bill, let's talk about agriculture briefly. you've mentioned on the floor in your exit speech that in every level of government you've worked on, agriculture has been part of that. why? sen. stabenow: i don't believe we have an economy unless somebody makes something and somebody grows something. i also grew up in a rural community. my relatives were farmers, i saw how hard they worked, and i've always appreciated that. i come from a michigan standpoint, one out of four jobs in michigan comes from agricultural means. my goal in what i'm proudest of is expanding the farm bill and farm policy. when i came in, fruit and vegetables, which are almost half of the farm economy, were not included in farming bills. it was traditionally more southern row crops like corn and soybeans, cotton, and so on. cherries, apples, blueberries, on and on were not included. now they are. now there's a 12th title, and it has made all the difference in terms of an economy that produces healthy foods that we want people to eat and creating jobs. >> as i

more in the food safety and climate agriculture space.you have extensive experience when it comes international collaboration here from the fda. what lessons are you taking away from that experience? >> i have been as a part of the broad community for several decades. the important thing is to have a multi- level platforms or experts can get together and develop consensus. it has really informed a foundation for food's standards which are really important for trade internationally. and so it has been operating for about 60 years. china is a member. i believe russia is a member basically it's hundreds of countries they meet many times during the year to discuss the food's standards as they come to the process. the important thing is they really bring their subject matter. each country, some countries sent political people but for the most part countries are sending their international experts in different topics which are under consideration. and i really do believe these kinds of multilateral platforms can serve the basis for bilateral di

about 30 years and as good as we can construct throughout human history before the invention of agriculture throughout the ups and downs when there is episodic but where outbreaks of peace or success in agricultural productivity and then things change a lot in the last couple of centuries. human life expectancy has gone from around 30 years to a verse 72 years today. also throughout human history 90% of humanity live on less than $2 a day in today's dollars. people were smaller. there was some degree of starvation than we had more than doubling of human life expectancy and said that living in dire poverty eight or 9% still vastly too much so what drove that? the two biggest drivers the two biggest enablers of this change was the growth of bottom-up social organizations, liberty and humans could develop prosperity increase soil and the beauty of all times but that bottom-up social organization didn't hit the economic sector until the middle of the 1800's for the registration act of united kingdom corp. lost united states were wicked shipped for mercantilism to bottom-up economic organization

, it rose a little bit, there were episodic outbreaks of peace or success in agricultural productivity. then things changed a lot in the last couple centuries. human life expectancy went from 30 years to 72 years today. throughout human history, 90% of humanity lived on less than two dollar day in today's dollars. people were smaller. most everyone was in some degree of starvation. there was a doubling of human life expectancy. 9% today live in dire poverty, still vastly too much. what drove that? the two biggest enablers of this change was the growth of bottom-up social organization. liberty leads humans to create prosperity and fertile soil for beauty of all kinds but that did not hit the economic sector until the middle of the 1800s. the registration act in the u.k., corporation laws in the u.s. the shift from mercantilism to bottom-up economic organization. the other factor was hydrocarbons. this massive increase in available energy. these things transformed human society to be an unrecognizable state today. now we have esg movement, i run a corporate company, in big picture is att

you mentioned large agricultural concerned land o lakes. do you work directly with the company with land o lakes? >> linda lane earned true tara. true tara is that certifies carbon, we are in fact capturing carbon in the soil. certifies that, does the test and then marketed carbon credits we have captured. >> and got it. appreciate your time, thank you for sharing your expertise. will hear from our guests brian reisinger. >> guest: what paul is talking is a great example of the family farm working to diversify in as many ways as you can. they're still growing certain types of crops and products. there also pursuing agri-tourism the tulsi gabbard place on the edge of the people care where their food come from one took about an expensive farm lifestyle. participating in the offset all kinds of avenues they're all strive your where the revenue streams come from. how it needs to evolve your in the question what's next, or to god from here question of the reason for that farms operate on incredibly tight margins. despite amazing creek to be like

