DISASTER RELIEF: Via Minnesota Corn, VERBATIM: “The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced details of the new Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), which will include assistance for natural disaster related losses in 2023 and 2024. For a refresh on economic and disaster aid included in an end-of-year spending bill refer to UDSA provides update on economic, disaster recovery assistance. USDA launched sign-ups on July 9. USDA will be sending prefilled applications to eligible farmers in addition to offering sign-up at the local FSA office. There is $16 billion in available assistance through the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP).” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44J4IbR (SPONSORED: Minnesota Corn Growers Association)
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NEXT WEEK: Via Brownfield, VERBATIM: “Corn growers from across the country are heading to Washington, D.C., next week. Garrett Hawkins, president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, says the annual Corn Congress, an event organized by NCGA, is an opportunity to build on key legislative relationships.” HAWKINS: “Whenever you’re actually meeting face to face with your senators and congressmen and women, that means a lot.” He says, “I mean, to me, that’s what makes the biggest impression. You know, we’re the voice for the corn farmer that can’t be there.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4eJoUyV
LAYOFFS: Via KTTC-TV, VERBATIM: “The University of Minnesota Extension announced on Monday, Jul. 7 it was laying off all 60 nutrition and health educators in its SNAP-Ed program. The cuts are a result of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which eliminated federal funding for SNAP education programs across the country. SNAP-Ed is the free educational arm of the federal food assistance program SNAP. For 35 years, Minnesota educators have been teaching SNAP recipients lessons, including how to budget SNAP funds, cook healthy meals, grow a garden, and stay physically healthy.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/4kvoEoj
CHS: Via Duluth News Tribune, VERBATIM: “CHS Inc. officials notified local officials and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that the company plans to permanently close the largest grain elevator in the Twin Ports. The facility, at 41 Dock St. in Superior, will cease operations effective Aug. 31, according to the notice provided to the Department of Workforce Development. CHS has not yet made a public announcement or responded to an inquiry from the Duluth Media Group.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3GFdBLy
MORE: Via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “The Superior Terminal, which was built in 1936, can hold 18 million bushels within its 504 concrete silos and 15 steel tanks. The grain kept at the terminal at 41 Dock, Superior, Wis., is exported from here to Algeria, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela, the company said in 2023. At the time, it was loading up to 40 vessels a year.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/467c7UQ
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EGGS: Via Politico, VERBATIM: “The Trump administration claims California is contributing to the rising price of eggs nationwide — and has filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify state laws regulating their production. California’s egg standards, the lawsuit says, have ‘been effective in raising prices for American consumers’ . . . The administration argues that Prop 2, a statewide ballot measure voters passed in 2008 that created welfare mandates for farm animals such as egg-laying hens, and AB 1437, which regulates egg quality for human consumption, work in tandem to depress egg production, driving up prices. The lawsuit also calls out a more recent voter initiative passed in 2018, Proposition 12, which introduced specific minimum-space requirements for chickens and other farm animals.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4eP4tRc
MORE: Via Reuters, VERBATIM: “The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, argues that the federal Egg Products Inspection Act of 1970 pre-empts state laws related to eggs. The federal law authorizes the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services to regulate eggs in order to protect consumers' health and welfare, and it also requires ‘national uniformity’ in egg safety standards, according to the Trump administration's lawsuit.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4lVd6Mx
CROP PROGRESS: Via Marshall Independent, VERBATIM: “Boosted by sunshine and rain, a Brown County farmer voiced optimism about the corn crop this year. ‘The corn looks really good, growing fast,’ said Justin Remus. ‘It’s tracking ahead of schedule, maybe a week or 10 days ahead of where it was at this time the past couple years. We’ve had the rain we need to maintain it. Production-wise, most farmers around here have things going right.’ He said the picture isn’t quite as bright for some soybean farmers.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4lSZUI2
STOCKS: Via Brownfield, VERBATIM: “The USDA has tightened the balance sheets for U.S. corn and wheat, while raising the ending stocks guess for soybeans. New crop corn ending stocks are now pegged at 1.66 billion bushels, down 90 million from June on lower beginning stocks, a smaller crop because of acreage adjustments, and increased feed use. The average 2025/26 farm price is estimated at $4.20 per bushel, unchanged from a month ago and $.10 lower than the current estimate for 2024/25.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4nHeUtV
DROUGHT: Recent rain has helped. The new Drought Monitor out this morning shows just 5% of the state is now in drought with 37% abnormally dry. MAP: https://fluence-media.co/3zN8TDo
MEXICO: Via Associated Press, VERBATIM: “The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported. Mexico's president was critical Thursday, suggesting that the U.S. is exaggerating the threat to its beef industry from the parasite, the New World screwworm fly. The female flies lay eggs in wounds on warm-blooded animals, hatching larvae that are unusual among flies for feeding on live flesh and fluids instead of dead material. American officials worry that if the fly reaches Texas, its flesh-eating maggots could cause large economic losses, something that happened decades ago.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44r4l6X
MORE: Via Brownfield, VERBATIM: “Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, says the USDA has been monitoring conditions on the ground, and the decision was made to protect American agriculture.” WOODALL: “A new case that is further north in the state of Veracruz,” he says. “Which means that the New World screwworm flies are continuing their northward incursion, and so that is what she needed to make the decision to shut down the ports.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4eJ75jr
FRESH15: The latest season of Fresh15 includes interviews with new Minnesota House members. So far, five new members have shared their goals, background and fun facts before they take office in a historic session this January.
