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Speaker 1: I'm Dave Deboe, News Radio Wham 1180. Next news, 1130, breaking news when it happens any time. But first, another hour with Bob Lonsbury. Starts now on News Radio Wham 1180.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. Good morning, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning in. Peering out the window here, it's a flat-out beautiful day for a radio program. There yesterday was this big meeting at the White House. I'm sorry, I've got a guest. Shut my mouth. I'm going to be joined by a member of the Monroe County Legislature and a seventh generation Monroe County farmer, the Honorable Robert Colby.
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Speaker 3: Sir, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the broadcast.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Bob. How's your day going?
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Speaker 2: Great, sir. I hope yours is as well. And I hope that your season is going all right.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: It's nice and dry today.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Outstanding.
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Speaker 2: Outstanding. Well, we touch base with you periodically to talk about agriculture. I just want to see how the harvest was going, what that meant for farmers, what it means for those who buy produce. And I also wanted to check in and see what the cost of diesel or other issues facing agriculture might be upon you. So please, sir, give your report.
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Speaker 4: Okay, let's start with the harvest. We're done harvesting our potatoes, and we're getting ready to harvest corn silage and other grains. I'd like to remind all the listeners out there that if you're out in the countryside, be aware there's a lot more traffic, farm vehicles on the roads right now for the next month or so. So I know they're slow moving and they might irritate you a little bit, but keep their safety in mind for both you and the farmers, please. So that's everything else. And then be careful around the orchards because all the orchards, We're harvesting apples now. It's a great time to go get your cider and your donuts at any farm market locally. In the apple season, they tell me with all the moisture and the temperature we had, the apple crop looks really sweet this year. So that is pretty much the report. Squash is coming up. So don't be shy to go get your squash. You're not going to find it any better or any cheaper than you are now.
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Speaker 6: Excellent.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned corn silage, field corn, hard corn. What happens to that corn?
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Speaker 4: We have two uses. When I take corn silage, we chop the whole plant up and we put it in a big pile and pack it or in a silo and we let it ferment. And when it ferments, it keeps. And that's what we feed the cows throughout the year. It's a good energy source. It's a very economical source for us to harvest and store because it's the whole plant. We utilize the whole plant, not.
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Speaker 5: Just the kernels.
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Speaker 4: So it's a mainstay for the dairy industry in western New York. And then the other thing is we also harvest soybeans and hard corn, which is the same corn plant, but we just take the kernels. And they either use those to feed cows, or they use that to make ethanol out of, or they use it to make cornflakes.
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Speaker 2: Cornflakes. Can that be ground up, like, into cornmeal and stuff like that also?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 4: What about... Harmony.
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Speaker 2: What about the, like, corn syrup? Where does that come from?
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Speaker 4: That comes from the same corn product that we're talking about. They'll take it and they run it through a... a squeeze processor, and pull the sweetness out of the corn. Then the remaining corn product, which is high in protein, we use as cattle feed, so nothing goes to waste.
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Speaker 2: Outstanding. Outstanding. Very good.
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Speaker 4: Agriculture is one of the few industries that makes a lot of products but doesn't fill landfills. I mean, you take anything... We feed cows cotton seed that's left over from the cotton plant. But the seed is a good feed product. You know, when they make ethanol, after they get done using the corn for the ethanol, the remaining product called distillers, we feed the cows. So the agriculture industry doesn't fill landfills. We figure out how to use everything. we use, and if not, we take it out to the field and put it back on the soil for the next crop.
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Speaker 2: He's Robert Colby. He's a member of the Monroe County Legislature, also a seventh-generation farmer in Monroe County. How is diesel affecting you, please, sir?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's costing us about twice what it was this spring. We run about $ 4, 000 a month. And then when we get to harvest season, that almost doubles. And so usually it's about $ 2, 500, and this year we'll probably be paying over $ 8, 000 for the month. But the bigger thing in energy, what's hurting us worse than that is electric bills. Our electric bills are up.
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Speaker 5: More than double.
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Speaker 4: And we've been told... that some of the processing plants have been put on limits of electric use expansion because they don't have enough electric in the grid right now for some of the processing facilities.
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Speaker 2: Processing what sort of products, sir?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think some of the milk plants might be having some trouble, but it's just what I've been told. I haven't actually seen it myself, but that's what I'm being told by the big processors.
