and wait until you see what they're growing at one farm. trust me, you'll want to stay tuned for that. plus, we're getting giddy for goats. and our grocery store guru is back with some inside tips on picking potatoes. it's all ahead, and it starts now. [captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] >> welcome to "california country." i'm your host, tracy sellers. our first story today involves a family that has taken the lessons of the past to ensure success today and in the future as well. take a walk through your average produce aisle these days and there are more choices than ever, but one farm has a very eye-catching marketing strategy to entice you. and it all has to do with the bright picture of a lile boy named andy. but have you ever stopped to wonder, who is this andy boy guy anyway? >> andy boy's my father, andy d'arrigo, he's the face on the label and a lot of people ask, is there an andy boy and i say, yes, there is. >> who is this? >> yep. it's me. >> oh. ha ha. you see, when folks around here say andy d'arrigo

in the 2008 farm bill. peanut growers change their program from a supply management program in 2002 to a market and loan program. we eliminated the old quota system. this included a price reduction from $610 per ton to $355 per ton. the growers will lose even more as they suffer a reduction due to the elimination of the storage and handling fees. peanuts are a semi-perishable commodity. it is economically unfiles i believe for the producers to store peanuts on the farm. peanuts need a controlled envoorment. pea require intense management which the farmers do not have the skills to do. to go from a loan price to a three loan price. elimination of the storage and handling program could certainly impact food safety. the safety of the product. now, the sellers basically controls 75% of the peanuts after the peanuts leave the farmers' control. since the peanuts are semi-perishable and due to the high concentration of the shelling industry, farmers are at the mercy. sellers could possibly force the farmer to acce

so that the test for farm income and test for nop farm income were appropriate. the test administered by usd and the documents submitted to usda by program participants is subject to regular tribute by usda and i.r.s. this is a bad, bad thing. i suggest that we ought to let the authorizing committee do this to the farm bill and not do it now. i yield back. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise? mr. lucas: i rise to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. lucas: madam chairman, i rise in opposition to this amendment. this is clearly an attempt to legislate policy through an appropriation bill. contrary to the intent of regular order, and this is not the way we should do business. arbitrarily changing eligibility requirements for farm programs outside of the farm bill is irresponsible. it seriously undermines the farmers' ability to make long-term plans and investments, and adds a dangerous element of uncertainty to the market. result would be reluctance to make investment in equipment and pract

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equal to the possible farm that the farm tilapia that ever he escaped are posing. to explore the possible risk factors and he's working with a small fast reproducing fish species from japan many thousands of fish are measured photographed the eggs counted and the meeting behavior observed. transgenic male wild female. wild mayo wild female. to male one female. which one asserts itself which offspring a stronger. none of it sounds like creek three more profits more like hard work at weekends over time. twenty years ago it gained its first president. in the midst of colossal change. setting a new direction for a new country. saluting the state on russia today.

this farm apparently is an organic farm, so immediately you think it would be the manure. but apparently, in this farm, they don't use manure. it's basically done in sealed containers with seeds. these bean sprouts are fertilized. but that apparently is ideal for the growth of e. coli bacteria. so the fact that it's organic may be incidental in this case. if people say, well, this just shows organic is not safe much in this particular case, it may not be proven that way, because it's not that fundamental way of growing crops in the organic fashion with manure. >> now, in iraq, at least 13 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the northern city of tikrit. the bomb exploded at the entrance to a complex of power stations, which have been previously used by saddam hussein. police say many victims were security personnel, including the head of the military intelligence. officials in pakistan say at least 18 people have been killed and three missile strikes by american pilotless drones in tribal regions near the pakistan-afghan border. there have been several s

[ctioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] welcome to the show. i'm your host tracy sellers. so, have you eer wondered, "what does it take to stay fresh in the world of agriculture?" well, one dried fruit company thinks they have found the answer. and they would know. they've been growing strong in the business more than a century now. this time of year, there's only one thing on marysville farmer sam nevis' mind--getting his fruit off the tree. just like any other farmer, getting his harvest in and on time is crucial, even though you won't be seeing these plums in the produce section of the market. that's because you'll be seeing them as dried plums, otherwise known as prunes. and there's no better place for finding some of thbest dried plums than this area. did you know the state's greatest dried plum production actually happens here in the sacramento and san joaquin valleys? farmers here produce more dried plums than the rest of the world combined. >> right now, we're looking at french prunes about to be harvested. and what i look for to see if

