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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,
planning a tailgate party, we'll keep in mind food safety.
Rod bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's time for football, whether prep, college or pros. Die
hard football fans get their fix for the next few months.
That also beds of many cases tailgating, whether at the stadium, field,
even the cofort of a backyard. Yet, as USDA Food
safety expert Meredith Corr Others reminds us.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tailgates for sports events are a lot bigger in the fall,
but there are still concerts and things happening. But people
tailgate for there would be little charcoal grills right at
the bed of a truck cooking burgers and hot dogs
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So, regardless of that your event, anytime a tailgate is
covered in your plaids, food safety needs to be included.
For starters.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
As you're preparing to go to a tailgate and preparing
your food and what menu you're going to have and
what you're going to set up, taking into account how
far it is that you're driving and transporting food safely,
So considering putting your raw burgers.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Your hot dogs, cheese, lettuce.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And other fixins and other perishables into a cooler with
ice or cold sources.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
To keep perishable food from beig exposed to room temperature
for more than two hours, no more than one hour
on extremely hot days and increasing food board bacteria with
that items.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Because especially if you're using a charcoal grill or something
like that, those take a bit to actually warm up,
so you have to factor in the drive time, the
setup time, and that could sometimes be a few hours
before you actually are throwing your burgers onto your charcoal grill.
So cooler with ice is very important, or cooler with
cold sources to keep your foods cold is very important.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Combining the separate and chill aspects of food safety.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You have a separate beverage cooler, so that way you're
avoiding any risk of cross contamination of meat and pultry products.
But then also because it's likely that the beverage cooler
will be opened more.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Frequently, perishable food items, whether grilled or made it a
slow cooker or cut fruit of veggies, need to be
at proper temperatures to prevent food board bacteria.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
If you want to go past that one hour or
two hour rule, you could nestle cold items in a
bowl of ice that'll help keep them cold and out
of safe temperature while they're out for that length of time,
or if things need to be put into something like
a slow cooker or a warming tray or a shaping
dish that are going to help keep that food hot
at above one hundred and forty degrees fahrenheit for however
long you want to serve them for.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And what to do with any chili queso dip or
leftover slow cooker.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Fair pack up for the tailgate, turning that slow cooker
off and putting all of that leftover stuff and the
slow cooker into containers to put in a cooler to
keep it cool throughout the duration of your events that
you've been tailgating before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
If you want to save the leftovers.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
For more tips to score a food safety call USDA's
Meat and Poultry Hotline one eight eight eight MP Hotline
or email MP Hotline at USDA dot gov. Broadbad Reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well Friends. The USDA is rolling out a program to
help end the veterinarian shortage in the countryside that's coming
up on Aglife. Bob Quinn, Mackerson Farm News its warning friends.
A district court has overturned a burdensome aspect of a
twenty twenty three labor rule, which is good news for
farmers and ranchers. As we hear in this report from
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Mike Davis.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
A federal court has recently decided that elements of the
twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage rate rule should be eliminated.
John Walt Boatwright, director of Government Affairs at the American
Farm Bureau Federation, says the decision is a step in
the right direction toward comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Well, A district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H two A disaggregation rule, which
segregated wage rates based on job functions within the H
two A Seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are
awaiting guidance from Department of Labor.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Vote Right says the DOL rule would have been very
costly to farmers and ranchers who utilize the H two
A program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
It was estimated that the cost of this rule on
family farms was going to increase substantially, and our economists
estimated that the small family farm was going to see
two to three times the increases that a larger farm
would feel. So this is a big win for agriculture
and definitely for the small family farm.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
He adds there are still significant holds to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Well.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Like I said, this is a positive step forward, but
it is not all that needs to be done. We
still are seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect wage rate,
which will still be in effect. We're still advocating for
access for our year round sectors who do not currently
have access to the seasonal program, and we're still looking
for existing workforce reforms.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Information go to FB dot org, Forward Slash News, Mike Davis,
Washington Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Rural America has been short on an adequate supply of
veterinarians for some time. Because of that, ag Secretary Brook
Rollins announced new action to help increase the number of
rural food animal veterinarians across the US.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
Food animal veterinarians currently make up about five percent Only
five percent of the total veterinarian population, a stark decline
from just forty years ago. So today USDA, right here
at the Mississippi State Veterinarian Headquarters, is issuing the Rural
Veterinary Shortage Action Plan. We are enhancing in streamlining USDA's
veterinary grant programs. We are making an additional fifteen million
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dollars available for the Veterinarian Medicine Loan Repayment Program and
streamlining the application process.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Rollins talks about other steps in the Rural Veterinary Shortage
Action Plan.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
We are commissioning new economic research to analyze and project
veterinary shortages in rural areas, especially for food animal veterinarians.
USDA is pursuing strategies to make federal service more attractive
for our vets, to create a direct pipeline into public service.
And lastly, we will work with veterinarian schools, including the
great one right here in Starkville, across the country to
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increase recruitment from rural America.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The announcement was made during an appearance at Mississippi State University.
Senator Cindy Hyde Smith said she's seen the challenge of veterinary.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Shortages I'm no firsthand the hardships at farmer space when
it comes to veterineering care.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
The announcement made today it's going to have significant impact.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Rollins was joined by Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, Mississippi State
University President doctor Mark Keenum, and Mississippi Farm Bureau President
Mike McCormick. Well, friends, let's focus in on row crop
agriculture for a moment here. From disease to drought, the
crop season has thrown a curveball. It's also pushing the
crop maturity quicker and with USDA currently projecting a record
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yield and crop many analysts say the US crop is
going backwards in terms of yield, but that doesn't necessarily
mean USDA will cut yield projections next month. USDA's August
crop production report showed a record high US corn production
of one hundred and eighty eight point eight bushels per
acre and a record high soybean yield at fifty three
point six bushels per acre, But Southern rust could take
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a big bite out of the US corn crop this year.
The disease is causing turmoil for farmers who have a
large crop in the making. In some cases, a last
minute fungicide application at R four up to early dent
might have made since this season, so say agronomous. But
in severe cases the disease can wipe out a lot
of the yield in a corn field farm news this morning,
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you're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
It's another agnews update. There's a new law expanding base
acres for more farms. More after this.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by them on Sando Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(08:13):
I encourage all farmers to general for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit,
visit Growcommunities dot com.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Whilemakers recently passing HR one, also known as the One
Big Beautiful Bill, it includes a major change for producers
with land not fully covered by existing farm program based acres.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
According to the Agricultural Food Policy Center at Texas A
and M. The new provision allows up to thirty million
additional base acres nationwide, effective for the twenty twenty six
crop year. Farms are eligible if they're twenty nineteen through
twenty twenty three average planted or prevented plan in a
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acreage of covered commodities exceeds the current base acres, or
if they planted eligible non covered commodities within the fifteen
percent limit of total farm acreage. New base acres assigned
proportionately based on historical plantings, and if eligible acres nationwide
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exceed thirty million, USDA will apply and across the board reduction.
Landowners will be notified automatically through USDA's Farm Service Agency,
though they may opt out. It's another agnews update.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
We f 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 if resulted on
a track on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
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 American Cattle News today. How
far will the consumer go with higher prices? More after this?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Hi.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance, a
food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
Americans Farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
(10:39):
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit Grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Oklahoma State livestock Economist, Doctor Daryl Peel.
