Friday's Wall Street Journal carried a full page story titled The Microbiome Makeover divided into numerous little snippets: Born this Way, Probiotics of the Future, Better Cleaning with Bacteria, Eating Right, Absorbing Fat, Furry Friends, The Impact of Covid-19, and Bring the Outdoors In.

Some of us are old enough to remember when Ted Turner, media mogul, became the largest owner of agricultural land in the U.S. His love of the west generally and bison specifically led to a massive accumulation of ranch lands.

It happened again yesterday.

The phone rings: "Your eggs are bad and I threw them out."

For many years people have tried to get me to do a video curriculum but nobody brought all the pieces to make it work. I actually don't like video and camera work much--it's way too tedious ("Wait, a jet is flying over. Wait, a cloud just went by and changed the lighting.")…

Greg Glaser is the general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), which has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the President of the United States for the national vaccination program. The request includes prohibitory injunction against the program and the ultimate relief, a national informed consent exemption.

I have to chuckle when something mainstream catches up to what I've said for decades. Such was the case last week when the Wall Street Journal carried a nearly full-page story titled "For Better Health, Just Head Outdoors. " Like many headlines, it's a bit misleading, but worked to attract my attention.

My post last week about whether or not farm aspirants should attend college stimulated some extremely thoughtful and heartfelt responses; thank you all for chiming in. I was going to leave the discussion there but one young fellow asked if trade school would be beneficial to have a skill as a back up plan to the farm.

"I can go to agriculture college tuition-free (scholarship) but it is most likely based on conventional thinking. I don't want to farm conventionally. I'm 17; should I go or not go?" And then the final question: "Is it realistic for me to think I could own a farm some day?"

What a delight to know I have real farmers reading these posts. And non-farmers who actually care about these nitty gritty issues. Thank you everyone who responded to yesterday's post about freezing calves during this cold snap through Texas, Oklahoma, and the mid-west.

The frigid weather through much of the midwest and into Texas over the last week created all sorts of havoc, including on farms.

Isn't it interesting that on about the same day Instagram shut down Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account for questioning Covid vaccines Bill Gates gets massive publicity for suggesting eating beef should be outlawed.

The Covid shutdown and subsequent time spent at home accelerated sales of video games in 2020. According to The Wall Street Journal, in just the 4th quarter of 2020, Americans spent nearly $20 billion on video games. Apparently we have plenty of money.