a bean sprout farm is suspected. several drug companies announced substantial discounts to make life-saving vaccines available to developing nations. time now for the business news. jamie is here. greece, again. more austerity measures again. >> how much -- that is the question. the greek cabinet meeting this monday to discuss the for cuts and the biggest evening protests were held and athens. police say over 80,000 people took part. ministers are expected to back further tax rises and a new agency to privatize state assets. it's all designed to save an additional $114 billion between now and 2015. the economist -- he says the government is facing a very tough challenge. >> they have got to find a way out of this. they have still got. . they are still spending more than they are earning in revenue. all the amounts they have to pay to their creditors -- even as they tried to -- it would leave them worse off at the present time. >> in related news, the imf has agreed to provide egypt with emergency aid. it is offering

number two regarding the farm, the farm is my father-in-law's farm. it's not my husband and my's farm. it's my father-in-law's farm and my husband and i have never gotten a penny of money from the farm. >> as for the clinic according to the "los angeles times," the money was earmarked for training and employees and training that benefits the clinic. as for not getting a penny from the farm, her own financial documents show that's not so. they reveal between 32 and $105,000 between 2006 and 2009. in public, she was railing against and voting against federal foreign payments voting "no" on a 2008 farm subsidy bill and the next year she wrote agriculture secretary tom vilsack praising the programs and asking for more. quote, i would encourage you to take any further steps necessary to prevent further deterioration of these critical industries -- meaning benefiting her constituents and herself while she rails against big government intervening in the marketplace. bob schieffer asked her about that yesterday on "face the nation" and she dodged the question

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we're going to change living systems so they fit the technology we all know how horrible factory farming is and one of the problems they have with egg laying chickens with hands is they have another me instinct they want to brute and here you see one of the brain experiments jenny. engineering chickens to take out the mothering instinct from these brooding chickens so they won't groom or they won't have the mothering instinct any more so offset the factory farm system this is one of the came near of birds there working with the take away the mothering instinct so we don't change our factory farm system we actually take the mothering instinct out of animals so that they will fit the technology. in the mid eighty's once again a new supposedly golden age dawned for scientists genetic technology appeared to be the key to subordinating the earth and in particular its living creatures all of a sudden everything seemed possible they experimented with chickens without feathers she put out pelts to alleviate work after slaughtering with cows producing more milk and goods making silk they even ima

farms is a small development stage research and development stage company we don't have a product on the market yet but we are researching of riding a different applications of biotechnology to fish farming. we're pretty much the only company in the in the field today. this is a picture of three related fish brothers and sisters that we developed this is a fish that inherited the transferrin and these are its siblings that did not this this fish is about a year old as these fish are as well and as you can see there is a incredible excel aeration in the early life stages these fish are are are just barely ready to go into salt water this fish is almost ready to harvest after a year i want to. go. to one point we're going. to. go with that. this is the same salmon you know the eighteen month old here you see the enormous difference here and they said this is the same as it exists is not big enough it's not profitable enough doesn't grow fast enough so will fundamentally change it with foreign genes so that we can make more money off it so they can be more profit on it but an extraordin

take simonian farms, for example. just outside thfrno city limits is where you'll find this 20-acre family owned operation that has grown 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables for more than00 years, and doesn't looc to close shop atime soon. especially if the lion of fans the place has earned over the years has anything to say about it. >> oh, my god. just for people to see it. i don't think they've ever seen anything likthis. toee the beautiful blossoms, and the colors, and thcountryside, and what--what it really takes to doing farming. i mean, i think--god, i just-- i just think they get a lot out ofhis. >> blossoms are one of the most visible signs a new crop is on the way. and for about 6 weeks out of the year, you can see this spectacular sight, trees flushed full of blossoms. some have as many as 20,000 per tree. but the one thing yo discover quite quickly about the blossom trail is, besides highlighting the beauty of the area and the bounty of agriculture the county has to offer, the trail is really all about

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discussing farm programs in the context of a farm bill will represent honest, transparent policymaking. this amendment prevents that discussion from taking place by altering the terms of the contracts with farmers once they've already been signed. protecting farmers during catastrophic weather events is the least we can do to maintain a stable food supply in our country. my colleagues in the midwest have seen firsthand the devastation that comes with flooding. my colleagues in the southwest know how droughts can turn healthy farms into desolation. for that reason alone i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. but i also urge you to oppose it because policy changes like this should be conducted within the broader context of all farm bill policy. i urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> i rise to oppose the amendment and strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman

