we have a farmers market promotion program that gives grants to farmers markets.have a local and regional food production program. that's all designed to help those people you are talking about. we have crop insurance assistance programs. what's missing from this equation is the development of ecosystem markets, that can be supported by government initially, to allow foundations, corporations to donate or to purchase credits for water conservation, carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat expansion. that's what's missing. we began that process, of encouraging ecosystem market development, but more of that needs to be done. >> but it is not clear where that is at usda right now. >> i can only talk about what we did. >> i want to keep moving, because we have more questions. right here? really great stuff. about 35 years ago -- >> you don't tell a former governor -- [laughter] we originally bought some ground to plant things. i'm deeply interested because we are talking about hemp, very deeply interested in the legislature taking the first steps towards making it possi

farmers in the family farmers have intruded so much vitality to our communities, to our state, farmers have served in our armed forces. patriotism and their values have strengthened this nation throughout the history. i'm always struck with that book i try and open every single morning in a quiet time. how may times we are told to consider the farmer. i believe that's because, in the farmer, we find all the virtues that lead to a happy and productive life. integrity, hard work, resilience, family, and faith. out here today, the support you have shown to this president and his vice president, our agenda, means that much more to me. because it comes from the american farmer. it comes from the best of america. and in the days and weeks that lie ahead, we make you a promise. wanted a more humorous things i ever hear is that people stop me as i'm traveling to they say to tell the president just to keep going forward. that's something you never have to tell president donald trump. all are versus stripped out of that pickup truck, it only goes forward and we are never going to stop fighting f

go down to your farmers market and get with a farmer. they would say, you know, we don't have a farmers market or we don't have time to go down there, we would love to serve local, it is too difficult for us. so we set up a system where we were buying zero local product from my local farmers and ranchers in texas and we set up a clearinghouse and we have summer conferences and we bring all the cafeteria people in and bring the farmers in who want to sell to the schools, last year our schools bought 58 million dollars worth of local products from our local farmers and ranchers where they were buying zero before. this is a win-win for everybody because no added salt, no additives, no preservatives, no dyes, served fresh, and for the most part, it's cheaper when you cut out the middleman. a lot of it is organic. that's one of the things. you think we're not doing anything. i would say that's one of our beer suc is getting local products in our schools because t farmers win. the kids win. the taxpayers win because they are paying less. so th

but farmers and family farmers have contributed so much vitality to our communities, to our states, farmersrved in our armed forces, their patriotism and their values strengthen this nation throughout our history. you know, i'm always struck, that book that i try and open every single morning in a little quiet time, how many times we're told to consider the farmer. and i believe that's because in the farmer we find all the virtues that lead to a happy and productive life. honesty, integrity, hard work, resilience, family and faith. so you being out here today and the support that you've shown to this president and his vice-president, our agenda, means that much more to me because it comes from the american farmer. it comes from the best of america. america. [applaus [applause] >> and in the days and weeks that lie ahead i'll make you a promise. i'll make you a promise. you know, one of the more humorous things i ever hear when people stop me as i'm travelling around the country and they say tell the president just to keep going forward. you know, that's something you never have to tell pres

farmers here keep. more here will is a luxury item in the clothing industry with more and more goats however the local vegetation has been eaten away i think green bushy vegetation once covered this slopes now the barren westland holds no water and no life. daniel florrie manages the above us close development company together with van rensburg and other farmers he leads the transition from exploitative livestock farming to organic essential oil crops the oils are extracted in this distillery essential oils you take a lot of plant material distiller to a very small amount of product but you can easily transport in and out of a clear and in that way we we need we reduce the amount of material that we take out of the system and all the. plourde material once of being the can actually go back into the field go back into the system we can use to make of it it's a higher value prop if you need to work with. them more efficient land use is making a difference whereas courts need extended grazing areas the ess

