It has been the wettest 18 months on record since 1836, one of the wettest winters in decades that many farmers can remember. It has had a huge impact on the ability to grow crops and it has been quite sudden. In 2022 we were talking about extreme heat and drought and farmers not being able to get crops out of the ground because it was baked too hard. This winter they have not been able to get them in the ground because it has been too wet, waterlogged and soft, basically. That means that the amount of wheat and winter barley, oilseed rape were likely to harvest this year will be down a third, and looking across all the farming sectors, fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and dairy, eggs, that will be enough to drive an 8 reduction in the headline self sufficient and seen when, Self Sufficiency when measured by volume. Around 86 over the period btween 2018 and 2022 to 78 this year or thats what we estimate. Egypts economy has been struggling with the burden of high debts and an overvalued
have a tentative deal with the united auto workers union. general motors was the last to settle. jeep maker stellantis reached an agreement on saturday. ford announced its deal last week with this positive reaction from one ford employee, walter robinson. it s definitely going to be life changing for the people. a career and notjust a job. gm said it was pleased with the outcome, with ceo mary barra, adding that the deal would allow it to continue to invest in our future and provide good jobs in the united states. the agreements which still need to be ratified by rank and file union members include a 25% wage increase over four and a half years, as well as other benefits for the uaw. this is a big win. historically, the union has negotiated new contracts with one car maker at a time. by taking on all three at once, uaw president sean fain successfully pitted them against each other. for the past several weeks. analysts and pundits were crying that our union was going too far.
The Connecticut Senate has officially passed one of the first-ever AI legislations in the US. Artificial intelligence regulation proves to be moving forward in the United States, at least in Connecticut, as its senate has reportedly passed a wide-ranging AI bill.
Learn about the challenges faced by the first major attempts to regulate AI decision making. Understand the tug-of-war between lawmakers, civil rights-oriented groups, and the industry in proposed AI legislation.
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