in the country. u.s. farm report - brought to you by the dependable, long lasting, chevysilverado. now for the news that moved the markets thisweek...weather in brazil giving a little boost to soybeans toend the month. january soybean futures rallying to start theweek-- climbing roughly forty cents and with striking distanceof 9 dollars. speculation over dry weather in brazil leadingthe charge higher... even though some places saw rains this week,it wasn't enough to push beans back lower. even though therewere some beneficial rains in parts of northern brazil noteveryone got the rains and that seems to be keeping a bidunderneith the market. weather forecasts callng for rain inmajor growing areas this week but forecasts into next week predicting below normal precipitation and above normaltemperatures for nearly all of

has been shipments of grainsorghum to china. new usda data shows increasing production ofthe grain is pushing prices lower. the economic researchservice says grain sorghum is sitting just above 3 dollars perbushel---now back below the price of corn. over the last 2years sorghum at times trading at a 20 percent premium to cornon strong demand from china. meanwhile from our partners atbeef today, the crisis continues for america's cattle feeders.according to sterling marketing feedlots are now losing nearly700 dollars a head--that's more than 400-million dollars in justthe last week. sterling says 2015 will go into the recordbooks as the worst year in history for american feedyards.on the retail side the average price of all fresh beef innovember was about 6 dollars a pound. that's down more than 3cents from the month prior--but still about a dime higher than ayear ago. with slaughter prices are dropping faster than retail, the marketing spread is

processors setting a record forhog slaughter last week. just less than 2 point 5 million head(2.493) were processed. that's beats the previous record by 23-thousand--set back in december of 2007. the nationalbarrow and gilt price last week standing at 47-81 per hundred.oil prices working to find a floor after falling to it'slowest price in 11 years this week. warmer than normal winter temperatures and growing supplies of crude addingpressure to the market. world wide, oil production continueson record pace. that has crude looking at it's biggest monthlypercentage drop in some 7 years. traders say moving marketshigher is going to be tough. those are theheadlines...meteorologist mike hoffman joins us now withweather... mike we only get you once today...let's start withyour longer range forecast. sounds good clinton, you knowwe've been talking about this change in the weather patterncoming up. it looked more and more likely as we head into thefirst of the year. the big question down the road does itstick and hold or does it go back to what we've been seeingand what we've been seeing is

going to go to is the oppositeof that. as you can see as we evolve the computer models arestarting to show more of a trough by later this week andinto the weekend so a quick shot of colder air by the first ofthe year but warmer out west. now again does this go back ordoes it stick and hold. that's one thing we'll be watching. so my 30 day outlook for temperatures, above normal.northern lakes all the way back into the northwest. below normalfor the southern plains, parts of the southeast near normalelsewhere so this is a big change from what we've seen overthe past 30 days. 30 day outlook for precipitation then above normal, typical el nino situation through the southernand central tier of states. below normal the northern lakesbut especially the northern portions of the rockies. thanks mike. nestl the world's largest food company, announcingit's moving to cage free eggs. it uses roughly 20 millionpounds of eggs a year. this as the egg industry works to dealwith a landslide of companies demanding cage free product. andfinally the national corn growers association announcingthe latest winner of it's 2015

record and all time high of 532 bushels per acre. the grower...david hula of charlescity virginia. ncga says five national entries surpassed the400- plus bushel mark. that's it for news. jim bower and tommy grisafi join me for our marketing round table when wereturn. recieve a free trial of the daily market letter and gainknowledge about current market conditions from theprofessionals at bower trading. view the markets like neverbefore. go to bowertrading dot com. >> joining us here u.s.farm report for discussions

bower trading. thank you bothfor being here. let's talk orange juice futures orsomething completely different than grains and livestockbecause it's been tough here the last few weeks. hasn't it, jim?>> yeah, my dad told me to buy six months ago and i didn't, sonow he's mad at me. [ laughter ]

