, canadian agriculture and mexican agriculture. we come today to show our unity and i want to thank mister bonnett and mister vega for being with us today and helping joining us in talking about modernization of nafta trade treaty. i want you gentlemen and everyone in the room today to know that american farmers and ranchers value our trade relationships with our two closest neighbors, canada and mexico are more than close. they are number one and number 3 customers of the united states, agricultural products, exports and the top two suppliers of us agricultural imports. clearly our trade relations are important to all of us on stage here. we have a vital interest in helping our neighbors make improvements, negotiators make improvements but also do no harm to the gains we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and expanding on gains, agriculture has achieved and ensure a modernized, nafta continues to be a success story for north america farmers and ranchers. we all want timely enforcement of trade agreements, prompt

this is a very important day to american agriculture, canadian and mexican agriculture. we come today to shore unity together. i want to thank her counterparts for being with us today and help in joining us to talk about the modernization of the nafta trade treaty. i want you gentlemen and everyone in the room here today to know that american farmers and ranchers value our trade relationships with her two closest neighbors. canada and mexico are more than just close, they are number one and number three customers of the united states, agricultural products and experts in there also the top two suppliers of u.s. agriculture imports. clearly, our trade relations are important to all of us on the stage. we have a vital interest in helping our neighbors make improvements, negotiators make improvements, but also to do no harm to the gains that we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and expanding upon the gains agriculture has achieved and ensure a modernized nafta continues to be a success story for north american farmers and ranchers. we all want timely enfo

this is an important day to american agriculture, canadian agriculture and mexican every culture and we show our unity together and i want to thank mister bonnett for being with us today and joining us in talking about modernization of nafta trade treaty. everyone in the room know that american farmers and ranchers value trade relationships with the closest neighbors, canada and mexico, they are number one and number 3 customers in the united states, exports, and they are the top two suppliers of agricultural imports, our trade relations are important on the stage here. we have a vital interest in helping neighbors make improvements, to do no harm to the games we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and expanding upon the gains agriculture has achieved and ensure a modernized nafta continues to be a success story, north america farmers and ranchers was we want timely enforcement of trade agreements and prompt resolutions to disputes that might arise in the new modernization treaty. and $137 billion this year, forecast of agriculture imports of $104.5 billion, giving u

the forecast of agriculture imports is $114.5 billion giving us a trade surplus in agriculture products and yes, i aid a surplus, of $22.5. for all the criticisms in our trade deal, we in agriculture want to know that our trade deals and open markets are largely beneficial to american farmers and ranchers and to the communities that we live in and do our business in to raise our families. and focus on the common goals that we have. the three groups that are here today agree that trade helps all of our citizens and all our farmers an ranch ners our countries and we look forward to a better agreement for the future that is modernize for modern agriculture. thank you. ill? will: next, we have ron bonnet resident of the canadian agriculture department. ron: thank you, will. and thank you to the american farm bureau for the hospitality. we had the opportunity to have lunch before this press conference and i think it gave us an opportunity to exchange views on where things are going and i think between mr. duvall think we la vega, i realized that there was a lot of common ground that we can b

you are now the agricultural secretary. what is a more difficult job, an executive job or serving on the planning board? secretary perdue: my first job was planning and zoning, and i was asked to serve on that by commissioners who were the guiding authorities of the county who said, you don't have political ambitions, do you? i said, i don't. and he said, in this job, you won't need any. we were a transitioning county, historically and traditionally agrarian that was rapidly commercializing, and it was a great listening session. it taught me how to listen to people with their passions of their personal property rights, and also the community good, and how these clash sometimes. you could not write enough black and white ordinances or laws. you needed people with heart to listen and adjudicate the differences. it was a great ground to go on to become state senator and listen to people as a representative of the government, and even as governor, and even today from a business perspective, listening to our customers to the sta