about antitrust enforcement and agriculture markets. but that turned out to be at the time, mostly just talk. fast-forward to 2022, the ftc and a group of state enforcers including my home state of iowa filed a big, important case trying to protect farmers against the couple of chemical giants that were depriving farmers of low-cost input. both the ftc and the doj have also taken action to keep food costs down for consumers. the antitrust division sued the company for driving up and allowing big meat processors to drive up the cost of meat for american consumers. the ftc for its part, along with another bipartisan group of states, just successfully blocked the kroger and albertsons mega merger that would've driven up food prices for american consumers and driven down wages for american workers. now all that being said, i do think a lot of work remains to be done in these areas. so looking ahead, that is why i am especially excited about this new consensus we are here to talk about today. >> very good. thank you. excellent testimony. nex

long-term decline in water in the aquaphor that sustains idaho agriculture.ur farmers worked hard to secure a new water deal that safeguards idaho water. friends, let's think our farmers. [applause] along with their citizen legislators lieutenant governor they crafted a new plan that maintains control of our water destiny. not other states, not the feds. not men and women in robes. no offense to my esteemed judges. my keeping promises plan helps tackle the backlog of unfunded water projects because protecting idaho agriculture requires both the new plan and continued investment that have proven to raise the water levels in the aquaphor, the lifeblood of idaho agriculture. [applause] on the heels of a destructive fire season, our keeping promises a plan to additional bonuses to hire and retain wild land fire fighters. our firefighters to protect lives, property and natural resources please recognize a few of the tough idahoans we have with us today. right up there. [applause] [applause] i am also asking the legislature to properly fund fire suppression account

for this reason, i've been a member of the agriculture committee at every level of government where i've served, both state and federal. and i've been deeply involved in efforts to protect and expand american manufacturing, including the new clean energy revolution occurring in our country. it's been my privilege to put my stamp on our nation's farm and food policy. i have frequently said that you can see michigan on every panl of the farm bills -- page of the farm bills i've written. as the author of the specialty crop title in the farm bill, i'm grateful that the full diversity of farms, small and large, are now reflected in our funding in our agriculture policy. i'm so pleased that families across our country have access to healthy, locally grown foods through farmers' markets and urban agriculture, and our children can count on permanent funding for summer meals and other critical food assistance. i like to say that i sit up every day to fight for michigan and there is no truer statement than my work on behalf of michigan workers and michigan manufacturing. i'm so proud to have champ

there was talk of high prices for food and fuel, supposed to impact agriculture and electricity. but none of this ever happened. the supply problems that everyone freaked out about never came. so what did happen, and should he be worried about running out of oil? first, looking at this question now is completely different from the decades ago, because there have been huge changes in our lives, in the early 2, thousands. we weren't really thinking about life, that fossil fuels, electric vehicles, for nearly unheard of, to an end of our oil supplies seems like i just central crisis for the planet. the going awareness of climate change, renewables of taken off, and the amount of them in the mix of guns usually is not cheaper to generate electricity from solar and wind then from the cost of or there's also a way more attention on electric vehicles. 14 percent of new vehicles sold globally and 2022 or electric compared to just 5 percent and 2020. even the united states and china to huge polluters are making has the investments into green technology. and something pretty special happen

this comes comes from unique role of agriculture in american society and its regulation. i wanted something different to you. everybody who flew home for christmas or thanksgiving flew in part because a commodity and the future. businesses all around the world that we depend on the provide services need to understand their cause of goods in the future. markets need to understand pricing in the future, or at least consensus best estimate of future pricing to understand their business decisions. our economy depends upon information about what is going to happen in the future, and those markets are incredibly important in translating into day-to-day activity. making our life better and more fulfilling a locus to buy that plane ticket and allowed the company to know how much the gas is going to cost when you hit the runway. those markets while they're in kobe important are easily overlooked. if the net regulated well, they can be manipulated. i don't need to tell folks in this room or anybody who decided to do need to spend their morning thinking about the future financial ma

would fight for the farmers, ranchers, and agriculture producers of kansas. sara henry was the perfect choice. after graduating from the agriculture education from iowa state university, she moved to washington, d.c., where she worked in several congressional offices and the national corn growers association. it was during that time she met her husband and the two moved back to dalton's old stomping grounds in randolph kansas. it aloud her to serve as my district director and later -- district ag director and later as the district director this. month she'll begin a more part-time role of kansas association of wheat growers so she can focus on her two sons. thank you for leading our disdirect team well. for being an incredible advocate and friend and caring about kansas. we are excited for you and next chapter of life as you adjust to being a family of four. thank you for being an integral part of our team. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois, mrs. ramirez, for five minutes. ms. ramirez: tha

