ahead on Egglife, Bob Quinn.
Here was some farm news this morning. Friends. The Senate
Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the high cost of inputs,
and a Midwest Farm Bureau member was there to share
some perspectives. Chad Smith as details.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
As rising input costs continue to burden farm country, lawmakers
are taking notice. Nathan Kappas, a family farmer from Stanwood, Iowa,
recently provided testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on how
fertilizer and seed costs are putting pressure on his farm's
balance sheet.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I was trying to convey that our input costs have
elevated continually. We're having a hard time finding a profit
on our farm. We don't have any negotiating power in
some areas, and it's time to take a look at
that and what the reasoning is behind that.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
Things are pretty tough on the farm right now.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Coppas said he is assessing whether their family's business model
is still viable.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
Does it still work?

Speaker 6 (03:48):
My wife works on farm full time, and we're trying
to figure out if we can adjust that to keep
that in place. And we're certainly trying to be bare
minimum users of certain inputs. We're putting more risk on
the table in our farm by holing some fertilizer back.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Coppas encourages all farmers and ranchers to tell their story
to lawmakers.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Well, if you don't tell it, somebody else is going
to tell it for you. So you need to pick
what narrative you want. I know what's going on on
my farm, so I need to tell that story. So
for me, my first step getting involved would be to
reach out, get involved in my local farm bureau, get
involved in something local with the folks in your county,
and you can pick how involved you want to be.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
At that point, Chad Smith, Washington, Well Friends.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Farmers will likely face higher prices for inputs next year
a result of tariffs on international trade, but the impact
is not a one size fits all. John Apple, vice
president of Category Management with the Farmers Business Network, says
some products will see greater price hikes than others.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
Products like a sthmatoliclre clethidem dicamba, those will be subject
to the maximum amount of tariffs. There's no exemptions or
anything like that. And also products like two is not
only subject to significant tariffs in China and India, but
also anti dumping and countervailing duties from Courtela lawsuit last year.

(05:11):
And so this significantly impacts the price of two four
D and we've seen that play out throughout twenty twenty
five that the cost of that product has significantly increased
in the market.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Apple encourages growers to be mindful of ways to conserve spending.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
One is to do their homework and you know, shop
for different chemical options, build crop plans with generics as
an example.

Speaker 9 (05:32):
You know.

Speaker 8 (05:32):
Another one would be to preserve cash through low interest
financing or no interest financing. And so there's a number
of different ways, number of different strategies that could be
deployed here.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Fbn's John Apple with us this morning. Well, friends, it's
a tough time for production agriculture here in the US,
especially in grain farming. Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde Smith
said things are heading in the wrong direction.

Speaker 10 (05:54):
We all know it's the input costs, the interest rates
through the route, the crop prices aren't what they need
to be, and farm bankruptcies are soaring. There's many reasons
for that, but this is a serious, serious thing. You
are going to see producers literally go out of business
if we don't give them a bridge a landline right now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
The reason farmers need a bridge is that the one
big beautiful Bill program doesn't start until next year.

Speaker 10 (06:21):
Farmers can't wait that long. They will not be able
to meet their financial obligations, their current debt. And also
why you're trying to secure financing for next year's crop,
you know, without a bridge, and we're going to have
to get there. Last year, you know, I was a
part of working on that and we were successful, but
I mean it is like it was work, it was major,

(06:45):
it was a challenge, and that's one of the times
that you hit the Senate floor and you're going to
the leaders and then you're having to run over to
the house side and say, this is not the way
this is going to end. We have got to get
this supplemental out the door, and we were able to
do that, but it was such and go I mean,
it's one of those times that you know, I'm so

(07:05):
guilty of diving and nick deep. But there was so
much anxiety with that because so much was at stake.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde Smith with US Farm US. You're
listening to Aglife.

Speaker 11 (07:16):
It's another agnews update for the first time this marketing year,
China buying US soybeans more after this.