talking about different marketsthese days because it has just been a tough road the last fewmonths, well really the last year 2015. >> well, the onlygood news about when markets go down is when they go back up. asjim knows and i know and people in the commodity business, youcan make an incredible amount of money selling markets, but wethink of that as that as a speculator. obviouslymost of our customers start the day long the market, so ingeneral i find people like ourselves being cheerleaders forhigher prices, but they'll come, and you know, we saw some ofthat in natural gas. you want to talk about a different marke>> sure. i haven't traded natural gas in a few yearsbecause the price is so low, and i wasn't trading it the otherday, but someone said natural gas was up 9%. i startedthinking, you know, could you imagine if corn or beans were up9%? we would be going crazy, but they're not. they're down apercent, s a market that low, that cheap inprice it's like holding a ball in a pool like you do with yourkids. when you let that ball go

above the water, but the force when it comes up is very powerful, and that's what bigbear markets do in commodities, in my opinion. >> yeah, and,jim, we've kind of seen this across the board. not just onecommodity, but multiples. if we look at an index of a group ofthese commodities we can see that. >> right. my staff and i, we watch that bloomberg commodity index very, veryclosely. it's been in existence, i believe, since 1999, but ithink on wednesday of last week i think it hit the all we're down about 26% for commodity pricing in generalthis year. i'm a little taken back by that really, given wherethe level of stock market is, but i think there's kind of aphenom going on right now where commodity prices are just tryingtoo they^re feeding themselves on weakness, and it seems like,it's almost like an attack, but eventually the lower we go themore demand will be built and eventually we'll get a turnaround, so we'll just have to be careful until that time actuallycomes around. >> yeah, and, tommy, we did see a little bitof a bump in a couple markets to

bit. >> there's south americanweather in play, and the funds are short, and i think thefarmer's stubborn in general. we love them, but they have stayingpower. some people do the, i don't want to get paid tilljanuary first thing, and so i can't say it's because it's coldoutside. typically this time of year if we see a bit in thebeans it's because of a big snowstorm, but we got a better chance of a flood than a snowstorm right now, it's verywarm out, so the grain can flow, it's just not at a price thatmaybe the farmer wants and we'll see how things set up the year.>> yeah. as far as setup goes, what are you thinking on southamerican, gentleme two, two twists, two twists withsouth america. there's all kinds of opinion. is the crop100 million metric tons or is it 90 million metic tons? personally i think it's somewhere between 94.5 and say96 million metric tons assuming the rains arrive by the firstweek of january, which may or may not happen. the models stillhave that, but as you know you've got to be really carefulwith that. the other thing is

think it's like 1 now, andthat prices their soybeans out at around at 13.25 so a lot ofthe beans in brazil have already been sold. i'd say somewhereclose to 50% have already been sold, so we may not get as big aflux of soybeans into the global pipelines at harvest time as weall think because the brazilian producer isn't going to beforced to, so we'll see what happens. but, again, the nexttwo or three weeks are extremely important for weather for alarge portion of south america. >> yeah. tommy, what do youthink? >> i agree with jim that when you come back at the newyear i wanted to add to one of his points, our friends up tothe north, canadian customers, people i talk to on twitter,when they tell me they can get $3 over our price for beans andthey're just literally right next to michigan i'm, like,well, why wouldn't you do it? and so one of the things thatcomes into play, and we forget to talk about it, is that argentina devalued their currency and brazil,s and allthese countries are devaluing, is that when they go to buytheir inputs next year they

a high price, and then they'llhave sticker shock when they go buy the inputs to grow that cropagain next year, and that's something that might come intoplay next year. >> yeah, so something with a long tail. whatelse are we watching right now? south america obviously is thebig one. we're ending the year here 2015, what else is on yourradar? >> well, i think one of the things we can look at areenergy prices. there's a lot of traders, analysts, a lot moreskilled than i am out of new york and london who areprofessional energy traders say we're going to go a lot lower,and that may very well be true, but the lower we go again thehigher the demand. and i think this drop that we've seen, now,don't quote me on this. i may be dead wrong, but i heard a numbersomewhere the drop in fuel prices for the north americanproducer allows them to recoup about $150 billion of disposableincome back in their pockets because ey're not lling at4 gasoline >> rit. >> so what's going to happen thereis, i think, an opportunity to hedge off gasoline and dieseland fuels through a combination

