when we do this, we give farmers and ranchers -- show of the weakness in our farmers supply chain. the department of agriculture is rewriting the rules on the -- which was a law back in the 20's to protect farmers and ranchers from abuse by due process. we are going to strengthen the law to make sure it works as intended. third, the united states government, my administration, will enforce the existing competition laws vigorously and fairly. my executive word on competition asked dabblers -- established competition and our new white house composition council shared by the head of my national economic council, including members, and brian is here today. including members of the cabinet and other key agency officials. they are all there to make sure the united trust laws are insured across the board. today, the usda announced a joined effort to make it easier for farmers in the agricultural sector. forrest, h free-market is not free without transparency around prices. how do you justify the price? back in august, the department of agriculture took steps to address this. we are going

farmers and ranchers deserve a fair shake.can families facing high prices at grocery stores deserve a fair price to put food on the table. rural communities, which see more good jobs, when there is competition. and our economy as a whole, as we make the food supply chain more resilient. i'm looking forward to hearing from the farmers, ranchers, and processors who have joined us today. we will make sure that you have the tools you need an a level playing field that you deserve. we will fight for fair prices for american farmers, ranchers, and families, all three. with that, i will turn it over to secretary vilsack. tom, the floor is yours. secretary vilsack: thank you very much. as i have traveled around the country, i have heard sad stories of farmers and farm families who have had to leave the business because of a lack of competition. your executive order to take immediate action and expand processing capacity, and create good paying jobs from rural america. we went to work. because of your american rescue plan, we have the

and farmers support and the shift was to make it easier for corporations to engage directly with farmers. the argument that the indian government was, is they wanted to provide farmers more opportunities to sell to anybody. but everyone knew was this would enable corporations to enter the indian market more easily. the protesters, the farmers who are against this idea and who mobilized by this thousands and millions, their argument was we don't want this system which will be dominated by corporations . we're not here for maximizing profit. what we want is a stable market, so we can maintain our livelihood and live with dignity and maintain a stable food system for all indians. and so they took to the streets and, and forced in effect, basically raise the issue on a global scale. what was unique about this protest, unlike other process, is not just the number of farmers that mobilize and work together is the expressions of solidarity within india is worker unions also came together with farmers in an unprecedented coalition. a new form of solidarity between farmers and workers who don't a

and even when approved -- farmers far less of white farmers. moreover black farmers too often still feel unwelcome in these local usda field offices. i know that you are working hard. your department is working hard and your direction to reverse these injustices once and for all. and my question to you, mr. secretary is will you please outline exactly how usda is working to help minority farmers and black farmers? >> congressman, thank you very much for the question. when i saw the statistics concerning the decline rate of african american farm applications i asked the team to take a look at, in-depth look at the reason. and what we found was that it often times in some cases the application was withdrawn. in some cases the application was incomplete. in some cases the application just simply didn't have the cash flow that made -- that made sense. a lot of the different reasons. but i think the fundamental concern and the fundamental challenge is that folks do not have the technical assistance to be able to understand precisely how to access us

ranch farmers? >> thank you very much for the question. oftentimes in some cases the applications were withdrawn in some cases the applications were incomplete and in some cases the application didn't have the cash flow that made sense. a lot of different reasons. i think the fundamental concern in the fundamental challenges that folks do not have the technical systems to be able to understandso precisely how to access usda programs and for that reason under the american rescue plan we are using resources to provide assistance to create a whopping groups that can, connect with those african-american farmers to provide technical assistance in the financial planning that's -- the business planning in the development of application so that there is more success of the first-order is this here is to get folks the kind of technical assistanceng they need and the usda has expanded significantly efforts in that regard and we will continue to expand efforts and there's a lot more it could say. i see my time

for years. hundreds of them have been supporting the farmer. they've set up camp and next to the farm. with one of them is florian, it's shun the 30 year old studies philosophy living in a camp like this is new for him, but he's long been politically active, including campaigning for new refugee policy. a does this yolanda been the fact that i am here? no one has to do with new friends i met before we came here comes and damage of the info. i convinced me like a climate crisis is the most urgent challenge facing humanity at the moment is went on city men, so deep or survival of humanity that depends on it and sight hanged on under 4, especially the survival of people for in the global south student aid, they sleep in hudson, the trees, wooden shacks, or air, they, a owned buildings, which they have occupied. w just unfold to resistance is working here in that we've created an occupational account. ma'am. i'm didn't came in in this can be on. we organize ourselves her off guard in the morning. more we distribute the necessary tasks or puts wheth

