And I chair the Senate Act committee and I think to get you've already introduced yourself myself Yeah, so we'll have the rest of the committee Introduce Senator from Addison County Ryan Colomore representing the Ruffin district Chris Pearson senator Wait and I will say dairy farmer for 40 years So to kick this off Special welcome to all of you great turnout But who have you here today visiting the state house and and we've got not an hour and Almost an hour and well we have our hour and ten minutes Yeah, they hear from you folks and and We've got ideas that you'd like to promote I know Jackie's here and Joe The president farm bureau he's around the state house a lot Nick does Jane Jane Morris and her crew Make sure that you know that your ideas get brought up to the forefront So and it's good to have help here because we have you know We've got the natural resources committees in Bolton and of course the Appropriations committees where it ends up if we need money to do practices so Yeah, it isn't like the old days where you could get by with one part-time person's kind of helping out It's a big job And the help is certainly appreciated So Jackie I guess turned over to you and sure and before we go any farther. We have some unfinished business in November at the Vermont Farm Bureau annual meetings Our president always announces the winner of a president's award and this is given to someone who's been a strong advocate and voice of Agriculture on behalf of our industry and this year the winner was senator star who is not at our meeting But I do have the plaque and I just like to tell folks who maybe weren't there that Senator star first came to the dome the under the golden dome in 1979 last century He came in as a representative so he came in in 1979 and he chaired the housing committee from 1985 to 2000 and then he ran for the Senate came in as a senator in 2005 He was chair of the Senate Education Committee from 2009 to 2012 and since 2013 he's been the chair of the Senate Act Committee for which we are so grateful It's a wonderful committee. He's got some great folks on there that really listen to to your voices and and it's also and Carolyn won the Stephanie Bordeaux award a couple years ago, which was a strong women leading in agriculture So we've got some really good people here who work very hard for all of you But since senator star wasn't at the meeting I brought the plaque on behalf of Joe and the president's award is given to senator Bobby star for his Unfailing commitment to our own agriculture pretty nice In a long time Well when When I first came to the legislature It was a little bit like now and farming farmers were really in in bad shape milk prices were low some farmers were dumping their milk protesting and So and up in Orleans County and in Troy We had some excellent farmland and of course I grew up on the farm I've always other than one year have always lived on our home farm You know eventually I bought it, but that's all beside the point But agriculture Is far as I'm concerned is probably the most important natural resource and the foundation of our state agriculture is it and When when I first came to it wasn't always considered a very good or ambitious committee to be on and you know, this is My 42nd year of being on either the house ag committee or the senate ag committee and and I wouldn't trade any one of those years for some other committee in the world, I mean You know, we've we've done a lot of good things in ag Current use program wasn't really in place for ag BHCB was non-existent and we set that up in in ag At the Vita loan program, which we have now was non-existent We set that up in the ag committee the dairy, I don't know if I mentioned it but the dairy compact we put together and You know, it's it's been a It's been a great run and and I said on the Appropriations Committee in the Senate now But over in the house, which is it's really important for ag to have somebody in there Because the box stops there and but over in the house I never cared about being on Appropriations, but I always had people up there that were good friends and Considered ag is a very important issue. Perry late Paul that was up there for a long time and Michael old bohoski was Chair of that and so along the way, you know, we've had some I've had some good partners That that really helped out and and did a lot of the works All I was doing is steering the bus a little bit But it's like the crew that I have now. I mean, they're the ones that do the work I just try to keep a lid on the cattle and So anyways, I want to thank Jackie in the firm bureau and for all the help that that they have provided Along the way and hopefully will continue into the future. So thank you very much So we do have people that would like to chat with you about some of their challenges and concerns We've been going over some of the bills that that are walking around the building both upstairs and downstairs So I think we've got dairy. We've got some sheep. We've got some egg wine clothes here and some people So we'll try to keep them moving along and if you have any questions, you know, please please ask them We'll try to figure it out. So Mary. I'd like you to start Mary What I think a lot of you know who she is head up up there to the hot seat there Mary's just come back from Austin, Texas She was down at the American Farm Hero Federation annual meeting talking with them about growth management for dairy Yeah, yeah, so great to be here. Mary white from Vermont. We own and operate a cabinet ever mark dairy farm I want to thank you all for being here And just wanted to give you a little update about what happened in Austin, Texas at the American Farm Bureau annual convention Unfortunately, the president of the American Farm Bureau was not able to be there due to his wife's passing Actually during the convention up in a long courageous battle with a beer in cancer So we continued the meeting and he was elected for another term So our best to see if you do ball on his family So the the convention was well attended We had over 5,000 people in attendance from across the country. It was myself president Joe Tisbert and Ann and Jay They're representing Vermont As we know we've really kind of worked with the Montville Commission on pushing growth management and just trying to start the conversation throughout the country So it was great to be able to actually sit down with dairy farmers from California, Kentucky, Wisconsin And I'll try to get on the same page with us and do something to control our domestic supply So as a result, we did unanimously pass some policy on the American Farm Bureau side Which supports a farmer and industry-driven milk management program So that's huge for us I mean you needlessly pass on the floor and that really opens the door for the American Farm Bureau To get their staff on this and start working and other states have passed similar wording in their policies as well So it's really encouraging And it really started with us kind of reaching out and starting this conversation on a national level So thank you for all of you for having your support in the Vermont Mill Commission Just a few other industries that we talked about We did stand up and speak for organic soil to keep the word organic in the soil And we did pass that by a majority at the national level as well There was kind of an opposition from hydroponic operations But we were able to pass that as American Farm Bureau policy as well So we considered that a win for Vermont And one other thing we did pass some hemp regulations on a national level And the American Farm Bureau is going to be supporting a THC of one percent So that it's going to be in the American One percent yes one percent More in line with some of the global regulations. So those are just a few things I want to present to you today I've got some other people here. They want to speak on Jerry But if we have time I might come back later and we can talk about but I just want to applaud you all for Senator star your milk and meat labeling bills. We're always strong supporters of those So I think we could do to get behind those in the state of Vermont. I think would be great since again We're not really seeing anything move at the national level. Do you produce a home and milk? Interesting though, so a lot of these dairy farmers from california their diversity is growing almonds So it was a very interesting conversation I I've been a sponsor of the so-called right to repair bill, which is ag Farmers In a tense way. I think there was a discussion nationally at the past of meeting, but I could be wrong. I know in Nebraska and past Resolution around it. Did that come up? Yeah, just give me a little more background on right to repair is the idea that everything from your cell phone to your tractor You should be able to get parts and repair yourself not bring to the dealer necessarily Which is really hard for us in rural state where You know, you can't go necessarily to authorize repair people And so it's the idea that you should have access to parts you pay for the tractor or for the cell phone or whatever So this has been a national discussion of kind of trying to help our independent repair shops Help farmers who know their own tractors, but are greatly banned from working on them So maybe it didn't come up or so I think there was some discussion on the floor But I wasn't present for that and we'd be happy to look into it and when we get the policy book I will let you know how it stands nationally There was a lot of discussion when I was on the floor about broadband internet And getting that to rural communities. So that was one thing that they were definitely in support of Thanks Other questions Just a really quick one. You mentioned that the word organic in the is it in the definition of soil or what To keep the organic definite to keep the definition of organic in the soil. So with the soil components Being the driver behind that rather than a hydroponic operation or something along those lines using an organic certification I see. Okay. I see. Got it. Thank you All right. Thank you. Yeah, thank you mary Thanks for your hard work on that Yeah, they're very excited to see you That's good Good morning. Good morning I'm Heidi Kranz and I'm worth the Vermont Horse Council. