of labour and a demand that farmers produce more at less cost to the environment. my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here, she s also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to be on yourfarm. and the sun is shining and, in some ways, you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher. you would think that would be good news forfarmers. is it? it s quite extraordinary. i don t think, in my lifetime, i have ever faced into anything like the cost inflation that we are facing with our inputs now. so, we re seeing triple digit inflation on fertiliser, we ve seen diesel costs up by 57%, feed costs up by nearly 60%. these are huge price pressures. you have chosen to alight upon the price pressures, i chose to start about talking about the prices you are receiving because we know that co
the dow plunged 500 points. this is unbelievable. ftc going after elon musk for communications with journalists. on the biden administration s effort to censor americans online. a minnesota vikings player being praised for helping rescue a man from a fiery crash wide receiver k.j. osborn. uber driver noticed the crash and they managed to free the driver. got high, high hopes. steve: another one of those beautiful red, white and blue in the district of columbia. it s absolutely clear, about 50-mile visibility. currently they have got 33 degrees in the federal city and they re going for a daytime high of 52. and sunrise for our nation s capital is 6:30. although ainsley people would say people are in the dark there all the time. ainsley: that s exactly right. if you are heading out and you are in washington this morning. bundle up. 33 is pretty cold. steve: it is, indeed. here in new york city we will go down to brian in tampa. ainsley: much warmer. s
my guest today is minette batters, she farms right here, she s also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to be on yourfarm and the sun is shining, and in some ways you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher, you would think that would be good news forfarmers, is it? it s quite extraordinary. i don t think in my lifetime i have everfaced into anything like the cost inflation we are facing with our inputs now. we are seeing triple digit inflation on fertiliser, we ve seen diesel costs up by 57%, feed costs up by nearly 60%, these are huge price pressures. you have chosen to alight upon the price pressures, i ve chose to start about talking about the prices you are receiving because we know that consumers are struggling to meet the prices of the basic food stuffs that they buy at the super
from monday s deadly school shooting that left six people dead, including three children, plus new information about the officers who took down the killer. the widespread protests in israel have stopped for now, after the prime minister halted his judicial reform plans, but the controversy is far from over . plus i ll speak to the national spokesperson for the red cross, who s on the ground in mississippi were a string of deadly tornadoes has devastated entire communities. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and we begin this hour with the shocking video of what s become an all too familiar scene here in the united states, a school shooting in nashville, tennessee , that s left three young children and three adults dead. police have released video, which they say shows a former student at the covenant school, arriving monday morning in a honda fit. they have identified the shooter as 28 year old audrey hale. a few minutes later , you can see hail
is this going to be in the news? because this would have been. usually we keep these things in the news would have been in the old days, right when these things first started taking notice of him 1 to 2 weeks and then sadly, unfortunately, we ve gotten all too used to it because it just happened so much, and we should saying so much crossover with people who have been at one mass shooting and now or on site for another, that s the situation here. good morning, everyone. poppy is off today. we re gonna get started with the five things to know for this tuesday, march 28th as we are covering the shooting out of nashville. in nashville and the nation there all morning after another deadly school shooting that has happened overnight, police have released new video of the shooter entering the school were killing 39 year olds and three adults have extensive reporting on that. also tensions easing in israel after prime minister benjamin netanyahu backed off of his push to overhaul th