Good morning. Were going to order. Over two years ago, we kicked off the 2018 farmville, and the whole process was by holding that hearing at Kansas City University. If humans later, we held a hearing in this room. We are from the United States department of agriculture officials. We heard about a Critical Role in Agriculture Researchers play throughout our countrys history. We also heard about the Research Priorities for a 2018 farmville. The knees are certainly great. Every day our producers are counter extreme weather just to name a few things. There are challenges with right to do so with minimal federal resources in an aging infrastructure. The United States produces the safest most affordable food in the world. Ever and in crafting the agriculture and provement act of 2019, Ranking Member deborah safford and myself and i along with members of this committee recognize that we have to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. An enactment
Friday on cspan2 and cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house will be in order. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. The white house. The supreme court. And Public Policy events from washington d. C. And around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1978. Cspan is brought by the local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a hearing on Agriculture Research and the status of the implementation of the 2018 farm bill. We hear about relocating parts of the Agriculture Department to the kansas city region. This hearing was held by the Senate Agriculture committee. Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Over two years ago we kicked off the 2018 farm bill, and that whole process was by holding a hearing at Kansas State University of our Land Grant Institution. A few months later there was a hearing in this room. What we heard from the officials representatives fro
Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities were reauthorize z including the Agriculture Research and the National Institute of food and agriculture. Funds including the hatch act and the smith lever mccann tis sten nis and evans allen were extended and competitive Grant Programs were included to support Research Facilities and equipment improvements. Provisions were included to bring incompetent to 1890 and 1994 institutions. The farm and Ra
in the uk and around the world. i m tadhg enright. we start here in the uk where a summer of strikes could get even worse in the winter as two of britain s largest trade unions have put forward motions to co ordinate future walkouts in an effort to cause maximum impact. this the latest move to build pressure on the government and companies as workers demand higher wages in the face of soaring inflation and the cost of living crisis. the summer has seen industrial action from railway workers, to dock workers through to criminal barristers. and there could be more to come as nurses and local government workers are set to make decisions in the coming weeks. joining me now is gervais williams, head of equities at premier miton investors. whenever we talk about such things, we often reference the winter of discontent from the 1970s when there were widespread strikes in the face of high inflation. could this match it? iithink i i think it s very serious, when we look at the cost of
It takes up more room than the actual article itself. Want to introduce the subject of this next session which is this booklet here. Its called transform which is very beautiful and its about an initiative that we were privileged to fund called exploring innovation frontier. I want to give a shout out to promote the head of our engineering director at the time a few years ago when we made the decision to fund this. He has gone on to uc irvine where he is a vice chancellor for research. During this time there have been several workshops around the country and ill say a few words about that and then you will hear from two of the people that were greatly involved in those workshops more about this. Let me make now that ive kind of introduced the subject of basic research, leading to innovation and leading to engineering applications, let me make some formal remarks. I will just begin with the quote from our inspiration of the National Science foundation who believed that there must be a s