of cargill. so, welcome. >> thank you, chairman fischer and members of the committee and subcommittee for inviting me to testify. trade maximizes the retail ranchers and farmers produce and we are able to sell them to the domestic and international markets where they have the most value. this creates the best opportunities for cargill, our customers, our farmer and rancher suppliers, our hard-working employees, and the communities where we operate. ports are an integ rl part of a dependable supply chain. let me outline the beef and pork supply chain i work with every day, and detail, the problems that occur when there are problems with. cargill processed fresh beef and pork in our plants located predominantly in nebraska, kansas, texas, iowa pennsylvania, illinois, colorado and california. customers from around the world depend on high-quality fresh u.s. beef and pork to sell in supermarkets, restaurants and food processing plants. fresh meat has a relatively short shelf life. it must be quickly

and cargill, 40 million a week. i've talked with tysons in my state and south dakota and they've shared with me that we've got beef and pork sitting in freezers near the ports instead of heading to asian markets. while we've got all these large container ships sitting off the coast waiting toex port export our nation's products. that affects jobs. tyson's employs 41000 people. usda estimates there are 1 million jobs associated with agricultural exports in this country. it has a profound impact on the economy not just on the west coast but all across the country on workers in south dakota and other places that are dependent upon like i said a reliable supply chain. outdoor gear inc., family-owned business in south dakota. they're a wholesaler. receives 95% of its inventory from west coast ports. that's been forced to miss deadlines, pay for late delivery penalties and pass up important sales opportunities including in december. which is of course the holiday peak season. so this is an issue that just really needs our

>> well, i guess going to cargill's share goes to be a bit difficult. if you look at the u.s. pork or u.s. beef industry, we certainly has been the largest exporter around the globe. but as we have dealt with the congestion in the sports, also issues like currency and other forces in play in the market we've seen a substantial increase just in the past year to countries, the e.u., chile and i think certainly in the last couple of months have seen a substantial decline in our volumes. >> do you think that will be a permanent decline? will we be able to get the market back once the customers are used to have having new trading partners? >> i think any time you disappoint a customer it takes time to build trust back. and as i referred to in my testimony, there is a tremendous amount of potential for both beef and pork exports on the global scale. we have a product that the world is looking for and values. i certainly believe that growth potential remains. but there is no doubt that we've disappointed our customer-base, primary japan, korea and in china over the last couple of mon

. >> this man inherited his grandfather's company, they raise about 200,000 hogs for cargill, a large agricultural company. >> it is literally zero degrees out. pretty much our nasal passage kapt smell, but we can smell the odour from the pigs. there are people in the communities that say, you know they don't like the smell. they think you guys are destroying the area. what do you say to that. >> we are trying to be a good steward of the land. i see these people in church and wal-mart and all the different places. it's a respect back and forth. we are doing what we can whether it's through a biofilter. it takes it out of the air. >> the company is watched closely by iowa's department of natural resources to make sure it is following procedures needed to keep the air and water as clean as possible. >> it is a farm there is - there can be an odour at certain times. year we do the best to mitigate the best we can. >> it's a bunch of garbage. >> hugh runs the iowa citizens for community improvement and says it's not the case since the state has just had over two dozen dnr inspectors monit

gallons of manure covering ground -- >> today the business raises 200,000 pounds of rg product for cargill. >> we can still smell the odor from the pigs. there are people in these communities that say that you know, they don't like the smell they think you guys are kind of destroying the area. what do you say to that? >> we try to be good stewards of the land. i live in town. walmart and all the different places i go to so it's a respect back and forth and we are doing everything we can to mitigate the odor, whether it's through a biofilter that takes the odor out of the air. >> his company is watched closely by iowa's department of natural resources procedures to keep the air and water as clean as possible. >> there can be an odor at certain times of the year but we try to do the best to mitigate as best we can. >> it's a bunch of garbage a bunch of baloney. >> hugh espey says that is not the case. since the state has only over 2 dozen dnr inspectors monitoring two dozen livestock farms. a surprisingly low number. >> big corporations want to make as much money as they can with little rega

. >> reporter: but that's precisely what developers who teamed up with the cargill salt company would do. they originally proposed building 1200 homes on the site. >> this is an extraordinary site and extraordinary location with extraordinary potential. >> reporter: the attorney for the project says they're disappointed the epa waited three years to announce it's taking charge. just as the army corps of engineers was set to announce a decision this week. >> we're profoundly disappointed and confused. >> reporter: but folks at save the bay are relieved. they hope the epa rules the land should be protected so it can eventually be restored. >> the idea that these are not waters of the bay that are not protected by the clean water act is just -- it doesn't hold water. >> reporter: jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >>> a live look at the o.co coliseum. a new deal for the a's and the raiders if the team stays in the area. new city development decided to move forward with that project. the developer will now come up with a plan for what's called a coliseum city and what it would look like.

