With President Trump live tuesday at 7 00 eastern as he holds a Campaign Rally in sunrise, florida, his first their sins changing his residency from new york to florida in late october. Live coverage on cspan. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Dale moore, he is with the American Farm bureau federation. He serves as their executive vice president. Thank you so much for having me on. If you are a farmer in america, what is her debt situation like these days . Right now, farmers have over 416 billion in debt. A little over half of that is real estate. That leaves about 159 billion Million Dollars that is shorterterm debt, buying equipment getting crops in the ground. That is a lot of debt for folks to have to deal with. If you look at maps of these a situation where farmers are hardest hit, the, midwest toward the west some of the hardest hit areas. Absolutely. It is one of those things and it tends to be a little bit cyclical. Everybody is hurt
I think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. And we both feel, as im sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. And you know mr. Robert caro is working on he has a master of the enthralled. We thought we are talking a little bit about that. Recently and hope you saw this, there was recently a interview with bob and one of the things i thought was so wonderful about this was bob talking about certain working methods. And one of the things he said reminded me of walt whitman. And that, if you read whitman, one of the things you know about that exuberant poet is that he uses lists. Once william atalked a
Hello this afternoon, hi. Thank you for coming. Good to see you all. I think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. And we both feel, as im sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. And you know mr. Robert caro is working on he has a master of the enthralled. We thought we are talking a little bit about that. Recently and hope you saw this, there was recently a interview with bob and one of the things i thought was so wonderful about this was bob talking about certain working methods. And one of the things he said reminded me of walt whitman. And that, if you read whitman, one of the things you know ab
America tonight michael okwu traveled had to find out. Dominated by a huge agricultural business, 25 of all fruits and vegetables consumeconsumed in america grow. What happens when the towns run dry . Five miles north of l. A. , we enter fermi, we asked thelma about the drought. In the seven or eight years since youve been here have you noticed this used to be green. Now its so dry. Warm up your water before you wash the dishes, make sure you have enough to flush, water for the cooler, you dont just do the regular routine. The fact that you dont have water. No water. When did you know that that was happening . Did you get a warning . Opened the tap and that was it. Thelma has gone without Running Water for five years. As the drought got worse her well water started shrinking. Her new neighbor the Almond Orchard sucked up whats left. The fact that this is brown and decaying, was the farmers were able to drill much further than she was essentially getting all that groundwater. They are d
Drought, a kind of situation that faces many of our communities throughout the country. El nino has brought some relief, unheard of rains and flooding in some areas. But will it be enough to stave off californias thirst . America tonight michael okwu traveled had to find out. Dominated by a huge agricultural business, 25 of all fruits and vegetables consumeconsumed in america grow. What happens when the towns run dry . Five miles north of l. A. , we enter fermi, we asked thelma about the drought. In the seven or eight years since youve been here have you noticed this used to be green. Now its so dry. Warm up your water before you wash the dishes, make sure you have enough to flush, water for the cooler, you dont just do the regular routine. The fact that you dont have water. No water. When did you know that that was happening . Did you get a warning . Opened the tap and that was it. Thelma has gone without Running Water for five years. As the drought got worse her well water started sh