itself and you're talking about a dog is living in that space for its entire lives and the department of agriculture really is there promote american agriculture it's not an impartial sort of entity that is neutrally overseeing the laws and for years u.s.d.a. was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the agriculture sector who you know started raising puppies and started operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio has any breeder been forced out of this. long. standing violations of the animal welfare act if they choose to no longer be u.s.d.a. license it's because they chose not to renew their license not because inspectors came out to actually revoke that license i never heard of a regulator coming to pennsylvania no one was getting shut down the feeling of the industry was very we don't have to worry about it so frankly their doors were pretty open the so often if a breeder some violation of the animal welfare act they get a slap on the hands and when they get a slap on the hands. off and it is months following the violation and they're

price may not have been because bring the cost of production according to the united states department of agriculture the retail price of a pound of bacon is around $5.00 the share of that price that ends up in the farmer's pocket is around $0.69 what about say flour a 5 pound bag will run the consumer about $3.79 the farmer gets $0.44 and since we're talking so much about dairy farmers look at a gallon of milk the consumer pays $4.59 while the farmer if there are a lucky sees about one dollar and $0.50 per gallon we've had consolidation in the industry for a long time which means that some players particularly processors have a lot of power and that means that in some cases we see farmers not having places that sell their milk or farmers having to be price takers these being told how much they should be paid and not necessarily that reflect on how much the cost it is to actually produce and he was so proud of the said it all falling numbers and everything was just perfect in a trade to find a market for it and it was worth nothing i mean those were the. penalty and it's very frustrating for me becau

so beginning in early may, i started pressing the department of agriculture to change the date. in june, the department of agriculture announced that it would move up the november 1 date for 2019 by two months to september 1, a significant amount of time that allowed south dakota farmers to plant cover crops without worrying about whether they would be able to successfully harvest or graze them. a year ago this week, the president signed into law the farm bill which contained provisions i authored based on input from south dakota farmers and rages. this year i've closely monitored the implementation of the bill. in particular, i pressed the agricultural department of the conservation reserve program and to hold sign-ups. i'm pleased that the administration opened a c.r.p. sign-up this month. the farmers and ranchers emphasize that the most important thing that washington can do is to take action on trade agreements. farmers and ranchers need access to new and expanded markets for their products. just as importantly, they need certainty about what innocent markets are going to loo

in a federal office building and the imagination and plan is that it would be part of the department of agriculture. headquartered in the department of agriculture in washington. that never happened but it does become the national organization of farmers. this formed in 1967 -- 18. it spread across the state in places like nebraska, a majority of farmers were members of the grange. in places like mississippi or south carolina, a majority of white farmers remember the grange. in california valleys, farmers belong to the grange. it was both a meeting place, a social society and also a class organization to serve the interest of farmers. it had a egalitarian vision, a whole series of questions. the most striking laws called sexual equality. it advocated for the women's vote in women joined the grange in large numbers. there is no question and women's equality was important. it's fighting for equality of farmers within economy. the grange was the dominant antimonopoly force in american society. it was a force fighting against wall street and corporate power and for egalitarian economy that no longer di

it would be a part of the department of agriculture. it was headquartered in the department of agricultu in terms of the department of agile agriculture. it was formed in 1867. it spread a network across the united states in places like nebraska a majority of farmers a majority of white farmers our members of the grange. they belonged to the grange. it was both a meeting place it was also a class organization. it have upper firmly egalitarian vision. the most striking was the call that sexual equality. women joined the grange in very large number. there is no question to the extent that women's equality was important. the fundamental equality was fighting for was that quality of the farmers within the national quality. and the grange was the dominant force in american society. it was a force fighting against wall street and corporate power and for an egalitarian economy it would no longer discriminate against the nation's farmers. that's what their best known for. to regulate the railroads. control the economy and control and positive wa

trade advisor for the united states department of agriculture and we will have more with tom coming upsecond how are -- second hour of bloomberg radio. dallas fed president robert kaplan will be putting his stamp on the fomc next year as a voting member. our interview with him next. this is "balance of power." ♪ david: this is "balance of power." i'm david westin. it has been an up-and-down year for the federal reserve, cutting rates three times this year in the face of weakening global growth. the central bank is indicating it will hold even though the underlying conditions have not changed. dallas fed president robert kaplan sat down with kathleen hays for an exclusive -- exclusive interview and she asked whether the shift back to neutral was about global growth or about the yield curve? robert: if you roll back the clock to june, it was not much as weak global growth. it was week manufacturing. weaker than it has been since 2009 and weak business in the fix investment. i said we should do modest limited restrained adjustment to the fed funds rate. to address those issues, but the ot

