Connect the dots. The ag industry is being destroyed in favor of a few giant concerns. Kind of like the monopoly that the goog, microsoft, fraudbook, nvidia and apple have on the tech industry.
Most of the mainstream food supply will be controlled by anti-human interests...or those supporting depopulation. Food is being systematically poisoned and even organic is not as safe as it once was.
Does congress care? Hardly as they are in on the depopulation game.
Exactly. I was chuckling about the "no kings" protests because all I could do is ask several questions: Where were all of these people when the country was being locked down, masked, businesses destroyed and experimental mRNA gene editing injections were being mandated? Where have all of these people been over the last 30 years or so while all of these ridiculous "wars" are being waged to "bring democracy"? And last, but not least, If these people are worried about not having kings then why in the hell aren't they putting the heat on their congresscritters and senators who are there specifically to make sure we *don't* have any kings? If Congress was doing their job instead of schmoozing we wouldn't need to worry about having a "king." I grow weary.
Same playbook in education say, destroy dept of ed, but not to pass authority and control to smaller more local and responsive units of governance, instead to pass it to giant ed-tech corps that will fully centralize. This is definitely a demolition
The underlying problem is directly related to the Make America Healthy Again proposals; (and I am a British subject). The answer is already written above; corn and soybean farmer . . . which supply the fast food industry with what are the disastrous feed stock for fast food. Here in the UK one of the most successful but small farms sells totally grass fed beef and lamb via their own web site, where the business is owned by their local community. Look at the wider debate and you will find a great debate regarding how to farm without expensive seeds, or fertiliser, and selling to their local communities. Thus the problem is being attached to a fast food industry that does nothing about addressing the needs of a healthy population. Again, being deliberately held in place economically by government grants specifically designed to hold them in place within an uneconomic industry that is not delivering what the nation; indeed, any nation needs, good honest food.
The entire farming community needs to turn away from the fast food supply industry, and government grants holding them in place. To do that they have to embrace a return to now ancient farming concepts that kept their soil in good health, alongside delivering the highest quality food to their surrounding communities.
May I be so bold as to suggest that the Trump administration needs to step back from simply adding to the grants that support the existing way of farming, instead they need to introduce very specific grants to allow the farms to return to delivering regenerative agriculture that needs far less artificial input, and higher value product that satisfies the needs of MAHA.
Market towns to deliver good quality healthy farm product directly into local communities rather than some vast monopoly must be the starting point. To make America healthy again requires a complete change in direction for the government support systems; away from corn and soybean farming using high cost seeds and related costs.
Simply handing out money without the recognition of the now desperate need to change the entire direction of farming away from a totally failed system of food supply will be by far the worst road to follow. Farming has to completely change direction; with NOT a single moment to lose.
Yes, I will agree that there is no intent in my mind to force anyone to change direction; but having said that, I have no option but to disagree about a hope. Importantly, the change in direction requires leadership. Why would I say that? The problem is well known; farming is trapped inside an unworkable model of the delivery of input to the fast food industry, supported by a government grant system specifically designed to keep them trapped; alongside an industrial model that fully supports the status quo.
The leadership required has to provide farming with every form of support for the farming communities, and remember, in the US you are dealing with by far the full industrial capacity of some of your largest agricultural states. That this is not something about a few farmers; this is all about the entire agricultural capacity of the nation. This is as large a challenge as the similar health problems created by the pharmaceutical industries. So it also requires leadership of the highest order.
This is a national problem, (indeed an international problem), that has to be faced by National Leadership. Every farmer has to see a clear path to the required change in direction where all the present obstacles to change are both fully recognised by National leadership, with a well thought out National Strategy where every farmer can see where that strategy will take them, and how they fit into it.
Asking farmers to try and create the required change based upon some possible form of hope will not address the massive problems each will face. You need the equivalent of another JFK Jr. but this time a farming leader of the same belief and character, who will be required to take full on the industrial food industry that has such a strong hold against any progress away from where everyone is today.
Trump wants a healthy nation; then he has to inject the necessary leadership to make it happen. Now! Not one moment to lose! he has to get on with it.