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you all again Um, I wanted to speak uh very briefly to the h254 the adequate shelter Um, we really appreciate all the work that has been going into that particular piece of legislation And feel that the wording that you've settled on you've done an amazing job of trying to Make a one-size-fits-all for all the kinds of livestock that it has to cover And understanding that there's never going to be an absolutely perfect piece of legislation that can cover all that but We've had some of our members and constituents. I think right in and call it to give you some feedback on it and appreciate the work You've done on that Yes, I also wanted to update you. I think I've spoken before both Committees in the past about our economic impact study Which the horse council started back in 2018 And we finished the first phase of that which was a study that looked at the impact of events equine events in the In the state of vermont. I sent had uh forwarded to you our executive summary To give you some background on that the full report is available on our website But the probably the two main important facts that uh hit me from it was that we There's an estimated almost 9 000 people that in 2018 came into the state specifically for equine related events the total impact that they had was almost 22 million dollars in the economy of vermont So that's an average of 2400 per group that came So the impacts there and the potential For growth of that part of the economy in vermont is is fairly significant If we could take advantage of a little bit more of the tourism piece of it We are um next week at the farm show going to be kicking off the second phase of the study Which will look specifically at the economic impact of Owning courses in the state of vermont and it will look both that personal Ownership but also equine businesses and the impacts that they have So we're hoping that by the end of this summer We'll have a whole new set of data for you about that, which I think is going to provide even more valuable information in terms of the what the opportunities are with the equine industry and and answer some questions that we've Nobody's ever been able to seem to answer like just how many horses are there in vermont and what is the impact? And then finally I wanted to put in a word some years ago the Extension service lost its equine specialist And has not been able to replace that person. We are Approached regularly about the that lack And if there I know that we're in tight very tight budget times I know that that's a difficult position to look at But we would love if there was ever an opportunity to um have some Have an opportunity to have that position refilled. It's a valuable position. It gives us access to nationwide outreach that we just don't have now and um support that we've really been missing in the past The study that the horse council just undertook was undertaken by extension And they have the ability to do it. So the horse council as a very small nonprofit Raised the $25,000 that was needed to do that study And hasn't had much Help from at all from the state other than through the center for rural studies who's Been very generous at working with us So thank you very much for your continued work on behalf and we really do appreciate Your consideration of equine Concerns, thank you. Thank you. Thank you idea. Are there any questions for Heidi and me guards? Thank you Rob Cary from Longford. We have a small sheep farm down there and First I would like to thank you for supporting agriculture farming logging and other traditional land uses I recently saw where there was a special working group or committee It will work out of water quality or some related subject And when I saw that senator star was a member of the committee I knew that our interests were being well represented And I know that both agriculture committees are working very hard to keep agriculture and all its farms here in Vermont And I saw a nice picture of you with your sheep upstairs in the Oh, yeah That's that's a part of being part of that Um, we've talked about the shelter bill a lot Um, but just and I think I'm preaching to the choir, but just so you have somebody else here Not all animals certainly need Four walls or whatever specific shelter might be specified here in Vermont in 24 7 365 basis and a lot of animals actually do better Unsheltered in moderate weather and are less likely to have respiratory and other problems such as pneumonia And really most livestock owners out there know what their particular livestock needs and how to care for them They're always going to be some people who are either don't know Or just aren't Doing the proper thing on the tci This seems to be like another name for carbon tax, which I'm personally opposed to And here in Vermont, we are very proud of our rural character and transportation is a very necessary part of that Consolidation of services such as schools and shopping actually increases our need for transportation And any increase of fuel cost is probably going to be a regressive tax Especially to rural residents because they need to travel farther on a daily basis than urban people usually do Farmers loggers and other people working outside will often bear the heaviest costs and are bringing a lot of cases the least able to afford it And One of the other commentaries I'd like to make is a lot of times I've seen over the years I'm sure you have two where what start out as suggestions Guides and best practices and recommended somehow seem to evolve into requirements and mandatory regulation And my personal number one concern for our children and grandchildren Is that there will still be any economy here in Vermont where they can find Jobs to live on Questions for mom Sarah star told me about the idea of wool in insulation And uh, that was intriguing to me because we're always thinking about food really And and I'm just curious if you're aware of Vermont wool producers that are part of that sort of I'm assuming that's a A newer sort of an old idea and then maybe a new idea all at the same time I'm aware a little bit. I know there's there have been At least two I think attempts within the last 20 years or so To do that on some form of a commercial scale Typically would be used for a lower quality wool And Last I've heard in fact we talked about a little bit at our recent sheep group meeting It seems that there's just not enough of a commercial market to really make it go It's hard to compete with fiberglass and the big money there But it has been tried. It's certainly something that Might have a future but right now it seems to be Something that hasn't played reached its time to bloom. Yeah. Thank you. Well in this this very morning We heard the university extension service you're working on dirty wool Working that into the soil is uh in is an alternative to Commercial fertilizer, I think they were saying I I've heard some sort of some sort of palette I'm not full with all the details of it Which is being being tested as a possible feed supplement And also as a soil stabilizer in places So those are those are things that I'm aware of people are are testing I haven't heard they're still working on it as to whether it's Truly going to come commercially viable. It's always it's always good heat Listen for things. So are we going to be able to have Sheep and kels or are we going to have a little battle? Oh, well, you know, it's one of those things that changed over time Wild back through a sheep were the heavy numbers and Then out west they started getting cheaper places to graze and then In more recent times the uh commercial wool market in the u.s. Pretty much collapsed Um Patron guys took care of that That and the imports from Australia and new zeal and they were heavy hitters and that change So anything for else for thought And I don't think there's currently a small ruminant specialist in the extension service either What's the market house the market for in high grade the world these days? Uh In terms of like a full commercial market where Uh a group of small boys would get together and there's somebody that comes into the tractor trailer by tractor trailer loads It's pretty much not exist every couple of years somebody tries to get something a little bit going Um, but there really isn't that full envelope used to be 30 years ago Um, so it's kind of off to small groups. So what we do with ours Um, we some of it we just clean very lightly and sell to hand spinners and other craft people Um, a lot of that sale actually happened. So it is in New Hampshire and Vermont at those sheep and wool festivals and a big fleece showdown at the Biggie grounds in, uh, massachusetts Um, we also take and have some of it more cleaned More cleaned so it can be used as is and my wife makes a lot of crafts that we sell a variety of crash shows So there's some of these people doing it for the higher quality but as far as Actually make being being a part of like a johnson woolen shirt like i'm wearing it's probably insignificant or less What about me? me There are places that in Vermont that will commercially slaughter and an inspection land or sale We've worked with several places including in years past. We worked with A food co-op that had a good market down in boston in new york, but then Wasn't able to keep going So as far as what we personally do for me our meat sales or somebody comes and buy something On the hoof Whether they use it for breeding or for me after it's on their truck or trailer. That's entirely their business Uh, but we do shakers. We ship some lambs down to northampton in massachusetts for auction And i'm sure most of that ends up outplayed Thank thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you Hello Jennifer Lambert from washington vermont. My husband and I operate Um 100 cow organic farm there. You aren't on You aren't one of them on the ridge, right? On the ridge. Yeah, so one side you get a manure pit and the other side you don't you aren't one of them We're on the champlain valley river basin. So you got your pick Uh, yeah, we got approved for a pit, but then we it's married. We denied our pit I'm just kidding. Yes, we're at the line. We're on the good side of the line So, uh We milk just over 100 cows in washington and then we also have a custom harvesting business So we're in Contact with many farms in washington county orange county um, and today I just Mostly want to address the use of roundup and pesticides And uh, it might seem strange as an organic farmer, but I am opposed to Limiting the use of these products for farmers. Um, I believe but we are in the midst of an anti-science movement Fear-based claims are ruling social media, which is where most people get their news from. Um, it's pretty scary But I think roundup has its place in responsible farming Without roundup, we're not going to be able to do things like cover crop and uh, no till like that'll just be impossible We actually tried growing organic corn for a few years and it was Just futile the amount of diesel fuel that we used trying to cultivate the crop trying to keep the weeds down It was impossible that our last year that we Grew corn it was so weedy that we had to Mow it we had to get the mowers out mow it down and put the grass head on the chopper because it was it was just such a Impossible crop to harvest you tried to do it the right way. Yeah the right way the safe way And the corn was about as high as I stand and barely had any grain on it. So limiting these Products from far, sorry. I'm fighting a cold. I'm half here Limiting these products It's just going to harm the farming community. We're going to Not be able to grow other crops other than grass. And so we're going to be more dependent on other states for grain and things It's just going to make it impossible to farm So I think there's a place for pesticides and roundup and Many other tools that we probably haven't discovered yet. I do think that A roundup doesn't belong unregulated on shelves for consumers to buy I