so, because you're working with agriculture -- and i know that afghanistan is 80% agricultural -- and just because of all the wars and war problems in your country, you have a long way to go. >> and agriculture is the solution. >> mm-hmm. >> without investing in agriculture, we'll not be able to have long-term stability. like you said, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. 80% is engaged in agriculture, so that's the only way to go ahead with. traditionally, in the past, for centuries, we have been involved with agriculture. and used to be, in the 1970s, we were exporting 70% of the world's raisin. so we have that potential. we need to look at it, how we can get to that target we were producing back then. >> i want to come back to agriculture, but i know that we have some connections in common. you went to cal state, east bay, and you were there when a man named dr. "mo" qayoumi was the president of cal state, east bay. he went to san jose state, and now he is the [laughing] chief advisor to president ghani. so you are now working with the man who was the president of the colleg

the merger caps a way of consolidation across agriculture.onsanto past ceo -- month santos ceo -- monsanto's ceo spoke with bloomberg. grant: the combination of the two companies unlocks the potential going forward. i think this is a great deal. david: he shares insight on consolidation in the industry. secretary vilsack is the longest-serving cabinet member in the obama administration and joins us now. let me ask you about some of the concerns that have come up as a result of this merger and others, that this space, the seed space, the fertilizer space , is getting too small. secretary vilsack: if you look at what happens when commodities get tight and margins get deuce, used consolidation at the farm and in terms of his mrs. serving the farm. underlying this is a series of small seed companies providing innovation that farmers are looking for. there are appropriate questions to be asking in connection with any merger this side, but i'm confident with seed technology coming off patent that we will continue to see smaller companies that will

h.r. 5883 passed the agriculture committee by voice vote and has the support of seven major agricultural organizations. again this is a very straightforward bill providing for minor technical changes in the packers and stockyard act. i urge my colleagues to vote yes. i don't believe we have any speakers on this side. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota yields back the remainder of his time of the the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rouzer: seeing no other members on our side that wish to speak, i want to again urge all my colleagues in this chamber to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back the remainder of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5883, as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded

i think it's important especially for people who aren't familiar with agriculture and we have a lot of urban legislators that don't exactly know what's going on on the farm 8several legislators and candidates are gathering in hills to learn how farmers are finding the fields and the over use of nutrients. 21;49;10;03 the way that people are farming now finding the balance of productive fields and the other use of nutrients. >> they're using less chemicals than they were ten years ago when this technology was not able. >> known as precision agriculture use information from soil and crop yields to only use chemicals needed based on gps. >> we aren't over applying. so not only is i environment it's better for the farmer. >> this same technology can be utilized by farmers with livestock to safely use their waist for the benefit of crops while keeping it out of the water. >> everybody everyone wants to know how we treat the land and the water that flows through it. it's easy to point a finger and blame if you don't understand the prasz and what we're actually doing out here to make things b

parity prices are based on the idea of a golden age in agriculture from 1910 to 1914 when farms prospered along with the rest of the economy. if we could simply reestablish the balance of those prices today, farmers would be receiving their fair share, at least in the views of proponents. parity prices are still calculated by law by the usda and published each month, and promptly ignored. for example, these are corn $13.00; soybeans $31.10; wheat $18.10; cotton $1.93; milk $51.90; hogs $164; cattle $320 what would happen if prices were mandated at these levels? first, our roundtables would be very boring. second, export demand for these commodities would disappear. third, even if demand r replacement heifers. you don't have to look very far back to see what happens to costs during a price jump like this would be. fourth, i suspect farm income would plummet. while you can set the price, you cannot force buyers to buy. as we talked about last week, income is price times quantity. the result would be ever- growing unsold surpluses. fifth, price controls like parity prices require a massive b

agriculture income is related to exports.ent that we can only do business with ourselves and a mistaken view. we have a tremendous opportunity marketlarly in the asia in agriculture to extend significantly exports and take advantage of that growing market and increase farmer income. is a deeply concerning to the president, to anybody understands a world that we live in. the trade agreements need to be fair added force, and i think we are reflecting that, but we have to be open to the rest of the world because 95% of the world's consumers live outside the u.s. and emerging middle classes in asia offer a significant opportunity. matt: that was tom vilsack earlier today on bloomberg television. scarlet: coming up, deutsche bank. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: committee held said to be exploring options, including a sale. the deliberations are edge of the release on no known deal is certain but according to a source, high debt levels and operational issues may limit the buyers. we will look into that for you. it is moving up in tr

