stagnant markets so take advantage of hte rallying being being here i appreciate it. stay with us, john phipps has some thanksgiving commentary when we come back has some thanksgiving commentary when we come back some of you are probably still recovering from devouring a big meal this week. for john, it marks a special season... i'll let him explain from teh farm. ven by the most traditional rules, the celebration of thanksgiving marks the beginning of the christmas season. which evolving position on what the proper amount of illumination is for this season, but this year, my focus is going to be on the led - light-emitting diode. led's are rapidly replacing incandescent bulbs just about everywhere, and the fact they are so much more efficient, using a fraction of electricity and generating far less useless heat, has a huge impact on our entire electric consumption pattern. our power consumption per capita has been essentially flat for twenty years, for example. many of you remember the dissatisfaction with mandates to switch to more efficient lighting devices, and to be fair, one solution - c

we'll after a long and mostly unpleasant election year, you may be able to guess what john phipps is thankful for. and you probably would be wrong. john joins us from his illinois farm to explain why...in his annual thanksgiving message. suppose someone close to you - a friend, a child or grandchild, or even your spouse - came to you and said, "i'm thinking about running for a public office". it could be anything from township clerk to state legislator or president. what would your initial reaction be? i'm guessing it would be something like mine: "are you out of your the bottom of respected professions. there is an entire industry devoted to scrutinizing every aspect of their conduct and person, and there is little sympathy for all too human faults and failures. as we have just seen, the process of choosing who will hold public office is brutal - even at the lowest levels. and once in office, it seems most rules of respect and courtesy are no longer applicable. we grant them few boundaries of privacy and automatically suspect every motive. i think we have worked into a vicious cycle.

up next, john phipps. old dogs and new tricks. u-s farm report brought to you by the bx and l series compact tractor available now with a 6 year power train warranty. learn welcome back. it's time now for customer support. for that, let's head over to illinois and check in with john from the farm. john. my story about fixing a washing machine with the help of the internet prompted this reply from ginger cruver in indio california i have had to take charge of all things domestic due to my 89-year-old husband's illness and with my daughter's find! at least it gives me a heads-up on what may be the problem or solution. amen to google youtube etc thanks for writing ginger and im glad youre discovering a source of help. i have thought more about this unexpected trend and you can read more of my thoughts in an upcoming issue of top producer in print or on agweb.com. basically, i realized what is happening is that we are all becoming librarians in a way people who dont necessarily know the answer to a problem but know ways to find out th

come back, john phipps. marijuana marijuana s in it for you? well, it's a topic we haven't covered a lot on our show, but it's making headlines across the country. and it's thiss week's customer support. bob dillard noticed something important i think that also happened on november 8: "at what point do we begin recognizing the tremendous number of our fellow citizens who now can use oregon, washington and now over 12 percent of the population in caliia plus massachusetts, nevada, maine as well as florida, north dakota. it's clearly a growth industry with a giant upside that will only continue to grow." bob, you make a great point. recreational and medical marijuana measures passed in numerous and varied states, but i do not think this is going to become a big money maker for farmers. i may be one of the few of my generation who did no experiment with marijuana in the 60's and 70's or since, believe it or not. so i'm relying on excellent information from michael pollan's book, the botany of desire. his explanation of marijuana breeding and produ

south american weather. but that control those bushel get control. thank you both stay with us john phipps joins us next to receive a free trial of the daily market letter and gain knowledge about current market conditions from the professionals at bauer trading view the markets like never on results from last several cities last week - a pretty surprising development given the anti-tax mood. the taxes are on soda or pop or whatever your word for sugar- sweetened-beverages - ssb's. varying from 1 to 1? cents per ounce, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it might be, in two ways. first, as was emphasized in the philadelphia example, it is a relatively inoffensive source of revenue for hard-pressed city budgets. after all is you don't drink many ssbs, it's an easy tax to support. for that city, annual revenue of about 90 million dollars is expected. tying that revenue to schools or other popular uses helped get it passed as well. secondly, we have all been hearing for years about sugar consumption, and one of the largest sources of unneeded sugar is soda and similar drinks. they contain as