good news. we'll stop there.we'll talk some other markets when we come back. more u.s.farm report right after the break. u.s. farm reportbrought to you by case ih. be ready next harvest season withan axial ih. welcome back to u.s.farm report. tommy grisafi, jim

macro economy and the differenceor what we're seeing at the end of the year here with stocksbecause that's been kind of a shaky road as well. >> well,word on the street is santa claus is coming to town, but thestock market, that might be challenged this year. we hadthat fed rate rise >>actually raise rates here in america, and we did. we raisedrates a quarter percent, and the stock market that day closed up200. next day closed down 200 and then down 360 last week, andthat caught people's attention. you can only lose 500 points somany days in a row before every

going up. when you talk aboutstocks people forget that stocks can even go down. as a commoditytrader we're used to things going down. we've gotten tooused to it, maybe things are about ready to change, but thestock market is at pretty lofty levels versus the commoditymarket to add to jim's point earlier, this goldman sach indexverses the stock market is the furthest stretch, you know, thestocks verses commodities as it gets. and typically the yearafter that, and not because it's a year in sixes, just because it's stretched that far commodities tend to have abetter year. >> tend to have a better year. well, let's talkabout a commodity that needs to have a better year, and that'sthe cattle markets, jim, because the last thing we've read isthat the sterling profit tracker has us a$700 a head, or near $700 a head per animal. that's been a toughmarket, even for traders lately. >> yes. that market has justbeen one of the wildest markets i've ever been accustomed to oreven been involved in, and it's

out ahead because there's somany variables in there. this last cattle on feed reportobviously was interpreted to be friendly, and i think so, butyou kind of an asterisk by it because a lot of those inventorymay have been out on forage or because the weather's been sowarm and mil they didn't go to the feed lot.>> right. we're talking about placements being down 11%. >>right. that placement number really caught everybody offguard. well, let's look behind the scenes. let's look at that alittle closer. >> okay. >> so what that market needs is moredemand. we've got a lot of inventory of turkey, chicken,pork we're going to have to compete with. we've got a lot ofexport competition. i still think it's kind of in apendulum. the market went too high. it swung too low, andeventually it will swing back to a more normatype trade, butcertainly that market has to be analyzed from a risk standpoint. it has a high degree of volatility. the customer must bemade aware constantly there's danger here, and i don't knowthe answer, but i think it

>> yeah, tommy, what are youseeing on the cattle side? >> i talked to a friend of mine. whenwe were on the show a few months ago we talked that the cattlewere heavy, they were going to clean those up, and they keptcoming in. like jim said earlier in the show, these lower pricessometimes feed on themselves. what was wild about cattle is aswe went down we actually started to accelerate to the downside,and so we became more volatile as we became lower. now, we knowcattle's not going to zero, but there was a day or two where itfelt like that, so talking to my friend, my customer, he said theweights have been, the heavy, fat cattle have been cleaned up.weights went down a lot this week. the market had a prettygood recovery, but the damage has already been done, so if youbought cattle, if you paid too high for feeders, fed them out,that money's lost. it's not coming back. the cattleman'sgoing to have to be really careful on what price they payto get in because once they set that price no different ourfriends in the row crops. once you bought all the stuff, theonly thing left is to grow it and then sell it, and you'restuck with either a profit or a

grain left in storage. is any ofthat going to move to town? >> well, what we've been doing atbower trading is we've been doing a lot of sell and defend,sell the cash. hopefully on a good basis. i think the basisgame is going to be pretty wild all the way from right now allthe way through summer of next year. there is going to be some significant basis play, especially in the eastern cornbelt. so play the basis, sell the cash, get your bills paid,pay the taxes, pay for your supplies, get things organizedand defend it with some type of option strategy or replace itwith again upon the risk talks withthat client. >> all right. well, we'll get your final thoughtswhen we come back in markets now. we're u.s. form reportright after the break. find your next piece of equipment atmachinerypete.com and enter for your chance to win a yeticooler. one yeti tundra 35 cooler is being given away each week. go to machinerypete.com/survey,complete the survey and enter your information. you could bethe next owner of a machinery

