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All About The World Dairy Expo with Pam Jahnke (Hour 1)
The Todd Allbaugh Show · Fri Oct 3, 2025
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Good afternoon, everybody.
Todd Albaugh along with Mr. Aaron Zummers, our producer and engineer.
It is six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF Friday edition, October 3rd, 2025.
It is a great day.
to be a Wisconsinite.
Glad to have you along back in the old world headquarters at the intersection of state and fair child in downtown Madison.
Zombers, welcome in to a spectacular fall, October day.
The day before the day before the Milwaukee Brewers take on the dreaded, the evil Chicago Cubs in the NLDS.
Zomers household tomorrow.
Oh, dangerous in the Zomers household.
Now, now speaking of this, we'll maybe we'll play this later on.
By the way, Mike Clemens, a great sports reporter is going to be here in hour two.
Maybe we'll do it before.
How would you feel?
If the manager of your team that you cheer for, that you root for, that you love, how would you feel if he was on video saying that his real one love in baseball is the team that you're playing on Saturday?
That his heart, his soul, his baseball soul is with the Milwaukee Brewers.
yet he's coaching, managing.
The Chicago Cubs.
How'd you feel?
I wouldn't feel good if I were a Cubs fan.
No, I mean, because in the back of your mind, you're like, is this some big ploy by Bud Stealing just to bring counsel down here to screw us over?
You know, is he gonna make the right decision?
If push comes to shove, knowing that Pat Murphy was his college coach and that he brought Murphy counsel did back to Milwaukee and gave him a job and the love between these two people.
If it push comes and knowing that Murphy's, you know, it got a lot less time left than counsel does and it push comes to shove.
And if Craig counsel has to decide between what's best for the cubbies or.
Or helping out his old coach, Murph, helping out the team that he fell in love with, that he dreamed about being Robin Yeow.
Wouldn't it give you pause?
Wouldn't it give you a little nervousness in the back of your mind?
I think
know.
I'd be a little nervous if I were if I were the cubby's fan, we'll talk more about that The brewers the cubs you could hear it on select stations across the civic media ready to work tomorrow Hopefully one of yours has been selected the pregame show I believe is at what 12 30 1 o'clock something like that and if so and then the the game kicks off at 1 or 1 30 We'll figure that out and let you know I hear in a little bit.
You can hear it on WRCE and Richland Center WISS and Oshkosh WR.
Well, I'm not sure of RJ hands doing it, but
WCQM and Park Falls and WBZ HN Hayward, Wisconsin.
So those are the places you can hear the game tomorrow.
The Brewers taking on the Cubs.
First two games are here in Milwaukee.
So that's fantastic.
Roger, watching on Facebook says, reminder, it was one year ago today.
The Mets defeated the Brewers five to three in the wild card series, two to one.
It was also Bob Euker's final words in the broadcast booth.
After the loss, quote, I'm telling you, that one had some sting on it.
Unquote.
You're right, Roger.
Sad day.
But it's a beautiful day today.
For those watching the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, the like, we've got Euker's jersey.
Well, not his, but my jersey with Euker Bob Euker's name in the back and the number eight.
Now a lot of people say, well, didn't Euker wear nine?
No, no, no, no.
He actually wore wore eight when he was a professional baseball player.
But when Ryan Braun played for the crew brewers and people wanted to get his he wore number eight.
And so Euker, being the great guy that he was, said, I don't care.
You know, let let, you know, people, of course, let Braun have my number and if people really want my jersey, I mean, just put number nine on it.
Not a big deal.
So that's why you see people that have Euker jerseys, some say eight and some say nine, but the original number for Bob Euker is number eight.
So we got that in the studio, got the old October baseball shirt on today, the Six Springs Farm Joe Thomas Hall of Fame beef hat on, because coming up at the bottom of this hour, farm director, the fabulous farm babe, as she calls herself from the Midwest Farm Report, Pam Yonkey, is going to be here at 2.35.