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Today, China's COFKO reportedly booked three US soybean cargoes of
about a hundred eighty thousand metric tons for December January delivery.
It's the first from this falls harvest and the first
from the US, and a small but market moving step
that lifted futures and could tighten Gulf and Pacific Northwest

(08:16):
capacity if reserved buying follows globally. Fambory at the University
of Missouri's new baseline shows grains and oil seats easing
from twenty twenty two, peaks on big crops, and steady productivity.
Prices recover modestly beyond twenty twenty six, but stay well

(08:37):
under prior highs. Would Trade uncertainty, especially between the US
and China's still a swing factor on access fresh US
frameworks with Thailand and Vietnam target faster approvals in tariff relief.
Thailand plans to drop duties on ninety nine percent of
goods and expedite FSI certified meat and ethanol permits, while

(09:03):
Vietnam pledges broad preferential access and SPS alignment. It's another
agnews update.

Speaker 8 (09:12):
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Speaker 11 (09:40):
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with Argentina More after this.

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Speaker 19 (10:18):
Today, you know, we've kind of changed the timing this
year a little bit. Compared to normal, we had record
high cattle prices in the summer, and some producers got
nervous that those markets wouldn't be there this fall. So
for about eight weeks from mid July through the first
week of September, we had auction volumes that were above
year go levels, and then it flipped and those kivs

(10:39):
were marketed early. They normally would have been marketed later.
For the last six weeks we've had volumes that were
down on a year over year basis. So I think
that's going to change the nature of the fall run
a little bit. It won't be as big as it
would have been otherwise.

Speaker 11 (10:51):
Doctor Darre o'peel, Oklahoma State University livestock economist, on bind
b from Argentina, Yeah.

Speaker 19 (11:00):
Or some announcements over the weekend that we might buy
bee from Argentina ostensibly to help reduce prices in the US,
it won't have that impact. We buy very little bee
from Argentina. They represent about two percent of our total
beef imports. So it's it's, you know, it's more of
a headline kind of a statement than anything else. You know,

(11:20):
it really won't change things in the US, but it's
another one of those sources that does add a lot
of uncertainty and volatility to the markets. Cattle markets obviously reacted.
The futures markets in particular reacted very strongly last you know,
on a Friday, they were down, limit down, and then
you know, we get over it, we figure out it's
probably not what it really seems, and they bounce back.

(11:41):
But a lot of volatility and uncertainty for producers.

Speaker 11 (11:44):
On the government shut down.

Speaker 19 (11:46):
Well, yeah, Increasingly, the longer we go, we're not getting
any updated data, so the vacuum of information becomes more
and more of an issue. You know, markets try to
go on. We are at least getting price reporting, but
at the same time we're not getting any fundamental data,
so that becomes more of an you as more time
goes on.

Speaker 11 (12:02):
American Cattle News.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
This is Dairy Radio.

Speaker 20 (12:09):
Now we're talking to Katie Carpenter of AGG in the
classroom in New.

Speaker 16 (12:13):
York Dairy in the classroom. There's multiple elements of that,
but one is having teacher training. So we actually just
brought thirty teachers and those teachers were able to tour
the dairy farm and they were also able to go
to the hp Hood plant to see where that farm
sends their milk and then see the products that are
developed from it. So we want teachers to have a
better understanding of their own food system because we need

(12:36):
to give people more credit. Kids, people know that food
starts on the farm, and they know that we buy
it at the grocery store. It's all those steps in
the middle that they've never experienced before, so we want
to illustrate that for them. We want them to give
them space to ask questions, and then we want them
to take those experiences back and communicate it to their

(12:58):
students because they've had an experience with us. During in
the Classroom is a grant funded project from the Dairy
Promotion Order and it's very special to us and it's
never lost on us that the project that we are
facilitating is funded from the dairy farmer's pockets and we
always want to make sure that we're living up to

(13:19):
their expectation, and so Daring in the Classroom program funds
County Cooperative Extensions to have a halftime educator leading direct
student education my little team at the state agg In
the Classroom we train teachers because we don't have the
ability to do direct student education, but Cooperative Extension educators

(13:39):
are able to go into their local school communities teach
lessons multiple times for those students. They're building relationships with
students and teachers in schools. They're the best people to
do that because they know about the agriculture in their backyard.
They know the nutritionists, they know the milk truck drivers,
they know the process, and they can really illustrate to

(14:02):
those students about what's happening in their local community, what
that corn is that they drive by on the school
bus every single day. They can talk about the people
they know in their communities and why those people are important.
So Dairy in the Classroom is a special project to
us because we're funding those halftime extension educators to do
direct student education, which is something we're not able to

(14:24):
do in our agriculture and the classroom programming.