now, i had the chance to travel the country. i wasmeeting with a great group of farmers up in north dakota, andthey asked me, what do you think we're doing wrong in marketing?i said, to be honest with you, and maybe this is going tooffend some of you, is that if you ever watch world series ofpoker, us as fans we get to see what everyone has in theirhands. i said the american farmer, two, three years in arow, three years of lower corn prices at harvest keeps goingall in on a pair of threes. >> right. >> i said, and we can seewhat your hand is. i said as we come into 2016 the farmer, theproducer in any commodity's going to have to do a better jobof understanding what they're being dealt that year and then working within those circumstances. >> okay. jim,what do you think? >> well, there is something going onwhich bothers me a little bit. i wanted to talk a little bitabout it, and it's kind of a psychology of deflationarytechnology, and i've seen such a

the united states, of being ableto produce at such an efficient rate. it's almost like they'retoo good at their job, and consequently the prices havefallen down to levels which we haven't seen for quite sometime. i tend to be offensive oriented. that'splayed sports, when i ride horses i try to be as offensiveoriented as i can, but i think this coming year may be a yearwhere be a little bit more defensively oriented, and thenit does need to be changed you change your strategy kind of inmidstream, but be aware that things are different now from apricing standpoint than they were not only here in the unitedstates, but globally. it's a much different game now. >> allright. thank you both for your perspective. thank you both forbeing here. we'll have john phipps when we come back on u.s.farm report. it may be the off

season for john phipps but he'sstaying busy...churning out

world -- his thoughts on recentclimate negotiations in paris. earlier this month, virtuallyunnoticed by the ag media, what i think was an historicdiplomatic and scientific achievement unfolded in paris.not only was it a hopeful counterpoint to the horrificterrorist attack there, it was a nearly unbelievable negotiatingaccomplishment. getting 196 nations to agree on the time ofday is no sure thing. to get them to hammer out a plan tobegin tackling climate change was beyond what i thought mighthappen. of course, many in the u-s and most of agriculturesuspect or believe climate change is a hoax or swindle, butthat is beside the point. the rest of us have moved on, andthat means almost all the rest of us. there is much tocriticize from both sides. the agreed goals are modest at best,and will not get us to less than

better path. the idea that thepledges made by nations are voluntary misses the point. inthe end, all international agreements depend on good faith.after all even those upset about the cool sanctions aren'tadvocating war with canada and mexico. it also needs to bepointed out that the u-s is not the overwhelmingly dominanteconomic player in the globe as it used to be. we in agriculturehave grown to depend on china's growing economy for ourprosperity, and we should be able to put 2 and 2 together and realize that big trading partners mean they have moreeconomic clout. our wealth cannot dictate outcomes anymore.speaking of chine, one of the complaints about climate negotiations that big polluters like china and indiadon't sign on was addressed in the cop21 agreement. in fact, itcan be argued that china's pledges to reduce greenhousegasses are more ambitious than

agreements, perhaps the mostimportant result of this treaty will be more treaties. provingagreements can be reached at all leads countries to considerdiplomacy over coercion as a cheaper, more effective route totheir national goals. even if you care little about climatechange efforts, you will benefit from the boost this treaty hasgiven to global cooperation. perspective solely from the mindof phipps. thanks john. still to come....its our christmas in thecountry special. and even tyne stops by to helps us celebratethe season... we'll be right

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country. it's easy to getcaught-up in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.that's why we offer this program as a gift, of sorts, to you.it's a way to show our thanks to our faithful viewers. and whileit's a present short on ribbons and tinsel, it does serve as areminder to slow-down and embrace the holiday with your family in a way that is characteristic of rural america.christmas trees are a classic symbol of the holidays -atradition that's been around for

