and the food and agriculture organization have published an outlook of the future of the world food market in the next ten years the main themes of that report supply and demand sounds boring but both of those undergo major changes first of all demand the world's population is still increasing combine that with the vast increases in wealth in the developing world people across asia and elsewhere want more food and more meat in their diets because they can afford it that's where chicken comes in it's easy to produce involve quantities and a lot of efficiency has gone into it that means that it's going to make up a lot more of people's diets up to perhaps thirty percent along with other food sources that people want more of going on to supply simply isn't enough land in the world anymore that means people are going to have to increase productivity on the land that already exists the overall conclusions of the reports are that the demand for higher quality food more meter things in people's diets means that it's simply going to have to get more expensive. while and if it gets any more expensi

whether it is organic or straight up production agriculture. the farms the need 750 to get into the organic production they really don't need -- they are not producers and feeding their family doing that. i would argue this is money better will not spend as we have done under the base, and i would yield whatever time i've got left. >> just to see that you obviously deserve a good housekeeping seal of approval and i hope he would give to all those organic producers. >> he should be paid for 100% of the regulation and the trend in the to 755 of my view is a poor use of $22 million i yield back. >> i would assume would like to start the last word and be recognized? >> the gentleman from texas certainly isn't equating the organic farmers of the world with a black hat pta and lawyers of the world. we do very little for the organic farmers but we don't know nearly enough research in the area we should let think this is a worthy program. the only thing this amendment does is strikes fiscal year 2008 insert fiscal year 2013. i think this was a wildly

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i'm the food systems and urban agriculture program manager for spur, a nonprofit think tank and advocacy organization in the city. we support this legislation, including the amendments put ford in the june 5 version. we support the -- put forward in the june 5 version. it will better support farmers and gardeners throughout san francisco and allow the city to better capture the benefits of urban agriculture. well people growing food in the city benefit themselves when they get the food, the city benefits from urban agriculture in a number of ways. that includes providing people with awareness and a connection to the broader food system, green space and recreation, savings to public agencies when volunteers manage public land, ecological benefits and the green infrastructure in terms of waste water and heat island effects. it is a place where many people find to build community in these spaces. our urban agriculture has potential to it address sued access and public health and we are waiting to see but may have some economic development potential in terms of job training and in terms of employment. th

that mean first starters jobs in the green area of the economy, clean manufacturing, local organic agriculture, public transportation and clean renewable energy. i want to tell you about a young man whose life was transformed by this kind of job. his name was ricardo and i met him in holio, massachusetts, touring some of the green small businesss that are thriving there. ricardo had dropped out of school after being held back three times in the ninth grade. like most kids in poverty his classes were too big, too underfunded and too dominated by less than inspiring test prep. but he found a training program in an efficient, an intall lation program offered by a, koa power in western mass. ricardo was then hired by a small green energy business where he became a crew leader within one year and while doing all that, this high school dropout held back three times in ninth grade entered a g.e.d. program and graduated even before his own high school class received their diplomas. [cheers and applause] at age 20, he's now been leader of his crew for three years supporting his family and his young chi

organizations for example? the battles between agriculture routes are fought with danger. what we don't need now are angry words andself serving propaganda. let's get started the headlines. >> the drought-continues to be the top story on united states farm report. the u.s.d.a.a session damage firsthand across the eastern corn belt. the u.s.d.a. toured the drought impacted farms in ohio and indiana. it's a double problem for some. some have crop damage and were hit with structural damage from a powerful wind storm. the under secretary said he is confident agriculture will pull through this, but congress needs to take action to help. >> u.s.d.a. we will do all we can to help farmers and ranchers outo. provisions in -- last december 30th. we are asking for congress, to do a farm bill as quickly as possible. >> in ohio about a quarter of the corn crop is good to excellent. act a third is poor to very poor. >> with the poor outlook on crop food prices making headlines. with record corn prices and tighter beef supplies, economists expect food prices to spike higher. u.s.d.a. sai

