dr. berghahn: which -- >> wheat and beef and cattle? dr. berghahn: i am glad you raise it. i confess again since i avoided statistics, i cannot give you the details, but of course this this is the. -- time when agribusiness, it is not the large industrial corporations, it is growing. what is called arthur daniel midlands, these are being established. of course, they are the main mediaries between britain and the exports of grain. there has been a good deal of tension between the ordinary farming community and these big companies because they were seen if not as monopolies who were dictating prices, but also all about police -- o -- oligopolies that were competing against each other. that was against the sherman act, the banding together of companies. capitalism had to be preserved, but at the same time, oligop olies were encouraged monopolies , were banned. so you have the government which is crucial even to this day, monsanto, all of the debates we have been having about the food producing companies in this country and abroad, genetic change of crops, etc., etc. so i think

lora vogt: will you please join me in thanking dr. berghahn? [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> interested in american history tv? visit our website, where you can see the schedule or want to reagan -- watch a recent program. c-span.org/history. monday night on the communicators, outgoing fcc chair tom wheeler talks about his three-year tenure as the head of the commission, its major decisions including neutrality and issues he faced the trump administration. idea that you should scale back the sec and give a lot of its responsibility to the ftc is something that the networks have been pushing for years. before i took this job, there was a headline an article at the inhington post that said essence, here's how the networks intend to get the fcc. it will be tragic if that happens.

laura vogt: will you please join me in thanking dr. berghahn? [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: this weekend, c-span cities tour will explore the literary life and history of san diego. on c-span2, we will hear the story of 7000 abandoned bicycles in kimball taylor's book the coyotes bicycle, the untold story of 7000 bicycles in the borderland empire. >> in terms every parcel on that had a pile of bicycles from the state park to the gomez place right down here. there is a county park and other .iches -- ranches people in the valley were collecting these bicycles that were abandoned by migrants. announcer 1: then on "american history tv" on c-span3, a we hear how the u.s. navy builds its presence in san diego from the midway museum. >> she was a brand-new ship of a large and new design, so the navy but her through the paces even though the war had just concluded. th