ACKNOWLEDGE THE WIN
Those of us who have kind of given up on anything good from the government need to take this moment to acknowledge a win. This week's release of the new Dietary Guidelines is truly monumental and represents a major step toward truth in food recommendations…
EXPERT INSANITY
Happy New Year everyone. I've been hunkered down over Christmas cranking out the rough draft of another book: FOOD EMANCIPATION: Unshackling America's Sustenance. More on that in the future…
BEEF PRICES
President Trump now officially plans to print $12 billion (money that does not exist) and throw it at soybean farmers suffering from price collapse due to China's retaliation over tariffs…
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…