, hi, i'm an army general, here i am in afghanistan, could you send agriculture experts out here and we need your help and the department of agriculture says, you know, we only have two of them and they're really busy and besides they don't wanting to to afghanistan and the army goes, you know, big collective head-scratch and says, wait a second. the army reserve has farmers, people who work for agriculture companies, let's find them and bring them here. were they quite the right people, no, some of them were probably going, i had a garden, that doesn't mean that i can advise of agriculture production. what an amazing ability for a country to do that, and if we can take that energy and talent, the incredible talent and diversity that we have in this country and put it to work for the whole country, that would be so wonderful. >> so you've had your book out for at least a few weeks. >> one week. >> you had written up wall street journal, new york times multiple times and other publications. what has surprised you the most and delighted you the most about the reception of the book? >>

had our agricultural soils been healthier, maybe we could have reduced that impact. i haven't really studied that. and then, of course, we have a lot of agricultural waste going into lake champlain, so there's a lot that we can do. but it is different because out west you have water providing, like, providing -- going towards energy, you know? the energy system. and then a huge, huge use of energy that's going towards moving water all around. so it is, it is different. but in talking about the west, it's interesting you mentioned nevada. nevada is the driest state in the country. there are -- so a group of people in nevada that have been working with ranchers, okay. so you have a really dry area. there's a woman, a scientist with one of the national divisions of -- i forget it's usda or forestry, but, okay. so she's a biologist, a scientist. and her specialty is fish. and with the land drying up and, you know, the streams drying up, her work wasn't very exciting. so she wanted to bring back more fish. is so what happened was she worked with some ranchers who used hol

so what did i know about agriculture? not much. i spent a lot of my time in my previous life in health care. so i knew a lot about health care and i was a very mission focused person. and agriculture is a mission focused organization. with critical infrastructure have you to realize with agriculture we have 29 agencies, staff offices and mission areas. some of those include areas like animal plant health inspection service or food nutrition service or nes, national agriculture statistical agencies. those are influential in the marketplaces. when you really look at it, it's complex because we do not only production but processing and delivery. so production, the farmers, producers, and ranchers. the supply chain also includes areas such as processing. you have tyson foods, other processing organizations. then on top of that you have the delivery. so you have the grocery stores and then you also have the food chains that access the food supply. when you look at it, any one of those areas could potentially be a target for any kind of

agriculture consolidation is becoming more common. in this week's agribusiness report, two mergers worth billions are moving forward. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good morning! welcome to the agribusiness downward trending farm economy.. agriculture consolidation is reaching new levels.. this week.. two billion dollar mergers are moving forward. the canadian fertilizer companies potash corporation of saskatchewan incorporated and agrium incorporated announced a merger worth 36 billion u-s dollars. potash and agrium together are the third largest natural resource company in iowa.. they operate in 18 countries.. and have nearly 20 thousand employees.. potash shareholders will get 52 percent.. with combined leadership from both companies. they expect to close in the middle of 2017. and bayer finally clinched an agreement to buy out monsanto.. for 66 billion dollars.. that's one hundred 28 dollars per share in an all cash transaction.. both boards unanimously approved the agreement. in their release.. they

some of his foreign policy as well as a problem in agriculture that there is a good basis to believe their agricultural problems but the farmers strategy they wanted adopted is to markets domestic and export then the government would give you a subsidy to match the high domestic price for keeping the u.s. markets. >> to keep the prices high debt was few title fit wanted something off to have been paid maintain crop prices and a put a huge warehouse full of grain was a disastrous policy but the roosevelt administration pursued many of the same policies then expanded on them to pay the farmers not to grow the crops so roosevelt pursue that as well. it is a vestige now of the ironic situation not to plant crops.d, then first the former board all different ways to deal with the problem we have been dealing with for something like 100 years. that is the product of the principal the housing board under roosevelt and the basic thing that people point to the really did say that is the business people and society as a whole to deal with not government the ups and downs of the economy that is