Speaker 20 (14:26):
You've got some during the classroom training sessions coming up
in November. Tell us about them, where they're going to
be and what's going to be covered.

Speaker 16 (14:34):
Again, be able to show teachers the farm and the
processing and to go down to see their student agg
business lab where they're selling products and launching products is
really the whole package. We're bringing teachers back with us
to make the curricular connections after they see all these
exciting pieces of the dairy industry right in front of
their eyes. And then we're going to facilitate a mac

(14:57):
and Cheese challenge. This as one of our major projects
throughout the year. We reach about five thousand students annually
making mac and cheese in their classrooms, and we are
going to teach the teachers and give them a chance
to have their own competition to make mac and cheese.
They then receive the resources to make mac and cheese
in their classroom, they get to walk away with that,
and then they receive continuing education credit. So that's November

(15:20):
seventh at Sunny Kobelskill.

Speaker 20 (15:21):
And how do folks find out about the Dairy in
the Classroom workshops.

Speaker 16 (15:24):
By visiting our website which is AG Classroom, ag classroom
dot org, forward slash and why, Well, we are really
excited to be able to expose over two hundred thousand
students to dairy through this program. We're very proud of
the work that each of our counties does to so
creatively and uniquely include food and agriculture. Applications will be

(15:48):
open for future counties to join our program upcoming. So
if you work with a cooperative extension board of directors
you don't have dairy in the classroom already, please reach
out through our website and let us know that you're
interested in submitting an application, So we're excited to expand
this program in twenty twenty six. It's really exciting to
show our teachers what a future career in dairy processing

(16:11):
might look like. I just spent last week with thirty
school counselors also known as guidance counselors, and we brought
them to at least four different agricultural operations, just so
that we can help build the connection. And I think
what we can all work together on is having a
full school community seeing the chorus of agriculture from the

(16:32):
teachers to agricultural education, the school cafeterias with farm to
school school counselors, and communities making agriculture a priority for
their students and their schools.

Speaker 20 (16:43):
Adie Carpenter of the ag and A Classroom program from
Cornell on John Clutter traveling the countryside for Feedword's.

Speaker 21 (16:50):
USA research continues. I trying to find out why naval
orangeworm is attracted to pistachio nuts. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with
the California Tree Nut Report, part of the vast agg
Information Network. Louise Ferguson is with the Department of Plants,
sciencests at UC Davis, a UC and R cooperative Extension specialist.

(17:11):
Is it something on the surface of that pistachio shell
that the naval orange worm desires.

Speaker 22 (17:16):
That's what we're hoping to find out, because the naval
orange worm atracted to the nut when they're in the
subficient mass or sufficient maternity to support the growth of
the larvae that developed from the h deposit. Now, if
we knew what the nut is doing to signal female
naval orangeworm the layer egg, then we could perhaps anticipate
some preventive or propylactic measures. And doctor Selena Wang, just

(17:38):
a crack chemist in the Department from Science at Davis,
is working with Barbara and Julia and myself on those
the hotels.

Speaker 21 (17:45):
That's Louise Ferguson you see Davis Plant Scientist extension specialist
in more news. The last thing any amagroer wants to
do is spend money on something that's not needed to
produce an optimum crop. One proven way growers can avoid
applying too much fertilizers is bi accurately estimating the yield
expected from their trees. Even in established orchards, yields can

(18:05):
vary from year to year based on a variety of factors.
The age of the trees, whether in soil conditions, all
can affect yields. It's good to look back on your
records regarding yields in certain blocks.

Speaker 17 (18:16):
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Speaker 14 (19:17):
US cattle producers are very concerned about Presidents Trump's plan
to buy beef cattle from Argentina as a move designed
to lower USB prices for consumers. Colin Woodhall, CEO of
the National Cattleman's Beef Association, says, they're disappointed with the
president's plan.