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you've benefit from farm subsidies on your family farm. do you think we ought to think about cutting those back? >> i think everything needs to be on the table right now. every part of government. i'll tell you one thing that should be on the table, under barack obama the last two years the number of federal limousines for bureau has increase -- bureaucrats has increased 73% in two years. i can't think of anything more represent reasonsible than seeing by row krats on their cell phones in the back. 73% increase in the last two years? >> congresswoman you're not seriously saying that eliminating limousine service is anywhere equal to reducing farm subs des. >> what i'm saying is that i think that's an easy one that we need to do. clearly president obama is not serious about cutting spending. >> joining us now is chief political analyst gloria borger and -- when it comes to income from her family's farm, the congresswoman says one thing, her financial forms say another. they could be wrong or she could be wrong. can she continue dodging the

the main questions about ecological risk if genetically engineered fish are being produced in a fish farm and if they were to escape from the farm and if they were able to make if they were fertile the question is they skate and if it is they skate into waters where there are wild relatives what will happen if they interbreed with the wild relatives and our experiment is designed to test that question. so this and recovered and build your the university developed a computer model in which they created a population of sixty thousand wild creatures into which sixty transgenic individuals penetrate a council of the questions was compiled for instance other certain survival strategies or mating advantages of the mixed offspring stronger or weaker if these phenomena are observed and the results recorded then the computer calculates the possible future results. and what we're doing in these types of testers to look for rating advantages of transgenic real growth of the wild type males. training males are larger than wild type males and they could have increased mating success because of that an

you really don't have to live on a farm or work on a farm to get farm subsidies.have to have an investment interest, an inherited interest in a farm that gets subsidies somewhere else. right in the zip code i'm in now in san francisco and probably the one you're in in new york and washington, d.c., all around the country people are getting these absentee farm subsidy checks. it would be one thing if this were money to tide farmers over who maybe were living in the city temporarily, but these are folks who live in the city permanently. right now, farmers are making record amounts of money from the marketplace. we're setting records for crop prices. we are setting records for farm income. we are still sending money to some of the biggest, prosperous farmers in the country and absentee land owners in san francisco, in the middle of washington, d.c., right in the middle of new york city. >> what's wrong with legitimate efforts to help domestic farms? we talked to the national farmers union and they said some of the payments could be done to support risk sharing agreem

we'll keel with that in a new farm bill. they dealt with that in the old farm bill. many of us stood here and warned and said this is trade distorting. the w.t.o. will rule against this and we'll end up with trade sanctions. the ag committee went ahead and did it anyway. didn't fix the problem. they will say, well, you tried, we tried, it's not the direct payment, it's the counter cyclical. it's the other programs that we have and until that is dealt with, we are going to have these trade sanctions. so when the ag committee says let us deal with that, i would remind people we have let them deal with that and they haven't. so we have to go about it in another way. and i would simply say we cannot continue to subsidize our own ag interest this way, in particular this cotton program, when we know it's out of step with our international trade obligations so you can go about it in two ways, you can say we are not going to pay brazil, this amount, this protection money, or whatever you want to call it, this tribute, and then they will force us -- that will force us to deal

this is a picture of his farm. his farm was rather modest compared to washington or jefferson's politician. they had several thousand acres. adams only had a run 500 acres. but nonetheless he was very much inspired by what he had seen on his garden tour in england, and he wanted to recreate an ornamental farm bringing together the kind of useful and the beautiful. the first thing he did is he made a ha ha, a ditch which has -- provide the same security as a fence or wall. it keeps of cattle, but it allows sweeping views across the surrounding countryside, including fields but also mountains. but adams is doing is opening what he calls a prospect so that he could see the meadows and the western mountains. so he is really celebrating america. there were also flowers which were filled with plants that abigail adams to where his wife, compared to humble citizens in contrast to the stately crown which she said was banned from the garden is the bears to market : name. by the end of december 1796 adams finally names as ga

