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Potatoes. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Haidi small potatoes. Investors have been caught on the wrong side of the bed. A blogger saying it is like a horror movie that you just have to keep watching even though you know exactly what will happen. Lets look at the steepening declines when it comes to japanese equities. Korea taking the brunt of the selling. We are seeing selling across the board. The nikkei 225 down 0. 7 . Lower. Ix 4. 4 the s p as you said, entering true correction territory. Da...

Farmers providing milk for this nation, we help them. With the 2008 farm bill expiring nearly a year and a half ago, i urge my colleagues to vote for this legislation and finally give our farmers and rural constituents the support they deserve, ensuring all americans mr. Lucas i yield the gentleman an additional minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Chairman. I wont take that much. Overall this farm bill ensures all americans have access to affordable, highquality and safe food and i yield back. T...

Consolidation and production in agriculture, going to continue to drive up land values. Going to make it harder for new beginning farmers to enter the occupation. Its not responsible to thee family farmers and not responsible to the american taxpayer. Weve got historically high commodity target prices in this bill, so any slight dip going to mean huge payments going out in the future. We have the multiple entity rule now that we worked on in the previous farm bill being rolled back in one. We ha...

Certain provisions of the Senate Amendment to h. R. 2642, relating to Crop Insurance. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. Pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 11, 2013, at 10 15 a. M. ,...

Riculture pro vitility and without these permanent law provisions will make it more difficult to make improvements, changes and reforms over time as we discover they are needed. I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this motion to instruct and reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from minnesota reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Lucas i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lucas im overjoyed to be at this ...

With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which a...

Frankly, most importantly, we can all agree coming to some agreement in a reasonable time frame is probably the most important thing this committee can do to help grow our economy. And doing it on a timeline that allows the Appropriation Committee to deliver a result without shutting down the government or putting it at any risk is about the best thing we can do. I will agree we cant simply grow our way out of our problem. We have to address the driver of our debt and deficit. We have to dont re...

Well, good afternoon. Its been a long time in coming, but we are here. And its wonderful to have the opportunity to have all of us here today together. I was thinking, mr. Chairman, that when you and i started, i remember when i came into the house, we were kind of at the low end of the totem pole on the Agriculture Committees. And now we both have the honors of working together. And it really is an honor to work with you as we bring this final farm bill home. And thats what were all doing. This...

Safety net for those who grow our food and for those who rely on Food Assistance as well. While congress was writing this bill, my home state got hit with droughts and blizzards that cost us tens of thousands of livestock. The livestock disaster programs that i authorrd in this bill and will provide much needed relief to those who are struggling so hard during this difficult time. Our Black Hills National Forest is going to gain some regulatory relief. And additional tools to combat the pine bea...

Washington -- Montana Farm Bureau members spent an intensive two days in Washington, D.C meeting with their congressmen, visiting with pertinent Congressional committees and learning about advocacy as part of