The hearing of subcommittee on general farm commodities and Risk Management entitled reviewing the state of the farm economy will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us, as we look into this critical aspect of our economy. Every one of us seated up here has heard from farmers in our districts about the bad farm economy. Commodity prices are low, input costs are rising and financial pressure is mounting on farmers across this country. While we hear so much about the booming state of the overall economy, our rural and farm economy continues to struggle. You cannot have a successful National Economy when such a vital component hurts the way our farmers are currently. The numbers paint a rough picture. Usda forecasts net farming level for 2019 to be only 77 of the annual average for 2000 through 2017. Its down 50 from 2013 alone. Inflationadjusted farm debt is the highest it has been since 1980 and the debt to asset ratio for farmers is rising steadily. This hearing offer
Thank you mr. Speaker. Placed step forward committee, and make your report. It is my honor and privilege to introduce the governor of idaho. Thank you, and good luck. [applause] mr. Speaker, mr. President , on behalf of the joint session we welcome you, and we look forward to your remarks. The floor is yours. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , honorable legislators, distinguished jurists, friends, my family, our first lady, my fellow idahoans. It is my high honor and distinct privilege to stand before you today to deliver my 12th and final state of the state and budget address. It is my great good fortune to report to you that the state of idaho is prosperous, positive, and poised for even better times ahead. Our population is growing fast. Our citizens are striving for a future with more opportunities and even brighter prospects. And our State Government is leaner, more fiscally responsible, more transparent, more responsive, and better prepared than ever to help idahoans achieve
History. Lets begin with meteorologist ivan cabrera. Were looking at potentially recordbreaking snowfall. No question about it. It will be historic if the forecast pansous and oust and i think it will. This is new york city and this is heading up to providence and this is impacting boston which is why we have tens of millions of people in the way here in the blizzard warning which means that youre not just going to get heavy snow that will accumulate a couple of feet maybe three feet and also along with that youre going to get the potential for hurricaneforce winds and i think well have sustained wins 30 to 40 miles an hour easily at the peak of the storm. Here are the snowfall tallies and ten to 12 inches to the north and west and here is your bullseye from new york city into boston the potential for two feet. You will remember this one for years to come and you will likely compare it to the storms that pass. There are your snow totals and airport, forget about it and people are askin
Distressed living the al qaeda living in the west. He says do not contemplate emigrating do not contemplate leaving those countries and come to a place you can fight in the front line. Stay where you are. Stay where you are and fight that jihad there. That can cause greater damage towards the west. He goes on to talk about how the current attacks now are causing great damage to the wests ability to have embassies, particularly of concern, the u. S. Embassy here and how 16 embassies around the world have been closed owing to the efforts of the jihadists there but its people staying at home in the west. Most troubling is ultimately al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula trying to suggest it could appeal from allegiance to anyone else who could be contemplating lone wolf attacks in the west anderson. Obviously if theyre not crossing borders to syria, makes it harder for Law Enforcement officials to track them, be aware of them. Nick payton walsh, thank you. The terror rampage. Sources have rea
Death, what does this mean for the president s trip to india, would he have to cancel that would he go to saudi arabia . The white house established Vice President biden would lead a delltation to saudi arabia and that the president s plans in india would continue. But then news broke in india from officials here that the president had cut his trip short. Not by a long period of time. In fact less than a day. Hell still be able to give remarks on tuesday. Once that broke, then the white house did release a statement early this morning saying that was the case that they they said they looked at the schedules of when the Vice President would land in saudi arabia versus when the president was scheduled to leave india and decided it was just too tight a window of time why not have president obama continue on to saudi arabia on his way back to the u. S. Again, not cutting his trip here short by much. Our question was, why decide that now . Werent these schedules known in the beginning when