they are proof that if you give american farmers and workers a level playing field, that our farmers our ranchers and our workers can compete and win with anyone in the world. it's the truth. [ applause ] that's why since the first day of this administration we've been working to open up markets all over the world. i'm proud to report to you that president trump renegotiated our trade agreement with south korea. earlier this week the president actually signed agreements with japan that not only will expand digit al trade but will expand agricultural trade by billions of dollars a year to japan. this president has also put china on notice that the era of economic surrender is over. we've taken a strong stand to demand that china open their markets to what we make and what we grow and treat american businesses fairly. the president has been taking a strong stand, but in just the last few weeks china announced the purchase of more than 2 million metric tons of soybeans, and as i learned on the way here from our u.s. trade representative, we're going to welcome a chinese delegation to ou

the farmers for. mahmoud know dean is a journalist and an environmental activist in 2015 he founded an ngo for climate change and food security focusing on farming he launched a campaign against the use of these bottles here and saw for farmers have had bad experiences with it but i used a group chemicals on my from and would just leave the containers there that wasn't good at all as one day my grandchild picked one fish water with it and drank it she felt the treatment was very costly it was a big worry fortunately the agric officer explained to us that we should not leave the used containers on the farm so now we gathered all and put them in a tray cycle which goes to dump them forward of. course b. is part of new didn't awareness raising tim he works for the agriculture ministry for and passed on his knowledge to the families 'd 'd. i mean sent off for. a year now and we have been educating farmers on proper disposal of continuous. place our farmers. on the face the farmers i've been going through

as a farmer, you never get a cost-of-living increase. you just have to be more efficient, a, with the same machinery; or the same manpower, same hours. >> reporter: so, farmers feel trapped in this system. esbut, despite all the hur people like john ikerd say we don't have a choice but to change. ikerd is an agricultural economist who spent 30 years working witharmers across the u.s. >> i can't tell you how long we can continue to prop up this unsustainable agriculture, but we can't do it indefinitely. >> reporter: what does a sustainable food system look like? >> it's about looking at agriculture as a part of a living system because it's all interconnected. and so, you have to have farming systems then that are in harmony with nature, with natural principles., the regeneratisilient, diverse natural ecosystemseav to be reflected in the farms. >> reporter: so, wha it take to make the large-scale changes experts believe need to happen? tef.i.'s sarah carlson says food companies can crarkets for alternative crops, and state and federal gove

piece and the cloak of the farmer who grew this.y farm as a major importance to its own program. these rocks provide well as needed to balancing the household as well as the sale of trade. this flock of rhode island red was a former for h club member. they were demonstrations were both boys and girls. it was the main enterprise if they political program. this for h club boy with the proceeds of the bail of hay was in the institution of if you have what it takes. and many communities, it's a profitable source of cash and occasionally, it's a demand of poultry and a traditional way. livestock improvement is done largely through the boys and girls club. some boys are given pointers on how to judge a dairy cow. here is the business and of another 4h interpreters. they have a high record for the production and particularly in alabama, local veterinarians are in cooperation with the county agents and have farmers to help stand up these farmers in the community that are economically under this plan. they're raised by a 4h club boy and oren

and i was farmers and ranchers farmers most -- iowa's and ranchers have the most to gain. produce more than $10.3 billion in goods every single year, we know these numbers will only grow under the usmca. it will create more prosperity across the state, that's why wanted to come here and talk about it. the truth is, we can get it done but it will take all of us to do it. , came here to turn up the heat but now it's time for iowa onens -- iowans to turn up the heat on the democrats in congress and tell them that iowa needs the usmca this year. will you do it? [applause] and i want you to reach out to your elected officials in washington, d.c., say that i ran he waske on a farm and pointing out that half of our exports from iowa as the governor has said, goes to canada and mexico and we have this new trade agreement that's a win for agriculture. it's a win for iowa and america and you need to get it done. and tell them what the usmca is going to mean to iowa farmers. callou don't need to senator joni ernst or senator chuck grassley because they are leading the charge in the u

