Thank you all for the outpouring of advice following my Friday reach out about whether or not to pursue a grant for a meat stick room at our co-owned slaughterhouse…

            I’m seeking counsel today because I think the folks who read these blogs are the most thoughtful, caring people on the planet…

 I’m riding the shuttle to the Charlotte airport after missing my final flight to Charlottesville last night due to delayed flights.  How kind of them to buy me a hotel room.  I won’t use the meal voucher—haven’t seen anything worth eating…

Thank you for all the kind and gracious comments regarding my testimony before the Congressional Judiciary Committee Tuesday…

On Tuesday, June 13 I testified before the Congressional Judiciary Committee in a hearing

titled “WHERE’S THE BEEF?”  Here is my 5-minute opening testimony:

I’ve received an official invitation from Congressman Jim Jordan to testify Tuesday, June 13 at 10 a.m. in room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building for the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust of the Committee on the Judiciary on the topic:  WHERE’S THE BEEF?…

Last weekend I enjoyed speaking at the second Homestead Festival in Columbia, Tennessee, hosted at Rory Feek’s farm…

The feedback from the fence line blog was great and it makes me want to offer more nuance to the discussion…

Today I did one of the most enjoyable things I ever get to do:  clean an electric fence with a chainsaw….

 Last weekend I made four presentations to the Florida Parent Educators Association in Orlando and the last one was titled  simply “Backyard Chickens.”  Imagine my surprise when several hundred people showed up to that late-in-the-day final session…

 I just spent a couple of days in and around Orlando, Florida, the heart of Florida’s orange production country…

I guess I opened a bit of a Pandora’s Box that interestingly started with a celebration of the Supreme Court’s upholding California’s ban on crated pig sales, re-establishing the supremacy of states’ rights…