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

county had an agricultural fair every year. what is the important in terms of beauty contest is the fair is always about helping firemen and women leave more productive lives. and hopefully growing better cotton, tobacco, corn and internalizing lessons that are being taught by demonstration agents. that are being sent out by land-grant colleges. these agents are sent to teach men how to grow the crops. there sent to teach women how to also do it they need to do to contribute to their household economy. early on in the process some of the agents start to sponsor better baby contest. a better baby contest is what it says. a contest in which farm women would bring their babies to be judged and the best baby would win the prize. and this a be away for the farm families to learn the important lessons they needed to learn in terms of hygiene, nutrition because there were a lot of problems in the rural south. so these farm families needed these lessons. so the better baby contest judged these infants and sometimes there be toddler's o

every county had an agricultural fair every year. and what is in porton about the agricultural fair, in terms of beauty contest is at the fair is always about helping men and women lead a more productive farm in life. and of course their growing better cotton, tobacco, corn, whatever and internalizing lessons that are being taught by demonstration agents were being sent out by land-grant colleges. there sent to teach men how to grow crops. and how to teach women how to d. it they need to do to contribute to their economy. early on in the process some of the agents start to sponsor better baby contest. a better baby contest is pretty much what the title says, it's a contest in which farm womenthei would bring their babies to be judged in the winter, the best baby would win the prize. the idea was that this would be a way for these farm families to learn the important lessons they needed to learn in terms of hygiene, nutrition, because there were a lot of problems in the rosoff. so these families needed these lessons so the better baby

i do not see him doing harm to this treaty that has been good for agriculture. on the statement, i would say that while there might be some concern, there was also positive news for agriculture in the fact that it was singled out that agriculture was a shining example of how the success could work. i think back to mr. dufault's statement of "do no harm." we have to ensure that that message is loud and clear. is why thepart that three of us decided very quickly that we needed to make a statement to the negotiators that we have something that is working. do not do something in the negotiations that is going to undermine that. undermine notto only farmers and ranchers, but a lot of the jobs related to farmers and ranching in all three countries. woods, who are these form association groups? do they represent the small farmer, corporate farmers, and are they benefiting from nafta? guest: a lot of them are big farm associations. that being said, there is a sense that nafta has benefited exports of u.s. agricultural products, which helps big farmers and small farmers.

for example, data-driven agriculture, these examples, the edgy about precision agriculture is insteadeating a promise of modules you treat the farm is heterogeneous to what that means is you apply water only where it's needed when it's needed where it's needed. you apply fertilizer only where it's needed, as this is only what is needed. you can plant seeds close together. all the stuff is -- >> host: artificial intelligence and uncle ted to do agriculture, how do you use those to improve farming? >> guest: outcome to that. in precision agriculture we need these. we need to be able to build water maps like how do the nutrients vary from the farm? how to build these kind of maps? existing approaches to build this are very expensive. they cost like, the cheapest sensors were five sensors for $8000. for a farmer to invest a kind of money, it's asking too much. the goal of this project is to reduce the cost of precision, data-driven agriculture by two orders of magnitude. from 800 8000 we want to get doo eight. we talk about different innovations. the first one is about connectivity. most

water wars were larger than just that little area. 80% of the water goes to agriculture. 80% for agriculture related activities. at least 20% including rest of the state including people who like to drink it. after that 75% of the water in the state comes from northern california, the sierras and the rain in northern california. 25%, two-thirds, excuse me two-thirds. one third of the water is generated in southern california southern california has two-thirds of the population in northern california which by the way is very generous. a lot of people are just north of the patch of these -- tehachapis. as far as they are concerned we are all urban but the fact is most of the water is in northern california and most of the cast of -- population is in southern california. add to that the agriculture sets up an incredible competition and the fight really between farmers and environmentalists coupled with urban users. so the bottles here are endless. you are not going to find more water in california. you're just not. if you are lucky you get it decent year. the snowpack alone accounts for one thi

. 80% for agricultural related activities. that leaves 20% for the rest of the state including people who like to drink a couple times a day. add onto that 75% of the water in the state that comes from northern california, the sierras and the rain in northern california. two thirds, one third of the water is generated in southern california to the problem of southern california has two thirds of the population and northern company which by the way is very generous because a lot of people's just north. don't tell that to the people in california because as hard as they are concerned we are all urban scum, but the fact that most of the water is in northern company must of the population in southern california said the problem in itself and add onto that agriculture uses about 80% of the water and sets up an incredible competition and figh between farmers and environmentalists coupled with urban users, so the battle here is endless. you're not going to find more water in california. if you are lucky you will get a decent. alone a