Speaker 14 (10:48):
It's pretty typical that really kind of slows down a
little bit in midsummer. I would expect to see this
market stabilize and probably you know, tick back up just
slightly as we have a last sum surge of buying
for the Labor Day weekend for the summer billing season.
Speaker 15 (11:05):
So we'll see.
Speaker 14 (11:06):
I'm looking for this market to stabilize a little bit
going forward. I don't see any indication yet that we've
got any fundamental unraveling of beef demand at this point.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
But isn't it all about at the end of the
day the consumer.
Speaker 14 (11:19):
High prices will consumers push back. And we always think about, well,
when you know, when beef prices get high, ground beef
is kind of the go to market. It's a favorite anyway,
and it's usually, you know, our value product to go to.
But when you look at how cosslaughter has decreased the
last two years, and so that the the tightness of
supply for beef trimmings has pushed that ground beef market
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market up. And I recently took a look at how
do wholesale trimmings markets compared to say, steak markets, and
so if you look at you know, ninety percent lean
trimmings compared to RIBBI wholesale values. Over well, since twenty
twenty three, the mrimmings price has gone up about forty percent,
while the RIBBUI price at the wholesale level has gone
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up about thirteen percent. So ground beef is is you know,
it's still going to be a cheaper product in absolute terms,
but relatively speaking, ground beef is not as much of
a value as it often is. Those trimmings prices are
running about thirty eight percent of the wholesale value of
Ribby's right now, and that's exactly what you would expect
given how much those ground beef market components have decreased
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in the last couple of years.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Agriculture Today, this is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 16 (12:36):
This month's Ask the That segment sponsored by Crystal Creek,
and we're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical
Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, we're looking at the forage
program and you're here today to tell us all about
forage inoculants and what are the best practices. Let's start
with the importance of fermentation profiles.
Speaker 17 (12:54):
Well, when we look at forage preservation, you know, it's
arguably one of the most important things that a pharmacy
to do every year because of that short window of
time they harvest and put up forage. It's going to
last them for the next twelve months or or maybe
even longer. And one of the most important parts of
putting that silage up whether it's Haley's or horn silence,
or grass silage or something else is getting a good fermentation.
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And there's a lot of things that go into making
a good fermentation when and there's certain things that we
can control and certain things we can't. Everybody understands the
importance of fermentation, but I don't know if every farmer
is looking at fermentation profiles. It's a test that can
be run on silages to evaluate how well the fermentation
was completed, and then we can glean things from there
and say, you know, if there was some stumbling locks
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of what we need to do better next year. And
one of the things we know that can really help
a fermentation profile is the use of an inoculant, and
there's a lot of different brands out there. Crystal Creek
has a brand called inocu Lock and it's a forage
and oculant for forage preservation. Really, there's two workhorses in
our inoculants. One is strains of bacteria that will help
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lower the pH to preserve silage than the other one
of the enzymes. And not all innoculants out there have
both bacteria and enzymes, and they both have different functions.
We can kind of dive into why the bacteria will
use material in the feed to grow and then they
produce byproducts. Oftentimes those byproducts are lactic acids or other acids,
sometimes the seetic acid, and then those lower the pH
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of the silage and that preserves it well. The enzymes
actually help feed the bacteria so that they can work faster.
The whole key to silage fermentation is speed. We want
to get that pH as low as possible, as fast
as possible. That's can help us do things like retain
dry matter, retain higher levels of protein, higher levels of sugar,
and just makes the feed more valuable to the farmer
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the faster it ferments. And so the enzymes can actually
help pre digest and open up some of the starches
and some straights so that they are going to feed
the bacteria so that they can actually grow faster, create
more acids more quickly, and drop that pH of the
silage faster and preserve it better. So that's the importance
of the enzyme. I think the only way to have
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a complete anoculant on the market at this point is
to have both a mix of bacteria and enzymes, and
the mix of bacteria is important as well. In ours.
We'll have bacteria that thrive at different pH ranges. So
we'll have bacteria that we call like our early starters,
and they work in a much higher PA range, maybe
six or seven, and then we have our finisher bacteria
which work at a much lower pH range, let's say
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between you know, four and a half and four, maybe
even a little below. And it's important to have a
complete profile of bacteria that work in both the high
pH ranges and the low pH ranges, because that way
we consider it like a relay race. We have our
first bacteria that runs the first leg and they'll take
the pH maybe from seven and a half down to
six and a half, and then then they'll get out
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of their range of activity at pH and they might die.
But as that six and a half pH comes into play,
another bacteria becomes activated and then they get essentially the
baton handed off to them, and they might drive the
pH from say six and a half to five and
a half, and then they're outside of their range of
activity and they die off. But yet another bacteria is
stimulated to become active at say five and a half,
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and they might drive it down to four and a
half and then they might die and then the last
bacteria will come in and maybe get activated around four
and a half and take it down below four. And
so that's kind of how we structure our inoculus and
what we think is a good program for inoculates and
not only have enzymes, but a profile bacteria that start
and are active at a higher page and completely cover
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that pH range all the way through to a lower pH.
Speaker 16 (16:30):
Now through the years you see people working hard planting
and harvesting, and it's that middle part that is really
crucial as well.
Speaker 17 (16:36):
Yes, so much effort goes into that last step, and
if that fermentation goes well, we're off to the races.
And if it doesn't go well, we're stuck with that
for twelve months and then it's just the inoculant. To me,
it's just such a small piece of almost like insurance
to help drive that fermentation in a positive direction.
Speaker 16 (16:52):
Thanks for the visit today, Ryan, Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. If you have a
question for Ryan, simply email him Ask the vet at
Crystalcreeknatural dot com.
Speaker 18 (17:04):
This has been asked the Vet with doctor Ryan Lighterman
Sponsored by Crystal Creek. If you have a question relating
to calf health and housing, email doctor Ltaman at ask
the Vet at Crystal Creek Natural dot com.
Speaker 19 (17:19):
Is the continent of Africa a big market for almonds
and other commodities. Well, we're looking at it maybe so.
I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vast AGG Information Network. Brad Rose is with Rose
Research based in Florida.
Speaker 20 (17:36):
Well, the continent as a whole is definitely poised for
significant growth. So we're seeing that as an Africa in totality, Well,
there will be a lot of growth. Northern Africa is
certainly part of that. But the projections for the continent
are extraordinarily opportunistic for US.
Speaker 19 (17:56):
And we're talking about allmends from California another common from
the whole US.
Speaker 20 (18:01):
Area us AGG in general, but certainly almonds specifically California almonds.
Speaker 19 (18:06):
It may take upwards or twenty years to make it happen,
but it could come sooner, said Rose.
Speaker 20 (18:11):
I would be very surprised if there was not a
robust trading between California almond industry and the continent as
a whole. It would be surprising for that not to happen.
Speaker 19 (18:21):
That's Brad Rose with Rose Research. In more news, the
wonderful Company Big in almonds and pistachios has taken the
coveted number one spot on the twenty twenty five People
Companies That Care list, rising from number three last year.
The six billion dollar enterprise has ten thousand employees worldwide.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
the road.
