While Pat Powers swills beer, I spend my vacation reading Wendell Berry: A healthy farm will have trees on it—woodlands, where forest trees are native,…
Tag: agriculture
Farm Progress reports that fertilizer prices aren’t coming own anytime soon, thanks to Trump’s aimless war in Iran, Russia’s similarly reckless war on Ukraine, and declining…
You’re not going to make any money farming, not this year or next, says the Farm Bureau: Several years of high inflation and low commodity…
Agriculture economist David Widmar told the Governor’s Ag Summit yesterday that things might get better for farmers if we really resume normal trade with China…
Jon Hansen’s call for a summer gasoline-tax holiday in South Dakota wouldn’t worsen South Dakota’s deficit, because (a) South Dakota can’t have a deficit, per…
Hey, farmers! War-flation on fertilizer got you feeling down? Elect Congresspeople and a President with a genuine, well-informed interest in economic self-sufficiency, and, according to…
The corporate shills at the Farm Bureau aren’t sugar-coating the farm economy. According to its Fertilizer Availability Survey of over 5,700 farmers conducted April 3–11,…
Donald Trump has provided numerous examples of using social media to manipulate markets. But while Trump abuses his power and prominence to pad his pockets,…
It’s hard to tell what Donald Trump thinks about the farm economy. On Friday, he told an audience of supplicant farmers at the White House…
After the exciting little Karr/Rhoden dust-up last November over agricultural pollution, nobody dared to offer any new environmental regulations on farms and ranches this Session.…