Remember August 2018 when anti-chemical folks chortled over the first big jury trial win in the Monsanto/Bayer Roundup cancer trial?
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I guested on Dr. Peter Osborne’s podcast today and he used an interesting statement worth sharing. We talked about fake meat and the anti-livestock craze to save the planet from incinerating…
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As food prices and availability take center stage in our media and discussions, the answer is not subsidies, regulations, or governmental intervention. The answer is good old freedom to stimulate opportunity and competition. Let the best players win.
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Health experts are asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require warning labels on sugary drinks and snacks. Other countries like Mexico, Ecuador and the UK already have such labels and an effort is underway to duplicate them here…
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Amos Miler is a horse and buggy Amish farmer in Pennsylvania who has a Personal Membership Assocation (PMA) of a couple thousand people who voluntarily choose his pasture-based food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has been tested in the courts and found to be “not in commerce” due to shared risk…
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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.
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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…
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One of our chefs called yesterday asking for information regarding how our farm protects its water from chemical contamination…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience?
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