agriculture with philip brasher. for people who are right now seeing nothing but sold-out grocery store aisles, what is going on in the agriculture industry when it comes to the impact of coronavirus? what are people seeing behind those aisles? guest: that is the question of the day. a lot is going on. i cannot tell you what an incredible disruption the last couple of weeks have been. primarily, you have a lot of people hoarding and buying lots of food. a lot of other things. the supply chain is not set up for a surge like that so it takes a little while to get caught up. we have lots of hens and cattle and pigs in this country, but they are set to move through the system at a certain pace. the other really big thing that's happening is you have a massive shift from restaurants, food service, universities, schools to retail. in some cases that's different products, different types of products, different types of produce, but all of that has to be shifted to retail. unfortunately some of this may go to waste, particul

what happened that changed everything in american agriculture in southern agriculture especially that american agriculture writ large was the great depression and more importantly the new deal. the new deal was tremendously consequential for tobacco because it instituted a very rigid and very controlled system of regulations on land. tobacco is this unregulated crop and in fact more than any other crop grown in the united states tobacco farmers had to abide by production controls and in fact tobacco farm laws were not written to be made part of the farm bill. they were written separately with their own legislation, so what the new deal did was basically institute a system. think of it as supply management that we are going to make sure mr. tobacco farmer who by the way you cannot just declare yourself a tobacco farmer. you essentially have to have a license to grow. >> host: and allotment. >> guest: and allotment exactly. mr. tobacco farmer couldn't make worth an x amount and this is revised based on yearly projections are with the manufactures need but it will provide mr. tobacco far

all farmers did in agriculture for a lot of the 1920s. so during the cycle of war, tobacco farmers who have never become more organized by their interaction with the federal government and the federal government is literally organizing groups of farmers into committees so that they can plan how much tobacco they will produce in subsequent years. these elite tobacco farmers are coming together in various places across north carolina and they are saying, what am going to do about the postwar readjustment? we can't let what happened after the first world war happen again after the second world war. and so what did tobacco farmers have now that they didn't have after world war i? what they have now is proximity to government, proximity to the levers of power. they have whole bureaucracy. >> host: the farmers in the proximity tressa yes, interest in their well-being in a way they had not been before. >> host: was it because of money? >> guest: because the new deal did, well, i would say for two reasons. one, a new deal did inaugurate a way of

see come in the eastern himalayas a unique experiment is underway in this small indian state agriculture here is 100 percent organic synthetic pesticides and fertilizers are banned. we're not only taking everything from the environment but we are giving something back to the environment. in germany meanwhile organic farming remains a niche market why is it still not mainstream is see come an example for other countries to follow. the authorities and see them are strict conventionally farmed fruits and vegetables are forbidden so they're being destroyed. morally. smugglers were looking to sell this produce at a market in gun talk the state capital the smugglers were caught by pass along to among those employed by the government as a food control officer. so we are doing something good for our row ard. that's why we start feel sad because we are giving examples for the whole world this is not good for a hell this is not good for environment so we are destroying all these things. fresh produce is destroyed on a regular basis and cecum with its policy the regional government is taking a firm

in the state of missouri that we know huge financial contributions from agricultural industry groups those are the groups that oppose proposition b. and there is no doubt in our minds that those same groups pressured lawmakers to overturn proposition and before the session even started there were bills that were pretty filed to do just that you feel bad because it was repealed but you know. as. for this i mean just the fact that almost half the business who could have been . proved with many of the worst operations you still have. who are operating you still have. still have. some folks believe they can do whatever they want there are so many issues on so many porton issues and everybody is struggling in their own way that we don't necessarily want to pick up the. eventually i have to go back. and face this neighbor and face the other neighbors and i will meet them at church at the grocery store at the restroom at the sale barn and i'm responsible. and i think this is where the buck ends we individually have to take responsibility as producers and as consumers i think for the public

really is there promote american agriculture it's not an impartial sort of entity that is neutral you overseeing the laws and for years u.s.d.a. was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the agriculture sector who started raising puppies and started operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio has any breeder been forced out of this. long. standing violations of the animal welfare act if they choose to no longer pay u.s.d.a. license it's because they chose not to renew their license not because inspectors came out to actually revoke that license i never heard of a regulator coming to pennsylvania no one was getting shut down the feeling of the industry was very we don't have to worry about it so frankly their doors were pretty open the so often if a breeder some violation of the animal welfare act they get a slap on the hands and when they get the slap on the hands. off and it is months following the violation and they're given an opportunity to correct the violation and sometimes it may be days. before that inspector returns