agriculture consolidation is becoming more common. in this week's agribusiness report, two mergers worth billions are moving forward. welcome to the agribusiness welcome to the agribusiness report, i'm report, i'm z22jmz zixz downward trending farm economy.. agriculture consolidation is reaching new levels.. this week.. two billion dollar mergers are moving forward. the canadian fertilizer companies potash corporation of saskatchewan incorporated and agrium incorporated announced a merger worth 36 billion u-s dollars. potash and agrium together are the third largest natural resource company in canada.. and have many operations in the u-s.. including a couple dozen in io and have nearly 20 thousand employees.. potash shareholders will get 52 percent.. with combined leadership from both companies. they expect to close in the middle of 2017. and bayer finally clinched an agreement to buy out monsanto.. for 66 billion dollars.. that's one hundred 28 dollars per share in an all cash transaction.. both boards unanimously approved the agreem

iowa secretary of agriculture bill northey nominated the team.. saying staff in his department stepped up to respond to saw that.. "several made the point that after that event that as they had concerns about how they might set up and respond that they had reached out to our folks and said, what did you learn? what lessons can we take away? and in fact we did have a couple other stats that did have to go through that." northey says indiana was one that reached out to iowa staff to help them deal in business.. in some cases.. the supply is back so fast the prices on eggs and turkeys are down.. while i was talking to secretary northey.. i also asked him about farm ground affected by the flooding in northeastern iowa.. near the river.. farm and pasture acres have been affected.. "definitely has impacted some crop ground. when you look at the totality of iowa with 23 million acres. it's not a lot of acres. but if it's your acres, it's a very big deal." northey says in some cases.. farm neighbors showed up to help out harvest before flooding hit. last

i can't advise the afghans on agriculture production. what an amazing ability for a country to do that. if we can take the energy and talent, the incredible talent and diversity we have and put it to work for the whole country, that would be so wonderful.. >> host: so you have had your book out now for at least a few weeks, and you -- >> guest: one week. >> host: goodness. i thought it was two weeks but you have had it -- already been within up in "the wall street journal," "new york times" multiple times. and other publics, what has surprised you the post some delightout the most about at the reception for the book? >> what has made my happiest about is, other than every writer wants to get attention and reviews -- it's depressing when you write your book and nobody reads it.t. i think what has made me happiest is for the most part, with a few exceptions but for the most part the response app has been very nonideological. don't see it as an ideologicalie or partisan book at all. see the arguments as ones that don't fit neatly into democ

hildebrand is back with let's start with the agricultural farming industry. it's important for many reasons but also the world's biggest right?ansaction, is that will: the world's biggest cash transaction ever, the biggest whether of this year, cash or otherwise, and this is between two giants that have been negotiating for some time. took three offers before they could agree. german chemical conglomerate bayer, has bought monsanto. approved byif regulators, would create the andd's largest seeds pesticides company which may not be an easy hurdle to overcome. has already been a lot of industry.ion in the >> third time's the charm. seed and pesticide giant monsanto accepted pharmaceutical wednesday as this the global agricultural industry changes.oing massive in the past year, sin genta was china whiley chem dow chemical merged with dupont, consolidations that experts say cropriven by falling prices as farmers are cutting back on buying seeds and andistry like herbicides pesticides. >> this sector has been in the process of transformation for quarters of a year

and he over simplifying his story but he calls thump department of agriculture in washington and says, hi, i'm an army general, here i am in afghan,ing you plea spend soming a cultural experts and the department of agriculture says, we only have two of them and they're really busy and they don't want to go to afghan. and so the army goes big collective head scratch and says, wait a second. the army reserve has -- and the national guard has farmers, people who work for agricultural companies. lea find them and bring them here and a year later we had hundreds of americans reservists and national guard troops who had some agricultural backgroundy. they quite the right people? no.t some were going, i had a garden. that doesn't mean i can advise the afghans on agricultural production, but what an amazing ability for a country to be able to do that and if we can take that energy and that talent, tht incredible talent and tie versetive we have in this country and put it to work for the whole country, that would be so wonderful. >> host: so you have had your book out now for at least a few we

