TODAY ON AGDAY
APRIL 11, 2017
HEADLINES
IS IT TOO EARLY FOR A WEATHER MARKET? WE’VE GOT THE LATEST CROP PROGRESS. PLUS RICE PLANTING GOES IN THE GROUND DOWN SOUTH. IN AGRIBUSINESS...MANAGING OLD CROP CORN. THE DAIRY REPORT, LOOKS AT PRODUCTS AND PROCESSING. AND THIS COLLEGIATE COMPETITION IS GIVING INDUSTRY HOPEFULS A CHANCE AT REAL LIFE DAIRY DECISIONS. AGDAY-BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEPENDABLE, LONG LASTING CHEVY SILVERADO.
APRIL SUPPLY AND DEMAND NUMBERS
GOOD MORNING I’M CLINTON GRIFFITHS. THE AG DEPARTMENT IS SET TO RELEASE ITS APRIL SUPPLY AND DEMAND FIGURES THIS MORNING.. THOSE REPORTS COME OUT AT ELEVEN CENTRAL. AT THIS TIME OF YEAR HOWEVER TRADERS ARE MORE FOCUSED ON POTENTIAL PLANTING DELAYS. “SO IF YOU START YOU KNOW NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER YOU GET A WET FORECAST AND THEN A WET FORECAST ON TOP OF THAT I JUST THINK THE FUNDS WILL QUICKLY TURN TO WELL I DON’T WANT TO BE SHORT THIS CORN MARKET ANY MORE AND IF THEY DON’T WANT TO TO BE SHORT THEY HAVE TO BUY IT BACK AND IF THEY BUY 140 THOUSAND CONTRACTS BACK THAT COULD START A RALLY THEN WHO KNOWS AFTER THAT IF IT START TO SNOWBALL OR NOT SO HOW SOON DO YOU THINK IT COULD IMPACT THE MARKET LIKE WHAT TIMEFRAME COULD WE SEE MAYBE A LITTLE POP HONESTLY THE END OF THIS WEEK I THINK IT REALLY COULD BY THE END OF THIS WEEK END OF NEXT WEEK IF THE FORECAST IS STILL WET AND GUYS AREN’T I THINK IT COULD START TO GRIND HIGHER ABSOLUTELY DO. “THIS IS THE FIRST WEEK THAT “NASS” HAS A NATIONAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR CORN. IT’S THREE PERCENT PLANTED. ONE PERCENT IN ILLINOIS - FOUR POINTS BEHIND. FIVE PERCENT IN MISSOURI - SEVEN POINTS BEHIND AVERAGE WINTER WHEAT 9 NINE PERCENT IS HEADED, THREE POINTS AHEAD. 53-PERCENT IS GOOD TO EXCELLENT. A TWO POINT IMPROVEMENT.
LOUISIANA RICE
TURNING TO RICE - LOUISIANA LEADS THE WAY IN PROGRESS WITH THREE QUARTERS PLANTED AND MORE THAN HALF HAS EMERGED. LOUISIANA RICE FARMERS ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE THANKS TO A RELATIVELY WARM AND DRY SPRING. RICE FARMERS ARE ANXIOUS TO HAVE A GOOD CROP AFTER A RECENT RUN OF DISAPPOINTING YEARS. LSU AGCENTER’S CRAIG GAUTREAUX HAS THIS REPORT. IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, RICE FARMERS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF GOOD WEATHER, AND THEIR CROP HAS ALREADY EMERGED PUTTING IT WEEKS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. FARMERS ARE EAGER FOR A SUCCESSFUL SEASON AFTER THREE YEARS OF DECLINING YIELDS AND LOW PRICES. DUSTIN HARRELL: TYPICALLY, WE HAVE OUR HIGHEST YIELDS WHEN WE GET THE RICE IN THE GROUND EARLY, AND IT GETS STARTED. WHEN ITS FLOWERING AND THE GRAINS ARE FILLING, WE HAVE LOWER TEMPERATURES SO THIS HELPS US OUT FOR QUALITY AND YIELD AS WELL. THE ONLY MAJOR PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED SO FAR HAS BEEN BLACKBIRDS, WHICH HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE FOR GROWERS NORTH OF I-10 THIS YEAR. FARMERS SOUTH