folks that, for instance, are agricultural workers.how would you read this image if you look at this? >> this is 1951. 1951 is a critical year because the bracero program is also during 1951 it's also renewed. so 1951, "hoy" magazine prints this on their cover and this tells you a bit about how sort of mexican middle class and the mexican elite feels about the bracero program. how do you think they feel about the program from reading this, becka? [ inaudible ] >> yeah. >> they're seeing something. they're critiquing it, right? they're critiquing something, right? what are they critiquing? yes. >> it looks like in the middle like a small mexican boy and the two grown men on the side have the look on their faces and i would say americans, and it looks like they're taking the small boy and they'll raise him up to be what they want him to be and i guess the critique would be they're looking down on us and we're not up to their level so they'll, like, try to -- they'll try to bring us up to their level by exploiting these workers. like that

poor and domino's pizza r t correspondent on your part and tell looks at how the animal agriculture industry has silenced nonprofits. thinking about climate change which contributing factors do you blame them we are taught if we want to mitigate our damage on the planet we should drive less change our life. and recycle but in two thousand and ten a report by the united nations environment program concluded that to defend against climate change the world needs to shift away from a diet rich in meat and dairy especially as humans continue to surge in population so why do we rarely hear climate change campaigns targeting the animal agriculture industry let's follow the money according to open secrets the agribusiness industry spent nearly thirty three point five million dollars on lobbying so far in two thousand and seventeen alone last year the industry spent nearly one hundred twenty eight million dollars here's one example of how this lobbying works to undermine the movement to eat less meat in two thousand and fifteen several major corporations like walmart and mcdonald's partnered with mea

. 80 percent of agriculture -related activities. at least 20 percent for the rest of the state including people who like to drink it couple times a day. add to that 95 percent of the water in the state comes from northern california, the sierras and the rain in northern california. 25 percent, two thirds, one third of the water, one third of the water is generated in southern california and the problem is southern california as two thirds of the population and more than california which are generous with the cause for a lot of people it starts north. don't tell that to the people in real california because as far as they're concerned we're all, but the fact that most of the water is in northern california, northern populations in sunny california, that sets up a problem in itself. add to that agriculture uses about 80 percent of the water . that's an incredible competition and fights between farmers and environmentalists coupled with urban users. so you know, the battles here are endless. >>. >> ways to, you're not going to find mor

as guest workers, mostly in the agriculture history. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> this is, we're almost toward the end of the semester, and because we are almost towardsem to talk to you about my research. you have my piece on -- start with, i want us to think about the class today in two parts. one we're going to cover the history in sort of broad sketches, but this time we'll talk about the history a little bit more in-depth. my gift to you, i can't let you walk out of a class with me without you guys knowing the history really well. second thing we're going to do is talk about the article. good? okay. so i'm going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracedo history. i always tell you that i was and student like you in class, mexican-american history, and my advisor, then my mentor, first he was my teacher, matt garcia, said to me, and to the rest of the class, find your oldest family member and collect an oral history. i thought an oral history was a basic interview and thought, okay, th

guest: methane emissions from agriculture are very large. lyrically, it is a difficult thing to take on because there are not many in politics who would like to impose regulations on farmers. so it is an area that a lot of people stay away from. yes, you look at emissions from livestock -- we're talking cow dung and gases passed from animals, and that is a real thing. you talk about tilling the soil, and that releases methane. you're seeing an effect of the well,e on agriculture, as because you have more disparate weather patterns. weather patterns are not as calm as they used to be, and farmers have to make adjustments. so it goes both ways. host: michigan, roger on the line for republicans. caller: thank you. i would like to know the difference between mother nature gasesg up a signal to the and mankind. we always seem to hear about mankind causing it, but i have been told that mother nature puts out quite a bit of the co2 gases. i just wonder if you have anything to say about that. and thank you. guest: thanks. you know, there is certainl

agricultural products which helps everybody. it's a mix of people there. are alliations, what three sides considering when it comes -- what does the united comes want when it agriculture? >> we want markets to open up more for the united states. some issues with dairy get bettere want to access to. the canadians want to protect there.ustry in mexico, there's a lot of concern in mexico that if talks break down, that they might have problems getting some of the they need. they've been reaching out to other countries in south plan b if talks do break down and need to find other sources of import. heard the trade representative there say that strong, laborr provisions put into any sort of deal. what are they talking about there? >> initially, the labor provisions put in as a side agreement. the agreement is to increase labor standards in mexico. -- criticism of nafta that is that it has been a race to the bottom, that manufactures have been setting up where labor is cheaper and standards are lower. the idea is to increase labor standards in mexico, so that som

