thing heads a local unit of the national farmers' organization here at the british marianna if there's a dairy deal with the u.s. and milk imports are allowed prices could fall that would pose a huge threat to marginal dairy farmers and laborers they'll be staring at major losses with it's but not everyone is worried at this private dairy farm almost every step of the process has been mechanized the cows here milked twice a day they host and freeze eons ago to pinpoint the company or there is a new niche player in the industry order. is the co-founder of he produces what he says is beyond milk free of hormones or adultery it's an issue that remains a white bread concern in india and it is a passion as in the premium milk is bastardised here are going to doesn't view us daily imports as a threat he says because his unique selling point is freshness and rapid delivery just 12 hours from cow to customers but the entrepreneur who is a vegetarian does have misgivings about a great deal with the u.s. especially an aspect that has proved a major stumbling block in negotiations. there are conc

the national farmers union. it is a plan to have devastating impact. we know mister speaker that the uk government with our economy in the scottish system. it doesn't mean scottish children like and behind. this is no fault of their own. i may say respectfully to the right bolt gentleman. he once again he would be better off getting on with delivering to the people of scotland. for delivery and for the people. the prime minister. as my concern. about the delay in the delivery of the mesa east line. will the prime minister ensure that there are no further delays in this railway line. rightly raising the issue of rail elections. in addition to that billion that we are putting into the railways. they just indicated to me that those connections are his highest priority. unable to talk, walk or teach himself. he brought joy and love to all who knew him. when the basic check said that they have some new policies. can i ask the prime minister of the united kingdom to advise the house and every disabled person in this island. when he was at the heart of his go

our nation's farmers, truckers and grocers. the unlikely champions of our critical supply chain. but it's not without risk. the pandemic shedding a new light on their always-critical mission. >> this is a necessity for the time. this is quarantine food. >> jamil cromwell has been driving trucks for more than a decade ever since he came back from a tour in afghanistan with the national guard. >> in many ways you guys are the front lines keeping the supply chain open. >> we're one of the essential people out there. >> today he's deli he distance. >> my father's staying in the house. if we need something, we'll go get it for you. >> insideconnecticut, the packe crates a hopeful sign. tom has worked here for over 40 years but has never seen anything like the covid-19 outbreak. >> they just came out of wood work and buying everything you have. we have been out of toilet paper. >> at least 46 states have closed schools and millions have been ordered to stay home. life as we know it has come to a halt. one of the early and persistent fears, will there be enough food? tonight we're takin

scotland's national farmers that evidence has been disregarded, disregarded by he uk government, and the scottish tourism alliance say their plans will have evastating impact for scotland's work force. we know, mr. speaker that senior igures and the uk government have said what the scottish quote,ent decides, and i doesn't matter. the prime minister thinks the scottish parliament doesn't businesses tish matter, prime minister. course, peaker, of scottish businesses matter, and the way to do well by scottish be to tax would not them with the highest tax rates the uk. we want a sound economy. educational system lagging t allow the educational system from no fault of their own. i may say respectfully, to the gentleman who shouts at me from once ntary position that again he would be better off getting on with delivering for scotland, rather with his nuing ceaseless and vain quest to uk because he'll not succeed. for the people. so i'm sure the prime minister the s my concerns about delay in the delivery of the ajor east line which runs through my constituency and others l. the prime mini

and yet for many farmers, according to the national farmers' union, it remains a source of great concerndevastating disease and farmers. we work with farmers all the time. they are losing their livelihood because quote —— you need to look at the source, you need to improve the testing by improving the testing and fighting the disease within the herd, you can remove it. the current test is about 45% accurate in the field. we have tests that work and actually detect tb and if you can detect it, you can remove it. the current system cannot do it. thanks very much indeed. now time for a look at the weather. thursday has turned out to be a decent day for much of northern britain but what a contrast for their cell. really wet and miserable. some pretty strong winds around this area of low pressure, which has spread that rain across the southern counties of england and wales. at some point, lingering longest into this southeastern quarter as at low pressure really ta kes quarter as at low pressure really takes its time through the evening or overnight to drag wind and rain off towards the heart

the government says it is talking to the national farmers union about this.ant tojoin twitter page so you can look if you want to join the land army that's needed at the moment. thanks very much, nina, for that info. as we continue to adapt to a life of self—isolation and social distancing, we are turning ever more to technology to keep in touch with our loved ones. jayne mccubbin has been speaking to one family trying to stay connected about the challenges that come with it. this is one small part of the mackenzie family in yorkshire, and this is a much bigger slice of the mackenzie family. isolation, of course, means they are split, but like so many right now, younger family members are helping older relatives like auntie patricia to master modern technology and keep the family connected, with varying degrees of success. me and techno don't go. i can see you well and clear. you can see me but i know there's a button... all i can see is my fireplace. you flip the image so i can see you but you can still see me. wait a minute. it's complicated. it is complica