organism that may be linked to miscarriages and infertility. a group of scientists wrote a letter to tom vilsack which was leaked on to the internet the secretary of agriculture and described how this organism when isolated when it was exposed to pregnant chickens it killed the embryo within forty eight hours when they have ranches or farms with high levels of miscarriages they look at the aborted fetal tissue and they're packed with this new organism which is also on the party which has been which has been treated with round by organism you're talking about a bacteria it's new science it's the size of a virus so it's only seen under electron microscope it's never been characterized before and you know viruses are those weird kind of in between or i'm not sure if it's alive you know i'm sure it's not because they don't they don't excrete they don't to metabolize they do it's basically did this is now virus so this is not a virus it's not a it's not a lot of things it's probably something like a fungus that's a microfungus but they've never seen it before they're isolating the d.n.a. right now. i know i mean it gets stranger than truth there are those who sugg

food aid which is a program that the united states gives rice or american agricultural products to private voluntary organizations who then sell it on the local market and two nearby countries and then take the money that they earned from the sale of those commodities and use it to fund development programs or to offset the cost of distributing food aid. the third is cutting u.s. agriculture subsidies which largely favor large producers such as monsanto. the fourth is removing limitations on local and regional procurement of food aid, so food aid is american products produced here and shipped overseas. so instead of being able to buy locally in the region, we also have to send our own commodities overseas and it is eliminating earmarks on foreign aid that makes it very difficult for our foreign aid decisionmakers to be flexible and make decisions that are important to make in the time of crisis or as changing conditions evolve. so those are some issues that could dramatically help the effectiveness of our aid if we only had the political will and i would be curious to hear what our other panelists think about the

organizing the markup today. i think this is an important effort to work together on the bipartisan fashion on behalf of the american agriculture. this particular amendment deal with the environmental quality and city program they think, on balance, when we reflect over the last four years since the 2008 reauthorization has worked quite successfully. this would benefit american farmers, ranchers and daremen w dairy men who continue to do the good work they do. it's for that reason that the amendment to the program otherwise referred to as a quip provides innovation for grants and payments for air quality concerns for agriculture operations through the fiscal years 2013 and 2017. this funding would provide $37.5 billion within the program for opportunities to improve air quality and public health that is already in the last 2008 foreign bill proved to be very successful. the provisions and priorities, a small amount of funding to assist farmers in the epa area is currently in 174 countiecoun particularly in nine states across the country to address serious air quality concerns from agriculture operations to help them meet their

will gear is organizing a benefit concert for the john steinbeck and cultural committee. steinbeck committee to aid agriculturalpirit it was a benefit to fund raise organizations raising money for the dust bowl migrants in california. steinbeck did not have anything to do with the other than lending his name. of course, he wrote "the grapes of wrath" and became a friend of guthrie in california. gear has for this concert a roster of some of the top up- and-coming political folks singers, and alan lomax, one of the most important figures there, the archivist of american folk songs, library of congress, " song is a collector, like his father john. allen had gathered around him at a number of important folk singers, young pete seeger, harvard dropout, lee hayes, from the commonwealth college, josh white, other black musicians from the piedmont. that is the concert where woody guthrie first meet pete seeger. lomax later says, go back to that first night when they meet. then you can date the right sound of american folk music. -- it renaissance of american folk music. >> pete seeger talked about alan lomax and woody

extension services what impact of drought preparedness and response to agricultural communities across the country? >> it is organics itself. one of the things it helps support in the drought research is the oregon climate center out of oregon state university. in addition, the big part of the role is to interact with the people that provided the information to the extension services. any capability we have to get them to the level of which the drops are declared that the level increases the value of the information to the american people. >> thank you. >> you are nodding your head. >> i was just an agreement. it's important to keep the extension service available and it is integral to the success of utter culture in most across the country really. >> thank you i very much. mr. strong and dr. bamiglieti, wanted to ask you both mentioned the hydrological cycle human behavior to ignore the of drought and of water resources are depleted and the situation is dire. how can we break the cycle? what can we do about that? >> education and outreach is the key. you talked about extension service, land grant universities, i me

organization warns protectionism could slow global economic growth. >> in its annual report, the group says steps to protect companies have risen 66%. agricultural products and pharmaceuticals are among the goods most needed. and the international monetary fund is morning the eurozone debt crisis, sluggish growth, and the u.s. are threatening the global economy. >> areas likely to contract this year posted only weak growth next year. this could plunge economies such as spain into a deep recession. >> spain's jobless rate is the worst in your. the imf says the eurozone debt crisis continues to cause serious trouble. this year, it still expects 3.5% growth, but the eurozone is expected to contract by 0.3%. germany is the exception. its gdp is forecast to expand by 1%. the imf sees a slight recovery in europe next year. but it warns there could be a problem if the eurozone fails to rein in its spiraling debt. >> the jailing of a german citizen in beijing has caused questions about the rule lot. >> the man has been sitting in prison for months now and has yet to be charged. >> he has lived in china for five years. he has been the last 100 days in be