OF I-10 GENERALLY TREAT THEIR SEEDS WITH A REPELLANT AND AREN’T EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS, BUT THE BIRDS HAVE SHOWN UP FURTHER NORTH WHERE THEY WERE NOT EXPECTED. TYPICALLY, BLACKBIRDS CAN DEVASTATE A FIELD IN A MATTER OF HOURS. THEY CAN DEVOUR THAT MUCH RICE, AND THOSE FIELDS HAVE TO BE REPLANTED. MANY EXPERTS ARE PREDICTING SMALLER ACREAGE IN LOUISIANA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. HARRELL AGREES WITH THESE ASSESSMENTS. WE’RE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE A DECLINE IN RICE ACREAGE ON A STATEWIDE AVERAGE THIS YEAR, PROBABLY IN THE FIVE TO EIGHT PERCENT RANGE. YOU LOOK AT SOME OTHER STATES, LIKE ARKANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI, THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE MORE OF A DECLINE IN RICE THIS YEAR. HARRELL ESTIMATES THAT FARMERS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE ARE NEARLY FINISHED WITH THEIR PLANTING, WHILE THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE IS JUST STARTING. WITH THE LSU AGCENTER, THIS IS CRAIG GAUTREAUX REPORTING. THE AG DEPARTMENT EXPECTS 400-THOUSAND ACRES OF RICE WILL BE PLANTED THIS YEAR IN LOUISIANA WITH 80 PERCENT OF THE CROP GROWN IN THE SOUTHERN PARISHES. THE TOP RICE-GROWING STATE IS ARKANSAS. USDA IS FORECASTING ONE-POINT- TWO MILLION ACRES OF RICE WILL BE PLANTED...BUT THAT’S DOWN 350- THOUSAND ACRES FROM LAST YEAR.
JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH
THE NATION’S NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS NOW SWORN- IN...AND FARM GROUPS HOPE NEIL GORSUCH WILL BE GOOD FOR AMERICA’S FARMERS AND RANCHERS. THE COLORADO APPEALS COURT JUDGE TOOK HIS OATHS TO BE THE SUPREME COURT’S 113TH JUSTICE MONDAY MORNING.
LIGHTHIZER FOR USTR
MEANWHILE, THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ORRIN HATCH OF UTAH IS HOPEFUL HIS COMMITTEE CAN ADVANCE THE NOMINATION OF ROBERT LIGHTHIZER, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S PICK FOR U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE, WHEN THE SENATE RETURNS FROM ITS TWO-WEEK EASTER RECESS. HATCH ATTEMPTED A COMMITTEE VOTE THURSDAY, BUT WAS FORCED TO DELAY AFTER JUST ONE DEMOCRAT, SHOWED TO THE COMMITTEE MEETING. A HEAD OF USTR WILL BE USEFUL WHEN NAFTA NEGOTIATIONS KICK OFF. THE EARLIEST THAT TALKS CAN TAKE PLACE WOULD BE THE END OF JULY A TOP MEXICAN OFFICIAL TELLING REPORTERS LAST WEEK THAT THEY WANT TO FINISH NEGOTIATIONS THIS YEAR. THAT’S BECAUSE MEXICO WILL HOLD A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN JULY OF NEXT YEAR AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT HAS REACHED TERM LIMITS, MEANING THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION WILL COME TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE. SPEAKING OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER, NEW NUMBERS SHOW APPREHENSIONS OF ILLEGALS ON THE SOUTHWEST BORDER WERE DOWN 64 PERCENT IN MARCH YEAR OVER YEAR. IT’S THE FEWEST APPREHENSIONS IN THE LAST 17 YEARS.