so you finally convince the person that you are an agricultural worker. the next step would be exams. so this is a processing center in monterey, and what we see is a doctor walking through. it is kind of -- can't see it that clearly, but a doctor walking through -- walking through and looking at bracero's bodies. they had to check their x-rays. they had to take x-rays, i should say, and check their chest to make sure they didn't have tuberculosis they were bringing in, the idea these may be disease carriers, as well. we need to keep u.s. communities safe. the last and final part was ploebl the hardest part to record because many braceros in the u.s., older gentlemen would start to sob when they would tell this portion of the story. they would have to strip completely and they were sprayed with ddt. what you see there is an image of a guest worker being sprayed with ddt. i would hear many men say to me, i was treated like an animal. the saddest, saddest oral s history i collected was a man in salinas, california who said to me, ms. -- and i remember he sa

vonnie: a shockwave through the agricultural market. thank you. for the bloomberg business flash. private equity partners and bain capital have succeeded in every new bid to buy a german drugmaker at $6.3 billion. the takeover had looked doomed in recent weeks but an investor signaled it would back the two firms offers just before a deadline for shareholder commitment. goldman sachs took a big loss on natural gas in the second quarter, according to a person from your with the matter it was caused by failing to properly hedge bets on the direction of gas prices. the wall street journal says they lost more than $100 million on a bet that gas prices in ohio and pennsylvania would rise. not all of deutsche bank's legal issues have turned out badly, the german bank booked a surprise windfall of more than $117 million in the first half, having to do with former billionaire -- they reached a settlement over a suit by one of the lenders wealth management unit. that is your business flash. vonnie: still ahead, fall out from charlottesville still coming fro

that water has turned california into an agricultural megaplex. california is one of the largest agricultural producers in the world and in the united states. from thehat comes general treasury, appropriated funds, so we offended by the federal government. the way this works is we produce power, we so water contracts to agriculture and water districts. we have obligations to them and for power that we try to meet. as those are sold, the money goes back to the treasury and we as an entity go back to the treasury and say we need this much money to operate shasta dam, so we get some back. we generate more money than we need to operate shasta. in studying the topography for a a bighey are looking for basin, something able to hold a lot of water, so a natural valley. we also want to look at where water is flowing. we are at shasta, where we get about 75% of the state's precipitation to the north of us. by building the dam here, it provides flood control to the g, thef reddin largest in shasta county, and all the way to the bay area. you want to look fo

we sell water contracts to agriculture and water districts. we have obligations to them and obligations for power that we try to meet. as those are sold, the money goes back to the treasury and we as a specific entity quebec to the treasury and say we need as much money to operate shasta dam, so we get some back. we generate far more money than we need to operate shasta. in studying the topography for a dam, they are looking for a big basin, something able to hold a lot of water, so a natural valley. you also want to look for the water is flowing. we are situated here at shasta or get about 75% of the state's precipitation to the north of us. by building the dam here, it provides flood control to the city of redding, the largest in shasta county, and all the way to the bay area. you look for an area where the water is, for the natural basin. at shasta, they found three sides that would be potentially good sites and this was selected as the best because of the size of the basin and proximity north of redding. it would provide a control for redd

drawn from scientists with training or experience in agriculture research. i am reading from a political peace. does this set a trend, joel clement? joel: it is vexing, particularly to scientist in the government to feel that their work is being compromised and suppressed. it is chilling because these are the leaders who are coming in present this to the american public. it is a disturbing trend and hopefully this administration will step back because they are about this.arent they need to have a close look about what the consequences might be. superstormthere is a in the arctic and one of these villages gets wiped off the ma p, it is on their watch. >> what has been the reaction by your fellow scientists? because you are still working at to the public statement that you have made in the past few weeks? joel: a great contrast from those two reactions. i have heard nothing from the white house or leadership but i have heard a groundswell of response from my colleagues in the interior and other agencies, thanking me for speaking up and feeling empowered to do