Speaker 21 (18:45):
Every year, accidents happen when 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 you're slow moving vehicles. Signs and lights are
and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One moment a
caution can save the life. Let's work together to keep
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our roads and our firm stage. This message was brought
to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 22 (19:12):
The best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they're well farming. It's easy to
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the wheel of the pickup truck or farm equipment. With
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Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 23 (19:43):
With little cotton prices, high production expenses, and economic stressors,
cotton farmers face extra uncertainty this year. Mike Davis has more.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Cotton prices are often cyclical in nature, but delta upon
Technical agronomist Zach Webb says, this year is not business
as usual.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
In my career, I've never seen us being in a
situation like this and talking with our growers, they realize
it as well that this is a This is a
very different situation. It's not like it is when we
have these two and three year cycles. I don't think, well,
we're at a cross roads right now with cotton production.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
One of the elements making this year tougher on cotton
growers is the high cost of inputs.
Speaker 15 (20:24):
Price is not rebounding that we hope to see. Input
costs that you said are an all time high and
we're selling the cotton. The profit of cotton now is
what it was in the seventies, you know, and but
inut prices have definitely risen tremendously since the seventies, and
so it's a tough time for our cotton farmers.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Another factor is the loss of Dikemba as an over
the top herbicide. The biden EPA vacated the registration for
di camba herbicide products in twenty twenty four, and the
Web says cotton growers who relied on diek have been
gradually shifting technologies.
Speaker 15 (21:03):
The guys who are planning, whether it's still to pine
or whatever, that canna based cotton, that they have pretty
much what they had. They went out and went back
to some old school things with making sure they're putting
down a good residual program up front, which helps. And
then they've come back to these product like Roundup and Liberty.
Livery's got a lot of play this year to help
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control you know, pigweeds, a big one for us over here,
and being timely with Liberty, they've done a pretty good
job controlling pigweed this year.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
That's Delta Pine. Technical agronomist Zach Webb I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 23 (21:38):
Beef cattle numbers are down across the US to record
low levels, and some producers around the country are considering
beef on dairy cattle. Lawrence Williams of Prina Dairry talks
about the company's initiatives and the beef on dairy sector
and how Prina is leading the charge and nutrition for
the group of cattle.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
We started on this journey five, six, seven years ago
when we saw that there were going to be a
lot of these beef on dairy caves in this space,
and we knew that they're different genetically with the beef
influenced sire and the dairy dam and we said, you know,
these cattle different genetically, so they're going to need a
different nutrition platform to work from. So we went about
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researching on these caves and done a lot of trials
in this group, and sure enough, they needed a formula
that is different and that's exactly what we created. And
then we said, well, how do we really hold value
in these cattle and how do we make this population
as good as they should be? And so we started
looking across the supply chain and trying to connect people
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all the way from the dairy clear to the packer
and onto the consumer. Great group of cattle, somebody just
seems to help tell their story.
Speaker 23 (22:46):
He talks about why beef on dairy cattle have become
so important to the sector.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
They're a quality group of cattle, and right now, with
the native herd being as soft as they are, not
a lot of people retaining heifer's cattle are filling an
important need for the consumer. They're about fifteen percent of
head cattle right now, which is significant, and they bring
a lot of quality to the equation. The short on
red meat yield compared to native beef, but they certainly
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have some quality attributes and they're year round supply, so
they're a good group for the packer to look at.
Speaker 23 (23:21):
Purina launched its second Beef on Dairy Industry Report, and
Williams talks about the topics and experts included in the report.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
From Patrick Linnell at Cattle Facts talking about the economics
of this group of cattle, to doctor Ruth Wowodie at
University Nebraska Lincoln speaking to welfare issues and how we
raise these calves with intention, and then our own internal experts,
Tom Earlywine talking about calf nutrition and that difference we
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can make and really the difference we can make feeding
them all the way to slaughter. And then our good
friends that Certifat Angus Beef contributed to this as well.
They've been involved in this Beef on the Journey with
us a little bit, working with us at some of
our industry meetings that we put on in this cattle
right if they're black and they take all the boxes
for CAAB, they're an important part of the quality supply
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in general, so they've been engaged with us. Just excited
really again it speaks to the work we're doing across
the industry to connect these dots again.
Speaker 23 (24:20):
That is Lawrence Williams of Parina Dairy. To view the
second Beef on Dairy Report, log on to pirinamills dot
com forward slash dairy Dash beef.
Speaker 24 (24:32):
It's time bart California agg today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. A federal court has recently decided
that elements of the twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage
rate rule should be eliminated. John welt Boat, Write, director
of Government Affairs at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says
the decision is a step in the right direction towards
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comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Well, A district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H two A disaggregation rule, which
segregated wage rates based on job functions within the H
two A seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are
awaiting guidance from Department of Labor boat.
Speaker 24 (25:16):
Rates as the DL rule would have been very costly
to farmers and ranchers who utilize the H to A
program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
It was estimated the cost of this rule was going
to increase substantially. Our economist estimated that the small family
farm was going to see two to three times the
increases that a larger farm would feel. So this is
a big win for agriculture and definitely for the small
family farm.
Speaker 24 (25:44):
He adds, there are still significant holls to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor. Think they are still
seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect wage role, which
will still be in effect.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road.
Speaker 21 (25:58):
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffics 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 rule roads. One moment
a caution can save alife. Let's work together to keep
(26:20):
our roads and our farm safe. This message was brought
to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 22 (26:25):
For the last forty years, the AGG 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,
reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
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of reporting, the AGG Information Network trusted and transparent journalism
for generations.
Speaker 24 (26:53):
On the AAG Information Network, I am Hatley's Ship.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Bob Gwen Mackrason Farm News. This warning friends. A district
court has overturned a burdensome aspect of a twenty twenty
three labor rule which is good news for farmers and ranchers.
As we hear in this report from Mike Davis.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
A federal court has recently decided that elements of the
twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage rate rule should be eliminated.
John Walt Boatwright, director of government Affairs at the American
Farm Bureau Federation, says the decision is a step in
the right direction toward comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Well, a district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H TWOA disaggregation rule, which segregated
wage rates based on job functions within the H two
A seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are awaiting
guidance from Department of Labor.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Boat Right says the DOL rule would have been very
costly to farmers and ranchers who utilized the H two
A program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
It was estimated that the cost of this rule on
family farms was going to increase substantially, and our economist
estimated that the small family farm was going to see
two to three times the increases that a larger farm
would feel. So this is a big win for agriculture
and definitely for the small family farm.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
He adds there are still significant holds to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Well, Like I said, this is a positive step forward,
but it is not all that needs to be done.
We still are seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect
wage trade, which will still be in effect. We're still
advocating for access for our year round sectors who do
not currently have access to the seasonal program, and we're
still looking for existing workforce reforms.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
For more information, go to fb dot org, Forward Slash News,
Mike Davis, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well friends. Times are changing as safety on the farm
has never been more important. Scott Mallock, Weapons of mass
Destruction coordinator for the FBI in Milwaukee, talks about the
signs farmers should be aware of when it comes to
potential agro terrorism.
Speaker 25 (29:02):
It goes back to see something, say something, situational awareness.
When I'm having these conversations at these major events, a
common question I get is why is the FBI here?
And they don't realize that the FBI has a role
within the WND program protecting agriculture, protecting food. So that's
the first question I get, but the conversations, these one
on one conversations and letting them know what these vulnerabilities
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are and what to look for, whether it's visitors on
your farm, whether it's technology safeguarding that technology. There's so
much that people don't realize that goes into farming.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Wiley. You can't talk about specific cases, Malik can discuss
some common things. The FBI stays mindful of.