the agriculture development bank of ministry of agriculture.. the ministry says the agreement will protect national food security.. support the sector doing business overseas.. and develop china's seed industry.. ---- we'll post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg.com. i'm david geiger with the agribusiness report. chances of hitting a deer on the road are much higher here than in many other states. but the actual odds may surprise you. state farm insurance says your yearly odds of hitting a deer are 1 in 68. iowa has the 4th highest vehicle-deer collision rate in the country. the average repair bill, rapids body shop manager says customers often describe the same thing. ""it seems most of these people are complaining it came out of the ditch so fast they had no reaction time." " the state farm survey found iowa had the 3rd highest deer-vehicle collision rate in 2015. the state of pennsylvania passed iowa this year. november, during mating season, is the most dangerous month for accidents, followed by october. politics is someth

on his agricultural advisory team.the governor's eric -- is also trump's iowa state director. that night -- trump rolled out a plan that's a clear attempt to open up a group of voters he doesn't have a strong relationship with.in philadelphia -- he spoke about making childcare expenses tax deductable to help families. his daughter -- ivanka -- is the brains behind it. it.it would have 6 weeks of paid maternity leave -- paid for by -- what trump says would be -- cutting out fraud in unemployment insurance.it is worth noting that it doesn't mention anything about be treated like a deductable business expense -- with additional tax credits for people on the lower levels of the income scale -- who may not pay enough or any taxes. taxes.it would also create "dependent care savings accounts" where families set aside money to help children's development and offset elder care for their own parents. "they will be able to fully deduct the average cost of childcare for their state, from birth through the age of 13.because of the way the bene structured, our plan will bring relief to work

this same situation is replicated all across agriculture from machinery to years ago. the big commodity boom not only generated a lot of profit for everyone in agriculture, it encouraged investments that now have to be paid off. this means prices will not come down easily or smoothly. it also means that until the supply and demand for commodities get closer together, the red ink will spread out to cover virtually all the businesses in agriculture. thanks, john. and send your questions or comments to john at mailbag at u-s farm report dot if you enjoy an ice cream cone from time to time, or even a glass of iced tea, you can think one popular event from the early 1900s. while some say these says that's actually not true. he explains in this week's american countryside. if you stroll the grounds of st. louis, mo's forresst park, you'll find a tranquil peice of land in the middle of a city. roll back the clock to 1904 and you would have found one of the busiest and biggest events on the planet. this was the site of the world's fair and much more! the amazing thing about it

green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i d

agriculture industry companies at the hearing.. like monsanto and dupont.. say the mergers allow for expansion of innovation and choice for farmers.. however.. the state owned seed company chemchina.. which is set to buy syngenta.. was not there to comment.. iowa senator chuck grassley says the concentration of the industry well.. there's a new organic association for farmers.. rodale institute.. an organic research organization.. has launched a new membership organization.. the organic farmers association will give a voice for organic farmers on policy.. help with networking.. and serve as a resource center. in the release.. they say there are no national organizations specifically by organic farmers.. to help organic farmers.. they want to unite the 20,000 organic farms across the country membership is a hundred dollars a year.. and non-farmers can get a supporter membership.. for the same.. each farm gets one vote on policy issues.. ---- the grains are lost a bit what they won tuesday.. market analyst angie setzer has more.. "the fact that we've seen a go

are cautious when it comes to the recent merger trends in agriculture.. at the senate judiciary committee hearing tuesday.. lawmakers heard from top agriculture and commodity groups along with agribusiness leaders.. the national farmers union asked for more oversight on antitrust enforcement in agriculture.. the national corn growers and american soybean association.. say they want to preserve competition.. but add the mergers could allow for more industry companies at the hearing.. like monsanto and dupont.. say the mergers allow for expansion of innovation and choice for farmers.. however.. the state owned seed company chemchina.. which is set to buy syngenta.. was not there to comment.. iowa senator chuck grassley says the concentration of the industry will reduce choice.. and raise prices.. ---- well.. there's a new organic association for farmers.. rodale institute.. an organic new membership organization.. the organic farmers association will give a voice for organic farmers on policy.. help with networking.. and serve as a resource center. in the r

iowa secretary of agriculture bill northey nominated the team.. saying staff in his department stepped up to respond to the outbreak.. and other states saw that.. "several made the point that after that event that as they had concerns about how they might set up and respond that they had you learn? what lessons can we take away? and in fact we did have a couple other stats that did have to go through that." northey says indiana was one that reached out to iowa staff to help them deal with the epidemic. adding that iowa poultry is back in business.. in some cases.. the supply is back so fast the prices on eggs and turkeys are down.. while i was talking to secretary northey.. i also asked him about farm ground affected by iowa.. near the river.. farm and pasture acres have been affected.. "definitely has impacted some crop ground. when you look at the totality of iowa with 23 million acres. it's not a lot of acres. but if it's your acres, it's a very big deal." northey says in some cases.. farm neighbors showed up to help out harvest before flooding