mean, there's nothing saying that you couldn't use three gallons a roundup on one dandelion on your lawn Really, and I think it's very overused So we're not in a place yet to go without roundup We don't hopefully there's going to be more tools that we can Use but we're just we're not there yet So farms will become Vermont farms will become more dependent upon other states for grain And fuel We don't have the tools to grow crops other than grass in Vermont without these tools Carver cropping and no till will be impossible without these tools And I'm just urging you guys to Please continue making decisions from the wisdom of the science community not From a place of fear and misunderstanding Farmers need to feed the world and we're going to need as many tools as possible to do that Questions for jane Can you sell your milk to sell our milk to organic valley? Yeah, we're still under quota Yeah What's that price wise is that price wise we're getting 35 right now, but we're in our our high We get three dollar premium for december january and february We'll get it taken away in march and then in the summer we get two dollar deduct For what they call spring flush So we barely cash flow during the summer months So it We got a pocket all the money that we get this time of the year So I wanted to ask you about your About the round up testimony So as you as a farmer as an organic farmer you can still use round up. No, you can't okay So whatever you use it on You wouldn't be able to count it as organic Yeah, we are so we have a custom harvesting business So we do a lot of my husband does a lot of work for other farms plants corn Got it. Okay does So i'm assuming you and your husband I have to have Our certified pesticide You have to go through the training in order to be able to use the round up. Is that correct? Yeah, he's been through the the trainings and the farms that he works for And through the the trainings and last year we worked on a bill about new nicotinoids You probably know and we took the route that you suggested which was to Not allow serve regular consumers to to use it but still Certified operators like farmers or Call for some or some stuff like that to use it Is that something you that's what it sounded like you were suggesting for the for glyphosate did I say that right? Yeah Which they already do now, I think If I understand that right Yeah Right that's what i'm saying as a consumer you can just go buy it by the bucket But right So what i'm just trying to declare what i heard you suggesting is kind of the route that we've had New nicotinoids, which was to not just allow sort of average. Yeah use it responsibly so that Yeah, that's when we don't use these products responsibly is when they're going to stop working so Great, that's I just wanted to make sure that's here. All right. Thank you Any other questions? Nope, thank you Tom it's good. Jen. It's good to hear you're asking for the use of round It's kind of the first I hear it. I get emails and I'm sure we all do it on the other side And I have a question I have not used it on my dandelions for three years And quite frankly my lawn looks like hell I'm doing say I bet you have a good crop You got a moment more Dandelions are beautiful and they're good for pollinators. So just leave Yes, they're the first food for the bees. So you have to You're saving the bees Be proud of Thank you Morning I'll start she's off on their risks This is my daughter Anna So my name is Justin Pullman. This is my daughter Anna Pullman We run a small their first five-firing brand-off with 45 beef cows 5000 maple tats And my days in agriculture are numbered and it's rough on my body And I'm at the point that I wanted to exit agriculture. She graduated high school last year Tried different hands into Childcare and a couple different things who decided that she wanted to continue the farm So we've kind of made an arrangement that I've given her a period of time to try it pick on some responsibility and Decide if that's what she wants to do for the rest of her life So we're here today to talk about a little bit about the struggles of agriculture And one of the biggest things we're facing right now on our farm In regards to regulation new mandates coming and and repressed commodity prices, whether it be beef or maple syrup Those are all things that occur on a daily basis But our biggest thing right now is we're doing more land further away from the farm So we're on roads more than we've ever used to be our farm equipment has gotten bigger because we're trying to do more With less health. We don't hire any farm on farm health. We crop over 400 acres A lot of it we only do once because of the quality of the land, but we're still covering a lot of ground She is lucky to be here today because of a Accident to happen on the roadway with an altercation with another vehicle using the road So we're here to try to raise awareness and get the discussion started about Right the way it's on on the highways and who has that right away, so we're there's some language and We've made up these really neat signs We're language in 732 that talks about the right to farm law about section three. I think line g about Farm equipment being able to use the roadways, but it doesn't give clear language to who actually has the right way And so this is just her accident. She was going a tractor with she had a tractor and a Assets around actually in a manure spreader last spring and we were going an alternate route to try to avoid the mainstream traffic and It was just probably not the best route to be going with that size of the load She had a car behind her. I'll let her tell the story, but it's becoming a daily Issue for us Confrontations with cars whether it is 10 cars behind us or we're trying to make a left-hand turn Into a field or whatever it might be It's just becoming a real safety issue And there's no real clear statute that says who has the right away And I've had in discussions with my insurance agent and local police That if we actually pull over and try to let cars go and which is very difficult for us because their equipment is wider There's really not safe places to pull over. We can't get off the roadway Far enough. So if a cargo was around us and there happens to be another car speeding around wherever we pull over We're actually Potentially liable if something happens to that car because we've gave the indication that they can they can pass us clearly So I'll let her tell her story about her accident and Answer any questions With the accident I was headed up to with a little manure to dump it off in the field and I was going on the back road and there's a bridge and before the bridge there's a pullout And then right after the bridge it's an immediate incline and Car that came up behind me. I felt pressured from it to go faster So I went up the hill and weighed too high of a gear and then when I went to ship down The tractor stalled So the tractor she actually kept it in the The ditch and the car was able to move backwards and get out of the way And she almost had it off the side of the road But then the spreader caught a tree the tractor jackknife dropped our broke off the tractor and the tractor went over a 20-foot bridge and bank she landed Got ejected out of the tractor tractor roll over the top of her. So if you don't believe in faith If you saw that accident you would definitely change your opinion. So did you have your seatbelts on? No So that is our problem. Did you have a roll bar? Yes So we've learned we've learned multiple lessons In regards to an understanding about second chances. So seatbelts are on the priority list and So yeah, it's it's that's an important thing Um But it's the roll bar is no good unless you heard your seatbelts up correct There's a picture of your life. There's there's a picture of a dump truck there also So that was a friend of my neighbor of mine.  Yeah, so that was just another example of you know A confrontation that you know And I almost got in a physical altercation with a fellow last year We were spreading manure and you all are aware of the manure van So we had to put our manure spreading on hold because we got all that early snow in the ground became froze So it was about a week and then they lifted the van because we were still before the december 15th deadline and So we were moving a truck so finally we're going to spread again But the roads were allies and I was moving a tractor from one location to another and a gentleman got behind me And there was no way I could pull off the road because if I pulled over to let him go by I was slid into the ditch and uh pretty soon he started blinking his lights and blasting his horn So I thought something might be wrong with the spreader So I stopped and and then he just lost it with me on how he had a place to go and In one of those Carol so I've I've been taking testimony from you and Anna since she was way smaller And I just want to say I'm really glad you're alive And please wear your seat belt and as I said earlier before some of our folks got here That means we have a roll call vote and we have to go upstairs And I want to say thank you to everybody for coming today. We really love hearing from you I've been taking notes for the first time on this thing And uh, and I I appreciate your input and please would you please know that we are always available to you Uh through email or phone calls Thanks Yeah, we'll excuse the house Thank you Carol Tell them to shut that I'll had testimony from fair mine farms Over east Montpelier. They've had several challenges with The interpretation of some of the laws of farming farm equipment being allowed on Roads and so this isn't and I'm sure any farmer in here can tell you of their own challenges Um with people on the roads it's it is a challenge Oh, sorry Thank you for coming. I know how hard it is to just come and testify let alone to tell such a good story And I'm sorry that happened to you I rolled a tractor when I was a kid too and it's really scary really really scary Um And I've heard from a lot of people on well not a lot a few constituents on both sides of this issue As you can probably imagine So I'm interested to learn more and and also the interpretation issue that you mentioned Jackie But I wanted to ask you about something else if that's okay You're from Randolph and so and you're thinking about taking over your dad's farm and I'm wondering if you have taken advantage of any of the Courses or our programs at Vermont tech their ag programs or any or our ccb or any of the Higher education options that are available and And if you haven't so why not and what what is there? It's a barrier to you being able to do those programs Or is it just something you're not interested in or? I just know that haven't like looked into this. Yeah Is there a lot there are a lot Vermont tech has a lot of really great programs for from management and operations and They have a program where you do two years at Vermont tech and then two years at ubm and I know Students who've done it and it's been our really valuable program for them and it's Tuition-free you could do it without if you get into the program. It's So anyway, I