Cannot wait for that.
Pam is gonna come to us live from the Midwest Dairy Expo, just on the other side of Madison, south side of Madison at the Alliant Energy Center and Dane County Coliseum.
I live in the neighborhood and boy, the traffic is just crazy.
You could hear people over the intercoms, if you go out in the back deck there, but lots going on at the World Dairy Expo.
Also talk about the tariffs and what effect it's having in agriculture, as Orion Samuelson liked to call it, agriculture.
Orion Samuelson.
We'll talk, maybe we'll talk a little Orion Samuelson with Pam as well.
And also the unconfirmed reports that Pam Yankee is under heavy consideration to be the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers.
Will ask her true or not true?
We'll ask
And then in hour number two, what's worse today and another, our final, our final edition.
of green and gold text to win contest.
contest.
Thank you.
You can win fabulous cash and prizes.
Today is the final day and also tickets to a green and gold game in Green Bay.
And so we'll tell you, we'll give you the secret keyword in hour number two to text in.
And then as we said before at 335, Mike Clemens, Civic Media Sports Reporter.
Covering the brewers day lots of press availability Clemens is there on the ground and fanfield covering both the brewers and the cub side of things He's gonna be here with a live report for us at 335.
So do not miss that also Madison police are confirming that ice took action here in the city of Madison.
We talked a lot about it yesterday
in terms of ice raiding an apartment building, an entire apartment building on the south side of Chicago this week, using, amongst other things, a Black Hawk helicopter, bringing kids out of the apartment, separating them from their parents, and putting zip ties on them, separating people, black people from what they alleged supposed to be immigrants.
But as I said yesterday, I'm...
not exactly sure how you're telling immigrant by the pigment of their skin.
So that was what was happening in Chicago yesterday, or this week, or now yesterday, it has come to the city of Madison.
But first, want to go to Washington DC, where we have an update for you on what's going on on Project 2025.
That's right!
It's an
update!
to Project 2025.
A lot of people said it wasn't real last year, saying that no, no, no, no, this was all made up.
It wasn't actually going to, don't worry about Donald Trump.
He's just talking.
Project 2025 isn't even a thing.
But now we're finding out as a matter of fact, not only is it a thing,
But of course, it's very, very harmful as well.
I know Jayden Gregg on air talks about this this morning.
I want to kind of pick up on that, talk a little bit more about it, because this is important stuff in terms of being aware.
Now, we've talked about this before.
There's a site called Project 2025 Tracker.
Project 2025 Tracker.
And overall, according to this tracking app website,
48% 48 48% there it is a zoomers put it up on the screen project 2025 dot observer project 2025 dot observer and 48% of Project 2025 has been completed already So I mean we're a long ways away from
Well, it's not really real by agency of the items in project 2025 For USAID the agency for international development They're a hundred percent done.
They had six objectives.
They're done Primarily because they eliminated it for all intent and purposes on the commodity futures trading Commission one objective a hundred percent done for the corporation for public broadcasting
One objective, 100% done.
In the White House, 13 objectives, 92% are done.
In the State Department, 10 objectives, 80% are done.
A project, 2025.
Now, where did this come from, people say?
Well, that's what I don't, where did this come from?
Just to keep the record straight.
Let's go back to last year on 60 minutes, Nora O'Donnell, trying to be smart and interviewing Kamala Harris, who was running for president at the time, say, well, you know, I mean, Trump has disavowed.
You know this, Ms.
Matt, a vice president.
He's disavowed this.
Here it is.
Here's the cut.
Nora O'Donnell and Kamala Harris from last year.
No, the Donald Trump has disavowed Project 2025.
He says that is not his campaign plan.
As you know, I am a former prosecutor.
His DNA is all over it.
all over it.
His running mate rode forward to the book of the author of Project 2025.
I believe Donald Trump's name appears at least 300 times in Project 2025, and it is a blueprint, a detailed blueprint that is about the danger and the detail of what Donald Trump and his allies plan if he is in the White House again.
