September 30, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are still gathering information on that case, and we
have boots on the ground in Mexico determining exactly what
happened there.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
The update for USDA Deputy Undersecretary from MARKETINGGA Regulatory Programs,
Lord Stupp in what was confirmed this weekend as a
case of New World SCREWWORB less than seventy miles from
the US Mexico border. Preliminary reports indicate the affected cow
was moved from a region of southern Mexico with non
active EDWS cases to a certified fee lot in a

(00:27):
northern Mexican state.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We have people who are in Mexico right now determining
what the situation is, why it was not caught, and
why that movement actually occurred.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The Deputy Undersecretary adds the continued increasingly aggressive approach by
our country to protect our border from potential New World
SCREWWORB is needed both through short term and long term
aspects of USDA's NWS Prevention and eradication plan and partnerships
on multiple levels.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
A lot of this work happens focusing on what's happening
in Mexico. How do we stop that pass from spreading
in Mexico and in being partners with them and eradication.
To protect the US southern border, we have to enhance
that US oversight and surveillance. We've got to get better
case reporting, lock down that animal movement that's happening in
Mexico to prevent further spread. And at the same time,

(01:14):
we're providing traps and lures for screwworm so we really
have an accurate assessment of where the pest is. We're
doing proactive trapping in areas where we know it is
not yet so that we have that proactive early signaling.
We've also deployed traps along the US border in Texas
in Arizona and New Mexico, and are looking at deploying

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traps in California if that situation evolves. So we're doing
a lot of proactive steps, particularly along the border to
make sure that we don't see an incursion into the
United States. There are a lot of other things that
USDA is doing on this front too, so we've ramped
up hiring of the tick riders, so those are the
cal fever tick patrol officers and other staff. We will

(01:54):
focus on border surveillance. We've trained tick riders now to
look for inspect and be able to treats that are
infested with New World screwworm that they might encounter along
the border. And we also are putting a plan together
and we'll begin training detector dogs to detect screwworm infestations
in livestock and other animals along the border and at
different ports of entry. So those animals are going to

(02:15):
be essential to help control the spread of the screwworm
as well.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
US apple producers are always looking for the next big thing.
Bob Larson has more from Washington.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
With apple harvest underway here in Washington State, the many
varieties we grow will soon be available in the grocery
stores if they're not already. And apple growers here in
Washington State, according to Michael Schadler, president of the Washington
Apple Commission, would love nothing more than to bring you
the next great apple variety.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
And you look at everybody now. All producers around the
world are trying to follow that model of finding that
next great variety, for the next honey Crisp, so to speak.
Even though honey chris is a pretty much US centric variety,
it's that same model of trying to find a winner.
And if you and make that a proprietary variety and
on that that's your golden ticket if you strike it right.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
But Scheddler says that isn't as easy as it might sound.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
If everybody's following that same model, it turns into a
very crowded market. And you wonder if anyone can even
win with a new variety unless it's just absolutely exceptional
head and shoulders above the rest. And that's really hard
to do.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
And like he alluded to, we are not the only
country in the world that grows apples.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
We see in international markets the South Africans, the New
Zealanders taking the same approach, and they grow good apples,
and they, you know, increasingly, especially in Asian markets. You know,
they're marketing these new varieties.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Again. That is Michael Schedler, president of the Washington Apple Commission.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And we have been enjoying a lot of those delicious
apples at our house this fall. Good morning, My name
is Dwayne Murley in for Bob Quinn. Thank you for
joining us today on agg live food insecurity is on
the rise and ignoring it will not make it go away.
And states like Iowa, hunger is growing in each of
the ninety nine counties. It's an invisible issue to many,

(04:06):
but your neighbor could be silently struggling to find the
resources to take care of their next meal. Now, this
month is Hunger Action Month, so there's no better time
to help out those neighbors and bring awareness to the issue.
On that Hacker, chief Communications and Strategy officer at the
Food Bank of Iowa, said, food insecurity impacts every community,

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even if you can't see it well.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Hunger Action Month it's a national effort, as you pointed out,
and it really is a time to raise awareness and
inspire action and help folks to realize that it takes
many hands to make sure every person facing hunger gets
the food they need. And wherever we are, we can
do our part by volunteering and donating and advocating for
our neighbors facing hunger. I think if nothing else, people

