Local farmer jumped all in on the regenerative movement, he’s been in moves, spoke to congress, pod casts and on the talk circuit, even charging people for his advice in notill organic farming. He has spent all summer clean tilling his ground. Some of this stuff works some doesn’t but the biggest money maker in regenerative agriculture is selling regenerative agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture is not much different than what farmers were doing in the 1920s/1930s. I have a JD operation/repair book from the 1930s and it reads a lot like Regenerative Ag. Imagine the sales teams of the chemical and machinery companies trying to convince our grandfathers to flip from that system to spraying WWII chemicals all over the farm, "same stuff we killed soldiers with?". using hybrid seeds "you mean I can't save and replant my own seed?" and so on. All those farmers had to figure out "how to modernize" with chemicals and factory seed paying big money up front.
I think some changes may be hard transitions but most farmers actually do care about the health of our nation and it’s very evident that we have a major problem - let’s try to fix it.
I like what RFK has to say and he's spot-on; big AG, big GOV and their agencies have allowed the food in our supply chain to turn in to highly processed CRAP. Look at the ingredients of the food you consume by the major producers like Frito-lay, Pepsi-Co, McDonalds....just to name a few....ingredients that have been found to cause cancer and are outlawed in other countries. BTW...I'm a fifth gen farmer (Dairy & grain crops) with this opinion and even I think our food supply and gov regulatory agencies are completely corrupt!
Trumps last Secretary of Agriculture was a flop. I hate it when politicians talk like they know ag. He didn’t say anything about the removing restriction, such as Water of the US. We don’t need a big government bureaucrat with zero ag experience picking winners and losers. This fuels the inflation machine while ignoring monopolies in beef packing and fertilizer industries. I’m stopping ( not finish) my rant here and finishing my cup of coffee.
I have both conventional and organic crops~ I hope we get an overhaul to our commodity based agricultural system, our rural communities are shrinking because there are less farming families. The consequences of chemicals like atrazine are no secret. We as farmers can do better
Regenerative agriculture what a buzz word…I recall farmland that my dad bought in the late 80s that was a hilly weed farm…we leveled hills, drilled a well, put a center pivot on it, ran corn / soybean rotation with conventional till which kind of worked…then Roundup ready crops came along which supported a shift to no till…that farm now is very productive, organic matter has risen substantially on hillsides, and erosion is reduced
The Ag industry is too complex to “fix” in a 4 year term. The government taking a one size fits all approach to farming practices is going to make it harder for smaller farms. Having to update equipment to meet whatever green practices they will have is expensive, especially when equipment manufacturers in this country only make new equipment for larger operations. That’s just one example. Banning certain chemicals (which I agree with on some) is going to force farmers to buy from bayer, syngenta and other large corporations. The list goes on and on. Less the government tries to help the better. They are not experts and most have never farmed a day in their life.
Bigger farms always have more resources to help with change & compliance issues, so therefore always benefit from every program more than a small farm.
30 minutes nw of Manhattan ks and has close to 3 inches yesterday afternoon and had very little run off, thankfully settled dust and filled in the huge cracks. Should bring wheat up
My two cents as a Canadian. Greenwashing is real and farmers are already doing a lot to support the environment. Talking about highly processed foods but then pointing the finger back at the farmer has no validity. Granted, the food system should reassess processed foods to the degree we are at today, that doesn't fall back to the farmer. Ag retail is going to have to lead the charge on responsibly using chemical and fertilizer with soil sampling, to maintain plant and soil health. Farmers care about their soil health and their pocket book, so change is only going to happen if it helps both. That change isn't going to be done in a 4 year term and especially not if we're pointing fingers.
I used to think that too. After I was on the inside of a big corporation, it’s much worse than you think. The biggest corporations are destroying true capitalism to benefit themselves. It all comes at the expense of consumers and taxpayers.
USDA subsidizes the over production of commodities (16% of total budget) and subsidizes the over consumption (70% of total budget) of those commodities as ultra-processed foods. About 7% to forestry and conservation, and 6% for everything else... American farmers and consumers would be better off without a USDA. RFK jr can do almost nothing but enjoy the marble bathrooms, old growth conference tables, leather chairs and scenic views of the Mall from inside the USDA building. Former USDA-FAS thoughts
My fear is the government's and the public's definition of a small family farm and "corporate" farm. Many would label big family owned row crop farms as "corporate" farm just cause they have a lot more than the guy with 30 acres that pretend farms on the weekend.