RESULTS OF TRUMP, JINPING MEETING
LAST WEEK’S MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JIN-PING, MAY HAVE SOME BENEFITS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. THE FINANCIAL TIMES REPORTING THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS SAY THEIR LEADER IS OFFERING TO LIFT THE 13 YEAR LONG BAN ON U.S. BEEF. ITS SIMILAR TO TALK WE’VE BEEN REPORTING FOR MONTHS BUT HAS YET TO MATERIALIZE. THOSE CHINESE OFFICIALS ALSO SAYING THE COUNTRY PROMISES TO BUY MORE AMERICAN GRAIN AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
CALIFORNIA DROUGHT FREE
AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HITTING A MILESTONE MANY THOUGHT THEY’D NEVER SEE AGAIN. GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCING THE END OF THE DROUGHT IN THE GOLDEN STATE.HE HAS ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER LIFTING THE DROUGHT EMERGENCY IN ALL BUT A FEW SAN JOAQUINE VALLEY COUNTIES. FOLLOWING A DRY, MILD WINTER OVER MUCH OF THE MIDWEST, A UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI METEOROLOGIST IS PREDICTING RELATIVELY WET AND MILD SUMMER IN THE CORNBELT. PROFESSOR TONY LOO-POE SAYS BEYOND SPIKES, HE EXPECTS NORMAL TEMPS AND AVERAGE RAINFALL. “I THINK WE’RE LOOKING AT CLOSE TO AVERAGE RAINFALL IN THE MIDWEST FOR THIS SUMMER THAT AND TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO NORMAL BUT MAYBE ON TH WARM SIDE OF NORMAL FOR THIS SPRING WE STARTED OUT DRY AND RECENTLY WE’VE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A PATTERN SHIFT TO LITTLE MOISTURE CONDITIONS AND I THINK THAT APRIL AND MAY BEING THE MOISTURE MONTHS OF THE CALENDAR WILL CONTINUE WITH THAT TREND. “
CROP COMMENTS
SOME FIELD WORK IS GETTING DONE THIS WEEK. MIKE HOFFMAN HAS A FEW DETAILS IN TODAY’S CROP COMMENTS.GOOD MORNING, CLINTON. OUR CROP COMMENT COMES FROM HAZEL, SOUTH DAKOTA WHERE ALEX HOLZWARTH IS SEEDING WHEAT. ALEX SAYS HE’S REDUCING HIS WHEAT ACREAGE THIS YEAR AND PLANTING 200 ACRES LESS THAN NORMAL. HE HAS OVER AH-THOUSAND ACRES. . AND NOW HERE ARE SOME HOMETOWN TEMPS. WITH MARKET PRICES CONSTANTLY CHANGING, IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE CURRENT PRICES STAND. GET MARKET PRICES DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE, JUST TEXT MARKETS TO 31313 TO GET STARTED!
TEASE
WHEN WE COME BACK, WE’LL TALK ABOUT THE MONEY SITTING IN YOUR BIN-- MANAGING OLD CROP CORN AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT IS OUR ANALYSIS DISCUSSION TODAY. COLLEGE STUDENTS PUT THEIR BOOK-SMARTS TO THE CHALLENGE OF HELPING REAL DAIRY FARMERS. FIND OUT HOW THEY DID WHEN WE HEAD IN THE COUNTRY. “WE’RE MAKING ANOTHER STOP ALONG OUR I-80 PLANTING TOUR BUT THIS TIME WE’RE IN WESTERN IOWA WHERE THE AREA IS SEEING A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF MOISTURE. HEAR FROM FARMERS, TOMORROW ON AGDAY. “AGDAY - BROUGHT TO YOU BY RESICORE HERBICIDE FOR CORN. WITH A UNIQUELY POWERFUL FORMULATION OF PROVEN INGREDIENTS, RESICORE GIVES YOU EXTRAORDINARY POWER OVER WEEDS. LEARN MORE AT POWEROVERWEEDS.COM.
FLOOR OF THE CME
IN AGRIBUSINESS IT WAS A VERY MIXED DAY FOR COMMODITIES TO START THE WEEK.LETS GET DETAILS FROM THE FLOOR OF THE CME IN CHICAGO. IT’S BEEN A STRONG DAY HERE IN THE CATTLE MARKET WITH HOGS KIND OF FOLLOWING ALONG, ALSO TRADING HIGHER WITH THE COURSE OF THE DAY. THE SPREAD BETWEEN CATTLE AND CASH FUTURES HAS BEEN EXTREMELY LARGE AND NEEDS TO GET MUCH CLOSER, ESPECIALLY IN THE APRIL CONTRACT WHICH IS GOING INTO DELIVERY RIGHT NOW. SO, EXPECT TO SEE GOOD SUPPORT ON ANY BREAKS, ESPECIALLY SHORT TERM IN THE CATTLE MARKET UNTIL THE SPREADS BETWEEN CASH AND FUTURES GET MORE INTO LINE. KIND OF A MIXED AND QUIET DAY IN THE GRAIN ROOM, MOST OF THIS STRENGTH COMING IN THE GRAINS AND THE CORN MARKET TODAY. CORN REACTING TO SOME RAIN FORECASTS HERE IN THE MIDWEST TODAY AND LATER ON THIS WEEK. PLANTING IS GETTING A LITTLE BOGGED DOWN HERE. WAY TOO EARLY TO GET TERRIBLY CONCERNED HERE ABOUT IT BUT IT IS ENOUGH FOR A MARKET TO DO SOME SHORT COVERING. I SUSPECT THAT WILL CONTINUE AS WE GO THROUGH THE NEXT FEW DAYS.THANKS VERY MUCH THIS IS JACK SCOVILLE I’M VICE PRESIDENT OF PRICE FUTURES GROUP HERE ON THE CME FLOOR WITH SOME PRICES ON THE MARKETS.