it goes, i don't so far. farmer, a car toy camp has held on to his farm, but of the 100 hector's. he once had. he now owns just 17. the rest have been expropriated, and ebay also wants his remaining fields and his farm. he's taken the matter to court. it's a fight that's dragged on for years and cost him nearly $100000.00 euros. the david versus goliath struggle has led to some branding him a hero. you see me, he has hair. this is, i don't see myself as a hero. when the city is just the way it is on this being com you, if you go to big issue here now in a lot of people come in including the media, doing stories about it said see me and he said, but it will blow over once the matter settled fenders more, but it's not over yet. in high camp stresses that he's always open to talks, but he doesn't think ebay wants to negotiate seriously. the company won't comment in front of our cameras. they respond to our inquiries only in writing and in very general terms. they say the coal is needed to secure energy supplies for a transitional period as a step towards a climate neutral system. in

now they want to save little hard farmer. hi, con village to the struggle over their own home involved 5 years of bitter fighting. ellis, zack ups are often moments when i didn't know how to go on was to v sits. anguish vied. i good. but something always gave me strength cuts, mankey muddy coffee. i knew that in the end and we had to prevail listening because it wasn't just about our little house as well. once i can, how in the end amended, it's a fight that revolves around the climate crisis and the key mac and also involves many people in the global south elementary camp. i'd denise came from con b, bailey. now i'm in english and seen mid. so guns move on in the, in your study, i saw a few days later, there is a protest to save little heart several 100 of come many from neighboring villages. and also former residents who have had to move away to protest is being live streamed on social media. florian, it's john prepares for his role as m. c. more protesters arrive, not all of them want to be recognized. joseph and paul, it'

i'm not a farmer who wants — sustainable. i'm not a farmer who wants to _ sustainable. not a farmer who wants to take _ sustainable. i'm not a farmer who wants to take down - sustainable. i'm not a farmer who wants to take down the l who wants to take down the nature around us. i want to pharma with the nature. i'm a farmer with nature. i am a solution. give me some tools so way can be the solution for multiple problems. another is what is missing at the moment, the tools. we were the pride of the tools. we were the pride of the nation. but now we are the problem of the nation stop by the dutch government's plan includes paying livestock farmers to relocate or leave the industry altogether and helping those who remain to shift to more extensive, rather than intensive farming methods. methane is a very important greenhouse gas. and we really should try to reduce it.- should try to reduce it. here they are _ should try to reduce it. here they are experimenting - should try to reduce it. here they are experimenting with i they are experimenting with technology that could c

now they want to save little god farmer. hi, con village to the struggle over their own home involved 5 years of bitter fighting. ellis does act ups are often moments when i didn't know how i'd go on was to v. sits. anguish might i? good. but something always gave me strength at monkey muddy coffee. i knew that in the end we had to prevail listening because it wasn't just about our little house as well. once i kind of how in the end, the members, it's a fight. the revolves around the climate crisis and the key mac and also involves many people in the global south elementary camp. i'd denise came from. couldn't be bailey now. i'm in english and seen mid. so guns, news on them to the nurse i saw, ah, a few days later there is a protest to save little heart several 100 of come, many from neighboring villages and also former residents who have had to move away . the protest is being live streamed on social media florian, it's john prepares for his role as m. c. more protesters arrive, not all of them went to be recognized. growt

that may be part of the problem farmers are facing.and threatening livelihoods. "nightline's" ashan singh takes us inside the drastic measures some are taking to keep the population in check. >> reporter: 27-year-old ryan ashcraft is heading up in his chopper. for one last ride before it gets too dark. 200 feet in the air, maneuvering skillfully between phone lines and farmland. this is a helicopter hog hunt. and the goal today? kill as many pigs as possible. this evening's run isn't meant to be for fun. it's persona. and the problem these pigs pose is more urgent than ever. >> when you're going in a helicopter three to four times a week and killing an average of 20 to 30 pigs every time you go, and the crop still gets completely destroyed? like, that's a problem. >> reporter: over the past five years, ashcraft has been on the front lines of one of the biggest battles on america's farmlands, feral hogs. >> this is a serious deal. down here in matagorda county i would say this is probably the worst hog damage, as far as crops go, in a b

and black farmers and indigenous farmers provide an opportunity for us to expand, produce cultural foods, but we also have to make sure those farmers are supported. >> i am grateful, and have been yelled at by my staff that even though my ranking member is kind and generous, my staff is not. they're saying i need to wrap. so i'm going to do that. and i'm going to say that first of all, thank you for the witnesses. this is an extraordinary group. i think you all have the richest of perspectives and experiences, not to mention more degrees than a thermometer between you all. but i want to say to my fellow members and their staffs for those members who are not here, we're going to welcome additional statements or questions that you may have for the record to be submitted to the committee clerk in five business days, or by 5:00 p.m. that we can put to the panel. the one question for the record i will ask is for advice for us as we look towards hopefully having a white house conference. but in the meantime, i want to thank everybody. there's lot going on in washington today. a lot that's domi

almanac the old farmer's almanac has the first issue came out in 1792. they published continuously since then i never missed any years and they still sell something like 3 million copies per year, which is just staggering especially when you think about you know, people might not need to have animal mating tables or sometimes and sunset times before their farms, but there's a sense that it's kind of it's functioning again as kind of a vehicle for nostalgia for some people who you know their ancestors used to farm or and they they want to connect back to that or even for us. i feel like it was always in my grandparent's house. it was always in my parents house. it was a part of kind of new england folklore in a sense and and i think as you kind of hint to that what is interesting about this particular book is that it's it's almost a tool more than a piece of literature. it was there to help farmers, you know do everything from grow crops and breed livestock to vote. there were things like how here's where to vote. here's one court. or here's the vacation