My parents have a small avocado farm and they lose money some years becuase the cost of water is expensive in southern California. During COVID I planted a bunch of different varieties of fig trees on their farm in places where some of their avocado trees had died of root rot. Fig trees are drought tolerant and don't need nearly as much water as avocados. Now, I'm selling fig cuttings on etsy and my figfair website and making more money doing that than my parents make selling their avocados and I'm only using about 1/10th of the land that is being used to grow the avocados to grow the fig trees on. Fig trees are easy to grow from cuttings. You don't need any rooting hormone or anything. Just stick a cutting into a pot with some potting soil in it and keep it moist but not soaking wet, and they usually root in about 3-4 weeks.
Well... I'm not holding my breath that the Trump admin gives a crap about anything America first. Sorry. Just a fact. I see Israel, Argentina, and other countries being first. Ranchers are making some money for the first time in decades because beef prices are high. Yeah, I hate the high prices, but I come from a farm/ranch family so I get it. Trump's answer? Let's import beef from Argentina! Seriously? WE DON'T NEED TO IMPORT FOOD IN THE U.S. IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL STOP CONTROLLING EVERY ASPECT OF IT! We have the land and, for now, the farmers and ranchers to once again feed the world. But... nope. Instead, the U.S. is sneakily signing on to Gates' and other monsters take over of food. I remember when people were screaming about Biden importing eggs from Turkey to lower egg prices instead of stopping the murder of millions of chickens because of "bird flu". This administration is doing so many of the exact same things but, since it's Trump we are supposed to just love it because if we don't we get accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome. No... I call out *all* politicians when they are screwing up. I don't care what fake "side" they are on. It is time for Americans to stop going along with things that their favorite "side" does and start paying attention.
This didn’t start recently. In the 1920s the gov forced a farmer to burn his grains he grew to feed his agricultural animals. The milk subsidy is insane.
Farmers have been pushed for years by AgEd, USDA, FDA, etc. First they find "My crop yields DID go up. I guess I should trust them." But it is down hill for the public's health when farmers do what they are told. Then Gates comes up with "aPEEL" sprayed on produce to make it last longer AND poison us at the same time. Now the stores don't need as much produce. Machiavellian, to be sure.
I asked my local health food store if apeel had been sprayed on their apples. When he asked the distributor, the distributor couldn't say. Apparently, they are not required to reveal this. How nice for them!
This is a complex problem and of course a problem largely created by the USDA Vilsek Go big or go home model of agriculture that pushed farming into an extreme version of commodity and subsidized farming practice. Just grow the three big commodities. Now we all clamour for small diverse farms providing food locally across the country, which will be difficult in many places do to urban sprawl. Couple this with the drive/influence/investment by the globalist technocratic interests that wish to have even more consolidation and a monopolized market of factory manufactured “food” ( artificial and toxic chemical and biological mimimicry ) wrapped in a veneer of this is for humanity and the environment with a big shining virtual signaling bow, and yes, we have a huge problem. While we like to voice our do buy this crap, many will be driven to do so as they have no access to local food, and unfortunately the entire ag system as trained everyone to expect cheap food. Good, real, local, actually nutritious food is going to cost all those who do not have the ability to grow their own food a much larger percentage of their income. It used to be that way, food use to be much more expensive relative to incomes. So we need to get used to that too, but only of course for real food grown locally and not the sham garbage that big “food” wants to shove down everyone’s throat ( it won’t be cheap either ). But the question is how can we support young people who would like to farm in this way? I have a small 30 acre hard scrapple piece of rocky Vermont forested hillside. It is good for maple syrup. (But small producers cannot compete with Candadian mega producers ) but could also be used for free ranging pork, fowl, sheep, goats. We are older with no children unfortunately and no nieces or nephews with any desire for a homestead. We grow most of what we need and purchase meat and raw milk locally. We are actually quite poor but resourceful and have skills in woodworking, milling, I can even tile, but driving around and getting paid for this kind of work is no longer profitable at all. We would like to be able to gift this land in a way that does not create a huge tax burden for us nor the couple we might find to gift it to. We could also teach many skills etc. and I would even help such a young couple home school their children. My hope is to be able to find such a serious couple, live out my life in the basement etc. and pass what we have created on to someone else. That is personally what I hope to be able to do as a small solution. I need legal help to pull this off. It pains me terribly to see many others in our small town who have much more farmable land and what do they do? They have horses. That is not agriculture. That is pleasure. Or they have acres of neatly mowed fields which look beautiful but do nothing in terms of food security. It is just a glorified suburbia with a get the “farm” look. It repulses me.