according to the united states department of agriculture's own estimates, the proposed changes to one part of snap called categorical eligibility would eliminate millions from the supplemental nutrition assistance program and it could also leave nearly one million children without access to free school meals. mr. president, i don't know about everyone here, but i think that's a step in the wrong direction. the sip mnl nutrition -- the supplemental nutrition assistance program is not only important for that family, many of them working families, many of them with a child in the household who needs food assistance, who faces food and security without snap, many of those same families might have a child and an individual with a disability in the same household or one or the other. that's the snap program. by the way, everyone else in the country benefits when people are spending those snap dollars because when you provide those dollars and folks are buying food, guess what happens? you guessed it. the economy gets a jumpstart from that activity. so this snap program isn't just about the

(pam) the u-s department of agriculture has removed the fictional nation of wakanda .....fter someone noticed .... the nation from the 'black panther' comics and movie .... was listed as a free trade agreement partner. a twitter user posted .... he found it on the agricultural tariff tracker -- maintained by the u-s-d-a foreign agricultural service. the u-s-d-a told news outlets.... wakanda was actually only added for testing the tracker system -- and should have been removed ... after testing was completed. and the agency tweeted: "while we removed the kingdom of wakanda from our list of u-s free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong. hashtag wakanda forever." (pam) a film based in the city of san francisco is getting major attention.oc :08 "san francisco" (pam) actor jonathan majors is now a major contender for the associated press' breakthrough entertainers ..... for his role in "the last black man in san francisco." his role as montgomery allen ..... has not only drawn widespread acclaim, but brought the eager attention of spike lee, jordan peele, j.j.

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work at least 20 hours a week brandon lipps who oversees the food stamp program at the us department of agriculture safety net is still there. states have the option to exempt 12% of the population, individuals don't have to go to work tomorrow they can get 3 months of benefits without any requirement. >>and at that point they just have to begin volunteering he says the administration wants to motivate americans to find jobs. >>this is about believing in the opportunity of individuals to move to work that can be very very difficult >>an individual who may be struggling against homelessness they have no transportation stacy dean with the center on budget and policy priorities has been working on food stamp policies for decades, i think we should be doubling down on improving that program and other key work supports. not a weakening safety. the new rules will go into effect april 1st in washington recall martin. >>are not a very football for the second week in a row the 40 niners will enter their game this sunday as the underdog the 10 1 niners are taking on the 10 and i should say that 10 to 9 ers a

president willie nelson back in 1993 addressing the farm income policy forum sponsored by the department of agriculture for the past few years the u.s.d.a. has been reporting that farm income is at record high levels. and from traveling around the country talking with family farmers i had a hard time understanding how so many farmers could be losing money if farm income was rising. and then in may of this year the u.s.d.a. changed the way it figured out farm income to include the average income for farmer households the u.s.d.a. reported that in 1991 net farm income was 50 $1000000000.00 the average farm family earned less than $6000.00 from farm operations. now here we are some 29 years later and according to the u.s.d.a. economic research service in $2918.00 net farm income fell to a 12 year low at just over $59000000000.00 with a median foreign income of negative 1200.

contains four bills and buy financial service spending measures, it holds a bills to fund the department of agriculture human health and , veterans affairs, as well as the epa, and water projects. government. want to remind your viewers that trillion,t iss $1.4 that is only about 30% of all government spending. suchther 70% is in programs as medicare, medicaid, social security. safety net programs, food stamps, child nutrition. it only represents 30% of government spending. host: this is what congress has the discretion to spend, they have discretionary powers on this type of federal government. guest: correct. whether they want to spend money on a wall or not. that is all discretionary on the part of the government, congress to spend money. the other 70% excluding interest is mandatory. some people call them entitlement programs. they are automatic spending because if you are age 65, you qualify, you get the benefits. it does not require the appropriation process to do that. what does this mean for debt --host: what does this mean for debt and deficit? this is another concern i have about this bill. w

department of agriculture's calculations overshot the impact of the trade conflict on american soybean joining us with the story from washington is bloomberg deputy what has that at their mike sorting -- how did they arrive at this conclusion? michael: what they are looking at is the net effect of the trade war on soybeans. soybeans gets more than half of the direct payments for trade. but has been the most visible component in this $28 billion package. they are looking at how a trade war has actually affected the price of soybeans and what they have found is that it is about half of what the agriculture department has use for its calculation of trade aid, meaning at least for soybean farmers, they are getting about double what is really inflicted by the trade war. the sametment has used methodology for other products that are likely also overstated. joe: so what are the rules regarding this? obviously none of this aid has actually passed through congress. so the president is doing this unilaterally. what does the law say about the flexibility the ministration has to engage in this, an