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bu5ine55 carter returned, took over the agricultural business that his family had, and this was a time in the 505 and 605 went the site was going through many changes, when it comes to the civil rights era, it wasn't an easy time. talk u5 civil rights era, it wasn't an easy time. talk us through the way that the south, the state of georgia, the civil rights era, the events of the time, how that affected jimmy carter, and how that lead to the way that he went about his politics state—wide and nationwide. that state-wide and nationwide. that is an enormously _ state—wide and nationwide. that is an enormously important questioh _ is an enormously important question. there were two presents born in 1924. for the younger— presents born in 1924. for the younger president bush, the most — younger president bush, the most important event in his early— most important event in his early life _ most important event in his early life was the second world war where he served and was shot— war where he served and was shot down and thought enormously about the origins and conferences of that war. car

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my may is among a new crop of sam is revolutionizing synagogues, agricultural sick to using social media. it allows him to bypass costly middleman and negotiate directly with customers, cutting costs and providing that personal touch a magic. but if it, if i decide to make my own videos, because you don't have to pay to do it. so the 5th on what do you do? you are a marketing. so you guess out what's in selling g right. gets out what you've been working on that be able to present that to say for me if it was much more natural and people are much more receptive to it. and they mentioned, even if it doesn't have the quality, even if it doesn't have the image or the sounds that people like, what's natural, you show what you've already done without editing them up or doing anything that they have. the more that's not fair yet. some of these so called ad grow influences have now set up their own consultancies. no guy is one of them. she, she is videos and self is online, offering tips on how to grow and have as crops and manage funding projects. so i started using social networks in september

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such growth reflects chicago's location, midway between the agricultural west and the industrial east. it is the consequence of industrial enterprises, great mercantile institutions and the great markets for grain and livestock which are all the inevitable confidences of togo's geographical location. heart of the city's need for rapid transit has been met for many years by the elevated railroad, which is soon to be replaced by a subway in the loop area. when chicagoans speak of the loop, they refer to the central business section of the city, which is enclosed on all four sides by tracks of the elevated railway. within the loop along state street is the richest and busiest retail trading area in the country and the location of marshall fields and other famous department stores. along lasalle street in the loop is a great concentration of banking and brokerage offices. here is a greeting for a celebrated visitor. the chicago board of trade has become the world's principal grain market. certain office buildings are devoted to special kinds of business. this one houses a great number of

agriculture. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: mr. speaker, i rise to honor and celebrate the remarkable life of dr. suzanne evans shepherd. an exceptional -- exceptional member of our community who touched many lives. she was a devoted mother, educator, and wife. an inspiring figure who cherished her church, victor and dough mineon world outreach center. to serve as a reminder of her tremendous contributions, her church has renamed its family life center in her honor. on her birthday, family and community members gathered to celebrate. we released balloons into the sky and pastor dr. shepherd, her beloved husband, made the heartfelt announcement. the new name is fitting reflect being the center's role in serving the community to w

for agricultural party. is that a figure for those-- >> that's a robust figure published by the treasury. currently, i think you know, for claims less than one million pounds and 44 to the wealthiest claimants so therefore, i'm confident that this gets the balance right between raising the revenue that we needed to to the-- >> the changes apply not just to agricultural property, they also apply to business properties, do they not? >> yes. >> and now the figure that you've given us does not include what the land would have been passed on using business property, does it? >> i think that it does. >> i can assure you that this doesn't. >> well, see, that the figure of 73% of claims of less than one million pound is a figure for the treasury and by the-- >> agricultural property, we can certainly come back to that. prime minister, that that 500 figure is not as robust it is a may appear and a lot of people have changed their minds about in recent weeks. would you persuade the chancellor, and refused to so thus f

the change from the agricultural moment is in plains. president carter told me when georgia state opened agriculture station, that's bleed over from the new deal of soil conservation service of what pesticides to use, how do you grow a new hybrid plant? that's down the road from his house. he would go there all the time and talk to agricultural specialists. when i went to places like haiti he would meet somebody in need. he would say you need two tractors and write them down. they would find what they needed in haiti. he was a little bit of a jump ahead on modern agriculture living just down the road from a station like that. >> not a passive farmer but someone who studied and worked on it very well. >> the side effect was after world war ii we started spraying a lot of pesticides. you have his family when carter was away, there was pancreatic cancer many think from the sprayings of ddt like substances. brother billy, sister gloria, sister ruth and on and on, a genetic component, they died of pancreatic cancer. carter was in hawaii, asia