avocado tree will only bear fruits after 2 years too long for many farmers that. used to use we show them that. will still. make into cropping in between called a lie can be death maize for the farmer is easier to accepted because it knows it can still have the on. this year the target is to export 20 tons while this is still far off a commercial export level. is convinced ethiopia has the potential to one day compete with mexico which is currently exports in about $1000000.00 tons of opic otto's a year. from me and the business in. a hurry much for watch. after the fall of the berlin november 9th on d. w. . so you would likely be on fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan would be an issue where you should. say nothing is just that the children who have already been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new kind of. they could be the future of the economy. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made for mines. this week on world stories. germany 30 years after the end of east germany ru

nowhere in terms of problems i think many farmers are ok about change. that's why organic farmers and n.g.o.s are pushing hard to make sure the new e.u. farming budget earmarks more money for the environment they say it's the only way farmers can produce food in a sustainable fashion. before we go maybe it is not really the taxi is official replacement but the unmanned air taxi firm and start. certainly thinks so the company tested one of its flying taxis in singapore it was a part of an intelligent transport system world congress which runs there until october 25th. the test flight in singapore involved a pilot but the final version will be able to fly without one of all the coptic can travel up to 110 kilometers an hour carrying 2 passengers out their luggage bill to cover short distances it can stay in the air for 30 minutes the company believes its biggest market will be cities like to carter and bangkok which suffer from intense traffic congestion. many of the world's largest megacities are home in asia so obviously this is a matter of market to us

farmers here keep. more here will is a luxury item in the clothing industry with more and more guards however the local vegetation has been eaten away i think green bushy vegetation once covered this slopes now the barren westland holds no water and no life. daniel florrie manages the above yes close development company together with van rensburg and other families he leads the turn season from exploitative livestock farming to organic essential oil crops the oil extracted in this distillery essential oils you take a lot of plant material and distill it to a very small amount of product that you can easily transport in and out of the cliff and in that way we we need we reduce the amount of material that we take out of the system and all the plant material once it being the still can actually go back into the fields go back into the system we can use that to make up for it it's a higher value prop if you need less lend to you to work with. then more efficient land use is making a difference whereas goats

able to get seeds which are not easily available so it's beneficial the farmers are improving their status and they become more productive. ethiopia's climate and soil are perfect for avocado farming with a potential yield perfect air about 30 percent higher than in israel but convincing farmers to stay away from the local market is still a challenge the interest is however growing every year the just ticks are another obstacle it still takes up to one month for avocados from the northwestern part of ethiopia to reach european supermarkets the current cold chain system is also lying behind. one of the main challenge is the longer. the distinct line the controller on it but still we have to work to make it show mall efficiency and these things will come wheezed higher volume but according to overwork and honey it is difficult for farmers to adopt this long term vision and newly planted avocado tree will only bear fruits after 2 years too long for many farmers. used to we show them that. they flood the cargo still they can make into cropping in between. can be death and maize for the

not hurt, either when you are a farmer nowadays. administrationy has fought tirelessly to achieve a level playing field for the american worker. in addition to the agreements we are signing with japan today we reach a tremendous agreement with mexico and canada to replace nafta with the new u.s. msca. and hopefully that will get done and the not-too-distant future. everybody wants it. manufacturers want it. farmers want it. even unions wanted. people want it. it is a great deal for all of the countries but in particular a great deal for us and our workers. we're also completely renegotiating, and now we have completed that and signed it, the u.s.-korea trade agreement, substantially expanding american auto exports. it's made a tremendous difference. that was a terrible agreement. we renegotiated it. it is now a good agreement for the united states. it was not a good agreement for the united states at all. today's signing of the u.s.-japan trade agreement bu ilds on these incredible successes to the benefits of both of our nations an

farmer.can still remember when the village was divided and quiet unlike his granddaughter a busy through road now runs by his once isolated farm. the iron curtain used to stand right behind the meadow where the cows grace. as our house is just 100 meters away we could always see when something happened at the border. one cannot just see it but also hear it. back then even small children knew setting foot into the mine ditch can be deadly. when the gun run when you hear as a kid that the neighbor's cows did that and were blown up by mines it has a really educational effect. then you don't do it. some of the border fortifications still stand as a memorial and a warning to future generations yet as much as people here suffered from being separated becoming reunited didn't prove easy either. fit security has no stores and no school the local pub is rarely open former border posts now decorate private gardens the wall might have gone but the 2 villages still are situated in different federal state

