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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,
were coming into the time of the year, we see
a lot of pumpkins around. How about nutritional benefits? Rod
Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You may be familiar with the term superfood.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You know, food rich and nutrients such as antioxidants, Obega three,
fatty acids, etc. That can contribute to improved hell. Probably
what comes to mind is various fruits and vegetables, fish,
among other foods. But with this being fall, perhaps a
superfood you may not consider or even know about is pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're someone who really really enjoys cooking. You can buy
pumpkin when it's fresh in the fall and prepare it
easily to be frozen so that you could use it
throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And Carol Knell of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System ads
processed pumpkin is available year round in supermarkets and retailers.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
When it comes to nutrition.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's really quite nutrients dance, which just means that it
acts a lot of nutrients like vitamins and minerals for
every calorie that it contributes to the diet.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A bum pumpkins many key nutrients.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A puff of.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The canned pumpkin with no added salt provides only about
eighty three calories, but it's packed with things like dietary fiber.
It's a really good source of the mineral potassium, which
is an important mineral in blood pressure regulation in muscle contractions.
It's high embotomin a, which is good for vision as
well as immunity. And it also provides minerals like iron, zinc,
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and magnesium, which are really important in things like red
blood cell production in wound healing, and magnesium is important
in muscle relaxation.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
In addition, it's low.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
In fat naturally before we add lots of things to it,
So what you find in the produce stands. Fresh pumpkin
as well as canned pumpkin is a low fat product,
and it's also a good source of vitamin K, which
is an important vitamin for blood clotting and bone help.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now you may be thinking that's an awful lot of
pumpkin pie to eat. Oh, a pumpkin spiced. Anything that
doesn't have pumpkin doesn't count. Coddell reminds us pumpkin is
a versatile fruit with many ways to prepare it. Add yes,
I said fruit.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's actually a fruit because it grows from a flour
that has to be pollinated by pollinating insects like bees.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So back to the various methods of cooking, preparing, and
a joying pumpkin minas adding lots of fat and sugar.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Fresh pumpkin can be peeled and deceeded and cubed and
then roasted with other vegetables like bell peppers or mushrooms
or onions for a savory type of dish that's really
really quite good with things like pork chopps and baked
chicken and that sort of thing. If you don't have
time to cook fresh pumpkin, you can always buy the
can or the pured pumpkin and it has many uses too.
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You can make warm, cozy fall type cream suits with pumpkins.
You can make pumpkin bread or muffins, or bean and
pumpkin smooth for breakfast to get the nutritional benefits of
pumpkin that way as well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ride Bean reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in
Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Farm US Ahead ye you're listening to wag Life. Bob
Quinn back with some farmer us this morning, friends. E
fifteen is now legal to sell from coast to coast.
Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
California has officially become the last state to approve the
sale of E fifteen. Govinor Gavin Newsom signed the bill
last week. Growth Energy CEO Emily Score said this is
a big win for the state and for agriculture. The
weight is finally over.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
E fifteen is now approved for sale in California, and
the biggest winners will ultimately be the state's drivers and
their families. E fifteen is a more affordable fuel option
that the vast majority of drivers can take advantage of
without having to buy a new vehicle. Its approval in
California will generate more demand for American farmers, boosting our
country's agricultural economy, while allowing California residents to keep more
(03:47):
of their hard earned money.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
She said.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A lot of people get credit for getting the legislation
across the finish line.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Assembly members David Alvarez, Kotti, Petrie Norris, Heath, Flora, the
State's Problem Solvers Caucus, and Governor Newsom all deserve credit
for their leadership and for their hard work seeing this
bill through to its enactment. We commend them for their
commitment to Californians and look forward to connecting retailers to
ethanol producers to get this fuel out of driver's dreams
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and into their cars right away.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again, that's Emily's score of Growth Energy. Chad Smith reporting
well friends, good wheat and barley yields in Idaho were
offset by big weed challenges. Glenn Wagan reports.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
The University of Idaho reported wild oats were especially challenging
this year, reducing some we yield by more than twenty
four percent and barley by up to eighteen percent. Julie
and Marshall, UI Extension Cereals pathologists, says we challenges aside,
yields for both crops were outstanding, with some barley yields
exceeding two hundred and twenty bushels per acre. She said
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it was the weather that led to the magical season
in the Magic Valley.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
We had about two inches of rain in some areas
in May, followed by consistent irrigation and most critically, some
very consistent temperatures. The temperatures really never spiked exceedingly hot,
and it was consistent, and we had some consistent cool evenings,
and those grasses really like cooler evenings and cooler nights.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now, when it comes to those wild oats, Marshall says,
these weeds are not only yield robbers, but also nutrient
robbers and water robbers, and they reside in the soil
for years.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Wild oats have some dormancy that allows them to stay
in the soil for many years. So this isn't a
problem that's going to be correctable in one year. This
is something that we're going to be following for multiple
years to try once again to get the wild oats
under control.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
A University of Idaho we'd scientists recommended farmers that struggled
with wild oats this season rotate in a broad laved
crops such as potatoes or sugar beets next season and
expand their herbicide options. I'm Glenn Bogin reporting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The twenty twenty five growing season was a favorable one
for many come out of the across states like Idaho. However,
the high cost of doing business continues to result in
struggles for farmers and growers across that state. Brett Wilder
and ag Economists University of Idaho says, not only is
labor difficult to find, but it also gets more expensive
with each passing year.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Those folks that work within the H two A program.
The adverse wage rate, which is what they run that
off since twenty sixteen, is up fifty four percent nationwide,
so huge increases to what your salary's expenses are. Machinery
and repair costs took a huge bump up post COVID
and still been very stick key. Certainly not any cheaper
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to have access to those things.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wilder added that for many producers, especially those in the
crop sector, twenty twenty five has been a painful one
when it comes to the margins, and he doesn't see
that changing dramatically anytime soon.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Chemical fertilizer prices have been super volatile because of some
of the trade this guy, yes, but also the disruptions
we had over in the Middle East earlier this year,
and a huge part of the chemical and ferilizer trade
goes through that straight a home moves. Fuel's been a
stable point. But when you talk about how the crop
sector's doing, not only do you have these really poor
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output prices, but we did we had this situation where
inputs got high, have stayed high, and aren't really showing
any signs of going lower.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Brett Wilder, University of Idaho. This morning, farm US, you're
listening to ag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
It's another agnews update. Well, corn exports are leading the pace.
Produce growers facing pressure, tight cattle supplies and turkey stocks Titan.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before we began work, and it resulted on
a track on a natural gas popeline. Fortunately no one
was hard, but it could have been much worse.
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Speaker 9 (08:13):
USDA reporting corn exports fifty two million bushels last week,
well above last year's pace, while wheat shipments also gained
soybean slow the head of harvest produced growers face rising
pressure as imports expand to nearly fifty billion dollars and
labor costs continue climbing, leaving many US fruit and vegetable
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farms squeezed by competition and higher expenses. In the cattle sector,
national herd remains near seventy year lows, keeping beef prices firm.
Imports are filling gaps, while beef on dairy caafs grow
to represent a significant share of fed cattle supplies. In
the meantime, turkey production is lagging, and it's doing it
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with fewer pole placements and below average for and stocks.