we're industrializing even in agriculture agriculture, we're developing railroads just as the civil was important in weaving the eastern economy into into into one thing through these rail systems. same thing, of course, is happening out west the point here is a saw happening simultaneously simultaneous the war and its impact expansion of the west had its and it shows up in unexpected places for instance we're all familiar with the slaughter of the bison. the near extinction of the american buffalo. by the by the 1880s. how does that happen? we're we're aware, of course, of these sneaking hydro who are out there who are killing them, you know, 20 and 50 and 100 bison our time. we all know that story. but why? why does it happen? why does it happen so fast? just overnight, overnight, the population was already dropping for reasons including indian overhunting. but by 1870 there were about, oh, probably in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 million bison on the great plains, 1870 to about 10 to 12 million. 1880 to 500, 500 a drop of the bison population of 99.9999965% in ten years. why? why doe

jobs, we're the largest agriculture producing state in the country, that there's a shortage of labor and the costs we pay for all those goods and services goes way up if there's a shortage of labor. so we need a legal immigration system that is also broken. we can fix the border. we can have a legal immigration system. if he's going to be punitive, he's not going to find the partners he needs. i think california should stand for those values of security, but also recognizing the workforce crisis that we face in our state. >> any other big issues that you really want to see tackled during this congress? >> look, gun violence continues to be an epidemic across america and students like my children go through too many mass shooter drills and parents are frustrated. i really do believe that as democrats, we cower or we shrink on that issue because we fear it's not a popular issue because republicans will make a lot of noise about it, but when you look at the polling and you see 80% of gun-owning republicans want background checks, i actually don't think we're loud enough on that issue. s

is there a difference between a visa to do engineering work and a visa to do agricultural work?o be with you. absolutely a variety of different visas the individuals used to come into the country to work or for business or obviously to visit. when we talk about seasonal workers or high-tech workers you can talk about age b-1 business h2b visas, all of these are different kinds of ways to allow individuals to come in to work on a seasonal basis or in agricultural basis or in the case of h1b presumably for high-tech advanced degrees coming into the country. all of these are set by congress numerically, the number in most cases i think it's something that needs to be looked at these visa categories are being badly abused include h-1b and really haven't been looked at in two decades, tim badly needed reform. >> you just raise that and very respectful persuasive way. on the other hand some would argue the rhetoric will be vivek ramaswamy and elon musk was disrespectful as it relates to american workers. maybe there is the case for more workers in certain sectors but i don't know that

said to do engineering work and want to do agricultural work? >> good to be with you, trey.ty of these ty ohas used to come into the country to work for business or obviously to visit. when we talk about seasonal workers, we talk about high-tech workers, age 1 visas or letter h2 tree in visas and allow individuals to come in on aba seasonalsi basis or agricultural basis or in the case of h1b high-tech advances into the cou. all of the set by congress numerically the number in most cases. and so i think it is something that needs to be looked at. a lot of the visa categories ari being badly to include h1b by congress so it is bad need of reform. >> trey: c, you just phrase thaty in a respectable persuasie way. on the other hand some would argue vivek ramaswamy andic elon musk disrespectful as itan relates to american workers. so maybe there is a case for more workers in certain sectors, but i don't know you make the case by insulting americans. so what is that calls at this ongoing debate? was it something that vivek ramaswamy and elon musk said, or is this just a debate that

he had just learned he will serve on the judiciary, agriculture, nutrition and forestry environment and public works and small business and entrepreneurship committee. but top of his mind, the cost of living in california. it's affordable housing crisis. we nominate housing and we have to change that. and we not want families to be able to get into their first >> home and get into dream home. i want people afford their rent. i want to attack the scourge of homelessness in all comes back to the problem of not supply. so i'm going to be looking in these committee assignments i have and more broadly to do everything i can to advance more housing construction in california, which acknowledges he'll have to work with his republican colleagues to accomplish his goal all in the senate where the republicans hold the majority by 2 seats on that note, ship says he intends to start and carry out his six-year term. >> with a bipartisan tone. but as day one of the new term look like for senator adam schiff. >> talking about republican counterparts about how we can work together to address the cost o

