Obama speech, farm bill signing to be streamed live online today
February 07, 2014 | 06:07 AM
EAST LANSING, Mich. — President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive here today to sign a new farm bill — formally titled The Agriculture Act of 2014 — at Michigan State University, the state’s land-grant college.
Michigan State was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, and was the prototype for 69 land-grant institutions established under the Morrill Act of 1862. According to the university’s website, it was the first institution of higher learning to teach scientific agriculture in the United States.
It also is the alma mater of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Lansing is her home.
Obama is scheduled to tour the Michigan Biotechnology Institute “to see firsthand what institutions are doing to create jobs and drive innovation that benefits farmers, ranchers, our rural communities, and our nation as a whole,” the White House said.
Following the tour he will deliver remarks at Michigan State on the importance of the farm bill to the American economy, and then sign the bill before returning to Washington.
The speech is scheduled to begin at about 2 p.m. EST, and will be streamed live online, the White House has announced.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will accompany Obama.
The Council of Economic Advisers early today released a fact sheet on the performance of the agriculture economy during Obama’s presidency and how the farm bill is expected to affect it.
The weather will be cold, but no snow is predicted. The temperature dipped to 7 degrees at midnight and is not forecast to rise higher than 19 degrees today.
Michigan State was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, and was the prototype for 69 land-grant institutions established under the Morrill Act of 1862. According to the university’s website, it was the first institution of higher learning to teach scientific agriculture in the United States.
It also is the alma mater of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Lansing is her home.
Obama is scheduled to tour the Michigan Biotechnology Institute “to see firsthand what institutions are doing to create jobs and drive innovation that benefits farmers, ranchers, our rural communities, and our nation as a whole,” the White House said.
Following the tour he will deliver remarks at Michigan State on the importance of the farm bill to the American economy, and then sign the bill before returning to Washington.
The speech is scheduled to begin at about 2 p.m. EST, and will be streamed live online, the White House has announced.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will accompany Obama.
The Council of Economic Advisers early today released a fact sheet on the performance of the agriculture economy during Obama’s presidency and how the farm bill is expected to affect it.
The weather will be cold, but no snow is predicted. The temperature dipped to 7 degrees at midnight and is not forecast to rise higher than 19 degrees today.