farmers appreciate sheep farmers and. nationals are doing today. a favor chatter around. seem to mount. climate change is shaking up this rural paradise sheep and cows are major producers of meeting they generate one 3rd of all greenhouse gas emissions in new zealand suddenly farmers are seen as environmental centers randall can see growing misunderstanding between people in the city and in the country. as the city's new head cousins had a farm and friends that had a farm so most people probably spent on farms. that much as the populations grow and. the includes new zealand center left governments in this for example sheep and cows wading through rivers and possibly fouling the water doesn't fit with new zealand's clean image so many farmers now have to build fences along the waterways on their property. which farmers have become a political pawn says randall. in terms of. how they actually have been an opposition from on years saunters have had actually run a country actually run a business strategy from chinese. experience for me and so it sort of feel. it was a lot of

fighting for america's heartland, our nation's farmers are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemicring u.s. food supply remains strong as a surge in demand sparks large scale disruption in the agricultural industry. the coronavirus yet another blow to hit u.s. farmers in recent years as many are still ng to recover from the ongoing trade feud, remember. here with me now is u.s. agricultural secretary, sonny perdue. mr. secretary, thanks very much for being here. >> good morning. good to be with you. maria: what changes have you made? how is the usda ensuring that the safety of farmers as they work overtime to supply food to much of the united states, really interested in getting your take on the food supply and any vulnerabilities right now. >> we have a very complex food supply chain from those vendors that supply our farmers with the tools and inputs they need to grow the crops and then after that, it what to be harvested and processed and food safety inspectors are on the job as they've always been and the processors and logistics, all the way to the consumer, it's a complex sup

the nation needs 700,000 new farmers to take up the plow over the next 20 years.'s crazy to me that we talk about health care without talking about food. you pay the farmer or the grocer. it supports the local economies and your health. >> this is how food should be done. on a macro level, on a micro level, community farm, small farms. if everyone tried growing something, we would be in a different places all together. >> a place where people like that he who love to eat can go. a place where food can save us. one person at a time. one flavor at a time. >> thank you. >>> our great republic has stood test of time. >> in living color -- >> for two and a half centuries, we've done a lot to be proud of. >> our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security. >> we've been prosperous, powerful -- >> the cold war days are over. >> ambitious. >> the internet in your pockets. >> but tolerance hasn't been our strong suit. it never has. >> racism

nation. >> thank you. >> meet the frazier family. texas farmers. >> do you guys always cook together as a family?ekends together. >> i love a sunday supper like this. >> roll your fingers in, like a crab. >> homemade bread. fresh vegetables. >> oh, yeah. look at this. >> steak of course. >> and the rare experience of sharing a meal with four generations. the frazier family farm covers 5,000 acres. >> so tell me what you farm here. >> we farm colten, grain and corn primarily some years we add a little wheat. >> come on. come on, girls. it's okay. >> most of what we grow will go to livestock feed. >> what's up laddiladies and gey didn't see you there. >> and corn. >> pretty good corn for south texas, compared to what we have for the midwest, what we grow is a crop failure to them. >> i live in minnesota. we take our corn really seriously. >> that is an ear of food grain corn. when they make -- >> starch content a technical thing. >> nearly 120 million acres of corn were planted in 2019, making if america's largest crop and also a key ingredient in processed food. >> less than 10% of the corn grown

nation and came out victorious. congratulations to these future farmers on their tremendous accomplishment. you have made the sixth district proud. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize scott county, indiana, on their bicentennial celebration. in these two centuries, scott county has become a cornerstone of my sixth district. with the growing economy, beautiful parks and lakes, and a close community of hoosiers, scott county continues to be a great place for all of us to call home. congratulations on the bicentennial and here's to the ext 200 years in scott county. mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate rushville rotary club for celebrating 100 years of service. for a century now, the rushville rotary club has been a pillar of community involvement in the district. the rotary club continues to support local service projects around the community and helps students at the rushville high school. i want to thank the members of the rotary club for their service and dedication to the people of rushville and congratulate them on their 100th anniversary. mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulat