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can stop and realize that food insecurity affects every community,
in every neighborhood, every county in this entire country, including
right here in Iowa. And sometimes it's kind of an
invisible problem and more people need to know it's a
very real problem and we can do a lot. We
can all do our part to fight hunger.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Hacker said, there are opportunities across every state for volunteers
to make an impact in their community.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
So there are pantries right in your own communities who
I know would appreciate your help and need your help,
not only pantries, but meal sites, daycare shelters, et cetera.
And at Food Bank of Iowa, we have two distribution centers,
as you know, in Des Moines and a time what
we have volunteer shifts every day in both locations and
you can sign up online at Foodbankiowa dot org slash volunteer.

(05:43):
We're actually in the throes right now in Des Moines
of expanding our parking lot so that we can add
additional volunteer shifts and get more folks to come through
the doors and engage with us and learn what Food
Bank of Iowa is all about and help us get
more food out the door so we can in turn feeds.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Food insecurity began to rise in twenty twenty two after
the end of several Pandemic Arab benefits. The problem was
made considerably worse when the Budget Reconciliation Bill, which made
the largest cut of food aid in US history, went
into effect. Hacker said, there's one thing they know for sure.
The lines of food banks and pantries are going to

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keep growing without any additional aid.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
We've not yet seen the ceiling with the Budget Reconciliation Bill,
which was the single largest cut to food assistance in history.
We know that will only drive more people to the
pantry stucked by Food Bank of Iowa. We're already seeing
islands who have never before visited a food pantry, who
were working hard but just don't have enough money at

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the end of every month to buy food. We see
others who are putting off other bills for basic needs
just so that they can afford groceries, and we don't
want to see people do that. So there's a lot
of uncertainty ahead, but we know the lines will get longer,
and it's just really unconscionable to take food away from
families who already can't make ends meet.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Over the next two years, approximately six billion meals will
be lost through the cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
or SNAP, and while groups like Feeding America are working
hard to fill in the gap, they cannot compare to
what SNAP can do. In fact, for every meal that
Feeding America provides snap can provide at nine. As a result,

(07:29):
Hackers said it can be understated how much food banks
depend on support from the USDA, which is far below
normal levels.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Food banks typically get food through three streams, either from USDA,
or it's donated, slash rescued, or you purchase it.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
It's another ignews update. New screwworm thread along the Texas border,
cattle placements fall, tariff disputes, raise farm risk and dairy
output climbs.

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Speaker 7 (08:27):
Mexico confirming a new case of new world screwworm in
Nuevo Leone, less than seventy miles from the US border.
The detection is the closest yet to Texas, raising concerns
for American livestock. USDA has expanded surveillance, closed imports of cattle, bison,
and horses from Mexico and continues sterile fly dispersal to

(08:50):
protect herds. USDA's latest Cattle on Feed reports showing eleven
point one million head in feed LODs, down one percent
from lifelast year, placements ten percent, lower marketings down fourteen percent,
confirming tighter supplies heading into fall. Analysts expect smaller slaughter
numbers this winter. At the World Trade Organization, US tariffs

(09:15):
sparking disputes with Brazil, Canada, and China. Soybeans, rice and
fruits among the sectors most at risk. Farmers may face
higher input cost as equipment and chemicals get swept into
the tariff list. Finally, dairy market report from USDA showing
milk production up three percent this summer, butter and cheese

(09:36):
output higher export search, but farm level margins narrowed as
prices slipped. It's another AGEWS update.

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Speaker 7 (10:53):
Oliver's Slope is with blue line futures in Chicago, gattle.

Speaker 12 (10:58):
Futures posted games and Friday's well Lean Hoggs saw a
little quieter for trade. At the closed December live cattle
futures at dollar fifty seven higher to two thirty five
seventy two. That extended gains for the week to three
dollars and eighty cents. October Peter cattle futures they gained
two dollars and thirty seven cents today, he settling at
three fifty four to ten for the week eight dollars

(11:19):
and thirty cents higher number on this now side. October
futures gained fifty cents while the most actively traded December
contract lost just seven cents, settling at eighty seven sixty two.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
For the week, that was down one dollar.