Wholesale prices are already climbing, and HPAI, highly pathogenic avian
influenza has cut nearly two hundred thousand birds since August.
It's adding to holiday supply concerns. Overall, corn and wheat
shipments remain strong, produced growers face structural headwinds, cattle markets
(09:22):
stay tight, and consumers can expect higher turkey prices this Thanksgiving.
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Limitations apply can cattle news? Well, we're approaching another potential
government shut down. More after this. Here's farmer and businessman
James Wood.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
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 gays pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Never assume the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore you Dig dot
com before you start work. A message from the pipeline
operators for agg safety campaign.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
President Donald Trump scrapping a meeting with top congressional Democratic
leaders to discuss government funding could lead to a government
shut down. Tanner Beamers with the National Cattleman's Beef Association.
Speaker 14 (10:53):
Every year, Congress has to pass twelve appropriations bills to
keep the government fully funded. In recent years, all of
those twelve bills kind of get strung together into one
piece of what we call omnibus spending legislation. But typically
that has to happen every year by a September thirtieth deadline.
This year is no different, and Congress is once again
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headed towards that September thirtieth deadline, with only three out
of those twelve bills.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Passed by both the House and the Senate.
Speaker 14 (11:23):
And that's not altogether uncommon for us to be at
this stage in the game in these days. Anyway, a
government shut down at this juncture does not benefit anybody,
you know. Anytime we have a government shut down, it
tends to be a massive disruption, not just to the
cattle sector, but to American business and just across the country.
It's just not an ideal situation to find oneself in.
(11:45):
It's entirely unnecessary, and that's why we're supportive of the CR.
We have been also very supportive of previous continuing resolutions,
and I think what makes this one so important is
because you know, the entirety of the fiscal year twenty
twenty five was funded under a continuing resolution from the
previous year. We don't typically like to see crs extended
(12:07):
further than a couple month, months or weeks in Congress.
This one is extending it to November twenty first because
congressional leadership in both chambers are very highly interested in
passing full appropriations for the first time in over eighteen months.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 15 (12:27):
This is Darry Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 16 (12:32):
It's time for Ask the Vets with doctor Ryan Leiderman,
director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, as we
headed to seasonal changes at old Man Winter, that's the
question a good reminder, how do we care for our
calves during these winter months.
Speaker 17 (12:47):
Yeah, looking at cavs thinking of all cold weather from
a calorie balance is something that's always important to do
as the season's change and the weather gets colder, and
I always like to explain it. I think about calories
as a former currency. People pay bills with money, and
calves pay bills with calories, and the bills that calves
have to pay are the heat bill and that maintains
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their body temperature. Their core body temperature, and that takes calories,
and then they have to pay the immune system. Those
are the little warriors. They're out fighting off infection every day,
hundreds and thousands of millions of them, white blood cells
and things floating around bloodstream fighting off infection, and they
all have to be paid with calories. In fact, the
immune system is one of the largest calorie utilizers in
the body. People don't think about that, but it is.
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And then of course growth takes calories, and so doing
everything we can to help it keep that calorie balance
as a positive. So you can think about calves heat bill.
Just like our heat bill gets more expensive in the
winter because we have to burn more to stay warm,
calves have to burn more calories to stay warm. And
so if calves have a fixed amount of calories that
they're eating every day and have to send more of
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those calories to pay the heat bill to keep their
core temperature where it needs to be, then by definition,
they have less calories to do other things like pay
the immune system to keep themselves healthy, or divert calories
to growth. With calves that are not maintaining a good
calorie balance in the winter, growth rates decrease, and illness events,
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whether it's scolars or respiratory or whatever, will typically increase.
And that's because of this kind of like a negative
calorie balance thing where so many calories are going to
pay the heat bill to keep that body temperature up.
And so a couple of things we can do to
make that calorie balance better. Obviously, betting with long stem
straws is that takes a little thermal stress off the calf.
I kind of liken it to like crawling under the
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covers at night when you go to bed, and if
you can't do that, then that would be like you
going to bed, but you don't crawl under your sheets
and stay warm. You just lay on top of your sheets,
and that would be cold. And so betting, you know,
maybe three four times a week instead of two or
three times a week keeps that betting loftier, and a
good number to use would be twenty five pounds of
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dry lofty straw per thousand pounds of calf every day.
Now that doesn't mean that you have to be every day,
but you can use that to calculate if you've got
ten calves in each way one hundred pounds, that's a
thousand pounds, so you should be going through about twenty
five pounds of straw day, or fifty pounds if you
do it every other day. So some simple math can
help us keep on track on the betting. There another
thing you can do to help the calorie balance is
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you can put calf jackets on. A typical rule of
thumb is when the daytime high and the night time
low added together are less than ninety, then you should
put jackets on. So, for example, the daytime high is forty,
the nighttime low is thirty, that add together is seventy
seventies less than ninety. There should be calf jackets on.
So typically when the days are fifty and the nights
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are forty usually about when we start to put them on.
Another thing you can do is feed more calories, and
that's best done by feeding more volumes. So if you're
feeding whole milk, there's really not a whole lot of
choice you're going to have. You just increase the volume.
Some people add a balancer for a little extra nutrition.
Another option is if you're feeding milk or placer, some
people might be tempted to just add more powder. Right,
the calories are in the powder and feed the same volume.
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But you have to be very careful when you do that,
because if the total solids get too much or the
milk becomes too rich, it can cause tremendous amounts of
nutritional diarrhea for calves and they can actually get very
sick and die from That can also increase the risk
of things like claustraio bloat. So generally speaking, my advice is,
don't change the mix, just increase the volume fed. If
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you are going to change the mix, I would not
push your toll solids percentage more than thirteen. In fact,
there's a lot of companies out there that recommend thirteen
percent total solids. I just think it's too high. My
own personal limit is like twelve point five. I think
it's a safe realm. And then if you still want
more nutrition, you can just always feed that percentage mix
with more volume. So just a few things, betting the jacket,
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increase calories. All of these things are designed to kind
of stack the deck in that calves favor and put
more calorie balance towards being available for things like immune
system and growth, and you'll see a difference. You definitely
see a difference in those calves when they have adequate
calories in the cold weather. Just on the flip side,
in the summer. As weird as it sounds, they actually
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have to burn more calories to cool themselves. So it's
not just a winter only thing. But nonetheless we have
six months before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 16 (17:11):
That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services with Crisco Breek.
Speaker 18 (17:19):
Herbicide resistant weeds are still a problem in Trina at orchards.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the Vastag Information Network. George Angels is a weed management
and ecology advisor for Larry Kings and Fresno Counties.
Speaker 19 (17:38):
Some of the ones that you know continue to be
a problem, and mainly because they're irviside realist is the
Harry fleabane and the Maristal the horseweed. Those two are
probably still there. They're tough to get rid of, mainly
because once they Germany, it's tough to really find the
proper timing to try to get rid of some of
these weeds, at least with post emergent overside.
