Have you heard about the explosion of growth in the mosquito extermination business? An outfit named Mosquito Joe, only 10 years old, now has 173 franchisees in 39 states. That’s phenomenal growth. And that’s just one company among many others.

Pictures of dead livestock in Africa break our hearts. The remedy apparently is grain purchased from Ukraine with American worthless dollars to help feed the starving people who now don’t have livestock to eat because those already starved…

One of our chefs called yesterday asking for information regarding how our farm protects its water from chemical contamination…

The homesteading tsunami is real and I’m delighted to see it. Part of that movement is a yearning to learn on one end and numerous teaching platforms on the other end. I’m a book guy for sure, but our modern context is moving more and more toward video content and on-line curricula.

Suddenly I’m getting requests about whether or not to get an NRCS grant for farm development infrastructure. Yesterday a lady emailed me in a quandary because she pursued one of these grants for a hoophouse and now she’s embroiled in a zoning and building permitting problem with her local regulators.

By now you know that Monsanto (Bayer Corp.) has been denied its appeal in the multi-billion dollar Roundup (glyphosate) damages case. It has set aside a massive war chest to pay out settlements all while keeping the product on the shelves.

Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience?

You know things are interesting when the front page of the Wall Street Journal carries a story about people cutting up whole chickens. Under a catchy headline “Consumers Are Giving Inflation The Bird—With A Whole Chicken,” the article explains how people are saving money buying whole chickens and cutting them up themselves in their own kitchens…

The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project that will pay no income in my lifetime, but I’ve found it extremely enjoyable and satisfying.

Kellogg’s is spinning off some if not all of its breakfast cereal lines in a move that mature businesses take sometimes to streamline lagging sectors.

At the Homestead Festival in Columbia, Tennessee hosted by Rory Feek I had the unprecedented privilege of spending 90 minutes on stage, one-on-one, with Dr. Temple Grandin, a true American icon if ever there was one…

Smithfield Foods Inc. has just announced that in early 2023—less than a year from now—it will close its processing plant in Vernon, California (near Los Angeles). It operates 45 plants throughout the U.S., owned by umbrella company WHGroup Ltd. out of Hong Kong but really a Chinese company.