That’s where things are heading if they don’t change now! Are you even in the ag industry? Things are a mess and if things don’t change now it will be too late. If you don’t want the government involved than stop being pussys and stand up to corporate America and big ag! Right now big ag is killing the industry and driving land prices up and small farms out and it’s been that way for yrs. Look up the European farm protest and you will see American farmers and there lack of back bone to make change
As a small rancher, it's to my benefit to be a good sturt of my land and my grass. When you think about it I don't sell beef, I sell grass. With out the grass I have no beef to sell. I don't need the government to tell me what I can do or not. The grass and the dirt have been on this earth for a long time. It will be here way after you and I are gone. This is God's house and he and he alone control the earth,weather, and man. Put your faith in him and not the government or the corporate greed.
As a german farmer I have been in ILL in the early 80's and I believe that the success of the USA is directly related to the top soil which has been created over hundreds of years ago until today. But the soil is degenerating throug tillage. In the early 19 century the tillage didn't hurt so much due to lack of machinery. This changed over the decades. And today modern equipment is very gentle to soil, but only if used responsible.
Research done by Dr. David C. Johnson and proven out by large scale farms such as the Hagerty farm 110 miles north east of Perth Australia show what can be done without chemicals and fertilizers. When you till the soil you destroy the fungal in the soil because they are like cotton candy filaments and the branches are ripped apart. This work was originally established by Dr. Elaine Ingham who in her time and due to her research knew more about soils than anyone else in the world. The Hagerty's using an air seeder and liquid applicator that applies a fungal spore component that you can make yourself replaces the damaged fungal and those spores for a symbiotic relationship with the plant, wether grains or bushes, or trees to provide all the nutrients that the crop needs. They also run a ruminant such as sheep over newly acquired land to introduce beneficial bacteria to the soil. Dianne Hagerty in a video talked about 1 field that they continuous cropped for 18 years with the last 6 years in consecutive wheat with no drop in yield. By the way their yields are 1 1/2 times higher than their neighbours who use full chemical and fertilizers.
The Senate will never approve anything RFK proposes. I think you are right, even if RFK were to change things as stated in his ad, it would take years. The likelihood of his proposals will not only need to go through the Senate, but will need to go through some strong opposition. Not saying it won't happen, but the chances are slim.
Not to mention with the supreme court's new ruling of "Chevron Deferance" all of the government agencies will have a harder time making big changes quickly or if they do it will be fought out in the court systems later on.
@@jlkkauffman7942 most of the ag subsidies goes to a few large grain farmers with multiple llc . Without the food programs the urban congressmen would never vote for any farm bill.
Our ground is too hilly to run cultivators without erosion, and I sure don't want to have to go back to shield spraying cotton. The chemistry has it's place
Point is that you don't eat the cotton. RFK is referring to a lot of banned items in Europe that end up in the highly processed food and foods such as corn syrups and additives that are harmful to a persons health.
Im excited to think that we could be less reliant on heavily processed foods. But im unsure about what it could mean for small farms. In my opinion, the change in 4 years would be minimal, so i do hope RFK Jr gets a chance.
I dont disagree with some of what he says. I dont like eating stuff when you cant pronounce half the stuff in it. Regentative ag would raise prices as i dont know many that can get everything planted timely and sustain yields. Would cut carryout. Would help smaller farms as large farms really struggle with regenrative ag but would raise food prices for consumers.
Rain fell yesterday in WC Iowa to the tune of 1.5"!! It's been a long time coming since we had this much all at once. Fall tillage will go much better now. RFK makes interesting points. I look forward to hearing the specifics of what is being considered. Our food chain needs some overhauling as America has an obesity problem like never before.
Good morning Joe. Can you tell me where you find the data for the number of short positions. I've seen it posted and heard you talk about it before. I'm new, don't know, and spent the night looking on the Internet last night without luck. Thank you.
Data is here: www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm We include "fund tracker" charts, which are much easier to understand, in our email every Monday morning following the CFTC report.
We wanna hear the story dude put it out there! There's a thousand stories on youtube now of how guys got started farming from all decades. There is so little content about how/why people started getting involved in commodity markets and trading (pre covid meme stocks) out there. The details that seem boring to you are areas of the industry completely unknown to so many others
Don't discount this. I remember when Bush come out and said he was going to change the way we had fuel in this country and started making ethanol on a huge scale. It was when I had to quit farming and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me because I could have made it with the new rules. It looks to me like this is something that's probably going to take hold because it's been brewing for several years underneath the radar. This change will probably come way faster than you think similar to the way ethanol took off really fast. Just my two cents worth but I think it's something that really should be looked at and very well could happen
In previous life..I was he relationship manager between Lind Waldock and household name equity firm. A real tragedy was the career Lind Waldcok employees who got kicked in face by Refco, Then MF global. Careers wasted....Barry Lind was a little tight with the $$$...But ran a tight ship who never would have blown up his firm...and impacted his farmer customers
OK so when you’re talking about how Kennedy would affect USDA. I would hope that he would create opportunities for people who expired to be future farmers. I would hope that there would be greater financial support at a time when the average age of a farmer is almost 60 to bring in younger people to be farmers. There are a couple programs that give people loans that are under 35 and some of the stuff already exist so if you could increase funding Lower standards that might be a beneficial for bringing new people in. Personally what I am interested in is understanding that this guy wants to get away from GMO‘s and harmful pesticides as he spoke about banning pesticides that had been banned in other countries already. So I would look to Europe and what they have band that we use to understand That exact direction that he would be heading in. This might get a little messy if we can’t produce enough food to feed all the people because the bottom line is that without pesticides we don’t have enough there will be a takeover on the fields by all the critters both microscopic and vertebrae. I’m currently in the process of becoming a certified spray drone pilot in the US. Well I don’t think that he would be against this type of work he would just highly regulate what would be available for farmers.
