and it's been sued by the government, and the usda has come in. they raise their cows indoors in a factory farm, and they feed them the same thing every factory farm cow eats which is soybean and corn and something called stylage that happens to be brown in an organic fashion. but that's not what organic means when it comes to dairy or meat or beef. it should mean raised on pasture outside. so the usda just very, very recently they're writing brand new rules that says in order to have the organic label on your product, those cows have to go outside. i think it's quite a bit. i think it's 140 days a year minimum outside, and at least 30% of their diet has to come directly from pasture. so that's a huge improvement, and that's going to apply to any meat product as well. so i buy, i'm not going to name the brand, but i buy a brand i believe comes from vermont, and it's delicious, and it's pasture-fed. you can really taste a difference. >> is there a web site you can recommend. >> yes, absolutely. the best web site to find good local is called sustaina

the usda is 100,000 people. we are just a small percentage of that. we have a great deal of experience. as i said, for 60 years, we have been doing rural telecommunications and we have built up a large portfolio of investments in elector, water, and telecom loans -- in electric, water, and telecom loans, which the been invested in better -- which have been invested in better quality electric, water, and telecom for rural america. the infrastructure is there for rural development. we know how to do this. we have the experience, but we have never had these kinds of resources. this is an unprecedented load on us. we have hired people temporarily, as we were authorized to do. we have hired an excellent consultant to help us we'd through these. ultimately, we review all of these things before they go out. it is the advantage of the operation. we send our people out before we make an award, and we focus on those applications that we are about to award. we need to know if there is service there. our people have worked overtime, burning the candle at both end

bill over who would be in charge of some of the programs created in this bill, whether it would be the usda or the epa. they are trying to appeal to america in creating carbon offsets, ways to pay farmers for leaving trees standing. and ways that they can produce combinations and power companies can purchase that of these subsidies. and payment can be made to people who work the land and actually make out in the black as opposed to the red. host: next call is from run on the democratic line. -- run on the democratic line. -- ron on the democratic line. caller: what this really has allowed us to do is to put aside -- a sign near the sites go on to clean coal. the republicans continue to shoot talking points that i heard on a.m. radio months ago on cap and trade. cap and trade work for us of rain. it will work for this bill. guest: on the capt. trade and the onpoints, they have been coming out -- on the cap and trade and talking points, they have been coming out. when you look at the bill, there is not necessarily a gas tax or a federal trust fund. the federal highway fund is the primary reci

bill over who would be in charge of some of the programs created in this bill, whether it would be the usdaepa. they are trying to appeal to america in creating carbon offsets, ways to pay farmers for leaving trees standing. and ways that they can produce combinations and power companies can purchase that of these subsidies. and payment can be made to people who work e land and actually make out in the black as opposed to the red. host: next call is from run on the democratic line. -- run on the democratic line. -- ron on the democratic line. caller: what this really has allowed us to do is to put aside -- a sign near the sites go on to clean coal. the republicans continue to shoot talking points that i heard on a.m. radio months ago on cap and trade. cap and trade work for us of rain. it will work for this bill. guest: on the capt. trade and the onpoints, they have been coming out -- on the cap and trade and talking points, they have been coming out. when you look at the bill, there is not necessarily a gas tax or a federatrust fund. the federal highway fund is the primary recipient of the

she's been awarded seven small business innovation research awards from the usda and author and kuhl author of numerous books. gentlemen? >> -- before. we're going to divide this a little bit between [inaudible] when you're from california you are careful about your water. what i would like to do -- thank you -- is go over the statistics. i think this is a really important discussion to be having from the beginning of this whole last two or three years it was clear and i think to my colleagues that the big issue was critical jobs some to while for washington to sort of forgot to that and may have people's attention. as you can see we have had severe job losses over the last few years and as you look at it too has really been hit the hardest and really has been the minority population, the unemployed are obviously more heavily in african-american and latino populations over the plan has been somewhat widely distributed. i want to point to the numbers 16 through 19, 2324. that is probably the scariest number of all. i have some very wonderful students at chapman and i asked one of my b

additional oversight over the holding, breeding, and care of the animal, which has been delegated to the usda. are you then saying that you have no further responsibility for determining whether the facility is continuing to offer a program for education or conservation, based on professionally-recognized standards? >> madam chair, our focus has been on the initial test that i described. at that point, the primary care and oversight ships, under the animal welfare act. i am not suggesting that we have no further responsibility, with respect to the continued meeting of that educational test, but that has not been a focus of our programmatic activity. >> for the record, that is no, correct? i would like a yes or no. >> no, i am not saying that we have no further responsibility with respect to ensuring that the requirements are met over time. >> who is monitoring this? >> as i said, it is not something that we have provided -- focused on from a programmatic perspective. when animals are moved and we deal with circumstances around that, where they are transferred from one facility to another, the

