ROGUE FOOD, FARMING, FINANCE
Since John Moody and I started the Rogue Food Conferences (RFC) in February 2020, we've held two per year and moved them all over the country. The next one, scheduled for Feb. 5, 6, and 7 is our first in the Great Plains: Rapid City, South Dakota…
TURKEYS AND TREES
I drive to the Charlottesville airport almost once a week and am writing this in Charlotte airport while waiting for my next leg to Dayton, Ohio to do a farm consult tomorrow…
AMEN TO A CONVENTIONAL FARMER
Last week's nice big op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Mark Heckman, vice chairman of the Global Farmer Network and commercial conventional cattle, corn, and hog producer hit the nail on the head…
GERRYMANDERING
With the election over and gerrymandering getting such play in the news, I want to share something many of us have not thought about…
WHAT IS TRUMP THINKING?
Things are getting crazier by the day. President Trump is planning to give soybean farmers $10 billion (or maybe 11, it's only billions, so what's the diff?) to make up for China's refusal to buy a quarter of the U.S. soybean crop in retaliation for tariffs…
PITCHFORK PULPIT
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…
FARMER LABELS
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…
EATS ACT COMMENTS
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…
FOOD FREEDOM RALLY
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…
THE WAY HOME
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…