AGRIBUSINESS
AT THE AGRIBUSINESS DESK THIS WEEK, WHILE FARMERS WAIT TO GET IN THE FIELD, TYNE MORGAN JOINS US TO TALK ABOUT THAT OLD CROP IN THE BIN AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE REST OF 2017. WELCOME BACK HERE NOW WITH A CHIP NELLINGER OF BLUE REEF AGRI MARKETING ALRIGHT CHIP FOR OUR VIEWERS OUT THERE THAT STILL HAVE OLD CROP CORN IS PROBABLY MANY OF THEM WHAT ARE THERE OPTIONS RIGHT NOW WELL YOU HAVE A LOT OF OPTIONS. I THINK FIRST AND FOREMOST YOU HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN INTO A TIMEFRAME. LOOK WHERE WE’RE AT HERE ON THE CALENDAR HERE THE FIRST WEEK IN APRIL SO I THINK THE DECISION HAS TO BE MADE FIRST AND FOREMOST ARE THOSE BUSHELS THAT YOU’RE GONNA HOLD ALL THE WAY INTO THE JULY AUGUST TIMEFRAME AND PREPARED TO DO THAT OR ARE THOSE BUSHELS THAT YOUR PLAN ON MOVING SOME TIME IN THE NEXT THIRTY TO FORTY FIVE DAYS AND SO THAT ‘S THE FIRST DISTINCTION IF YOU FALL IN THAT SECOND CAMP WHERE NO I DON’T WANT TO HOLD IT OUT IN THE JULY AUGUST YOU DO HAVE A LOT OF OPTIONS FIRST AND FOREMOST YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT A PLAN RIGHT NOW ON HOW YOU WANNA DO THAT AND YOU MIGHT NOT WANT GIVE UP OWNERSHIP. SO YOU COULD DO A BASIS CONTRACT. YOU COULD SELL THOSE AND REPLACE THAT WITH A CALL YOU COULD SELL THEM AND REPLACE IT BY BEING A LONG FUTURE. SO THERE ‘S SEVERAL THINGS YOU CAN DO. STILL THE MOVE THE GRAIN THAT YOU WANT AT THE TIME YOU WANT AND RETAIN OWNERSHIP. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO GIVE IT UP RIGHT NOW. BUT LAST YEAR WE HAD OUR HIGH IN JUNE IT WAS SHORT LIVED BUT WE HAD OUR HIGH IN JUNE. IT IS IT WISE TO KEEP THAT IN MIND RIGHT NOW HEADING INTO THE SEASON YEAH ABSOLUTELY ARE TYPICALLY VIEWED AS IT CUT THE CORN MARKET UP AND LOOK AT IT FROM A SEASONAL PERSPECTIVE OVER A LONG TIME HISTORY YOU USUALLY HAVE A RALLY IN APRIL AND THAT ‘S THE PLANNING IN ACREAGE TYPE RALLY USUALLY SETBACK WHEN THE PLANTERS ARE ROLLING IN MAY AND THEN JUNE JULY WILL LAST THE THIRD WEEK IN JUNE FIRST WEEK IN JULY YOU CAN HAVE THAT SUMMER KIND OF A DROUGHT IN POLLINATION SCARE SO DEFINITELY KEEP THAT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU KNOW IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HOLD ALL THE WAY OUT INTO JUNE JULY YOU’D BETTER BE MAKING SOME PLANS RIGHT NOW BUT IF YOU DO YOU KNOW THERE IS PLENTY OF PRECEDENTS THAT WE DO HAVE SOME VOLATILITY IN BETTER PRICES OUT IN THE SUMMER SO IF YOU HAVE OLD CROP CORN ARE YOU SAYING DON’T PANIC I DON’T THINK IT ‘S TIME TO PANIC BUT FOR SURE YOU IT IS TIME TO WORK OUT A DEAL WITH WHEN YOU WANT THOSE BUSHELS MOVE SO SOMETIMES PRODUCERS CAN PUT THAT ON THE BACK BURNER ESPECIALLY WHEN IT ‘S THAT TIME FOR FIELD WORK IN PLANTING AND IT REALLY SHOULD BE FRONT CENTER RIGHT NOW. AS FAR AS A PLAN OF WHEN YOU WANT TO MOVE THOSE TO YOUR BEST LIKING YEAH ALRIGHT THANK YOU CHIP STAY WITH US WILL BE BACK WITH MORE AGDAY IN JUST A MOMENT GET THE ROOTS YOUR CROPS NEED, BY GETTING RADIATE FIRST. VISIT LOVELAND PRODUCTS.COM SLASH RADIATE. SEE YOUR CPS DEALER TODAY.
