I view this blog as serving primarily two purposes.  The first is to inform you about current events.  Even as a teenager, I dreamed of being a syndicated columnist in newspapers.  Art Buchwald, Pat Buchanan, George Will and others fed me a daily diet of commentary on the news and I loved the idea of being paid to spout off about things…

I'm giving voice today to an amazing plea for freedom from a young Canadian.  This is the cry of the peasant, of the downtrodden.  It's eloquent and poignant.  At our farm, we've encountered the same regulatory arrogance created by a society jaundiced by fear and paranoia…

A battle is brewing in New York state over mandatory vaccinations for children attending school--any school.  The Amish community is in the crosshairs, facing fines and jail for noncompliance…

The Maryland Department of the Environment in May filed an injunction against Kilby Farms, LLC in Colora, Maryland for an accumulated fish kill of some 11,000 largely brown trout spanning about five years...                 

Before sharing a poem that came to me last night, let me just say that my ink pen blog got a huge response.  I had no idea so many people had favorite pens and, like me, are pen snobs.  Welcome to the club.  And guess what; people sent me pens.  Lots of pens…

As consumer awareness about artificial food additives, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), and nutrient deficiency create demand for better food, the industrial chemical complex is fighting back.  And of course, it's using science as a basis…

You know how once you see something, you can't NOT see it?  Like the arrow in the FedEx logo.  Look at the bottom of the E and the left of the x and you see an arrow--once you see it , you can't unsee it…

Well, folks, you're seeing what happens when I'm home for a week, and it's raining, and I'm caught up (at least for now) on major writing projects.  Lots of blogs.  My apologies.  ha!  But thank you for reading…

Wow, that Monday post about farmers boycotting the sale barn with their calves and therefore indicating a boycott of the midterms sure got some response…

During a podcast last week, I had a bit of a revelation.  Nothing stimulates us to think things through better than a good question-answer period.  I can always tell when I'm guesting on a truly ground-breaking podcast because the interview teases out of me things I'd never thought of before.  Or at least, new ways to articulate old concepts…

This is the time of year when cow-calf producers wean their calves and take them to the sale barn to be sold to folks who will buy those stockers and carry them until they're sold to feedlots for finishing…

Goodness knows in the good farming sector of agriculture--as opposed to bad farming--we need friends.  This post is not to crucify; it is to point out blind eyes on our own side and unnecessary sensationalism…