clean manufacturing, local, organic agriculture, public transportation, and clean, renewable energy.t to tell you about a young man whose life was transformed by this kind of job. his name is ricardo and i met him in holyoke, massachusetts, touring some of the green small business is thriving. ricardo had dropped out of school after being held back three times in the ninth grade. like most kids in poverty, his classes were too big, underfunded and too dominated by less than inspiring test prep. but he found a training program in an efficiency and solar hot water and still is a program offered by a remarkable green energy corp. recalled call what power in western massachusetts. -- co-op power in western mass. he was hired by a small green and into business where he became a crew leader in one year and this high school dropout, held back three times in the ninth grade, entered a ged program and graduated even before his own high school class received their diplomas. at age 20, he has now been leaders of -- a leader of his crew for three years, supporting his family and his young child.

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have been funded involve partnerships between the state department of agriculture, colleges and universities and other organizations. these partners collaborate on maintaining the inventory of available land of conducting outreach strategies to the farmers seeking land. also believe that it's important to maintain the grand purpose involving the acquisition and management of agricultural credit. while that is similar to the newly created purpose of financial risk management training, the current purpose should be retained to state explicitly how vitally important it is. many new farmers shays a daunting challenge when it comes to financing the operation and what is required to add to successfully obtained a loan. while general financial and business management strategies are very important to any startup and access to credit is an especially critical factor. the amendment also adds a new grand purpose on agricultural training and rehabilitation programs that benefit and support the returning military veterans that wish to pursue a career. finally mr. sherman the amendment realizes the program for five years which i

which is a program that the united states gives rights or wait, american agricultural projects to private voluntary organizationsrket or to nearby countries, and then take the money that they have earned from the sale of those commodities and use it to find development programs are or offset the cost of distributing food aid. the third is cutting u.s. agricultural which largely really favors large producers, such as monsanto or other large agricultural producers in our country. the fourth is removing limitations on local and regional procurement of food aid, so the food aid, american products, produced here and shipped overseas so instead of being able to buy locally or in the region we have to always send their own commodities overseas. in the fifth is eliminating earmarks on foreign aid programs, which really does limit flexibility and makes it very difficult for our foreign aid decision-makers to be flexible and make decisions that are important to make in a time of crisis or changing conditions so those are some issues that could dramatically help the effectiveness of our aid if we only have the political wi

agricultural thinking. i mean she's sure it's part of a movement of tens of thousands of farmers the vast turning back to their traditions in organic farming. to organic farming we are not dependent on anyone we don't have to buy anything on the market as we sow so if you should. but it wasn't always that way millions of farmers in india got hooked on chemicals and pesticides during the so-called green revolution a time in the one nine hundred sixty s. when the indian government begin importing hybrid seeds to increase crop after a major famine this opened the door for several foreign agricultural corporations to shell into this new market biotech giants like du pont novartis and months santo began hawking their products to desperate farmers looking for a way to be their families the increase in expensive chemicals also brought about a new dependence that varied farmers deep in debt i even forcing some to suicide almost two thousand have taken their lives every year over the last two decades money is going through the book yourself multinationals not put into poker so the problems. are. almost like. the problem of the only real goo

are also a member organization of the you a and ask that you support the ordinance and amendments we have suggested. i also have some language here about exploring how urban agriculture can provide employment opportunities. as a business owner, i know there are employment opportunities out there and exploring is good but i think we should step further and in hands and create these opportunities. if we could get the overhead going. i don't know if someone knows how to operate this, but i don't think i do. what i am proposing is changing some wording at that last bullet point. thank you very much. before we get to that, i want to mention i am and favor of the oversight body. that would help oversee this program. that is not our position at this point but it is something i feel strongly about and it would be a good way to get oversight from different businesses. i can not read what i have if we cannot show it on the overhead. he essentially, as it stated before -- [tone] v. new program should explore how urban agriculture should provide it -- if we could change it to enhance job programs including low-income and use persons and create employment opportunities and incent