from agriculture giant including monsanto tyson smithfield and cargill the sides these direct. tribulations each of these corporations spent millions of dollars each year lobbying congress. seemingly afraid of how a theoretical slippery slope protecting dogs in puppy mills could hurt their operations corporate agriculture sided with commercial breeders they get loads of campaign cash from these agribusiness groups because that's the funnel for the legislation that these agribusiness groups want who doesn't want to protect docs and yet somehow interest to find a way to twisted around and make you scared into voting against those commonsense positive public policy is they typically oppose any animal welfare legislation because they think they're going to be next and they think that if you have a society that is incrementally building animal welfare standards it's eventually going to lead society to examine their conduct even with strong public support for commonsense changes to the animal welfare act none of these bills were allowed out of committee recognizing the original inten

there are a lot of lawmakers in the state of missouri that we know huge financial contributions from agricultural industry groups those are the groups that oppose proposition b. and there is no doubt in our minds that those same groups pressured lawmakers to overturn proposition b. and before the session even started there were bills that were pretty filed to do just that you feel bad because it was repealed but you know all of your work paid off as made a dramatic difference for this i mean just the fact that over almost half these facilities are out of business who could have been vision that things are definitely much improved with many of the worst operations but you still have chronic violators who are operating you still have any humane treatment of the animals and you still have this defiant attitude that some folks believe they can do whatever they want there are so many issues out here so many porton issues and everybody is struggling in their own way that we don't necessarily want to pick up the other guy struggle eventually i have to go back into my town and face this neighbor and face

thring of the most powerful agricultural forces in missouri at the stinson morrison and hector law firm in addition to members of the dog breeding industry the meeting included the leadership at the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers association and the missouri soybean association at this meeting these groups agreed to fight prop be in a coordinated effort with the dog breeding industry. to front groups emerge from the meeting one which would eventually be called missouri farmers care and the alliance for truth while these front groups seem to have sprung out of thin air it was actually a highly coordinated effort financed largely by corporate agriculture nearly 82 percent of total contributions to missouri farmers care originated from 3 corporate agriculture trade groups and their respective political action committees. the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers and the missouri soybean association while the missouri farmers care campaign highlighted the positive role of missouri farmers in society the alliance for truth was focused on misrepresenting the clear

we were just talking about supply chain and agriculture. thebeyond that, it puts immigrant population in a position where they are going to really need some services, nunnally healthcare services -- not only healthcare services, but if they cannot go to work and without a paycheck, we have to remember they are going to need some assistance. and, i do hope that is part of get this economy up and running again, that we remember those people working. but based on shoulder to shoulder for eight plus hours. it is absolutely a climate that is ripe with opportunity to touch something that the guys on your left or right already have. i don't think we have enough truthfully to protect them and to think about the impact that has on a worker that leaves that plant and goes back to his home or his family and his children. if we are going to contain the disease, we have to consider the impact it is having on migrants. rob: i would just add -- first of all, there has been a great deal of discussion and possibly a need for it on potential liability for fo

be was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all rearing of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would affect farm animals you know and and then of course when they were confronted on it and showed the wall that they'd say well it's a slippery slope but there was still continue to go in a rural areas and convince everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it. created mystery and it made a really difficult campaign it didn't deal with cattle pigs it in deal with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone who was a 1st year law student could say with definitive precision that it just applied to dogs in space a clear way to one of the dominoes in what i call the line of dominoes out here you know women ating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want the livestock arena forces and so forth and in a ballot measure campaign you don't necessarily need to convince people that your position is right you just need to sow enough confusion so that people maintain the status quo and vote no clothes no way

i'm taking steps with respect to agriculture. irony together 15 of the best and brightest in agriculture to understand what the new marketplace looks like, what role we can play, what are the risks we need to mitigate. that will be an opportunity for us to reflect on whether we can go further through the supply manner. a competitive we are part of a global community. we can't run away from that. we don't understand our place in the world -- we still need to trade. it is important we create wealth . we do it in a cost-effective way that it gives efficiencies and also protects our national security without underpinning our food security. agriculture has been the bedrock of our nation's security because it is underscored our food security which has kept national security in check. haidi: farmers in australia are bushfires.m the how has that been compounded by this latest crisis, the shutdown we have seen across services industries, and how quickly are you seeing a recovery from the likes of china as it begins to reopen? is there dem