differs from department to you go to the department of i energy, the risk a nuclear bomb goes off when it shouldn't go off. but you go to the department of agriculture, they might say somethintlike the risk we don' actually fund the research we to figure out how to gr crops in a different climate. but you go to the department of commerce, we cease to collect the data we need to understand le. we are as a pe laura: michael lewis, thanks so much for being with us. michael: thank you. laura: doctors in spain lle g a british woman's recovery from cardiac arrest and exceptional case. arteries heart stopped beating for sick -- audrey sherman's heart stopped beating for six hours after she developed hyperthermia while hiking in the pyrenees. medical officials say the low mountain temperatures may have saved her life. here is our medical correspondent fergus we sh. fergus: man who cheated death, flanked by her husband and the medical team that rescued her. she can now reflect on her heart stopping experience. >> it feels rely incredible that i survived it, and just really lucky to be here and to be able to get on with my life. i'm just happy. fergus: she se

of care for dogs raised in commercial breeding establishment and they require as of the department of agriculture go out and inspect these facilities and make sure that they're complying with these regulations i always refer to the regulations that we have today with the u.s.d.a. is survival standards if you comply with the centers of care the dogs will probably but is it humane no right now and u.s.d.a. regulations a dog requires 6 inches a living space bigger than the dog itself and you're talking about a dog is living in that space for its entire lives and that are part of agriculture really is there promote american agriculture it's not an impartial sort of entity that is neutral the overseeing the laws and for years u.s.d.a. was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the agriculture sector who started raising puppies and started operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio has any breeder been forced out of this. long. standing violations of the animal welfare act if they choose to no longer pay us to a license it's because they chose

brandon lipps who oversees the food stamp program at the us department of agriculture. >>says the safety net is still there. >>states have the option to exempt 12% of their population individuals don't have to go to work tomorrow they can get 3 months of benefits without any requirement and at that point they just have to begin volunteering he says the administration wants to motivate americans to find jobs. >>this is about believing in the opportunity of individuals to move to work that can be very very difficult >>an individual who may be struggling against homelessness they have no transportation stacy dean with the center on budget and policy priorities has been working on food stamp policies for decades, i think we should be doubling down on improving that program and other key work supports not a weakening the safety net. the new rules will go into effect april 1st in washington recall martin. >>next at 5.30 the cdc says teen vaping is not the only smoking concern among students. how many american kids are currently using tobacco products. >>and one california coup

the department of agriculture is tightening work requirements cutting benefits to more than 650,000 people. changes go into effect in april. it will affect those between 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled. >>> instagram now requires new users to provide the birth date. the social media app plans to expand ads for age sensitive products such as alcohol and gambling and add safety features for younger users. until now, they just have to say they're at least 13 years old. for more, head to cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> this recent rain creating a messy drive for those in monterey county. >>> before we head to break, let's take a live look outside. this is of the skyline of san francisco. look how beautiful that is from our camera and treasure isl mike bloomberg's never been afraid of tough fights, the ones that make a true difference in people's lives. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundr

president willie nelson back in 1993 addressing the farm income policy forum sponsored by the department of agriculture for the past few years the u.s.d.a. has been reporting that farm income.

department of agriculture listing the movie's fictional country wakanda as a free-trade partner. tracker shows a detailed list of goods the u.s. and wakanda apparently traded, including ducks, donkey s, and dairy cattle. the fictional country was removed from the list after questions were raised in the media. that prompted the joke that the u.s. and wakanda are now in a trade war. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm su keenan. this is bloomberg. yvonne: let's take a look at some of the markets in the region today. pretty much a nothing burger, according to michael every. nothing burger with no signs of a shake or fries. flat across the region. irdmonth highs set to be a th straight weekly gain when it comes to -- kospi up by one third of 1%. down 2.3%. not sure why, but that is the biggest drop since august. we basically just erased the gains for this year. 2%.p down over .ndian markets, plenty to cheer pretty flat right now. the rupee and indian bonds just starting to trad

the department of agriculture says the rule will cut benefits for about 688,000 recipients and save moree -- $5 billion over five years. >>> investigators have found new problems with airbags made by takata. government documents say the compy is adding abt 1.4 n frond inflators to the recall list in the u.s. that includes more than 116,000 bmw 3 series cars from 1999 to 2001 model years. at least one person has died from the last problem. >>> and viacom has completed its merger with cbs. the new company will be called viacom cbs. the new conglomerate includes pbs, showtime, paramount pictures, nickelodeon, and cbs all access among other networks. viacom cbs also includes cbs-owned television stations. the new company will account for 22% of tv viewership and hold the highest share of broadcasts and cable viewing across key audience demographics. anne-marie? >> going to have to put a few more chairs at the cbs dinner table. a lot more people showing up. >> the family's back together again. >> reunited. diane king hall at the new york stock exchange. thank you, diane. >> you got it. >>> st