farmers want it. even unions want it. people want it. it is a great deal for all of the countries, but in particular, it is a great deal for us and our workers. we are also completely renegotiating, and now we have completed that and signed it, u.s.-korea trade agreement, substantially expanding american auto exports. it has made a tremendous difference. that was a terrible agreement and we renegotiated it, and it is now a very good agreement for the united states. it was not a good agreement for the united states at all. today's signing of the u.s.-japan trade agreement and digital trade agreement bills -- builds on these incredible successes, to the benefit of both our nations. i have to say that while we are here, and because of the fact we are talking about agriculture -- ethanol, and the farmers of nebraska and iowa, and all of the different places that wanted it -- we have come to an agreement, and it is going to be, i guess, about getting close to 16 billion barrels, right? that is a lot. say it again. >> 16 billion gallons. pres.

>> stahl: dairy farmers are suffering, too.om bad weather, than from trade tensions with mexico and canada and historically low prices. beth ford took us to a land o'lakes dairy farm in pennsylvania run by sisters candice white and amanda condo. >> amanda condo: a lot of times, our cost of production is higher than what we're getting paid for our product. so it's-- it's been a few years of losing money. >> stahl: actually losing money? >> condo: yes. >> ford: i think there used to be 92,000 dairy producers in the country. and now, the last-- the number i saw was in the 50,000 level, so 40% reduction. >> stahl: land o'lakes farmers are able to hang on because they share in the co-op's overall profits. that butter you buy at the grocery store provides some of those profits, of course, but the co-op's most profitable division specializes in something called "ag tech," and beth ford says that is going to be the key to farmers long-term survival. >> ford: we use satellite technology. we use predictive models. we use all of the thing

it is an incredible deal for farmers. i think they will have to go out and buy more land and bigger tractors. we will hopefully get that done pretty quickly. reporter: our special forces were bombed today. pres. trump: we will take a look at it. we will take a look at it. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: this will go a long time into the future. this is a big buy. $16biggest deal made was billion and this could be $50 billion. thantimes more and bigger any deal ever made for the farmers. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: they will keep their word. reporter: is rudy giuliani [indiscernible]? pres. trump: i have not spoken to him. he is a very good return -- he is a very good attorney. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: we did not discuss that in this deal. this is phase one of and either 3 dl.2 or phase wei so not discuss hua basically the status will remain the same. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: she may be a wonderful woman. i don't know her. she may very much be a wonderful woman. if you remember

farmers are encouraged to increase productivity through modern an environmentally friendly methods this starts right in the ceiling nursery where young plants are grown using a grafting technique that mixes 2 varieties to grow stronger tree 30 minute as he looked in the nursery the seeds are grown and maintained and made accessible to the farmers they are able to get seeds which are not easily available so it's beneficial the farmers are improving their status and they become more productive. ethiopia's climate and soil are perfect for avocado farming with a potential yield perfect air about 30 percent higher than in israel but convincing farmers to stay away from the local market is still a challenge the interest is however growing every year. when. people see that we're becoming constant in our work so they become interested and also set up cooperatives to start saving money and here we work together in a cluster of interconnected lands we share the irrigation system and the expenses such as security guards. at the. the just ticks are another obstacle it still takes up to one month fo

it's a difficult task but on pemba island there are now $250.00 vanilla farmers. this is farmers slim health and said entire annual production it's about half a kilogram weigh what that in the name i have already started benefiting last year i made over 250000 shillings or 110 u.s. dollars and this year i'm expecting over $500000.00 shillings. will keep learning more money in the coming years. and. the world market price for the spice has exploded from about $30.00 u.s. dollars per kilogram a few years ago to around $600.00 u.s. dollars now. this is also due to bad harvests and drought and that's something the farmers in pemba worry about they've joined together in a cooperative to protect their crops. we do not discriminate between our farmers that we give the seedlings to all our members. but if one does not take care of them we do not give them more and the following year what you have done is are all the farming activities and through our agricultural officers. everything that is produced on these plantations and goes to britain there a cosmetics company uses