to spread holiday cheer.. notjust on the farm but to our friends and family in uniform.national reporter betsy jibben has the story. it's another busy season at the whitehouse christmas tree farm in northwestohio. it's been an exciting season and today has been just abeautiful day." as families continue their tradition ofpicking out the perfect pine, spruce or even fir tree fortheir homes. "what do you think buddy? like this tree? not everyfamily has the opportunity to spend it together. oftentimes,our men and women in uniform are seperated from loved ones.. itwas that very thought.. owner and farmer duke wheeler had oneholiday.. that sparked his family to do theirpart...serving those who serve our country.... by shippingtrees to military families. we started giving trees to militaryfamilies since the first gulf war." it was the efforts ofwheeler and other farmers around the nation.. that prompted the national christmas tree assocation and fed-ex to helpout as well. by creating a

troops.' at participating farms,(or online i think) a tree can be purchased and donated.. thisyear the trees are going to 65 military bases across thecountry and a handful of bases overseas in afganistan, kuwaitand guam. (or for time: this year trees are going to bases around the country and throughout the world. "ourassignment is to fill a trailer to go to camp lejeune in northcarolina." "a couple more, we need five more trees. good jobyou two." wheeler is not a veteran himself..too young forvietnam and too old for the first gulf war. but at his farm,young rotc memebers in uniform lend a helping hand.. we loadedtrees, shook them, drilled thema dn bailed them. we'll hop inanywhere that needs to be helped. it touched my heart thathtey served for many years and never really got a 'thanks' andi love saying thanks to them." and then there were thosecurrently serving stacking and sorting in support of others.being active duty military, you get depoloyed a lot and a lot oftimes, it's difficult from a financial perspective so it'simportant to give back to the military communitieis and anthis is a great way to do that to make sure families have agood christmas. who better to give it to than someone tryingto protect our freedom," "i

iwo jima." "thanks for comignout. so good to see you." romaker's days of heavy liftingmay be past-but standing with his 'family' sees his spiritsraised (raises his spirits) think i donate because i wantto. they are my brothers."> while the holidays are always abusy time of year those in whitehouse, ohio are taking timeto remember the season of giving. "their sacrifices arenothing compared to giving away a free tree. reporting inwhitehouse, ohio, i'm betsy jibben. thanks betsy. whitehousesays while the abundance of rain jibben. thanks betsy. whitehousesays while the abundance of rain was bad news for row cropfarmers, his christmas trees thrived. his trees in sandiersoil are in the best condition he's ever seen. our next stop onour christmas journey takes us two hours south of the whitehouse tree farm. we're headed to clifton, ohio where an old,historic grist mill is still grinding grain through-out theyear. and as joe camoriano shows

don't even have enough words todescribe it--it's the greatest job that i could ever have. fortoni satorioni, owning one of the few operating grist mills inthe country means more than a unique business; a localconnection he helps foster is everything. consumers want not just products, they want experiences. so whether they arebuying flower products or pancake mixes that were milledsomewhere locally, visitors who make their way to clifton millare immediately drawn to the charming restaurant that sits onthe edge of clifton gorge. monster size pancakes are madefrom flour ground from the mill just a few feet away. thesausage hails from the local butcher and buffalo is also alocal favorite.> there has never been a day out of 16 years thati have ever dreaded coming to work. every year there areseveral families that will come to me and they will tell me'wow, i started coming out here when i was a kid and now i ambringing my grandkids out here'.

something this historic stillgoing.> besides the lure of the restaurant, the beautiful viewof the mill from the covered bridge there is even a miniaturevillage waiting to take you back to childhood memories. and notfar from the mini town is a room filled with 3,600 santas thatcome in all shapes and sizes. but that is definitely not allpeople come from every part of the country for another reason.>the mill has always been a center point of any town,especially in the agricultural community and we like to keepthat tradition alive.> one way of keeping that tradition alivei s buying drawing attention to their 210 year old mill and howdo they do that? they do it like this.> every night, i get tosmile and meet people who say

'hey, i've been coming here foryears and now our kids come here and our grandkids come here. youare part of our scrapbook and you are part of this and you arepart of that' and it's amazing to know that you are part of allthat with all these different families. > merry christmas!>reporting form clifton, ohio. i am joe camoriono for agday.thanks joe. what a spectacular show of lights in ohio. and thepancakes didn't look too bad either! agday brought you by chevy silverado.