just encourage you to look into that especially since you're right there And I think it's a you know will help you sort of with the whole farm management operations and You know good luck and congratulations. I think it's a great thing that you're wanting to go into farming Good to see young people wanting to do it I don't want to answer for her, but she we have two daughters one was very one Pleasant The older one, but she's probably not the most One that has a favorite phone for school, but she did do her cdl course this summer and she did get her cdl She's licensed for everything but has Thank you Through that mess with the tractor coming up here is a great That's not what they think though Yeah Morning, good morning. Good morning. I'm Robert Whitman Did she act President of anything coming from girl past president of the not feed dealers have been involved with farming for Over 50 years running a family feed business and I was sold a few years ago um I just want to make a few comments. It's kind of I think it's kind of ironic that The state spent thousands of dollars to redo the statue on top of the dome and it's the It's the goddess of agriculture and yet we seem to be In a constant pressure to Tell the farmers what they can and can't do and so on so forth. So Um My first comment is about the Medical monitoring of the toxic release thing. I know that This uh specifies that farmers are exempt from this But it doesn't say anything about the but the infrastructure that supports farming for instance Cabbage cheese Washing their stainless steel equipment to make sure it's safe and all that sort of stuff I'm sure uses some pretty hazardous materials Even the feed industry we put in some Some chemicals into feed and very small amounts, but it does say hazardous material on the bag and so on and so forth The insurance company, uh, I went to the insurance company when I first saw the bill and they said well I don't know if we would actually Insure you with this type of language, especially Um The medical monitoring but that's so I just want you to be aware that maybe I maybe farmers are exempt from this But not farming industry is not exempt from this We We do have our legal person scheduled To come in I think I believe that's A Wednesday maybe of next is that Wednesday Yeah, Wednesday or next week to kind of lay that out for for us to answer those kind of questions because uh, you know, we're We're hearing it like you just said both ways and And it's important that we try to get that right In my next comments or Just before you leave that I I guess a couple of thoughts there are other states that have a similar sort of medical monitoring and so Businesses get insured there. I think I think that's worth Talking about with your insurer and the other thing that has complicated this discussion for us is that there was a court ruling That's sort of three quarters ruled. He hasn't finished But it seems pretty clear to us that that would be way less protective If you know, if we don't pass this bill and the court ruling stands the court ruling that kind of becomes the de facto rules and and I don't think there's too many people that disagree that that is less protective Farmers at least So we're trying to weigh that and then I would just invite you to understand that It's not just yes or no, right? It's which one is The better solution for us Yeah, thanks, and and then of course the the pesticide things of neonex which are Big improvement over again our phosphates and that sort of stuff Treated seed a lot of times there's other things other than neonex in a treated seed Cactan sometimes there's enzymes in there to enhance growth and all that sort of stuff. So Um We want to be careful about painting A lot of things the coral pyrophos I understand that that is actually, uh Mr. Uh Pajir is already taken out off the market Um, but it's there in case we need it A lot of people here don't remember what every worms can do. I mean, I've seen just the devastate whole firearms And so we want to be actually be able to use something like this if if necessary And and then uh life is safe How is it that uh somebody can sponsor a bill a few years ago that Wanted to regenerative eggs, which meant that you Did no-till planting and cover crops and all that sort of stuff And then sponsor a bill that would eliminate glyphosate, which is what you have to use for all those things And I think you've actually you've taken testimony that you've never found glyphosate in any in the environment All the tests they've done and all that sort of stuff so Is this a public health thing? And if it is it's rather interesting when I was looking Uh for all the information I could find on the chlorophos I have to run across the statement that said that Pesticide applicators as a whole Were found to have 50 lower cancer risk than the general public Likely due to their nearly 50 lower smoking rate So if we're really worried about public health, why are we Encouraging smoking a pot where we let him put some cigarettes these are known Carcinogenics, so if this is a public health thing, I think we should start someplace else So start banning that That's worthwhile It goes up every year Uh Questions for Thanks a lot. Thank you for your time. Yeah, is there anybody else here then in the microphone? All right, my name is Bruce Hellett. I have a money-losing sheep farm in East Montpelier I also have a full-time job for the USDA natural resource conservation service, but I'm speaking for myself entirely So just be aware I've learned a lot of things from my job, but this is about me so The first thing I want to just there's a couple things I want to talk about one of the things It's interesting to me. Generally, I try to follow the legislature But boy, it's gotten hard recently There's just so much stuff that comes down in the pike and it to me that's but just that by itself is not a very good sign and every day it's like And it's just really hard to keep track of the changes in regulations and you know, we as a small farm We don't have a compliance officer We don't have somebody whose job it is to make sure that we stay in compliance with regulations We can't I mean everything that happens in the farm is my job and I have a full-time job anyway, so It's pretty hard so If there's good reason for things great I want to Just quickly talk about some of these chemical bands that have been proposed and senator hardy I think what you were talking about is the framework We're making it harder for the general public to use some of these things But allowing certified applicators is a good framework for looking at some of this stuff It's like yes, there's overuse of a lot of these chemicals But outright bans glide to say for example Not only is it necessary for no-till agriculture Basically, if you ban glide to say you're banning corn growing in the state of Vermont, which You know, maybe that's what the goal is But if that's the goal then just ban corn growing in the state of Vermont because it's basically not going to happen without it It's also necessary. It's one of the most commonly used Chemicals for invasive treatment a lot of late invasive shrubs like honeysuckle and buckthorn and bittersweet and all these things They're taking over woods the Preferred method of treating these in most cases by the certified applicators. They're doing this work is to use bifid state And so that whole system basically the alternatives are much more toxic And garland is commonly used. That's much worse So anyway, just be aware of this is There's now comes they're not good from that and then neonix like is the same Neonix are major problem and they're overused Making it hard for people to use it by keeping one available for purposes The only thing I'm worried about is that If the the need as described in senator cleaneth bill I'm a little concerned that the agency that will actually have the capacity to do that Ryan can probably talk about that but The idea is good, but I don't know how that would work The main thing I want to talk about is adequate shelter for livestock So we have we're right on the main road about four miles from here I have had three complaints in the summer about inadequate livestock shelter That came through the animal control officer and the state police After the mostly I think it was from a neighbor that didn't really like that They were grazing pretty close to their house because that's where the property line is The but I don't know that for a fact Anyway, and of course their sheep in the early summer They're kind of noisy because the lambs are they're starting to wean the lambs And so they're always talking to each other and they graze all night and make a lot of noise So, you know, they probably weren't that excited about having to break near their house Many people do some of our other neighbors we use their land and graze all night and they have we talked and they're like Oh, no, we love it. We have no issues. So it depends And after the last one of these I gave the animal control officer and the state police trooper Who is this young guy about a half hour lecture on the thermal tolerance of sheep and just show the man away After their eyes got sufficiently placed over they Eventually went away and I haven't heard from them since There was a winner one that came on front porch forum when we happened to be away There was this long discussion in front porch forum about how the poor sheep were getting snowed on in the house terrible Coarse sheep are They originally are from desert areas. They have a very high Heat tolerance. Actually, it's not unlimited. You can definitely have problems, but it's pretty high and they have Really thick sweaters. So Winners, you know, when he gets really frigid, yeah, it's bad, but what they like today or It's like this is not a problem for them. So I'm a little worried that any language That was out there could be construed by the people who are worried about this kind of stuff as to requiring buildings at all times And access to buildings in the grazing system It's just not going to happen. I mean effectively what that rule would do is it would ban all Small farm management livestock and the big confinement areas would be fine. They're cows never go outside So that's not a big deal, but all these small farms like ours would not be able to run a grazing system And if you're going to put language in Saying that someone has to have a good grazing system. Okay fine. Who's going to decide that? I mean my friend Kimberly Hagen from extension who many of you may have heard from the other day She is the one who ends up answering some of these questions I'm the person from my agency who writes a lot of grazing plans. I have a good idea what a good grazing plan looks like There are people in the agency ag who have a but who is going to who's going to make this decision We have this problem internally in my agency all the time It's like who's going to decide that this is a good, you know, proper grazing system so Anyway, I'm a little worried about this language and I'm a little worried that we'll end up with a system that Will make it hard to do the kind of good regenerative agriculture