WEATHER
WELCOME BACK TO AGDAY METEOROLOGIST MIKE HOFFMAN MIKE A CALIFORNIA FINALLY DECLARING THAT FIVE YEAR DROUGHT OVER IT LOOKS LIKE MORE RAIN ON THE WAY YES A LITTLE BIT THOSE WERE HEADING NORTHEAST UP OVER A RIDGE SO WE ARE IN A DIFFERENT WEATHER PATTERN THAN WE WERE OVER THE PAST THREE OR FOUR WEEKS BUT STILL SOME RAIN AROUND THE LARGEST SYSTEM IS ONE OF THE GREAT LAKES AND PRODUCE SOME SEVERE WEATHER YESTERDAY IN THAT MIGHT TODAY BUT I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HIT AND MISS AS THIS WEAKENING AS IT KIND OF COMES EASTWARD ALSO A COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR PART TO NEW ENGLAND WITH A FEW SHOWERS ALONG THAT AND SOME AT HEAVIER RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS PARTS OF SOUTH TEXAS THE SYSTEM ‘S HEADING DUE SOUTH ALSO IT ‘S REALLY NOT GOING TO COME EASTWARD AND YOU CAN WATCH THIS NEXT SYSTEM CANNOT MOVING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST SO IT IS GOING TO PRODUCE SOME RAIN INTO A NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WESTERN OREGON BUT AGAIN THAT IS HEADING NORTH EASTWARD NOT REALLY COMING DUE EAST INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY SO AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE DAY A NIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE DAY TOMORROW AND SEE SOME SHOWERS FROM NEW ENGLAND DOWN INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. NOTHING HEAVY EXPECTED THERE IN THAT SYSTEM IN SOUTH TEXAS IS HEADING SOUTH AND YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOWS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LITTLE BIT MORE ENERGY FEEDING INTO THIS SYSTEM THAT WILL BRING MORE RAIN TO US CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AGAIN LATER IN THE DAY TOMORROW WITH THIS COLD FRONT THAT WAS SLOWING DOWN BUT MOVING INTO THE MID ATLANTIC WITH A FEW SHOWERS LINGERING SHOWERS INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND A LITTLE BIT KIND OF TRAILING THIS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WITH A FRONTAL SYSTEM DOWN INTO A WEST WEST TEXAS AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO. THERE ‘S A LOOK AT THE RAIN OVER THE PAST TWENTY FOUR HOURS YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF IT HAS BEEN ALONG THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THIS FRONT AND THAT AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DOWN OF THE SOUTH ADDING IN THE NEXT THIRTY SIX HOURS WELL ADD SOME SOUTHWARD IN THE EASTERN MEXICO AND THAT ‘S A LIGHTER AMOUNTS ALONG THAT FRONT FROM NEW ENGLAND ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO EASTERN TENNESSEE. NORTHERN GEORGIA. YOU CAN SEE THE SYSTEM OUT WEST NOTHING MAJOR BUT A LITTLE BIT MORE MOISTURE ONCE AGAIN FOR NORTHERN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SNOWFALL MAINLY NORTHERN TIER OF STAGING SEE OVER THE PAST THIRTY SIX HOURS A LITTLE BIT MORE U P OF MICHIGAN THERE OVER THE NEXT THIRTY SIX AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE KIND OF NEAR THE END OF THE THIRTY SIX HOUR PERIOD FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ROCKIES. HIGHS TODAY PRETTY WARM EAST COAST GULF COAST SEVENTY’S TO NEAR EIGHTY FIFTIES AND SIXTIES THOUGH BEHIND THIS FRONT WAS SOME CHILLIER AIR OVER THE NORTHERN GREAT