Rep. Kari Rehrauer
Rep. Wayne Johnson
Rep. Julie Greene
Rep. Keith Allen
Rep. Peter Johnson
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NEXT MONTH: Via Morning Ag Clips, VERBATIM: “Following a winning scorecard in 2024, the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) is playing another round on the MiniSoyta Golf Course Aug. 5-7 at Farmfest in Morgan. Minnesota Soybean’s booth #620 will tee-up checkoff investments across several priority areas – each of which keeps farmers on the fairway and atop the ag leaderboard.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3GkCpbJ
BUDGET BILL: Via WCCO-TV, VERBATIM: “Farmers are set to see a boost from the so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ that Congress cleared and President Trump signed into law last week. That tax and spending package includes $66.4 billion in new money for programs assisting farmers, strengthening the safety net if there is significant volatility in crop prices and revenues. There are also enhancements to crop insurance. While the legislation rolls back climate friendly tax incentives established in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act for wind and solar development, it extends the clean energy fuel production credit until 2029 — though the value of that credit is reduced.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/46BS7cY
USDA: Via USDA, VERBATIM: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published a final rule removing requirements for the use of discriminatory racial and gender preferences in USDA programs when these requirements are not required by an act of Congress. The Biden Administration weaponized USDA programs to willfully discriminate on the basis of race and gender. This was found to be unconstitutional by a Federal District Court and no appeal was filed, clearly an uncontroverted admission that it had acted illegally.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44Isy7s
LORETTO: From assistant ag commissioner Patrice Bailey via X, VERBATIM: “Commissioner Petersen, Assistant Commissioner Bailey and MDA staff went to visit Marcus Carpenter in Loretto Minnesota freight container for Route 1.” PHOTOS: https://fluence-media.co/3GG7PsY
BREAKFAST: Via Red Wing Republican Eagle, VERBATIM: “Green Acres Organic Dairy Farm welcomed approximately 2,000 people on Friday, June 20, for Breakfast on the Farm. Visitors were able to enjoy a complimentary breakfast that served egg bake, donuts and donut holes, bananas, Go-Gurts, and Organic Valley cheese sticks and milk. Again, this year there was ice cream and 240 pounds of battered fried cheese curds fresh from Ellsworth creamery.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/40cxvEn
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WEATHER: From North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network’s Daryl Ritchison via X, VERBATIM: “A new station near Cologne Minnesota is now on the @NDAWNmesonet websites courtesy of our partners @MNagriculture. What a great partnership. You have a great team @ThommyPetersen. Three new stations this week filling in the Minnesota map.” MAP: https://fluence-media.co/3TwIkNN
AUGUST: Via Farm Progress, VERBATIM: “In Minnesota climate history, August is often one of the wettest three months of the year. In addition, more often than not, August delivers much more rainfall to southern Minnesota than to central or northern Minnesota. For example, average August rainfall in southern counties is about 4 inches, and the average in far northern counties is about 3 inches. In extremely wet months of August, the disparity between the south and north can be quite large. For example, in the very wet August of 2007, when the average monthly rainfall across southern Minnesota was almost 9.25 inches, the northern counties only reported an average monthly rainfall of 1.4 inches.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4lykugT
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