the 1st took place the september 22nd 1985 and since then farm aid has raised over $53000000.00 to support of writing programs to help farming thrive in the midst of world corner to the tops of buildings and city centers here is farming 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 1900 when that 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 inc

were at farm aid 2019 this is the new partnership that we have with farm aid and it's because farmers are under a tremendous amount of stress right and i think there's a greater recognition that in addition to addressing the economic challenges the farmers are facing there has to be in tandem with that it's some efforts to address the mental health challenges that from the space for one thing i think people are talking about these issues much more than they have historically i think we have a search that is showing the rise in suicides particular in certain populations that is bringing more attention to this i think that there are some realities economic realities that people are facing and i think that the fact that people are experiencing stress related to their inability to take care of their families to take care of themselves i think is something that we just have to pay more attention to i personally strongly feel that there should be a single payer system in place so that farmers are guaranteed access to health care so that you know that farming is a dangerous profession and we

the 1st took place in september 22nd 1985 and since then farm aid has raised over $53000000.00 to support of the writing of programs to help farming thrive in the world corner to the tops of buildings and city centers here is farming 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 1900 when that 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 incom

which is why farm aid keeps going strong. this year the festival was held at the alpine valley music theater in east tri wisconsin deep in the heart of dairy country farm aid showcase some of the most innovative family farmers from around tired nation whiskey river no rather a. farm a president of 34 years country music icon willie nelson opened the festival well 1st of all i'm glad to see us all year to do. but there is. a lot of help is needed and we're glad to be here to offer our support what are those challenges while one is pricing take dairy farmers for instance according to the u.s.d.a. foods 2015 the price of milk paid to farmers has not only been going down but it's also unpredictable from month to month making it hard for farmers to absorb that extra cost. barmaid presented one of the many solution through the small farmer and old traditions on a sense of community through grazing we create a grazing it works it would help the cows be healthier and it was less labor plus they talked about the profitability of it ou

the 1st took place in september 22nd 1985 and since then farm aid has raised over $53000000.00 to support of alrighty of programs to help farming thrive from the most moral corner to the tops of buildings and city centers here is farming 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.

. >>> plus, chipotle's new farm aid. the baby yoda tribute going viral that might be the reason disney's stock is on the move. and charlie breaks it on the endless delays in the t-mobile/sprint approval process. less than an hour to the closing bell. happy friday, everyone. let's start "the claman countdown." liz: breaking news. we are just getting this. king salman of saudi arabia has offered his condolences to the united states after a gunman reportedly a trainee with the saudi air force, killed three people at a naval air station, pensacola, in florida. president trump just announced that in a telephone call, the saudi king also said the shooter quote, does not represent the feelings of the saudi people when it comes to america. saudi arabia, one of the world ms largest producers of crude oil, of course, which by the way, crude oil making huge news 30 minutes ago, oil closing at an 11-week high after opec and its allies, including russia, agreed to deepen oil production cuts by half a million barrels a day through mar

. >> $30 billion in farm aid. do you want to deal more than we do? >>. >> i think it will help with the united states, but it is a trade relationship with the world as well. so this is annoying, painful, and more desirable. so they have no incentive to make a deal that makes them look bad. and trump is not calculating correctly if he thinks there is enough pressure. >> good to see you, thank you for joining us. all right, president trump today is representing the united states on the world stage while the shadow of impeachment lays over him. he is laying over the case against the president. ahead of the first judiciary hearings tomorrow. the nato summit this morning, he lashed out at democrats over the inquiry. >> i think the democrats should be ashamed of themselves. if you look at the word impeachment, there was nothing wrong, nothing done wrong, it was a perfect conversation, and i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. >> meanwhile democrats issued a 330 page report saying the evidence does not establish any impeachable offense. house intel

at the same time, reverend, they're giving out $28 billion in farm aid, not to poor farmers or farmersneed it, but to wealthy farmers. once again, let's take care of the rich and denigrate and destroy the poor. >> i think we have to leave it there. congresswoman marcia fudge, thank you very much. >>> coming up, he can dish it, but he can't take it. you know who i'm talking about. more on that in a moment. you're watching "politicsnation." before we talk about tax-smart investing, what's new? -well, audrey's expecting... -twins! grandparents! we want to put money aside for them, so...change in plans. alright, let's see what we can adjust. ♪ we'd be closer to the twins. change in plans. okay. mom, are you painting again? you could sell these. lemme guess, change in plans? at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. cologuard: colon cancer and older at average risk. lemme guess, change in plans? i've heard a lot of excuses to avoid screening for colon cancer. i'm not worried. it doesn't run in my family. i can do it next year. no rush. cologuard is the noninvasive option th