how does this change the way that agriculture provides food to consumers? are there changes that we need to make throughout the supply chain to be able to manage this going forward? will people have to do anything differently as we look beyond into the future? are there things we learned about the supply chain and fixes that we need to make? >> well, i will take a stab at that to begin with. to reiterate the need for the storage and the infrastructure so that when the institutions that would normally be purchasing and using food that farmers are producing and that the facilities are processing, that we can shift more easily and more quickly from food-service to food banks, and the reality is we are having a hard time shifting. think about this, you've got a perishable product milk. you don't have a food bank that has storage capacity, but you have tremendous demand for families for milk. it is to the point where we even suggested that, for some food banks that have processing and bodily capacity, maybe we pull the refridgerated truck up to the back and esse

gaited crops and so it's putting a real strain on a lot of places where where a lot of that irrigated agriculture is is practiced. just to give you some example of what we're looking at some of the recent scientific projections have suggested that in the colorado river basin by the year 2050 we should expect about 20 percent less available water because of climate change and by the turn of the century it's going to be 30 percent or more how much just fracking impact the aquifer. well in a very localized way it can have a big impact and because it does use a awful lot of water. one of the things that that industry is trying to do is to use alternate sources of water so to use water that's too brackish too salty to use for human drinking water supplies or use for agriculture and i think as they move more and more off of the potable water supply the fresh cream clean water that could be used for other purposes it will become that aspect of fracking you know may diminish somewhat but in a localized in localized areas southern texas parts of pennsylvania for example on that can be a very big deal we t

middle income country whereas a well developed agricultural sector like maracle. developed a model of bosses then double and scalable. in here in morocco and then spend it out of the other countries. unlike other common insect protection plans the focus here is on enabling farmers to generate an income from everything they grow. farming with alternative pollinators or if up for short is the name of the plan it works like this 3 quarters of the land is used to grow the main crops like eggplant for example cultivated around it are plants that attract more insects because of their colors shapes and when they're in bloom the farmer can also sell them. as a control there are fields in which only the main crop grows that way the researchers can assess the effectiveness of the intervention. as a ph d. student on christmas team will be killed. here she's collecting insect samples that will later be examined in the lab when it comes to protecting pollinators she says economic arguments are just as important as environmental ones. if only about diversity of nature and they

our secretary of agricultural. >> thank you, governor. and thank you for your leadership. we appreciate your support. we appreciate everyone's whever th mi. our farmers is ye all of us have. but they are working every day to continue the kind of bountiful, nutritious productivity is the hallmark of california. we are blessed to have the farmers and ranchers that we have had that named us the number one agricultural state and leader in our tree nuts and dairy and our fruits and vegetables. i like to tell people, if you've had a salad today l is a 50/50 chance that the salad came from the state of california. the shock to closing down food service has ramifications to how we all shop and eat these days. 50% of our food dollars are spent in the food service arena. no longer in retail. like it used to be. and that has backed up product. and because it is so perishable, some of it has just come out of the ground. a program that was in right place. to say at any time of the year we have markets that are not absorbing all of our crop, but we don't want it to go to waste. we want

i said let's get you for agriculture. we want to thank you very much. eight years in georgia. really appreciated, great job. even as we prepare to rebuild our economy, america continues to wage an all—out medical ward to defeat the invisible enemy. to date, we have conducted more than 3.78 million coronavirus tests, by far the most of any country. it's not even close. in the hardest hit areas such as louisiana and new york, we've also tested more people per capita than south korea, singapore and every other country. the united states has the most robust, advanced and accurate testing system anywhere in the world. as of yesterday, we have distributed nearly 660,000 ids. that is an incredible test, and it is fantastic. it's the hot one. from within this business, it's a hot one till about two days from now, because we have a saliva test that just came out and that can be self administered, and it is said to be fantastic. i want to think and it laboratories who have been incredible and roche have also been incredible. we have in the dramatic increase in the number of tests cond

and the country's agricultural ministry has said japan's food supply is not currently at risk. but it's difficult to predict whether that will change if a shortage of foreign workers affects farms throughout the world. >>> the 2020 summer games may have been delayed a year, but the olympic flame is now on full display in fukushima. officials decided to keep the flame in japan until the games start in july 2021. rightt now it's a at the jay village soccer center which was supposed to be the starting point for the torch relay. >> translator: i'm glad to see the olympic flame up close, even though the games were postponed. >> visitors are only allowed to look at the flame for 30 seconds and must wear a face mask and use hand sanitizer. the public display r runs until the end of the month. >>> the coronavirus has disrupted the lives of people around the world. in japan it's deprived many families of a chance to witness a rite of passage they've been looking forward to for years. their children's graduation ceremonies. our next story looks at how one photographer is helping families