Speaker 25 (29:39):
The insider threat is something that we continuously look at.
There are pages and pages of insider threat indicator. Whether
it's ideology, marital problems, money problems, whatever it is. It's
that person that has placement on the inside that knows
how to best disrupt a process or best disrupt a method. So,
you know, we do a lot of education on the
insider threat and being that early intervention is having that
(30:02):
conversation with an employee. If you're working with somebody forty
hours a week, you're going to know when that person
is having a bad day. What about when that person
has two beds or a week or a month of
bad days. When do you step in and have that
conversation with that employee to get a better understanding of
what's going on. So it's important that we look at
those insider threat indicators and approach witnesses.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
He urges farmers to take protecting their operations seriously, and
the FBI offers many resources to help.
Speaker 25 (30:27):
So when I attend these events, we have a lot
of information that we bring with us, So it's a
combination of one on one conversations and it's handing out
resources for them. Within those resources, there's websites, there's different
things that they can use as a farm or whether
it's intellectual property, whether it's food defense, biosecurity, the insider threat,
there's a lot of different things that goes into that.
(30:49):
So it's not just one or two problems. There's a
variety issues that are out there that can ultimately affect them.
So it's important that they understand kind of the wide
spectrum of issue. It's not just somebody walking on the
farm or the contamination of food or beverage. There's a
lot of other things that they need to realize that
are out there that are also vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
One of the best security systems is farmers watching out
for each other's operations.
Speaker 25 (31:12):
It's awareness is the biggest part of that. I know,
talking to family farmers at the Technology Expo. They are
a very tight network. Their neighbors are also part of
that protection piece and they look out for each other,
and I think that's important to have those relationships. Again,
the small family farm sometimes are barely getting by and
security and safety measures when it comes to agricultural defense
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or food defense, a lot of times it's an afterthought,
if a thought at all. So it's important you don't
have to spend a lot of money on security enhancements.
Different cameras and applications that are out there. Things like
that are sensors and you know that can send an
alert to your phone. There's a lot of tools that
are out there that they can certainly use.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Scott Malick with the Milwaukee Office of the FBI Farm US.
You are listening to ag Life.
Speaker 26 (31:56):
From the HAG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Wine Institute President and CEO Robert Cook is pleased with
recent progress in US Canada trade negotiations and Canadian Prime
Minister Cartis's announcement that Canada will remove all tariffs on
US goods covered under the USMCA, including wine. Since March, wine, beer,
and spirits have been the only US products completely barred
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from being sold in Canada. Before that, Canada accounted for
thirty five percent of US wine exports, with a retail
value of over one point one billion dollars. Since May,
the US has advanced multiple trade agreements and frameworks that
directly affect agriculture. The trade deals include the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam,
United Kingdom, the EU, and Japan. These deals all matter
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thanks to things like market expansion with new and more
predictable export opportunities, especially in US feed grains, poultry, dairy, biofuels,
and specialty crops. They also improve investment risks. The senior
Chinese trade negotiator, leech and Jang, is expected to be
in Washington, DC to meet with US officials and try
to move their current tariff truce forward. Says traders everywhere
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will be watching to see if the current tariff extension
becomes permanent or if President Trump again up ends global
supply chains with another round of high duties on Chinese imports.
China's ambassador says US protectionism is rampant and damaging US
China agricultural cooperation.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road. Every year.
Speaker 21 (33:19):
Accidents happen when tractors and traffics 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 rule roads. One moment a caution can save
a life. Let's work together to keep our roads and
(33:41):
our farms safe. This message was brought to you by
the AG Information Network. Farm work is tough, and so
is staying safe on a road. Every year, accidents happen
when tractors and traffics 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,
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especially on rural roads. One moment of caution can save
a life. Let's work together to keep our roads and
are farm safe. This message was brought to you by
the AG Information Network.
Speaker 18 (34:15):
From THEAG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's Agribusiness Update.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today Friends.
Drought is in the news in Canada during harvest. Dennis
Guy has our report. Over the last several years, crop
damage from drought in the Prairie provinces has made lots
of headlines. This growing season, the drought damage has moved
east and has taken a toll on Canada's primary corn
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growing regions. The tenth annual Eastern Canadian Corn and Soybean
Crop Tour results have been tabulated over the past ten years.
During the last two weeks of August, Mo Agostino, the
chief commodity strategist for farms dot Com, has toured Canada's
primary corn and soybean growing regions across southern Ontario and
in southwestern Quebec. Agostino reports that at the west end
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of the province. Southwestern Ontario did have some dry spells
through the growing season, but also had some timely rains,
so should see an average to good corn and soybean
crop this fall. As the tour moved east into south
central Ontario, soybeans and especially corn have taken more severe
damage from the dry weather, but As the tour moved
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east and north from the Toronto area and toward the
Quebec border, Agostino said he witnessed some of the worst
drought damage he's seen in more than ten years.
Speaker 27 (35:37):
Eastern Ontario, which is the worst. Corn was three foot tall,
no ears, no precipitation, basically the last three months since
June first. You can have the best genetics in the world,
in the best precision egg planter on a planet Earth,
it's not going to help you if you don't have
that rain.
Speaker 28 (35:51):
The results of the tour show that soybeans with acreage
largely in southwestern and central Ontario, will not have the
yields of the past couple of years, but aren't expected
to be down about seven bushels per acre on average.
But Agostino was forecasting a major drop in yield for
Ontario and Quebec's corn crop this fall.
Speaker 27 (36:11):
We're forecasting a one to seventy eight on corn down
from two to four to one seventy eight. That's a
pretty big drop. And then Quebec just as dry as
eastern Ontario. So you're short eastern Ontario, you're short in Quebec.
On the soybeans. It's a forty six and chain. The
ten year average is about forty eight. The last two
years it was a record fifty three, so you're off
seven bushels.
Speaker 28 (36:30):
If there was a brighter spot on the tour. Moll
Agostino said he saw very little disease in the corn
crop and only some spider mite damage in soybeans, which
prefer drier weather.
Speaker 27 (36:41):
Very little disease. Wasn't wet enough in a lot of
spots to create that disease. If anything, we sawt spider
minds because they prefer that dry weather in soybeans. In corn,
it was pretty.
Speaker 28 (36:51):
Clean reporting from Canada. I'm Dennis Guy with that.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition A bag 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,
planning a tailgate party, we'll keep in mind food safety.
Rod bain starts us off.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's time for football, whether prep, college or pros. Die
hard football fans get their fix for the next few months.
That also beds of many cases tailgating, whether at the stadium, field,
even the cofort of a backyard. Yet, as USDA Food
safety expert Meredith Corr Others reminds us.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tailgates for sports events are a lot bigger in the fall,
but there are still concerts and things happening. But people
tailgate for there would be little charcoal grills right at
the bed of a truck cooking burgers and hot dogs
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So, regardless of that your event, anytime a tailgate is
covered in your plaids, food safety needs to be included.
For starters.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
As you're preparing to go to a tailgate and preparing
your food and what menu you're going to have and
what you're going to set up, taking into account how
far it is that you're driving and transporting food safely,
So considering putting your raw burgers.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Your hot dogs, cheese, lettuce.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And other fixins and other perishables into a cooler with
ice or cold sources.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
To keep perishable food from beig exposed to room temperature
for more than two hours, no more than one hour
on extremely hot days and increasing food board bacteria with
that items.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Because especially if you're using a charcoal grill or something
like that, those take a bit to actually warm up,
so you have to factor in the drive time, the
setup time, and that could sometimes be a few hours
before you actually are throwing your burgers onto your charcoal grill.