LAKES. WITH THAT SNOW BUT THAT ‘S JUST KIND OF A SMALL AREA THAT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THESE LOWS TONIGHT THIRTIES FROM THE GREAT LAKES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. OTHERWISE ON THE MILD SIDE HIGHS TOMORROW ITS GOING TO BE MILD FOR MOST OF THE CORN BELT YOU CAN SEE WE GET RID OF THOSE THIRTIES AND LOWS OR HIGHS IN THE FORTIES AGAIN FOR THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE GREAT LAKES THERE’S THE JET STREAM AGAIN AND NONE OF THOSE BEING CUT ALSO OVER THE SOUTHWEST ANYMORE WE DO HAVE A A PRETTY GOOD CUT OFF OFF THE WEST COAST BUT THAT ‘S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT WHILE SPREADING THE SYSTEM ‘S EASTWARD AND YOU CAN SEE THAT RIDGE KIND OF MAKES EVERYTHING GO UP NORTH INTO CANADA AND THEN BACK DOWN INTO NEW ENGLAND THAT BY TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK THAT ‘S A LOOK ACROSS THE COUNTRY NOW LET ‘S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME LOCAL FORECASTS. WE’LL GO TO VAUGHN NEW MEXICO FIRST OF ALL LOTS OF SUNSHINE AND COMFORTABLE THE DAY HIGH OF SIXTY EIGHT DEGREES CROOKSTON MINNESOTA PERIODS OF CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE HIGH OF FIFTY FOUR AND CAMBRIDGE OHIO MOSTLY CLOUDY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM. HIGH AROUND SEVENTY.
TEASE
OUR DAIRY REPORT IS NEXT INCLUDING DETAILS ON NEW INVESTMENTS THAT COULD HELP THE UPPER MIDWEST WITH ITS GLUT OF PRODUCT. PLUS, COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE PUT TO THE TEST TO COME-UP WITH A PLAN TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCIES ON THIS WISCONSIN DAIRY FARM. MORE ON THIS DAIRY CHALLENGE, LATER ON AGDAY.
DAIRY REPORT
IN OUR DAIRY REPORT, USDA RELEASING ITS FEBRUARY DAIRY PRODUCTS REPORT. TOTAL CHEESE OUTPUT IN AT 942 MILLION POUNDS. THAT’S DOWN FROM A YEAR AGO AND NEARLY 10 PERCENT LOWER THAN LAST MONTH. BUTTER PRODUCTION ALSO DOWN IN BOTH INSTANCES...AT 164 MILLION POUNDS. WHILE NONFAT DRY MILK POWDER PRODUCTION CAME IN AT 140 MILLION POUNDS. PART OF THE REASON FOR THE DROP IN PRODUCTION EXAGGERATED BY THE CALENDAR. FEBRUARY 2016 WAS A LEAP YEAR WITH ONE EXTRA DAY OF PRODUCTION. IN MICHIGAN, ITS NOW ONE OF SEVERAL STATES IN THE UPPER MIDWEST SEEING A GLUT OF MILK. ACCORDING TO OUR PARTNERS AT MILK MAGAZINE, DAIRY PROCESSOR FAIRLIFE AND ITS SISTER COMPANY CONTINENTAL DAIRY PLANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. MBIZ DOT COM IN WESTERN MICHIGAN SAYS THAT CONTINENTAL DAIRY AND FAIRLIFE ARE PLANNING A 173 MILLION DOLLAR EXPANSION IN THE STATE. 53 MILLION WILL GO TOWARD A NEW BUTTER PRODUCTION FACILITY. 120 MILLION MILLION TOWARD A NEW BOTTLING LINE FOR A PRODUCT BEING SHIPPED TO DUNKIN DONUTS. THE EXPANSION SHOULD ADD JOBS AND A NEW DESTINATION FOR MILK. AND FROM OUR PARTNERS AT DAIRY HERD MANAGEMENT, A NEW STUDY OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LOOKED AT INDOOR COWS ACCESS TO PASTURE. THE RESEARCH FOUND THAT DAIRY COWS SEEM TO REALLY WANT OUTDOOR PASTURE ACCESS AND ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. THEY MEASURED THE DESIRE BY USING A WEIGHTED GATE. THE SCIENTISTS SAY THE STUDY SHOWS WHILE INDOOR COWS ARE GETTING BASIC FOOD, WATER AND SHELTER NEEDS MET, OUTDOOR GRAZING IS A STRONG PART OF THEIR NATURAL BEHAVIOR.