agricultural exports? >> well, i think u.s.gricultural exports in particular, corn, soybeans, beef and pork and those that were involved in three of those four were not in the pork business anymore, but particularly to the first three are ones that we are paying particularly close attention to, but, you know, those goods move in both directions, so, for example, can l.a. comes out of -- canola seed and oil comes out of canada and the u.s. and agricultural products in all three countries have been beneficiaries of nafta, and that's why we think it's a good thing. it's a good thing for jobs and it's a good thing for agricultural products. >> to keep it in place by the way, we're trying to renegotiate and perhaps bilaterally a lot of u.s. trade deals now that it seems like the big global agreements aren't going to move forward. how should we be doing this, a hangup for everything when we try to do something whether it's australia or partners in europe. it always comes back to the agricultural industries. is that important for ever

the permanent agriculture released its latest reports just a short time ago.plunging after crop estimates came in higher-than-expected.for more on today's report in the state of u.s. agriculture, let's go to washington, d.c., and bring in allen, who covers the usda for bloomberg. he joins us from washington. before we get to alan, in fact, we are going to give you a rundown on what some of those reports suggested. we have copper declining. stockpiles there dropped. volatility spiking.not just on stockpiles . it is also to do with global tensions and global growth as well. on youro cmds go bloomberg, you will see the various commodity prices. it is pretty much a red screen across the board. when it comes to sugar-free so soy, theyre all -- are all down. why are these across-the-board misses for d.c. analysts? >> a lot of it is because the analysts are looking at major growing regions, indiana, iowa, illinois, and there have been weather problems, but it is literally an issue of peripheral vision. if you are not looking at the periphery of where corn and soybean

methane from agriculture are very large. politically it's a difficult thing to take on because there's not many in politics that would like time pose regulations on farmers, so it's an area a lot of people stay away from. yes though. you look at you know emissions from livestock and we talk about methane we talk about cow dung and gas that's passed from animals and that's the real thing and then you talk about killing the soil that releases methane. right now you're seeing actually effect on the climate on agriculture as well. you have more weather patterns. they're not as common as you see farmers having to make adjustments themselves so it goes both ways. >> saint joseph michigan roger on the line for republicans. you're on the air. >> thank you. i'd like to know the difference between mother nature putting up the co2 gases and mankind. we always seem to hear about mankind is causing it but i've been told that mother nature puts up quite a bit of the s o 2 gases and i just wonder if you have anything to say about that and

we need them in agriculture and construction. we're watching the work force change.his aging population in the work force. we need these workers, don't we? >> there's a large number of economists who agree with that viewpoint. look, there are sdoids on both sides and -- studies on both sides and the school of thought that leads to many of the proposals that you see president trump and his advisers latching on to, based on the notion that somehow low-skilled immigrants or immigrants in general depress wages for american workers. that's one of the arguments you hear. it's not proven in economic science. the idea that it harms the lowest level worker in the american economy, and that's who they're support iing. the problem is is that isn't a widely held consensus in the economic community. many industries would be crippled if there was a major change to their labor supply like this. certainly that would have vast ripple effects throughout the economy. what's being proposed here is a massive way in the way we construct our work force. it doesn't affect temporary workers,

we employee tens of thousands of agricultural workers. they are among the class this would be contributed. it would cripple agriculture. >> now senior trump adviser stephen miller was taxed with explaining and defending the new immigration proposal to reporters. but when cnn's jim acosta challenged the philosophy behind the legislation, they got into a heated exchange. >>. >> the statue of liberty says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, it doesn't say anything about speaking english or being able to be a computer programmer. aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you're telling them you have to speak english? can't people learn how to speak english when they get here? >> well, first of all, right now it's a requirement that to be naturalize jo izized you have t english. secondly, i don't want to get off into the whole thing about history here. but statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty and enlight erning the world. the poem that you're referring to was added later is not

industrial agriculture promote to stop as a sustainable solution for the problems of fishing. many of the so-called fish are pulled from the ocean around southeast asia with devastating effects. these small and young edible fish are left to rot in the halls of vessels for days on weeks on end before being handled. fleets o of trucks and sport tos of rottiting fish on each vessel on the processing plants where they are ground down and wasash and cookeded into powdered fish far for fooood -- fisish flowewr od. alongside e the species on fishg vessels, the searches documented pockets of juvenile shaha species,aiting too be sold. these tropical fish are used as protein for the booming sugar industry, the largest exporter in the world. at what cost to the ocean? >> [speaking forereig language] >> laced with increasasing quantitities of edible fish, lol fishing communities are losing out. >> [speaking foreign language] >> they say the by catch is accidental. >> [speaking foreign language] >> is not just the net and fishing techniques that are controversial however. working undercove