management that we actually want people to be doing so The other thing I want to mention is just this whole business on feeding food waste to chickens I've heard a few stories from farmers about that And it strikes me one of the farmers told me that if the language was changed to include food wastes as feed for chickens Then this problem a lot of this problem would go away And that is they continue to do that But it's interesting to me that the legislature will put in this universal recycling law and now we're basically Getting rid of one of the major ways of getting rid of the food So Anyway, some of these we don't so questions Teared uh, you mentioned that the neighbor was complaining were they complaining for the noise or they thought that You weren't uh adequate shelter adequate shelter was the official complaint The complaint was that the sheep were out in the sun in summer on a hot day and they were would be suffering from that That was the complaint I mean a whole control office. I don't know anything about sheep. I have no idea when this is turning up Mistake police was like, we have no idea what these sheep are not I can tell you that uh in our house committee. I won't speak for the other people, but we would understand that You know, not every animal needs to be in a enclosed area. That's probably not the best for them anyway I mean like uh, of courses are used to being out and they know how to take care of themselves and If you've got this much wool on you, you're probably fine But we do we do understand that there's this the bill you guys are taking because this is the first time I've been airing this bill so we don't have it in our committee yet It's age 254 and it's in the house. Okay. Yeah, got it. We've taken quite a lot of testimony on there Yeah, you want to watch over They'll send it over to us and tell us to fix that I just had a comment Sort of a discouraging prospect to think of an animal control officer googling on your land trying to figure out what they should do but just just you know, the the the idea that there's more coming at us And as it feels like you're being barraged, I think we all feel that There's 180 legislators and they're all elected independently and We all file bills for all sorts of reasons and and you know, they're sometimes headlines Legislature considering And that really means one legislator filed a bill and no one's ever going to consider it and so And and so, you know, I've been attacked Vermont Senate doing boba No, this is my bill on something that you know in my dream world in 20 years We would get the votes to do like so I would just ask us all on the media plays their role. It's not always helpful. They they you know, rogers wants to Band cell phones for people under 21 that has nothing to do with cell phones And it has everything to do with guns and it has nothing to do with any of us other than he figured out a clever ploy, right? So I just invite everybody to Not jump on the bandwagon that we've all completely lost our minds and people filed bills for all sorts of different reasons and and it's not fair really to the public in a sense that That the media treats them all equally because there will move maybe 200 bills out of 1200 that get filed And maybe 200 will pass. Well, some nights when we go home, we think we're in a different Building than the rest of here. The things are so crazy Any anything else? I just want to add something to about the ideas of allowing the municipalities to impound livestock and I know few stories about this that I've heard of and anyway, it's the It's interesting. It's like it might be beneficial to allow it Because it's like there's certain select boards that have this as an issue But requiring the select boards might be too much Because I know some of the select boards are going to want I mean, they may want the tools to be able to manage it if there's a problem But a lot of select boards do not have the capacity the towns do not have the capacity to do this Yeah And we were just out there on Wednesday trying to Suggest other ways to do this because I quoted the adequate livestock housing bill Told them they were going to have to build buildings to And they didn't think that was a good idea. So so that's in the house upstairs. Yeah I think I think we'd better re-examine the house It was representative Ansel so we don't want to go there Thank you My name is Jake guest My wife Liz and I have Organic vegetable farm and greenhouse business for the last 40 years We have the good fortune of having just sold our farm Finally To a young couple who are also organic farmers and who are in this very exciting that they're taking over the farm Not our own children there elsewhere We moved to uh, ely, which is in tether vermont We have 24 acres there and we're going to continue farming at a much diminished level What I wanted to address today is that as you are all well aware vermont has been Uh, somebody organic, okay, vermont has been on the forefront Uh of organic agriculture from the beginning as you probably also know senator lady was the sponsor of the original organic bill and our congressional delegation Um has been really supportive of organic agriculture Organic agriculture in vermont is an important second agricultural sector Um Something is often lost in in analyzing the economics of vegetable growing Is that because it's such a labor intensive form of agriculture We all have large payrolls But that payroll those payrolls are spent locally so vegetable growing Is a real contributor economically I just also wanted to say that I represent um The past president and current board member of the vermont vegetable berry growers association I was a founder of the natural organic farmers association And currently a member of the vermont organic farmers, which we we had a meeting just yesterday um A subject which is We are the organic movement Is at currently at a very critical juncture um As organic food has been come become more and more popular Uh, as we would all expect large corporations have entered the entered the field and um There are there are Several segments of this industry which are finding ways to make short take shortcuts in sort of getting around organic standards as we understand vermont has set many uh several uh organic dairy farms and many organic vegetable farms and uh The organic standards have been threatened we feel by the allowing of hydroponic this was mentioned earlier hydroponic and container grown crops They do this on a huge scale Driscoll strawberries any any organic strawberries that you buy in the supermarket Which are from california or not or not local are grown hydroponically Likewise all all the organic tomatoes you find at this time of year Are not grown or grown hydroponically our objection uh, and i'm speaking for vermont organic farmers is that um This is only possible because The the n the nlp the national organic program And the n osb the national organic standards board has allowed hydroponic production Even though the original standards clearly state That organic agriculture is implicit and explicit in the definition of organic is that there's a contact with the living soil And i'm i was very happy to hear that the farm bureau has taken a position um to keep the soil and organic and that is There are several farms here um in vermont who are uh Who are who have set up a new? I guess we call it an add-on standard which is which is called the real organic project And i urge you to go online and look it up It started really by dav chapman who's in east edford Some may be familiar with him. He's testified. I think in various meetings Um, and we are urging just making you aware Of this issue and it affects vermont because in vermont We have we maintain a stricter standard We we have our we have standards which specifically disallow organic and container grown of vegetable production Likewise our dairy farms our organic dairy farms are are in really stressed because The allowance by the nop and nosb of large confinement animal operations huge dairies That have no access to outside pasture although it's mandated in the in the standards themselves vermont farmers are Making sure that they comply with it with the spirit and the and the word of the law In allowing their animals pasture in fact yesterday. We had a discussion about whether we've got we're going to demand 120 days or 150 days Anyway, just Anyway, I'd like to make you aware and please go online and look up the New work of the real organic project and also Be aware that your dairy farmers organic dairy farmers in vermont Are under a lot of pressure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much to the committee members of the common Thank you Senator Pearson for the comment we try to make sure when we send our report out They were sending out pertinent information and that the stuff that's The media no, I think that that was it. There was a great comment and um, thank you to our members I think I'm really excited the people that we have to speak to you today You can see that the width and the breadth of who we represented isn't just conventional dairy farmers As most there's a lot of people think we've done a lot of different kinds of members and they're all paying attention So we will be back in march after crossover when maybe we'll have a little more pertinent things to discuss But we'd really like to thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you and thank you


Why do freddos now cost so much? I don't know what freddos are. What? You grew up in the UK? I did. I did. I don't eat sweets. I'm here in Cintra, Portugal at the invitation of the European Central Bank and they've invited me to come here to make a video about economics, which is a subject that I know absolutely nothing about. But fortunately, there are some people here who I've been able to ask for some help with at least the basics. It's a great question. What is economics? It's a very difficult question, I would say. You know, I think the first thing to bear in mind is that there isn't one answer and economics is appealing because it's sort of, in some broad sense, it's the study of how humans make decisions. Well, the definition is something to do with the management of limited resources. Why do I get the impression I'm in over my head here?  