Kids & Cows-Claire, HAY FROM RED RIVER VALLEY, USDA CROP UPDATE, ALFALFA UPDATE

[upbeat music] Monday morning, let's take a look at some agricultural news for you real quick this morning.

So on Friday, the USDA economists released their October crop production and agricultural supply and demand report, and they went against the pre-report expectations and bumped up the corn yield by 2.7 bushels per acre to 181.2 bushels per acre.

Corn production was raised from 15.8 billion bushels up to 16.03 billion bushels.

Planted acres for this year's corn crop came in at 96.8 million acres.

And for soybeans, the USDA estimates that farmers are growing about 4.562 billion bushels of beans with a yield estimate of 53.1 bushels per acre.

And planted acres this year were at 86.9 million acres.

Crop producers who signed up for the agricultural risk coverage and price loss coverage programs will see about 13.8 billion in gross payments for the 2025 crop year.

Now, that would be the largest payout for the program since it was established in the 2014 Farm Bill.

So that's some pretty good stuff there, isn't it, Jill?

Oh, absolutely.

[laughs]

Caught you off guard.

[laughs]

No, I had to grab the mic and pull it around to me, so...

Um, but you know what? I, I still am a little bit behind on this, uh, corn production 'cause the corn yield, because I know Iowa's having a hard time getting their corn crop off because of all the rain-

Mm-hmm

... and with the variability here in the State of Wisconsin, and I understand that Wisconsin is not one of the big hitters when it comes to corn production, but we still do have a piece of that pie when it comes to producing that corn and getting it out there.

So I, uh, we'll just have to see what really happens when it gets in the bins.

Yeah, I mean, and that's just it.

I mean, you see what's going on.

There's corn everywhere and beans everywhere, but we didn't have the rain in certain areas here.

Oh, absolutely.

So how is that gonna impact these yields? I mean, th- and they're looking at it as a whole, not just Wisconsin.

So that's, that, that's a big area to cover versus our little neck of the woods, I guess you could call it.

Oh, and absolutely.

[upbeat music] Monday morning, let's take a look at some agricultural news for you real quick this morning.

So on Friday, the USDA economists released their October crop production and agricultural supply and demand report, and they went against the pre-report expectations and bumped up the corn yield by 2.7 bushels per acre to 181.2 bushels per acre.

Corn production was raised from 15.8 billion bushels up to 16.03 billion bushels.

Planted acres for this year's corn crop came in at 96.8 million acres.

And for soybeans, the USDA estimates that farmers are growing about 4.562 billion bushels of beans with a yield estimate of 53.1 bushels per acre.

And planted acres this year were at 86.9 million acres.

Crop producers who signed up for the agricultural risk coverage and price loss coverage programs will see about 13.8 billion in gross payments for the 2025 crop year.

Now, that would be the largest payout for the program since it was established in the 2014 Farm Bill.

So that's some pretty good stuff there, isn't it, Jill?

Oh, absolutely.

[laughs]

Caught you off guard.

[laughs]

No, I had to grab the mic and pull it around to me, so...

Um, but you know what? I, I still am a little bit behind on this, uh, corn production 'cause the corn yield, because I know Iowa's having a hard time getting their corn crop off because of all the rain-

Mm-hmm

... and with the variability here in the State of Wisconsin, and I understand that Wisconsin is not one of the big hitters when it comes to corn production, but we still do have a piece of that pie when it comes to producing that corn and getting it out there.

So I, uh, we'll just have to see what really happens when it gets in the bins.

Yeah, I mean, and that's just it.

I mean, you see what's going on.

There's corn everywhere and beans everywhere, but we didn't have the rain in certain areas here.

Oh, absolutely.

So how is that gonna impact these yields? I mean, th- and they're looking at it as a whole, not just Wisconsin.

So that's, that, that's a big area to cover versus our little neck of the woods, I guess you could call it.

Oh, and absolutely.