Speaker 12 (11:32):
Even Box beef has been softer over the last few weeks,
and this morning's report was no different. That showed choice
cuts down another two dollars and eighty cents to three
eighty three to zero one. It sleft cuts down two
twenty two to three fifty nine oh nine. Yesterday's five
area average price for live series was reported at two
thirty seven to forty nine those volume traded so far

(11:54):
this week has been relatively light. Daily slaughter was reported
at one hundred twelve thousand head yesterday after noon. That's
about eleven thousand head less than the same day last year.
Week today, totals for Slaughterer that comes in at four
hundred and sixty thousand had roughly thirty five thousand fewer
than the same period last year. Some of this week's
consolidation type trade may have come and part due to positioning.

(12:17):
Into this afternoon's cattle on feed report, the average handle
assessment for on feed comes.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
In at ninety nine point one percent.

Speaker 12 (12:23):
Place fits at ninety one percent in marketings eighty seven
point two percent.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
Cash straight two thirty nine to two forty one in
the South, mostly two forty two thirty six to two
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Speaker 13 (12:47):
On our producer Tuesday, brought to you by the Professional
Dairy Producers. We focus on farm safety, particularly in the
silo with Gerald Minor, who is chief of the Pittsfield
Fire Department located in the middle of the state. He's
been chief there from more than twenty years. Any updated
PDP dairy signal listeners and what they've been doing as
far as safety on the farm.

Speaker 14 (13:07):
We've done a lot of work since the Farm Center
and National Farm Medicine Center opened up in Marshfield, working
with training fire personnel how to safely respond to incidents
on the farm. We are in silo gas season right now.
Corn is being chopped, Hey is being chopped. Doesn't matter
what product you put in a silo or in a bunker.

(13:29):
If it's a plant product, it has nitrogen in it
when you store it, it goes through a natural fermentation
process and silo gas is the result of that process.

Speaker 10 (13:43):
It all has to happen.

Speaker 14 (13:45):
If you filled your silo full of grass clippings, you
would get silo gas. It gets its name from normally
where we run into problems, and that being in a silo.
So silo gas chemically is nitrogen dioxide that is created
with the normal fermentation of the product that's in the vessel.
It happens in ground bunkers, it happens in silo bags

(14:07):
as well.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
Usually three to.

Speaker 14 (14:10):
Four weeks is when the gas production is the highest
after and during filling the silo. So we tell people
if you don't have to go in that silo, do
not go in there. Just absolutely stay out. Now, I
know that doesn't always happen, and people have to go
in and they may have to level off the silage
things like that. If you absolutely must go in, Number one,

(14:33):
you need to get the silo fillers running, blow as
much air through that silo as you possibly can. Silo
gas is heavier than air, so it will come down
the shoots naturally into the silo room or into the barn.
So if you're starting to ventilate that silo from the
outside with a sile of filler, don't be in the barn.

(14:53):
Don't be in the silo room because it's going to
push the gas into that area. A sile of filler
pushes a lot of it. I would ventilate that thing
for at least a half hour before I had to
make entry.

Speaker 10 (15:05):
And then is it safe to go in?

Speaker 14 (15:08):
No, it's not unless you can monitor silo gas, and
there are very few places that can do that. There
is no way that you're going to truly know silo
gas when you breathe it in if it's in the
right concentration. And if you ask, well, what's the right concentration,
my answer is any concentration. It goes into your lungs

(15:29):
and reacts with the moisture in your lungs. So we
add nitrogen dioxide to moisture, you get nitric acid. So
when you say acid in your lungs, that should be
a picture of a very toxic combination. Acid in your
lungs is going to cause tremendous amounts of fluid build
up called a dima. Your ability to breathe is going

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to go from normal to nothing, and in a very
very short amount of time, if you walk into a
pocket of silo gas, you can be down and unconscious
and thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 10 (16:01):
It is.

Speaker 14 (16:02):
It can be visible if you're in the silo room,
for example, and you see this brownish reddish yellowish kind
of cloud formation coming down the chute.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
That is silo gas.

Speaker 14 (16:15):
Don't let your nose be your monitor, but it has
an ammonia type of odor to it.

Speaker 10 (16:21):
You smell it, you see it. You need to get
out of there, You need to get away from it.

