since local farm service offices have been shutred, farmers cannot apply for new loans, sign up for acreages or receive government checks for programs that they're enrolled in. last year, georgia farmers gat $150 million in federal subsidies, a point not lost on the president tuesday, when he blamed republicans. >> you have farmers, and the republican party says that it looks after farmers, and i happen to disagree. >> reporter: here, farm hand rodney is looking to plant next week, but he's blind on how much to put in the ground. he thinks that the folks in washington just don't get it. >> it's very simple. >> when you're trying to plant a crop, we're not just competing with our neighbors in agriculture. we have to compete with farmers worldwide. >> as gallaway's winter hay grows, so does his anger over the impasse. with compromise as close as winter dreams, he's giving congress until next week before he calls him with an ear full. >> by the way, the crop affects commodity prices around the world. and food and agriculture programs will likely be more dire. and on that note, the number of ame

here are the top stories, from furloughed workers to shutred monuments, the 16 day shutdown has takena toll on people across america. take social security, for example, there are 67 million americans who collect benefit checks every month, and it directly affects those benefits. aljazeera has been talking to americans from coast-to-coast, watching with growing concern. we have allen in portland. and jennifer in los angeles, and once again, in new orleans, talking about social security concerns with seniors, what are they telling you? >> john, you no he, i think that the president encapsulated it when he spoke, and a lot of the folks in new orleans are saying exactly what he said. they're looking for concrete steps to move forward. and they don't care who provides those steps. they're obviously very frustrated right now when it comes to the government shutdown, but when it comes to social security, this has been a concern for quite some time. and obviously a big concern for seniors across this country. when you consider that 85% of all americans over 65 years old get some sort of socia