and when we return, it is mailbag time. and jason a. of las vegas, we're going to read your letter, get an answer from the >> and we're back with our closing segment of "eye on washington." it's our mailbag segment. it's time to read one of your letters. we ask our guest to respond to you right here on the air. and, senator, i've got a letter to you from jason a. of las vegas. and here's what he writes. you have insisted that the urban area security initiative funding formula include transient and tourist populations. why should it include nonpermanent residents for its grant funding qualifications? >> someone comes to nevada, we must take care of them just like we take care of one of us. we are a city based on tourism. anyone ever thinks we don't take care of our tourists, we'd be in big trouble. >> okay. jason will understand that i'm sure, keeping everybody safe. thank you. thanks so for being here. you know, you can send a letter to the senator or another member of the nevada delegation. just go to our website joycecommunications.co

it is our mailbag segment. it's when we read your letter, a letter you have sent to the mailbag page of our joyce communications website. we read it right on the air and we ask our guest to respond to you right here. and, congressman, we have a letter to you today from jasper t. he writes, dear congressman heck, i've seen a lot about the section 179 deduction for what do you say to jasper? >> yeah, jasper, that's a great question because we just worked on that very provision. the section 179 deduction allows a business to expense or write off 100% of a certain amount of equipment or real estate or something that they need to help run their business. so it's a tax write-off for businesses. for many years, that was set at a certain level. and it was recently increased as part of the stimulus package. but it was only increased for a one-year period. so every year businesses wld buy something in july, whether or not they'd be able to write it off because the decision wasn't being made by the federal government unti

send your questions or comments to john at mailbag at u-s farm report dot com. up next, we'll this week we head out west to hear another ranch tale from baxter black. this is the story of a curious cow who lived on mr. marvin's farm in the kingdom of kansas. her name was yvonne. farmer marv had a great large old-fashioned barn with a second story hay mow, a high pitched roof and a rooster weather vane on the tallest peak. yvonne was piddling around the barnyard one fine day doing her hooves, trying to find her cuticles and curling her switch. "how did that rooster get on top of the barn?" she wondered. "well," said peggy, her best hen friend, "i supposed he walked. he could not fly because the poultry protection league made it illegal for us to fly higher than a chicken wire fence." see." she walked to a steep set of wooden stairs. "you can't go up there!" said friend hen, "because cows can't hop." "i wonder," mused yvonne, and she clattered up the steps like a mountain goat! then walked to the open door. yvonne had never seen the farm from this high up. it was

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if you have questions or comments, send those to john at mailbag at u-s farm report dot com. when we come back, teh coversation about food moves to there are around 2 point 1 million farms in the u-s. and the population? it's nearly 319 million. that can explain why there's such a wide knowledge gap between the average consumer and farmers. ag groups teamed up with nascar last weekend to try to narrow that gap by bringing farming and food to the finish line at the chicagoland speedway. their mission was difficult than driving nascar? ugh, yeah. for sure. i grew up in a farm community. going from the farm to the finish line, coming together for one grand event in an effort to connect consumers to production agriculture. when the initiative of let's talk food dot com came together, for me it was just the icing on the cake, it's an extra piece to what we've been trying to accomplish for a number of years now. so to see winfield ghether. to see the support we have from the ag community, to be able to help drivce education. it's a topic for whiich both allegier and armstrong have

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