But I'm not here to talk to them. I've been brought here by the ECB to talk to some PhD students who are here presenting their research to these economists. So I was brought here to have a chat with them about their theses. My name is Karin, Cintra, and my research is in subsidies in the housing market. So my name's Jonathan, sometimes I go by Joe. I'm interested in wage setting. So my PhD focuses on financial economics and macroeconomics. You're from Ukraine, you're studying the US economy in the UK. So what's the definition of globalisation? I am the definition maybe. So my name is Michel, I'm a PhD student at the University of Oxford and my research is in macroeconomics, supply chains and monetary policy. Now, if you're anything like me before I came here, you might think of economics as something that is practised by banks rather than something that is researched like a science. There is the question, is economics a science? Which I asked the PhD students and these were their responses. The obvious answer is what is the science? That's not a helpful answer. Macroeconomics is, the macroeconomy isn't probably. Yes. Is that enough of an answer? No. So to give you some background on what a PhD in economics is like, what you research, I wanted to give these students a platform on my channel just to very briefly in this video talk about what their PhDs are about. So let's take the beginning of the financial crisis, the great recession in the US, UK, Europe. Suddenly unemployment goes from 5% to 10% and in a few months, maybe a year. Why does that happen? I thought this would be something that macroeconomists understood really well but one of the exciting things about the research idea is that we don't yet fully understand. My first chapter is about stock return prediction using flexible models. So that one is kind of like econometrics. So I study the mortgage interest deductibility which is a subsidy on mortgages and borrowing and I study what happens when that one, the subsidy is removed. On for example, what happens with house prices, what happens with the level of debt in the economy and ultimately our households better or worse off if the subsidy is removed. My second paper which I'm going to present here is like financial integration in the changing world. It's about like measuring financial integration and how to predict it and whether it increases or not over time. The basic question I'm trying to answer is the following. Standard models assume that if you want to produce a car, you just bring people in to produce a car. I would like this assumption to say if you need to produce a car, you need to produce tyres, you need to produce the metal from which the car is made, you need to produce the glass for the car as well and I'm trying to incorporate these features into macroeconomic models and I'm sure that incorporating that is very, very important for understanding manager policy. I think my research matters a lot for the average household. Purchasing a house is one of the probably the biggest financial decision or investment you make in your life. So how this mortgage market is set up, how much debt you can use to finance your mortgage or to finance your house purchase is important for most people. The question I want to answer is why does unemployment rise so far and so fast as recessions happen. And if we want to stop this sort of phenomena with enormous social consequences, we need to understand why it happens. And what I'm doing, what I'm looking at, sort of large online data sets, job postings with wages is helping to reach the root cause of why unemployment rises so much, which is something that we don't yet fully understand even in 2018. So there's your background. All these guys are studying very different projects and so they're going to have very different responses to the big question. The reason you're watching this video, how is the world going to change? It's something that's going to change the world economy. Oh, that's such an easy question. If I ever knew, that would be great. The media narrative is that artificial intelligence is super important, but in practice, we haven't yet measured it carefully enough to know for sure. And this is something I'm trying to do. Let me say two things. If you started with cryptocurrency, I think it's also a big thing. Why? Because we are moving from cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and other similar cryptocurrencies to this whole conversation about cryptocurrency issued by a central bank. You know, 10 years ago, an investment professional would be extremely valuable, but today they might not be because you could train an algorithm to do many of the same tasks. This narrative is popular, but it's quite hard to test. So one of the things I'm doing is trying to get data that can let us test this. The second big topic is fiscal policy. Why? Because economists often talk about the monetary policy as being the science of our discipline. The fiscal policy is the alchemy. There's still a very limited understanding of how exactly action by the government either spending on goods and services or the government doing some taxation. How exactly? What is the optimal way of doing that? I think we shouldn't worry too much about this because just like 100 years ago we went through the industrialized reform. We also had machines replacing all the houses and technology is the key for economic growth. I'll be honest, I feel like I've left this conference with more questions than answers. It feels like very little is certain in economics. If anything, as a result of this trip I now think of economics more and more like climate science. There's this vastly complicated system in a model, you have different models for it and depending on the assumptions that go into those models you get really different outcomes. They're really quite similar fields. But not just that. Talking to the PhDs has really made it clear to me that we're more alike than we are different. We all have a lot in common. I mean it's been tough, a lot of work but it's also been fun and it's an amazing freedom to be able to do whatever you want to study exactly what you're interested in. It's really hard to be original especially just as a PhD student at the start and it's kind of impossible for you to come up with a totally new idea and you think you will change the whole world with this idea. That's because you hadn't really enough literature. Whenever they tell you, okay, the next time we'll check up on you is in about 18 months time. You suddenly get a lot of temptation to start doing very casual recreational thinking, pondering about macroeconomics and sort of producing results. Of course I hope that my PhD is social utility but I do it in some level most of all because I love doing it. And so I don't have to justify it to anyone because when people say why are you doing it? I say I do it because it's my passion. And in my experience I think to do and really get a lot out of a PhD you need to want to do it for the pure joy of it irrespective of how much it might improve the world because that's a very hard thing to do and it's a very lofty and perhaps unattainable goal for research. See, it's not just me. Thanks to the ECB for inviting me to come and make this video. I would encourage you to follow them on Twitter and to check out their website because before I came here I didn't know anything about the ECB, what it was or what it did and it is this really important institution for Europe and I think it's worth learning about. So go to those links, they'll be in the description but also come back next week because I'm going to be posting a vlog about my time here in Cintra and all the landscapes you've seen behind and that amazing palace down there. This has been the venue for the conference and I'm going to be doing this vlog about my couple of days here about meeting the students, about making this video and hopefully more than that getting answers to questions that you posted on social media about economics. I'm going to do my very best tomorrow to get answers to those. So make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss that. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you give it a like and thank you very much for watching. I really hope you've learned something like I have in the process of making it. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.


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You know what I could do my tries right here to new workout craze coming to coming to a tick tock channel near you. Good luck everybody. We got the classic sausage link packs right here. I was maybe we'll be recruit some help today but everyone seems to be busy here at the shop doing things. So it's just me solo might have to get like some sort of some sort of hand massage or something like that. Do those exist? They must exist right there must be someone who gives professional hand massages like there must be there must be hand massages like in massage people like Las Vegas right how many how many hundreds and thousands of card dealers are out there doing the same repetitive motion you know so there must be some hand massages out there. I'll have to look into that. I've not seen any 2022 tops designed yet Tyler. So I won't be able to comment at the moment. No comment at the moment. Alright here's super box one. Good luck gang. Are my hands most comfortable like right here? Alright and I will do an autograph recap at the end of the break. So if you're watching the replay you can fast forward to that. There's Nick York to 99 for Boston Pirates Daniel Ham. You'll get all those paper Henry Davis's Boston. It's Marty with the Red Sox and here's our first auto. Love this lava parallel here. 172 out of 199 Tyler Black Aqua Lava refractor and auto. These are pretty sharp. Late first round pick for the brew crew that goes to John Adams. There you go John and there's a Henry Davis paper 330 out of 499. It's another one for Daniel and the Pirates. Maybe we'll find some of those ink in here somewhere. The autograph would be nice. Maybe even a low numbered card non-auto would be nice too and as always our shipping team will take care of those those cards just in the interest of time. I want to get to that next jumbo break as quickly as possible. Marcello Meyer another another player. I'm saving the paper for Colton Couser is the third guy for the Orioles. Marcello for Marty. Yeah Jason was very happy was saying Vegas didn't didn't believe in the Eagles. They said they're gonna win like six games. Fly Eagles five. There's Tanner at BB. Cleveland this is for you. Aaron Kay with Cleveland Guardians. I want winners. I want players I want to win. Some good good coach quotes there. I want players I want to win. The Bears they are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook. I like these Invictic cards that they've introduced this year. It's one per box I think or one every other box something like that. Sometimes they can be numbered sometimes they can be autographed. Nice way to. There's Colton Couser. Mike who are the Eagles slated to face in the playoffs? Do we have any idea yet or do we don't know yet? Okay so the rest of the games have to play out. I think the box might be the. Oh Eagles box that'd be. No sir sorry. That'd be pretty fun. Colton Couser for the Orioles that'll be for Daniel with the O's. Just Chase Petty to 250 for the Twins. Nice little draft night card and we've got Dominic Hamill Mets Auto for David. Real time saying I think people forget just how irritatingly improbable hitting a top pick variation is when on the single box circuit visiting car shops. Yeah we've got trust me we've got a lot of people coming in this week buying up Bowman Draft a box at a time. We definitely see them see their their faces again the next day. That's why that's why there is a there is a nice advantage to doing group breaks. 