policy may be part of the conversation, the items i hear about most from dairy farmers and all farmers are concerns about higher taxes and import costs and increase in regulation. in rising in those concerns is tax and spend legislation where getting ready to be forced. the senate agricultural and nutrition committee has received budget reconciliation instructions 15 times between 1980 and this year five committee chairs from both parties provided leadership to ensure some level of bipartisan input into the reconciliation process whether it was a committee hearing, opening markup of legislation, bipartisan service of agriculture committee, or legislation passed for bipartisan votes and centers from both parties consideration of the agriculture provisions of the american rescue plan 2021 of 40 years this bipartisan committee tradition was not upheld. hearings were held to listen to the needs of farmers and ranchers, a business meeting held for republicans and democrats, input into drafting a bill, democrats did not convene a conference committee to consider any changes in the final flow

our farmers future in jeopardy. we will do everything in our power to defend american agriculture from the democrat's reckless spending bill. i yield back. >> thank you. i would now like to welcome. we have two panels today. the first panel includes mr. jim davenport, owner of tollgate firm and mother -- member of hudson valley fresh of new york. this is christina peter being, managing partner of a dairy and granville, iowa. and said soviet mississippi. our second panel, we hear from catherine dumond, mr. robert lewis, president of cedar grove cheese inc. and creamery of wisconsin. and eb baker professor of agriculture actor, -- of applied economics at cornell university. i look forward to hearing from you all, thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us today. no pricing is rightfully considered one of the most complicated economic systems in our nation. when that system is not working for farmers, the ramifications reach from coast-to-coast. including my home state of new york. new york is the fourth lar

there's been a lot of talk about this the many conversations with farmers in the family farmers in minnesota so i just want to be clear about that issue. >> so to the topic at hand, what is going on during farmers across the country, want to start out talking a minnesota vet. during farmers minnesota tell me that they are pleased place and they would hear the stories that you are doing today and sounds familiar to them in the credit milk prices are consistently below the cost of production for them and some to negative margins or too many dairy farmers to use up their equities and their savings to keep from going out of business over these last few years i think we all know their 40000 fewer license in his country in their work in 2000 and to read it and you will i think made the case for the lack of transparency and the mill pricing system, significant role for dairy farmers. the reality is that the milk federal marketing order is 80 years old pretty so system so it's not easy to understand it one statement that i read some susceptible so many variables are involved typical farmer knows tha

he is a dairy farmer from new york. he has been a member of the agareamark dairy cooperative since 1986. he is also one of nine farmer owners of the hudson valley fresh. this group of farmers own a bottling plant in kingston, new york, and process over 1 million pounds of raw milk each month into high-quality fluid milk, yogurt, and sour cream mix. they supply all the dairy products used at west point military academy. mr. davenport, you can proceed with your testimony. >> okay. thank you. good morning. i'd like to thank senator gillibrand for asking me down to testify today on our small farm of 64 milking cows. i am over 50% of the hourly labor and over 90% of the management. therefore i am fully aware that there are 168 hours in a week. any week that i work less than half of those hours is good. taking time off to be here makes this a good week. i would also like to thank senator gillibrand for work on making the current dmc program so responsive to the needs of the small dairy farms during this period of sky-high fee

we are really focused on those farmers who are stressed. those farmers who are low income farmers.o give you a sense of this, 89.6% of american farmers today do not make a majority of their income from farming. that is a call to action. that is why in the american rescue plan, the president and congress included a provision that is encouraging us to take a look at ways we can expand market access and land access to those financially stressed farmers. one of the things we did is we identified procurement. we purchased a lot of emergency food for food banks. in the past, we purchased that from large-scale distributors. probably some of them are doing business with jbs, tyson, smithfield and so forth. we think it would be a good idea to use them of those dollars to have use local and regional strippers eaters and focused those resources on low income distressed farmers and producers. we are now using what we refer to as our flexible temporary assistance program to use resources to create market opportunities to create greater balance and resiliency in the system. we can't just focus o

the farmers are not getting the right price for their produce. the price of sugar cane hasn't increased in 5 years, but the price of fuel and electricity has doubled. inflation is shooting through the roof. the b j. p claims farmers incomes have doubled. what method are they using? they should tell us their opposing 3 agriculture laws pass by prime minister and reigns, remove these government last year. farmer said the ruth will damage their livelihood and favor be cooperation. they want them repealed 11 rounds of talk between farmers union and the government has failed to resolve the handle. and several people were injured in violence last week when police broke up a street in stage by farmers in the northern state of her yana movies. part agenda party says the farmers have little backing. do they have my support? i said no. because because look at the look at the level of participation. yes. but i do participation. you have by disposition, by force, in terms of block it of roads. or if you are perpetrating violence like what happened in the pro