So cooler with ice is very important, or cooler with
cold sources to keep your foods cold is very important.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Combining the separate and chill aspects of food safety.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You have a separate beverage cooler, so that way you're
avoiding any risk of cross contamination of meat and pultry products.
But then also because it's likely that the beverage cooler
will be opened more.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Frequently, perishable food items, whether grilled or made it a
slow cooker or cut fruit of veggies, need to be
at proper temperatures to prevent food board bacteria.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
If you want to go past that one hour or
two hour rule, you could nestle cold items in a
bowl of ice that'll help keep them cold and out
of safe temperature while they're out for that length of time,
or if things need to be put into something like
a slow cooker or a warming tray or a shaping
dish that are going to help keep that food hot
at above one hundred and forty degrees fahrenheit for however
long you want to serve them for.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And what to do with any chili queso dip or
leftover slow cooker.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Fair pack up for the tailgate, turning that slow cooker
off and putting all of that leftover stuff and the
slow cooker into containers to put in a cooler to
keep it cool throughout the duration of your events that
you've been tailgating before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
If you want to save the leftovers.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
For more tips to score a food safety call USDA's
Meat and Poultry Hotline one eight eight eight MP Hotline
or email MP Hotline at USDA dot gov. Broadbad Reporting
for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well Friends. The USDA is rolling out a program to
help end the veterinarian shortage in the countryside that's coming
up on Aglife. Bob Quinn, Mackerson Farm News its warning friends.
A district court has overturned a burdensome aspect of a
twenty twenty three labor rule, which is good news for
farmers and ranchers. As we hear in this report from
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Mike Davis.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
A federal court has recently decided that elements of the
twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage rate rule should be eliminated.
John Walt Boatwright, director of Government Affairs at the American
Farm Bureau Federation, says the decision is a step in
the right direction toward comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Well, A district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H two A disaggregation rule, which
segregated wage rates based on job functions within the H
two A Seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are
awaiting guidance from Department of Labor.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Vote Right says the DOL rule would have been very
costly to farmers and ranchers who utilize the H two
A program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
It was estimated that the cost of this rule on
family farms was going to increase substantially, and our economists
estimated that the small family farm was going to see
two to three times the increases that a larger farm
would feel. So this is a big win for agriculture
and definitely for the small family farm.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
He adds there are still significant holds to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Well.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Like I said, this is a positive step forward, but
it is not all that needs to be done. We
still are seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect wage rate,
which will still be in effect. We're still advocating for
access for our year round sectors who do not currently
have access to the seasonal program, and we're still looking
for existing workforce reforms.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Information go to FB dot org, Forward Slash News, Mike Davis,
Washington Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Rural America has been short on an adequate supply of
veterinarians for some time. Because of that, ag Secretary Brook
Rollins announced new action to help increase the number of
rural food animal veterinarians across the US.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
Food animal veterinarians currently make up about five percent Only
five percent of the total veterinarian population, a stark decline
from just forty years ago. So today USDA, right here
at the Mississippi State Veterinarian Headquarters, is issuing the Rural
Veterinary Shortage Action Plan. We are enhancing in streamlining USDA's
veterinary grant programs. We are making an additional fifteen million
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dollars available for the Veterinarian Medicine Loan Repayment Program and
streamlining the application process.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Rollins talks about other steps in the Rural Veterinary Shortage
Action Plan.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
We are commissioning new economic research to analyze and project
veterinary shortages in rural areas, especially for food animal veterinarians.
USDA is pursuing strategies to make federal service more attractive
for our vets, to create a direct pipeline into public service.
And lastly, we will work with veterinarian schools, including the
great one right here in Starkville, across the country to
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increase recruitment from rural America.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The announcement was made during an appearance at Mississippi State University.
Senator Cindy Hyde Smith said she's seen the challenge of veterinary.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Shortages I'm no firsthand the hardships at farmer space when
it comes to veterineering care.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
The announcement made today it's going to have significant impact.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Rollins was joined by Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, Mississippi State
University President doctor Mark Keenum, and Mississippi Farm Bureau President
Mike McCormick. Well, friends, let's focus in on row crop
agriculture for a moment here. From disease to drought, the
crop season has thrown a curveball. It's also pushing the
crop maturity quicker and with USDA currently projecting a record
(06:58):
yield and crop many analysts say the US crop is
going backwards in terms of yield, but that doesn't necessarily
mean USDA will cut yield projections next month. USDA's August
crop production report showed a record high US corn production
of one hundred and eighty eight point eight bushels per
acre and a record high soybean yield at fifty three
point six bushels per acre, But Southern rust could take
(07:20):
a big bite out of the US corn crop this year.
The disease is causing turmoil for farmers who have a
large crop in the making. In some cases, a last
minute fungicide application at R four up to early dent
might have made since this season, so say agronomous. But
in severe cases the disease can wipe out a lot
of the yield in a corn field farm news this morning,
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you're listening to Aglife.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
It's another agnews update. There's a new law expanding base
acres for more farms. More after this.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Hi, I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance,
a food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
America's farmers Grow Communities sponsored by them on Sando Fund,
a philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded
a classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
(08:13):
I encourage all farmers to general for a chance to
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit,
visit Growcommunities dot com.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Whilemakers recently passing HR one, also known as the One
Big Beautiful Bill, it includes a major change for producers
with land not fully covered by existing farm program based acres.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
According to the Agricultural Food Policy Center at Texas A
and M. The new provision allows up to thirty million
additional base acres nationwide, effective for the twenty twenty six
crop year. Farms are eligible if they're twenty nineteen through
twenty twenty three average planted or prevented plan in a
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acreage of covered commodities exceeds the current base acres, or
if they planted eligible non covered commodities within the fifteen
percent limit of total farm acreage. New base acres assigned
proportionately based on historical plantings, and if eligible acres nationwide
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exceed thirty million, USDA will apply and across the board reduction.
Landowners will be notified automatically through USDA's Farm Service Agency,
though they may opt out. It's another agnews update.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
Here's farmer and businessman James Wood.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
We f 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 if resulted on
a track on a natural gas pipeline. Fortunately no one
was hurt, but it could have been much worse.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
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 American Cattle News today. How
far will the consumer go with higher prices? More after this?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Hi.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
I'm Debbie Childress, director of the Grayson County Alliance, a
food pantry in rural Kentucky. Thanks to a local farmer,
we recently received a twenty five hundred dollars donation from
Americans Farmers Grow Communities sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a
philanthropic arm of Bear. As a result, we expanded a
classroom where we teach families about nutrition and personal finance.
I encourage all farmers to enroll for a chance to
(10:39):
direct a twenty five hundred dollars donation to a local nonprofit.
Visit Grow Communities dot com.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Oklahoma State livestock Economist, Doctor Daryl Peel.
Speaker 14 (10:48):
It's pretty typical that really kind of slows down a
little bit in midsummer. I would expect to see this
market stabilize and probably you know, tick back up just
slightly as we have a last sum surge of buying
for the Labor Day weekend for the summer billing season.