Once again, a smart, intelligent, female leader in the United States forecasted something, told us something, turned out true.
We saw this in 2016, of course, when former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Radham Clinton was running for president.
Said, look, Trump is an ally of Putin.
This this very bad things could happen if this man gets in the White House.
Oh, you know, that's just Hillary That's and that comes from the right Then on the left You add people saying well, you know Hillary's just become too mainstream for me.
We have to send her a message.
I'm voting for Jill Stein
A lot of people, including me, said, uh, time out here.
I'm a former Republican.
This dude is hitting a nerve.
He could actually win.
You're crazy.
It's not going to be that bad.
Well, we all would know it happened in Trump 1.0.
Then we got to 2024.
It couldn't possibly happen again.
And they actually put it in writing project 2025.
As you just heard, Vice President Harris warned us about it.
And the right said, that's crazy stuff.
That's not going to happen.
And the left said, but Gaza and Palestine, and I can't vote for the lesser of two evils.
And it's not going to be that bad.
Turns out.
Madam Vice President Harris was right.
We'll tell you the latest from Washington on Project 2025.
After this,
it's the Town Hall Ball Show on the Civic Media.
wherever it may lead and having fun doing it.
Welcome back to the Toutalball show on the Civic Media Radio Network 22 now, past the hour of two o'clock, the bottom of the hour, just thereafter, Farm Director Midwest Farm Report, Pam Yankee, with live report, live conversation from the World Dairy Expo here in Madison.
Always an exciting time of year, although they, if you ask the livestock, the animals, and maybe some of the humans as well, cooler weather would have been nicer.
But it's going to cool down a little bit this weekend here.
Talking about Project 2025 and the fact that Kamala Harris, former vice president Kamala Harris had warned the American voting public that this was all in print.
We talked about it.
I know Jane McNair talked about it.
I know Maggie Dawn talked about it.
Other people packed quite a little.
Other people on this network talked about it.
And some people said, yeah, and a lot of people said, no, this is just, it's not really going to be that bad.
I was talking before the break that on the right, my folks said, you're just making this office not really real because Trump's disavowed it.
And on the left, people didn't want to, there were, there were.
People in the far left who said, particularly young people, college campus people who were like, no, I can't, I literally heard this as I went down with a protest here on campus at UW Madison, that they could not vote for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump because it was quote unquote, the lesser of two evils.
And that they were just going to vote for somebody else or stay home.
And that has proven.
in places like Wisconsin and Dearborn, Michigan and Pennsylvania where democratic turnout in areas that had large populations that were supporting Gaza and Palestine in that last year just didn't vote.
So on YouTube, John says the Gaza-Palestinian claim is unfounded and not proven via data.
What are you talking about?
Well, that's it.
Part, part, I'm not saying the entire.
But part of the reason that Donald Trump got a second term is that people have not turned out, Democrats did not turn out in the same numbers that they did in 2020.
And in fact, Republicans made gains.
Donald Trump made gains, particularly here in Wisconsin.
Let's play a clip that's from CNN doing great work yesterday.
This little montage of what Donald Trump said a year ago.
On the campaign trail, as he was campaigning for his second term, this is what Trump had to say about his association and knowledge of Project 2025.
You know Trump he said this morning that he said I've been meeting today with Russ vote of project 2025 fame Of course that was the project that Democrats demonized went after hard in the campaign saying look at this and they tried campaign very hard on it And then Donald Trump when he was running for the second term said well this project 25 thing I don't really know much about it
came up with this Project 25, and I don't even know.
They are extreme.
I mean, they're seriously extreme.
But I don't know anything about it.
I don't want to know anything about it.
I have nothing to do with Project 2025.
That's out there.
I haven't read it.
I don't want to read it purposely.
I'm not going to read it.
Project 2025, I've said a hundred times.
I know nothing about it.
I had nothing to do.