ohio department of agriculture investigation repor statesen the exterminator used unintended product and improperly and found that the technician may have cross contaminated with a product ban for indoor use. what happened was a reckless disregard for public safety. >> this has been an ongoing battle. >> on friday the unit representing the workers says i wants accountabilityhe they wan the workers comp claims to be approved and visitors to the office know that they could be >> ohio department of agriculture says they do not find evidence that someone brok the law but has sent the case t the epa, i social security ministration so they will continue to work with employees to help them with their , working on claims with health and safety experts to determine any additional actions needed. would try to make headway to make sure it does not happen againmw that we cannot udo was done on that day. t >> representative for central exterminating says they had changed its protocols regarding treatmentsd to prevent future problems and theut union is working to change policies so that councils a

the governor, auditor and secretary of agriculture voluntarily cut their own pay ten percent. but, lieutenant govenor patty judge refused to cut her hundred and three thousand dollar salary by even a penny. the theme of fry fest this year is hawkeye rivalries - at least partially because last season was such a big year for . iowa.this morning - we're taking a look back at how the hawks brought four trophies back to iowa city - marking wins in rivalry games on their way to an undefeated regular se. season. a week one win over illinois state was soured just days later tyler sash died.the team wore his number 9 on the side of their helmets -- but iowa trailed by a touchdown at halftime.with six minutes left in the game -- desmond king's punt return set up a go ahead touchdown.on the next drive -- king picked off iowa state's sam b. richardson to seal the game -- and take the cy-hawk trophy back to iowa city.two weeks later -- after wins over pittsburgh and north texas -- hawkeye's 10 points was the lowest point total to beat the badgers in wisconisin since iowa did it back in 199

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. >> sreenivasan: besides producing honey, bees play a critical part in agricultural production. roughly one-third of what we eat depends on honeybees for pollination, and as bees collect pollen for food, they spread it from one flower to another, which helps those plants reproduce. according to the federal department of agriculture, there are around 3 million bee colonies in the u.s., and while that's a drop from the historic highs decades ago, a resurgence in beekeeping-- even in cities-- is helping to reverse the trend. >> sreenivasan: on the roof of the sofitel hotel in downtown philadelphia, 14 floors above the street, don shump manages four hives of honey bees. >> we actually took some frames out of this one. >> sreenivasan: each one contains as many as 100,000 bees. >> usually people go, ¡you're doing what on the roof in philadelphia and how high? and the conversation goes from there. >> sreenivasan: shump began beekeeping as a hobby, then five years ago, he quit his job as a web developer and became a beekeeper full time. he started the philadelphia bee company, and now h

including agriculture.. however.. the expectation.. is congress will pass a catch-all spending bill known as a continuing resolution.. energy and tax incentive bills are also issues likely to see some action in the short session before lawmakers head back to the campaign trail. ---- the department of agriculture announced more funding for farm operating loans.. the farm service agency says the funding will help out 19 hundred give the u-s- d-a a hundred and 85 million dollars in additional lending for direct and guaranteed farm operation loans. it also addresses up to 30 percent of the projected shortfall in funding for the program before the next fiscal year. the f-s-a has guaranteed loans to 64 hundred customers for farm ownership and operating purposes.. ---- with the farm progress show all wrapped up this year.. i went through the archives of 2014.. the last time the show was in cooperatives of iowa put together a demonstratio n of the dangers of electrical currents.. saying in 2012.. there were three farm deaths because of electri

and there are a lot of agricultural issues on the table.. with discussions on the future farm bill.. and the trans-pacific partnership topping the list. but with the elections in full swing.. there's not much expectation that much will get accomplished in the lame duck session. one need for congress will be passage of appropriation bills.. including funding for the department of agriculture.. however.. the expectation.. is congress will pass a catch-all spending bill known as a continuing resolution.. energy and tax short session before lawmakers head back to the campaign trail. ---- the department of agriculture announced more funding for farm operating loans.. the farm service agency says the funding will help out 19 hundred approved applicants waiting for loans. the funds give the u-s- d-a a hundred and 85 million dollars in additional lending for direct and guaranteed farm operation loans. it also addresses up to 30 percent of the p the next fiscal year. the f-s-a has guaranteed loans to 64 hundred customers for farm ownership and operat

