The hearing of subcommittee on general farm commodities and Risk Management entitled reviewing the state of the farm economy will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us, as we look into this critical aspect of our economy. Every one of us seated up here has heard from farmers in our districts about the bad farm economy. Commodity prices are low, input costs are rising and financial pressure is mounting on farmers across this country. While we hear so much about the booming state of the overall economy, our rural and farm economy continues to struggle. You cannot have a successful National Economy when such a vital component hurts the way our farmers are currently. The numbers paint a rough picture. Usda forecasts net farming level for 2019 to be only 77 of the annual average for 2000 through 2017. Its down 50 from 2013 alone. Inflationadjusted farm debt is the highest it has been since 1980 and the debt to asset ratio for farmers is rising steadily. This hearing offer
Two. Garcia is off today im pam clark. Nd good morning im dave its wednesday, march 13th. Its the hump day pass. n yes it is. Were there middle of the week. Sounds windy. Some changes in the weather. Lets check in with steve. Not too bad its way for tonight. We have mostly clear skies out there. Still some high clouds coming down, but theyll clear out over the course of the day. And then the wind will pick up. 39 livermore. There are many upper 30s here. ulow 40s for some, but its going to be more about the wind picking up and still some m the north. That effect, though, is going to be tonight, this afternoon, tonight when that wind kicks in and its a north northeast breeze. So north and east bay hills marin range, Santa Cruz Mountains look to be taking, if you will, the brunt of some of these. Maybe gusts 4050 to 60mph. So to change is on the way. Mostly clear, partly sunny this morning here, but there will be a lot more sun. But the wind will be the big factor by tonight. 60s on the
13th. He right here. Dnesday forecastt clears almost clear skies there. We are expecting though a change here. The rain is done for now. And this pattern probably until around the 21st or so. But the wind of change will be kicking up its heels here. 40s on the temps for most here. Low to mid. Still mostly sunny today, but the focus hered here starting tonight. More temps are bumping up and theyll continue probably all the way into saturday. C the way its looking here. All right. Its 4 00 inuthe morning. Sal castaneda is here picking up cones on 80. Maybe they are in some spots. Its not causing a big traffic jam. Steve and were also doing pretty well. The polls. Im sorry. Not the posey, the webster tube into alameda from oakland is closed, but the posey tube is open. So if you have to get on to use one of the go to the bay bridge toll plaza. Youucan see that traffic is moving well and were off to a good start. Just not a lot going on out there. Not a lot of traffic jams just yet, but it
Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. At x, its. On facebook, it is face good monday morning. Start calling now. The headline from usa today from overnight. The Supreme Court coruuld p colorado ballot eligibility as soon ide ifantiitikick trump off the ballot. Colorado and maine are two of the satesecisions from the high court, and they are among the many States Holding primaries tuesday, super tuesday. The court heard oral arguments february 8 on Donald Trumps challenge to the colorado Supreme Courts decision that he is ineligible to return to the white house because of his role in the january 6 2021 insurrection act attack at the United States capitol. Thatory on usa today. Asking you your level of trust in the Supreme Court when i cases having to do with elections 2024 or rel back to january 6. It was lastle on wednesday that the Supreme Court decided to take up the question of president ial immunity, a claim former President Donald Trump is making when it comes to one of his
does the act opposite. at least she did leave the balloon prop at home. also embarrassing herself, her bff kevin the speaker and the whole country, too. meanwhile in the republican response, sarah huckabee sanders does her version of carnage tying the party back to trump. also tonight, reaction to president biden s call for police reform as twisted new details emerge today about tyre nichols death after a vicious beating by memphis police. we begin tonight with a state of the union address for the books. when last night president biden achieved what kevin mccarthy could never do, which was uniting the room and getting republicans to jump to their seats in support of medicare and social security. yes, that happened. it was a master class, really, on outnegotiating republicans, pulled off by biden who sparred with a raucous crowd. no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. they re the facts. check it out. check it out. some re