Good morning, members of the committee. I call this meeting on agriculture, nutrition, and forestry to order. We welcome sonny perdue. Members of this committee have great appreciation for the farmers, ranchers, and other stake holders directly affected by decisions made by the secretary. The department of agriculture is made up of 29 agencies and offices that employs nearly 100,000 men and women that work in all 50 states and all around the globe. Leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, Scientific Research and related issues that impact americans virtually every day. Throughout our nations history, our farmers, ranchers, and folks in Rural America have survived drought, disease, floods, tornado, and lately, yes, lately, prairie fires in kansas and whatever else Mother Nature throws at them. Year after year, they produce the safest, most abundant supply in the world but today, growers around the country are facing tough Economic Times with mult
Within britain itself. What we have here is a key specimen in this analysis. And here is the fossil that led to this Shock Finding a primitive dinosaur the size of a cat was found in lossiemouth in scotland. It was an animal like this that led to the creatures that dominated this planet for 165 million years. The new family tree will mean that we will have to rethink our ideas of how they evolved and spread across the globe. This is a fairly major change to our knowledge of dinosaurs. We have had a system in place for 130 years, we thought we understood the relationships of these big groups of animals, but it may be that we have a major rearrangement of the dinosaur tree. This Re Evaluation of fossils challenges a theory that has been accepted since the victorian era, and so will be controversial. But if it is proved to be correct, textbooks on the subject will have to be rewritten. Lets take a look at the weather. Overnight it is turning chile under the clear skies. Now clodagh riding
Within britain itself. What we have here is a key specimen in this analysis. And here is the fossil that led to this Shock Finding a primitive dinosaur the size of a cat was found in lossiemouth in scotland. It was an animal like this that led to the creatures that dominated this planet for 165 million years. The new family tree will mean that we will have to rethink our ideas of how they evolved and spread across the globe. This is a fairly major change to our knowledge of dinosaurs. We have had a system in place for 130 years, we thought we understood the relationships of these big groups of animals, but it may be that we have a major rearrangement of the dinosaur tree. This Re Evaluation of fossils challenges a theory that has been accepted since the victorian era, and so will be controversial. But if it is proved to be correct, textbooks on the subject will have to be rewritten. Lets take a look at the weather. Overnight it is turning chile under the clear skies. Now clodagh riding