Speaker 15 (11:05):
So we'll see.
Speaker 14 (11:06):
I'm looking for this market to stabilize a little bit
going forward. I don't see any indication yet that we've
got any fundamental unraveling of beef demand at this point.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
But isn't it all about at the end of the
day the consumer.
Speaker 14 (11:19):
High prices will consumers push back. And we always think about, well,
when you know, when beef prices get high, ground beef
is kind of the go to market. It's a favorite anyway,
and it's usually, you know, our value product to go to.
But when you look at how cosslaughter has decreased the
last two years, and so that the the tightness of
supply for beef trimmings has pushed that ground beef market
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market up. And I recently took a look at how
do wholesale trimmings markets compared to say, steak markets, and
so if you look at you know, ninety percent lean
trimmings compared to RIBBI wholesale values. Over well, since twenty
twenty three, the mrimmings price has gone up about forty percent,
while the RIBBUI price at the wholesale level has gone
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up about thirteen percent. So ground beef is is you know,
it's still going to be a cheaper product in absolute terms,
but relatively speaking, ground beef is not as much of
a value as it often is. Those trimmings prices are
running about thirty eight percent of the wholesale value of
Ribby's right now, and that's exactly what you would expect
given how much those ground beef market components have decreased
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in the last couple of years.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Agriculture Today, this is Dairy Radio Now with Bill Baker.
Speaker 16 (12:36):
This month's Ask the That segment sponsored by Crystal Creek,
and we're joined by doctor Ryan Leiderman, director of Technical
Services with Crystal Creek. Ryan, we're looking at the forage
program and you're here today to tell us all about
forage inoculants and what are the best practices. Let's start
with the importance of fermentation profiles.
Speaker 17 (12:54):
Well, when we look at forage preservation, you know, it's
arguably one of the most important things that a pharmacy
to do every year because of that short window of
time they harvest and put up forage. It's going to
last them for the next twelve months or or maybe
even longer. And one of the most important parts of
putting that silage up whether it's Haley's or horn silence,
or grass silage or something else is getting a good fermentation.
(13:15):
And there's a lot of things that go into making
a good fermentation when and there's certain things that we
can control and certain things we can't. Everybody understands the
importance of fermentation, but I don't know if every farmer
is looking at fermentation profiles. It's a test that can
be run on silages to evaluate how well the fermentation
was completed, and then we can glean things from there
and say, you know, if there was some stumbling locks
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of what we need to do better next year. And
one of the things we know that can really help
a fermentation profile is the use of an inoculant, and
there's a lot of different brands out there. Crystal Creek
has a brand called inocu Lock and it's a forage
and oculant for forage preservation. Really, there's two workhorses in
our inoculants. One is strains of bacteria that will help
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lower the pH to preserve silage than the other one
of the enzymes. And not all innoculants out there have
both bacteria and enzymes, and they both have different functions.
We can kind of dive into why the bacteria will
use material in the feed to grow and then they
produce byproducts. Oftentimes those byproducts are lactic acids or other acids,
sometimes the seetic acid, and then those lower the pH
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of the silage and that preserves it well. The enzymes
actually help feed the bacteria so that they can work faster.
The whole key to silage fermentation is speed. We want
to get that pH as low as possible, as fast
as possible. That's can help us do things like retain
dry matter, retain higher levels of protein, higher levels of sugar,
and just makes the feed more valuable to the farmer
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the faster it ferments. And so the enzymes can actually
help pre digest and open up some of the starches
and some straights so that they are going to feed
the bacteria so that they can actually grow faster, create
more acids more quickly, and drop that pH of the
silage faster and preserve it better. So that's the importance
of the enzyme. I think the only way to have
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a complete anoculant on the market at this point is
to have both a mix of bacteria and enzymes, and
the mix of bacteria is important as well. In ours.
We'll have bacteria that thrive at different pH ranges. So
we'll have bacteria that we call like our early starters,
and they work in a much higher PA range, maybe
six or seven, and then we have our finisher bacteria
which work at a much lower pH range, let's say
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between you know, four and a half and four, maybe
even a little below. And it's important to have a
complete profile of bacteria that work in both the high
pH ranges and the low pH ranges, because that way
we consider it like a relay race. We have our
first bacteria that runs the first leg and they'll take
the pH maybe from seven and a half down to
six and a half, and then then they'll get out
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of their range of activity at pH and they might die.
But as that six and a half pH comes into play,
another bacteria becomes activated and then they get essentially the
baton handed off to them, and they might drive the
pH from say six and a half to five and
a half, and then they're outside of their range of
activity and they die off. But yet another bacteria is
stimulated to become active at say five and a half,
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and they might drive it down to four and a
half and then they might die and then the last
bacteria will come in and maybe get activated around four
and a half and take it down below four. And
so that's kind of how we structure our inoculus and
what we think is a good program for inoculates and
not only have enzymes, but a profile bacteria that start
and are active at a higher page and completely cover
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that pH range all the way through to a lower pH.
Speaker 16 (16:30):
Now through the years you see people working hard planting
and harvesting, and it's that middle part that is really
crucial as well.
Speaker 17 (16:36):
Yes, so much effort goes into that last step, and
if that fermentation goes well, we're off to the races.
And if it doesn't go well, we're stuck with that
for twelve months and then it's just the inoculant. To me,
it's just such a small piece of almost like insurance
to help drive that fermentation in a positive direction.
Speaker 16 (16:52):
Thanks for the visit today, Ryan, Doctor Ryan Leiderman, director
of Technical Services with Crystal Creek. If you have a
question for Ryan, simply email him Ask the vet at
Crystalcreeknatural dot com.
Speaker 18 (17:04):
This has been asked the Vet with doctor Ryan Lighterman
Sponsored by Crystal Creek. If you have a question relating
to calf health and housing, email doctor Ltaman at ask
the Vet at Crystal Creek Natural dot com.
Speaker 19 (17:19):
Is the continent of Africa a big market for almonds
and other commodities. Well, we're looking at it maybe so.
I'm Patrick Kavanaugh with the California Trina Report, part of
the vast AGG Information Network. Brad Rose is with Rose
Research based in Florida.
Speaker 20 (17:36):
Well, the continent as a whole is definitely poised for
significant growth. So we're seeing that as an Africa in totality, Well,
there will be a lot of growth. Northern Africa is
certainly part of that. But the projections for the continent
are extraordinarily opportunistic for US.
Speaker 19 (17:56):
And we're talking about allmends from California another common from
the whole US.
Speaker 20 (18:01):
Area us AGG in general, but certainly almonds specifically California almonds.
Speaker 19 (18:06):
It may take upwards or twenty years to make it happen,
but it could come sooner, said Rose.
Speaker 20 (18:11):
I would be very surprised if there was not a
robust trading between California almond industry and the continent as
a whole. It would be surprising for that not to happen.
Speaker 19 (18:21):
That's Brad Rose with Rose Research. In more news, the
wonderful Company Big in almonds and pistachios has taken the
coveted number one spot on the twenty twenty five People
Companies That Care list, rising from number three last year.
The six billion dollar enterprise has ten thousand employees worldwide.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
the road.
