we farmer for this.hese payments will compensate farmers for losses related to the global pandemic, caused by china. we will be desperate providing billions of dollars for corn, cotton, soybeans, and specialty crop farmers, cattle ranchers, every category. if we don't, we will add them. we have a lot of territory. dairy producers, pork producers, and more. yesterday, we take some cattle in from other countries because we have trade deals. i think you should look at terminating those deals. all right? we take in cattle. we have a lot of cattle. i think you should look at the possibility of terminating those trade deals. if a country has been a great alley -- ally and friend, you have to do that. there are some countries that are sending is cattle. i think we should look at terminating. we are very self-sufficient. we are becoming more and more self-sufficient. that is one of the reasons i got elected. that is one of the reasons i got elected. sign-ups will begin on may 26 through your local farm service a

i represent all the farmers across the country. my son and i are third-generation farmers. we run a 400 beef cow operation. we grow chickens. the farmers across america are very appreciative of what you have done. you have stood behind us during the trade war. you stood behind us during all the difficulties we went through. now with the pandemic, you stood behind us again. you made the comment, we don't come for a handout. we want a level playing field. we want to make money from the markets. we appreciate, when we are going through difficult times, they stand behind us. the pandemic has made us realize one thing. we live in a land of plenty. the food chain is just as important to us as our military is. we have to be able to feed our own people. we can't afford to be fed by other countries. that makes us a national security issue. we know that you realize that. i think the american people -- they have had to see empty shelves. we all realize how important that chain, that food chain is. the farmer is the very first link. without that support, we would not be there to produc

it's a good time to be a farmer.ng to make sure of that. >> reporter: but so far most of the money has gone to the biggest farms. one-third of it to just 4% of them. even farm owners who personally report nearly $1 million in income per year are eligible. we spoke to agriculture secretary sonny purdue in march in the early days of the pandemic before social distancing was the norm. he defended the trade war bailout and the payments to farmers that were based on the amount of crops produced in 2018, and by planted acreage in 2019. >> it's not a welfare program. it's not a subsidy. it's not a price support system. it is a market damage system, a disruption there. >> reporter: these payments are disproportionately going to the big, wealthy farms at the expense of the smaller farms. >> yeah. >> reporter: where the suffering is. >> the fact is, lesli, most of our production in america is done by large farmers. that's just the way it happens. these are, these are awards based on production, but we did try. we got payment l

farmers and ranchers need help and they need it now. this is not a silver bullet, but it is something easily within our reach. what do these thing is within our reach. money that has been authorized and appropriated or that had a technical glitch was fixed that and get help right now to pump water to provide a system. i think all of my colleagues is that helped so much for making to the floor under similar circumstances and we gave unanimous consent for this bill. the congressman came down the hallway to vouch for the issues that we were facing so we were hearing bipartisan representation of the challenges of addressing the challenges that our ranchers and farmers and the senate faced and that is what people do it again but we will be asking for each and every memberin support that we t this done and we get it done quickly. thank you so much, mr. president and i will yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. >> i've just returned from being in tennessee this weekend and phone calls into seeing a lot of people out and about i wil

do for the farmers. today's lush green harvest reveals a new development save esky saline who deals in farm equipment in the region. i'll be working with the farmers and farming equipment and i would visit each of the homes and devices subsidized by the government some farmer story i mean there were facing a water crisis and they complained about not getting enough electricity they asked me about solar energy in but that they could use it to pump water they said if they could utilize it for farming it would improve their lives the body. is the 1st willis in the area to have made the switch from diesel to solar power but it's. a transition that has proved to be a boon for its farmers. from being able to grow only paddy rice once a year farmers like superman 2 they practiced multi cropping all year around. water here used to from using pumps. generators they were about the. or harvest 1st march in no it wasn't good enough. selling proofs in solar panels for in storage for when i was here when they were 3 t

but imagine being a family farmer in the midst of this crisis. you've already faced any number of challenges in recent years, low commodity prices, tariff wars, only to face the greatest health and economic disaster any of us have experienced in our lifetimes. and then, when you thought nothing else could go wrong, something else does go wrong. you have to face a severe drought. 1200 farms in the basin in california don't have to imagine this situation, madam president, because they're living through it as we speak. the clements basin is sometimes referred to as the western everglades, an area rich with agricultural resources and exceptional populations of wildlife. this basin attraction 50% of the fowl, a population of bald eagles, anywhere in the 48 states, and home to some of the most productive salmon river systems in the country. it is also home to 1200 family owned farms of different sizes encompassing some 200,000 acres of farmland and that farmland is irrigated with water from both the tributaries of the river and the lake. those who are