That works.
That was Donald Trump last year on the campaign trail courtesy of CNN.
Now today from the Associated Press, President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign as one of his architects works to use the government shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing democratic states.
In his post on truth social yesterday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, quote, Russ vote.
He a project 2025 fame to determine which of the many Democrat agencies, most of which are a political scam, he recommends to be cut and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent on quote.
Again, that is from Trump on his truth social site.
The comments represented a dramatic about face for Trump, who spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025.
The heritage foundations massive proposed overhaul the federal government, which was drafted by many of his longtime allies and current and former administration officials.
Both of Trump's Democratic rivals
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made the far right wish list, a centerpiece of their campaigns, and a gigantic replica of the book featured prominently on stage at the Democratic National Convention.
And now we have Russ vote basically for all intent.
And I don't want to say running the government, but you had Republican leaders yesterday in Congress saying, we will look, we can't, we can't really control this.
And they're using the government shutdown that Trump and the Republicans are largely responsible for to have the opportunity now to extend executive powers of Trump to not just lay people off in federal government, but give them pink slips.
And many on the Democratic side are saying, well, you know, it's like last time.
It'll only be temporary.
The courts will will say you have to be rehired.
We'll put yourself in a place of a federal worker.
If you are fired, are you gonna hang around and just knit for three or four months while it goes to the courts and then say, okay, I guess I'll go back to my job now.
Folks have real things, bills they have to pay.
And this is extraordinarily dangerous.
And we see now that Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and others were right.
It's why
I was so passionate on this show last year, trying to bring this out and say, this is what's going to happen if this guy gets the second term.
And here we are going to come back, turn a page, farm news is next to the Midwest farm report.
And then director Pam Yonkey will be here live with this joining us from the World Dairy Expo.
here in Madison, Wisconsin.
Don't go anywhere.
Farm Talk is next, and maybe some Packers as well.
It's the top of all show for a Friday on the Civic Media.
You want to know how you get up and milk cows early in the morning?
Get on that tractor.
And get behind a microphone.
You play music like that.
That is off the Spotify playlist of our next guest.
She is the iconic.
I just heard celebrating her 35th year at World Dairy Expo.
And of course, the director of the Midwest Farm Report, which you can hear every day at the bottom of each hour on this program.
The one, the only, the self-proclaimed fabulous farm babe, Pam Yankee joins us live.
Pam, how are you?
I'm already tired.
And it's not self-proclaimed.
That was a title given to me.
When I first came to Madison by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, at that time there was a sports announcer named the Sports Babe.
She was one of the first nationally syndicated female sports broadcasters.
And she was in the habit of using drops, which are so common in radio, especially then.
And she also got some of the hottest
uh, sports stars to come on the radio before it was really cool.
So they called her the sports babe.
And then the farm bureau started taking me around at that time, you had to go out and meet your audience literally because there was no such thing as cell phones or laptops or social media.
And, uh, when they'd introduced me in meetings, they'd introduce us as our farm babe.
And then it turned into fabulous farm babe.
So now I can't get away from it.
It's my truck.
It's my website.
It's socially now I can't get away from it.
Well, I only said so because, you know,
things change, and I grew up in a different era, but now if I call a female person a babe, you get emails, or why are you doing that?
And
it's
like, look, I didn't give her the, I'm
not saying it, this is, you know, she is the one that's using it, I'm not putting this
on her.
Yes, yes.
No, it's funny, and in my audience, we have a slightly different look at things like that, like I just came from World Dairy Expo, and people don't know my name, but they know I'm the fabulous farm babe, so.
I have a slightly different litmus test when it comes to using the phrase.
I grew up in an era where big
nicknames like that is no big deal, but you know, things, things move on.
Yeah.
Well, and I'm in Madison and you'd think 35 years in Madison, you'd think I would pick up a sensitivity to some of that.
And I'm just still a redneck farm kids from
North.