there will be a hearing going over a bunch of the big agriculture mergers.. in the dow, dupont, syngenta and now maybe monsanto and bayer will be there. he says he wants to get everything out on the table. "but the most important thing is to put pressure on the justice department and the federal trade commission to make sure that our anti-trust laws are fully enforced and that mergers do not violate those anti-trust laws." grassley says anti-trust laws are written to protect the consumer.. the proposed mergers or buyouts could limit the most of the gasoline sold in the u-s has about 10 percent ethanol.. five years ago.. the environmental protection agency approved use of 15 percent ethanol.. called e-15 for all vehicles made the year 2001 or after.. today.. iowa governor terry branstad september 16th is iowa e-15 day.. opening up the gasoline for the winter driving season.. the summer blend is designed for flex fuel vehicles.. coinciding on that day.. 21 kum and go stores in des moines are offering a promotional e-15 deal to 2001 and newer vehicles of a dolla

creating an agricultural conglomerate that could reshape the farming industry. >>> hitting the road.f you're in pittsburgh, you can get an uber car that drifz itself. >> ae way to raise funds for supplies. those stories and more tonight on "nightly business report," september 241th name the biggest takeover of the year. bayer buying monsanto, the price tag $56 billion. but getting the deal done was not easy and won't be. bayer came calling not once, not twice, but three times before monsanto agreed to be acquired and each time the price tag increased. today's deal came in at $128 a share. and that sent shares of monsanto slightly higher in the trading session. the takeover will create a conglomera that operates in pharmaceuticals, health care products, pesticides. so it still needs regulatory approval, and given that monsanto is the world's largest supplier of genetically modified seeds, the combined company would be a power house that could reshape the farming industry. hampton pearson has details. >> repor americans seed and fernandez giant, monsanto, is about to be swallowed up by

in fact, most people are not aware that agriculture is our third largest industry in our state. accounting for over $2.9 billion of our annual economy, and at least 42,000 jobs, according to our state department of agriculture. so like states all across the country we're working with government and private sectors to diversify and strengthen our economy and specifically our agriculture sector. however, one of the greatest threats that we're seeing in hawaii and across the country to agriculture our invasive species. is one damea cocid than more than 4,300 invasive species that threaten our agriculture industry. in hawaii alone the invasive species costs our local farmers, landowners, and ag industry millions of dollars every year and puts hundreds of our local small farms and thousands of local workers and the fuhr of one of our most important crops at risk. just last month hi the chance to visit multiple farms on hawaii identifylandland in my district, an island that produces 80% of hawaii's world renowned mack damea nuts that are shipped and sold around the world. i heard one

the oversee the national important activities as well as all agricultural select agent services. a. the chief army corps we think the major general for being here and providing the expertise of the biological agents in the department of defense. you are all aware of the committee is holding investigative hearings and when doing so we take the testimony under oath. do any of you have any objections taking testimony under oath? the chair advises you all you are entitled to be advised by counsel do you desire to be advised by counsel seeing none in that case with you rise and raise your right hand and i will spare you and plaques >> the testimony that you are about to give us the whol is thh and nothing but the truth. you are now under oath and subject to the section 1001 of the united states code. make sure the microphone is on. the process of destroying the pathogens while retaining the characteristics for the research in developing the vaccines. the delicate balance and eliminating the pathogens and preserving its attributes for the study and research must be achieved. the safety is

republicans told agriculture secretary tom vilsack... new were worried about included g-m-o labeling.. e-p-a atrazine risk assessment.. livestock marketing rules and the waters of the u-s rule.. vilsack says trade missions.. and investments in biofuels.. is helping.. but he needs the senate to approve new spending for the fiscal year.. which starts october first.. to look at more help for producers.. because a lot of programs have spent what they've gotten this year. "i have spent every dime of credit that congress has given permission for me to loan out. i have spent every dime of cce money that provided as much under the dairy margin protection program as congress has authorized us to do." this was likely secretary vilsack's last hearing before the senate ag committee.. he gave advice as lawmakers look at a new farm bill.. asking them to look at what agriculture needs. ---- in the senate judiciary committee hearing tuesday.. big seed says the potential to develop new products... doesn't outweigh his fears that prices will go up because

