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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
The tower of the golden gate. I was just aware people take vacations in hawaii and mexico this time of year. I guess i knew this, but more and more of my friends are doing it. They get on a plane. It is away from the rain and cold. I would go to colder weather. Snow. Family in colorado. Even here in the rain. To me christmas is about getting out the blankets. But if they said we have two tickets to hawaii we leave tonight. Sounds good. Lets get to Steve Paulson because the fog we have been talking about the fog all morning long, especially foggy on the peninsula. Yes. If you had to shovel snow, you would be looking to get out of the cold. Eway have rain in the north. Fog is the bigger story here this morning. Dense fog advisory. Rain will move in either. Rain a little saturday morning and most of saturday should be all right. Then much cooler. Temperatures will take a drop here. They have been very mild in this pattern this entire week. We have had 60s to 70 degrees yesterday in san jo
Bay area skyranger. This is a scene where a person is reportedly trapped under eight feet of dirt. You can understand just how severe that rescue is and how timely this is. This is happening at oak and divisdero streets. We just got word of this less than 30 minutes ago. You can see right there that large Response Team right there and there are crews out there trying to get that person from eight feet of dirt underneath. We are keeping tabs on this effort and we will bring you this on the newscast as well as on nbc bay area. Com. And a good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. Our other top story is san jose burglary illustrating just how brazen thieves can be. Overnight, Police Say Someone Stole a pickup truck and then rammed it into a bakery leaving a wake of loss and destruction. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is live with what the owner says this will cost him. Kris . Laura, there stuff that was stolen and thats just one cost, but you see the re