There is a massive CRISIS in farming and food: Door to Freedom is building a coalition and a campaign to educate the public and turn this looming crisis around.
The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.
Please consider contributing to this effort. Direct contributions to Door to Freedom are nearly twice as valuable as those that go through Substack. We could really use the help now, because for the big campaign we are planning we will need about $300,000. Even more donations will allow us to do more with social media and other forms of advertising and generate lots more calls and letters to Congress to support our proposals. I will be posting much more on this over the next weeks. However, I don’t want to alert Big Ag of all our plans yet.
The US lost 160,000 farms between 2017 and 2024 and 20 million acres of farmland are no longer being farmed.
It is estimated that in 2025 the US will have a $50 billion dollar trade deficit for foods—in other words, we will import $50 billion more than we export in foodstuffs.
In the land of the cowboy, we have become a net beef importer.
2/3 of US farmers (of our 1.9 million farms) are at or above retirement age! They are often in debt, and cannot afford to leave the farms to their children.
A lot has gone wrong to take us to this place. There are about 50 different contributors, which need to be identified, and fixed. Our organization plans to break down this complicated story so everyone can understand it and help with the solutions. Saving US family farming is the part of the MAHA agenda you don’t hear much about.
Here is our Zero Hedge story, and below that are 16 slides I made to provide a quick overview.
Go to ZeroHedge for the rest of that story.
Here is the nutshell version on the crisis in 16 slides I made.
I'am a 66 year old beef farmer (rancher) in New Zealand who retired yesterday. My last bull was sold off. I'am completely debt free and rather than sell out I've leased the farm to my neighbor because I want to remain living here and continue to do part time work improving the aesthetics of the farm. It also helps my neighbor generate income to help buy my farm because the alternative is to sell out to the new farmers that have started to dominate the more marginal areas of NZ, called Carbon Farmers. 30-50 years ago very marginal land was retired from sheep and beef farming and planted in pines to be harvested for timber. For the last 10 years or so l've watched from the highest point of my farm (at 1100 feet) the slow encroachment of pine trees covering productive rolling beef country. This is happening across all of NZ. Consortiums have bought farms by outbidding genuine farmers and covering the land in pines that will never be harvested, waiting 6 years, then start claiming carbon credits that they can either hold or sell off for cash. It makes more money per Ha than beef farming with current carbon credit value at NZ$58 sold on the secondary market. It started with marginal land but has now moved to rolling land.
People ask "where will our food come from?" I ask "why do you expect that there will be the population to feed?".
Thank you so much for this heads up, Dr. Nass! I'm so thankful God has made you so mind-bogglingly energetic, freedom-loving and intelligent!!