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Speaker 2: This is Robert Colby of the Monroe County Legislature. Fuel to harvest and such, taking products on and off the farm also, that's diesel expense. Does that all come out of your hide, or where does that show up in our prices?
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Speaker 4: That shows up in your prices, but some of it comes out of our hide. Because the freight bills, You know, with the farming is we're price takers on a lot of our products. And so when they try to hold the price, then they push the cost down onto the farmer in a lot of instances. That's why I like being a member of Upstate Farms because it's a co-op. So that co-op, that processors and that business doesn't push stuff down on the farmers because we own it. So That's the nice thing about being in the co-op, as progressive as upstate milk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaking to Robert Colby, I'm a big upstate farms fan. The move down to Williamsport and the extra transportation costs with this high diesel period we're in, that's probably not helping things too much.
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Speaker 4: That's true, but most of the milk, not all, but most of the milk that goes there is going down into Pennsylvania to different stores that way. So the milk's already traveling that way anyway. There is a few products that have to come back to the Rochester area, but now more of that milk, if you look, is being processed either at our Syracuse plant. They got things shipped around, so more of it being processed in our Syracuse plant and or the Buffalo plant and not coming back from Erie.
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Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. Robert Colby, seventh generation farmer. I'm ignorant. Are there many beef producers around here? And I wonder if anybody's got any reaction to, you know, the president was going to bring in this foreign beef. I don't know if that's occurred, but I wonder if that's a variable out there for any local farmers, sir.
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Speaker 4: Well, in our instance, we sell our male bull calves at a young age. to other farmers that raise them up to full age for meat. So if they get pushed down on meat price, then they can't pay as much for our calves. So it does have a little effect to us. Most of the meat that they're bringing in, my understanding, is what I call low-grade meat. It's your hamburger and those type of meat. It's not having as big of an effect as you might think, but it is suppressing it probably 10%. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it is Robert Colby. Anything else going on on the farm we should know about, sir?
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Speaker 4: No, just be careful around the roads, like I said at the start, because there's a lot of traffic and there's been a few accidents this year already, and I hate to see any more. And hopefully we have good weather for the next month before we get everything harvested. I know all the farmers are looking forward to it. The grain market on the plus side is the corn and soybean prices that we're looking at are probably up 15% to 18% from where they were at the start of August. So... That's a good sign. That's because some of the trade deals that have taken place in the last month here has helped out the grain farmers quite a bit. I grow soybeans and wheat. They're all up 15% to 20%. So that kind of helps offset some of the cost of diesel fuel for the farmers at least. Try to buy local as much as you can because that will cut down on the use of diesel fuel and any diesel fuel we stop using will help reduce the price of diesel fuel because it reduces demand. It also always helps to support your local progress. Right now is the best time to buy Almost any product from A to Z in one of your local farm markets or certain grocery stores.
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Speaker 2: 100%. Immigration enforcement affecting agriculture locally?
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Speaker 4: Boy, you're really going over all the issues today. No, I haven't heard any major problems. There's a little bit of nervousness out there, but... Most all the enforcement I've heard about has been targeted to, even if it's been on a farm, it's been targeted to felons that have been given due process already. So there hasn't been a big problem. There is a labor shortage, but that has been here for the last three or four years anyways.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. This is Robert Colby, Monroe County Legislature, 7th Generation Farmer. Sir, as always, thank you so much. Thanks for feeding us, and thanks for informing us.