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frankly, the farmers, if you talk to them, contract farmers are living in deep debt and crisis. i was stunned in the hearing that i was being praised by a guy on conservative radio in alabama as being this northeast democrat that was talking to the concerns that the farmers have. i agree with both of you, that the farmers are my hope in america. i have gone out to the midwest to meet with republican farmers. and i was amazed at the concern we have, because they know the system as it is designed right now is benefiting more and more corporate concentration, farmers, their inputs are going up, i had one republican farmer from western illinois, if i remember correctly, is telling me their father had five people to sell their cattle to. now, one person. it is a system that is no longer working. the farmers share their consumer dollar. when my folks go to a supermarket, from their beef, to the broccoli, the farmers share of the consumer dollar has gone down 50%. it is a food system where everyone is losing. talked about thewe talked aboutf our country, they are losing. we talked abou

ask any farmer in _ year. absolutely. ask any farmer in the _ year. absolutely.d - year. absolutely. ask any farmer in the land how. year. absolutely. ask any i farmer in the land how much year. absolutely. ask any - farmer in the land how much he has the paper fertiliser and farmer in the land how much he has the paperfertiliser and it is more than doubled in the last three or four months. so, yes, that is an encouraging sign that that should continue at the moment as someone said earlier on there is no better time to be producing ammonia at the moment. so we are very hopeful that production will continue and we will not have any shortage problems. but if production — any shortage problems. but if production does _ any shortage problems. but if production does not _ any shortage problems. but ifi production does not continue, explain to us, reminds the consequences of that, the fallout. , . fallout. cf when they closed three or four _ fallout. cf when they closed three or four months - fallout. cf when they closed three or four months ago i fallout. cf when they

how should farmers and indonesia planned to fort the sea? but 1st, the forest of no return on the deadly migration route from south america to the usa . climate change wars, conflicts and economic hardship are all forcing increasing number of people to flee their homes in 2021. there were more than 82000000 forcibly displaced people world wide. people seeking a better, more secure life for themselves and their families were forced to abandon their own home land. a dangerous path, according to you and data, at least $4470.00 migrants died globally last year. but the number of on reported cases is probably much higher. they are often not very welcome in their final destinations. between september 2020 and september 2021. nearly 1700000 people were arrested at the u. s. border alone. most of them came from central and south america. were one of the most dangerous migration roots passes to the duddy and jungle connecting columbia and panama many migrants don't make it out alive. it's dreadful, dreadful, my brother, luna deluded among. don't come

it has a contract with farmers on the edge of the city. the school canteen prepares meals over 600 children every day. today's lunch will include with the children harvested earlier. the cook discusses the meal plan with the nutrition teacher. the children get balanced meals with carbs, or fish and vegetables, not the usual school dinners that most adults prefer to forget. when i was at school, the dinners were pretty awful, to be honest with that. but that was a long time ago, and things have changed. school dinners have improved a lot in and goes in and that there are northbrook a scene cast a day. the idea is also to introduce the children to new flavors and textures like this charo stew. but the most important thing is that they enjoy their lunch. you easing grade to all the children, get to do kitchen duty once a month and to day it's her turn. they all have to wear aprons and hair net they visibly enjoy themselves. they can't wait to see with the cooks have done with the vegetables. they dug up this morning. lunch is served in the cl

what we are saying is this has got to be about all farmers, about small farmers, large farmers, landownersg is this has to be about land sharing, about fulfilling farmer ambition to do more for the environment, to restore nature but within a farm landscape and not making sure we end up with an either or but that it is about nature or food production, as we know we can do both in this country and we have to get it right and farmers above all else, they want to know what detail is in the scheme and what the returns are because as i said at the beginning, they are running businesses and their livelihoods and the animal welfare aspect of all for this depends on them knowing what the government plan is.- the government plan is. interesting to talk to you _ the government plan is. interesting to talk to you about _ the government plan is. interesting to talk to you about that. _ the government plan is. interesting to talk to you about that. thank - the government plan is. interestingj to talk to you about that. thank you for speaking to us. the chancellor rishi sunak has been speaking in west su