And that's part of why I love you because I grew up in Richland Center in Southwest, Wisconsin.
And so I think we have some of the same DNA in terms of enjoying rural Wisconsin and just enjoy life.
Let's talk a little bit about the big do-ins here, speaking of all my grandparents used to talk.
This week, wrapping up the World Dairy Expo, I live about four blocks away.
And what's really cool for me is sitting out on my packed deck and at night or the afternoons, hearing over the
speakers, you know, some of the, you know, announcements at the World Dairy Expo.
And I'm like, wow, that sounds, you know, I can see the top of the Coliseum from my balcony.
Oh man.
Yeah.
You are definitely within earshot, especially this week.
In fact, one of the challenges that I have broadcasting out at World Dairy Expo or doing my television segments is I have to time it so that they're actually, they actually have cows in the ring and that they're judging.
Otherwise, when the class gets done, they start announcing, they
top 10 winners of the way from the loud speakers as best you can because that show will go until at least four o'clock probably four four thirty this afternoon that's when they'll name the supreme champion of World Dairy Expo when I was out there I was just there a minute ago
And now everybody's starting to pivot both the exhibitors as well as the people that have cattle are starting to get in their mind frame how they want to get these animals home.
You know, Todd, you and I are well aware of the weather.
Madison, Dane County had been enjoying.
It's wonderful, but it's hot for a cow.
It's hot for a cow that's under some stress.
You know, she's in a different place.
She's being handled by a lot of different people to go into the ring.
And now for some of these guys, I talked to a buddy of mine.
His name is Steve Maddox.
He's from Ruin Bay in California.
And seven cows that he is going to put on the truck.
just as easy as he can.
He will be on the belt.
Probably about 5.30 this afternoon.
Goal is to try to draw.
I think, Pam, we're kind of losing.
We're breaking up just a little bit.
I'm not sure if it's on our end or on your end.
But it looks like maybe you're back now.
You're going
to
pros up for a sec.
Go ahead.
Go
ahead.
OK.
OK.
Last thing we heard was from
California.
He's got seven cows that he is going to put on the truck and be on the belt line with other traffickers.
And his goal is to try to make sure that he gets those cows through Las Vegas by tomorrow morning.
He said if he can't get those cows through Las Vegas tomorrow morning, he may alter the route and go north into the Rockies because of these temperatures.
The cows have all the water they want.
They have, the trailer is rigged up so he can melt them on the trailer.
But the temperatures, if this heat stays, shall we say, unseasonably warm, then he may have to deviate and make sure those cows are a little bit more comfortable farther north.
We're talking to Pam Yankee, director of the Midwest Farm Report, which you can hear every afternoon and really all day long across the Civic Media Radio Network.
Pam Yankee here is with us live.
Pam, tell folks that might not be or explain them if you could, please.
Those that might not be as aware of their count while cows coming to Madison was the big deal.
But I mean, this is a huge deal.
It's really the Emmy or the Academy Awards for the World Dead.
It's an international event.
It's economic.
Explain what this actually is and what it means to Wisconsin to have it here.
Absolutely.
So this show, I just was looking at one of the plaques today in 2016, 2016.
So that's what nine years ago.
They celebrated the 50th anniversary of World Dairy Expo.
The show started here, has grown here, has remained here, and has long-term agreement to stay here.
That's part of the reason why we saw the economic infusion for both the Pavilion I, Pavilion II, the New Holland Center, even expansions with the Expo Hall was Keep World Dairy Expo here.
uses all 164 acres of the Alliant Energy Center grounds.
It is the number one with a bullet economic driver for that facility and for a lot of Dane County.
You are talking about, you know, they'll give us numbers as far as general attendance and things like that, probably this afternoon, maybe tomorrow or Monday, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 guests that have been through Madison.
And when I talked with one of the dairy guys from upstate New York, Middleboro, New York,
He brought 14 cows from Middleboro, New York, which is up by the the Finger Lakes and he spent he said last year for the cows and the 10 to 17 people that have to take care of those cows for 12 days the money he spent $90,000 that was just for the opportunity to be a part of the show his hotel room bill was $15,000 now that's Dane County money.