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Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for having me on, Bob. I look forward to talking to you in a couple weeks again and give you another update of the harvest.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Robert Colby, Colby Farms, back in a moment on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Lead the world in artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: A photo my daughter aubrey you know she used to work on this program like 15 years ago or something uh she's a captain in the army she commands for another few days an artillery battery with the 82nd airborne division she and her husband both captains um with the 82nd and they both are under orders to uh fairly soon move over to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he will command a headquarters battery there. And she will teach in the artillery school. And that means that they're leaving Fort Bragg. And at Fort Bragg, they're active, they're paratroopers, right? And so, you know, they jump out airplanes and such. And there's a tradition that when you leave the division when you get orders away from the 82nd Airborne, either in a transfer like my daughter and her husband are going through, or say if you retire or it's the end of your time in the service, there'll be a certain point where today's parachute jump is your last parachute jump. And they have this tradition called burying your wings. you make your jump and there at the drop zone or whatever, there will be, you know, you'll take your little parachutist wings or a set of parachutist wings and you will dig a hole in the ground and you will leave them there. You will bury your wings. You, of course, continue to wear them on your uniform and you remain, you know, parachutist qualified, obviously, but it's a little bit of a thank you and goodbye, a departure from in this case, the 82nd Airborne. So yesterday, they both buried their wings. It was their last parachute jump at Fort Bragg. And they were able to do it together with some other soldiers, obviously a lot of other soldiers. And also, they have two children, a little boy and a little girl. And their children were able to come out and watch mom and dad make this last parachute jump. So there was a great photo taken. I'll post that at Facebook and X under Bob Lonsbury here in a moment. But pretty sweet experience and a little misty-eyed and such like that. And I'll be trying to work that damn Walmart photo app so that when I drive home tonight, I can pick up my 8x10 and put it in a frame somewhere and look at it admiringly for the next few decades. But anyway, a sweet little milestone as her military career unfolds. moves on to its next step. We're going to get news now from the great Dave Debo on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. NewsRadio WHAM 1180, an iHeartRadio station, guaranteed human. Everybody loves a perk, especially from Stellar. Almost always without fail, recovered in the city of Rochester. Well, what are the odds of that? No, I'm with you pretty much 100%. But I thought I'd throw it out there, okay? Yesterday, President Trump got together with a whole bunch of artificial intelligence bosses at the White House, Meta, Google, NVIDIA, SpaceX, AI, Amazon, OpenAI, a whole bunch of them. And they came up with something of an agreement, which essentially says that the AI companies will kind of police themselves and one another. The president was asked if the agreement was legally binding. He said it's morally binding. And of course, you have a lot of folks who are telling us that the sky is falling and that AI is going to kill all of humanity. I've got to think that there are a lot of people in Polynesia. who aren't that concerned about AI coming to kill them. And you don't need to go that far. I bet that the Amish people probably are going to be okay if the AI goes sideways, right? In fact, I'll be honest with you. We, through history, have had a series of situations where there has been some new revolutionary technology. involving our food, our weapons, electricity in the home, natural gas pipe to every house. It'll explode and kill us all. I mean, at almost every significant advance in a technological standpoint, there has been a hullabaloo raised with cries of warning, terrible bad things are going to come. And Thus far, none of it's happened, right? We survived Y2K, right? But thus far, no warning of technological mayhem has ever come true. Now, that doesn't mean that it couldn't come true someday, but it does indicate that cries of technological mayhem thus far have not proven reliable. And I'm an ignorant person. I don't even know what AI is, okay, really? But I can't think of any time in history where taking counsel of our fears has been the right thing. Now, let me say this. Yesterday, what the president did was completely in keeping with what a Republican like me believes. I don't know AI, but I do know the role of government in the United States. The role of government... is to stay the hell out of the way. That government is best, which governs least. That's Thomas Jefferson talking, who studied up on the subject, I believe. And invariably in America, when the government feels like it's the daddy, we all get screwed. We create restrictions, obstructions, We introduce inefficiency. Look at New York State, right? The proof of the pudding. Government's role is not to regulate everything. Government's role is not to be the daddy, right? Government's goal is to assure and protect freedom. It says so in the Declaration. And so, again, I don't know AI, but I do know the role of government. And, you know, I'm not a Trump cheerleader. I criticize him as much as I praise him. But yesterday, when he comes out and he says, we talked about it, we came up with this general set of guidelines, and we're going to be self-policing, and now we're going to go forward, that's what I voted for. That's what American history shows works. We don't want the nanny state. We don't want everything regulated. We don't want the government in charge because the government, nine times out of ten, doesn't know its head from a hole in the ground. And further, even if government was staffed by the smartest people on the planet, it's not their job.
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Speaker 4: It's not government.