department of agriculture can save the government 5500000000 dollars over 5 years or roughly a little over a $1000000000.00 a year meanwhile the business of politics my friends is booming the wall street journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent presidential campaign year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group the world's largest advertising media company so a close to 7 $100000.00 americans will soon be without food assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 political parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to $10000000000.00 on campaign commercials that works out to a little over $14000.00 per person who is now without food stamps but guess what that $9900000000.00 might be on the low end of estimates group em's global president of business intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently

. >> the addition of tenant to the us department of agriculture's website was pointed out yesterday. it was listed among other real continuities. the usda says the comic book country was used during a test of its system. an employee is forgot to remove it.>>> coming up at 5:30, and roger tom investigation, allegations of unsafe conditions at a bay area navigation center. >> when i first got here.>> we sit down with the leadership at bay area community services. their take on how taxpayer money is being spent to house the homeless.>>> doesn't support staff at a california race track, but was it criminal? the result of the new ba area teacher helping students fight back the bullies through song. the important lesson in the lyrics. mac >>> you're watching kpix 5 lives at 5:30. >>> right now on kpix 5 industry being on cbsn bay area, a look at our top stories at 5:30. the tragedy at a northbay elementary school. we are working to get details on the death of a student at the market day school in san rafael. it happened this afternoon when according to an administrator, a student somehow di

welfare of the dogs trapped in puppy mills was not viewed as a priority of the pennsylvania department of agricultureinspections were few and far between the regulations were ill defined and the program was clearly underfunded so the regulators were completely tied by the laws and just to the vagueness of all of them so what we really needed was in forcible measurable standards you would see inspection reports time and time again where a warden is morning operator to do something. and this didn't go on for like one or 2 inspections in a year's time you're talking about years and years of warnings for many of the same offenses there was so much opposition from within the industry itself that the regulations were just going nowhere. and it became very apparent that we had to do a legislative fix. what politicians do so. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and. want to. have to go right to be press that's what i'm up for 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. nato the defensive alliance that has s

in the early days since out explores this part of the department of agriculture to really bolster the u.s. is food sources we needed this out to our community about britain britain search for ingredients including sugar pepper tea cold cod and more drove the rise of the empire and this is how one of our community members responded ronald says africans never had to search for anything i guess that's why we're always victims of colonialism what are your take on his thoughts there clearly a little bit tongue in cheek but there's an underlying point. yes well for me i mean if you look at some about gradients in africa had had colonialism or had the. you know the explorers not brought things like planted bananas into africa because those are not african natives but little breeders of become such a big part of who we are as africans that i mean for instance but i know why it is used in you know in uganda wedding celebrations become a big part of who we are so had those barriers not you know made their way through to west africa we wouldn't have that so my one thing is you know colonialism c

thanks, department of agricultural advisor and again the latest indications are this is coming to us hers who say a deal at least on the tariff part of this is imminent. we don't know what imminent is, i don't know what soon is but the definition of that is imminent. so in the meantime, why tim cook , of all people, is right now, saying you know, a lot of people pile on us, but some monopolies they're okay, after this. >> ♪ ♪ my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have an allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, or severe

department of agriculture can save the government 5500000000 dollars over 5 years or roughly a little over a $1000000000.00 a year meanwhile the business of politics my friends is booming the wall street journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent presidential campaign year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group the world's largest advertising media company so a close to 7 $100000.00 americans will soon be without food assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 political parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to $10000000000.00 on campaign commercials that works out to a little over $14000.00 per person who is now without food stamps but guess what that $9900000000.00 might be on the low end of estimates group em's global president of business intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently

. >> by the fifties and sixties two or three different regime governments department of agriculture and appropriations wanting to help the farmer. >> allowing them to go testify in congress against people in public health so part of that is using farmers who are organized to be the mouthpiece of industry to be more credible or likable so you see farmers going to testify against proposed cigarette regulations in the sixties for example. >> with the phillip morris of the world. >> that farmers were not just ponds they believe that regulation would be bad for them. they had seen that their prosperity was linked to the rise of the cigarette in a direct way and many people may not realize that prior to world war ii in the late thirties that made way that people consume tobacco was not even in the cigarette so the cigarette directly tracks the rise of prosperity for farmers also due to government intervention so they were invested of people continuing. >> and they wanted their kids to smoke crack. >> tobacco farmers smoked more than other people and to this day you see greater rates of tobacc