Recent content by Westwind

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...

I agree. Spend, spend, spend. And I submit that not only can the Titanic not be turned quick enough to avoid the economic iceberg, the economic iceberg has already been struck.

Since inflationary spending was brought up are we talking about the $2.2 trillion government handout CARES act? The one fraught with fraud because the government was in such a hurry to get the money out? That 300 billion that the Small Business Administration dumped out into the ecosystem was...

There is no evidence that the Iranian government has collapsed or capitulated. We are picking off leadership and are hammering the internal police force that killed its own people but we aren’t there yet. I don’t know if I would call it a cohesive government. But there is some kind of command...

There are pie pumpkins in that mix- deer ate them in December or so but wouldnt say it was a huge draw

I took notes this time. This old boy loves to talk and knows the history by heart, I need to write it all down.

I think threads that are allowed to wander a little end up being the best!