Speaker 9 (19:34):
We understand what he is trying to do, but what
he does not realize is that in trying to bring
the price of beef down for the consumer, it means
he's going to bring down the price being paid for
cattle for US producers. So, in fact, this is a
direct attack on US cattle producers and it negates so
much of the work that we have done over the

(19:54):
years to build the overall quality of our product, a
quality that we're very proud of. When you see the
amount of beef that is grading choice and prime. The
consumer likes what we are giving them and they've made
it very clear that they want more of it.

Speaker 14 (20:10):
What all says, demand is at an all time higher
for beef because of the taste and quality.

Speaker 9 (20:16):
That's why demand remains at almost a forty year high,
and that the consumer is still buying our great product,
and unfortunately, the President's plan will have a huge impact
on how we as cattle producers can capitalize on that.

Speaker 14 (20:30):
He said, the President needs to talk to cattle producers
about this kind of idea and the impact it can have.

Speaker 9 (20:37):
We've had a great relationship with the White House and
with the Secretary of Agriculture. They know that we are
good partners and we have facts and figures. Just come
visit with us and we can talk through any issue
that pops up. But there also needs to be a
realization from the President from the Secretary that any offhanded comment,
as innocuous as they may think that it is, can

(20:58):
have huge rambles locations on the marketplace. And we saw
that on Friday when the futures market is just absolutely crashed,
and that cost this industry in a lot of counter
producers a lot of money.

Speaker 14 (21:11):
Again. That is Colin Woodhall, CEO of the National Cattleman's
Beef Association, with the help from the NISA Farmers League
in Fresno, California, to Central California Congressmen recently held an Agriculture,
Labor and Immigration roundtable meeting with local leaders and stakeholders.
Now one topic centered on legislation in Congress in the

(21:33):
form of a bill called the Dignity Act. Manuel Kunya
is president of the NISA Farmers League in Fresno and
supports the legislation.

Speaker 23 (21:43):
The Dignity Act seemed to be the bill that brought
out more diversity for all of us, not just only
AGG for the farm Worker Modernization Act strictly AGG and
mainly for H two. A tip that the Act encompasses
all of us that allows them some type of opportunity

(22:07):
for these people working in industries to get a temporary
work hard the card would allow them to travel. Also,
the greatest thing about it ton was that they can
feel the paperwork out here. They don't have to step
out of the country, which should be a disaster for
all businesses. For anywhere you're going to step out for

(22:30):
a week, four or five or seven months. And for
many folks, this is their country, this is where they live,
so they would even know where to go. So the
Dignity Act had that opportunity in which it allows those
people to apply for work authorization here and have the

(22:50):
ability to travel and to take away the fear faction
of not having a document, knowing if you were going
to get arrested and hauled offs. But also an important
part of the Dignity Active, it gives the worker who's
applying their family also some type of status of where

(23:12):
they would if they're under the AGBA team, the type
of card they would have until they reach eighteen. But
it also had another part on the many people and
listeners would appreciate is that those workers here would pay
a restitution fee or in other words, a penalty for
being here undocumented. But yet they saved my farmers for

(23:36):
years and many other industries for years for not having labor.
They were here working, but they would pay a penalty.

Speaker 14 (23:43):
Tonya says the penalty could be thousands of dollars a
year for a period of seven years. The Dignity Act
was introduced by Representative Maria Alviro Salazar a Florida and
co sponsored by Representative of Veronica Escobar of Texas. My
name is Do and you're listening to agg Life. Thank
you for being with us today.

Speaker 24 (24:05):
It's time for California agg Today on the Aggie Information Network,
I am Haley's ship. Every fall, California fields burst with
orange as pumpkins take their star turn, lining farmers' markets,
brightening porches, and flavoring the season's favorite treats. What began
as an old Irish tale of Jack of the lantern
carved from turnips has become an all American tradition and

(24:28):
a thriving farm economy. Now, California does rank among the
nation's top pumpkin producing states, joining Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Together,
they grow about two thirds of all US pumpkins roughly
one point four billion pounds in twenty twenty four. From
the central Valley to the coast. California growers focus on fresh,

(24:49):
ornamental pumpkins for carving and decoration, while Illinois leads in
processing for canned pie filling. According to the American Farm
Bureau's Market Intel, pumpkins generation more than two hundred and
seventy four million dollars in value nationwide last year. But
even in sunny California, farmers face rising costs, labor shortages,
and weather risks that can make or break a harvest. Still,

(25:13):
when golden fields give way to glowing Jack o' lanterns,
it's clear California's farmers keep autumn shining bright when pumpkin
at a time.