Speaker 14 (16:25):
We have seen it outside where bags are being used.
Silo bags are being used, usually when the bag heats
up during filling. I've seen it early in the morning.
It'll simply be wisping out of the bag. You know,
the bags have vents on them. The end that's open,
you'll see it come out of there. And don't purposely
go out and look for this because it's it's not

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something that you know you need to be close to.
But if you see that type of thing, or you
get that indication that silo gas again, assume it's there.
The safe window is three to four weeks after that
it should be dissipated. However, do you have to go
back in that stilo again. I would run that silo filler,
that blower for at least a half hour to dissipate

(17:08):
any fumes that might be out.

Speaker 13 (17:10):
Gerald Miner is chief of the Pittsfield Fire Department located
in the state of Wisconsin. Those were comments from a
PDP Dairy signal that you can hear in its entirety
at pdpw dot org and our thanks to the Professional
Dairy Producers for today's sponsorship of Producer Tuesday. I'm Bill Baker,
Dairy Radio.

Speaker 15 (17:27):
Now UC farm advisor has done a lot of work
in plant pathology in almonds. I'm Patrick Cavanaugh with the
California Trina Report, part of the vastag Information Network. Jamie
Ott is a UC Orchard System Advisor for Tahama, Shasta, Glenn,

(17:49):
and Buke Counties.

Speaker 16 (17:50):
So I spent the last eight years working with Greg Brown.
He's with USDAARS but housed at EC Davis. So I
spent the last day years in the Department of Plant
Mythology at UC Davis and we studied. We did a
lot of work on phytostera in almonds, and we did
some work on anaerobic soil in disinfestation to control replant

(18:12):
disease in almonds, and also did some work on whole
orchard recycling in almonds, and.

Speaker 15 (18:17):
We asked od if that whole orchard recycling goes back
to a lot of work that Brent Holtz did, and
he's with UC Cooperative Extension San jOAI, King County.

Speaker 16 (18:27):
It does go back to Brent Holtz's work, and I
think there are some There are certainly benefits that have
been shown to whole orchard recycling. There are also challenges,
like you have to be on top of your nitrogen
fertilization and make up for all that carbon you put
in the soil. But certainly, certainly there are benefits to
that increase in organic matter that you're bumping the soil
up with.

Speaker 17 (18:46):
That's Jamie Odd.

Speaker 15 (18:47):
She's a UC Cooperative Extension Orchard System advisor for Tahema, Shasta,
Glenn and Butte Counties.

Speaker 17 (18:55):
You've probably been told that to reach a millennial farmer
you have to go digital hmm, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest,
LinkedIn and online publication or maybe a podcast hmm, but
which one? Oh, and how receptive is this age group
to your sales pitch during non work social time. Maybe

(19:16):
the best place to reach a farmer with a farming
solution message is when they are well quite Frankly farming.
You know it's easy for us to find them during
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Reach real farmers right here, right now as they listen
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They'll trust you with the AG Information Network. I'm Patrick Kavanaugh.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Significant raids are occurring the next couple of days. It
places like the.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
Central Great Plains, the southern corn Belt, and then now
starting to extend into some of the nation's driest areas,
areas that have been hit hard by flash drought late
summer through early autumn from the mid South into the northeast.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Usdab Au relogist Brad Rippy says that should help replenish
soil boisture or a sub instances serve as modus moisture
to help with emergence and establishment of fall planted crops
like winter.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Wheat, but it's the areas to the east where this
moisture is most welcome. Unfortunately, it's coming a little bit
too late for some of those summer crops like corn
and soybeans, just a little bit too mature for any
of this rain to really be of great assistance at
this point.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Areas like the Deep South robain hot with drought expanding
in the region. Yet needed moisture is expected to occur
later this week.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
Getting back to the area where we've seen some of
our heaviest rains in recent days, Generally speaking, we're looking
at the Central Plains into the Upper Midwest, and all
those areas for the most part, are route free at
this point, so this is just some bonus moisture coming
in now. It really should help to get winter wheat
across the central Great Plains off to a good start
for the crop that's already been planted. This is plenty

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of moisture for emergence and establishment. And then as we
move into the Upper Midwest again, we've had pretty good
wet summer in that area, so this is again money
in the bank for next spring really if you look
at it that way. But it's the areas to the
east where this moisture is most welcome. Unfortunately, it's coming
a little bit too late for some of those summer
crops like corn and soybeans, just a little bit too