was due to impose on chinese exports and return china has promised to buy more american farm products a french aid group says 4 workers have been killed in nigeria action against hunger says they were among 6 staff kidnapped in july near the town of dhamma sock it is in northeast nigeria where boko haram fighters and other groups operate one humanitarian worker was killed in september and appeals are being made for the release of the remaining hostage. and the french president emmanuel micron is pushing ahead with pension reforms despite a 10 day nationwide strike by transport workers travellers on the paris metro and the t.g.v. trains are being warned to expect serious weekend delays although normal bus and tram services are running opponents of the president's modernization plan say employees will have to work longer and in return will get smaller pensions. news hour and 25 minutes with the next it's a dream with counting the cost. of the moment in time. snapshots of other lives. providing the clips into someone else's one. witness on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the co

in the restaurant i've seen a vertical farm before but never in a restaurant have to say this is great the main thing about the system it's. what the circle aides from up here the plant makes always the water all it from the roots ok it's 95 less water than conventional farming and the best thing for me in this idea is that we can cut the fresh herbs just before the service of every day there is minimal waste. it's very sweet and from the seed to fully grown in this system one week totally organic no purse the size of fertilizer nothing. is based on the principles of circular economics where waste is seen as a resource this approach minimizes the need for transport water and energy and even forms lifestyle on slate edible carbon neutral crickets. yes you know the idea light in baltimore serve up over 1000 crickets each week in their 5 star dishes with cricket larvae growing into fully grown adults within 2 months. this is the bigger home hello yes. it's so can you give us a sense of how. this notion of a circular economy we can use all the stems of the salads or the peels of the cucumber if we feed them one week with basal leaves there they wil

you can't park in your own backyard anymore so she level rises aids is a dramatic thing its salt water is seeping into our a critical chill farm so it's affecting the foot security and of course the biggest threats. the frequency of storms and natural disasters i phones you can see it today this is supposed to be a dry month but here we are we're going through storms after storms for people living away from the pacific and away from the front line here it's very hard for them to make the connection with how serious the climate crisis is what would you say to them we're small but we're the window to what can eventually happen to the rest of the world. we're small but the options that we're taking here can also have a scale of value to what the world needs to do in order to ensure humankind is here for the next generation believe me this is the this is something that's going to catch like a wildfire and we are on the beginning of the wildfire but eventually it will for spread so don't trump has now started the process of pulling out of the paris agreement what do you make of that we're not going to flinch about these you know it

aides. law enforcement only protecting certain communities that voted for the president. farm assistance being denied to those who backed the wrong presidential candidate. countries today with corrupt systems like that are among the poorest on earth. none of this came to pass in america because the president who came after garfield, chester a. arthur, signed a law creating the modern civil service. today the president still has the authority to make political appointments to the most senior positions in the executive branch, but the overwhelming majority of positions are career civil servants who are hired based on merit, not political connections. the diplomatic corps was similarly professionalized in the decades that followed. put simply, that swamp was drained. now other swamps have arisen, and actions like campaign finance reform are badly needed to address them. but professional civil servants are not the problem. in fact, since the civil service and foreign service were created, they have risen to every challenge. they mobilized america's resources to protect the public

every farm in america would rather have trade than aid this aid has been helpful to keep them survivingiod of time. >> sir, we have had some questions raised by the farming constituency, who just asked about changes to the program and how you dole out some of the money. they want to know why you went away from a per bushel system to a per acre system. and then why go on a county by county basis because it puts farmers right next to each other on neighborly lines in positions where maybe one farm is earning a lot more than the other. >> we did that because we listened to our constituents last year, when we were rolled out the program on a commodity by commodity basis and frankly we heard better results this year while there was some media and some noise from the democrats on the senate about the southeast being favored, if you look at where the majority of the money going to -- predominance of money has gone, to the upper midwest and the plains where the heartland is, the per county acre because of high value of crops such as peanuts and cotton may have been on a per county basis greater

going to buy more american farm products for humanitarian workers have been executed after being kidnapped by an armed group in northeastern nigeria according to the french aid agency action against hunger they were in a group of 6 people abducted in july near the town of dumb a psych where armed fighters including book a hot operate one member of the group was killed in september violent protests have hit in northeast india after parliament approved a controversial citizenship law it offers a path to citizenship for 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries but it excludes muslims. u.k. prime minister about as johnson says it's time for britain to start healing the divide over bragg's it after his conservative party's election victory position labor party's heavy defeat has mostly been blamed on leader jeremy cauldron who says he will step down. the leader of lebanon's hezbollah group is insisting the next government must include all political factions the call comes as protesters continue to block roads and hold rallies in beirut and elsewhere politicians have been unable to form a new government since mass demonstrations forced prime minister

