A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson an revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices.

Imagine that for 30-50 years, you were were farmer. You saved a bit of the seed from what you grew, had it cleaned and sowed that the following year to cut you cost. Suddenly, somebody says you can not do that anymore and wins.

Spent some part of this weekend with a good friend of mine over in Garrard County. We did our usual of talking a lot over some tea as well as talking some more while one or the other of us helped out. It was my turn this time, as he was planting some [...]

Obama had the right idea on limiting the direct farm subsidy programs and it is sad that greed kept the limitation from passing through the process.

I am sure if you are alive, eat anything from the grocery store or from a food establishment that prepares it for you, unless you are currently under a rock you have heard about the the suspected tomato salmonella scare. Just in case you have not a brief bit of background. There were a bunch [...]

News flash (maybe not so much)… Monsoto is increasing capacity in order to produce more Roundup.
Read that in a week old RSS feed relating to agriculture current events this morning. Kind of scary when you think about it. Genetically manipulated and modified crops that withstand the application of the herbicide (weed killer for those that [...]

So I am currently re-reading parts of the book entitled The Complete Agrarian Reader, a collection of essays by Agrarians and their opinions on things. Probably the book that first introduced me to the idea. Actually, I should say, that made me realize it was not necessarily a some romantic notion that I alone had, [...]