agricultural thinking. i mean she's sharma is part of a movement of tens of thousands of farmers in india's bread basket turning back to their traditions in organic farming. by adopting organic farming we are not dependent on anyone to do we don't have to buy anything on the market as we sow sufficient. but it wasn't always that way millions of farmers in india got hooked on chemicals and passed. using any chemical pesticides and fertilizers and seeds that if that are going to be that the by adopting organic farming we can conserve the environment and also wildlife that will be beneficial for the next generation you're looking. for aman chief being self-sufficient means using traditional farming practices without chemicals made by foreign self-serving corporations preassure either party through india. as spain and france prepare for their bond auctions later in the day let's check with our business desk and see how investors are reacting to this marina what's the latest hi carol european markets are not open yet we still have about an hour to go until that happens but based on past experience of what we've seen with bond auctions if they go throu

this stark change to agricultural thinking i mean she's sharma is part of a movement of tens of thousands of farmers in india's bread basket turning back to their traditions in organic farming. organic farming we are not dependent on anyone we don't have to buy anything from the market as we sow sufficient but it wasn't always that way millions of farmers in india got hooked on chemicals and pesticides during the so-called green revolution a time in the one nine hundred sixty s. when the indian government began importing hybrid seeds to increase crop yields after a major famine this opened the door for several foreign agricultural corporations to sell into this new market the increase in expensive chemicals also brought about a new dependence that varied farmers deep in debt even forcing some to suicide money is going to block yourself like the nation not put in the book or so the farmers who saw the. problems will cite. the problem of the only real. farmers like sharma also noticed that while he had an initial spike in crop yield ultimately his soil was so depleted of its natural nutrients it became infertile and the incidence of cancer due to chemicals in the comm

month ago or so i was on the senate floor worried about a department of agriculture forum on animal safety that was being organized by the humane society. again, my farmers and ranchers would say, particularly at a time of drought and a time in which the safety net provided by a farm bill is going to become less, please don't do anything that's harmful to us, that reduces the chances for us to succeed. and in this regulatory environment that we find ourselves in, you are -- we need to take the steps that promote agriculture, not those things that diminish the opportunity for a farmer or rancher to earn a leaving in the free market. yesterday we had a debate about estate taxes and the consequences to family agriculture across the country. again, at a time in which the drought is so prevalent, circumstances so difficult, the tax code matters greatly and the ability to pass a family farm from one generation to the next is a critical thing. and it is so much about agriculture in states like mine that when our farmers and ranchers don't succeed, the opportunities for the communities in which they live and great their k

agricultural commodity groups and individual companies have expressed concerns that creating duplicative inspection programs may start a trade war with our vital trading partners at almost every u.s. commodity organizations submitted comments opposing the inspections to the usda when the rule was published. this amendment supported against the firm at least, the national restaurant association and a former usda undersecretary for food safety and others. opponents claim that this will provide zero savings to the taxpayer but in fact the only way the cbo was able to score that is because they believe the program would never be implemented. it was implemented the gao estimates would cost $30 million initially to higher as 90 new inspectors and cost $40 million every year after work to implement. currently fda inspects all fish at $700,000 a year. this usda program if it were to be implemented would cost 20 times more than the fda per year. repealing the usda to fish inspection program as a common sense approach to food safety, it promotes open trade, the u.s. agriculture exports and the wide use of tax dollars stopping the misuse and waste for precious tax dollars. june 19th the senate adopted a bipartisan

the agriculture and the retail sector of the economy, the construction sector, or the entrepreneurial sector of the economy. all of this is data that needs to be brought to the table in an organized fashion. logical fashion. and also then helping understand the human capital flows that are critical for all of our industries as we move forward. and it's taking the conversation to another level, using organizations that already exist, and creating a dialogue that is not emotion-based but always based on what is best for our country, what's best for our economy, and what's best for every individual living here in the u.s. >> let's take a final round here. there were several people starting here that had their -- a gentleman over there. >> i'm laura from the department of state. i have a few questions. thank you. one question is about measurement and how you measure the level of government engagement. what diagnostic tools are you using and can you put that data forward, and every group i worked with, -- it would be helpful to have measurements put forward. and then the second is, in terms of the contribution to foreign policy, i imagine it would be -- the secretary does have an init