he places greater emphasis on the civic benefits of the agricultural improvements. he introduces but those expectations also frame his new reckoning with slavery in the years following the revolutionary war and it's here in his life as a farmer more than any other dimension of his life that we can discern how washington ultimately confronted the paradox of slavery freedom that runs throughout the founding. and it says a farmer that we can find the most detailed record of his changing attitudes towards slavery. the story of washington the farmer is the story of washington made slaver farming and enslaved labor were inseparable to washington throughout his entire life as a farmer and he once wrote that he didn't like to even think about slavery let alone write about it or talk about it, but in fact he thought about slavery all the time and he thought about it and wrote about it in terms of his management of the enslaved agricultural labor at at his own estate and it's there in that record that you can see both the change in attitude and also the record of his daily int

and it's the art-- agriculture is the answer to the problem. >> i think agriculture is the answer. in my view, the bad news is the distance from farm to forest has never been wider. so, how do wee do a better job f telling our story in a positive light and i appreciate the thought about needing science and third-party validator's to cite the science. one last question, for you mr. meyer, you mentioned the most successful sustainable tool is implementing them and impacted by them. i couldn't agree more. do you have any examples of your experience with successful industry led initiatives and why do you think they were successful? >> at the us roundtable we just completed our building of the framework completed this past december. in the process of building the tool for all of our members to use. once we do that we can baseline our sustainability across the us poultry and agriculture sector. we base it on three pillars, poultry, planet and people and try to be holistic encompassing all aspects, every note of the supply chain with over 100 metrics we

the problem. mr. mann: agriculture is the answer. in my view. the distance from farm to fork has never been wider. the good news is with this device, i can communicate to the entire world in a milisecond, right? so how do we do a better job of telling the story in a positive light. i appreciate the thought about needing the science and third parties to cite the science. one more question. for you, mr. meier. you mentioned the most successful, sustainable tools are created by those implementing them and impacted by them. i couldn't agree more. do you have any examples of your experience with successful industry-led initiatives and why do you think they were successful? mr. meier: the u.s. round table for sustainable poultry and eggs just completed our building of the framework and that was completed this past december. in the process of building an online tool for all of our members to use, we'll be able to baseline our sustainability across the u.s. poultry and egg sectors. so we base it off three pillars. poultry, planet and people. try to be h

he will take questions from members of the house agriculture committee. this is live coverage on c-span3. >>> the committee meeting will come to order. i want to welcome everyone. and i want to thank you for joining us today to have our hearing, which is entitled the review of the state of the rural economy with agriculture secretary tom vilsack. after brief opening remarks, members will receive testimony from our witness today. and then the hearing will be open to questions. without objection, the chair may recess the committee subject to the call of the chair at any point during this hearing. and now i just want to give my brief opening statement. i want to welcome everyone who are watching today with this hearing, and i would like to start by first of all extending a warm greeting to my dear friend, secretary vilsack. and we are delighted to have you with us today, secretary. now, a key function of our house agriculture committee is to conduct oversight and ensure that the executive branch is implementing congressionally authorized programs as they are

it's also a pillar for the food and agricultural industry. generating more than $576 billion in annual economic impact, and $41.9 billion in tax was more than two million workers employed by the poultry and egg supply chains. what shifted lately is the push up and down supply chain. it's not enough for to us have fantastic sustainability programs at mcdonald's and at our suppliers, we must have everything put together from the very beginning, from the feed for the birds to the delivery of our food across the country. mcdonald's has taken learnings from the round table and commit committed and invested millions of dollars in partnership programs with its suppliers to increase the sustainability of its poultry supply chain. one example is the round table partnership and the u.s. round table for poultry and egg sustainability framework. another project example is the smart boiler project focused on innovation and outcomes based poultry welfare assessments. i share this with you today to offer some good news and reassurance that the entire poultry

the first being in agriculture, chairman scott, your point, there's a need to understand the implications of agriculture electrification, there could be a research program created and doing that needs to be a multistake holder process so have the manufacturers of the women, utilities of course to understand the details of charging but the farmers as well in that case so they do not bear the case of the equipment all by themselves. with that, we have a joint dot, doe office of electric transportation so still qualifies as moving people and goods with electricity so whatever learnings we have there ensure learnings are allocated to the office, throughout our e-mobility curriculum, i know there is a college of agriculture and i cannot speak for the school but i think it should please the committee there are avenues we can explore how to get there and what might be needed. the last piece i'll leave you with would just be in terms of battery recycling, still an issue for the industry we are working towards but obviously if there are research budgets that come up to fund research programs that

the first being in agriculture. there is a need to understand theimpliations implications of charging but also the farmer's involvement in that case so they don't bear the cost of new equipment all by themselves. with that we have an office of transportation electrielectrifi. that still qualifies as moving people and goods with electricity. i know uga has a college of agriculture. i can't speak for the school but i think there are avenues we can explore on how we can get there and what action might be needed. the last piece would be in terms of battery recycling. that's still an issue for the industry that we are working for. obviously we want to fund research programs. a bit of personal privilege, just so you know i'm atlanta based. i drove to d.c. this week in an electric vehicle for 660 miles of gasoline free driving. happy to be here, happy to answer your questions. thank you for having me. >> thank you. now mr. loveridge. you may need to unmute. >> ranking member thompson, my name is matthew laughridge. i'm a hy