They weren't going any farther than
than that and um so you know that gives you a sense of the commitment these people make to wanting to be a part of the show and i said to him what's your payback jason and he said well the payback is he remembered oh i can't remember the year now i want to say like 10 years ago one of his young heifers did very well in her class now remember they had 36
3,600 animals entered to be a part of World Dairy Expo this year probably ended up with probably I want to say around 2,500 that actually showed.
His one heifer did very well in one class of all those animals and the genetic interest and sales that that one animal drew because she placed so well at World Dairy Expo helped to pay his travel bill and all the other investments that he'd made.
So it's kind of like
I don't want to say cocaine.
That would be not a very good connotation, but it's kind of like that.
You know, you're addicted to salty, salty sweet or you're you like you're you're gambling or whatever.
Once you get a little taste of success, you get a little bit of the vague, then you really want to keep keep playing.
You want to come back and do it again and do it again.
Plus, it's a lot of community.
You know, if like I said, I've been going to the show.
35 years professionally since I came to Madison as a farm broadcaster, but I grew up in Derry.
I judged FFA or when I was in FFA, I judged Derry cattle in the center ring.
That was part of our competitive events.
So I've known about this show my entire life, but it's the people.
You know, you come back year after year and you stall up, you know, your cows are next to people that you grew up with, your kids grew up with.
It's generational.
Then you talk to the staff, you know, Lisa Benke who's the media director for World Dairy Expo was a former Alice in Dairyland her and I have been on all kinds of agriculture committees We're the same age.
I mean, it's just it's like a family reunion and I know there's a lot of people that come to the show
Yeah, the cows obviously, but it's really to touch base and stay connected with those people that you otherwise only get a chance to see once a year It's it's hard to help people not connected with the synergy of agriculture You know, we we are a small family in many ways It's hard for people that have never experienced that to understand but for those of us that have had a taste
we will rabidly fight back to get there again next year.
One of our viewers on YouTube right now, Cornell, tuning in, saying simply in all caps, God bless the dairy farmers.
Thanks, Cornell.
I appreciate that.
Isn't that the truth?
We're talking with Pam Yankee, director of the Midwest Farm Report, about the world dairy expo, amongst other things.
And Pam, my personal grandparents were dairy farmers, Holstein.
I think they never milked more than 40 head, probably had another 12 to 15 heifers on the farm.
every time my dad didn't want to do it.
I was too young to take over at that time.
And so they sold out in 1983, I think or so.
Talked a couple of minutes about just because I think a lot of people watch media and they say, oh, what's going on with this quote unquote corporate farming?
I hate that word because.
You know, my grandparents never
had a
vacation.
They were there seven days a week, 365 days a year.
And unless you form a quote unquote corporation with brothers, sisters, siblings, neighbors, you know, you just can't do it anymore.
And it's America's dairy land, but we're seeing fewer and fewer farms, but still kind of keeping up when it comes to milk production.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, in my case, keep railing against that.
corporate farm mantra because that is completely incorrect in Wisconsin.
Remember 99% of our farms in Wisconsin are still family owned and operated, but to your point, some of these farms are really successful because sons and daughters are coming back.
Well, you know what?
It was one thing when they were high schoolers living under your roof.
Now they've got a family of their own.
And to make sure that they stay part of the farming operation, you've got to grow so that they can pay their bills and stay with you.
So when you drive past a farm, do not make any decisions or judgment from the windshield.
You don't know a thing about that farm.
You just see a big barn.
It doesn't, you know, big farm equipment.
That very well could be a father, mother, son.
daughter-in-law, daughter, son-in-law, grandkids, brothers.
I mean, there are all kinds of arrangements that are keeping our Wisconsin farms going.
And to your point, it really irritates me when people say, oh, we're losing farms in Wisconsin.