Speaker 21 (18:45):
Every year, accidents happen when 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 you're slow moving vehicles. Signs and lights are
and everyone's sailor, especially on rule roads. One moment a
caution can save the life. Let's work together to keep
(19:07):
our roads and our firm stage. This message was brought
to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 22 (19:12):
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
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connect you with our local farming community. They trust us,
so they'll trust you with the AG Information Network. I'm
Patrick Cavanaugh.
Speaker 23 (19:43):
With little cotton prices, high production expenses, and economic stressors,
cotton farmers face extra uncertainty this year. Mike Davis has more.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Cotton prices are often cyclical in nature, but delta upon
Technical agronomist Zach Webb says, this year is not business
as usual.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
In my career, I've never seen us being in a
situation like this and talking with our growers, they realize
it as well that this is a This is a
very different situation. It's not like it is when we
have these two and three year cycles. I don't think, well,
we're at a cross roads right now with cotton production.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
One of the elements making this year tougher on cotton
growers is the high cost of inputs.
Speaker 15 (20:24):
Price is not rebounding that we hope to see. Input
costs that you said are an all time high and
we're selling the cotton. The profit of cotton now is
what it was in the seventies, you know, and but
inut prices have definitely risen tremendously since the seventies, and
so it's a tough time for our cotton farmers.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Another factor is the loss of Dikemba as an over
the top herbicide. The biden EPA vacated the registration for
di camba herbicide products in twenty twenty four, and the
Web says cotton growers who relied on diek have been
gradually shifting technologies.
Speaker 15 (21:03):
The guys who are planning, whether it's still to pine
or whatever, that canna based cotton, that they have pretty
much what they had. They went out and went back
to some old school things with making sure they're putting
down a good residual program up front, which helps. And
then they've come back to these product like Roundup and Liberty.
Livery's got a lot of play this year to help
(21:24):
control you know, pigweeds, a big one for us over here,
and being timely with Liberty, they've done a pretty good
job controlling pigweed this year.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
That's Delta Pine. Technical agronomist Zach Webb I'm Mike Davis.
Speaker 23 (21:38):
Beef cattle numbers are down across the US to record
low levels, and some producers around the country are considering
beef on dairy cattle. Lawrence Williams of Prina Dairry talks
about the company's initiatives and the beef on dairy sector
and how Prina is leading the charge and nutrition for
the group of cattle.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
We started on this journey five, six, seven years ago
when we saw that there were going to be a
lot of these beef on dairy caves in this space,
and we knew that they're different genetically with the beef
influenced sire and the dairy dam and we said, you know,
these cattle different genetically, so they're going to need a
different nutrition platform to work from. So we went about
(22:18):
researching on these caves and done a lot of trials
in this group, and sure enough, they needed a formula
that is different and that's exactly what we created. And
then we said, well, how do we really hold value
in these cattle and how do we make this population
as good as they should be? And so we started
looking across the supply chain and trying to connect people
(22:38):
all the way from the dairy clear to the packer
and onto the consumer. Great group of cattle, somebody just
seems to help tell their story.
Speaker 23 (22:46):
He talks about why beef on dairy cattle have become
so important to the sector.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
They're a quality group of cattle, and right now, with
the native herd being as soft as they are, not
a lot of people retaining heifer's cattle are filling an
important need for the consumer. They're about fifteen percent of
head cattle right now, which is significant, and they bring
a lot of quality to the equation. The short on
red meat yield compared to native beef, but they certainly
(23:14):
have some quality attributes and they're year round supply, so
they're a good group for the packer to look at.
Speaker 23 (23:21):
Purina launched its second Beef on Dairy Industry Report, and
Williams talks about the topics and experts included in the report.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
From Patrick Linnell at Cattle Facts talking about the economics
of this group of cattle, to doctor Ruth Wowodie at
University Nebraska Lincoln speaking to welfare issues and how we
raise these calves with intention, and then our own internal experts,
Tom Earlywine talking about calf nutrition and that difference we
(23:49):
can make and really the difference we can make feeding
them all the way to slaughter. And then our good
friends that Certifat Angus Beef contributed to this as well.
They've been involved in this Beef on the Journey with
us a little bit, working with us at some of
our industry meetings that we put on in this cattle
right if they're black and they take all the boxes
for CAAB, they're an important part of the quality supply
(24:12):
in general, so they've been engaged with us. Just excited
really again it speaks to the work we're doing across
the industry to connect these dots again.
Speaker 23 (24:20):
That is Lawrence Williams of Parina Dairy. To view the
second Beef on Dairy Report, log on to pirinamills dot
com forward slash dairy Dash beef.
Speaker 24 (24:32):
It's time bart California agg today on the AG Information Network.
I am Haley's ship. A federal court has recently decided
that elements of the twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage
rate rule should be eliminated. John welt Boat, Write, director
of Government Affairs at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says
the decision is a step in the right direction towards
(24:54):
comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Well, A district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H two A disaggregation rule, which
segregated wage rates based on job functions within the H
two A seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are
awaiting guidance from Department of Labor boat.
Speaker 24 (25:16):
Rates as the DL rule would have been very costly
to farmers and ranchers who utilize the H to A
program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
It was estimated the cost of this rule was going
to increase substantially. Our economist estimated that the small family
farm was going to see two to three times the
increases that a larger farm would feel. So this is
a big win for agriculture and definitely for the small
family farm.
Speaker 24 (25:44):
He adds, there are still significant holls to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor. Think they are still
seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect wage role, which
will still be in effect.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road.
Speaker 21 (25:58):
Every year, accidents happen when tractors and traffics 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 rule roads. One moment
a caution can save alife. Let's work together to keep
(26:20):
our roads and our farm safe. This message was brought
to you by the AG Information Network.
Speaker 22 (26:25):
For the last forty years, the AGG 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
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reaching coast to coast, deep roots and farming. In decades
(26:48):
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for generations.
Speaker 24 (26:53):
On the AAG Information Network, I am Hatley's Ship.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Bob Gwen Mackrason Farm News. This warning friends. A district
court has overturned a burdensome aspect of a twenty twenty
three labor rule which is good news for farmers and ranchers.
As we hear in this report from Mike Davis.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
A federal court has recently decided that elements of the
twenty twenty three Adverse Effect wage rate rule should be eliminated.
John Walt Boatwright, director of government Affairs at the American
Farm Bureau Federation, says the decision is a step in
the right direction toward comprehensive labor reform.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Well, a district court out of Louisiana has recently vacated
the twenty twenty three H TWOA disaggregation rule, which segregated
wage rates based on job functions within the H two
A seasonal agriculture program. This means that we are awaiting
guidance from Department of Labor.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Boat Right says the DOL rule would have been very
costly to farmers and ranchers who utilized the H two
A program to fill gaps in the workforce.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
It was estimated that the cost of this rule on
family farms was going to increase substantially, and our economist
estimated that the small family farm was going to see
two to three times the increases that a larger farm
would feel. So this is a big win for agriculture
and definitely for the small family farm.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
He adds there are still significant holds to fill when
it comes to accessing farm labor.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Well, Like I said, this is a positive step forward,
but it is not all that needs to be done.
We still are seeking fundamental reforms to the adverse effect
wage trade, which will still be in effect. We're still
advocating for access for our year round sectors who do
not currently have access to the seasonal program, and we're
still looking for existing workforce reforms.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
For more information, go to fb dot org, Forward Slash News,
Mike Davis, Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well friends. Times are changing as safety on the farm
has never been more important. Scott Mallock, Weapons of mass
Destruction coordinator for the FBI in Milwaukee, talks about the
signs farmers should be aware of when it comes to
potential agro terrorism.