farm finances will be in focus. as planting season gets underway, american farmers will size the pain of a two year trade war. agriculture secretary sunny purdue says moreci fin aid will be warranted if the ag economy doesn't rebound qukly. third, europe will be back in the cross hairs as president hone in on a new targ, the with ridsing tariffs will have energy sanctions and he'll pocket those fhts until after november. i'm kayla tausche in shington. >>> joining us now to talk about what they see ahead for the ecomy and t markets next year, we have jim o'sullivan with us. chief u. macro strategist at t.d. securities. john lynch is chief investment strategist at lpl financial. good to seeboou . >> hi, bill. >> thank you. >> jim, let me start with you. we laid out here there were so many walls of worry for the markets in 2019, trade, the fed, on and on, slow growth overas. many are starting to be resolved right now. what is your outlook for 2020? >> ll, i think there will continue to be some anxiety and volatili along the way but in the end growth will remain modestlypo tive. alrey record low expansion will continue at least at a weak pace. the unemployment rate i

aid to ukraine. it came before the call, it came after the call, and it continues to this day. president trump provided ukraine tank busting farmss. this is the truth —— tank busting bombs. meanwhile, the democrat case is based on second—hand opinions and hearsay. simply put, there are no grounds for impeachment. as constitutional scholarjonathan turley, impeachment. as constitutional scholarjonathan tu rley, and impeachment. as constitutional scholarjonathan turley, and i would challenge to say he is probably the most respected, and we all know it, a democrat who didn't vote for the president, said under oath there was no bribery, there was no extortion, no bribery, there was no extortion, no obstruction ofjustice, and no abuse of power. based on the facts, based on the truth, based on the lack of evidence, turley called this the fastest, thinnest and weakest impeachment in us history. such a definitive answer should be the end of all of this. but speaker pelosi is still moving forward with this impeachment, without evidence of fa ct impeachment, without evidence of fact or truth or public support. the speaker says it is out of

farms for the tibetan exile community. not just so most of tibet i think many of the media not just news media all. walking's in if they're. dependent on. if it comes to getting its foreign aid from. our latest. nonprofit organization we saw that dependent on foreign funds so i think all of that when you think about that system in this passes the way it's going to challenge for us. around lunchtime 10 sings friend 10 since when do you stops by the radio station for a visit he's a writer and independence activist he and tenzing often debate the current situation in tibet. tensing will be satisfied with nothing less than full independence for tibetan on and admits that this could cause some problems for ethnic chinese who now live there and. you know what i want to hear and that new debates of course would have the chinese also you know of course which . uneasier been living in tibet almost double the population of tibet and they've been there for a long time. so we have to find a reasonable time period to see once tibet is free an independent. who are the ones who have to walk back to their own country and who may continue to stay and we have to offer a new tibet was tensing

you can't park in your own backyard anymore so she level rises aids is a dramatic thing its salt water is seeping into our a critical chill farm so it's affecting put security and of course the biggest threats. the frequency of storms and natural disasters i phones you can see it today this is supposed to be a dry month but here we are we're going through storms there are storms for people living away from the pacific and away from the front line here it's very hard for them to make the connection with how serious the climate crisis is what would you say to them we're small but we're the window to what can eventually happen to the rest of the world. we're small but. the options that we're taking here you can also have a scale out value to what the world needs to do in order to ensure humankind is here for the next generation believe me this is the this is something that's going to catch like a wildfire and we are on the beginning of the wildfire but eventually it will for spread so don't trump has now started the process of pulling out of the paris agreement what do you make of that we're not going to flinch about these you kn

aids to $10.00. energy may be costly but waste from the fields is free it's used to feed the hens. their droppings are used to fertilize the fields this is organic cultivation and the farm is already supplying 3 supermarkets with vegetables. beauty gigi spends much time traveling throughout zimbabwe her efforts are paying off some $5000.00 farmers have already joined the zimbabwe free range poultry association but she wants to recruit more of them and for that she's prepared a workshop in a clear and simple way beauty g.g. shows villagers the environmental and financial benefits of raising different breeds on a large scale. anyone in any family can start. up price we thought. breed or beds that they had secondly it's an investment into prize. it doesn't need complicated house seeing it doesn't need complicated breeds or feet and you could use the available materials. the farmers tend to be cautious even if the hens do generate cash they want to keep the costs down. earthworms are one type of fodder that comes for free and raising them in a mash of kitchen waste cattle dung and moisture means they can reproduce easily. so how to lack of awareness of these programs is why