one of the farmers. so the people belong to john community, which are the dominant phase in 3 class in the u. p. and they have a very sizable presence in almost 6070 assembly constrained seed investors. and if you look at the voting patented, we'll look at the lippard, vertical verdict of 2017 assembly elections. they have worked hard for b, dipping a very large number, the mass gathering math, the start of the new phase. in the protests. the pharma said they won't back down onto their demands are met and they have called for a national shot down on september 25th. pardon me at the al jazeera was offering to go to publish. for myself, african president jacob zoom has been parole for medical reasons. the 79 year old has been in the hospital since having surgery last month, a serving a 15 month sentence for contempt of court to define a constitutional court order to give evidence, a corruption inquire at least 3 people have been killed when a building collapsed. uganda capital come parlor. the 4 story bloc

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all of the samples are collected with farmers . we have a very important engagement with farmers to understand their local knowledge about . so ecosystems you trent levels are key to full facility. the team here have an efficient way of measuring them. this is a machine that we use to analyze find sample, just to look at different nutrient levels in the site using like just like no chemicals, not chemicals. we placed the sample on top of the vent, red light coming from the instrument. you get a fingerprint that tells you the level of different nutrients from that you can use that data and knowledge to know what to do with you from measuring a sample using this machine takes only a few minutes. once that is not ready, it will be decipher lately. in the meantime, my next talk is leaving, so as love is being analyzed. so another company in light of white hell. creepy call. it looks ok, but the organisms are not there. and the organisms play a role in binding that soil to form from and compact soil with can absorb newtons with can keep

we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization>> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody. it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> yes, hocfarmersmarket.org. >> check them out. thank you. >> welcome. the dish is ready. >> it looks and smells amazing. >> thank you. it was not easy to meet the $20 budget. i checked everybody out and found some great produce. really lovely seafood. i think that you are going to love it. >> do not be shy. you know this can run you $35 to $45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for $20. >> this will feed four to six people. >> not if you invite me over for dinner. i am ready to dig in. >> i hope you'll love it. >> mmm. >> what do you think? >> i think i am going to need more. perhaps you can have all you want. >> i am produce the that you have crushed this farmer's market challenge by a landslide. the first,

in the big lots of farmers and also the black farmers.and for farmers and so the issues they intertwined it to me because there was a conflict but also you try to use that as an opportunity to get some things done. eventually it became the ranking member of what was then called operation nutrition and i think of something else but anyhow, nutrition was the main one. and to issue stand out for me in terms of agriculture responding to the farmers issue. it allowed me to bring the black farmer to them and i appreciated that. i'm not saying they knew what the answer would be already but my suspicion is that they did. legally they were right. the statute of limitations, they were wrong party did but to find out what can we do in spite of that. in one i had other assets to raise the interest of that, then i gathered support among boys club. it let's see how we can work this out. how about it amendment. with that work. and i said oh yes, that will work in providing, not to just introduce something on the floor. and sure enough, to their credit,

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for farmers like greer, this is just another example of setbacks black farmers have faced for decadesd, president of the black farmers union agrees. >> i want to be really clear here, it took place on the watch of republicans, it took place on the watch of democrats, and it took place on the watch of the american people. everybody's guilty here, because we didn't step up and stop it. >> reporter: he admits he's disappointed with how the covid program has been rolled out, but believes the resistance is part of a bigger problem. >> there's a real division between white america now and black america. and even a bigger division between a black farmer and a ite farmer, you can feel the tension. >> reporter: back in lyles station, all hope isn't lost. greer's grandson, deanthony, encouraged by his grandfather, is about to graduate with a degree from tennessee state university in agribusiness. while he's not sure he'll be taking over the family farm. he understands the close ties farmers, regardless of race, have with their land. >> understand that we want to be out here too, we want the sam

but a lot of what gets been comes from small holder farmers from around the world. and it's them who is struggling most to cope with climate change, intensified and so health decline. and for our next story of africa, which is one of the continent hot pit. oh mm. be drunk. and they're right with a part of the non productivity and threatening for security. i'm a far mom and i know how difficult it is to work with a changing climate move from outside robi area. let's talk and grow foot crops 2 years ago because of a hush drought. my son dried out and then lost all my harvest. me having like the land. i know how to help this on 8th without it the phone fell, but i've heard about a team of 74 working to get a farmers, to make degree a land fuck tell once more. one of the things they do is to test for intensive agriculture and other damaging practices along with effects of climate change have left one part of the plan is land degraded. the situation is so severe, but 30 football pictures of our last every minute. the international center photos such and uncle forestry al