the department of agriculture funded a game online like sim city for farmers.or startup farmers, this game from the department of education and agriculture through the sbr program is showing first nine farmers how to succeed. it ranges far and wide. i would argue, i'm biased. it's one of the best uses of tax dollars around. it shows innovation can work. >> it absolutely makes sense, no matter what kind of company you are, you may as well go on there, type in a few key words and see if there's funds waiting for you. thank you both so much for talking about the program and sharing your story. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >>> there's no point in having a company blog if the content you put out is boring and doesn't help your readers. that's why this week we give you some useful ways you can produce compelling material that will help expand your brand's reach, courtesy of yff magazine. one, understand your audience. keep away from lingo and stick with language they use. also, write in a tone your readers connect with. two, offer help

experiencing a transformation of how human beings live on a scale that would cause revolutions in agriculture and industry and as a result, a person born today is more likely to be healthy, live longer and have access to opportunity than at any time in human history. moreover the collapse of colonnism and communism for people to live with the freedom they choose despite the real and troubling areas where freedom appears in retreat. the fact remains that the number of democracies around the world has nearly doubled in the last 25 years. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of all people no matter their gender or raise or religion or disability or sexual or or -- orientation and those

colorado's agriculture department is the first in the country to produce that domestic product. matt kroschel checking in on the western slope, a massive ground. >> reporter: the colorado department of agriculture has been working for years to come up with a hemp seed that will qualify as hemp and not marijuana. the state is showing off their hemp harv est in the grand valley here today. under the program, see thes produced and conditioned will be issued as cda certified c-tas through the seed growers' association. and is after planting sflaerts five lobes across colorado, the cda officials were able to harvest the first crop, taking testing. why is all this important? because the u.s. congressional research committee says there are more than 25,000 uses for hemp, including health food and fiber. >> i think the economics in colorado are in play. it's an emerging industry, and a lot more to be determined in the coming years. >> reporter: once the seeds are tested, farmers can make sure they're planting the right crop. we're live in grand junction, matt kroschel, cbs4 mountain new

year later we have hundreds and hundreds of american reservists and national guard's who had some agricultural background. were they quite the right people? no. some of them were probably saying i have a garden and that doesn't mean i can help the afghans on agricultural production but what an amazing ability for a country to do that. if we can take that energy and talent, that talent andtr diversity that we have in thisde country and put it to work for the whole country, that would be so wonderful. >> you've had your book out now for at least a few weeks. >> i thought it was two weeks. >> it's already been written up in the wall street journal and the new york times and other publications, what has surprised you the most and delighted you the most about the reception? tt >> what made me happy us other than every writer wants to get attention in the reviews and it's sad and depressing when you write your book and nobody reads it, but i think what has mimi happiest is for the most part, with a few exceptions, for the most part the response has been very non- ideological. i don't see it as an id

they had a connection to agriculture. i will come back and say a little more about my grandmother but let me talk about my father's side. my father's side of the family, they were not displaced by the mexican revolution but they migrated as railroads were -- workers. think that to some of our earlier lectures in the growth of railroads during the industrial age, i mention the railroads not only went east to west but north to south. from chicago downtown paso and south into mexico. there was no border prior to nine to 24. -- 1924. my family crossed in the 1870's and the sons would follow their fathers and they wound up working at the southern pacific railroad station in southeast bakersfield. a is basically like historical relic. there were lots of folks in bakersfield that what to make that old depot into a historical monument. there was not a lot of money out there for it now. it's a historical relic. this is the men who worked on the railroad. that was my father's side. through looking at my own family, one of the scene

department of agriculture in beltsville, married.ilding that is right there on the left of your screen. you can see they're obviously is buildiu care still some flame there. but a lot of smoke and it lookst like most of the flames havelame actually been put out at this ts point. but again this is at the usagais de is partmentat of agriculturee beltsville, maryland.ltsll we saw just as we,e went to brek couple minutes ago, some realoml heavy flames coming through th that. no building location in beltsville. interestingly enough this is on of the 4usda' facilities that t had close last week after they y got e-mail threats. there were other facilities in west virginia and on the weste d coast ohe c wolorado i believe e of them and in maryland that hah received some anonymous e-mail i threats and so they shut downtow for a day. reopened and then now today weoy see some type of fire so no word if theirs any relation between those threats and today's fire.. if it's something completely different we don't know at thist point. apparently we

