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Image courtesy of GEAPS GEAPS announces a partnership with the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) to share educational programming across both member organizations. The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) announces a partnership with the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) to share educational programming across both member organizations.  GEAPS members will receive a discount on AFIA’s distance education courses, including its Fundamentals ...

To a grain elevator. the coast guard searching for several people knocked into the water by the blast. when we come back, a note about how we conducted this interview with joe biden and kamala harris right in the middle of this pandemic.

>> a farmer in north korea -- every time i go to the grain elevator, its frikin trump this and that. >> as to all the solutions hes caused for american farmers, his proposed solution has been to sort of go motionist on the issue. give farmers billions in cash bailouts to make up how badly the trump administrations policies are hurting american agriculture. but the trump administration is having trouble reporting that out as well. >> pli because they cant get it to together to pay the warmers the...

Folks in general, farmers in particular to being a c constituenci constituencies. they are quite obviously making that constituency a problem for him right now. just scan the headlines right now that trumps getting out of farm country. trumps trade war could cost him with a key constituency, farmers. iowa corn farmers to trump, the government put us in one hell of a bad situation. agriculture is in one hell of a bad situation right now. the government has put us in this situation. a soy bean far...

There is an absolute appetite for change. >> you know, he makes no apologies for his anti-immigrant remarks. he portrays them adds an existential threat similar to what president trump says. how do you see the role of immigrants in your state? >> well, the irony of having somebody like steve king as a representative is that we need a workforce in the fourth district. in jefferson, iowa, we were there just earlier this week, and the grocery store manager says he doesnt have enough folks to hire. ...

Previously, i went to the grain elevator and they were talking about the harvest and they needed 39 employees to help -- seasonal employees to help with the harvest and they didnt get one american citizen to apply for those positions. and so its something that i think farmers and construction folks, those -- they need a workforce and its -- its another of so many examples of king not understanding the district and just using his rhetoric and ideology to divide us. where our campaign is exactly t...

Thats the wrong message to send out to the american people where farmers like myself are suffering at the hands of this administration and the tariffs have hurt farmers. >> let me -- im from minnesota and so much of our economy relies on farming as well, i will never forget a video about a month ago of a dairy farmer in tears, a young man in tears, because of what hes faced in terms of prices, et cetera. for you i was reading that your soybean crops from gone from $16.80 a bushel down to $8. tha...

Windows busted, and my dad looked out the shelter, and he said you dont want to go out there. he looked like he was going to cry. my whole family broke down in tears. my grandpa was in the house. we thought he was dead. jenna: early estimates of the damage put estimates around $2 billion. early as they are. the president will tour the area and meet with survivors and first responders this weekend on sunday. gregg: residents in moore just beginning the very long and difficult process of cleaning ...

Excess of spot in this market. >> can you do something for our audience? can you explain what a future is? its a very important concept, but for folks that arent trading in commodities, just explain when you purchase a future, what are you doing? >> ill give it my best. my 85-year-old mom sometimes asks me. they started 150 years ago that a farmer planting corn or wheat could say, i want to lock in the price at harvest time. if i lock in that price up in chicago on the markets, then come harvest...

>> i am up in arms about it. >> tom, you said you used to play in a grain elevator, and that you would have -- which is fine. but you would have worked in grain if you could or somebody would have paid you to? >> yes, i did it unpaid, and i would have gladly worked in a grain elevator or any of the seven grains. >> what are the seven grains? >> they are in my toast. i dont know. i see them on a daily basis. >> you stair at them, but you dont know what they are? >> no, but i want all seven. >> yo...