how ca, terry, farmers are adapting to climate change. one of the hardest places on ah ah, hello nice the fear we've had some fierce winds blow through tasmania. so this cluster of islands here, we saw gus a 135 kilometers per hour. this is what we'd expect to see was cy, clones rolling through, so quite powerful. we see that winfield in brain field move toward the south, the southeast. it will eventually make its way into new south wales, affecting sidney, we call this a southerly busters to watch what it does to the temperature is going from $27.00, down to 17 and wind gusts of about 75 kilometers per hour. rain is starting to fill in across the south island of new zealand, mostly towards the southern alps and the foothills. it will stay dry in christ church for now with a high of 16 degrees, driving rain for central and also southern parts of vietnam into cambodia. and we have seen flooding toward the northwest of cambodia. and that rain is still come in then a batch of what weather from pretty much will called the yellow river valley

>> well, okay, so farmers definitely did default. what kind of loans did farmers and others default on? largely because the balance was so big, they defaulted on mortgages, right? elaine, good, yeah. they defaulted on their mortgages. largely because they couldn't pay them off. they couldn't come up with the $25,000 to pay that loan off, and unlike our loans today, our mortgages tend to be for 15 years or 30 years. and at the end, you have paid your whole house off. these loans were for a much shorter time period, and there tended to be a large balance due at the end of the loan period. you just would refinance it, but nobody could refinance their loans, so there are huge defaults in the mortgage sector. in all of the other sectors, it defied expectations. people paid their loans off. okay, so the economy grinds down to a halt. okay. you have high rates of unemployment, and things only went from bad to worse. so the gross national product decreased by 30%. unemployment goes up to 25%. wages fall, if you are lucky enough to keep your

in a hush of region. urbanatto is a farmer we've been working with in eastern kenya. we have some samples where urban us has been applying agriculture restoration options on his farm after 22 years or not had doubled the soil, organic carbon. in his farm. we are able to learn how these restoration options influence soil health, but also by urban us working with e craft, we're able to feed back this information through one on one conversations focus group discussions to really show how his soil is improving through his management practices. i want to find out more about regenerative techniques and so i'm off to it a bonus. the pro instant can, and you can see it where drug can use in the highlands. what i'm looking for to learn from a home been able to make is not more productive despite coming out of the good morning of us. yes morning. how are you doing? i'm fine. all right. yeah, we're just with you. this is my wife. all right, and i sent you an essential pleasure to meet you. what come, what are you doing? it looks like you're doing an electron or something. this i

♪ we are farmers.oking school, basic baking school? james: i don't think so. laura: i think it would be great for both of us. james: i would like to send her, but i would not like to go. lemonis: huh? james: i wouldn't like to go. lemonis: is it weird to anybody that the person that actually knows how to bake thinks it's a good idea to go learn even more, but the person who doesn't even know how to make a basic cookie says they don't want to go to school for a day? james: i think our sweet potato pies have been such a hit because it's made with love. it's not just, like, science behind it. but there's love behind it. i know that i'm not a master baker by myself. it all comes from family recipes. lemonis: when you try to create variations, there's a reason that baking and cooking schools exist. it exists to take your knowledge and refine it. laura: please send me. i've never had formal baking training. i've always learned on the job for like six years. lemonis: great. i will pay for you guys to go to ta

but mostly to farmers and people in rural areas. these are not very important but they are important in our class. so the farm credit administration may consumer loans to farmers. my favorite one is the electric home and farming authority. the electric home and farming authority, in 1934. it made loans to people to buy electric appliances. the tv, the tennessee valley authority, had electrified this huge rural area. but all of the farmers living there didn't have the money to buy electric appliances or electric lights for their homes. or electric refrigerators. and if you don't have appliances or light that use electricity, what is the good of having electricity? and how are the electric companies going to make any money? so the electric home and farming authority issued loan so people could buy appliances and electrify their houses. the resettlement administration, which was an organization, and agency, meant to help displaced farmers find new homes and also made consumer loans. here you see some pictures of people paying off those

