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With President Trump live tuesday at 7 00 eastern as he holds a Campaign Rally in sunrise, florida, his first their sins changing his residency from new york to florida in late october. Live coverage on cspan. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Dale moore, he is with the American Farm bureau federation. He serves as their executive vice president. Thank you so much for having me on. If you are a farmer in america, what is her debt situation like these days . Right now, farmers have over 416 billion in debt. A little over half of that is real estate. That leaves about 159 billion Million Dollars that is shorterterm debt, buying equipment getting crops in the ground. That is a lot of debt for folks to have to deal with. If you look at maps of these a situation where farmers are hardest hit, the, midwest toward the west some of the hardest hit areas. Absolutely. It is one of those things and it tends to be a little bit cyclical. Everybody is hurt
Edward lawrence is at the white house. Jackie deangelis on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and grade did Grady Trimble watcg the oil and gold from the cme. Edward, what is going on . Reporter labeling china a currency manipulator trigger ad process to allow the International Monetary fund to mediate negotiations. These negotiations over currency though of the Treasury Department working on a report hassing suggestion for china to get off the list. In that report will be a few suggestions already that the u. S. Would like to see the trade imbalance between china and the United States come more in line. They would like to be, see china more transparent on their exchange, how the Currency Exchange actually works. As well as chinas reserve management operations. They want to see more transparency there. The central bank of china says they do not manipulate the currency although today the yuan stablized against the dollar. The administration is saying this is more than just about c
Almond farm in california where the news hit hard. Reporter california farmers grow more than 80 of the worlds almonds. And china, their third biggest customer, is walking away. Were very concerned as we roll into this harvest season. Reporter in northern california, dave phippiens thirdgeneration family farm grows and processes 42 Million Pounds of almonds a year. Their biggest worry without the chinese as customers, almond prices will drop. As a farmer and a grower, you feel rather powerless. And so youre hoping that the handler that youve chosen to market your almonds with has some kind of pathway that opens up markets. Reporter for all california farmers, china is the third biggest export market, worth 2. 27 billion in 2017. 500 million of that was almonds, second only to pistachios as a total cash crop. Dale moore is with the American Farm bureau federation. Here we are again going through battles over a number of issues, and farmers and ranchers are right in the crosshairs. Yes,
Online at cspan. Org. We will take eli back to u. S. Senate with a couple of judicial nomination both coming up and live coverage here on cspan2. P stepped down, creating two vacancies. These has resulted in increased caseloads for the two judges. Things are almost as bad in tennessees Western District. Fortunately help is on the way. In july of last year chip campbell was elected to serve and tommy parker to serve. Im pleased to see that the president nominated such qualified individuals. I thank tom mccain for working with us. Senator corker recommend both positions. Ee lie richardson and mark norris is also nominated. Todays votes are a good start. Chip campbell and tommy parker will be assets to the federal bench. Tennessee is fortunate to have such wellqualified nominees. They are men of good character, good temperament, and today i encourage my colleagues to support their nominations. I thank the president. The presiding officer under the previous order, all postcloture time is c