Maybe a solution that youre offering could reverse this in my country well i think that the people who leave because there is kind of little interest or nation unity with the city and that therefore everywhere the city drains people away from the countryside from villages to prince to prince in africa to prince in in europe but i think that if you got a very 1st indoctrination or 1st the propaganda of well actually that we are also making propaganda for it. Can come to show evidence for instance in africa we were living working with the university of nairobi the attorney to architectural. Students and they said we. Are spending really weaken the countryside. 60 percent of them saw their future in the countryside and for africa where do you people who you know typically have. One foot in the countryside and one foot in the city so there are models of living in the countryside particularly with new technologies new kind of ways of using media new ways of using the internet that who peopl
Thing anyone has been looking at and cities has been what people have been kind of policing about doing studies about. Intellectual concentration is going to cities. The prediction is. Maybe 70 or 80 percent of mankind to live in cities and i think that to. Become a completely absurd situation. You know concentrating on. The kind of situations we leave the countryside to be its potential all its beauty all its history its. Its nature. To. Let it happen. Again that we have to be prepared to live in a country. Of course in a totally new. And showing some evidence of that also showing the need for it but is it a statement that actually offer some solutions ill tell you im so. Because like the country where khan from its a huge territory and i see that 17 villages every year disappear from the member of russia and im not i mean its understandable the where there are the monies and the city Living Conditions all of that but maybe something in your perspective maybe a solution that youre off
70 percent of farmers make less than a quarter of their income from farming relying on off farm jobs and subsidies for the rest 20 nineteens median farm income is projected to be negative 1449. 00 per year so why are the people responsible for growing our food having to go without. A for 34 years the folks that are made of come together all year long to help those farmers and the industry they work in to better provide for everyone and for one day a year they bring together the biggest names in the country and rock music to celebrate the American Farmer i. Was. The 1st to place this of temper 22nd 1985 and since then farm aid has raised over 53000000. 00 to support of or idea programs to help farming thrive from the most moral corner to the tops of buildings and city centers. Here is farming president Willie Nelson back in 1993 addressing the farm income policy Forum Sponsored by the department of agriculture for the past few years the u. S. D. A. Has been reporting that farm income is
Talked about the profitability of it our cows actually produce half as much today per col in one year as they used to before we started grazing however with this system for every 100 pounds of milk rather than making 0. 50 we might be making 5. 00 dairy farming is and economic engine for wisconsin and is essential to the culture of this state agriculture contributes 88000000000 dollars each year to the states economy and almost half of that comes from dairy Dairy Farmers across the country are laboring right now under extreme pressure earning less for a gallon of milk than it cost them to produce it since 1973 weve lost a staggering 93 percent of this countrys Dairy Producers faced with the possibility of extinction a group of determined Dairy Farmers starting in wisconsin but now from all over the country our work. Thing together to activate communities build power and propose solutions to fix a broken system at the same time a Resolute Group of entrepreneurial women have come togethe
Which is why farm aid keeps going strong. This year the festival was held at the alpine valley music theater in east tri wisconsin deep in the heart of dairy country farm aid showcase some of the most innovative family farmers from around tired nation Whiskey River no rather a. Farm a president of 34 years Country Music icon Willie Nelson opened the festival well 1st of all im glad to see us all year to do. But there is. A lot of help is needed and were glad to be here to offer our support what are those challenges while one is pricing take Dairy Farmers for instance according to the u. S. D. A. Foods 2015 the price of milk paid to farmers has not only been going down but its also unpredictable from month to month making it hard for farmers to absorb that extra cost. Barmaid presented one of the many solution through the small farmer and old traditions on a sense of community through grazing we create a grazing it works it would help the cows be healthier and it was less labor plus the