use cranberries as food and medicine from the native americans. cranberries -in someform -were likely served at the first thanksgiving at plymouth.about 20 miles from there -in wareham, massachusetts -thenation's largest cranberry farm is celebrating a successfulseason. andrew mccrea has our story. in the early 19th century timbered lowlands of southeastern massachusetts wereknown for producing iron. log iron as it was known wasimportant to the young nation, by the mid 1800s better ironwas found in the west and the land here around wareham, mass.found another important use. > well all the iron millsaround here closed up and went out to pennsylvania, left this areaopen for growing cranberries. > cranberries grew naturallyaround the swamps, so early farmers knew this would be agood location to begin larger production of the crop. able demake peace was just 22 years old

seven generations later, its2000 acres make it the largest cranberry farm in the world. >cranberries take a lot of water and a lot of sand, which wehave, both of especially in this kind of area. we are similar tothe cape, where we have a lot of natural sands, so in the 1800syou needed the water, you need to have the berries flooded atdifferent parts of the day and different times of the year forirrigation for frost and for winter floods.> most farmerswant to avoid having their farms get flooded but if you growcranberries it is an important part of the process. we onlyneed to flood the bogs a couple of times of year. once toprotect them for the winter and then again for the harvest. >you have probably seen pictures of a wet cranberry harvest,where water lifts the berries off the vines and allows them tobe gathered and loaded on to pump trucks. however, floodingthe bogs is also an important part of wintering the crop.> wekeep the water on for like two

the vines still have to breatheand as long as they get sunlight and the water can oxidize it isfine. but if you have a lot of ice and snow on top of that thenyou block the sunlight.> the cranberry vines can produce abountiful harvest for many years. in fact, some of thevines at make peace farms date to the 19th century we havesome early black and howe vines those are two differentvarieties and they are well over 100 150 years old in someof our bogs but the latest hybrids can produce up to 600 barrels per acre. requiring more farmland can be cost prohibitingin massachusetts, so farmers focus on upgrading the acresthat they already have.> so because property is expensive,what they do what we do and most other growers is we go inand will take out some of those older varieties, we will level the bogs off, put in new upgraded irrigation, stuff likethat and then we will put in the

similar areas but the market forthis crop remains strong. still worth growing cranberries. it isa great market right now. ocean spray has done a great job atmarketing and keeping the price up and things like that. thecranberry industry is still thriving, so we are doing well.> the make peace farm is now in its seventh generation ofgrowing cranberries as the largest grower in the world theycertainly provide a staple for many holiday meals. with theirfocus on sustainability and their community it's a place that brings thousands of visitors every year. travelingthe countryside near wareham, mass. --i am andrew mccrea.clinton_ makepeace farms is the largest grower for ocean spraywhich is a farmer cooperative that began in 1930. if you dostring some cranberries, it's recommended that you dispose ofthe garland after a day or two,

birds to nibble on them, as longas the berries are not coated or treated. next, we're headed tomichigan to see a massive christmas tree -the kind ofwhich you've probably never seen before. because it actuallysings! and get ready to see one of america's castles decked outfor the holidays. it's a rare treat you don't want tomiss...when christmas in the country continues. there are plenty of christmas

trees in mchigan. but there'sone in particular in western michigan that's a combination ofreal and artificial. singing "up on the house top reindeer paws,down comes dear ole santa claus.... the choir from monashores high school creates a massive living and singingchristmas tree for their annual holiday concert. this it the31st year for the creative concert. it stands 67 feet tall-or about five stories. they

is covered with artificialgreens and thousands of lights. there are about 200 voices,belting out classic christmas hymns and jingles. behind allfourteen levels, there are about three dozen parents, called"tree monkeys". they stand behind the performers in casethey beging to feel queasy and need to sit down. in addition tothe tallest singing tree in the u-s. it's also believed to bethe fourth tallest in the world. meanwhile, this tree is eventaller -and real. it's the 2015 capitol christmas tree. it camefrom the chew-gotch national forest in alaska. the 74 foottall lutz spruce is the first capitol christmas tree to come from alaska. it traveled 44-hundred miles by land and seato get to the nation's capitol. the capitol christmas tree hasbeen a tradition at the capitol since 1964. the tree will be litfrom nightfall until 11 p.m. each evening through januaryfirst. next we visit a grand estate in north carolina thatcan rival any mansion in america