I don't think there is any way to "win" politically. We have to find other ways. Unfortunately, I cannot even pretend to have the answers and am leery about anyone who claims to.
Politics can only be run by those with the money, leisure time to spend, and are able to stomach or even enjoy the (stinking) process. The type is sick in the head and never have anyone's interest in mind but their own.
The vast majority of us are not cut out for such perverse behavior, so we cannot win in that arena.
The USDA knows nothing about agriculture...and is destroying the small farmers, with its money-making dealings with corporations that furnish pesticides, fertilizer, seeds, farming equipment, etc. it has no concern about the small farmers , because its all about the payback it receives from giant corporations. The root of all evil is money!
There is a very great crime taking place here - against the principles of moral philosophy in the East, and even certain elements in the West.
To deprive a man of earning an honest day’s wages — thereby rendering his life pointless and disconnected to humanity at large — makes him subject to the lure of idleness and depravity. Anyone who does this deserves the ninth circle of hell.
I believe this is why Confucianism ranks both the farmer and the soldier (2 of the 5 classifications) above the lowest tier — the merchant. Because, at its worst, the merchant scavenges off the production of others (farmers) and the protection of others (soldiers).
It is the merchant, above all the asset stripping jackals of private equity and the speculators of modern banking which backs the technologists, who control the West.
I wish I could say there is an end to this for the west, but doubtless Schopenhauer was right. Man is a beast who delights in the suffering of others.
It ain't Man, it's the demented psychopaths who always find away to climb to the top of the power structure, and screw everything and everybody. Irony is the ruling psychopath parasites are Malthusian & Misanthropists, and despise the people that they rule over. Worse than kings, worse than Hitler.
Small farms that would be probably characterized as "gardeners" by the big farmers can do ok with farmer's markets, and organic foodstuffs. I'm wondering how Maine's MOFGA small farm organization is seeing it.
Here is one Canadian farm I worked at that is doing great, also apple growers I worked for in harvests seem to be quite viable. https://fermesanders.ca/en/
Well, those cards have been laid for quite some time now, in your country as well as mine Sweden, and us ordinary people do not have much to say about it. It is said sometimes that we are many, so we should be able to win because of t hat, but I do not t hink so, because look at what is against us, as far as legal professions, politicians, governments, rich people, the press...And it soon gets pretty overwhelming, right?
(IF) You can trust the Book of Revelation; you can understand & know where this world is going! Beeing on God Jesus's blessing plan offers you the best protection! So worry about that, instead!
It's high time the private sector finds its own legs to create what the elected and elite class are rapidly destroying. www.LeadersOfLegacy.org -see what we can do.
I am working to bring it fruition with a larger team. I love that it creates a space for trustworthiness, with a simple way (not litigative, but mediative) to maintain it. I am so done with the selfish assumptions of our economy based of course on a monetary method that creates lack, competition, extraction, and indenture. I am thrilled that the divine feminine is rising, so that we may indeed create a balance of abundance without harm. When we find those with a little excess to help us bring this forward with the excellence it deserves, we the people, will be equipped to help ourselves, and do the wise things we see need doing, because we all contribute a small portion, making many hands to create large impact, and an alternative currency that spans across the country, not just sits in one town.
Connect the dots. The ag industry is being destroyed in favor of a few giant concerns. Kind of like the monopoly that the goog, microsoft, fraudbook, nvidia and apple have on the tech industry.
Most of the mainstream food supply will be controlled by anti-human interests...or those supporting depopulation. Food is being systematically poisoned and even organic is not as safe as it once was.
Does congress care? Hardly as they are in on the depopulation game.
Exactly. I was chuckling about the "no kings" protests because all I could do is ask several questions: Where were all of these people when the country was being locked down, masked, businesses destroyed and experimental mRNA gene editing injections were being mandated? Where have all of these people been over the last 30 years or so while all of these ridiculous "wars" are being waged to "bring democracy"? And last, but not least, If these people are worried about not having kings then why in the hell aren't they putting the heat on their congresscritters and senators who are there specifically to make sure we *don't* have any kings? If Congress was doing their job instead of schmoozing we wouldn't need to worry about having a "king." I grow weary.