farmer.hinese market is the biggest in the world, so it would be good to have those lined up again. amanda: it would, but there is a lot that has to happen. how much concern, you may even hear it from the chinese side, progress, is being made on the trade tensions, because you are a company that could be caught in the middle? erik: we feel like things are getting better and we are hoping that something happens in the distantistant -- fairly future, but at the same time we have a large business all over the world, so we will keep serving farmers everywhere, including here in the u.s. because the better they do, the more options they have for exporting products. shery: you have talked about m&a in china, anything you are looking at right now? erik: a number of things, both for strengthening our base business, growing organically, strong double digits, but also acquisitions i expect to announce sometime next year. shery: we have heard from the chinese ambassador that the acquisition of syngenta

at 33 farmers per day.ou have control of the people. and thank you for marco rubio and bob vendez who opened up a investigate against a food giant that will take over the total food of the united states if something is not done and it is a bipartisan investigation, too. thank god for people working together from both sides of the aisle. >> they have argued that small businesses of all sorts have suffered because of regulation. you were part of a lawsuit targeting the usda for deregulating, for rolling back key regulations. help us understand this, you want regulation? >> no, we don't need too many regulations. that's what got us in trouble now, and the usda, i am going to say, is corrupt. they're bought and paid for by the large corporations that are controlling the food? the united states now. something has to be done to straighten the usda out. >> morgan, did you think this i? you were making films, documentaries about the kind of food we eat and what jonathan is talking about is large-scale corruption. >

our great farmers, our patriot farmers. our farmers that never left us even though they were being targeted by china. they never left me. so they wanted 20 and china agreed. i said no. no good. i want 50 billion, not 20 billion. 50. so my guy say sir, we have a problem, sir. our farmers cannot produce that much. it's true. i said tell them to go out and get bigger tractors, right? john deere, caterpillar. all-american, only american tractors. we only buy american tractors. go out and get bigger. so now china has agreed and they've already started buying. hopefully the agreement get signed sometime prior to a big summit that we have with president xi and others in chile. that's it about four weeks. think of this. they said sir, they can't produce $50 billion. i said i want the farmers to tell me -- remember the story about winning? we are going to win so much. we're going to go to the white house. we are going to tell the president, sir, we just can't stand winning. the state of texas. john cornyn then ted cruz are going to

or it buys of course that we are fighting the 1st session a lot of farmers think they need to 20 and i thought in order to ensure a big car vest but we showed them how they can get similar with $100.00 or just $5000.00 square metres a little later the 2nd drawing is ready to take to the skies it has almost 10 liters of liquid best to say than board which will be applied exactly where it is needed. deploying drones also prevents damage to the plants roots from the heavy farming machines normally used. i can do with one drawn you can spray 2 hecht is then under 12 minutes with conventional means you'd need an entire day to cover one or 2 hectares. he now has a dozen strong team of prominent stuff out on 40 customers already using their phones digital solution although attracting a plentiful wasn't easy at fast. enough you know if you're going to hear the farming sector has been around for a long time i want when new technologies are introduced it takes our word for people to be convinced of the benefits with a cost of being a major fatah money timing from seed to harvest cost between f

the key component, we are going to give aid to the farmers, give aid to the farmers. they are getting low crops, low prices for their crops so what we are going to do is get more money to the farmers because their crops are not getting much money, we are going to do it by paying farmers not to produce. they will be allowed to take part of their land out of circulation, up to one fourth of their land and they will be paid not to produce on that land. that way they get more money because they are being paid not to produce, don't have to work as hard and it doesn't produce as much crop and so maybe that will raise crop prices. turns out a lot of the farmers find fertilizer with their money and heavily fertilizing the other land and had crops that were bigger than ever but put that aside. the idea is you pay farmers not to produce. how many students -- let's be honest -- i am ready to look. how many of you would like to be paid not to do homework? this is really big. i don't want to appear self-righteous. i would like to be paid not to grade homework. [applause] >> the cr