54 out of 199. You can pick a specific team in most cases. Bubba Chandler going to Daniel and the Pirates. There's a chance to chase a single team across an entire case and we've got a Kevin Alcantara Aqua Lava 24 out of 199 for the Cubbies that'll be for John and the Cubs and our fourth autograph fourth of five is Ryan Webb 138 out of 499 Cleveland. This is for you Aaron with Cleveland. Nice refractor autograph and we've got a bold paper JC Correa 250 for the Astros that'll be for Nicholas. That's Carlos's younger brother. It's kind of funny that that if Carlos Correa ends up not resigning with the Astros eventually his younger brother may take may take his spot. They're like we already have a Correa. We'll just take the younger Correa now. Marcello Meyer refractor going to Marty in Boston. Another Henry Davis paper. Got a Dominic Hamill speckle for the Metz and our fifth autograph is a twin Christian and Carnation Strand. It's for Kevin and Minnesota. There are five autographs. Again, I'll do a auto recap at the end. Let's leave myself a little room here and we've got purple paper 250 Connor Norby for the Orioles Daniel with the O's. All right that was box one. Onwards to box two. Good luck everybody. Mark what's going on? How are you? All right next box. Oh yeah sort of in media news today the New York Times which I'm a subscriber to. I subscribe to New York Times. It's going to purchase the athletic which I also subscribe to. I wonder if they'll give me a deal. New York Times reach a deal to acquire the athletic for about $550 million. Uh oh Mark ended up getting getting the COVID quarantine yourself. Yeah likewise hang in there hopefully hopefully the the effects are not too serious. Now as much as I like hockey I think there do we have uh some NBA action on TNT happening tonight? I feel like we do. Now we got Celtics at Knicks. I'm gonna switch over it's on it's a TNT game. If you want to watch along with me. All right next Super Jumbo box. Good luck. Got a purple chrome. Dalen Leal to $2.50. That will be for the Nationals Christopher with the Nets and our autograph it's a Brewer Russell Smith. That'll be for John and the Brew Crew. He does know that shot around means that other All right next little stack here. Colton Cowser Refractor for Daniel and the Orioles and there's another autograph. It is Benny Montgomery 54 out of 499 Benny and the Rockies. Nice your eighth overall pick for the Rocks. G Tau with that one. There you go G. We've got Christian and Carnasio and Strand 80 out of 150 for the Twins. Kevin with the Twinkies. We've got a Jordan Groeschans Aqua Lava Refractor 159 to 199 for the Blue Jays and it'll go to Anthony. No check that. That'll go to Michael and the Blue Jays and we've got a Ryan Spikes Purple Chrome autograph. Purple Refractor that one goes to Anthony. He has the Tampa Bay Rays 197 out of 250. We've got a Dominic Hamill to 499. Paper for the Mets. That will be for David. All right next stack we should be expecting two more autographs out of here on average and we've got a Sal Freelick 50 out of 50 Genesis insert. It's pretty nice and we've got a oh this looks nice. It's like a nice little color match there. I like when the color the the refractor matches up with the the parallel matches up with the team. Team colors. A little bit of dust on that card there. All right so that's Michael Morales 160 out of 199 Aqua Lava Refractor for the M's. That's for Sumin. There you go nice. We've got a Luke Murphy for the Angels. That'll be for Aaron Kay. That's to 499. That's flipped around because it's 42 out of 99. Nice parallel for the tribe. That'll go to Aaron Kay. And the fifth autograph out of here is Michael McGreevy. Cardinals. That's going to go to Evan. Evan Oh with the Redbirds. From San Clemente about an hour or hour south of us here. 18th overall pick. Nice one Cardinals. Rashid what's up? Yeah Checklist is pretty much the same as Jumbo. I think it's just the parallels that are different. I'm almost certain that CardboardConnection.com will have all the details but I think some parallels will only be found in Jumbo or Super Jumbo one or the other. In years past in years past some people have argued oh I see we see better parallels in Jumbo and better autos in Super Jumbo or vice versa. I feel like I've heard people kind of mentioned that. I think it differs from year to year. There's Doug McKayzie. Purple paper to 250 for Cleveland. That's Colton Couser. There you go. Yeah Ryan Linn's got some info. Orange and black are Jumbo exclusive. Next box. Pack here. Let's go. Good luck everybody. We got a blue refractor to 150. Brainer Banachi. It's Marty with the Red Sox. There's the autograph about the pop there and it's Gunnar Hogan. Gunnar Hogan going to Toronto. Michael with the blue birds. I think there's another Gunnar in this set for the Orioles. It's Gunnar Henderson I think. Manuel V. Marte. Purple 250 for the M's. It'll be for Summin. Oh look at this. Red auto. Five out of five for the red birds. Evan Oh with the Cardinals. What a hit. I think he's a first round pick 18th overall. Went to UC Santa Barbara. Flood zone with all four pitches low to mid 90s sinker. Two plain slider down or curve occasional change up. Scrapes edges of the plate sets up hitters expertly. Yeah. Star Wars enthusiast it says on the back here. Graduated with a 4.1 GPA in high school. Smart kid. Posted a 10.5 strike out to walk ratio. That's really good as a UC Santa Barbara junior. Consensus freshman all-American 2019 first team all big West selection. 18th overall pick in the first round. It's pretty nice. Nice. Good color match. Right here.  And then this price costed this card to the moon. But for now all aboard the Big Hit Express. It's a very nice hit for Evan and the Cardinals. Love those low numbered cards. Ryan Linn is hoping a little red for the red legs. That's his team. It's the team he bought. And we still have a lot of break to go Ryan. It could be could see another out of five here. Maybe a super. Went a nice Invicta autograph for the Rangers. That's 23 out of 50. Luis Angel Acuña. And that is for Drew as the Rangers. Real time saying strange in 2020 when Marlon, Sandy Alcantara 201 strikeouts but a 9 and 15 record. That's rough. You know what that is. That's Marlon's not scoring any runs for Sandy Alcantara. Christian Hernandez to 499. Paper for the Cubs. John. Jordan Lawler Invicta. And we've got a green speckle Jacob Steinmetz. It's kind of hard to see the number down there but that's 99. 51 out of 99 for the Diamondbacks. Anthony with the Snakes. And there's your fourth autograph Calvin Ziegler for the New York Mets. David with the Metropolitan's. And we've got Jeter Downs blue paper to 150. This is one of the main main pieces of that Mookie Betts trade. I think Jeter Downs might be might see some RC this year. Might be a rookie card in 2022 product. We've got a blue wave autograph for my rivals the Giants. 130 out of 150. Will Bednar for San Francisco. That'll be for Aaron 14th overall pick. All right we got Kyle Menzardo to 499 for Anthony and the Rays. Yeah Degrom. Poor Degrom. Ryan didn't Jacob Degrom have like a string of he just doesn't get a lot of run support in the previous seasons. There's Luis Rodriguez for my Dodgers. Folks we are halfway through the Super Jumbo case. Got uh yeah I'm actually good with this break maybe the next one. Real time saying Giants are sitting around fifth in 2022 power rankings. Whose power rankings are those? Yeah they put together a really solid squad. I have to admit even as a Dodger fan I have to admit that I think big big change for them was they got old Dodgers executive Farhan Zaidi. He was previously with the A's and then came down to the Dodgers and was with the Dodgers for a little bit and then went back to the Bay Area and you know really really constructed a really good team. All right here we go we got Celtics at Nix on in the background on TNT and we've got our fourth box of six. So far this break's been pretty good. We've seen a lot of color. We saw it out of five autograph. First round pick which is pretty nice. Let's hope we can get more. There's Chi Young Lu to 250 for the Red Sox. Nice Henry Davis for Fractor and we got a Kyle Manzardo. Bowman first autograph that is for Anthony and the Tampa Bay Rays. Second round pick nice. We got Joe Rock to 499. Rock you. Joe Rock for the Rockies by the way GT with the Rocks. We got a green auto coming up and it's going to be this brat 96 out of 99. He's a brat that goes to Drew. Drew and the Rangers that is once again 96 out of 99. Nice green refractor and purple paper Ethan Wilson that is for the Phillies David. David Williams with the Phillies with Ethan Wilson. Wilson. Wilson. Got a Henry Davis and Victor insert and we've got a yellow lava refractor 60 out of 75. Brian Buelvis with lava parallels really like those big fan and we've got an auto for the Braves that's Spencer Schwellenbach that's from Marty in Atlanta. Champs Tristan Kassus to 199. Kristen House is going to Marty. Real time is saying Blue Jays have had a way of damning that look winning impact from prospects. Royals had third best pharmacist ranked 21st for 2022. I'm sure once those once those prospects though start evolving into major leaguers I'll bet that'll that'll change pretty quickly. It's not right even flat saying Ethan Wilson is from your wife's hometown. Where'd he go? I don't know where Ethan Wilson went. Back here over parallel here somewhere. You're going to go into his wedding this weekend. Nice. Tell him that Jaspy's wishes him the best of luck. Hopefully he has hopefully he reaches the majors quickly and stays there for a long time. We've got Isaac Pacheco Speckle and we've got Maked Brown Purple 133 out of 250. Little color match for the Rocks GT. We've got Robert Gasser Green Paper 25 out of 99 for the Friars that'll be for Ryan Lin. More Colton Couser for Daniel. We've got a Owen Callington Aqua Lava to 199 for the Bucos and the autograph the fifth and final in this box is Tanner Allen 269 out of 499 Leo with the fish. We can find some parallels none there insert no looks like some refractors some paper all right another box in the books two more to go the penultimate box second the last box good luck still a lot of autographs left five per box we've got 10 to go so fingers crossed if you have not hit yet nice Henry Davis to 250 number one overall pick that is for Daniel and the Pirates and our first autograph of the box is Robert Gasser Ryan Lin with the Friars does he throw gas I mean with a name like that you have to right I don't know low to mid 90s fastball touching 96 all right that's some gas get it up there probably young enough to continue building on the velocity as well we've got a tie Madden 289 out of 494 at 99 paper for Bill 17 and the Tigers we've got a Jordan Adams speckle for the halos and a blue refractor autograph Jordan Lawler Anthony with the snakes they've been accumulating some uh some top draft picks over the years sixth overall and we've got Brady house take it to the house to 199 for Christopher Frank and the Nats that's Malcolm Nunez Marcelo Meyer you've got Frank Mazzicato Mazzicato yes 62 out of 99 Kansas City green that will be for Cody and Cody here's another one for you Carter Jensen Royals that's going to be once again for Cody and there's purple paper 141 out