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Great job by all! Had a hard time with “American Safari” vs “Flying Cacklechicken” The bucks are just too hard to pick from. Wow.

Definitely satisfying! Grapple does make me nervous. It's really heavy- I think it is primarily built for skid loaders. Then you pick up something heavy... I also really try to keep in mind how I turn the front wheels. That can feel really unsettling sometimes.

Fraud is the hot topic right now and I’m sure there is ill gotten gains being transported but there is also plenty of drug money loaded on planes there for domestic and international destinations. Can’t fly with a bottle of sunscreen in your carry on. CAN fly with big blocks of vacuum sealed...

Finished up our 100+ yard fence tear out. It actually started last fall with tractor work but the rubber really hit the road late winter. Involved cleaning up brush on both sides of the fence, everything from saplings to trees that needed notched and cut and then cleaning out all the wire...

I hope Illinois destroys UConn.

I really liked Iowa and the way they play. Great story. Illinois to the final four isn’t half bad though.

Food manufacturing and ag are more than 20% of gdp

Man I don't know if a hawk or owl could eat that much either. if it got moved around maybe coyotes or bobcat like you said. Of those two I feel like bobcat is better odds but I don't know!

Caught it in the wide open. Picked it clean next to where it was caught, didn't carry it off. Hawk? Owl?

When we pump gov't money into ag, where does it go? Monsanto. ADM. Bayer. Not farmers. Same as the monewy pumped into student loans for higher ed CAMPAIGN MONEY REFORM. DO THIS ONE THING. THIS WOULD MAKE TERM LIMITS NOT EVEN MATTER Citizens United is where it all went wrong.

Two really good posts above. Can’t add anything other than some of the subsidies were partially started due to Cold War defense concerns. Department of Ag actually built a lot of roads during that period to get U.S. grain to market due to Cold War. Also the subsidized grain was also bought by...

Yes- but it does not stand up to snow. I'm replacing mine with switch now that im out of the set aside program I was in.

We only have two "special envoys" and he is one. The other one is stacking cash too. Billions, people. Remember, tax day is coming. Don't forget to write your check so the billionaires don't have to. We will get ours when it starts trickling down.

I bought a bag of RR alfalfa yesterday. Folks where I got it were pretty concerned that I had planted rye last fall even though it didn't really grow. Aeliopatic effects. I told him about field pennycress I've had trouble controlling. I'm going to try 2-4d with a two week plantback. I...

It all begins and ends with China. We handed them our manufacturing, they broke every trade agreement we made…. We kept pretending they were trusted world partners when they never were. We are letting them backdoor us with Russian and Iranian oil. We let them backdoor us by sending military...