is still sitting out solar water pumps in farms and even enabling the farmers to become water on the promotes. the. only rule. she's the 1st woman to install a solar farm in this willage after watering her fields of paddy rice potatoes mustard and wheat open up all sells the excess water to anyone who might be in need in her village. that the plan to install a drip irrigation system nor water usage then we'll be able to grow flowers fruit and other vegetables. the villages 225 kilometers north of west bengal's capital kolkata these are good deals for the farmers here but a visit here during the last monsoons would have painted a bleak picture frequent power cuts and the serious cassady of water had turned most of these fields into dry wasteland spelling doom for the farmers. today's lush green harvest reveals a new development sees celine who deals in farm equipment in the region. i'll be working with the farmers and farming equipment and i would visit each of the homes and devices subsidized by the government some farmers storming there we're facing a water crisis and they complaine

to the farmers and ranchers.thorized by the cares act and the commodity credit corporation charter act, and they compensate farmers for losses related to the global pandemic caused by china. we will be providing trillions of dollars for corn, cotton, soybean and specialty crop farmers, cattle ranches and just about every category. i think we have just about every category and if not we will add them. dairy producers, pork producers and more. i read yesterday where we take some cattle in from other countries because we have trade deals. i think you should look at terminating those deals. all right? we have trade deals where we actually taken cattle and we have a lot of cattle in this country. i think you should look at the possibility of terminating those trade deals. now if a country has been a great ally and a great friend, you have to do that but there are some countries that are sending us cattle, for many years, and i think we should look at terminating. we are very self-sufficient and we are becoming more an

the villages 225 kilometers north of west bengal's capital kolkata these are good days for the farmers here but a visit here during the last monsoons would have painted a bleak picture frequent power cuts and the serious cassady of water had done most of these fields into dry wasteland spelling doom for the farmers. today's lush green harvest reveals a new development sees s.k. saline who deals in farm equipment in the region. i'll be working with the farmers and farming equipment and i would visit each of the homes and devices subsidised by the government some farmers story i mean there were facing a water crisis and they complained about not getting enough electricity they asked me about solar energy they could use it to pump water they said if they could utilize it for farming it would improve their life much as the body. is the 1st willage in the area to have made the switch from diesel to solar power but it is a geisha me a transition that has proved to be a boon for its farmers. from being able to grow on the paddy rice once a year farmers like superman margie today practiced mul

farmers. what do they need and what's with the food supply chain. we will carry his speech live. that's in our 11:00 hour this morning. then there's the market. after yesterday's 900-point gain. that rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy. investors seem to believe we are looking at a strong economic expansion. this morning, the dow is going to show a minor loss at the opening bell, maybe 10, 14 points down. it was up 900 yesterday. the s&p, same story, down a fraction. the nasdaq may eke out a fractional gain. flat, basically, across the board. >>> seconds from now, joe biden and the honking geese. "varney & company" is about to begin. >>> you're going to hear, there's a pond on the other side of my property here. lot of canadian geese. if you hear them honking away, they're cheering. that's what they're about. i don't know whose phone that is. the scale of the loss is staggering. it's been two months since congress gave them that mone

. >> we will ensure that our farmers get the relief they need. and very, very quickly. it's a good time to be a farmer, we're going to make sure of that. >> stahl: but so far, most of the money has gone to the biggest farms; one third of it to just 4% of them. even farm owners who personally report nearly $1 million in income per year are eligible. we spoke to agriculture secretary sonny perdue in march in the early days of the pandemic before social distancing was the norm. bailout and the payments to faers that were based on the amount of crops produced in 2018; and by planted acreage in 2019. >> sonny perdue: it's not a welfare program. it's not a subsidy. it's not a price-support system. it is a market-damage system. a disruption there. >> stahl: these payments are disproportionately going to the big, wealthy farms at the expense of the smaller farms where the suffering is. >> perdue: the fact is, lesley, most of our production in america is done by large farmers. that's just the way it happens. these are-- these are awards based on the produ

