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"the next american farm bust is upon us." "across the heartland," some are shutting down, raising concerns of the next few years could bring the biggest wave of farm closures since the 1980s. we are joined by a reporter from "the wall street journal." it is the rest of the world getting that much better in its farming techniques? what's causing the problem? >> thanks for having me. it's all of the above. this is a difficult period for many american farmers. at the u.s. deferment of agriculture earlier this month projected farmers would see their incomes decline this year for the fourth straigh...

Government investment and figure out how to get a private capital match. so that it isn't a dependent continent. he was talking about that today. but that you figure out how to sort of start better farming techniques, so that you develop a middle class, so incomes rise, so it is -- you're sort of weaning the idea off so that every president in ten years -- frankly, everyone of them does, comes over here and wonders, why can't we do more? why is it so hard to get africa out of this collective poverty? >> chuck todd, the advance party for the president of the united states in south africa. thank...

The dust bowl as we know it from the '30s was caused by two things. one is it was a severe drought, a terrible drought, but also they didn't have good farming techniques at that time so when the drought occurred, it made it worse than if it were to happen today we know how to defend against these things and how to keep the dust bowls from happening essentially in the same kind of way. >> there's so much weather with oklahoma. thank you, bryan norcross. and dean lee is with the oklahoma state emergency center. i'm looking at all of these people in haz-mat uniforms with live wires and dangerous ...

Farming techniques. they are optimistic. i learned a lot. the farming techniques and type of seeds they use, they are hoping it limits them from getting back to the dust bowl. >> they even used gps technology to deliver irrigation exactly where they planted corn or grain. interesting things they're trying but not on a very wide scale. one thing interesting we saw cotton there in. cotton prices at all time highs. ire heard farmers trying to figure out how to switch to cotton to make money. farmers never farmed cotston ever before, you say pretty drought resistant. >> one because prices are high...

This village in the district. the region's farmers have all suffered harvest losses now representatives from the ministry of agriculture and a private seed production company say they have a solution a new variety of maize. in. its brand name is zap sixty one a hybrid of traditional maize were raw and he's is better adapted for both drought and excessive rain it's said to yield twenty to thirty percent more than conventional mains. lazarus and other farmers are interested cautious the new maize requires new farming techniques and it's more expensive. and the farmers would also have to spend th...