The future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something that we have been working on a 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 agricultural economy. It is important that 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 in a time where producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditions needed to farm, including the climate. Our chief economist, doctor rob johansson, will provide an indepth overview of the state of the farm economy. There is a lot to taken in 2019, it was certainly not a typical year. There were many factors influence in the economy including extreme weather, trade and policy changes an importing and exporting countries to name just a few. Following doctor jays top, the secret
Good morning everybody. If you could please find your seats. I would like to welcome everyone to usdas 96 annual outlook form. The u. S. s oldest annual meeting. Im the deputy secretary of agriculture and is great to see everyone here this morning. This years team is the innovation imperative, shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something that we have been working on a 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 agricultural economy. It is important that 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 in a time where producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditions needed to farm, including the climate. Our chief economist, doctor rob johansson, will provide an indepth overv
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
Well have the details as we know them on that announcement and the timeline of how it all went down. Plus apple revealing its new lineup of smartphones and devices. The surprise move for the next iphone and how the tech giant is planning to compete with netflix. Taking aim at the rich, Elizabeth Warrens latest attack on the wealthy. What might all mean for you and your money. Melissa fox Business Team coverage. Gerri willis on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange blake burman at white house, Jackie Deangelis in the newsroom. Lets kick it off with blake. Reporter hi, there, melissa, one of those days at the white house. President trump set to meet with republican leadership. Congress is back in session. A whole host of issues. Among them, passing the usmca, Gun Legislation and spending bills they have to take up. The headline at the white house for the last four hours or so, the he said, he said, between President Trump and former National Security advisor john bolton. The president
Just a few days ago San Francisco based Igm Biosciences launched a successful ipo raising 125 million. The company is developing antibodies to treat blood cancers. Biotech is not my area of expertise. Fortunately, i have three other chairs at this desk and can invite people who are much smarter than i am to talk about the industry. This morning i would like to specifically talk with Genomic Research and crisper, this is a way of editing genes. I would like to talk most beabout the Positive Side of it what it will allow us to do and the lives it will save. You are looking inside the labs of biosciences, created by trevor martin, he is joined by Kristen Brown of bloomberg and aaron brown ofst business insider. Thank you for joining us. Lets keep this simple sequencing is the e reading a document and crisper is the equivalent of word processing. Is that a good place to start. It is a good place to start. Crisper is a tool for programming biology. When you think about dna and rna, the code