Speaker 18 (17:57):
That's the reason you got to get these pre emergent
herbicides out there, you.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
Know, you let them go to seed and the prolific
seed producers, So those two weeds, they continue to be
a problem in some areas. Another weed that's still also
an issue is some of the herbi syde resistant grasses,
like the jungle rize and some orchards. The springle top
as well. I mean, the springletop is one of those
grass suites that comes up and once the seeds, those
seeds are ebus germinate within that same years, so it's
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got a lot of different flushes. If you let it
go to seed, it just continues to germinate throughout the
whole year.
Speaker 18 (18:27):
Post harvest nutrition feeding next year's crops. Important research has
consistently shown that nitrogen, potassium, and certain micronutrients applied after
harvest may be translocated into perennial tissues and stored until
they are needed next spray.
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Speaker 3 (19:46):
Taking a drive this fall to a forest park or
scenic byway near or far to observe the beauty of
tree leaves transforbeing colors from green to all sorts of
shades of reds, yellow, at orange. Cythia Dobaghidi looks at
this phenomenon, not just from an artistic perspective.
Speaker 22 (20:04):
It's actually quite interesting to study why needs change color
in the fall.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Per approach based on her background as a Kansas State
University Extension horticulture expert. Also taking a scientific angle at
tree leaf transformation in the autumn, Amy Bailey of the
US Forest Service, who looks at how this briggan summer
months impact what we see in the fall, caused the leaves.
Speaker 23 (20:26):
To be not their full leaf size this year.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm Rod Bain coming up.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We look at the science of the fall colors in
this edition of Agriculture USA. The start of autumn and
the start of the fall color season for those who
love a road trip to their national forest or hometown
park to see the changing of leaf colors in the
autumn buds. And there perhaps is no more known representation
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of this phenomenon than in the forest of New England.
Speaker 23 (20:55):
You can see widespread swaths of these hardwood trees such
as sugar maate, full American peach, yellow birch, paper birch ash.
Speaker 21 (21:03):
They're all turning.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Color, revealing various shades of gold, red, and orange. According
to Amy Bailey, a US Forest Service technician in New Hampshire.
And while several of you the transformation of fall colors
with natural artistry of bind, Kansas State University Extension horticultural
expert Cythia Domaghie and others see it from a scientific perspective.
Speaker 22 (21:25):
What you actually are seeing is that the leaves aren't
necessarily changing color. They're revealing the colors.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So falla fan dancing, Get that out of your head
and think of fall color changes scientifically. The zinga fall
colors are always present within the leaves. Fall color pigments, however,
are overshadowed by nature's process in the suburb.
Speaker 22 (21:49):
The chlorophyll in the plant leaves that's capturing the energy
from the sun and making food for the plants. We're
seeing the green that's being produced from all of.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
That production is slowed down in the autumn months as
sunlight decreases and days grow shorter.
Speaker 22 (22:05):
So the leaves lose their green color and the other
pigments are now being revealed. They're visible now.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
For you plant pathologists out there my career are just interest.
You may know the fall color pigments. It leaves catad
several coponits.
Speaker 22 (22:19):
Some of those pigments that you're starting to see or
you may see, depending on what varieties of plants are around,
will show orange and yellow pigment. Those pigments are created
by xanthophylls and caroteens. Tannins in the plant are producing
the brown colors that you see. Anthocyanins will create reds
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and purple pigments. And the timing and intensity of the
fall color varies depending on tree type, but also the
environmental conditions.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That is why the fall color leaf display on any
given tree can vary from year to year. What else
determines the colors of the fall weather of the sprig
and sub Usually what.
Speaker 23 (23:00):
Makes really brilliant color is a summer that's been somewhat moist,
so the trees are healthy, and the nights are getting
longer and are getting colder, and then a sunny day
it's going to allow the leaf to still make some sugars,
and the sugars are going to help keep the leaf
on the tree and expressing these colors that are now
available yet.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Aby Bailey of the Forest Service says of weather earlier
this year in her home region of New England.
Speaker 23 (23:26):
We got approximately twenty four inches of rain in April,
May and June, which is twice what you usually.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Get, that wet period creating both fungal and insect attacks
of foliage, that was followed by a late summer extreme
heat period producing drought conditions.
Speaker 23 (23:41):
These trees are just kind of completely stressed and maxed
by this heat and drought.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The impacts to fall colors.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Subtrees in New England are undergoing a premature transition period. Others,
especially those either with fungal or pest damage or with
roots in shallow soils, reveal brown colored, perhaps shriveled leaves.
So now you know some science. How can you add
that to your appreciation of the fall leaf color transformation?
Cynthia Domanghiebee offers these ideas, whether viewing fall colors in
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a national forest or your own backyard tree, It's actually a.
Speaker 22 (24:15):
Really interesting thing to track if you're into journaling and
keeping records of what colors. Maybe even taking photos of
what your trees look like from one year to the
next and comparing those could be kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
This has been Agriculture USA amroad Bane reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 24 (24:37):
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Speaker 1 (27:03):
Bob quid Ever some farm news this morning. Friends.
Speaker 26 (27:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
With the government shut down, AGG markets are operating with
blinders on. Riley Smith has our story.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
With the government shut down in full effect, there won't
be any export sales reports until Congress can pass a
budget resolution. However, we can still look at the estimates
this week for a rough idea of what the sales
might look like. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride talked about
this week's estimates for both corn and soybeans.
Speaker 27 (27:30):
Yeah, on corn, the estimate came in at one point
two million to two million tons. You had the be
number come in somewhere between three hundred and one point
six million. The beans effectively are just kind of limping
along here, whereas the corn is just it's far and
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away the best thing we've got to talked about when
it comes to exports. The problem is now with the
ever been shut down, we don't really know. I mean,
we know they're good, but we're not getting any additional
information to help us know exactly how good they are.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
McBride also gave a guess of what the flash sales
might have been like for this report.
Speaker 27 (28:12):
We did know that for last week we had flash tails,
the flash tales that equated to over seven hundred thousand tons,
so that's why we would have we would have guessed
we were somewhere in the range of one point eight
million tons for the for the corn number. On the
bean side of things, we're not getting any flashdales out
of the bean, so best guests would have been probably
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somewhere around seven hundred to a million tons, but we
don't even know where that's.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
A Navigating the marketplace will be difficult for the time being.
But McBride said, there's one thing we know for sure.
The prices will be very volatile.
Speaker 27 (28:47):
Volatility is the right word for it, you know. The
the overall sentiment, just from what we had from Tuesdays
report on the corn side of things should have been
should have been barrassed.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
You know.
Speaker 27 (28:59):
Adding about two hundred million bushels to last year's final
number effectively adds two hundred million bushels to the new
crop number. Even though we will see maybe some yield
adjustments or maybe an export. The number of adjustments. The
problem is we don't have the USDA for right now,
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so we're kind of flying line on that.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
Much of that volatility will come from price action and
any social media posts that are made by the Trump
administration about global trade deals.
Speaker 27 (29:29):
All we're doing is kind of reacting moment to moment
on a price action which ahead of the report was negative,
and after the report is just kind of watch the spreads,
watch the price action. We started out negative yesterday and
then we got a tweet or a true social post
from President Trump that said he was going to be
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meeting with President G of China in four weeks and
the big topic or one of the big topics of
conversation was going to be soybe's. Well, yeah, it should be.