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mature for any of this rain to really be of
great assistance at this point. But from the standpoint of
winter wheat and cover crops, as well as pasture revival,
that is all good news. Now for other parts of
the country, it is still rather hot. Across the Deep South.
We're seeing early week temperatures that have been approaching or
even reaching one hundred degrees in parts of central, southern

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and eastern Texas. It's not unprecedented, but somewhat unusual late September,
and some of that ninety to ninety five degree heat
extending eastward across the Deep South all the way to
the southern Atlantic coast. So when you look at it
in the perspective of agriculture, that's great weather for summer
crop maturation and harvesting. But now parts of the Deep
South are slipping into that drought that has been affecting

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areas further north, like the Mid South and the lower Midwest.
So we eventually could use some moisture. Looks like that
will come later this week as the cold front that's
been responsible for some of this rain in the mid
section shifts southward and brings anywhere from one to three
inches of rain later this week across much of the south,
the East, and also extending into the Ohio Valley where

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the rain there is much needed. As well.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Mostly quiet weather wise in the West to start the week,
according to USDA b urologist Brad Rippy, although there is
a notable exception on.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
The backside of that form system across the middle part
of the country. There is actually some early season snow
falling on Tuesday across the central Rockies, including northern Colorado
and into parts of South Center In southeastern Wyoming, some
of the higher elevations you get up above eight or
nine thousand feet, we have seen anywhere from four to
eight inches of snow, even a few higher amounts in some.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Of the higher peaks in covered days. A tropical boister
surge is expected from the eastern Pacific.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
That is likely to be a repeat performance of what
we saw at the end of last week, and that
is rain spreading northward through central and southern California, rather
unusual for late September. Also expect to see that monsoon
surge into parts of Arizona and New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
With a multi day rate event expected in parts of California,
the Great Basin add Desert southwest starting Thursday. And Atlantic
Curricade season update courtesy of USDA b urologist Brad Rippy. First,
the second hurricane of the season, Gabriel.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
It has already recurved east of Bermuda and is heading
harmlessly out to see the path of Gabriel actually expected
to approach Sane and Portugal within about five days, so
any remnants there could have an impact in Europe, believe
it or not.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Two tropical waves meanwhile are being watched. One approach the
Eastern Caribbean.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Will deliver likely some heavy showers to the US Virgin
Islands and Puerto Rico over the next couple of days,
but it does appear that that system, like so many
other systems so far this season, will recurve, even if
there is some tropical development before it reaches the US
East Coast.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Followed by a wave in the Central Atlantic.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
There's a ninety percent chance that that system will become
a tropical cyclone over the next seven days, but the
path on that system is expected to be a recurvature
path and not bring it anywhere near the United States.
Taking a look at the National Weather Service Week two outlook,
this covers the eight to fourteen day time period from
the last day of September right on through the first
six days of October. Warm weather that has been present

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across much of the country this month is expected to
continue right on into early October, the vast majority of
the country expecting above normal temperatures.

Speaker 18 (24:50):
It's time for California at today on the AG Information Network,
I am Haley's ship. If you've been following dairy policy,
you know things have been quieter lately compared to last
year's big federal milk Marketing Order hearing. But the American
Farm Bureaus market Intel just put out a new update
and it shows California farmers are definitely feeling the impact

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of USDA's recent rule changes. Since June first, all but
one of USDA's amendments went into effect, and the early
numbers are in. Higher make allowances, which are the built
in deductions for processing milk, have reduced what farmers take home.
In just the first three months, dairy producers nationwide lost
more than three hundred and thirty seven million dollars in

(25:32):
pool value. Here in California, that hit added up to
about fifty five million dollars, with class prices dropping around
eighty five to ninety two cents per hundred weight. While
lower feed costs offered some cushion over the past year,
the added pressure from these pricing changes could tighten margins
if milk prices keep sliding. On the positive side, USDA's

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returned to the hire of Class one mover offers better
protection during voluntile markets, and upcoming changes to milk composition
factors are expected to add value back into the system.
You can find a link to that full market inteler
report at aginfo dot net.

Speaker 11 (26:13):
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Visit rbauction dot com to learn more.

