Book number 17 is ready for you to add to your library:   PITCHFORK PULPIT.  It's a collection of essays on self-reliance and profitable farmsteading with forays into agriculture policy…

Soybean farmers have been much in the news lately.  Losing a quarter of their market when China didn't come back to the table has put commodity soybeans in a real bind.  With a bumper crop coming, price dropping, and rising fertilizer and chemical costs, the bean counters at USDA forecast a LOSS of $200 per acre on this year's crop…

I'm in Washington D.C. with about 200 farmers lobbying against the Food Security and Farm Protection Act (aka EATS Act in the Senate) or the Save Our Bacon Act (SOB in the House).  This legislative effort at the federal level seeks to overturn…

As MAHA and informed consent gain traction, big ag isn't waiting for related issues to hit the mainstream.  Big ag is pulling out the stops to create pre-emptive legislation that will keep the status quo in place…

How do you find your way home when you're lost and far away?  Where do you start?  In wilderness survival training, it's "head downhill."  That will bring you to water and water will bring you to civilization…

Faithful readers will remember my blog from last week titled "Time to Stand" regarding state action against Triple Oaks Farm in Campbell County, Virginia regarding their Private Membership Association (PMA) designation…

Okay, everyone, it's time to stand up.  Monday 10 a.m., Sept. 22 at Campbell County Courthouse, in Virginia a small farm family will stand before a judge to defend their right to operate a Private Membership Association….

President Trump, please stop thinking about sending the National Guard to other cities besides Washington D.C.  Yes, you have jurisdiction there and it appears it's been a big help…

Representative Rob Hall, Oklahoma House of Representatives District 67, has filed the following study proposal.  He's seeking someone savvy and sharp enough to testify on behalf of this idea and I hope this will bring someone to his table…

Daniel Mowery lives, gardens, and cans vegetables  in Manchester, New Hampshire.  Growing up poor, he's cultivated a hobby of canning jelly, tomatoes, and bread and butter pickles and giving everything away…

I received the following email and thought it compelling enough to share.  Normally I would simply comment on it, but this is well written and stands alone in its defense…

Yesterday I had the distinct privilege of addressing the first Heritage Foundation MAHA agriculture consortium.  C-Span ran it live…