(woman) yeah, y-you did. ♪ we are farmers. well, if you're celebrating by eating reese's. then no, you're actually late. not sorry, reese's. show, my guest tonight has spent the last two years leading climate strikes around the world and holding governments and leaders accountable for protecting the planet. and get this, she's only 18. greta thunberg joins us from sweden. greta thunberg, welcome back to the daily show. >> thank you so much. >> trevor: last time i spoke to you you had just ridden a catamaran across the ocean, what do you prefer, computing on a catamaran across the ocean or doing a zoom. >> i mean, it's nice, you to go on a catamaran but it is much more practical to do it as a zoom, to be honest. of course i have had my bad moments with zoom and online classes. and it gets a bit tiring sometimes is sitting every day on zoom. just watching your own face, it's not, it's not pleasant. >> trevor: gretta this is why i love having you on the show, you speak to my soul. you have had a whirlwind journey. obviously you h

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around $100.00 organizations, including political parties, unions, and farmers associations and some regional government supporting the protest from farmers have been demonstrating against the reforms, which they say threatened their livelihood lives with brought them joins, isn't alive from the gas report border a little bit. what's happening there where you are hello kim. yes, we are at the, on the highway between the state of delhi and also for the dish. and this has been over the past 10 months. one of the 3 biggest protest sites. but like all of the other main approaches sites on delhi borders, the numbers here have dwindled by the demands from farmers around the country to repeal the 3 laws which were passed exactly one year ago in india, the parliament have not gone away. asshole today marks one year since those little of the past and farm is unions have called for a voluntary shut down of all offices of educational institutions, of shots, of industries and off events. now this is not being we can't see that it's being observed where we are in delhi, but there are a number of

(woman) yeah, y-you did. ♪ we are farmers. change could devastated the world he economy but in california it might be good news for a certain type of job. michael kosta has more. >> water, h2o, warmed ice, whatever you call it, california's farmers are running out fast. and after three years of draught, they're turning to surprising methods to find more. >> can i get some por water please, thirsty. >> they're called douser, they claim to have supernatural water finding powers. thanks to climate change, desperate farmers have them booked sol aid-- solid. >> i'm booking out three to four weeks in advance. >> i thought it was bullshit but it has worked for me. >> it really does sound like bullshit so why do people believe in this? is de hydration playing tricks with their minds, to find out i head ford draught plagued california to meet one of these water witches or dousers. >> i'm larry berg and do i dousing. >> larry berg, who said white men can't douse. all right, okay. >> it's not really a joke, lack of water is really not a

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how could carry farmers are adopting to climate change? one of the hardest places on ah hi there, hope your weekends go and well it wasn't that long ago that the bulk and had some of the best weather in europe. my. oh my how that has changed. we're still seeing what weather toward the eastern shores at the atria see and some big storms taking aim at northern italy. i think the very real risk. i've seen some more flooding here after greece and turkey. we've got a scattering of showers through northern areas of greece. same goes for turkey affecting the capital region opera. we look at the next 3 days. we're back into the sunshine on monday and your temperatures pretty well where they should be that what, whether that was plaguing the northeast of spain, it's now pushed out toward the mediterranean. so we've seen improvement in conditions, but much of the energy here from the pure unease is now spread across the else. so the risk of storms really on all sides here. we have disturbed weather towards the east, so ukraine bell the roofs into we

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he was a farmer.mers were making next to nothing in his part of kansas because of the dust bowl so he was working on a road project. and he and his friends every day at lunch would sit down and open up their meal pails and have their lunch in the middle of the day but there was one man who wouldn't sit with them. they referred to him as the antisocial man and every day at lunch he went to sit by himself and he didn't talk to a whole lot of people. and someone got close enough to look in the lunch pail and it was potato peels. and they finally got the story out of him and every day he was coming to work with a pail full of potato peels for lunch. he and his wife had decided that was how they'd manage. their children and his wife needed the poetatos more he would eat the peels, and somehow they would just keep going. but he was so embarrassed about this that he wouldn't sit with the other men. once they knew this information, the other men started making him come and sit with them and present -- everybo

the farmers are upset about a law they say could threaten their livelihoods.eporter: farmers across india renewed their push against agricultural reform on monday, holding their first countrywide protest. roads across india were blocks and union rallies held in the streets. after 10 months of demonstrations in new delhi, they hope taking the process nationwide can put pressure on the government. >> we have even more enthusiasm today than we did on the first day and we will never lose it. >> we wanted to strike nationwide against the three farm laws and it is going ahead successfully. reporter: the resurgence in the movement comes on the first anniversary that those laws passed in parliament. a year ago, the indian government dismantled agricultural rules, allowing cultivators to sell to private markets for any price. the government argues this would modernize the sector and help growers get better prices. but the farmers say the reform would erode the longtime mechanism that guarantees a minimum price, allowing big companies to drive down prices that would lea

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