No, stop.
That drives me nuts.
We're not losing farms in Wisconsin.
What happens is people do, as you said, decide to retire out of the business of farming.
Could be milk cows, could be something.
But those cows that they milked go to the neighbors farm because that boy went to high school with my kids.
The land, that guy is going to cash rent to keep me and Ma on the farm and comfortable.
I may drive tractor for him.
Maybe they're going to use my barn for heifers.
Maybe they're going to, maybe I want to run some beef, but that phrase, we're losing farms in Wisconsin.
We are not losing farms.
People are doing just what all of us do.
You work hard, then you want to retire.
You want to have a little bit slower pace of life or you want something, you want to do something different.
Those cows go to a neighbor.
They generally all.
stay in Wisconsin, the land continues to be farmed so long as, you know, there's not something else out there that caters to the location or what have you.
And a lot of those people that retired, I just saw a World Dairy Expo.
Now they're volunteers.
Now they're helping in the show ring because you can't give it up.
You just
can't give it up.
No, you can't give up listening to Pam Yankee every morning across civic media.
And in the afternoon as well, we're gonna come back, talk more with Pam Yankee and answer the question.
Where did she find Ben Jarbo?
And is he the long lost son of Orian Samuelson?
That
and more on the other side is the all about show on the Civic Media Radio Network.
You can hear her every morning and all day long across the Civic Media Already Network, Midwest Farm Report, and Pam Yankee, Fabulous Farm Babe.
Find her at midwestfarmreport.com and also Fabulous Farm Babe on all the socials.
She joins us live and also a Packer fan.
All right, Pam, lost to get to you and a lot of time to go, so let's get to it quickly here.
Number one, are the rumors true after two losses?
By our beloved Green Bay Packers, the rumors are that you are being recruited to be the new defensive coordinator, true or not true.
There are many people that know me and have worked with me that would not be surprised to know I was a candidate.
Right now I'm currently fully engaged in the Midwest Farm Report and very happy to simply act as a coach from my backyard at Pambo in Green Bay.
And that's real, you have a place called PAMBO in Green
Bay.
That's real.
Yeah, I know it
is.
That's
real.
Yeah, I don't, I'm not, I'm not freaking out too much yet, but boy, I mean, just, it's kind of like the Badgers.
I don't mind a loss once in a while, but how it gets there.
You know what I
mean?
But.
and not to swallow up time, but see, I'm not a badger.
I live in Wisconsin.
I appreciate the university in that, but I didn't go to school in Madison.
I went to school at River Falls.
The Packers are a part of my DNA.
And so help me, if they're going to continue to play games at 7 20 in the evening, for me, who has to be rolling, my alarm goes off at two, you have got to cut it out because I have strained eyes from watching.
trying to sleep with one and watch the game with the other until 10.
Oh, five.
And come on, then we got to go to overtime.
And then you're going to give me a stroke by making it final.
I'm just like, this is what's going on out there is one of my farm broadcasters said.
And then at the end of it, it's like kissing your sister a 40, 40 time.
What's up with that?
I know.
All right.
Quickly.
It is a national.
Is it national or state pork producers month in October?
Got to get a shout out to October is national national
pork producer.
Yeah, national pork.
Yeah.
And I can tell you why I can tell you why we picked October.
I don't want to slow your role, but I I am a plethora of that kind of knowledge, Todd.
I know you are.
That's why I asked.
So but a shout out to have a lot of great pork producers, as they say, the other white meat.
And I think it's a great reminder to, you know, we play all over the state with I got my Joe Thomas Six Springs Hall of Fame beef hat on right now, whether it's pork.
whether it's beat, prices are going up, but boy, howdy.
I mean, I just went together with a couple of friends of mine and we bought a half a steer and a Hoseley Meats down in New Glaris.
Go
to your
local locker,
go
to your local producer.
You're always going to be a winner that way.