That's the number one, number one item that we sell
to the Chinese. Of all things, it's either airplanes or
it's it's soybeans, So that should be one of the
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main topics of conversation, and that got the market excited.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
However, these trade meetings were announced months ago, so there
shouldn't be as big of a reaction as we have
been seeing in the markets. McBride said he's concerned about
the longevity of this market enthusiasm.
Speaker 27 (30:29):
We've known about that meeting coming up four months. We
knew that at that APEC meeting in South Korea that
the two of these these two leaders were going to
get together and have a conversation. So it wasn't anything
new that we that we heard. It was just so
happened that at the right time, we got a tweet
and it took the market to higher, and it's continuing
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to take the market higher. Now that's not a bad thing.
The problem that I have with this is that it
makes it a little bit concerning on whether or not
we can hold that type of enthusiasm for the next
four weeks while we wait for that meaning to happen.
We all want higher prices, but are we going up
on anything that's real or is this just a kind
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of a debtcat bounce, flash in the pan type type
of movement that's going to effectively disappear in front of
our eyes by the end of the week or early
next week.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
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I'm Riley Smith, reporting.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Farmer used this morning, you're listening to wag Life.
Speaker 28 (31:33):
From the agg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson. This is
your agribusiness update. Applause from National Corn Growers Association President
Jed Bauer. After California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill
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at the pump, help farmers across the country, and lower
greenhouse gas emissions. He says. Now Congress needs to pass
the legislation that will extend access nationwide. The Virginia Tech
College of Agriculture and Life Science has recently released its
annual Global ag Productivity Report. Global productivity growth, which is
averaging point seven to six percent annually, is only about
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one third of its target rate of two percent per
year needed to sustainably and profitably meet the demands of
the world's food systems. While the US averaged negative point
zero five percent annual growth this past decade, China surged
ahead at one point nine percent, threatening the US edge
in global agriculture. The usagg industry continues to lose sales
from trade severances with China and other trading partners, prompting
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EG Secretary Brook Rawlins to say the farming economy is
not in a good place. During an appearance on the
Fox Business Channel. She said the administration is working around
the clock. Rawlins also said a golden age is around
the corner for farmers and they'd have an announcement on
farmer support likely this week.
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agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today friends.
The twenty twenty five Canadian harvest season is showing mixed
results and progressing at an erratic pace. Dennis Sky has
more from Canada. Severe drought has hit some regions, had
some areas well ahead of harvest schedules simply because the
crop has run out of moisture. Parts of Saskatchewan along
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with Central Canada. In the regions of southeastern Ontario and
southwestern Quebec where very dry this growing season, and in
Atlantic Canada, Prince Edward Island was severely affected by drought. Conversely,
there are areas that had exceptionally good brainfall along with
good weather conditions throughout the growing season. John Kowalchuk farms
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near Trochu in central Alberta and has recently completed his
canola and cereal grains harvest. Kowalchuk says the extremely warm
weather this fall is causing some concern for hotspots forming
in storage bins, but he is pleased with this year's crop.
Speaker 29 (35:00):
When we get lots of rain, I guess we can
grow a crop in centralbert This year, it's been really good.
It was a good run. We had really good weather
this year for harvest. It was made and warm, and
very happy with the result, especially the cereals. It made
for good harvest as far as getting the crop off,
but maybe not so good at getting it in really
good condition going into Ben's. We're not used to that
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kind of heat during harvest, so we've had warm grain
going into you really got a walk.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
Moving east into Saskatchewan, the harvest picture is quite different.
Darryl Francho farms wheat and canola near Glaslin in central Saskatchewan.
Franch who says some late season rains helped his canola
crop a bit, but overall this has not been a
great year.
Speaker 26 (35:42):
We were droughted out here. We were in like the
three into rain category. The wheat was really poor. We
did have some late rain that really helped corolla, silk
it was still mediocre, but for the amountain rain that
we got, they had definitely surprised us up so moisture
really held the canola going and I think that's where
a lot of the eel came from. So we're going
to try to catch as much snow as we can,
but besides that, you get ready for winter yet.
Speaker 15 (36:01):
Southern Ontario was a province of extremes this year. Much
of central Ontario and especially eastern Ontario was hard hit
with drought, but in southwestern Ontario between Lake Erie and
Lake Huron, Philip Shaw, who farms near Dresden, expects to
have an average to good crop this part of the province.
Speaker 30 (36:20):
In the deep southwest of Ontario, we've had normal precipitation
all year. With the harvest activities in Ontario has drought
induced it's come early, but down on this end of
the province it really hasn't started yet. The soybeans are
much better than my expectations. And corn, I'm sure it'll
average in this area over to hundred bushel's gran terren,
which is quite a bit different than the rest of
Ontario with they face a lot of growth.
Speaker 15 (36:42):
Prince Edward Island has experienced one of the hottest and
driest growing seasons on record. Ryan Bennett farms near the
village of Selkirk on the southwestern shore of Pei.
Speaker 31 (36:55):
This kin think oh, it's kind of rain sometime, and
then it just ever did. The majority of the island
has been really dry for the entire summer, and for
most stuff it's too late. We're gonna see significant yield
reductions on potatoes, most of our grain corn. I imagine
it'll be down twenty twenty five percent. Probably won't be
har using it for another two or three weeks anyway.
Soybean yields half a ton to the acre on soybean's
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when they usually would get a ton and a quarter,
you know, So there's gonna be some hurt around on
crops this year.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Gellis guy with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends rut of time today. Thanks for joining us. Back
tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad Life
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,
were coming into the time of the year, we see
a lot of pumpkins around. How about nutritional benefits? Rod
Bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You may be familiar with the term superfood.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You know, food rich and nutrients such as antioxidants, Obega three,
fatty acids, etc. That can contribute to improved hell. Probably
what comes to mind is various fruits and vegetables, fish,
among other foods. But with this being fall, perhaps a
superfood you may not consider or even know about is pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
You're someone who really really enjoys cooking. You can buy
pumpkin when it's fresh in the fall and prepare it
easily to be frozen so that you could use it
throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And Carol Knell of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System ads
processed pumpkin is available year round in supermarkets and retailers.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
When it comes to nutrition.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's really quite nutrients dance, which just means that it
acts a lot of nutrients like vitamins and minerals for
every calorie that it contributes to the diet.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A bum pumpkins many key nutrients.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A puff of.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The canned pumpkin with no added salt provides only about
eighty three calories, but it's packed with things like dietary fiber.
It's a really good source of the mineral potassium, which
is an important mineral in blood pressure regulation in muscle contractions.