farmers and producers are in a real bind. we have also had situation with our food processing, part of that shane -- part of that shane , we have to process and package it for consumer consumptions. we have had somewhat of a crisis in that area with many of our workers coming down with positive covid-19's and we have had to work around having meat processing closed. the president's executive order helped us get some uniformity. we are still underneath what our capacity is pure it i think we can still say we are going to have meat proteins for the future. all of those plants are open now. working very well. usda has had its hands full. our services crowd has been amazing. in a 24 hour session, our ams with its purchasing program and delivery logistics program to our food bank network has been amazing. i'm really proud. having done all that with remote situations we cannot come together but we have been scraping all the time. i feel more tired when i go home now having been on skype all day long. anyway, the team has been amazi

farmers are forced to suffer. it already happened here once just weeks ago. >> we lost its $700,000 worth of income that we are not going to get. mac critical crops still have to be planted now, just in hopes that the fall harvest will pay off. >> i have never seen, and i have been farming for almost 40 years, this kind of uncertainty. this turmoil in the markets. >> reporter: while caring for crops is a one big concern. another challenge is cattle and cows. many of which have to be taught milk twice a day every day. >> my grandfather started this business in 1944, with 28 cows. >> reporter: there are now 1550 cows. an acre for each is dedicated to growing feed to keep the cows happy. meanwhile, up to 10 new calves are born every single day here. the demand for california milk is in many ways dried up. school lunch programs have stopped ordering. restaurants have slowed their purchases. and warehouse is have become overrun with inventory. >> we may have to cut our production back a little bit. >> reporter: the wor

creating their own wind turbine forests let's head to the east of india in west bengal traditional farmers here like many of the agents around the country use diesel pumps to water their fields diesel is expensive and then he put you to one company's helping them make the switch to clean energy on a jeep is still sitting out solar water pumps in farms and even enabling the farm was water on the panels. of the. only. she's the 1st woman to install a. solar power in this willage after watering her fields of paddy rice potatoes mustard and wheat open up all sells the excess water to anyone who might be in need in her village. that the plan to install a drip irrigation system nor water usage then will be able to grow flowers fruit and other vegetables. in the villages 225 kilometers north of west bengal's capital kolkata these are good days for the farmers here but a visit here during the last monsoons would have painted a bleak picture frequent power cuts and the serious cassady of water had done most of these fields into dry wasteland spelling doom for the farmers. today's lush green harvest

radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back prime minister i'm just for you and i to going to. what is right and you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r.t. america you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately i'm thinking about that mythical doomsday clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from nuclear annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. well you make it dramatic because you're so good at that but you have also a great memory as they did to you and i've been saying that to my radio audience and both on the american family farmer and the j.v. program for a long time my background having grown up around town has been on the farm all my life i've seen things that all of us have sort of taken for granted whether we lived on the farm oh ever we were benefiting from the products that came from the farm we knew the farm we knew the farmer we knew what we wanted to go by we could watch

farmers and ranchers have taken a huge hit. the coronavirus has caused significant market volatility sending many commodity future prices plummeting. meanwhile, reduced capacity at u.s. meat-packing plants as a result of the virus has diminished the demand for livestock depressing prices. this has aggravated an already difficult situation for farmers an ranchers. -- and ranchers. the agricultural economy has been struggling now for a while. low prices, extended trade disputes and natural disasters have made it a tough few years for farmers and ranchers even before the coronavirus hit. now they're suffering even more. agriculture is the life blood of my state of south dakota so when congress was considering coronavirus relief legislation support for farmers and ranchers was one of my priorities. i fought to get agriculture relief money included the coronavirus aid relief and the economic security act, the cares act which was signed into law in late march. the final bill included 14 billion dollars to replenish the commodity cred

as a chicken farmer i want that to happen. the other thing is we have to make sure we continue to trade with these countries because you as secretary knows how difficult it is to hit the markets and once you lose that market they go somewhere else and buy their product and have to talk them into coming back and doing business thus is very difficult. it's a very sensitive area we have to talk about but we have to keep those trade lines open for the future of our agriculture. the other thing to i would like to speak to is we talk about small family farms. over 95% of the farms across america are owned by small families and that's wonderful but what's the definition of a family farm today? it's not the same as it was in the 30s and 40s and 60s. today to make 11 for a family where there is a dad and son and maybe an uncle or cousin you got to farm three or 4000 acres of land or you got to have 500 [inaudible] so there is a lot of different in that. to do that we have a summer to move that commodity to have a market for it. we are

