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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
Now you launched our campaign on the path to deeffect donald trump. This campaign is take off. Brennan with 14 states up for grabs in just two days, bidens victory gives a boost to establishment democrats hoping to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination. There are a lot of states in this country. Nobody wins them all. Brennan well talk with vermont senator Bernie Sanders about the race. Plus, as the coronavirus cri prompts questions of whether or not the u. S. Is ready to handle a pandemic, the politics of preparedness becomes a big issue. I dont think its inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. Brennan now the Trump Administration faces a crisis of its own calming and reassuring the american public. We are preparing for the worst. We are ready. We are ready. There is no reason to panic. Brennan but its been a rough week of mixed messages and attacks on familiar targets. T was was covering their hoax of the day because they thought it would bring down the president. Now the democra
But one thing we talked about in this show, we pitched it as looking without rather than always looking within. Panhandleplains museum, and the museum is the largest Historical Museum in texas if you count it by the number of artifacts. The exhibition title is cattle, cowboys, and culture, kansas city and, real on the building of the urban west. The curator and us are both natives of kansas city. We were always interested in why this place seems so familiar to us. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the museums Permanent Collection related to kansas city and it turns out there were over 1000 objects on the database he pulled up. We started at look started looking at what kind of objects there were, and found such a good array of a variety of objects, we thought we needed to do a show that told the sisterhood of kansas city and amarillo. A lot of people might expect amarillo corrupt looking to dallas or houston, but this is around the train system and the cattle indu
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