"Where were all these people...."?
They were cheerleading for and eagerly participating in all of the above. Even snitched on their neighbors when they didn't comply.
Same playbook in education say, destroy dept of ed, but not to pass authority and control to smaller more local and responsive units of governance, instead to pass it to giant ed-tech corps that will fully centralize. This is definitely a demolition
The underlying problem is directly related to the Make America Healthy Again proposals; (and I am a British subject). The answer is already written above; corn and soybean farmer . . . which supply the fast food industry with what are the disastrous feed stock for fast food. Here in the UK one of the most successful but small farms sells totally grass fed beef and lamb via their own web site, where the business is owned by their local community. Look at the wider debate and you will find a great debate regarding how to farm without expensive seeds, or fertiliser, and selling to their local communities. Thus the problem is being attached to a fast food industry that does nothing about addressing the needs of a healthy population. Again, being deliberately held in place economically by government grants specifically designed to hold them in place within an uneconomic industry that is not delivering what the nation; indeed, any nation needs, good honest food.
The entire farming community needs to turn away from the fast food supply industry, and government grants holding them in place. To do that they have to embrace a return to now ancient farming concepts that kept their soil in good health, alongside delivering the highest quality food to their surrounding communities.
May I be so bold as to suggest that the Trump administration needs to step back from simply adding to the grants that support the existing way of farming, instead they need to introduce very specific grants to allow the farms to return to delivering regenerative agriculture that needs far less artificial input, and higher value product that satisfies the needs of MAHA.
Market towns to deliver good quality healthy farm product directly into local communities rather than some vast monopoly must be the starting point. To make America healthy again requires a complete change in direction for the government support systems; away from corn and soybean farming using high cost seeds and related costs.
Simply handing out money without the recognition of the now desperate need to change the entire direction of farming away from a totally failed system of food supply will be by far the worst road to follow. Farming has to completely change direction; with NOT a single moment to lose.
A MAHA goal--but we do not want to force farmers. We hope they can see the writing on the wall.
Yes, I will agree that there is no intent in my mind to force anyone to change direction; but having said that, I have no option but to disagree about a hope. Importantly, the change in direction requires leadership. Why would I say that? The problem is well known; farming is trapped inside an unworkable model of the delivery of input to the fast food industry, supported by a government grant system specifically designed to keep them trapped; alongside an industrial model that fully supports the status quo.
The leadership required has to provide farming with every form of support for the farming communities, and remember, in the US you are dealing with by far the full industrial capacity of some of your largest agricultural states. That this is not something about a few farmers; this is all about the entire agricultural capacity of the nation. This is as large a challenge as the similar health problems created by the pharmaceutical industries. So it also requires leadership of the highest order.
This is a national problem, (indeed an international problem), that has to be faced by National Leadership. Every farmer has to see a clear path to the required change in direction where all the present obstacles to change are both fully recognised by National leadership, with a well thought out National Strategy where every farmer can see where that strategy will take them, and how they fit into it.
Asking farmers to try and create the required change based upon some possible form of hope will not address the massive problems each will face. You need the equivalent of another JFK Jr. but this time a farming leader of the same belief and character, who will be required to take full on the industrial food industry that has such a strong hold against any progress away from where everyone is today.
Trump wants a healthy nation; then he has to inject the necessary leadership to make it happen. Now! Not one moment to lose! he has to get on with it.
One gets the feeling that Brooke Rollins isn’t quite up to the job.
Great comment!
I would LOVE to see a plan like this implemented.
My parents have a small avocado farm and they lose money some years becuase the cost of water is expensive in southern California. During COVID I planted a bunch of different varieties of fig trees on their farm in places where some of their avocado trees had died of root rot. Fig trees are drought tolerant and don't need nearly as much water as avocados. Now, I'm selling fig cuttings on etsy and my figfair website and making more money doing that than my parents make selling their avocados and I'm only using about 1/10th of the land that is being used to grow the avocados to grow the fig trees on. Fig trees are easy to grow from cuttings. You don't need any rooting hormone or anything. Just stick a cutting into a pot with some potting soil in it and keep it moist but not soaking wet, and they usually root in about 3-4 weeks.