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get the most acre after acre season after season it's a place where southernhistory and holiday beauty come together in spectacular fashion.the decorations at the biltmore estate in asheville, northcarolina include the work of a floral manager who got her startyears ago as a student at the university of tennessee. charlesdenney from the u-t institute of agriculture shows us her love ofhistory, art and plants. [music] capturing christmas past, straight out of george vanderbilt's celebration in thelate 1800's, biltmore estate today is stunning. the banquethall includes a 34 foot tall

and all the trimmings, there'shorticulture here too, plants and flowers, 250 poinsettiasalone. more than 300thousand people tour biltmore during theholidays. cathy barnhardt and her team work to make theexperience special, and even pass on decorating ideas. "wefeel like that's part of our job here is to inspire our guests. imean biltmore is all about inspiration so the floraldepartment wants to inspire people in ways to use plants andflowers in their house and also to do those seasonal decorationslike christmas." "every public area of the biltmore isdecorated, and visitors can see more than 100 christmas trees.cathy barnhardt thinks christmas year 'round with all theplanning required to transform this place during the holidays." this is barnhardt's 38th christmas at biltmore. she camehere right out of college

she worked in campusgreenhouses. it was her love and expertise in history, art andplants that led her to biltmore. this asheville native has anearly lifelong connection here, and her creative touch passes onthat holiday spirit each season. this is charles denneyreporting. ) here's a bit of trivia for you... on christmaseve 1895, george vanderbilt officially opened biltmore tofriends and family. the biltmore website says the country estatewas marvelously decorated and full of festivity. the finishedhome contained over four acres of floor space, including 35bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces....lots of choicesfor santa to scurry down. :) when we come back, john phipps shares of his treasured

machinerypete dot com welcome back to christmas in the country. well each year,when my family gets out all our decorations and ornaments for the tress i really like discovering those special andunique ornaments that we hold near and dear to our heart johnphipps joins us from his farm to

share his thoughts on thetreasures that offer comfort to him and his wife. if you aremarried to someone born on december 23 whose middle name isnoel, you better be ready to take christmas pretty seriously.in the same way, if you are married to a former choirdirector for 30plus years, you'd better be prepared to take christmas music pretty

the phipps household. this yeari noticed that the gradual accumulation of belovedchristmas decorations had claimed all the horizontalsurfaces, hangable locations, and idle floor space in thehouse. i'm not complaining i love all the memories thesekeepsakes trigger. we have swedish decorations from jan'sfamily traditions. we have handmade decorations fromwoodworking friends, a special christmas book collection forcalming grandchildren and about 6 trips up and down stairs worthof other holiday momentous that, after the decades, have acquiredtheir own specific location. in fact, recalling all thosedetails has become a sort of test of our memories. and shouldwe misplace one, it will not go

in the background is playing mylatest mix of all kinds of christmas music. fromtraditional carols to classical choral works to new agerenditions and some that defy choral works to new agerenditions and some that defy categorization. while jan and ienjoy immersing ourselves in both the nostalgia and thepromise of christmas, we realize that our christmas habits andrituals are just that -ours. we try not to make the mistake of insisting that they be

happy if they find, as we have,a hand-me-down tradition to cherish in their evolvingchristmas customs, our greater hope is they accumulate theirown sustaining patterns of celebration. chrisymas hasalways been and should continue to be a do-it-yourself holiday.in fact, it is this process of making christmas special in yourown way that can make it a rare repeatable joy. here's wishingyou your very own unique merry christmas. ) a uniqueperspective from john phipps. thanks john. and we thank you for sharing part of your christmas with us. may your christmas be a time of reflection, peace and hope in anew season... the promise of a new year and a life livedabundantly. thank you for

across the world. let your hardwork and sacrifice be an example for all that see. from ourfamily to yours. thank you and merry christmas. high strength steel for high strength dependability, the chevysilverado is the official news

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