so what you'll see in the news is nobody got a license number one that is not true. agricultural folks have received their licenses. you'll also see that people say nobody of color got a license. 67 percent of the people who received the licenses on the agricultural side are people of color. and over 40 percent of them were black. so to say that it didn't work to say people didn't realize it is just untrue. do i agree with felicia? we can keep going further and keep pushing it. keep changing the legislation. absolutely. if you look at the dispensary numbers which you just had up there even higher. so right now the industry that was medical them with don't space was 100 percent white. now with those licenses that we have given out to craft growers, users and transporters, you have now seen the industry go from a 100 percent white and male to 34 percent way. which means right of the numbers on how many of those are. yeah, i have a question, i'm sorry, militia, i hope you don't mind me jumping it because the numbers that you're saying, right, i believe are true. but i think what's really

when you remove that, we want to take samples of the agricultural produce, being grown and eaten. indeed, jack curves up with a blue to russia, with almost a dejected was the aerial worst affected by strontium outside, the inner exclusion zone, labradoodle and mitchell novice. because one of the field, the 2 scientists want to examine was badly contaminated and therefore allocated to zone to them was you have the dose meter. but for the past 10 years, the scientists have not found elevated levels of contamination in the crops grown in this field. law chrome, if someone would bottle washing sunflowers, or in any case, mainly grown for their oil appraisal. so most little and the level of radionuclides in the oil is a 100 times less than in the seeds sort of financial. because cesium and strontium are not generally passed to the oil mill season, schools that are more little plants like these can be grown even in heavily contaminated areas, but still produce a product that is free of radioactivity. fresh power of says 10 villages still have elevated levels of contamination, which show up, es

this is melissa from the institute of agricultural radiology. we were there yesterday and took samples of your potatoes. we just tested them in, i can give you the results. grade i'm listening to go on your potatoes or not contaminated at all or instruments. show the susie mm activity is below the minimum detectable level. so that means much less than 5 becker. l per kilogram cloth. the permitted limit is 6 spectral per kilo watching how socio does it be. we have organic potatoes started with so little cesium, it's 99 percent certain that the strontium levels will also be negligible. yahoo, yahoo. mm hm. oh there is a god and he has brought us here. not possibly what this is like the promised land, the one. it's a little bit polluted and there's a lot of stuff lying around, but it's peaceful oh to, to sport. scientists are divided on what impact even very low levels of radiation could have when exposure is on a daily basis. there's very little data available. ah, but if there is a res, it's unseen and felt while in a war the threat his own faces

the department of agriculture. the department of conservation. and the department of natural resources. and join them together on one campus. this will lead to safer, healthier missourians and a more efficient use of public resources. this year, we are also proposing to double the capacity of our missouri autism centers. this will help more families navigate the challenges of treating autism. and reduce the backlog for missouri's families desperately needing service. i want to thank state treasurer scott fitzpatrick and the first lady for helping bring this to our attention and working to get this done. [cheers and applause] this year, we must take a renewed look at public safety and how best to fight violent crime. we must continue to support our law enforcement professionals who put their lives on the line to protect our families. we can do this by ensuring consistent requirements and appropriate penalties to hold violent criminals accountable while also protecting missouri's second amendment rights, just as our administration has always done.

the first being agriculture, the need to understand the implications of agriculture electrification. there could be a research program created and it needs to be a multi-stakeholder process for manufacturing of the equipment and to understand the implications of charging, and farmers involvement in that so they don't bear the full costs of the equipment by themselves. with that, we have a joint electrification so that would qualify as moving people and goods with electricity. whatever learnings we have, we need to make sure they are allocating, and i have contact for the curriculum. there college of agriculture, i can't see the school but should it please the committee, there are avenues we can explore on how to get there. in the last piece in terms of battery recycling, still an issue for the industry we are working toward but research budgets that come up, that is where we need to focus, but a first the privilege. i am atlanta-based. and electric vehicle through rural north carolina and virginia, 660 miles of gasoline driving. happy to answer your questions, thank you for having me.