Yeah, and I'll be happy to hook you up I mean you want to really live by local then get your arms around a quarter of a beef half a beef I bought a steer at the Dane County Fair that we have processed That's that's the way farm kids are used to buying things But I'm happy to share that knowledge and insight with anybody that's interested.
No, absolutely All right, the quick question here because I love what he came on board I'm like, where did this guy come from because if you're of a certain age the name Orion Samuelson the Southwest Wisconsin guy who became the really the Paul Hart
of Ag Broadcasting.
And I hear a little bit of Orion Samuelson and Ben Jarbo.
I love Agri.
Listen to her read a phone book.
Where did you find this guy?
Yeah, the kid's from a farm down by Paxon, Illinois, central Illinois.
Went to school for Agri business.
He's been with us.
He'll be coming up on two years in 2026.
And the funny part was he is so incredibly polite for the first
four weeks that he worked for us, for me.
He, oh, everything was ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
And I said to him, you know, my name is Pam, right?
Oh, he said, I, I would never be so, I would never be so forward.
I said, you know what, sweetie?
I appreciate that.
My name is Pam.
My mother is ma'am.
Stop it.
Don't be doing it anymore.
But he is a big tall, tall drink of water with a blaze of red hair and he used to pitch
He was a pitcher in college, so it's it's been a hoot and he has got a certain gate.
I don't know if it's the South, but like you said, you could listen to him talk because he's got a certain cadence that is far different than Yatter Hay, Northeast Wisconsin.
Well, as you well know, I think a good broadcaster is, you know, look at, you know, some of the great sports broadcasters.
They were from the South or had a little bit different.
It sets you apart and it makes you want to listen to him.
Yes.
Yeah,
that's exactly it.
And he's got his end of my latest edition is from Iowa State, and she's got she's got just a little different, not accent necessarily, but yeah, we want to keep you.
We want to keep you.
Engaged if you get tired of hearing the old farm babe ad nauseam, I'll give you a couple different varieties of voices that you can lean in on
Look, we'll never get tired of you Pam.
Our time is almost up to just a couple of minutes left here I'm not gonna play the cut but I just want to ask you directly lots of news on tariffs right now and not to take it into partisan terms But I think a lot of people are confused.
Why is there a couple of billion dollars in bailout or was 20 billion?
I think in bailout money being proposed right now when I think the question
is if you didn't want to go to say, Paul, why did he get on the train?
Why are we talking about bailouts?
Why did they just not do the tariffs?
Oh, he's right now the 20 billion, or whatever number they come up with, they still haven't decided.
But that is designed to basically be in the face of China and their lack of purchasing US soybeans.
They're buying it from everybody else, but they have not bought a bushel from us.
And basically, my commodity brokers say they're going to have to buy from us.
But in the meantime, it's how low are we going to get that price?
So again, they haven't decided on a final number, but most of the money that will be announced is going to be to offset just soybeans, just China.
That's one.
Otherwise, there's a lot of places in the world that have
seen more robust business with US agriculture.
We're at our cheese exports in Wisconsin are 30% higher than they were a year ago.
We're having a record year and that cheese is going all over the place.
Not and no tariffs are ever being discussed in that arena.
So that one commodity is what's driving that commodity or that conversation.
One commodity, one country.
That's where it's all focused right now.
Well, 35, 40 seconds left, Pam Yonkey.
What have I not asked you?
You want to make sure people know about Wisconsin agriculture?
Well, just appreciate it.
Be careful when you look.
Yeah.
No, that takes too long.
When you are driving around Wisconsin, whether it's rural or suburban, please be careful around that big farm equipment and try to keep.
you know, if you're going to wave, let's use all five fingers around that farm equipment because those people are just trying to get their job done.
They just have to use this weather and try to get the job done.
And when they're done, they'll get out of your way.
They don't want to be in your way any more than you want them there.
So please let's use all five fingers and be safer on that big equipment.
Pam Yonkey, thank you very much.
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