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Speaker 1 (26:29):
Bob Quinn, here are some farm ws this morning, friends.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the high
cost of inputs, and a Midwest Farm Bureau member was
there to share some perspectives. Chad Smith has details.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
As rising input costs continue to burden farm country, lawmakers
are taking notice. Nathan Koppis, a family farmer from Stanwood, Iowa,
recently provided testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on how
fertilizer and seed costs are putting pressure on his farm
arms balance sheet.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
I was trying to convey that our input costs have
elevated continually.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
We're having a hard time finding a profit on our farm.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
We don't have any negotiating power in some areas, and
it's time to take a look at that and what
the reasoning is behind that.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Things are pretty tough on the farm right now.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Coppas said he is assessing whether their family's business model
is still viable.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Does it still work?

Speaker 6 (27:24):
My wife works on farm full time, and we're trying
to figure out if we can adjust that to keep
that in place. And we're certainly trying to be bare
minimum users of certain inputs. We're putting some more risk
on the table in our farm by pulling some fertilizer back.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Coppas encourages all farmers and ranchers to tell their story
to lawmakers.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well, if you don't tell it, somebody else is going
to tell it for you. So you need to pick
what narrative you want. I know what's going on on
my farm, so I need to tell that story.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
So for me, my first.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Step getting involved would be to reach out, get involved
in my local farm bureau, get involved in something local
folks in your county, and you can pick how involved
you want to beat at that point.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Chad Smith, Washington, Well, friends, farmers will likely face higher
prices for inputs next year a result of tariffs on
international trade, but the impact is not a one size
fits all. John Apple, vice president of Category Management with
the Farmers Business Network, says some products will see greater
price hikes than others.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
Products like a sthmatoliclor clethidem dicamba. Those will be subject
to the maximum amount of tariffs. There's no exemptions or
anything like that. And also products like two to four
D is not only subject to significant tariffs in China
and India, but also anti dumping and countervailing duties from
Corteva lawsuit last year, and so this significantly impacts the

(28:49):
price of two four D and we've seen that play
out throughout twenty twenty five that the cost of that
product has significantly increased in the market.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Apple encourages growers to be mindful of ways to conserve spending.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
One is to do their homework and shop for different
chemical options, build crop plans with generics as an example.
Another one would be to preserve cash through low interest
financing or no interest financing. And so there's a number
of different ways, number of different strategies that could be deployed.

Speaker 23 (29:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Fbn's John Apple with us this morning. Well friends, the
European Commission has begun the process to again delay implementation
of the EU deforestation regulation. We have a report.

Speaker 25 (29:27):
US ME and Export Federation Vice president of Economic Analysis
Aaron Bohrer says the delay gives more time for regulatory
relief for countries like the US that have little to
no deforestation risk.

Speaker 18 (29:37):
It's important that there is continued pushed back within the EU,
or maybe continued mentioning that simplification is needed and specifically,
for example, for a zero or negligible risk category that
actually results in lesser requirements, less burden for the those countries.

(30:01):
And so again within the EU, including from countries like
Germany and including Sweden with leadership right now, there is
an internal push to have true simplification. And then for
the United States, we know in the US EU joint
statement that the EU recognizes the US as negligible risk

(30:22):
and essentially committed to not have undo damage done to
our trade because of UDR.

Speaker 25 (30:28):
The burden of the proposed deforestation regulation has been a
topic of discussion in trade talks with the EU.

Speaker 18 (30:34):
USTR worked very diligently and they have continued. The US
government has continued to raise this issue, including in the
WTO forums. So in the US is not alone. There
are many countries that continue to raise concerns about the EUDR.
But yes, in the US EU agreement, the U deforestation

(30:54):
regulation was one of the specific points that was noted.
So I do think that that is an important piece
and the simplification that may get proposed going forward in
a way could help meet what looks like was committed
between the US and the EU.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
For the US Meat Export Federation, I'm John Harris Farm US.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
You're listening to Aglife.