this minister doesn't believe this is lawful, so it appears to contradict the advice the agriculturalof the dup has had. it's just not clear yet what this means. ros: help me understand one more thing. one of the standups around northern and brexit was the eu's desire to protect its single market. if these checks are not happening, does not undermine any arrangement that's in place by the not -- the northern ireland protocol? >> exactly. . the eu would argue that single market isn't protected at all. you could send anything across the irish sea and say it is destined for northern ireland, and he could carry on into the republic of ireland, which is effectively into the single market. the single market is not secure, is it? in practice, of course, northern ireland and the u.k. have been members of the eu for many years. at the moment, there isn't any difference in standar, but it's the principle. the eu would argue this was a legal agreement. this is what the u.k. government signed up to. now you have the dup acting effectively unilaterally. we've always been angry about it, so now we

we were from the institute of agricultural radiology, but a little brain serious know, because hulu was, could we take a sample of your produce to measure the levels of radioactive contamination of her mom's cousin. but these are my 1st potatoes, shall i dig some up for you? how many do you need in one kilogram for so was want to push on numbers guy. what a probably, immediately after chernobyl, every one wanted to know how bad the contamination wise secretary lisman, could utilize that. everyone was worried about radiation loss of it. but people get used to everything over time is when you even radiation jackson, the ocean class, the crops, and most places here are fine. now somewhere chest and people know that for tuesday you his math. but this is, i would like to receive of 17. it's the 1st test of his crutches. the scientist said they'll have the results by tomorrow. please, who took it? it's the equipment, that's the problem. this tractor is 15 years old. i believe it should have been scrapped long ago, but we're still using it for my wife or my what's all roku. oh and the other on

this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the issue in agriculture is labor availability and we have had this movement populations from rural environments to urban environments, the population growing to 10 billion people by 2050, food production going up 50% as a consequence. all this drive this intensity around producing more food with less, and less labor is one thing we need to economy -- to accommodate, and we see autonomy as key. >> deere's chief technology officer talking about the new autonomous tractors. we will talk about the technology that goes into this. you talk about a company with a chief technology officer. i remember when they first appointed one. everyone was like, why? now we see. we see how sophisticated these machines have become and let their farmers do their jobs better in a way. >> he spoke to deere ces, a technology show and showroom. >> not typically someone you expect to see, but this idea of autonomous vehicles and this larger right to repair issue. >> that is the thing is these things become more complicated in the way they do things, they also become more complicated to

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before the us agriculture department suspended all import the mexican ricardo. it says one of its plants, safety inspectors received a threatening phone call. me check on the only state approved to export to us consumers. what do you need adding other cards for mexican? wants them. kick this party up in the suspension was announced on the eve of the super bowl. one of the biggest sales days of the year. he's an export industry worth $3000000000.00 per year. i will also make the go next because president andre men will lopez pro daughter had suggested the ban had a different motive. he says us growers don't want imported mexican cutters because of their superior quality. and her chappelle al jazeera ah oh, main stories now, nato secretary general is saying that the alliance is looking to deploy more battalions to eastern europe, amid ongoing fears that russia will invade ukraine. insult him back says there's no evidence that some russian troops have pulled back from the ukrainian border despite as claims from moscow. the u. s. estimates. the $150000.00 russian so

previous sanctions that, that will, that those only make rushes economy stronger, and particularly the agriculture sector and so on. now the narrative is that those sanctions, you know, we're used to the sanctions. we've been fate, we've been, you know, under sanctions for years. and those sanctions will actually just make us stronger . and they will actually be implemented no matter what we do, that's kind of the new line that no matter what happens, the west is just trying to keep russia down because we're too great a country for them to face when it comes to the actual economic situation. you know, real wages for people in russia has been falling for several years. and actually this week, you know, yesterday with this announcement of the war, essentially the invasion of ukraine, people that i know we're running to atm to take out dollars because the rouble was in free fall. so people are really concerned about about their livelihoods and, and the consequences not only of sanctions, but actually of this war as well. emily, a stay with us. so we're going to take a look at as an anti will some ann

now the agriculture minutes, different than ireland. and when boots, who's from the democratic unionist party, ordered a whole to the checks on wednesday after months of his party, protesting about the northern ireland protocol. and then on thursday, we saw the 1st minister of northern island pull given actually resign. and he said, but the protocol had undermined a key part of the good friday agreement, which created the conditions for both peace and for power sharing. in northern ireland, the part that he was worried about is that they have to govern with the consent of both the nationalists and the unionists. the resignation of pul, give it also means, but the deputy 1st minister michelle of niel from the main nationalist party. she fain, she's also gone as well. so it leaves northern ireland with no executive. and if there's no executive ministers can, carrying, can carry on doing their jobs. but key decisions can get made. there is paralysis. what you goal is said to decide whether to give the go ahead for europe's largest lithium m

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you are no stranger to the agricultural committee. chairman behnam has experience with financial and global markets. he has tenure as the cftc chair and he has been at the forefront of issues critical to global market stability. he was one of the first financial regulators to ring the alarm on the climate crisis. he has created a dedicated climate unit at the agency, addressing the significant risk climate change poses to the financial system. the cftc also has experience regulating asset derivatives and prosecuting for abuse. given the increasing size and scope of the market for digital assets, many of which are commodities, we are looking to the cftc to advise us on how to protect consumers in markets. i look forward to getting your perspective on the benefits and risks provided by these emerging technologies and helping the commission to regulate these markets. i will turn it over to you for opening comments and we will look forward to questions. chair behnam: thank you and good morning. i am honored to appear before you today for t

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