they've also shown farmers how to spot insect nests. stefanie: we did interviews with farmers.hey donont recognize nenests. so for this we have to go to the field and to show them nests, to make them see their landscape and their fields with the eye of a pollinator. also, when they have a large monoculture, like, kilometers of cereal fields, from the point of view of a wild pollinator, this is a sahara. and they cannot cross, a as we cannot cross by footot sahara. reporter: wheat t does not ned insectcts to reproroduce, so e bumblebees are lucky i if they find any flolowers in the vast fields, especially since, unlike honeybees, they can't fly very far. one problem is the growing tendency toward monoculture in morocco as the country modernizes its agriculture. a government agency is cooperating with the f.a.p. team. it says the insect protection model can easily be integrated into the country's agricultural planning. malika: i think f.a.p., or the inclusion of wild pollinators sn agriculture, f fits in perfecty with the minisistry's current strategy. it involves making agricult

farmers are going to be cut off we need here in congress the basin than 1200 farmers are in deep trouble. the impacts to not just stop with them. it will be felt up and down the economy. no crops to harvest, our food chain takes a big hit. the workers are usually gharvest these crops are not going to have jobs to go to. local business that supply things like seed, fertilizer, farm equipment, they are hit hard to. so the farmers and the community, the economic community need our help. and they need it now. the worst thing we can do is stand by and say in these times of trouble we are not here to help. that is why tomorrow i will be that will give flexibility and authority to utilize $10 million year that was previously authorized andhe appropriated to work with the farmers and the ranching community this money has i mentioned has already been authorized. it has already been appropriated. so why should i need to introduce a bill? the answer is a lot of bureaucratic red tape in 2018 senator wyden and i worked here along with the congressman who represented this district and we got a concept

. >> how long will farmers be able to get food to your table? and with six months until the election -- soledad: do you predict a perfectly fine and reasonable transition? should there be one? >> find out why the president is legally required to prepare to lose. plus, the check's not in the mail. when will you get your unemployment benefits? and, did you read "i can't date jesus"? joins soledad to talk about his new book. soledad: why is the title "i don't want to die poor"? soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." the coronavirus is breaking parts of the nation's food supply chain. meat processing plants around the country have shut down as workers contract covid-19. other food processors are cutting back because large buyers, like schools and restaurants, are closed. some farmers are now forced to dump milk, destroy crops, and slaughter their animals, while we see people turning to overwhelmed food banks across the country. our correspondent jessica gomez has more. jessica: well, soledad, the u.s. department of agriculture is

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farmers and ranchers have taken a huge hit. the coronavirus has caused significant market volatility, sending many commodity futures prices complumenting. reap -- reduced capacity at meatpacking plants diminished the demand for livestock. this aggravated an already difficult situation for farmers and ranchers. unlike the majority of the economying, the agricultural economy has been struggling for awhile. low prices, extended trade disputes, and natural disasters have meant a tough few years for farmers and ranchers before the coronavirus hit. now they're suffering more. agriculture is the lifeblood in my state of south dakota. supporting farmers and ranchers is one of my top priorities. i fought to get agriculture relief money included in the coronavirus aid relief and economic security act or the cares act which was signed into law in late march. the final bill included $14 billion to replenish the credit commodity corporation to allow the department of agriculture to provide income and price support for farmers and ranchers p

and saying in the food industry barton is one of the few german asparagus farmers who invested in an automatic harvesting machine years ago other growers used to tease him but this year his decision is paying off because travel restrictions have curbed the number of migrant workers available for harvest and a berlin plan to fly them in hasn't quite panned out for everyone. montane vonda is lucky compared to many other german asparagus farmers he's invested in a machine that allows him to harvest asparagus with far fewer field hands many of whom have stayed away this year during the 1st 2 weeks we couldn't have started harvesting without the machine the crew that said they were coming this year never showed up and. without our machine we would have had to delay the asparagus harvest for 2 weeks but the asparagus doesn't stop growing and that would have been a disaster for us for survival so the farmer deployed his asparagus harvester the construction lifts the entire mound where the asparagus is growing onto a conveyor belt a crew of harvest workers collects the white shoots up top. t

for farmers, what is going on with the farmers that you speak to? mentally, how are they doing? happens to be mental health awareness month, and i know there's been a rise of farmers committing suicide, and almost coronavirus being the last straw. what have you experienced? >> we experienced that here as well. we a few weeks ago set up a hot line number, a suicide hot line number here in oklahoma, fur our farmers and ranchers, and we have three trained farmers and ranchers that will go out and visit with them and get them to the help they need. and, also, we are seeing calls come in now that we haven't seen in a long, long time. probably since the 1980s. this is now becoming a much bigger problem for us. >> trevor: it feels like america's entire food supply is being interrupted. and i think a lot of people may not know-- may not understand how, you know, farmers essentially this business has become more about commodities than about exwood food. the prices are dic price are dil forces. it's become a game between different nations and such. but at the end of the day, there's still

