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Welcome and thanks for joining us for today's edition of RealAg Radio with your host Shaun Haney. On today's show, Haney is joined by: Darrell Bricker of IPSOS on income, productivity and domestic challenges; Chad Garrod of Corteva Canada for a spotlight interview for Corteva Luxe Chris Reynolds of Nutrien on Nutrien Ltd. unifying its wholesale and retail sales operations.

Last year, I found myself at a milk-themed basement dance party. At the time, perhaps, I should have turned around on the dance floor: I could have found an AI-generated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. behind me, swaying while sipping a glass of the white stuff. The exclusive invite for the party featured a black-and-white portrait of a gaunt child in wartime hugging bottles of milk.

In 2009, Wall Street had just imploded, and the Mojave Desert town of Victorville, California-sunblasted, shoddily constructed, and abruptly abandoned-was one of the housing bubble's most spectacular wipeouts. But amid the boarded-up McMansions and tumbleweed-traversed deserted culs-de-sac, the journalist Yasha Levine stumbled upon an entirely different story. Seeking water, a drought-stricken Victorville bulk-purchased enough to supply as many as 30,000 families for a year. The arrangement gave Levine pause: Since when did a public resource like water come with a deed? That question unspooled into the reporting behind his new documentary, Pistachio Wars.

Lula approved a bill easing environmental licensing rules but vetoed or altered 63 out of nearly 400 articles due to pressure from environmental groups.

The $8.2-billion US merger of Bunge and Viterra is now complete, forming one of the world's largest agribusiness companies.