TEASE
STILL TO COME - SEE HOW THE NEXT GENERATION OF DAIRY PROFESSIONALS ARE PUTTING THEIR CLASSROOM STUDIES INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. IN THE COUNTRY IS NEXT.
IN THE COUNTRY
IN THE COUNTRY - SPONSORED BY KUBOTA. DISCOVER THE POWER BEHIND THE M6 SERIES AT KUBOTA.COM.FOR 12 YEARS THE NORTH AMERICAN INTER-COLLEGIATE DAIRY CHALLENGE HAS GIVEN COLLEGE STUDENTS - WHO HOPE TO WORK IN THE DAIRY SECTOR - A PLACE TO PUT THEIR CLASSROOM STUDIES INTO REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS. THE TEAMS ASSESS DAIRY FARMS AND CREATE A PLAN TO IMPROVE THE OPERATION. THE COMPETITION IS BROKEN INTO FOUR REGIONS IN THE COUNTRY. IN THIS VIDEO PROVIDED BY THE WISCONSIN MILK MARKETING BOARD, WE HEAD TO THE MIDWEST DAIRY CHALLENGE TO LOOK AT THE BENEFITS OF THE EVENT. THE NEXT GENERATION OF DAIRY LEADERS HAD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN HANDS-ON, PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THEIR FUTURE CAREERS. “I INTERNED WITH A NUTRITIONIST THIS SUMMER AND A LOT OF WHAT NUTRITIONISTS DO IS THIS WHOLE FARM AUDITING. KIND OF JUST LOOKING OUT TRYING TO SAVE MONEY WHERE YOU CAN AND I THINK IT JUST APPEALS TO ME BECAUSE WE’RE HELPING THE FARMER TRYING TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY.” “IT GIVES YOU THAT DYNAMIC OF, ‘I’VE GONE TO SCHOOL, I’VE LEARNED IT, NOW I CAN EVALUATE ANOTHER FARMER PROGRAM AND HELP THEM ACCELERATE THEMSELVES.” MIDWEST DAIRY CHALLENGE IS A THREE-DAY EVENT WHERE TEAMS OF STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT COLLEGES ARE PAIRED WITH INDUSTRY MENTORS. THEY PARTICIPATE IN WORKSHOPS ON FINANCE, ANIMAL WELFARE AND OPTIMIZING COW COMFORT. THE TEAMS ALSO EVALUATE A DAIRY FARM, ANALYZE DATA AND INTERVIEW FARM OWNERS. “THE STUDENTS GET TO BE ON THE FARM FOR ABOUT TWO- TWO AND A HALF HOURS, SO IT’S REALLY NOT A LOT OF TIME TO TRY AND TROUBLESHOOT WHATEVER BOTTLE NECKS MIGHT BE OCCURRING ON THE FARM."USING THEIR CLASSROOM KNOWLEDGE, THE STUDENT TEAMS DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS TO HELP THE DAIRY FARMERS OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND PROFITABILITY ON THEIR FARMS. “THEY’LL GIVE THEIR ASSESSMENTS TO A PANEL OF INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS AND THOSE PROFESSIONALS COMPARE THEIR NOTES TO THE STUDENTS’, AND THERE’LL BE SOME WINNING TEAMS. “WHETHER THEY’RE ON THE WINNING TEAM OR NOT, STUDENTS WILL BENEFIT FROM THE EXPERIENCE."I CAME TO MADISON WITH THE PURPOSE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DAIRY AND TO FURTHER MY EDUCATION SO I CAN BECOME A WELL-ROUNDED DAIRY PROFESSIONAL. “AND THAT’S WISCONSIN DAIRY NEWS.
CLOSE
THAT’S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE THIS MORNING. WE’RE GLAD YOU TUNED IN. FOR ALL OF US AT AGDAY. I’M CLINTON GRIFFITHS. HAVE A GREAT DAY