It's high embotomin a, which is good for vision as
well as immunity. And it also provides minerals like iron, zinc,
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and magnesium, which are really important in things like red
blood cell production in wound healing, and magnesium is important
in muscle relaxation.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
In addition, it's low.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
In fat naturally before we add lots of things to it,
So what you find in the produce stands. Fresh pumpkin
as well as canned pumpkin is a low fat product,
and it's also a good source of vitamin K, which
is an important vitamin for blood clotting and bone help.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now you may be thinking that's an awful lot of
pumpkin pie to eat. Oh, a pumpkin spiced. Anything that
doesn't have pumpkin doesn't count. Coddell reminds us pumpkin is
a versatile fruit with many ways to prepare it. Add yes,
I said fruit.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's actually a fruit because it grows from a flour
that has to be pollinated by pollinating insects like bees.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So back to the various methods of cooking, preparing, and
a joying pumpkin minas adding lots of fat and sugar.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Fresh pumpkin can be peeled and deceeded and cubed and
then roasted with other vegetables like bell peppers or mushrooms
or onions for a savory type of dish that's really
really quite good with things like pork chopps and baked
chicken and that sort of thing. If you don't have
time to cook fresh pumpkin, you can always buy the
can or the pured pumpkin and it has many uses too.
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You can make warm, cozy fall type cream suits with pumpkins.
You can make pumpkin bread or muffins, or bean and
pumpkin smooth for breakfast to get the nutritional benefits of
pumpkin that way as well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ride Bean reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in
Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Farm US Ahead ye you're listening to wag Life. Bob
Quinn back with some farmer us this morning, friends. E
fifteen is now legal to sell from coast to coast.
Chad Smith has our story.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
California has officially become the last state to approve the
sale of E fifteen. Govinor Gavin Newsom signed the bill
last week. Growth Energy CEO Emily Score said this is
a big win for the state and for agriculture. The
weight is finally over.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
E fifteen is now approved for sale in California, and
the biggest winners will ultimately be the state's drivers and
their families. E fifteen is a more affordable fuel option
that the vast majority of drivers can take advantage of
without having to buy a new vehicle. Its approval in
California will generate more demand for American farmers, boosting our
country's agricultural economy, while allowing California residents to keep more
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of their hard earned money.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
She said.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A lot of people get credit for getting the legislation
across the finish line.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Assembly members David Alvarez, Kotti, Petrie Norris, Heath, Flora, the
State's Problem Solvers Caucus, and Governor Newsom all deserve credit
for their leadership and for their hard work seeing this
bill through to its enactment. We commend them for their
commitment to Californians and look forward to connecting retailers to
ethanol producers to get this fuel out of driver's dreams
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and into their cars right away.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again, that's Emily's score of Growth Energy. Chad Smith reporting
well friends, good wheat and barley yields in Idaho were
offset by big weed challenges. Glenn Wagan reports.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
The University of Idaho reported wild oats were especially challenging
this year, reducing some we yield by more than twenty
four percent and barley by up to eighteen percent. Julie
and Marshall, UI Extension Cereals pathologists, says we challenges aside,
yields for both crops were outstanding, with some barley yields
exceeding two hundred and twenty bushels per acre. She said
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it was the weather that led to the magical season
in the Magic Valley.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
We had about two inches of rain in some areas
in May, followed by consistent irrigation and most critically, some
very consistent temperatures. The temperatures really never spiked exceedingly hot,
and it was consistent, and we had some consistent cool evenings,
and those grasses really like cooler evenings and cooler nights.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now, when it comes to those wild oats, Marshall says,
these weeds are not only yield robbers, but also nutrient
robbers and water robbers, and they reside in the soil
for years.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Wild oats have some dormancy that allows them to stay
in the soil for many years. So this isn't a
problem that's going to be correctable in one year. This
is something that we're going to be following for multiple
years to try once again to get the wild oats
under control.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
A University of Idaho we'd scientists recommended farmers that struggled
with wild oats this season rotate in a broad laved
crops such as potatoes or sugar beets next season and
expand their herbicide options. I'm Glenn Bogin reporting.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The twenty twenty five growing season was a favorable one
for many come out of the across states like Idaho. However,
the high cost of doing business continues to result in
struggles for farmers and growers across that state. Brett Wilder
and ag Economists University of Idaho says, not only is
labor difficult to find, but it also gets more expensive
with each passing year.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Those folks that work within the H two A program.
The adverse wage rate, which is what they run that
off since twenty sixteen, is up fifty four percent nationwide,
so huge increases to what your salary's expenses are. Machinery
and repair costs took a huge bump up post COVID
and still been very stick key. Certainly not any cheaper
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to have access to those things.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wilder added that for many producers, especially those in the
crop sector, twenty twenty five has been a painful one
when it comes to the margins, and he doesn't see
that changing dramatically anytime soon.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Chemical fertilizer prices have been super volatile because of some
of the trade this guy, yes, but also the disruptions
we had over in the Middle East earlier this year,
and a huge part of the chemical and ferilizer trade
goes through that straight a home moves. Fuel's been a
stable point. But when you talk about how the crop
sector's doing, not only do you have these really poor
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output prices, but we did we had this situation where
inputs got high, have stayed high, and aren't really showing
any signs of going lower.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Brett Wilder, University of Idaho. This morning, farm US, you're
listening to ag Life.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
It's another agnews update. Well, corn exports are leading the pace.
Produce growers facing pressure, tight cattle supplies and turkey stocks Titan.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
We farm about thirty five hundred acres. There's pipelines everywhere.
The contractor working on my property did not have the
lines located before we began work, and it resulted on
a track on a natural gas popeline. Fortunately no one
was hard, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
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Speaker 9 (08:13):
USDA reporting corn exports fifty two million bushels last week,
well above last year's pace, while wheat shipments also gained
soybean slow the head of harvest produced growers face rising
pressure as imports expand to nearly fifty billion dollars and
labor costs continue climbing, leaving many US fruit and vegetable
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farms squeezed by competition and higher expenses. In the cattle sector,
national herd remains near seventy year lows, keeping beef prices firm.
Imports are filling gaps, while beef on dairy caafs grow
to represent a significant share of fed cattle supplies. In
the meantime, turkey production is lagging, and it's doing it
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with fewer pole placements and below average for and stocks.
Wholesale prices are already climbing, and HPAI, highly pathogenic avian
influenza has cut nearly two hundred thousand birds since August.
It's adding to holiday supply concerns. Overall, corn and wheat
shipments remain strong, produced growers face structural headwinds, cattle markets
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stay tight, and consumers can expect higher turkey prices this Thanksgiving.
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Limitations apply can cattle news? Well, we're approaching another potential
government shut down. More after this. Here's farmer and businessman
James Wood.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
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 gays pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Never assume the location or depth of underground lines. Always
call eight one one or visit clickbefore you Dig dot
com before you start work. A message from the pipeline
operators for agg safety campaign.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
President Donald Trump scrapping a meeting with top congressional Democratic
leaders to discuss government funding could lead to a government
shut down. Tanner Beamers with the National Cattleman's Beef Association.
Speaker 14 (10:53):
Every year, Congress has to pass twelve appropriations bills to
keep the government fully funded. In recent years, all of
those twelve bills kind of get strung together into one
piece of what we call omnibus spending legislation. But typically
that has to happen every year by a September thirtieth deadline.
This year is no different, and Congress is once again
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headed towards that September thirtieth deadline, with only three out
of those twelve bills.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Passed by both the House and the Senate.
Speaker 14 (11:23):
And that's not altogether uncommon for us to be at
this stage in the game in these days. Anyway, a
government shut down at this juncture does not benefit anybody,
you know. Anytime we have a government shut down, it
tends to be a massive disruption, not just to the
cattle sector, but to American business and just across the country.
