Innovation imperative, shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce, something that weve been working on at usda, called the agriculture innovation agenda. Were excited to share more with you this morning. Im joined by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agriculture economy. Its important we take stock not only of where we are today, but also of 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 conditions needed to farm, including the climate. Our chief economist, dr. Rob johansson, will provide an indepth overview of the state of the farm economy. Theres a lot to take in in 2019, but certainly not a typical year. There were many factors influencing the economy, including extreme weather, trade, importing and exporting countries, to name just a few. Following dr. Jays talk, the secretary will outline some
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
Economic Activity Raising unemployment and schooling causing political unrest concerning to Domestic Violence and undermining liberal democracy and the response of the pandemic is the biggest Public Policy failure in history. And not just an innocent mistake. We knew they were around. Right from the Start Menu Lockdowns were ineffective with the stupid class masks but the point of social distancing and those to travel is five times as far. And then to push an old playbook and Public Health director of Santa Clara County here in california. With the first lockdown. And Governor Newsom shut down on california. And then with a Bioterrorism Attack on mine. And at the federal level pushing the Lockdown Madness based on experience for aids and they were making up as they went along. Then it was controlling the number of cases even though we knew from the start and Vaccine Mandates. But that they dont prevent infection or transmission. It was about their addiction and the rush of blood to the
Economic Activity Raising unemployment and schooling causing political unrest concerning to Domestic Violence and undermining liberal democracy and the response of the pandemic is the biggest Public Policy failure in history. And not just an innocent mistake. We knew they were around. Right from the Start Menu Lockdowns were ineffective with the stupid class masks but the point of social distancing and those to travel is five times as far. And then to push an old playbook and Public Health director of Santa Clara County here in california. With the first lockdown. And Governor Newsom shut down on california. And then with a Bioterrorism Attack on mine. And at the federal level pushing the Lockdown Madness based on experience for aids and they were making up as they went along. Then it was controlling the number of cases even though we knew from the start and Vaccine Mandates. But that they dont prevent infection or transmission. It was about their addiction and the rush of blood to the
Im an assistant professor of history at the university of southern california. And this is my first inperson conference in since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment justiculating at my laptop. Its really wonderful to i guess be able to justiculate in person to you guys today. So just wanted to give a big thank you to the organization of american historians for putting together this conference and for accommodating all of the different varieties in which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to think Raylan Barnes who unfortunately cant be here today. But who is really the one responsible for bringing us all together today . She originally conceived of the round table as one that would be focused on the civil war in the west. But ultimately last year around february decided to focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republican Party succeeded a