Figs also grow wild in the lowlands of Greece that I know of.
Wish I lived in a place where they would grow.
Time to dust off the Sherman Antitrust Act...
Well... I'm not holding my breath that the Trump admin gives a crap about anything America first. Sorry. Just a fact. I see Israel, Argentina, and other countries being first. Ranchers are making some money for the first time in decades because beef prices are high. Yeah, I hate the high prices, but I come from a farm/ranch family so I get it. Trump's answer? Let's import beef from Argentina! Seriously? WE DON'T NEED TO IMPORT FOOD IN THE U.S. IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL STOP CONTROLLING EVERY ASPECT OF IT! We have the land and, for now, the farmers and ranchers to once again feed the world. But... nope. Instead, the U.S. is sneakily signing on to Gates' and other monsters take over of food. I remember when people were screaming about Biden importing eggs from Turkey to lower egg prices instead of stopping the murder of millions of chickens because of "bird flu". This administration is doing so many of the exact same things but, since it's Trump we are supposed to just love it because if we don't we get accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome. No... I call out *all* politicians when they are screwing up. I don't care what fake "side" they are on. It is time for Americans to stop going along with things that their favorite "side" does and start paying attention.
This didn’t start recently. In the 1920s the gov forced a farmer to burn his grains he grew to feed his agricultural animals. The milk subsidy is insane.
Farmers have been pushed for years by AgEd, USDA, FDA, etc. First they find "My crop yields DID go up. I guess I should trust them." But it is down hill for the public's health when farmers do what they are told. Then Gates comes up with "aPEEL" sprayed on produce to make it last longer AND poison us at the same time. Now the stores don't need as much produce. Machiavellian, to be sure.
I asked my local health food store if apeel had been sprayed on their apples. When he asked the distributor, the distributor couldn't say. Apparently, they are not required to reveal this. How nice for them!
That is what I have learned, as well as that much poison (including mRNA lettuce) is not required to be revealed by our loving guv.
Disaster capitalism----"THEY" want the land, and will move in and buy it for pennies on the dollar.
And under The Creature trump they will get it.
They've been getting many things since before Trump was a gleam in his daddy's eyes. It's the way the system was designed.
I object to calling the bad guy Creature! Team Creature over the Machine all day every day https://open.substack.com/pub/aliceem2de3u/p/team-captain-for-the-time-of-the
The Creature trump is dragging the adoring masses to their demise, making excuses for him all the way back to 2020.
This is a complex problem and of course a problem largely created by the USDA Vilsek Go big or go home model of agriculture that pushed farming into an extreme version of commodity and subsidized farming practice. Just grow the three big commodities. Now we all clamour for small diverse farms providing food locally across the country, which will be difficult in many places do to urban sprawl. Couple this with the drive/influence/investment by the globalist technocratic interests that wish to have even more consolidation and a monopolized market of factory manufactured “food” ( artificial and toxic chemical and biological mimimicry ) wrapped in a veneer of this is for humanity and the environment with a big shining virtual signaling bow, and yes, we have a huge problem. While we like to voice our do buy this crap, many will be driven to do so as they have no access to local food, and unfortunately the entire ag system as trained everyone to expect cheap food. Good, real, local, actually nutritious food is going to cost all those who do not have the ability to grow their own food a much larger percentage of their income. It used to be that way, food use to be much more expensive relative to incomes. So we need to get used to that too, but only of course for real food grown locally and not the sham garbage that big “food” wants to shove down everyone’s throat ( it won’t be cheap either ). But the question is how can we support young people who would like to farm in this way? I have a small 30 acre hard scrapple piece of rocky Vermont forested hillside. It is good for maple syrup. (But small producers cannot compete with Candadian mega producers ) but could also be used for free ranging pork, fowl, sheep, goats. We are older with no children unfortunately and no nieces or nephews with any desire for a homestead. We grow most of what we need and purchase meat and raw milk locally. We are actually quite poor but resourceful and have skills in woodworking, milling, I can even tile, but driving around and getting paid for this kind of work is no longer profitable at all. We would like to be able to gift this land in a way that does not create a huge tax burden for us nor the couple we might find to gift it to. We could also teach many skills etc. and I would even help such a young couple home school their children. My hope is to be able to find such a serious couple, live out my life in the basement etc. and pass what we have created on to someone else. That is personally what I hope to be able to do as a small solution. I need legal help to pull this off. It pains me terribly to see many others in our small town who have much more farmable land and what do they do? They have horses. That is not agriculture. That is pleasure. Or they have acres of neatly mowed fields which look beautiful but do nothing in terms of food security. It is just a glorified suburbia with a get the “farm” look. It repulses me.