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Speaker 2: Government's role. And so some outlines of the ethics of the new industry were laid out there. And these companies agreed to abide by that ethic. And forward we will go in a fashion that allows us to retain our primacy over China and in the AI world, and in a fashion that will continue to develop these products for the benefit and service of humankind. Now, there are people who want to scare you, and maybe you can be scared. We all have our opinions. But again, never before has technology proven to be our downfall. And In almost every instance previously in our history, the steady forward progress of technology has brought a steady betterment of human life. Now, when Trump says, this is the next big thing, this is going to help our country tremendously, he's not wrong just because he's Trump. And you should not kick against it just because Trump said it. And I also would politely say, that if we have been so conditioned to the nanny state that we don't feel safe and comfortable unless government is watching over this, then we need just a little bit of a reminder about what it means to be an American. We're the freedom country. And the fact is that chains are still chains even if you ask the master to put them on you. And We don't want the government restricting us. So my thought is, I know we're all supposed to be pissed off at Trump because yesterday he had the AI people in, but I'm not a Trumpian. I'm a Republican because Republican teachings usually best represent what I think is what our Constitution says. What happened yesterday at the White House and the conclusion reached on this AI thing, that was not Trumpian. That was American. It was limited government over here at the side, not at the steering wheel, not behind you with a whip, not creating all the rules, not tying your hands. And that commitment to liberty, including in the development of technology, including in the marketplace, that has been the fuel in our tank for 250 years, if you will. And there is no reason to abandon that principle or think that it will be any different this time, simply because you, me, and the guy over there don't know exactly what the hell AI is, okay? Listen, we're going to do an extra long listeners on the loose today, 222-1180, which means this is your opportunity. And it's just like your mom used to say every day when you went off to school, don't suck, all right? Please, please don't suck. You're next on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. AI is really scary right now.
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Speaker 2: The man raised a good question. We're going to chew the superintendent correctly for inadequate discipline, but you do want to turn to the deputies and say, you can arrest people too, right? I think so, yeah. And We need to do more of that. I recognize that this 222-1180, that the state with raise the age makes it very difficult, but you got to try to draw the line somewhere. And even if all you're doing is giving them an appearance ticket, you write the little bastard up. I'm sorry. This oppressed individual who's been denied services and who needs an anger diversion class because he's a visual learner in a non-tactile... There's some kind of big bullcrap, they say, like really, really long. On that meeting last night, Henrietta, the theme that came out of parents, teachers, and students was all the same. And they all said the same thing because they all saw the truth clearly. And that is, without consequence, you have more trouble. If you do not punish wrongdoing... you incentivize and invite wrongdoing. And you take a school, which should be a haven for learning and young people growing to adulthood, and you instead make it a place that is terrorized by people who engage in violence and face no negative consequences for it. That's the reality.
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Speaker 2: Could you start again, please? I didn't hear you, sir. I'm sorry. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, my son got his head kicked in over there at the Rush Henrietta High School, and the administration did nothing. Now I'm visiting him at the psych center, so.
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Speaker 5: Well, 10, 15 years ago.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he's talking about archery season starts tomorrow. Forgive me, sir. I'm half deaf and I'm stupid. I applaud those of you who are going archery hunting for deer. I am neither a good enough hunter nor a good enough archer to do that. But as soon as gun season gets here, I'm ready. In fact, the youth deer hunt in a couple of weekends... My son Scott's going to go out. Hopefully he'll have some success. Hello?
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Speaker 4: I wonder where that person or child resides.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if anybody's going over to Seneca Park Zoo... And they want to check out the Lonsbury exhibit. Don't get too close because they like to throw their feasts, especially that older one.
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Speaker 2: I kid you not. I was thinking the other day when we were young. Last night, I see the story. Adam Bellow wants to spiff up the zoo some more. Why not? Give him the money. I don't care. What the hell? I don't pay taxes in this county. And the zoo's cool. But that made me think, when I was young and when my kids were young, you'd go to the zoo and what would you always see? Go back a few years in your head. What would you always see? Monkeys throwing little turd balls and monkeys whacking off.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It was years on end. I went to zoos everywhere, and every one I saw, monkeys throwing turd balls and monkeys wagging off, right? Fortunately, I think they've talked to the monkeys, explained it's really not satisfactory or appropriate. something like that. Maybe they give them saltpeter. I don't know. But hopefully at Adam Bellows Zoo, they don't let nonsense like that go on. I need to run. God bless you. Keep your chin up and God bless the United States of America. News is next. Then you and I'll be back here tomorrow morning, 8 till noon, on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: I'm Dave Deboe, News Radio Wham 1180. Next news, 1130, breaking news when it happens any time. But first, another hour with Bob Lonsbury. Starts now on News Radio Wham 1180.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. Good morning, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning in. Peering out the window here, it's a flat-out beautiful day for a radio program. There yesterday was this big meeting at the White House. I'm sorry, I've got a guest. Shut my mouth. I'm going to be joined by a member of the Monroe County Legislature and a seventh generation Monroe County farmer, the Honorable Robert Colby.
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Speaker 3: Sir, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the broadcast.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Bob. How's your day going?