slowly farm finances will be in focus american farmers will size up the pain of a two-year trade war and new business with china, mexico and japan the agriculture secretary says more financial aidill be warranted if the ag economy doesn't rebound quickly. third, europe will be back in the crosshairs he'll hone in on the new target, the eu the president's speeches will be testing ground for new materials on auto tariffs. he'll pocket those fights until after november >>> a phase one trade deal may be on the horizon. hour believing the long-term effect for superpower's competition could loom over markets for a time to come >> our concern is that what we are looking at here is long-term contest for primacy in the world of economy and geopolitics down the road as a result of that contest, you have to assume that the trouble will resume after. >> i don't wish to minimize the question but you clearly raise it as question quest for superpowers in the world who will end up winning that >> i'm not sure who is going to win it and i'm not sure winning is something that can be achieved they are both major countries. in the absence of some war or conquest, they will both continue to be mass

farm land in bush and destroyed nearly 400 homes. they also are known as cop 25 and have just wrapped up, but there is no consensus on how 200 countries will implement the paris agreement. the aid for poor countries affected bay climate change. since it started 2 weeks ago, environmental groups have stanched protests around the world. she protested global warning and she said we're running out of time eng cooing greta thunberg who was also at the summit. >> as it is now, at least my experience is that people are not fully aware of what is going on and that is why we need to make sure to make people aware and to create awareness to spread this information that is so desperately needs to be spread. >>> the 2015 paris agreement has the goal of limiting golden temperature rises to 2 degrees sell sus. the u.s. isn't only community that signed the agreement and then pulled out. >> the grab season is under way off the coast. the reason began a minute after midnight from sonoma county southward. they delayed the season over concerns that other marine life could become entangled in the crabbers equipment. the santa run kicks off in a few hours. we'll tell you what to expect. >> an easie

farm team for the supreme court and the appeals courts in years to come. >> absolutely. >> it's really a remarkable piece of work on the part of the president and with the aid>> yeah, absolutely. that's the legacy that he's been pursuing certainly in his career is leaving these kinds of appointment judges. sarah pitlyk, though, the implications of her appointment are what? >> well, it's very interesting that the american bar association's ratings are something that's been a contested point. it was actually contested when justice kavanaugh was nominated to the federal appeals court and the aba rerated him and actually lowered his rating the second time around. but nothing is stopping republicans. they have the majority in the senate, and so, these not-qualified ratings, and sarah pitlyk is not the only one -- there have been other judges, really quite i think a record number of them who have been deemed to be unqualified, and unqualified for various reasons. in sarah pitlyk's case, as i understand it, she had never tried a case, she had never taken a deposition. she's been something of a movement conservative lawyer, expressing her conservative legal views a

insecurity aide that had been approved and was supposed to be released to regrade hundreds of millions of dollars in order to put more pressure on ukraine with all the agencies involved, state farming, feds defense department, national skirting council, said it should be released and have been approved untilld president trump personay stopped it and again, contemporaneous evidence and documents show it and prove it. people said they were shocked and investor taylor said he was in astonishment and witness sai. it was illogical to do this and the president never offered an expert nation but ultimately it was discovered why he did it. then on the july 25 call president trump explicitly told him he wanted to conduct or him do to ukrainian investigations read one of a u.s. citizen and his political rival and the other or the origins of the interference in the 2016 election, security that russia through the intelligence agencies agreed interfered with the 2016 election that maybe it was ukraine. another investigation intended to help the president politically and that is it. you know the president cared about the investigation that would help him politically and not ukraine and not the n

farm finances will be in focus. it was a two year trade war and the new business with china, mexico, canada, and japan. sunny purdue says more financial aid economy doesn't rebound quickly. third, europe will be back in the crosshairs prose trump eyes re-election, he'll hone in on the eu. rising tariffs on luxury goods, the president's stump speeches will be testing ground for new material on auto tariffs and energy sanctions but he'll pocket those fights until after november >> so that is what is expected we all know the status quo can change with a single tweet >> okay. before you go, you mention europe and these auto tariffs. you think that's a host -- that's a post november 2020 situation? >> legal experts are divided on whether the administration still has the authority to actually put those in place because they missed the deadline. some within the administration think that they can still do that others think they need to open a brand new investigation to do that pretty much all of the president's advisors are advising him not to go forward with auto tariffs at the very least until after the election >> okay. cayla, thank you for th