economic research service agricultural resource management survey and the national agricultural statistics service as of march eighth two thousand and seventeen nearly ninety nine percent of us farms are family owned and make a gross cash farm income of less than one million dollars per year they also provide nearly ninety percent of the share of production and according to the u.s.d.a. u.s. farm income is expected to fall for the fourth year in a row so what are the reasons that in our current government policies affecting not only farmers but the price of the goods they produce three major areas of concern are immigration and subsidies and trade so the recent crackdown on undocumented immigration by the republican administration has forced some farmers who were once able to utilize less expensive migrant labor from mexico are now facing labor shortages that n.b.c. news reports will leave thirteen million dollars worth of crops to rot in just two california counties this year immigration reform supporters call this a win since those jobs are now available to us citizens at rates above min

not a lot of agriculture in those settings. i go a few days later and i start on the path of agriculture research and insurance, the farm bill. she goes no, no. she's very animated. that's not what i want to know. just tell me, what does a farmer do? [laughter] now the story gets better and i said why don't you come to campus and see. she said let me see if i can make that happen. she and i had different ideas on how to do this. i wanted her on a farm sent along highway 27. st. francis to elkhart. her first question was could we just meet at an airport? [laughter] we met at little river, assuming i am pointing east. we met at little river in cheryl's cafÉ. we had cheeseburgers and coconut cream pie. i was pleased to see that she was in a vegetarian. general hospital came by, picked her up, put her in his pickup, went by and picked up kids at the school and we spent the afternoon at the firemen south of little river with area farmers, neighboring farmers talking about their equipment, financial circumstances. that is exactly the

we employ tens of thousands of agricultural workers. they are among the class that this would be prohibited. it would cripple agriculture if they didn't have the people coming in to do this work. what we have found is americans won't do this kind of stoop labor in 100-degree temperature. so you would have a severe crippling of the largest ag industry in america. also in other areas. in the service industries, increasingly running hotels, restaurants all throughout our state, you will find people in this category. it doesn't make sense to me what he's doing. and he's cutting refugees with all the millions of people without homes, with all the terrible things that are happening. we only took 110,000 refugees a year. he's cut them by 60% to 50. and to add insult to injury, he takes the scandal-ridden eb-5 program, which i gather the trump family uses, and with both the chairman of my committee and myself believe should be abolished. and he continues it. so it's a program that i hope candidly won't see the light of day. i don't know whether

project is of this to use data-driven agriculture. we want to get it down. are talking about innovations of how to do. the first is productivity. the reason these sensors are so they are is because using a satellite to send all the data. except will be used as another technology called the whitespace. suppose you have a phone outlets if you can access it a few miles away. we been wi-fi signals and tv channels. tv you can find something going on. we can send these wi-fi signals without interfering with your tv signal. the reason this is cool is this frequency has the same power of wi-fi. your signals could go 12 times faster. this is a whitespace. the interesting thing about that there are a lot more empty tv channels. channelsve about 40 you are looking at a bigger capacity. should connect your part. >> what are some of the things that farmer can do? >> the other things we are looking at is merging this sensor data. -- usually we give you this kind of map. with this approach you can have a few sensors and match it with the drawn imaging. here day that is run

sixty percent ofjobs in africa are agricultural, but much of it is subsistence farming which will now feed twice as many people and climate change is cutting crop yields. kenya is at the forefront of trying to improve farming across africa. alastair leithead has been looking at how to grow more, better and different crops with the help of technology. cooking school in rural kenya — in a place where maize is everything, nutritionists are trying to get people excited about something a little different. these smart foods used to be staples in kenya before colonialism brought maize along. they are more drought—resistant, nutritious and pretty easy to rustle up into all sorts of meals. and this is the pigeon pea stew. right, great, on it goes. a little bit of everything. pigeon pea stew first. wow. mmm, that's good. but it's notjust the tasters or the cooks but the farmers to be persuaded the change is worthwhile and to grow different crops to keep the soil healthy. translation: these days we are getting less rain than we used to, and when i plant these crops i know i'll be harvesting some