Another fine piece.
“We are currently in conversations here at the White House, across the government, on a farmer aid package.”
As usual, the “aid” is not to the farmers but a gift and handouts to the creditors and monoplists under the guise of “doin’ good.”
Here's why.
“What we really need is to do something about the monopolies so that our farmers can have a chance to scrape out a living.
But that isn’t going to happen, because the monopolies have lots of lobbyists and they contribute vast amounts of money to political campaigns.”
Absolutely agree, you are correct on all points.
I don't think there is any way to "win" politically. We have to find other ways. Unfortunately, I cannot even pretend to have the answers and am leery about anyone who claims to.
Politics can only be run by those with the money, leisure time to spend, and are able to stomach or even enjoy the (stinking) process. The type is sick in the head and never have anyone's interest in mind but their own.
The vast majority of us are not cut out for such perverse behavior, so we cannot win in that arena.
The USDA knows nothing about agriculture...and is destroying the small farmers, with its money-making dealings with corporations that furnish pesticides, fertilizer, seeds, farming equipment, etc. it has no concern about the small farmers , because its all about the payback it receives from giant corporations. The root of all evil is money!
There is a very great crime taking place here - against the principles of moral philosophy in the East, and even certain elements in the West.
To deprive a man of earning an honest day’s wages — thereby rendering his life pointless and disconnected to humanity at large — makes him subject to the lure of idleness and depravity. Anyone who does this deserves the ninth circle of hell.
I believe this is why Confucianism ranks both the farmer and the soldier (2 of the 5 classifications) above the lowest tier — the merchant. Because, at its worst, the merchant scavenges off the production of others (farmers) and the protection of others (soldiers).
It is the merchant, above all the asset stripping jackals of private equity and the speculators of modern banking which backs the technologists, who control the West.
I wish I could say there is an end to this for the west, but doubtless Schopenhauer was right. Man is a beast who delights in the suffering of others.
It ain't Man, it's the demented psychopaths who always find away to climb to the top of the power structure, and screw everything and everybody. Irony is the ruling psychopath parasites are Malthusian & Misanthropists, and despise the people that they rule over. Worse than kings, worse than Hitler.
Worse than their employees, Stalin, Churchill, FDR and Bernard Baruch too!
Small farms that would be probably characterized as "gardeners" by the big farmers can do ok with farmer's markets, and organic foodstuffs. I'm wondering how Maine's MOFGA small farm organization is seeing it.
Here is one Canadian farm I worked at that is doing great, also apple growers I worked for in harvests seem to be quite viable. https://fermesanders.ca/en/
Well, those cards have been laid for quite some time now, in your country as well as mine Sweden, and us ordinary people do not have much to say about it. It is said sometimes that we are many, so we should be able to win because of t hat, but I do not t hink so, because look at what is against us, as far as legal professions, politicians, governments, rich people, the press...And it soon gets pretty overwhelming, right?
(IF) You can trust the Book of Revelation; you can understand & know where this world is going! Beeing on God Jesus's blessing plan offers you the best protection! So worry about that, instead!
Revelation 17-19
It's high time the private sector finds its own legs to create what the elected and elite class are rapidly destroying. www.LeadersOfLegacy.org -see what we can do.
Very interesting and inspiring. Do you know this organization personally? Thanks!
I am working to bring it fruition with a larger team. I love that it creates a space for trustworthiness, with a simple way (not litigative, but mediative) to maintain it. I am so done with the selfish assumptions of our economy based of course on a monetary method that creates lack, competition, extraction, and indenture. I am thrilled that the divine feminine is rising, so that we may indeed create a balance of abundance without harm. When we find those with a little excess to help us bring this forward with the excellence it deserves, we the people, will be equipped to help ourselves, and do the wise things we see need doing, because we all contribute a small portion, making many hands to create large impact, and an alternative currency that spans across the country, not just sits in one town.