a "feed our nation" campaign has been launched by farmers, to try to recruit tens of thousands of people the jobs are usually done by seasonal migrants from eastern europe, but many can't come to the uk because of the coronavirus restrictions. richard westcott is in ely in cambridgeshire. richard? we have all seen what has happened in the supermarkets but what about the food that is going to be coming down the line in a few months‘ time? the planting lettuces behind me, those lettuces need to be picked, starting on april 222nd and they are currently very short of workers to do it because they normally come from abroad so there is this campaign like you have said, to get british people coming in and picking. beverley, you have worked for the biggest lettuce grower in britain, one the biggest in europe, how serious is your issue? pretty serious. we find ourselves with over 2,500 vacancies that we need to fill over the next few weeks if we are to start harvest on 22nd april and you, as you say you can see them being planted. we need the people tojoin us, to come and harvest this lovely fres

peter: jefferson was a state's rights, really had a different vision for the nation, really seeing the yeoman farmers the quintessential american. sandwiched between the notion of what jefferson probably would talk about the savagery of native americans, and the evil aristocrats of england, which would be factory workers. what he saw was the yeoman farmer, the connection to the earth as a great thing. and because of that saw local control as important. hamilton, on the other part, saw manufacturing and cities as the future. as such, creating an economic platform where you have tariffs to protect those infant industries, was really critical. and in this time period, they are really critical, so protecting those industries is a reasonable thing. later on, people use the same rhetoric, but it's tougher to say whether it is measured in later years as fairly used as a justification for taxes. susan: so this this period of time, in the general sense, the jeffersonian democrats and then ultimately the whigs, the jeffersonian democrats were low tariff people and the whigs were high tariff people. peter: rig

little about wild pollinators unfortunately the majority or farmers are illiterate so it's always difficult to explain to them how the problem nation and the poor nature has improved and to have a good yield and also for a 4 for a system so the farmers will try to explain very easily and we don't really talk about probably nature is but we talk about insect insects that visit the flowers the fab project is based in rob at the capital the institute belongs to the international center for agricultural research in the dry areas or in canada houses a collection of sounds of insects found by the scientists during their field experiments many pollinators that exist in morocco have yet to be identified it's easy to get various species mixed up. sikes i can say it's 10 percent or 20 percent but we always ask i cannot say this is an aunt of iraq for example and say ok this is not a for those have discussion in that same discussion with our supervisor with people who are really specialists in this field and then we say ok this is this is the genius and this is the final decision because. stephanie crist months project has the backing of the

nation of jefferson. jefferson is about independent farmers. everyone else is dependent, and as dependent they don't have direct access to the government. native americans are classified as domestic dependent nations, in a relation of dependency to the government, in a way that is legally to dependencies of wives, children, enslaved people, working people to their household heads. we have this sort of legal creation here, of these nations that are inferior nations, without land, but sporting aid to the federal government, which is actually not the relationship of the nations to each other. this is not how france or britain relate to the united states. imagine if the french envoy went off and said that's why, we decided to turn you into an independent nation. i don't think france will be excited about that. legally, indian nations are cast differently here. not quite nations, but not members of the people. you get a sense of the growing frustration, from the documents that were signed you are signed today, so the indian saying wait a minute, this

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about slavery and often it was explicitly for slavery even though it was a national party and appealed for votes, working farmersnd immigrants, by the way in northern states. it was essentially a proslavery party and senator benton was part of that. susan: probably the most important character is the united states itself. give us a snapshot of what the country was like. steve: if we can imagine what one historian has called the shape of the united states, the map was not all drawn yet. it did not belong to the united states. the westernmost city in the united states of any consequence was st. louis, missouri. there were a few towns west of that, but nothing very important. other than st. louis and bits of louisiana, at the very beginning, all the states were east of the mississippi river. susan: what was the population? steve: gaining rapidly. only two or three million at the time of the revolution. by the time of my story it is getting over 20 million. by the time of the civil war just after my story, it is 31 million people. it is seen as almost doubling in a generation. the median age is very low. it is a ver

nations. think about that in relationship to the whole vision of jefferson. jefferson is about independent farmers. everybody else is dependent. they don't have direct access to government. native americans are classified as domestic dependent nations in a relationship of dependency to the federal government in a way that analogous to wives, children, enslaved people, working people to their household heads. we have this legal creation here of these nations that are inferior without land but then subordinated to the federal government, which is not the relationship of nations to each other. this is not how france or britain relates to the united states. imagine if the french envoy told the government, guess what, we have decided to turn you into a domestic dependent nation. i don't think france would be excited about that. legally, indian nations are cast differently here, not quite nations. they are not members of the people. you get a sense of the growing frustration from the documents that you were assigned today with the indians saying, wait a minute, these are -- this is our land. what's happ

