our agricultural corporations are getting bigger and they re using industrialised farming methods huge areas are planted with monocultures and treated with fertilizers and pesticides this type of cultivation has a devastating effect on species diversity and it pollutes the water and depletes the soil a valuable resource that won t last forever. is europe s largest milk producer and it produce feed for its $100000.00 cows. some experts say there s no way around large scale agriculture. language of the here between farming operations have to expand because the economy forces them to the industry has faced endless pricing pressure in recent decades and farmers can only a scape this pressure by producing more getting bigger expanding and even then they
now costs $22000.00 jurors. even while farming operations yield relatively modest profits some investors consider the ownership of the land a form of insurance against economic currencies on the assumption that food production is always needed and that land and commodity prices could well growing. according to some studies the top foreign investors in palm and well quite come from the u.s. malaysia singapore and the united arab emirates. foreign investors tend to promote non-organic can just real farming which tends to use lots of fertilizers to bridge crop yields with last thing affects on the soil in germany for example nearly 20 percent of agricultural land is so polluted with fact realizes that the groundwater contains nitrate levels above the legal limits one way or another we all live off the land but the question is who owns it benefits
farting cows in airplanes over the next ten years. the farmers when they read that and saw that, they saw that as a direct shot at their industry and blamed it on the agriculture industry. to be clear, there s no mention of the elimination of farting cows in the green new deal, the actual text resolution being voted on. but when you talk to folks on the ground, there s to certain extent a defensiveness because they say they view themselves as being very keen on sustainability. that s why they had their farming operations for generations. they say they understand in order to grow good corn, soybeans or cattle that is high protein, you need good nutrition. i want to introduce you to one of those individuals we talked to, brandy. she s down in kansas. we were there the other day with her. i want to let you hear what she thought about the green new deal. i m a big proponent of the fact of the specific green new deal policy proposition says that the proponents wants to work with farmers a
president should there should be more of a check by the legislative branch on the president s tariff authority? i think the message has been sent is that, first of all, this is nonbinding. specifically on defense issues, it was section 232 of the 1962 trade enhancement act, different than section 301 which is what he s doing today in china or suggesting he will do in china. but it all has to do with the impact on the markets with regard to what s happening right now. we have farmers and ranchers in the upper midwest that are bringing their products to market at this time. winter wheat is being harvested in south dakota right now. it won t be long until we have soybeans and corn that will be harvested. the markets right now for commodities are going down. soybeans are down $1.95 a bushel since march 1st. just in south dakota and we re not a big state, but if you just take a look at the farming operations in south dakota right now, the difference between march 1st prices and what we
are in the process of discussing depending how long these projected power outages could go, and some are projected to go for several hours, so we re looking closely at the situation. jon: but at the same time you don t want people driving on the roads, so just driving to a warming center could be potentially life threatening, couldn t it? excuse me, the roads are improving in the area of where these power outages are occurring. we still are discouraging travel in the kansas city area on the kansas side, certainly we re still seeing a lot of issues, but you re absolutely right. jon: i know you ve got problems, too, among, you know, the farmers and ranchers. they ve got herds out there that need to be fed in this kind of, many this kind of weather. it s got to be awfully tough on them. that s correct. and is some of these rural electric cooperatives, actually, their electricity is helping and assisting those farming operations, agricultural areas, and so that s another area of concer