Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren
Thoughts on that. Because in some south, east agriculture has a broad portfolio and many farms have multiple crops. And farming throughout the country, most farm families have a lot of farm income. And the second part of my question is, when do you expect to issue proposed regulations on the actively engaged interpretation . Particularly given the equal important competing issues that youll have to tackle, including implementation of the disaster programs and the arc programs, which by the end of 14 or 15 or when will we have some sensz o f what that is . And how much input will the department allow for producers to actually talk about how they feel about this actively engaged definition. Your microphone. Congressman. We expect and anticipate to have a proposed rule by the end of this year, call year 2014 on the issue of act i liveively engage. And i say proposed concerning the input. That would give people the opportunity to weigh in on what we propose. I think it is fair to say we re
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We are in new york all week long. Along with sam grow part. We got big news out of china print apple and china mobile have officially announced they are together and will start selling phones this friday. Starting this weekend. And this as potentially 700 million subscribers for apple. It is a huge deal for apple. It definitely gives them a potential boost as they see their market share numbers get a little bit flat or a little down. In context, the largest wireless carrier carrier in the u. S. Is verizon. They have 100 million subscribers. The 700 million figure for china mobile might include many other things that are not phones but conservatively, it is twice as big as verizon if not more. The other big deal is that apple only has 10 stores in china. They are trying to increase that number but this adds 3000 retail outlets where they can sell the iphone. Apple stores have always been very successful around the world. Of tappingbig place into that network of retailers, 3000 of them,
Oldmixon , and lindsay moran, plastic that can stop a bullet, why is it ending up in some classrooms . Im phil torres, im an entomologist. I study spiders in the rain forests of peru. Thats our team, now lets do some science. Hi and welcome to techknow. Im phil torres, im here with kosta, rachelle and lindsay. You looked at 3d printing. 3d printing is an industry thats blowing up right now. We explored and visited all these different groups and laboratories, that are doing 3d printing. Lets take a deep dive. From trinkets and 96 inaction, 3d fashion and and from auto makers prototyping new parts to nasa lamping a 3d printer to replace parts. Space exploration, this is absolutely a critical technology. From diy medical solutions. Weve seen the people who made the robo hand project. To life altering research. Im dr. Ben asser. Our lab makes ears. Its alive whit goes into the printer and comes out of the printer. Each is prototighting 3d printers arent anything like your home printer. 3 p