this funding would allow the agriculture to get farmers and ranchers across the nation who are facingmarket volatility and declining pricing in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. farmers and ranchers as i might add who are already dealing with the weak ag economy well before this emergency hit. i spoke with the secretary of agriculture a couple of days ago. and conveyed to him just the incredible amount of hardship and economic pain that's being created across the farm belt these day, particularly with our cattle ranchers and the pain that they're feeling as a result of the declining prices and what it might mean to their operations. so i would simply say in supporting all of my colleagues and what they've said today, mr. president, is we don't know the full impact of this outbreak across agricultural industry but we do know n. our producers -- know this. our producers are doing their part to keep the grocery shelves stocked and food on our tables. and we need to do our part and provide the resources necessary to support them which is why it is so important for many of the reasons we'

national farm workers association. helen and other chi cana embers -- chi cono members created the union and became treasure forer for what became united farmers. i want to honor a woman who both raised and financially supported her family while also changing the history from the grassroots up. thank you, madam speaker. i yield chack. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? to >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise to honor the life of jack campbell, former commander of the indian trail v.f.w. post 2423. sadly, jack passed away march 10, 2020. at 19 years old and weighing 100 pounds, jack was too light to be drafted. but things changed, in his words, and soon he was in vietnam. jack's service to his country did not end abroad, upon returning he became commander of v.f.w. post 2423, captain of the honor guard, and district 13 commander for v.f.w. in north carolina. mr. bishop: jack was a patriot who valued service, the national anthem, and the american flag. citiz

to make sure there is provision in their whether it is our cattle producers or farmers raising crops across the great nation that they continue to do what they do every day on behalf of all americans. our colleagues want to emphasize how important farmers and ranchers and rural america is part of the legislation. you see what is going on, whatever it may be. it is a huge challenge. it comes from the rural areas, it comes from rural america. we've got to be there, for those who supply people across the nation and communities, large and small. i would like to turn to my friend from the state of kansas, and asked the good senator from kansas to make some comments. >> senator from kansas. >> appreciate the leadership of my colleagues on his efforts, he chairs the subcommittee and appropriation of agriculture and rural development, and senator fisher and my colleague from kansas, to highlight something that is potentially going to be absent from this legislation. i ask senator harry -- secretary perdue, and to be helpful particularly to livestock producers, men and women who raise cattle and feed cattle who are

while many of the nation's most congested highways and busy streets have gone empty, beaches, basketball courts, cancelled festivals and farmer's markets drew massive crowds despite the national call for social distancing. after scenes like these in california, overnight l.a. county park trails were closed. parking lots at beaches were shuttered and many recreational playgrounds were locked up. >> the young and healthy have a unique obligation to the seniors to keep them safe and you can't do that at a pickup basketball game. >> reporter: individual states, counties and cities are handling restrictions differently. leaving some ignoring orders to stay away from crowds. >> i feel like there's been so many viruses and stuff that i've seen throughout my lifetime this is just kind of another. >> reporter: as states try to simplify their message, well over a dozen with more likely to join today. have told nearly half the nation's population to stay at home. >> don't leave your home unless someone's life depends on your leaving. >> reporter: there are exceptions, going to the grocery store or solitary exercise are permitted. but in o

it's going to protect the supply lines to give the nation confidence in the food supplies, and then secondly do everything it can to back the farmersroduction to keep us all well fed. we are very mindful in everything we do to keep those supply chains open and take a look at that and he also makes a good and important point about food supply, and the opportunities for uk—based suppliers to rise to meet the demand or supply that will be curtailed as result of covid—i9. the government's chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, has said he hopes the latest measures to control the coronavirus outbreak would mean 20,000 orfewer deaths. he also told the health committee the outbreak was a "daily, changing, unique situation". if yesterday's announcement bears the fruit that we are hoping, then the total number of deaths rather than being in the hundreds of thousands could potentially get below 20,000 which is still a huge number of deaths, but is nonetheless a much better picture than many might have feared. that is the hope that we can get it down to that. to put that into perspective, every year in seasonal flu the number of deat

nation. it lasted for ten years as the only statewide daylight saving law. this laugh that state farmers blamed for millions of losses and the complaint became the basis for the appeal which made today the u.s. supreme court. for severallese the national grange rad been angling for this fight, and at it convention in pittsburgh in 1923 the grange elected masters from ten northeastern states to agitate against existing daylight laws. in 1926, the test case made it to the u.s. supreme court. the court ruled against the grange. smithing the proposition that massachusetts farmers were owed compensation, the court articulated the principle that put daylight saving will within the purview of any state. the supreme court's majorityman was delivered by he justice ol' her ven del holmes. a native of boston. at the spring of 1928 more than 25 million americans and 16 states were observing daylight saving. most of the participating cities adopted a five month schedule but no end to the variation is. vermont waited until the last sunday in may to advance the clocks. auburn, america, three myung folt