Speaker 25 (29:02):
It goes back to see something, say something, situational awareness.
When I'm having these conversations at these major events, a
common question I get is why is the FBI here?
And they don't realize that the FBI has a role
within the WND program protecting agriculture, protecting food. So that's
the first question I get, but the conversations, these one
on one conversations and letting them know what these vulnerabilities
(29:23):
are and what to look for, whether it's visitors on
your farm, whether it's technology safeguarding that technology. There's so
much that people don't realize that goes into farming.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Wiley. You can't talk about specific cases, Malik can discuss
some common things. The FBI stays mindful of.
Speaker 25 (29:39):
The insider threat is something that we continuously look at.
There are pages and pages of insider threat indicator. Whether
it's ideology, marital problems, money problems, whatever it is. It's
that person that has placement on the inside that knows
how to best disrupt a process or best disrupt a method. So,
you know, we do a lot of education on the
insider threat and being that early intervention is having that
(30:02):
conversation with an employee. If you're working with somebody forty
hours a week, you're going to know when that person
is having a bad day. What about when that person
has two beds or a week or a month of
bad days. When do you step in and have that
conversation with that employee to get a better understanding of
what's going on. So it's important that we look at
those insider threat indicators and approach witnesses.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
He urges farmers to take protecting their operations seriously, and
the FBI offers many resources to help.
Speaker 25 (30:27):
So when I attend these events, we have a lot
of information that we bring with us, So it's a
combination of one on one conversations and it's handing out
resources for them. Within those resources, there's websites, there's different
things that they can use as a farm or whether
it's intellectual property, whether it's food defense, biosecurity, the insider threat,
there's a lot of different things that goes into that.
(30:49):
So it's not just one or two problems. There's a
variety issues that are out there that can ultimately affect them.
So it's important that they understand kind of the wide
spectrum of issue. It's not just somebody walking on the
farm or the contamination of food or beverage. There's a
lot of other things that they need to realize that
are out there that are also vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
One of the best security systems is farmers watching out
for each other's operations.
Speaker 25 (31:12):
It's awareness is the biggest part of that. I know,
talking to family farmers at the Technology Expo. They are
a very tight network. Their neighbors are also part of
that protection piece and they look out for each other,
and I think that's important to have those relationships. Again,
the small family farm sometimes are barely getting by and
security and safety measures when it comes to agricultural defense
(31:33):
or food defense, a lot of times it's an afterthought,
if a thought at all. So it's important you don't
have to spend a lot of money on security enhancements.
Different cameras and applications that are out there. Things like
that are sensors and you know that can send an
alert to your phone. There's a lot of tools that
are out there that they can certainly use.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Scott Malick with the Milwaukee Office of the FBI Farm US.
You are listening to ag Life.
Speaker 26 (31:56):
From the HAG Information Network. This is your agribusiness update.
Wine Institute President and CEO Robert Cook is pleased with
recent progress in US Canada trade negotiations and Canadian Prime
Minister Cartis's announcement that Canada will remove all tariffs on
US goods covered under the USMCA, including wine. Since March, wine, beer,
and spirits have been the only US products completely barred
(32:19):
from being sold in Canada. Before that, Canada accounted for
thirty five percent of US wine exports, with a retail
value of over one point one billion dollars. Since May,
the US has advanced multiple trade agreements and frameworks that
directly affect agriculture. The trade deals include the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam,
United Kingdom, the EU, and Japan. These deals all matter
(32:39):
thanks to things like market expansion with new and more
predictable export opportunities, especially in US feed grains, poultry, dairy, biofuels,
and specialty crops. They also improve investment risks. The senior
Chinese trade negotiator, leech and Jang, is expected to be
in Washington, DC to meet with US officials and try
to move their current tariff truce forward. Says traders everywhere
(33:01):
will be watching to see if the current tariff extension
becomes permanent or if President Trump again up ends global
supply chains with another round of high duties on Chinese imports.
China's ambassador says US protectionism is rampant and damaging US
China agricultural cooperation.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Farm work is tough, and so is staying safe on
a road. Every year.
Speaker 21 (33:19):
Accidents happen when tractors and traffics 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 rule roads. One moment a caution can save
a life. Let's work together to keep our roads and
(33:41):
our farms safe. This message was brought to you by
the AG Information Network. Farm work is tough, and so
is staying safe on a road. Every year, accidents happen
when tractors and traffics 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,
(34:05):
especially on rural roads. One moment of caution can save
a life. Let's work together to keep our roads and
are farm safe. This message was brought to you by
the AG Information Network.
Speaker 18 (34:15):
From THEAG Information Network, I'm Bob Larson with today's Agribusiness Update.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Bob Quinn back to wrap up AGLI for today Friends.
Drought is in the news in Canada during harvest. Dennis
Guy has our report. Over the last several years, crop
damage from drought in the Prairie provinces has made lots
of headlines. This growing season, the drought damage has moved
east and has taken a toll on Canada's primary corn
(34:40):
growing regions. The tenth annual Eastern Canadian Corn and Soybean
Crop Tour results have been tabulated over the past ten years.
During the last two weeks of August, Mo Agostino, the
chief commodity strategist for farms dot Com, has toured Canada's
primary corn and soybean growing regions across southern Ontario and
in southwestern Quebec. Agostino reports that at the west end
(35:04):
of the province. Southwestern Ontario did have some dry spells
through the growing season, but also had some timely rains,
so should see an average to good corn and soybean
crop this fall. As the tour moved east into south
central Ontario, soybeans and especially corn have taken more severe
damage from the dry weather, but As the tour moved
(35:27):
east and north from the Toronto area and toward the
Quebec border, Agostino said he witnessed some of the worst
drought damage he's seen in more than ten years.
Speaker 27 (35:37):
Eastern Ontario, which is the worst. Corn was three foot tall,
no ears, no precipitation, basically the last three months since
June first. You can have the best genetics in the world,
in the best precision egg planter on a planet Earth,
it's not going to help you if you don't have
that rain.
Speaker 28 (35:51):
The results of the tour show that soybeans with acreage
largely in southwestern and central Ontario, will not have the
yields of the past couple of years, but aren't expected
to be down about seven bushels per acre on average.
But Agostino was forecasting a major drop in yield for
Ontario and Quebec's corn crop this fall.
Speaker 27 (36:11):
We're forecasting a one to seventy eight on corn down
from two to four to one seventy eight. That's a
pretty big drop. And then Quebec just as dry as
eastern Ontario. So you're short eastern Ontario, you're short in Quebec.
On the soybeans. It's a forty six and chain. The
ten year average is about forty eight. The last two
years it was a record fifty three, so you're off
seven bushels.
Speaker 28 (36:30):
If there was a brighter spot on the tour. Moll
Agostino said he saw very little disease in the corn
crop and only some spider mite damage in soybeans, which
prefer drier weather.
Speaker 27 (36:41):
Very little disease. Wasn't wet enough in a lot of
spots to create that disease. If anything, we sawt spider
minds because they prefer that dry weather in soybeans. In corn,
it was pretty.
Speaker 28 (36:51):
Clean reporting from Canada. I'm Dennis Guy with that.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Friends, out of time for today, thanks for joining us
back tomorrow morning with another edition A bag Life
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