republican and democrat, but whether you're in a farm belt state, whether you're representing a farm belt state because, of course you want that money for your constituents, and that's got nothing to do with, you know, whether you're republican or democrat. this is also on the agriculture committee, and he wants to have the agriculture committee be the one that decides policy, not the appropriations committee in an appropriations bill. host: let me go through and caution you. i'm going to put a lot of numbers on the table and 2 gets kind of complicated. but first the 2012 spending bill includes $125 billion in total spending. it's an increase of $283 million from the current fiscal year $7 billion less than what the president wanted. it has $17 billion in discretionary spending. that's $2.7 billion less than this year. explain those numbers. guest: well, a lot of what's going on there is the cuts to -- there have been cuts to a various number of programs. i mean, when you think about it, it's only a very small number of dollars that has happened there. but the discretionary program d

what they see of the ornamental farms. with a be is the working and agricultural elements of a farm. so with the shrubberies at the same time, this is a depiction of the grecian valley and there are sheep in the garden. it is useful with the very much beautiful with their vision of america there is a beauty that would feed the nation both jefferson and adams with ladies in their gardens in america. but what of the most exciting revelations was to discover the with skirted was not english at all. was densely populated with american trees and shrubs. i will flip through a pew's you can get an idea of what it is like. and has a lot of evergreens because they have no native evergreens pro the flowering dogwood is another one per grow also seen what had grown over the past five decades from this. >> host: bertram. two everson discovered the english were crazy about american trees and shrubs% in a strange buttressed of fired yet the very moment the colony's declare independence, the american garden is filled with trees and shrub

the farm is my fathers-in-law farm. it's not my husband and my farm. it's my fathers-in-law farm. my husband and i have never gotten a penny of money from the farm. >>> the los angeles times review of bachmann's financial disclosure forms found her income from the farm from 2006 to 2009 ranged from 32,000 to $105,000 each year. >>> house minority leader nancy pelosi made some comments favored by bachmann. bachmann says cutting federal taxes will return in more jobs. pelosi said tax cuts have a much different effect. >> now let me just remind all this talk about tax cuts. in the bush years, the republicans said that tax cuts will produce jobs. they didn't. they produced a deficit. >> reporter: both republicans and democrats are struggling with stopping the death ceiling. >>> home depot is under federal investigation tonight. the home improvement store is accused of violating the buy america act which requires all materials used in public projects to originate in the u.s. the retailer sold chinese products to government buyers. a corporate spokesman for home depot says the company w

linked to the little city farm, but also the other farms are represented. we are proud to be supportive of the san francisco urban alliance activism. and hopefully around the world. i also want to say that our head of food policy is here. i know at what help us make sure that children and residents, not just their but in the neighborhoods that have a healthy and locally grown produce will have more access. at a recent panel that we were on, and want to see this expanded to every single square mile of the city. this is a really good start but we need to implement the mayor's initiative. we have to be the shining example for the u.s. and also this world. thank you for being here, everyone. >> i also want to recognize his supervisor avalos. next, i want to introduce a community representative that played a key role in policy development, and that is of the sentences of zero urban agriculture alliance. they promote the growing of food through advocacy education and grass-roots actions. >> today is a good day for san francisco and urban agriculture. san francisc

it caused mold to develop in the areas in gilroy and other farms around the bay area. strawberry crops are sensitive to moisture and an entire field can be lost to mold. farmers tell us the damage will be minimized if it doesn't rain tomorrow. >> so on that point what is expected to happen tomorrow? >> let's check in with sandhya. >> we may see a couple more showers first thing in the morning, but very light. as you look at live doppler 7hd, you can see that the heaviest rain and the thunder that we had, everything has moved out and we still have the possibility of rain. look at this picture. this was submitted by ma ry el at yahoo! .com. it is a beautiful shot of the rain in san francisco. as you look toward the trans america pyramid you can see the photo. please keep them coming. we would love to see your photos. with all of this rain i want to bring you up-to-date our rainy season ends in two days. we are doing great. santa rosa just over 40 inches of rain at 129% of normal. san francisco is 129% of normal. oakland, well above average will -- average. 132% of normal

we're line at the german farm where officials think the e. coli outbreak began. >>> hello, it is 12:00 noon in sunnu in yemen, and also ahead, portugal picks a businessman as its new prime minister, but with massive debts and an international bailout, now it's down to business for real. >>> celebrations in yemen, you would think they had ousted a dictator, but is president sal lai biding his time to return? >> and more people evacuated from their homes as a wildfire devours huge stretches of arizona. we'll have more on our top story in the e. coli outbreak in europe. >>> but first, portugal has voted for a big change in direction. the social democratic party, politically right of center. the party leader, a man with as much experience in business as in parliament, is set to become the next prime minister. we want to go to cnn's nina desantos who joins us from the portuguese capital. just before the elections happened, mr. quella had criticized practices, i guess what he called the plan that he had, his austerity plan and said that the governm

