I promise not to inundate you all with promotions of the first ever on-farm Mother Earth News fair here at Polyface July 17-18, but when I'm giddy about developments, I can't help but share things. 

Who is today's Ghandi?  If you'll recall, Ghandi practiced civil disobedience.  At the time, he was vilified, especially by the powers of the day, both domestic and foreign.  He was the quintessential populist, making ordinary people believe they could do things they didn't think possible.

A New Yorker article illustrates nonsensical thinking:  "Ranchers are appalled by the prospect of their cattle and sheep being killed by wolves, even though they plan to send those animals to slaughter anyway."

Corteva and Bayer are duking it out over market share of their darlings:  Enlist versus Roundup.  They're offering farmer discounts and sales meetings going head to head like two Titans in the ring.

 By now you've probably heard that his year's Golden Globes awards will be the first major program of its kind to go vegan.  They were planning to have fish, but found that couldn't fit their goal of environmental sustainability.

 In that context, perhaps it is good on this first day of the year to contemplate things that are ALWAYS good investments….

This morning when I was out doing chores, the dawning was spectacular.  I don't know if you saw it, but today's daybreak was the most brilliant red I've seen in a long time.