Speaker 13 (31:17):
From the Bag Information Network. I'm Bob Larson, and this
is your agribusiness update. Earlier this year, farmers worried the
Trump administration's mass deportation plans could leave much of the
nation's fruit, nuts, and vegetables rotting in the field, especially
in California, where many of the half million plus farm
workers were undocumented. Daniel Hartwig, president of the California Fresh

(31:37):
Fruit Association, says while immigration enforcement remained a concern, he's
not aware of any crops perishing due to lack of labor,
adding we haven't seen a significant impact. Egg Secretary Brook
Rawlins and cabinet officials announced multiple actions they say will
strengthen the American beef industry, reinforcing America's rancher's critical role
in national security. Rollin says the national herd is at

(32:00):
a seventy five year low, while consumer demand is up
nine percent in the past decade. Because rebuilding the herd
takes time, the USDA will invest in markets to make
them less volatile for ranchers and make food more affordable
for consumers. Millions of Americans face losing their Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program benefits on November. First half of the state's
planned to end those benefits because the federal government remains

(32:23):
shut down. Politico says states are trying to maintain the
programs using their own money and emergency funding from the
Trump administration, but that is running out. Writer says nutrition
programs like SNAP and WICK are directly in the cross
fire of negotiations.

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Speaker 13 (33:34):
From the Egg Information Network.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Bob Quent back to wrap up AGLIE for today friends. Well,
so much is unknown about President Trump's plan to import
beef from Argentina. Riley Smith wraps us.

Speaker 15 (33:49):
Up much is still unknown about President Trump's beef import plan.
I'm Riley Smith reporting for the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network
and in the latest attempt to lower the price of
beef in groceries stores, President Trump says he plans to
increase the volume of beef the US imports from Argentina.
According to the National Cattleman's Beef Association, this effort would
risk harming the livelihoods of US cattle producers while having

(34:12):
little impact on the beef prices consumers are paying at
the meat counter. Allen Dale commodity broker Greg McBride said,
we will have to wait and see what the details
of this plan are, as we do not yet know
specifically how much more beef will be imported.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
We don't know any of the details. We've heard we've
heard Argentina talk about it that we've heard President Trump
talk about it, but we haven't heard exactly what the
details are as far as the type of beef that
we will be importing. Now, Argentina is one of the
top six producers of beef in the world. They do

(34:44):
export a good amount, but they also use quite a bit,
so there is some beef that is available to us.
They've only sent us about one hundred million pounds of
beef last year, so we'd have to see them increase
that quite a bit to make it to make a
big difference.

Speaker 15 (35:05):
The current Brazil tariffs have created a beef import gap
for the US, so McBride said, at least some of
the added beef from Argentina will just fill that gap.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
We do have tariffs going on with Brazil and we
are we are a buyer of Brazilian beef quite a bit.
That kind of goes in with the turming grind to
make to make some of the like ground beef and
stuff like that. So you have to think that some
of what we'd be buying from Argentina would fill that
gap and then how much on top of that would

(35:35):
be then be able to buy that would kind of
help to kind of refill the freezers and bring some
of these prices down.

Speaker 15 (35:44):
Since there is so much about this plan that is
still unknown, McBride said, farmers don't have to hit their
marketing panic buttons yet.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
We don't know what we don't know, so we just
kind of stay the status quo. It hit obviously hit
the markets pretty hard on Friday when the rumor came out,
and we've kind of stabilized ever since, but there isn't
anything that really has changed. We don't know when this
would start, We don't know how much of this of

(36:11):
beef would be brought in obviously about the competition for
for US beef, but it's also is one of those
things where we're pretty pretty well priced on on cattle
at this point anyway, so you should be exercising a
little bit of caution. But without knowing all the details,

(36:33):
it's hard to say that we have to we have
to do anything drastic and get fully hedged or anything
like that, because in the past we've seen talk of
different things, but they haven't really amounted to to bringing
the price of cattle down.

Speaker 15 (36:48):
For more marketing information, visit Allandale dash i NC dot com.
I'm Riley Smith reporting.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
With that friends aro ount of time today. Thanks for
joining us. Back tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad
Life