pigs are very bouncy. >> i was -- iowa select gave a tour of the farm in iowa today. they launched their own investigation. >> we have policies in place of animal handling and well being and our employees are trained in it. we feel like we have a very good program. howard hill admitted he was shocked to see workers tossing pig lets. last year, 109 million pigs were slaughtered. the vast majority came perfect farms using gestation crates and the activists have a long way to go. we're getting a big response, if you'd like to weigh in you can leave a comment on our i team blog and our abc 7 facebook page. >> and. >> do you think you can pass safety tests? kooum, a new california law few people seem to know about. >> then, later tonight a california job summit. we'll pass along the number one complaint we've heard today among east bay business leaders. >> a major catastrophe could blast a hole in your >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a new state law requires restaurant workers to pass an exam on food safety. the law takes place this friday, a

when some of them don't even own farms?e's jonathan karl. >> it doesn't look much like farm country. but 2 90 people in new york city 7 federal farm subsidy last year. one of them mark rockefeller. heir to one of the most celebrated fortune in american history. he lives from manhattan received nearly 330,000 dollars in taxpayer farm money over the past 10 years. the apparently for the property he owned on the snake river in idaho. it includes up scale fishing lodge. 500 dollars a day just for fly fishing. and get this the. 330,000 dollar he's received from the government is called a conservation payment. that means he's paid not to farm his land. there are city slicker like rockefeller all over the country on the farm subsidy goal. in chicago last year 7 34 farmers got 2.2 million dollars in federal subsidy. in miami 2 03 people received a total of 2.5 million i don't know in farm subsidy. san francisco 179 farmers got 1.1 million dollars. list goes on. >> folk whose live in city like manhattan or san francisco that are abs

have died from the new toxic strain. >> this organic farm has ceased production. it may not be the only source of the outbreak but evidence shows the bean sprouts carry e. coli. >> we are relieved of the new findings and how they've been

coast farm animals. why can't the usda do more to reduce the infusion of antibiotics into our food chain? >> the simple answer is that that is the responsibility of the fda. [laughter] >> simple can be wrong. [laughter] >> i would never say the fda is wrong. [laughter] having said that, it is important for the usda to work with farm groups and those representing agriculture to make sure that what we talk about when we talk about antibiotics is the appropriate use of them as opposed to an overuse. we have continue to work to do in that area and we are continuing to work with the industry to make sure that members and farmers and livestock producers understand it is in their best interest in the long term to be judicious in terms of how the use of antibiotics. working with fda and farm groups, we will continue to improve on that th. >> the united states is the largest producer and exporter of ethanol. does it still made subsidies? -- does is still need subsidies? >> when we reduce or eliminate subsidies to

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i want people to know that on most farm policy -- and this deals with farm policy -- that the senator from south dakota, mr. johnson, and i agree on most everything on farm policy. and this is a piece of legislation that's probably going to come up not so much stand-alone as when we discuss the reauthorization of the farm bill, which generally could start this year and probably go into next year. but i want my colleagues to know that this is an effort that i'm not giving up on. it deals with the issue of how much one individual farmer should get from the farm program. and so my approach is to put what you call a hard cap on the amount of money that one farmer can get. my remarks will explain why. also, though, in a time when we have great budget deficits, people might think that i'm introducing this bill just because i'm concerned about the budget deficit, because this bill, if enacted, will save about $1.5 billion. but that's not my main purpose for doing it. my main purpose is to have the historical basis for a safety net for farmers to -- the principle that our safety net ought to

tests on a sprout farm in northern germany found no trace of e. coli. officials say they suspect the farm was the source of the outbreak which has killed 22 people. so how long before the german authorities have an answer. yourg ber teen is a medical director at the medical center. as i was saying to you before, there are two angles to the story. there's the scientific and the health side. let's talk about the health side of this story. while they think they may have found the source -- and again that's inconclusive right now, what does that mean in terms of the health scare of this e. coli outbreak? >> we're sort of seeing the back end of this. so far we're seeing a lot fewer patients with primary infection systems. we're fortunately seeing a lot fewer patients, also, with the complication of the infection, the so-called hu syndrome. that's giving hope that the source of the infection seems to be quieting down, possibly no longer active. nevertheless, everybody is focusing on finding that source and quite honestly, i'm most interested in finding that s