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
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
There is an important Cultural Infrastructure in qom so that the transfer of knowledge and technology can easily take place in qom, both our dear young people and Scientific Centers can do it easily. From this space created and using fiber , both the Business Space and the cultural and scientific space of qom can be facilitated, and in fact, a good facilitation can be done. This plan was implemented in seven cities of qom province within 180 days and with an investment of 600 billion tomans and covers 435 thousand households. The president also evaluated the use of Fiber Optic Technology by seven and a half million iranian households as promising and announced the rapid process of fixing the slowness of the internet in the country. Was it the need for speed and acceleration in communication, or some of the complaints that were due to the slowness of the network, which some wrote to me, some raised when i went to their centers, they promised that this work would be done scientifically a
Higher, nasdaq climbing. 33 , we keep hearing obituaries for this market will the alleged cause of death will something natural like old age or stocks went up too far too fast given the fundamentals . Will be slaughtered by the disappointment out of washington maybe just maybe the grim reapers being held at bay by a series of positive events closely tied to the nature of how companies are doing, hence the continued sense on both wall street and main street that theres value and then there are hills. Or at least values and then prices just look at broadcoms 105 billion hostile attempt to acquire qualcomm the thing about technology is skeptics dont understand how the industry has gotten so much bigger certainly the stocks are valuable with trading. The tie up with disney and fox, the story broke earlier today where disney will be buying the nonsport part just like broadcom trying to buy qualcomm, a disney fox deal make it so therell be less concentration on one product in this case espn.