american farmers and ranchers in washington. and rob that was so heartbreaking, a farmer shedding tears because of his painful decision to kill hundreds of perfectly healthy pigs because he has nowhere to sell them or keep them. is his case the exception right now? or are there a lot more families making those same tough decisions? >> unfortunately, it is being repeated. among many farm families right now. certainly a lot of the pressure is on hogs in particular with the pressure and the back up right there. but we're seeing exactly same kind of emotional toll and stress put on our cattle ranchers, dairy producers. and i think one of the things that was highlighted in the piece also is the fact that for many of these farmers, they have been facing financial pressures from whether related and coming into this with new pressures and challenges is really making the stress incredibly hard to bear. >> as agonizing to see crops plowed under and healthy animals euthanized, can that food be donated or sent to parts of the country where

another example north dakota farmers union announced it is teaming up with the farmers union enterprise to donate 30,000 pounds of pork ribs to the great plains food bank. so again all examples of our farms and ranches that only producing that great food supply the stepping up and donating as well to help the people that need it. this generosity immediately benefits individuals and families across the region, and is helping to replenish the food bank inventory which asserts many, many food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens and charitable programs. these efforts try on the message we are all in this together. even in the face of tremendous challenges we find a way to make the best of tough situations and take care of our neighbors and that's what this is all about. another farmer sent this message to the nation, taking time to write out in one of his fields, so with his farm equipment he wrote out in one of his field we will win the war on covid-19. and that just demonstrates the spirit of our farmers and ranchers and, of course, the spirit of our people across america. to have this hope

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this has significantly diminished the market for theor farmers. there've rightfully been able to focus on the oil and gas companies that are taking to seo make a facing the record was as if the equally difficult supply problem driven by the saudi russian price for. hard-working americans in these companies that have helped usher in the modern renaissance congress needs to make sure we preserve energy dominance and security but it's important to recognize the ethanol industry that provides over 10% of the nation's gasoline content, the cleanest 10% i might add as a part of that. biofuel has been a key part of the renaissance and have also been hit hard by the drop in demand that has been a devastating blow for the workers in the industry and the farmers to supply. hhalf of the nation's capacity has been idle. more than 70 plants have closed and just as many idle harming their economy and begin driving up the essential market for the nyfarms. this has brought a new problem many may not know if a substantial quantity of carbon dioxide used in the car

this farmer has just received a lamb.by donating sheep to local families the conservationists hope to encourage people to stay out of the forest. oh no one day i went and i used i feel happy about winning a sheep like as a farmer will help me fertilize my field be able to come with you instead of going into intending for can was a national park which is the home of mountain i'm going to i was too quick to do so says found can you be sure it's going to be. going to stand in the forest they can looking for meat that used to happen before but when you give them sheep it's a no 10 up to you to what they have been quite acting from with a mountain of what has had. the most exciting part of the classes is an excursion into volcanoes national park there the schoolchildren get an opportunity to see the mountain gorillas in their natural environment they come up to discover wow i dismounted what it as because they have been watching them when they feel old they're all seeing them through visuals that we were showing them today so

again thatus once the american farmer is the backbone of our country. they are a good friend of mind. i appreciate all the support. i know they appreciate our support. we are glad to be joined by sonny perdue along with ivanka

look the struggle of farmers impulse time is very similar to struggles of farmers everywhere who are being told their old ways their traditional ways are primitive are uncivilized that they are not feeding the world which is a big lie the sun coming out had his back to me you becoming just elected i'm talking. bread has become basically in spoons of sugar and it doesn't taste like bread anymore. i last week you know how i like set up my martial law you could literally day and i said i thought not going to come home until 3. food ahead of this. little bottle call i know could help bills out that i never have the both are planning. this low sugar. lows are left to me oh yes this is going to land a good read i'm going to veto the bill and cut their tool. in order for the for not going to be on which you can then you come in from annapolis and think i'm going in what can with a not a lady in this thread fi movies that are in the media here and booted but i do you have a deny from the city being a modern method and all but then on is that i feel have been haiti and have be sauda in am acc