It's just not an ideal situation to find oneself in.
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It's entirely unnecessary, and that's why we're supportive of the CR.
We have been also very supportive of previous continuing resolutions,
and I think what makes this one so important is
because you know, the entirety of the fiscal year twenty
twenty five was funded under a continuing resolution from the
previous year. We don't typically like to see crs extended
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further than a couple month, months or weeks in Congress.
This one is extending it to November twenty first because
congressional leadership in both chambers are very highly interested in
passing full appropriations for the first time in over eighteen months.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
American Cattle News.
Speaker 15 (12:27):
This is Darry Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 16 (12:32):
It's time for Ask the Vets with doctor Ryan Leiderman,
director of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, as we
headed to seasonal changes at old Man Winter, that's the
question a good reminder, how do we care for our
calves during these winter months.
Speaker 17 (12:47):
Yeah, looking at cavs thinking of all cold weather from
a calorie balance is something that's always important to do
as the season's change and the weather gets colder, and
I always like to explain it. I think about calories
as a former currency. People pay bills with money, and
calves pay bills with calories, and the bills that calves
have to pay are the heat bill and that maintains
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their body temperature. Their core body temperature, and that takes calories,
and then they have to pay the immune system. Those
are the little warriors. They're out fighting off infection every day,
hundreds and thousands of millions of them, white blood cells
and things floating around bloodstream fighting off infection, and they
all have to be paid with calories. In fact, the
immune system is one of the largest calorie utilizers in
the body. People don't think about that, but it is.
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And then of course growth takes calories, and so doing
everything we can to help it keep that calorie balance
as a positive. So you can think about calves heat bill.
Just like our heat bill gets more expensive in the
winter because we have to burn more to stay warm,
calves have to burn more calories to stay warm. And
so if calves have a fixed amount of calories that
they're eating every day and have to send more of
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those calories to pay the heat bill to keep their
core temperature where it needs to be, then by definition,
they have less calories to do other things like pay
the immune system to keep themselves healthy, or divert calories
to growth. With calves that are not maintaining a good
calorie balance in the winter, growth rates decrease, and illness events,
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whether it's scolars or respiratory or whatever, will typically increase.
And that's because of this kind of like a negative
calorie balance thing where so many calories are going to
pay the heat bill to keep that body temperature up.
And so a couple of things we can do to
make that calorie balance better. Obviously, betting with long stem
straws is that takes a little thermal stress off the calf.
I kind of liken it to like crawling under the
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covers at night when you go to bed, and if
you can't do that, then that would be like you
going to bed, but you don't crawl under your sheets
and stay warm. You just lay on top of your sheets,
and that would be cold. And so betting, you know,
maybe three four times a week instead of two or
three times a week keeps that betting loftier, and a
good number to use would be twenty five pounds of
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dry lofty straw per thousand pounds of calf every day.
Now that doesn't mean that you have to be every day,
but you can use that to calculate if you've got
ten calves in each way one hundred pounds, that's a
thousand pounds, so you should be going through about twenty
five pounds of straw day, or fifty pounds if you
do it every other day. So some simple math can
help us keep on track on the betting. There another
thing you can do to help the calorie balance is
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you can put calf jackets on. A typical rule of
thumb is when the daytime high and the night time
low added together are less than ninety, then you should
put jackets on. So, for example, the daytime high is forty,
the nighttime low is thirty, that add together is seventy
seventies less than ninety. There should be calf jackets on.
So typically when the days are fifty and the nights
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are forty usually about when we start to put them on.
Another thing you can do is feed more calories, and
that's best done by feeding more volumes. So if you're
feeding whole milk, there's really not a whole lot of
choice you're going to have. You just increase the volume.
Some people add a balancer for a little extra nutrition.
Another option is if you're feeding milk or placer, some
people might be tempted to just add more powder. Right,
the calories are in the powder and feed the same volume.
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But you have to be very careful when you do that,
because if the total solids get too much or the
milk becomes too rich, it can cause tremendous amounts of
nutritional diarrhea for calves and they can actually get very
sick and die from That can also increase the risk
of things like claustraio bloat. So generally speaking, my advice is,
don't change the mix, just increase the volume fed. If
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you are going to change the mix, I would not
push your toll solids percentage more than thirteen. In fact,
there's a lot of companies out there that recommend thirteen
percent total solids. I just think it's too high. My
own personal limit is like twelve point five. I think
it's a safe realm. And then if you still want
more nutrition, you can just always feed that percentage mix
with more volume. So just a few things, betting the jacket,
(16:41):
increase calories. All of these things are designed to kind
of stack the deck in that calves favor and put
more calorie balance towards being available for things like immune
system and growth, and you'll see a difference. You definitely
see a difference in those calves when they have adequate
calories in the cold weather. Just on the flip side,
in the summer. As weird as it sounds, they actually
(17:02):
have to burn more calories to cool themselves. So it's
not just a winter only thing. But nonetheless we have
six months before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 16 (17:11):
That's doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical Services with Crisco Breek.
Speaker 18 (17:19):
Herbicide resistant weeds are still a problem in Trina at orchards.
I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the Vastag Information Network. George Angels is a weed management
and ecology advisor for Larry Kings and Fresno Counties.
Speaker 19 (17:38):
Some of the ones that you know continue to be
a problem, and mainly because they're irviside realist is the
Harry fleabane and the Maristal the horseweed. Those two are
probably still there. They're tough to get rid of, mainly
because once they Germany, it's tough to really find the
proper timing to try to get rid of some of
these weeds, at least with post emergent overside.
Speaker 18 (17:57):
That's the reason you got to get these pre emergent
herbicides out there, you.
Speaker 19 (18:01):
Know, you let them go to seed and the prolific
seed producers, So those two weeds, they continue to be
a problem in some areas. Another weed that's still also
an issue is some of the herbi syde resistant grasses,
like the jungle rize and some orchards. The springle top
as well. I mean, the springletop is one of those
grass suites that comes up and once the seeds, those
seeds are ebus germinate within that same years, so it's
(18:22):
got a lot of different flushes. If you let it
go to seed, it just continues to germinate throughout the
whole year.
Speaker 18 (18:27):
Post harvest nutrition feeding next year's crops. Important research has
consistently shown that nitrogen, potassium, and certain micronutrients applied after
harvest may be translocated into perennial tissues and stored until
they are needed next spray.
Speaker 20 (18:44):
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Speaker 21 (19:13):
The best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they're well farming. It's easy to
find them during the day as most farmers are behind
the wheel of the pickup truck or farm equipment with
the radio on, listening to this station for the AG
Information Network of the West News. So reach real farmers
right here, right now as they listen to what's important
(19:34):
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Patrick Kavanaugh.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Taking a drive this fall to a forest park or
scenic byway near or far to observe the beauty of
tree leaves transforbeing colors from green to all sorts of
shades of reds, yellow, at orange. Cythia Dobaghidi looks at
this phenomenon, not just from an artistic perspective.
Speaker 22 (20:04):
It's actually quite interesting to study why needs change color
in the fall.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Per approach based on her background as a Kansas State
University Extension horticulture expert. Also taking a scientific angle at
tree leaf transformation in the autumn, Amy Bailey of the
US Forest Service, who looks at how this briggan summer
months impact what we see in the fall, caused the leaves.