so even though i'm getting quality like the most of the women in these close to the villages are agriculture, labors and searching for water after a hard day's work is a difficult task for them. the tonka is a welcome to leave for them. the cost of the construction of the tonka with our situation is a bit better at that, but only there is rain for the time cuz that's what a are. there is no water. when there is rainfall, we store water in it for me. when there is less water, we take $2.00 to $3.00 buckets each. if the water is more, we take 5 buckets, each one gets lost for up to 3 months. so we don't have to walk long distances to nearby villages to such water. the trunk of belongs to the villages who maintain it and distribute water does creating a decentralized system for water security. it can be scaled up or down based on requirements and research as believe it is no easier and quicker to replicate in other places. the rain falls continuously for 2 days. the dunk duck and get filled up. in summer months when water is not available in other areas, the villages use this water. all the vil

currently synagogues, agricultural sic to makes up only a small proportion of the countries g, d, p. but it's new government wants to cut imports and a cheap food sovereignty in the near future, offering fear tal ground for this new generation of tech savvy farm is to thrive and grow as follows. are used to working with nature. but those are for those who leave and cities awful find ourselves far removed from mother nature. many cities don't even have lots of green, the real trees that leads to pull a quality. rising temperature pushes out wildlife. with bored, most people move into cities around the world. these need to change what, how we cross the gemini now for some possible ideas. concrete, every last gray has replaced green. we constantly building more higher foster concrete production is responsible for around 8 percent of c. o 2 emissions worldwide. and as i said, there's a full send us way using a dwindling results, namely signed and various other fossil results is that we can't use forever. we have to think about how we can build most sustainably on the cross. we absolutely

and they also serve as the basis for the full costs relating to agriculture, irrigation, and husbanding water resources. the dutch though these are jeanette as me on the we can measure and also see these changes. shaquanda more like this 1st 3 years, but now grow on the mountain top, continues to be able to tell you when i started working here, there weren't any at all to me. after a few years, one spruce tree popped up for you. now there are several that of the so she just took again to watch while she has she kind of looked like in 20 or 30 years. meteorologist po, today or shift ski, will probably be able to observe that a close hand and make it visible to a wider public via instagram from florida. and let's now have decided to look at the summertime problem that we shed here in india. extreme heat and he's with so what can we do to cool? what techniques can be adopted, and what can we do to generate less? he's was fighters might have some on so squared off. perez's wound up by 2.3 degrees celsius on average since 1885 compared to 1.7 degrees in the rest of front, according to recent

local residents were driven into reservations and given the worst agricultural territories. while the best land was appropriated by white colonizer the strongest blow to american indian tribes, was the extermination of vice of native americans lived by hunting these wild animals. colonists slaughtered the bivens, and in fact, made them nearly extinct. every buffalo dead is in india and gone, said colonel richard dogs, a veteran of the bloody and vicious indian wars cynically. the indigenous population was simply exterminated us army general phillips sheridan expressed the evidence of this policy in the infamous words. the only good india is a dead indian, the genocide of native americans of north america guest lead to a demographic catastrophe. the exact number of deaths is still unknown, but the number of victims is in millions. having been the majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population today, the the he wants to make and we're gonna, we're setting it up, donald trump, but out as 5 is what i'm me say. it was done

he had just learned he will serve on the judiciary, agriculture, nutrition and forestry environment and public works and small business and entrepreneurship committee. but top of his mind, the cost of living in california. it's affordable housing crisis. we nominate housing and we have to change that. and we not want families to be able to get into their first >> home and get into their dream home. i want people afford their rent. i want to attack the scourge of homelessness in all comes back to the problem of not supply. so i'm going to be looking in these committee assignments i have and more broadly to do everything i can to advance more housing construction in california, which acknowledges he'll have to work with his republican colleagues to accomplish his goal all in the senate where the republicans hold the majority by 2 seats. on that note, ship says he intends to start and carry out his six-year term. >> with a bipartisan tone. but as day one of the new term look like for senator adam schiff. >> talking about republican counterparts about how we can work together to address the