Speaker 17 (26:42):
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Farmers are facing unprecedented economic challenges. This is why agriculture
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Speaker 18 (27:11):
With California AGG today on the AG Information Network, I
am Hailey Ship.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
USDA has updated its farm sector income forecasts for twenty
twenty five and projects raising incomes countered by rising costs.
Carrie Lakowski, and economist with the USDA's Economic Research Service, says,
overall sector income we'll see a significant year over year increase.

Speaker 19 (27:34):
Net cash farm income is forecast at almost one hundred
and eighty one billion dollars, which is a forty billion
dollar increase from twenty twenty four, or a twenty eight
percent increase. Net farm income is forecast to increase fifty
two billion dollars, or almost forty one percent.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
However, upon closer inspection, le Kowski explains that the income
jump is nearly all in animal agricola sure.

Speaker 19 (28:00):
Commodity cash receipts for cash sales, which are forecast to
increase twenty four billion dollars or almost five percent. This
is entirely from animal and animal products. Also, direct government
payments are forecast at forty point five billion dollars, an
increase of thirty billion dollars from twenty twenty four. However,

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dampening income growth a bit our total production expenses, which
are forecast to increase twelve billion dollars or two point
six percent.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Again, that is Carrie Lenkowski and economists with the USDA's
Economic Research Service, the US grain and feed industry is
a major driver of jobs and economic activity across rural America.
That's the message from the new study that was just
released by the National Grain and Feed Association. Mike Davis
has more in.

Speaker 20 (28:53):
GFA President and CEO Mike Seifert says the study quantifies
the industry's reach the harvest.

Speaker 21 (29:00):
Economy wutifies, but many of us already know that our
industry is essential to rural communities, domestic and global food security,
and the US economy. We found in America's grain and
feed industry generates four hundred and one point seven billion
dollars in economic output annually and supports over one point
one six million jobs nationwide.

Speaker 20 (29:18):
The analysis conducted by John Dunnoman Associates, found there are
nearly nine thousand, seven hundred grain and feed facilities across
the country. Those facilities directly employ more than one hundred
and seventy five thousand workers who earn, on average, more
than eighty four thousand dollars a year. Seifert says the
ripple effect extend far beyond those jobs.

Speaker 21 (29:40):
Supplier industries and local businesses benefit from our industry, creating
hundreds of thousands of additional jobs, from transportation to equipment
to professional services. The impact touches nearly every sector of
the economy. Not only that, the tax revenue our industry
generates benefits communities from.

Speaker 15 (29:56):
Coast to coast.

Speaker 21 (29:57):
All told, we are contributing nearly thirty three billion dollars
a year in taxes paid to federal, state, and local governments.

Speaker 20 (30:03):
The study also provides a state by state breakdown of
jobs and economic output. Seifert says that data will help
members of Congress and local officials understand the importance of
grain and feed in their districts.

Speaker 21 (30:17):
Every state and every congressional district benefits from our industry,
whether it's Iowa, where the impact tops forty three billion dollars,
or smaller states where thousands of jobs depend on grain
and feed facilities. This report shows just how vitall our
sector is. That's why it is so important for our
elected officials to continue pursuing policies the further strengthen the
industry and the economic contributions we make.

Speaker 20 (30:39):
In GFA launched a new website alongside the report where
people can download fact sheets and explore the data on
a state and congressional district level. For more information, visit
NNGFA dot org. I'm Mike Davis.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Multiple grain traders told Reuters that Chinese soibeam buyers have
bookedly these ten cargoes of Argentinian soybeans after the country
decided to scrap export taxes, and of course that'll be
another setback to America's farmers.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
From the egg information network. This is your agribusiness update.
While every American pig farmer stands to lose when faced
with a patchwork of ever changing state housing laws forred
by California's Prop. Twelve, the issue goes beyond animal welfare
to the root of the Constitution's interstate commerce regulations and
how bending them can break some farmers. National Pork Producer's

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Council Vice President Pat Horde says, whatever steps we take
for California's regulations could change when a new state decides
they want different housing standards. A spokesman from the Chinese
Commerce Ministry was asked when China might resume buying American soybeans.
He said the US should remove what China describes as
unreasonable tariffs and create conditions to help expand trade between

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the two nations. Traders in China have opted to fill
their soybean needs in South America, as American farmers are
in danger of missing out on billions of dollars worth
of soybean sales because of unresolved tensions. Egg Secretary Brook
Rawlins announced a new three point plan to support American
egg producers and exporters. The first of three points is
the American first trade promotion program that would get a

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kickstart in fiscal year twenty twenty six. The second is
a new model of trade missions that supplements the current model,
and the third is an effort to revitalize export finance
opportunities by reducing financial risk to lenders with credit guarantees.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
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Speaker 4 (33:31):
From the Egg Information Network.