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Speaker 2: Great, sir. I hope yours is as well. And I hope that your season is going all right.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: It's nice and dry today.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Outstanding.
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Speaker 2: Outstanding. Well, we touch base with you periodically to talk about agriculture. I just want to see how the harvest was going, what that meant for farmers, what it means for those who buy produce. And I also wanted to check in and see what the cost of diesel or other issues facing agriculture might be upon you. So please, sir, give your report.
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Speaker 4: Okay, let's start with the harvest. We're done harvesting our potatoes, and we're getting ready to harvest corn silage and other grains. I'd like to remind all the listeners out there that if you're out in the countryside, be aware there's a lot more traffic, farm vehicles on the roads right now for the next month or so. So I know they're slow moving and they might irritate you a little bit, but keep their safety in mind for both you and the farmers, please. So that's everything else. And then be careful around the orchards because all the orchards, We're harvesting apples now. It's a great time to go get your cider and your donuts at any farm market locally. In the apple season, they tell me with all the moisture and the temperature we had, the apple crop looks really sweet this year. So that is pretty much the report. Squash is coming up. So don't be shy to go get your squash. You're not going to find it any better or any cheaper than you are now.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned corn silage, field corn, hard corn. What happens to that corn?
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Speaker 4: We have two uses. When I take corn silage, we chop the whole plant up and we put it in a big pile and pack it or in a silo and we let it ferment. And when it ferments, it keeps. And that's what we feed the cows throughout the year. It's a good energy source. It's a very economical source for us to harvest and store because it's the whole plant. We utilize the whole plant, not.
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Speaker 5: Just the kernels.
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Speaker 4: So it's a mainstay for the dairy industry in western New York. And then the other thing is we also harvest soybeans and hard corn, which is the same corn plant, but we just take the kernels. And they either use those to feed cows, or they use that to make ethanol out of, or they use it to make cornflakes.
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Speaker 2: Cornflakes. Can that be ground up, like, into cornmeal and stuff like that also?
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Speaker 4: What about... Harmony.
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Speaker 2: What about the, like, corn syrup? Where does that come from?
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Speaker 4: That comes from the same corn product that we're talking about. They'll take it and they run it through a... a squeeze processor, and pull the sweetness out of the corn. Then the remaining corn product, which is high in protein, we use as cattle feed, so nothing goes to waste.
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Speaker 2: Outstanding. Outstanding. Very good.
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Speaker 4: Agriculture is one of the few industries that makes a lot of products but doesn't fill landfills. I mean, you take anything... We feed cows cotton seed that's left over from the cotton plant. But the seed is a good feed product. You know, when they make ethanol, after they get done using the corn for the ethanol, the remaining product called distillers, we feed the cows. So the agriculture industry doesn't fill landfills. We figure out how to use everything. we use, and if not, we take it out to the field and put it back on the soil for the next crop.
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Speaker 2: He's Robert Colby. He's a member of the Monroe County Legislature, also a seventh-generation farmer in Monroe County. How is diesel affecting you, please, sir?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's costing us about twice what it was this spring. We run about $ 4, 000 a month. And then when we get to harvest season, that almost doubles. And so usually it's about $ 2, 500, and this year we'll probably be paying over $ 8, 000 for the month. But the bigger thing in energy, what's hurting us worse than that is electric bills. Our electric bills are up.
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Speaker 5: More than double.
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Speaker 4: And we've been told... that some of the processing plants have been put on limits of electric use expansion because they don't have enough electric in the grid right now for some of the processing facilities.
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Speaker 2: Processing what sort of products, sir?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think some of the milk plants might be having some trouble, but it's just what I've been told. I haven't actually seen it myself, but that's what I'm being told by the big processors.
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Speaker 2: This is Robert Colby of the Monroe County Legislature. Fuel to harvest and such, taking products on and off the farm also, that's diesel expense. Does that all come out of your hide, or where does that show up in our prices?
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Speaker 4: That shows up in your prices, but some of it comes out of our hide. Because the freight bills, You know, with the farming is we're price takers on a lot of our products. And so when they try to hold the price, then they push the cost down onto the farmer in a lot of instances. That's why I like being a member of Upstate Farms because it's a co-op. So that co-op, that processors and that business doesn't push stuff down on the farmers because we own it. So That's the nice thing about being in the co-op, as progressive as upstate milk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaking to Robert Colby, I'm a big upstate farms fan. The move down to Williamsport and the extra transportation costs with this high diesel period we're in, that's probably not helping things too much.