republicans told agriculture producers.. issues senators were worried about included g-m-o labeling.. e-p-a atrazine risk assessment.. livestock marketing rules and the waters of the u-s rule.. vilsack says trade missions.. and investments in biofuels.. is helping.. but he needs the senate to approve new spending for the fiscal year.. which starts october first.. to look at more help for producers.. because a lot of programs have spent what they've gotten this year. "i have spent every dime of out. i have spent every dime of cce money that i have that congress has provided. i have provided as much under the dairy margin protection program as congress has authorized us to do." this was likely secretary vilsack's last hearing before the senate ag committee.. he gave advice as lawmakers look at a new farm bill.. asking them to look at what agriculture needs. seed companies were questioned on consolidation. . iowa senator chuck grassley says the potential to develop new products... doesn't outweigh his fears that prices will go

agricultural exports.ith the west trade operations office is saying is the chinese isupport for corn and rice more than one hundred billion u.s. dollars more than what china said it would do when it entered the wto. this is the 14th complaint against china. wto,feel by going to the it's a more direct avenue in response to the claim that they're violating those rules. is the largest agricultural export. china is an increasingly large importer but there is trade friction between the two, especially in a highly charged political election year. big exporter. they say through tear of cut and remove result trade barriers, china has gone from a $2 billion year market to a $20 billion plus market. that sounds like a great situation. the backdrop to this is u.s. farmers have seen their incomes in commodities like wheat and corn. u.s. wheat prices hit a 10 year low in july. corn also in year a nine-year low. years inventories at a 16 high. also september 1. they're importing and exporting and selling wheat of what i

lifts the game for sustainable agriculture for decades to come. this is a win for growers as well as a win for share owners. liz: the clock starts ticking now with the regulators. we'll be watching and waiting along with you. thank you so much, mr. baumann, mr. grant. appreciate it. good luck. >> thank you very much. thanks for having us. liz: both of the stocks are moving to the upside. not so for the dow industrials, lower by 55. 11 points away from dipping below 18,000. don't go away, more "countdown" coming right back. so what else is new? how's your mother? umm..she's doing good. she needs more care though. she wants to stay in her house. i don't know even where to start with that. first, let's take a look at your financial plan and see what we can do. ok, so we've got... we'll listen. we'll talk. we'll plan. baird. whenpneumococcal pneumonia, it was huge for everybody. she just started to decline rapidly. i was rushed to the hospital. my symptoms were devastating. . . rom them. if i had known that a vaccine could have helped prevent this, i

department of agriculture. before we get to how you have educated tens of millions of people and how difficult or beneficial that was, what's your brief view of their regulatory protection of consumers now? >> well, it starts with the laws. and the laws are not bad. but if you get a law passed, then you have to fund the program. and conservative congresses starve the programs. so the food labeling, the food safety laws are reasonably good. they could be enforced with great vigor, going back to the 1958 food additives amendment. but the fda doesn't have the staff and it doesn't have the guts to enforce the laws with vigor, to regulate salt or sugar or we have asked for warning labels on soda pop because soda pop causes heart disease and diabetes and obesity. but fda is in a bit of a pickle because if it does anything brave, congress would crack down and through appropriations writers, stop it from taking one action or another. and they just don't have the staff to do many of these things. so the fda inspects wit

immigration policy will have a huge impact on agriculture.a farmers have their eyes on wind tax credits. environmental protection agency and the state taxes. hey, guys, i should tell you hillary clinton was just here yesterday actually. as i was flying in. roads were closed off as they were making their way back to tarpt. mike pence was here on sunday. donald trump was here at java joe's and here with the owners of java joe's. when was he here last? >> january 15th. >> thank you guys for hosting us they're morning. trying to get a pulse, get outside of our own bubble, try to understand what the big issues are. i asked you guys off camera since you guys live together if there's any disagreement on politics and where you guys stand. let's stand there. where do you guys stand? >> we tend to agree a lot on what we do and here at java joe's we welcome people from the republican, the democrats, independents. we host lots of different events. and we listen to lots of different points of view. donald trump was here on january 15th. don jr. and eric w