Speaker 11 (33:32):
I'm Bob Larson with today's agribusiness update.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Welcome back to focus on AG. I'm Dwayne Murley. Topsoil
oyster levels is one thing we've all kept track of
this growing season.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Seasonal reflection of US Topsoil Boyster condition numbers, as USDA
Burologist Brad Ripy shares from the latest Topsoil Boyster report.
This for the period ending September twenty first.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
Top soilm mooister surplus number nationally six percent is actually
up one percent from the pre week on the strength
of some of the rainfall across the middle part of
the country. On the flip side, though, forty five percent
of the country experiencing very short to short top soil
moisture on September twenty first, that is also up one
percentage point from last week.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Only I had full of the plains have been Western
States report top Soil ooyster surplus at ten percent or greater.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
That list includes Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,
and also Florida in the southeast.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Areas with significant very short to short top soil oyster
in a majority of states include the Pacific Northwest, the
far northern and southern ends of the plains, and short
termed brout areas from the mid to lower Mississippi Valley eastward.

Speaker 8 (34:38):
Do you want to focus on the northwest? All five
states reporting top soil moisture well above fifty percent very
short to short, led by Washington State at ninety two percent.
Not too far behind. We have Oregon at eighty percent,
Wyoming at seventy eight percent, in Montana at seventy two percent.
As far as the Great Plans go, that's one of
our better areas, but it is a little bit on
the dry side in the far north and the far south.

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On the south side the plains Texas sixty three percent
of the top swe moisture very short to short. And
then we have all of the flashed drought the short
term drought areas from the middle and lower Mississippi Valley eastward.
Just a couple of highlights there. In eastern Corn Belt
we have seen numbers climbing above seventy percent very short
to short, led by Ohio at eighty eight percent. Not
too far behind Between seventy and eighty percent we have Illinois, Indiana,

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and Michigan. A dryness extends right on through the northeast
top swan moisture numbers very short to short seventy five
percent or greater from New York State eastward through Maine,
and then we see some pretty high numbers in the
mid South very short to short ratings above seventy five
percent in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
There is still some what of a ballot's a national
pasture at rage LaGG conditions In late September, USDA burologist
Brad Rippy says for the period ending September twenty first.

Speaker 8 (35:47):
Thirty four percent good to excellent nationally and is down
a point from last week. Meanwhile, very poor poor ratings
up one percentage point to thirty six percent.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Several areas of the country report good to excellent pasture
at rage LaGG condition ad or above sixty percent.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
Mainly across the northern plains, upper Midwest, and parts of
the southeast routing.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Pastures, however, have grown in regions such as the lower
Midwest into the Northeast.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
We see numbers in the Midwest as highest sixty percent
of the pasture is very poor to poor, in Ohio,
Illinois at fifty percent, into the mid South, where Kentucky
is at fifty five percent very poor to poor main
sixty one percent very poor to poor.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Very poor to poor pasture and rageland conditions are also
found at much of the west and northern plains. Rural
mental health a subject that has gained more attention and
less stigma over the past few years. According to Terry
Moore of the American Far Bureau Federation.

Speaker 22 (36:40):
There is a lot to be encouraged about. Our overarching
goal is to break the stigma that has long existed
around mental wellness. We really have devoted a lot of
time and energy and resources to building up a program
to ensure that every single farmer and rancher out there
knows that there's help available to them.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
She adds.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Several stakeholders in the farm rural space, including far Bureau,
have collaborated to increase and improve resources for rural mental
health awareness.

Speaker 22 (37:07):
There are a number of organizations that do national pulling
to kind of monitor those attitudes and are people more
receptive to it, and so we're seeing a positive trend
in that regard. Unfortunately, we know the reality is we
still face a high level of suicide in rural communities,
in rural America, and so that's why we're not going
to let.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Up on this.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Thank you for being with us today on AG Life.
I'm Dwane Merley.