Innovation imperative, shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce, something that weve been working on at usda, called the agriculture innovation agenda. Were excited to share more with you this morning. Im joined by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agriculture economy. Its important we take stock not only of where we are today, but also of where we need to go to meet a growing Global Demand, with rising standards of living at a time when producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditions needed to farm, including the climate. Our chief economist, dr. Rob johansson, will provide an indepth overview of the state of the farm economy. Theres a lot to take in in 2019, but certainly not a typical year. There were many factors influencing the economy, including extreme weather, trade, importing and exporting countries, to name just a few. Following dr. Jays talk, the secretary will outline some
Outlooks. We will also hear from the usda chief economist at this forum. It is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. If you could please find your seat. I would like to welcome everyone to usda 96 annual outlook forum. Usda oldest annual meeting. I am stephen, deputy secretary of agriculture. It is great to see everyone here this morning. This years theme is that innovation imperative. Shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something we have been working on at usda called the agriculture innovation agenda. We are excited to share more with you this morning. I am joined in this room by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agriculture economy. It is important that we take stock, not only where we are today, but also where we need to go to meet a growing Global Demand with rising standards of living at a time when producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditio
Adopted. Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 farmers win by doing right and they win by se questering carbon, using the farming techniques that keep the carbon in the soil, improving the productivity of those soils as well. From a Water Quality perspective, we know in a lot of places weve allowed nutrients to escape our fields. We can do better and our goal is to reduce that nutrient runoff off of our fields and farms by 2050 in that way. We think farming can be a real contributor to our air quality through Renewable Energy and weve seen that already through our ethanol and bio fuels industry, but we think we can do more in that way by creating a better environment for renewable fuels. Hopefully really moving forward with goals of 15 of our Transportation Fuel moving to that. These are all important goals, but were going to have a scoreboard that keeps track of these. Were not going to wait until the buzzer sounds 00 because you know that its progressive and wer
[inaudible background conversations] [inaudible speaking] the panel is titled American History, renegades and sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr, with the library commission, was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival we couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or libraries from all over the state so thank you very much for your support. We are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm, our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom craven, eric j dolman and Peter Houlihan. You can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your program. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes then open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Help me welcome our moderator for this panel, kitty blunt director of Mississippi Department of archives and history. [applause] thank you. Im
Yesterday thanks to walmart and the good numbers we saw there. S p futures are indicated up by 28 points. The nasdaq up by 96 points again we are on the worst week for the stock market since may well see what happens today with the gains, or if they can hold on to them through the opening and the close later on today. The treasury market was different story. A lot of concern about whats happening with yields. The 30year fell below 2 for the first time in history. This morning its yielding 2. 026 the tenyear fell to the left level in three years this morning that yield is slightly higher, 1. 564 . Tenyear twoyear no longer inverted overnight in asia, we saw some green arrows some gains there the nikkei up barely the hang seng was up a percent the shanghai was up by a third of a percent in europe, londons ftse ohm ed higher after a nearly twohour delay because of a Technical Glitch elsewhere in europe, you can see the green arrows are there across the board the smallest advancer is the f