joined by antonio harris. how is the farm bill going to benefit you guys? >> we're especially excited about the farm bill because the small farmers in the past we have gotten no funding for technical assistance to improve our pastures, infrastructure, fencing, and even our herd, so that's encouraging to know we can have those doors opened again to get technical assistance. >> reporter: and jobs, you were saying earlier this could promote job growth for you guys. how is that? >> exactly. when you start to open those doors again, you have young people coming out of college that wants -- before couldn't get those jobs through go. i think now with the nrcs, and the fsca offices, we can get people once again employed. >> reporter: experts. how about that? >> farmers who go out of business, when we get those doors open, we can encourage the beginning farmers to get back into farming, and start farming anywhere from beef to soybeans again. >> thank you, i appreciate it. del? >> robert thank you very much. >>> and we continue to keep our eyes at this hour on distri

antonio harris joins me now. how is this going to help you guys, the signing of this farm bill? >> for small farmers like myself we need the technical assistance that was once able from the nrcs, the fsca office and that enabled us to improve our infrastructure our pastures and our cattle. >> is that going to improve jobs? >> some of these guys lost those jobs in some of those officest, maybe we can get those guys back to give us technical assistance and young guys coming out in agriculture. >> how about the small farmers versus the big box guys? >> exactly. what we're getting in terms of assistance and what they've been getting in terms of assistance, you know they have tweaked this thing for subsidies. that's happened to all of us. >> let's talk to your dad. part of what the farm bill has in it that the president has signed is inclement weather, bad weather, farmers get subsidies because of that. let's talk to antonio's father about that. you guys have had a rough year in louisiana. we can take a look at some of these cattle, you told me they are skinny because of the weather