Speaker 23 (20:26):
To be not their full leaf size this year.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm Rod Bain coming up.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We look at the science of the fall colors in
this edition of Agriculture USA. The start of autumn and
the start of the fall color season for those who
love a road trip to their national forest or hometown
park to see the changing of leaf colors in the
autumn buds. And there perhaps is no more known representation
(20:52):
of this phenomenon than in the forest of New England.
Speaker 23 (20:55):
You can see widespread swaths of these hardwood trees such
as sugar maate, full American peach, yellow birch, paper birch ash.
Speaker 21 (21:03):
They're all turning.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Color, revealing various shades of gold, red, and orange. According
to Amy Bailey, a US Forest Service technician in New Hampshire.
And while several of you the transformation of fall colors
with natural artistry of bind, Kansas State University Extension horticultural
expert Cythia Domaghie and others see it from a scientific perspective.
Speaker 22 (21:25):
What you actually are seeing is that the leaves aren't
necessarily changing color. They're revealing the colors.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So falla fan dancing, Get that out of your head
and think of fall color changes scientifically. The zinga fall
colors are always present within the leaves. Fall color pigments, however,
are overshadowed by nature's process in the suburb.
Speaker 22 (21:49):
The chlorophyll in the plant leaves that's capturing the energy
from the sun and making food for the plants. We're
seeing the green that's being produced from all of.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
That production is slowed down in the autumn months as
sunlight decreases and days grow shorter.
Speaker 22 (22:05):
So the leaves lose their green color and the other
pigments are now being revealed. They're visible now.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
For you plant pathologists out there my career are just interest.
You may know the fall color pigments. It leaves catad
several coponits.
Speaker 22 (22:19):
Some of those pigments that you're starting to see or
you may see, depending on what varieties of plants are around,
will show orange and yellow pigment. Those pigments are created
by xanthophylls and caroteens. Tannins in the plant are producing
the brown colors that you see. Anthocyanins will create reds
(22:41):
and purple pigments. And the timing and intensity of the
fall color varies depending on tree type, but also the
environmental conditions.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That is why the fall color leaf display on any
given tree can vary from year to year. What else
determines the colors of the fall weather of the sprig
and sub Usually what.
Speaker 23 (23:00):
Makes really brilliant color is a summer that's been somewhat moist,
so the trees are healthy, and the nights are getting
longer and are getting colder, and then a sunny day
it's going to allow the leaf to still make some sugars,
and the sugars are going to help keep the leaf
on the tree and expressing these colors that are now
available yet.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Aby Bailey of the Forest Service says of weather earlier
this year in her home region of New England.
Speaker 23 (23:26):
We got approximately twenty four inches of rain in April,
May and June, which is twice what you usually.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Get, that wet period creating both fungal and insect attacks
of foliage, that was followed by a late summer extreme
heat period producing drought conditions.
Speaker 23 (23:41):
These trees are just kind of completely stressed and maxed
by this heat and drought.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The impacts to fall colors.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Subtrees in New England are undergoing a premature transition period. Others,
especially those either with fungal or pest damage or with
roots in shallow soils, reveal brown colored, perhaps shriveled leaves.
So now you know some science. How can you add
that to your appreciation of the fall leaf color transformation?
Cynthia Domanghiebee offers these ideas, whether viewing fall colors in
(24:10):
a national forest or your own backyard tree, It's actually a.
Speaker 22 (24:15):
Really interesting thing to track if you're into journaling and
keeping records of what colors. Maybe even taking photos of
what your trees look like from one year to the
next and comparing those could be kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
This has been Agriculture USA amroad Bane reporting for the
US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 24 (24:37):
It's time for California agg today on the ag Information Network.
I AM Haley's ship. Imagine walking into a vineyard, plucking
a single leaf, scanning it, and within seconds knowing if
that plant is healthy but on nutrients or starting to
show stress. That is not a future dream, It is
(24:58):
happening right now. Team from the Department of Biological and
Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis has created what is called
the Leaf Monitor, a handheld tool that uses spectrometry and
artificial intelligence to give growers real time insight into plant
nutrition and health. According to UC Davis researchers, farmers can
(25:21):
get the data in about five seconds, right in the field,
with no waiting for lab results. Early testing with almonds
and grapes shows the tool can identify key nutrients like
nitrogen and potassium, helping growers make faster, more precise decisions
for fertilizer. The project is supported by the USDA's National
Institute of Food and Agriculture and the California Table Grape Commission,
(25:44):
which says this technology could be a real game changer,
improving yields, cutting costs, and keeping California agriculture thriving for
years to come.
Speaker 25 (25:55):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road. Every year, accidents happen when con tractors and
traffic share the same space. Whether you're behind the wheel
of a tractor or a car, here's what you need
to remember. Tractors move slower, be patient, don't pass on
hills or curves. Farmers, make sure your slow moving vehicles,
signs and lights are visible, and everyone's sailor, especially on
(26:16):
rule roads.
Speaker 19 (26:17):
One moment of.
Speaker 25 (26:18):
Caution can save a life. Let's work together to keep
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Speaker 20 (26:25):
A large selection of over two thousand used pieces of
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Speaker 24 (26:54):
This is California AGG today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley ship more AGG News. Check us out
online at eginfo dot Net.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Bob quid Ever some farm news this morning. Friends.
Speaker 26 (27:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
With the government shut down, AGG markets are operating with
blinders on. Riley Smith has our story.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
With the government shut down in full effect, there won't
be any export sales reports until Congress can pass a
budget resolution. However, we can still look at the estimates
this week for a rough idea of what the sales
might look like. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride talked about
this week's estimates for both corn and soybeans.
Speaker 27 (27:30):
Yeah, on corn, the estimate came in at one point
two million to two million tons. You had the be
number come in somewhere between three hundred and one point
six million. The beans effectively are just kind of limping
along here, whereas the corn is just it's far and
(27:53):
away the best thing we've got to talked about when
it comes to exports. The problem is now with the
ever been shut down, we don't really know. I mean,
we know they're good, but we're not getting any additional
information to help us know exactly how good they are.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
McBride also gave a guess of what the flash sales
might have been like for this report.
Speaker 27 (28:12):
We did know that for last week we had flash tails,
the flash tales that equated to over seven hundred thousand tons,
so that's why we would have we would have guessed
we were somewhere in the range of one point eight
million tons for the for the corn number. On the
bean side of things, we're not getting any flashdales out
of the bean, so best guests would have been probably
(28:33):
somewhere around seven hundred to a million tons, but we
don't even know where that's.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
A Navigating the marketplace will be difficult for the time being.
But McBride said, there's one thing we know for sure.
The prices will be very volatile.
Speaker 27 (28:47):
Volatility is the right word for it, you know. The
the overall sentiment, just from what we had from Tuesdays
report on the corn side of things should have been
should have been barrassed.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
You know.