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Speaker 4: That's true, but most of the milk, not all, but most of the milk that goes there is going down into Pennsylvania to different stores that way. So the milk's already traveling that way anyway. There is a few products that have to come back to the Rochester area, but now more of that milk, if you look, is being processed either at our Syracuse plant. They got things shipped around, so more of it being processed in our Syracuse plant and or the Buffalo plant and not coming back from Erie.
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Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. Robert Colby, seventh generation farmer. I'm ignorant. Are there many beef producers around here? And I wonder if anybody's got any reaction to, you know, the president was going to bring in this foreign beef. I don't know if that's occurred, but I wonder if that's a variable out there for any local farmers, sir.
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Speaker 4: Well, in our instance, we sell our male bull calves at a young age. to other farmers that raise them up to full age for meat. So if they get pushed down on meat price, then they can't pay as much for our calves. So it does have a little effect to us. Most of the meat that they're bringing in, my understanding, is what I call low-grade meat. It's your hamburger and those type of meat. It's not having as big of an effect as you might think, but it is suppressing it probably 10%. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it is Robert Colby. Anything else going on on the farm we should know about, sir?
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Speaker 4: No, just be careful around the roads, like I said at the start, because there's a lot of traffic and there's been a few accidents this year already, and I hate to see any more. And hopefully we have good weather for the next month before we get everything harvested. I know all the farmers are looking forward to it. The grain market on the plus side is the corn and soybean prices that we're looking at are probably up 15% to 18% from where they were at the start of August. So... That's a good sign. That's because some of the trade deals that have taken place in the last month here has helped out the grain farmers quite a bit. I grow soybeans and wheat. They're all up 15% to 20%. So that kind of helps offset some of the cost of diesel fuel for the farmers at least. Try to buy local as much as you can because that will cut down on the use of diesel fuel and any diesel fuel we stop using will help reduce the price of diesel fuel because it reduces demand. It also always helps to support your local progress. Right now is the best time to buy Almost any product from A to Z in one of your local farm markets or certain grocery stores.
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Speaker 2: 100%. Immigration enforcement affecting agriculture locally?
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Speaker 4: Boy, you're really going over all the issues today. No, I haven't heard any major problems. There's a little bit of nervousness out there, but... Most all the enforcement I've heard about has been targeted to, even if it's been on a farm, it's been targeted to felons that have been given due process already. So there hasn't been a big problem. There is a labor shortage, but that has been here for the last three or four years anyways.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. This is Robert Colby, Monroe County Legislature, 7th Generation Farmer. Sir, as always, thank you so much. Thanks for feeding us, and thanks for informing us.
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Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for having me on, Bob. I look forward to talking to you in a couple weeks again and give you another update of the harvest.
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And they have this tradition called burying your wings. you make your jump and there at the drop zone or whatever, there will be, you know, you'll take your little parachutist wings or a set of parachutist wings and you will dig a hole in the ground and you will leave them there. You will bury your wings. You, of course, continue to wear them on your uniform and you remain, you know, parachutist qualified, obviously, but it's a little bit of a thank you and goodbye, a departure from in this case, the 82nd Airborne. So yesterday, they both buried their wings. It was their last parachute jump at Fort Bragg. And they were able to do it together with some other soldiers, obviously a lot of other soldiers. And also, they have two children, a little boy and a little girl. And their children were able to come out and watch mom and dad make this last parachute jump. So there was a great photo taken. I'll post that at Facebook and X under Bob Lonsbury here in a moment. But pretty sweet experience and a little misty-eyed and such like that. And I'll be trying to work that damn Walmart photo app so that when I drive home tonight, I can pick up my 8x10 and put it in a frame somewhere and look at it admiringly for the next few decades. But anyway, a sweet little milestone as her military career unfolds. moves on to its next step. We're going to get news now from the great Dave Debo on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. NewsRadio WHAM 1180, an iHeartRadio station, guaranteed human. Everybody loves a perk, especially from Stellar. Almost always without fail, recovered in the city of Rochester. Well, what are the odds of that? No, I'm with you pretty much 100%. But I thought I'd throw it out there, okay? Yesterday, President Trump got together with a whole bunch of artificial intelligence bosses at the White House, Meta, Google, NVIDIA, SpaceX, AI, Amazon, OpenAI, a whole bunch of them. And they came up with something of an agreement, which essentially says that the AI companies