i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and to join me in recognizing the great work of the usda natural resource conservation service and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. lucas: thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i rise in support of senate concurrent resolution 62 which recognizes the 75 years of service of the natural resources conservation service, the nrcs, created by congress in 1935, the soil conservation service, now known as the nrcs, has worked hand in hand with local governments, organizations, farmers, ranchers and other landowners to preserve and protect our nation's natural resources on private lands. farmers were conserving long before it became a celebrated trend to go green. they've always had a vested interest in preserving the land that provides for them. partnering with the nrcs, our partners are provided the sc

the headlines now and al pell. >>> thanks, john. hello everyone. according to usda, nearly -- was produced in april a new record for the month. despite a drop in herd production is up. especially for dairies out west. even with these dairies report, most analyst say the average milk price for the year will be 15 there are per hundred weight. citing helicopter concerns, wisconsin governor veto as dairy to sell milk to consumers. federal law prohibits the sale of raw millening, but states have the right to regulate the sale in its borders. critics say it causes over 70% of the food borne illnesses related to dairy. responding to consumer demand, hunts ketchup will replace hfcs with traditional sugar. it will be available nationwide by the end of the month. that's it for headlines. now we're here with the national forecast. >>> well, we've been hearing from a lot of corn farmers over the last couple of weeks, hey, we need some heat to get this corn moving. you can see a huge ridge developing. this will be the warmest say for the season so far. it's going to be fairly h

military with the agricultural development of team spending a lot of money. we have got usda, the department of agriculture with abou40 advisers throughout the country and we have the state department that is working on counter drug activities which involve things like alteative crops and that type of thing. what we have found looking at other secrs namely the energy sector is it is very difficult when you have so many u.s. agencies involved and also the international donor community to have a coordinated effort and what we found in the energy sector was the lack of coordination, lack of planning and lack of common standards and i suspect we might find some of the same problems in looking at the agricultural sector. we will be starting that work probably within six to eight weeks and we will have a report out on the ag sector i hope by the end of the year. >> thank you mr. rohrabacher. >> amazing that we are talking about this eight years into the war. it is unbelievable. let me just note mr. chairman that quite often people will take a look at projects and suggests that ther

the couple of things that can be done i am also very interested in president obama he made a lot of promises and has not kept all of them yet but usda and epa are quietly rewriting the rules. there is a lot of cause for optimism. the bush years were really rough as we all know. her securely in terms of forming. the bush white house to allow agribusiness to run roughshod over the rules. some things that can be done is to establish local control counties it is a huge issue in this be 13 days said we don't want cafo i think to be much harder for the industry to spread the amount and a ban on antibiotic use other than treating sick animals would help level the playing field. the idea for policy makers is to make it harder to produce so cheaply and also produce more at lower cost and right now the difference is a huge right now they could on the animals they slaughter it is a heavily vertically business from seamen to cellophane if you only have a few processing plants to go to market there is a tremendous bottleneck and the former with an animal that cannot be processed you have to go through that process. that is some of the things. hy

the end safety regulations. you don't have to comply with usda safety regulations. are there other advantages or other reasons you might foreign flag them? >> if i could, counsel -- >> just answer the question, please. i i have a few more. >> the vessels are subject to three regimes, the class society, t flag state and the coastal state. and the coasttate in the federal waters of the u.s. gulf of mexico is the coast guard. >> and yet the coast guard witnesses before the marine board of investigation of deepwater horizon incident have testifie that the drilling takes two teeeeks while the foreign investigation of the modu such as the deepwater horizon takes 48 hours. in other words, it's much less though. >> if the coast guard is conducting both the flag state inspection and the coastal state inspection, they will, obviously, spend more time on the vessel. if they are only conducting the coastal -- >> which is another way of saying they're more authorize o thorough on the vessel. >> which is another wayf saying they're more thorough? >> i wouldn't agree with that assu

she's been awarded seven small business innovation research awards from the usda and author and kuhl author of numerous books. gentlemen? >> -- before. we're going to divide this a little bit between [inaudible] when you're from california you are careful about your water. what i would like to do -- thank you -- is go over the statistics. i think this is a really important discussion to be having from the beginning of this whole last two or three years it was clear and i think to my colleagues that the big issue was critical jobs some to while for washington to sort of forgot to that and may have people's attention. as you can see we have had severe job losses over the last few years and as you look at it too has really been hit the hardest and really has been the minority population, the unemployed are obviously more heavily in african-american and latino populations over the plan has been somewhat widely distributed. i want to point to the numbers 16 through 19, 2324. that is probably the scariest number of all. i have some very wonderful students at chapman and i asked one of my b