Speaker 27 (28:59):
Adding about two hundred million bushels to last year's final
number effectively adds two hundred million bushels to the new
crop number. Even though we will see maybe some yield
adjustments or maybe an export. The number of adjustments. The
problem is we don't have the USDA for right now,
(29:19):
so we're kind of flying line on that.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
Much of that volatility will come from price action and
any social media posts that are made by the Trump
administration about global trade deals.
Speaker 27 (29:29):
All we're doing is kind of reacting moment to moment
on a price action which ahead of the report was negative,
and after the report is just kind of watch the spreads,
watch the price action. We started out negative yesterday and
then we got a tweet or a true social post
from President Trump that said he was going to be
(29:52):
meeting with President G of China in four weeks and
the big topic or one of the big topics of
conversation was going to be soybe's. Well, yeah, it should be.
That's the number one, number one item that we sell
to the Chinese. Of all things, it's either airplanes or
it's it's soybeans, So that should be one of the
(30:14):
main topics of conversation, and that got the market excited.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
However, these trade meetings were announced months ago, so there
shouldn't be as big of a reaction as we have
been seeing in the markets. McBride said he's concerned about
the longevity of this market enthusiasm.
Speaker 27 (30:29):
We've known about that meeting coming up four months. We
knew that at that APEC meeting in South Korea that
the two of these these two leaders were going to
get together and have a conversation. So it wasn't anything
new that we that we heard. It was just so
happened that at the right time, we got a tweet
and it took the market to higher, and it's continuing
(30:52):
to take the market higher. Now that's not a bad thing.
The problem that I have with this is that it
makes it a little bit concerning on whether or not
we can hold that type of enthusiasm for the next
four weeks while we wait for that meaning to happen.
We all want higher prices, but are we going up
on anything that's real or is this just a kind
(31:12):
of a debtcat bounce, flash in the pan type type
of movement that's going to effectively disappear in front of
our eyes by the end of the week or early
next week.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
For more marketing information, visit Allendale Dash Inc. Dot com.
I'm Riley Smith, reporting.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Farmer used this morning, you're listening to wag Life.
Speaker 28 (31:33):
From the agg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson. This is
your agribusiness update. Applause from National Corn Growers Association President
Jed Bauer. After California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill
legalizing E fifteen in the state, Bauer says, we are
deeply appreciative of Governor Newsom for making consumer access to
E fifteen a reality. This development will save consumers money
(31:53):
at the pump, help farmers across the country, and lower
greenhouse gas emissions. He says. Now Congress needs to pass
the legislation that will extend access nationwide. The Virginia Tech
College of Agriculture and Life Science has recently released its
annual Global ag Productivity Report. Global productivity growth, which is
averaging point seven to six percent annually, is only about
(32:14):
one third of its target rate of two percent per
year needed to sustainably and profitably meet the demands of
the world's food systems. While the US averaged negative point
zero five percent annual growth this past decade, China surged
ahead at one point nine percent, threatening the US edge
in global agriculture. The usagg industry continues to lose sales
from trade severances with China and other trading partners, prompting
(32:37):
EG Secretary Brook Rawlins to say the farming economy is
not in a good place. During an appearance on the
Fox Business Channel. She said the administration is working around
the clock. Rawlins also said a golden age is around
the corner for farmers and they'd have an announcement on
farmer support likely this week.
Speaker 20 (32:54):
A large selection of over two thousand used pieces of
construction equipment and other top brand assets will be up
forbidding and the Richie brother Sacramento Sale event October eighth
and ninth. Registration for this absolute unreserved auction is open
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(33:14):
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Speaker 21 (33:23):
For the last forty years, the Egg Information Network has
been the source of news for farmers and ranchers. Yet
we have never seen such an assault on farming and
our food supply as we do today. From fuel to
fertilizer farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why
agriculture news that farmers receive comes from the AGG Information Network,
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for generations.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
From the Egg Information Network. I'm Bob Larson with today's
agribusiness update.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today friends.
The twenty twenty five Canadian harvest season is showing mixed
results and progressing at an erratic pace. Dennis Sky has
more from Canada. Severe drought has hit some regions, had
some areas well ahead of harvest schedules simply because the
crop has run out of moisture. Parts of Saskatchewan along
(34:18):
with Central Canada. In the regions of southeastern Ontario and
southwestern Quebec where very dry this growing season, and in
Atlantic Canada, Prince Edward Island was severely affected by drought. Conversely,
there are areas that had exceptionally good brainfall along with
good weather conditions throughout the growing season. John Kowalchuk farms
(34:41):
near Trochu in central Alberta and has recently completed his
canola and cereal grains harvest. Kowalchuk says the extremely warm
weather this fall is causing some concern for hotspots forming
in storage bins, but he is pleased with this year's crop.
Speaker 29 (35:00):
When we get lots of rain, I guess we can
grow a crop in centralbert This year, it's been really good.
It was a good run. We had really good weather
this year for harvest. It was made and warm, and
very happy with the result, especially the cereals. It made
for good harvest as far as getting the crop off,
but maybe not so good at getting it in really
good condition going into Ben's. We're not used to that
(35:20):
kind of heat during harvest, so we've had warm grain
going into you really got a walk.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
Moving east into Saskatchewan, the harvest picture is quite different.
Darryl Francho farms wheat and canola near Glaslin in central Saskatchewan.
Franch who says some late season rains helped his canola
crop a bit, but overall this has not been a
great year.
Speaker 26 (35:42):
We were droughted out here. We were in like the
three into rain category. The wheat was really poor. We
did have some late rain that really helped corolla, silk
it was still mediocre, but for the amountain rain that
we got, they had definitely surprised us up so moisture
really held the canola going and I think that's where
a lot of the eel came from. So we're going
to try to catch as much snow as we can,
but besides that, you get ready for winter yet.
Speaker 15 (36:01):
Southern Ontario was a province of extremes this year. Much
of central Ontario and especially eastern Ontario was hard hit
with drought, but in southwestern Ontario between Lake Erie and
Lake Huron, Philip Shaw, who farms near Dresden, expects to
have an average to good crop this part of the province.
Speaker 30 (36:20):
In the deep southwest of Ontario, we've had normal precipitation
all year. With the harvest activities in Ontario has drought
induced it's come early, but down on this end of
the province it really hasn't started yet. The soybeans are
much better than my expectations. And corn, I'm sure it'll
average in this area over to hundred bushel's gran terren,
which is quite a bit different than the rest of
Ontario with they face a lot of growth.
Speaker 15 (36:42):
Prince Edward Island has experienced one of the hottest and
driest growing seasons on record. Ryan Bennett farms near the
village of Selkirk on the southwestern shore of Pei.
Speaker 31 (36:55):
This kin think oh, it's kind of rain sometime, and
then it just ever did. The majority of the island
has been really dry for the entire summer, and for
most stuff it's too late. We're gonna see significant yield
reductions on potatoes, most of our grain corn. I imagine
it'll be down twenty twenty five percent. Probably won't be
har using it for another two or three weeks anyway.
Soybean yields half a ton to the acre on soybean's
(37:16):
when they usually would get a ton and a quarter,
you know, So there's gonna be some hurt around on
crops this year.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Reporting from Canada, I'm Gellis guy with that.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Friends rut of time today. Thanks for joining us. Back
tomorrow morning with another edition of Bad Life
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