of 250 Cooper Kinney Tampa Bay Anthony Mike what's going on how are you because Ryan speculating maybe could be intense intestinal issues as well all right should be expecting a couple more autographs out of the box and there's the fourth auto for Cleveland that's dug in a KZ and that is for Aaron Kay Cleveland this is for you feel like Henry Davis paper follows Jordan McCants not all the time but it seems like most many of the time all right should be one more auto is that wave I see a little bit of wave right there a gold wave auto maybe or is that just a non-auto we're going to find out when it's gold wave for the brew crew 35 out of 50 Alex Belenis and that'll be for John and the brewers from Oak Creek Creek Wisconsin third round pick so maybe I don't know how local that is to to Milwaukee but there you go all right let's see if we can find some low number of parallels before we move on to the last box Colton Couser Invicta insert Colton Couser and last bit of paper here all right final box coming up yeah where are the reds Ryan maybe the last five autos there maybe that's all you after this box we'll do a quick autograph recap we'll move on to the next break on the schedule which I think is more Bowman's yeah see what the final five autos are going to be you're like it's been a pretty solid case thus far a lot of color on the autographs we've had a five out of five auto red refractor auto which was awesome let's finish this break strong last box good luck thank you thank you thank you for the fill appreciate it we do have another super jumbo loaded up and it's already down to 14 teams who's the one that pulled a LeBron Rex is asking no one yet but hopefully one of you we've got Jordan VR's for the Phillies that's going to be David Williams with the fight and fills third round pick oh there oh it's in the big egg I'm sure that's probably just to promote the break I think if you read the description or the read the caption that's I'm assuming that's what it'll say gotta read the caption Rex come on so now I know you didn't read the caption and you didn't look at the schedule if you looked at the schedule you will have noted that the break was not on the schedule man come on man come on Rex you're a you're a jaspy vet here you know you should know better there's Ryan Holgate second rounder Cardinals that will be for Evan nice break for the red birds got Matthew Nelson for the red legs 107 out of 150 it's for Ryan and Cincinnati we're on to Cincinnati that Pedro Paneta Invicta insert and we've got a brewer another brewer another Alex Pinellas and that is another one for John and the brew crew got the gold wave before in the previous box got the base auto here we've got a micelle Urbina to 499 for the twins well sometimes Rex you just got to dig deeper I mean you could also look at jaspy's case breaks dot com and note that it hasn't sold out yet so you flew it's on the bottom of the page that means you went right past it still saw that it where there were spots left and went straight to the big hit gallery come on Rex unbelievable you have to go right by that product to even get to the big hit gallery gotta be sharper Rex you gotta be sharper and you know that the big hit gallery is just a feed from Instagram so that often has public service announcements there and other things so you know it's you you should know that's also not just for only for big hits come on Rex you should know better there's Pedro Leone 21 out of 15 you're setting a bad example for all the all the newbies all right we've got Sam Bachman taking care of business got 232 out of 499 there you go John hey congrats glad glad we had some things that we were able to send you out of this break doesn't happen all the time that's the nature of group breaks but a good break for you this time see there's Jordan McCants and then there's Henry Davis paper there's Andy Rodriguez to 499 one more autograph out of here good luck everybody Gordon McCants Henry Davis paper I see some color for that potential autograph there's Eric Pena purple to 250 for Kansas City and it'll be for Cody and Sam Freelit it's a nice one 206 out of 499 Brewers had a nice break too John there you go man that's a nice cherry on top 15th overall pick I think he's pretty hobby hot right now according to some there's Tyler Madison to 199 for Bill and the Tigers and some popbell at the end and that is that my friends thank you quick little recap here pretty solid break if we hustle we may have we may have time to do another super jumbo tonight that was a nice one that's Ronald Acuna's brother here's the nice five out of five Michael McGreevy red refractor autograph that was pretty strong pretty great break ladies and gentlemen thanks for watching thanks for breaking with us I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next baseball break bye bye


Why are narcissists so negative? To be negative means to be consistent in or characterised by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features. When a person is negative towards you, you may view it as being undesirable and unwanted behaviour. It might be something that you don't want to be around, something that you don't want to be involved in. The negativity may be directed towards you, but that doesn't mean that it has anything personally to do with you. If you think about something being negative, it means to take something away, or to be lacking the quantity or quality required, to be insufficient for a purpose. It means that they do not have enough. When they are being negative towards you, it is because they are deficient in something. They do not have enough of a specified quality or ingredient. When they are being negative towards you, they are also taking what they need from you. They are extracting it out of you and then using it as their own to sustain them, to strengthen and support them physically and mentally. The narcissist is negative towards you because you have what they want. You have what they need to survive emotionally. They cannot produce it on their own, so they have to extract it out of you through forcible and often underhanded means. When they are being negative towards you, it is because they are deficient in something.  Whatever it takes to strip you of your power and force you to hand it over to them. They want your power. They want your energy. They want your stability and security. Everything that you need to sustain yourself is also what they need to survive emotionally. The difference is that you can produce it on your own. Well, they do not have the ability to do this, so the only thing that they can do is steal it from you. They cannot engage in anything positive because they do not have a positive amount. They do not have positive qualities or a positive quantity. They are insufficient or inadequate for a person to be positive. They must first have everything that they need, so that they then have enough to share with other people. The narcissist never has enough and they will never have enough. They steal from other people to sustain them but it only lasts for a short period of time. They are like a bucket with a meek at the bottom. Anything that you pour into them will soon leak out and then they will go back to feeling insufficient when adequate again. They will go back to being negative, which means that they need to extract more from you. They need more of your power, more of your energy, more of your stability and security because they can't produce it on their own. They are like a black hole.  It can leave you feeling completely drained and lifeless. You can become very depressed because they have stripped you of everything that made you who you are, so you then begin to feel negative because everything that once made you feel positive is what they have now taken from you. They had to take it from you so that they could survive emotionally. Everything they do revolves around emotional survival. They want to feel good, but since they abandon their true self, the only way that they can feel good is to extract qualities from the people around them. This is the only way that they can survive emotionally. If they could get it from within, I'm sure they would do that. It will be so much easier for them, far less effort involved and then they would have an abundance of good things whenever they wanted, but that's just not possible for the narcissist. They refuse to self-reflect or look within. They refuse to deal with their emotional trauma, so the only way that they are going to get it is by extracting it from other people, leaving everyone around them feeling miserable or depressed, although narcissists do tend to group up together where they can then bond with the extraction of fuel from one specific target. This is how they manage to keep the peace between them while still getting their knees met. This target is often known as the scapegoat child. I have a playlist of videos on the scapegoat child which I recommend checking out. The scapegoat child becomes a target of family members and even the community because they possess something that they don't. They have something special that they have held on to for a very long time and that is the energy that they possess, their physical and mental powers, the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity, the ability to feel alive without any external validation. Narcissists do not have this ability. They have to extract all the good stuff out of you because they don't have any of their own and that is why they are so negative. They are negative because they are lacking the quantity or quality required. They are insufficient for a purpose and you have what they want which is why they will often seem so frustrated and resentful towards you. They will express their anger or annoyance because they feel as though they've been treated unfairly when you have something that someone wants and you want to hold on to it because it's yours and you want to sustain yourself. If you are dealing with a narcissist they will act negative towards you. They will try to take it from you because they are self-absorbed and lack empathy. They cannot produce what they strongly desire and need to survive so they get mad. They get angry and if you won't willingly hand it over they will plot and scheme to try to take it from you. They are trying to survive emotionally and if you look at their emotions and their behavior it will reveal that this is what they are trying to do. You may even notice that once they have acted negative towards you or taken something from you they then appear to be positive. That is because they are using your power and energy to sustain them. But remember it does a last. They're like a bottomless bucket an empty void. Nothing will ever sustain them. They will always be miserable. They will always be dissatisfied while you have an abundance of what you need within yourself and you don't need to take it from anyone else. That's something a narcissist cannot do which is why they will forever remain dependent on other people for their emotional stability and survival. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. 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