doesn't seem like much but these are the things that make a farmer.ng a new poll on the barn as needed. now we need the bottom are glad they lend. they agreed to be put under cover and elasticity duration because as long as they turn out tanks were set to make everything better, even the land. oh yeah, the land can be wasted and they arose of the contours and washed away and right now, former brown or mighty important to us because we need more to grow and he staple cotton so it's up to everyone to make the most out of every acre of land that goes into it. ♪ ♪ and in the afternoon, this is a day farmers go to town and at the mother and father market and it's rather early but this must be something special. (inaudible) are they going to stop? they're going all the way on through town. what they have that so exciting? all no wonder there in the room, no wonder whether excited turn like the big brother at the squadron. to be there maybe even a chance to watch them fly. ♪ ♪ (noise) >> i'm a proud of their son barrasso proud of former brown woman has an im

that dairy farmer on your show talk about, you know, his farm struggling.s the opening door for those family farms to thrive for generation, and that is why we need to pass this and you bring mexico canada to the floor i guarantee the votes are there, but nancy pelosi is going to be putting politics, in front of people's interest in my humble opinion for at least the short-term future. >> to continue on that point, i think trade between all three countries is up to almost $1 trillion so it is a valuable negotiation package and we need it to go forward; however in march, just this past year, six months ago you had nancy pelosi and several other democrats say that the reason why u.s. mca is not going forward is because of the labor the working conditions in there, and the lack of protection for workers increasing wage, et cetera, and working conditions, so do you feel like that is really the hurdle, if so are you hearing anything about it and are they meeting behind closed doors because i'm just curious as to why it's taking six months to mitigate this proble

that was a big question was never on the farmers but we pay the farmers not to produce that's key part of aaa. so how is this a program? it doesn't make sense but the republican candidate who first ran against roosevelt said this is a stupid program paying people not to produce. this is the governor of kansas. this is stupid. a lot of people were applauding. than the farmers said y o if you take our program away are you ,oing to take it away? he said no. so it raises the question if you will validate it as a reasonable program who should the farmers vote for? those who gave them a program that pays them not to produce or a guy who says i will run it down? we got an answer to the question because in 1936 governor landon was the republican candidate running against roosevelt. roosevelt carried kansas. that says a lot. he could not carry his home state because people like subsidies. in fact southland lost in the electoral college roosevelt cthad 523 electoral votes and landon had eight. and that was the first message that roosevelt by redirecting the way people thought about politics a gi

issues.ural, structural tremendous for the farmers. as steve said, it is almost as good, i disagree with his math, but it is almost as good as going from 8 billion dollars to 40 billion and now up to billion dollars, $50 billion of agricultural purchases which means that the farmers are going to have to work a lot of overtime to produce that much. it is the largest order in the history of agriculture by far. by 2-5 times. and technology transfer. we will have some technology transfer in the agreements. technology transfer will largely be done here and also in phase 2/ . we will start negotiating phase 2 after phase one is negotiated and signed. phasesl either have two or three. we are very happy with this. we have great respect for china and the president and i want to i watched the 70th anniversary in great detail and it was an incredible event. congratulations. that was really something. something amazing to watch. lighthizer has been doing a terrific job. all of my team has done a fantastic job. , thank you for being here and your t

that's our farmers and ranchers. hardworking small business owners, folks on farms and ranches all over montana. they are sitting and waiting for speaker pelosi to stop slow-walking the usmca. the house democrats cannot continue to hold our farmers and our ranchers hostage for any future political gain that we're seeing right now in the house. it's become a political game over there. and this is negatively impacting the montana way of life. there are countless numbers of montana families out there who are surviving paycheck to paycheck. they're living on a prayer. they are sick and tired of the politics and the partisan games being played in washington, d.c. you know what? i am, too. we were elected to come back here and get something done, not spin the wheels on cable tv at night just talking about other issues that aren't moving the ball forward on behalf of the american people. what montanans care about is how they are going to put food on the table and how they are going to make ends meet this tough winter that's

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