go down and do the story so i went to cargill and stayed two or three days and wrote this piece and it came out about three days after i started my internship and two days before i met my wife, sonya. it was an eventful week. and corey dean would say why don't you write about your internship? i said okay. it turned out to be a great indication, because in an internship everything is new. as you go on in medicine you get jaded. you see things and you start questioning but when you are and in turn everything is new is rubles a year end up with i don't give a hoot what i write. i am going to write about what i see and the things that interest me and the things i am going to question. i remember one of my early pieces as an intern, there was a fellow in hospital and who was having difficulty swallowing and when he would swallow food would go into his lungs. everyone was getting ready to put in the feeding tube into his stomach. the thing was he kept saying i don't want the feeding tube but no one was listening to him. i was on the team and whenever i would bring it up people would say what

. >> woodruff: the area is home to many world-class brands including cargill general mills and targete have had this talented workforce that tends to stay here and move amongst companies rather than pick up and move across the country. >> woodruff: many believe the success the twin cities have seen is more than just an accident of location commerce and quality of life. >> there's always been kind of a collective sense of community in the state of minnesota and the twin cities. >> woodruff: st. paul mayor chris coleman knows the area's polit call history well. his father nick coleman was the state senate majority leader from 1973 to 1981. >> in the '70s it was an incredible spirit of what can we do differently to make sure that everyone is benefitting. and that the whole state is elevated as a result of our policies. >> woodruff: politicians on both sides. aisle passed progressive education tax sharing and housing laws. >> it was called the minnesota miracle at the time. it was very unique and it had tremendous benefits to the quality of life as a city. >> woodruff: former state legisl

are missing out on trade we're missing out of benevolence and canada is a main trading partner and cargilldoes business in cuba but others are struggling trying to find out what is going on with the process so they can do business in cuba. against the ex-im bank is not presently guaranteeing loans to do business in cuba so that is our lot of companies are hesitant with the company that is considered to be unstable. is that an accurate assessment on my part? >> the action the administration took was within the lot and our authority to remove restrictions we thought were counter productive and working against the goal of a change in cuba of which gives human rights and other issues greater attention. the transactions between u.s. and cuban parties will be governed by a lot things like food sales in one of the things that changes is the payment terms are easier for companies to comply with for the purchasers to comply with. so there will be some benefit doing business in cuba but we have not opened up all the normal forms of support that we have normal relations with. we have been clear cuba

professor cargill who i quoted in my editor with this one in "the wall street journal" said it will put this is not a license to do so license to discriminate. and so i think the proper legislative remedy is to focus on the recession that has been created by the mischaracterization that come in to make it clear that this law doesn'tdoes that give businesses a right to deny services to anyone. yes, please. [inaudible] >> do you think that explains the backlash? >> i would leave it -- i think you mean the public, the public reaction? >> right. >> i think it was explained by the fact that this was grossly mischaracterized by advocates who opposed the bill and also by frankly some very sloppy reporting for the first several days. so i really do believe that. i mean look, if i read some of the stuff about this bill i would've had the same concern that millions of hoosiers have had and people across the country have. it just isn't so. i mean, when president clinton signed this bill in 1993, the american civil liberties union said then that the religious freedom restoration act was the most im

and i have one company in my district, cargill, that does business in cuba, but other businesses are struggling with trying to find out what's going on with the normalization process so that they can try to do business in cuba. but there are some problems. one, i guess the bank is not presently guaranteeing loans to do business in cuba, so therefore a lot of companies are going to be hesitant to do business with a country that's considered to be unstable without xm participating. is that an accurate assessment on my part? >> congressman, the action that the administration took obviously was to try within the law, within the authorities we have to remove restrictions that we thought were counterproductive, and if anything working against the goal of getting the kind of change in cuba that we all want which is a movement towards giving human rights and other issues of importance greater attention. i think that, you know, the transactions between the u.s. and cuban parties will be governed by law so there will be things like food sales. the payments will be easier for companies to compl

and i have one company in my district, cargill, that does business in cuba, but other businesses are struggling with trying to find out what's going on with the normalization process so that they can try to do business in cuba. but there are some problems. one, i guess the bank is not presently guaranteeing loans to do business in cuba, so therefore a lot of companies are going to be hesitant to do business with a country that's considered to be unstable without xm participa