will kind of police themselves and one another. The president was asked if the agreement was legally binding. He said it's morally binding. And of course, you have a lot of folks who are telling us that the sky is falling and that AI is going to kill all of humanity. I've got to think that there are a lot of people in Polynesia. who aren't that concerned about AI coming to kill them. And you don't need to go that far. I bet that the Amish people probably are going to be okay if the AI goes sideways, right? In fact, I'll be honest with you. We, through history, have had a series of situations where there has been some new revolutionary technology. involving our food, our weapons, electricity in the home, natural gas pipe to every house. It'll explode and kill us all. I mean, at almost every significant advance in a technological standpoint, there has been a hullabaloo raised with cries of warning, terrible bad things are going to come. And Thus far, none of it's happened, right? We survived Y2K, right? But thus far, no warning of technological mayhem has ever come true. Now, that doesn't mean that it couldn't come true someday, but it does indicate that cries of technological mayhem thus far have not proven reliable. And I'm an ignorant person. I don't even know what AI is, okay, really? But I can't think of any time in history where taking counsel of our fears has been the right thing. Now, let me say this. Yesterday, what the president did was completely in keeping with what a Republican like me believes. I don't know AI, but I do know the role of government in the United States. The role of government... is to stay the hell out of the way. That government is best, which governs least. That's Thomas Jefferson talking, who studied up on the subject, I believe. And invariably in America, when the government feels like it's the daddy, we all get screwed. We create restrictions, obstructions, We introduce inefficiency. Look at New York State, right? The proof of the pudding. Government's role is not to regulate everything. Government's role is not to be the daddy, right? Government's goal is to assure and protect freedom. It says so in the Declaration. And so, again, I don't know AI, but I do know the role of government. And, you know, I'm not a Trump cheerleader. I criticize him as much as I praise him. But yesterday, when he comes out and he says, we talked about it, we came up with this general set of guidelines, and we're going to be self-policing, and now we're going to go forward, that's what I voted for. That's what American history shows works. We don't want the nanny state. We don't want everything regulated. We don't want the government in charge because the government, nine times out of ten, doesn't know its head from a hole in the ground. And further, even if government was staffed by the smartest people on the planet, it's not their job.
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Speaker 2: Government's role. And so some outlines of the ethics of the new industry were laid out there. And these companies agreed to abide by that ethic. And forward we will go in a fashion that allows us to retain our primacy over China and in the AI world, and in a fashion that will continue to develop these products for the benefit and service of humankind. Now, there are people who want to scare you, and maybe you can be scared. We all have our opinions. But again, never before has technology proven to be our downfall. And In almost every instance previously in our history, the steady forward progress of technology has brought a steady betterment of human life. Now, when Trump says, this is the next big thing, this is going to help our country tremendously, he's not wrong just because he's Trump. And you should not kick against it just because Trump said it. And I also would politely say, that if we have been so conditioned to the nanny state that we don't feel safe and comfortable unless government is watching over this, then we need just a little bit of a reminder about what it means to be an American. We're the freedom country. And the fact is that chains are still chains even if you ask the master to put them on you. And We don't want the government restricting us. So my thought is, I know we're all supposed to be pissed off at Trump because yesterday he had the AI people in, but I'm not a Trumpian. I'm a Republican because Republican teachings usually best represent what I think is what our Constitution says. What happened yesterday at the White House and the conclusion reached on this AI thing, that was not Trumpian. That was American. It was limited government over here at the side, not at the steering wheel, not behind you with a whip, not creating all the rules, not tying your hands. And that commitment to liberty, including in the development of technology, including in the marketplace, that has been the fuel in our tank for 250 years, if you will. And there is no reason to abandon that principle or think that it will be any different this time, simply because you, me, and the guy over there don't know exactly what the hell AI is, okay? Listen, we're going to do an extra long listeners on the loose today, 222-1180, which means this is your opportunity. And it's just like your mom used to say every day when you went off to school, don't suck, all right? Please, please don't suck. You're next on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. AI is really scary right now.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he's talking about archery season starts tomorrow. Forgive me, sir. I'm half deaf and I'm stupid. I applaud those of you who are going archery hunting for deer. I am neither a good enough hunter nor a good enough archer to do that. But as soon as gun season gets here, I'm ready. In fact, the youth deer hunt in a couple of weekends... My son Scott's going to go out. Hopefully he'll have some success. Hello?
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