sizable financial loss for the farmer. the government compensates farmers after such incidents, but at a rate around half of market value went toward the wild animals from the desert. the lions, the elephants, causes a lot of problems. we'll get graded. our quits are one t, it's getting well, we don't gain anything from having wild animals here. they bring us nothing, no more hoard more. ah, he went to a hole in our livestock, our, our income, how we earn our living, the hold work with our whole near his stall. gary rob has discovered fresh hyena tracks on brown. hyenas don't hunt goats, but the tracks could have been made by spotted hyenas. through a more aggressive species, lou liquid come gun. if, if the government doesn't take care of the hyenas, again, we have no choice or google play the dumb, cuz i mean, we have to shoot them. that's the plan on the mazda ah, when he was a cattle, her phineas casa owner, also killed hyenas in lions. to day, he protects them. he's a ranger, a member of the unable community reserve. s

the farmers tend to view them as a threat to their livelihood. often for good reason, sandra, but not all wide live behaved the same way. conservationist an amoeba. i'll try to get more people to recognize some of the differences in order to protect both wild and domesticated animals. the skeleton coast and northwestern namibia is home to brown hyenas, also known as strand wolves. i know is a very important in the ecosystem, and i've got a very important role to play at lakewood jade as the bad guys. and that's what people think about i enough in general, who if we were killing or roach, is always a cut over and we can do nothing about it. but even if i must come of lindsey, we are killing no real big green though. omens. i understand with us and we are now living in a nature reserve among side wild animals. we can earn as much with them now as we do with goats and sheep. so i no longer shoot them immediately. the hyenas are perfectly adapted to the extreme desert conditions, an icy cold ben gala ocean current biologist mc favey has been studying the animals here for 7 years, and it's

but the rice farmers who rely on the land do not. they are fighting to keep their livelihoods and heritage. >> right here, says jose juan sorribes, is where his neighbor's holiday home once stood. today, all that's left is this winter srm last ye.wasestrg they have become more and more common. rribes ss they shoclimate change is creasingly they have become more and more endangering spais ebro delta. for years, locals have demanded better coastal protections, but their calls have fallen on deaf ears. >> the storms and authorities inaction are harming us. they won't let people in the ebro delta protect their land. our hands are tied, as we can' do anything withouan official something, anything, must peidone.. locals are growing desperate. extreme weather events and lile more th this strip of land near the river delta. it is the last linof defense between the sea and the countless rise paddies that lie inland. the spanish government wants to nationalize over 800 hectares of privately-owned land to turn it into an additional buffer zone.

these are people that originally had problems with the farmers. understand that that is part of the problem that started from the clash between farmers and --. because there was no government intervention at the beginning, that continues to where we are at today. and then there is also a movement of criminals in the northeast who originally were boko haram terrorists. they moved on from the -- down to the northwest because the government strategy of dealing with the terrorists was not properly failsafe. failsafe in the sense that whereas when you are fighting criminals, you have to deal with them in such a way that when you disperse them, -- i mean, when you fight them, you do not let them disperse. >> sorry to interrupt, let me get back to you in just a moment on that point. i do have a question. first, you heard him talk about the historical roots of the conflict we are seeing play out in northwestern nigeria. this violence seems to be rooted in conflict for land and water between nomadic cattle herders and farmers. i want to ask you more about

we'll continue to record those issues and need nearest and dearest of the farmers. just like it has always been years in resources 1st. possibly that's the aim of the activist your ball to meet in our next report. in these roll fashion designers, i found a striking way to draw attention to the amount of waste that's produced by the industry years this week. doing your best, ah, a cake made of bags and packaging with a box as a hat, just fully or is it fashion? these colorful outfits were made by artists, but it's only a 2nd glance you see that actually made from trash like this bubble wrap. wedding dress complete with veil and how about this funky blazer, a slew of cigarette butts? it's actually quite awful because there is a thank you snow. and also you can imagine that all those but was on the beach and on the street. it's one or it's the most common there threat to go with this artists group in israel is holding a mock fashion show in television harbor to protest the damage, fast fashion reeks on the environment. the fashion industry is a major culprit in harming

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it has a contract with farmers on the edge of the city. the school canteen prepares meals over 600 children every day. today's lunch will include with the children harvested earlier. the cook discusses the meal plan with the nutrition teacher. the children get balanced meals with carbs, or fish and vegetables, not the usual school dinners that most adults prefer to forget. when i was at school, the dinners were pretty awful, to be honest with that. but that was a long time ago, and things have changed. school dinners have improved a lot in english and that there are northbrook a scene cascade day. the idea is also to introduce the children to new flavors and textures like this charo stew. but the most important thing is that they enjoy their lunch you is in grade to all the children get to do kitchen duty once a month and today it's her turn off. they all have to wear aprons and hair net they visibly enjoy themselves. they can't wait to see with the cooks have done with the vegetables. they dug up this morning. lunch is served in the class