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
In las vegas at the Consumer Electronics show and this is the big picture on our t. America. Do you know what this is if you guessed bitcoin you are incorrect because bitcoin is not a thing its crypto currency its an idea youll often see tokens like this used when people are talking about bitcoin and for this same reason several years ago what was the Consumer Electronics association changed its name to Consumer Technology Association Much of what we are seeing here doesnt come in a box they are experiences not just gadgets into your least favorite experience might be air travel. Airports are outdated you know they were built for an era of the 1960 s. And we are investing billions of dollars of infrastructure trying to modernize trying to create better has the better amenities that the gate and the technology that were deploying at the same time is helping them to navigate so that they can get through the gate more efficiently we know a lot of the stress of air travel resides on the gr
Tanehisi coates is joining us, everybody cheers and applause trevor well be chatting about his first novel the water dancer. One of the biggest democrats drops out of the race. How to eat meat without eating meat and donald trump has invaded the u. K. Lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with facebook. The Worlds Largest social Media Company and web site that reminds you its the birthday of someone you met once. laughter recently, it came out that Mark Zuckerberg had a secret meeting with President Trump at the white house and now for the first time zuckerberg is being asked what that meeting was about. You dont want to take down political ads that people know are false, that they contain false information. What i believe is that, in a democracy, its really important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying so they can make their own judgments. You had dinner with the president at the white house. What was the nature of the meeting. Can you say . Su
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