Not necessarily, for every post there are about 1700 beneficial insects, why kill everything with a pesticide application when you can provide a home for the predators with pollinator strips!
You are correct Joe, a lot of talk and very little substance. He's very anti big ag. He still whines about Monsanto and that company hasn't existed for several years now. Kip Tom will be in Trump's ear as well and won't let RFKjr do anything too crazy
I believe RFK Jr was once a lawyer for water keepers. A very anti hog confinement group. How do you get that toothpaste back in the tube. Doesn’t sound like less government at all
Trump has also reigned in RFK during every speech and interview lately. Complimentary and saying RFK will have an important role but also recognizes there are some differences of opinion they will have to work out.
A man in a haz-mat suit has no business farming our food with dangerous chemicals either that have been banned world wide except for continued use by the American farmer.
Based on some of the people that have had RFKs ear about regen ag, it would not surprise me if he advocates for limits on nitrogen applications and soluble fertilizer. Potentially tied to crop insurance premiums. Based on the process foods comments, I bet he wants to overhaul food stamps to limit less healthy options.
From what I’ve heard from him and Nicole, it’s getting the corruption out of our production, and forcing companies to be transparent on the ingredients and put warning labels on there packages. I haven’t heard him talk about mandates on the ag side, just education. Something has to change however because we are losing family farms left and right, I agree with him that our current system is bad for our health and bad for the environment, now I’m not a huge environmental nut but I do believe we’re supposed to be good stewards with the resources we have been given. We’re losing approximately 4 to 5 tons of topsoil per acre every year due to water and wind erosion, and on top of that our current mono cropping model with the normal amount of chemical inputs, along with excessive tillage is depleting our soils of nutrients, and lowering organic matter, which in turn collapses the soil and makes for less water infiltration. so it then begs the question are we farmers creating our own droughts! A lot of soils across the country can only infiltrate 1/2 inch per hour of rainfall, we can get several inches in 30 minutes. I’m not going to claim to know all or any of the answers but as a farmer myself something has to change, we grow so much corn that we have to find uses for it, or we take land out of production to artificially raise corn prices, so do we want free markets or a manipulated market?
Is it really the USDAs job to get people to eat healthy? Nonprossed is not that hard to find but it's not as convenient and maybe doesn't taste as good as most of the junk people eat
Rfk scares big ag! The small family farm can navigate the changes. The ag industry is sad corporate piece of shit that needs to change. He should put a 500 cow 2000 acre land limit For dairy. If you think farming in America is fair just and sustainable, your the problem
in what world a center right (or extreme right) will be concerned about the good of the small farmer against the good of big companies? RFK sounds like a center left candidate. That does not sound like a GOP speech at all. It's either a lie or a lie. You choose.
Trump is supposed to be "anti establishment" but alot of shit lately seems fishy. mike pompeo is a " great guy" 😂. Rfk sounds like he reading climate bs straight from the wef playbook.
I really hate how people say farmers are poisoning the earth and ‘killing the soil’. If those statements were true we wouldn’t have any weeds or pests. Just ignorant.
If Trump does improve things in our country , and I think he will , Then in 4 years whoever takes his place in the Republican party will most likely continue the improvements .
Local farmer jumped all in on the regenerative movement, he’s been in moves, spoke to congress, pod casts and on the talk circuit, even charging people for his advice in notill organic farming.
He has spent all summer clean tilling his ground.
Some of this stuff works some doesn’t but the biggest money maker in regenerative agriculture is selling regenerative agriculture
You mean the BS movement...
You mean the BS movement...
You mean the meaningless nonsense movement...
Your last sentence sums up nearly every "system" that has a name!
Regenerative Agriculture is not much different than what farmers were doing in the 1920s/1930s. I have a JD operation/repair book from the 1930s and it reads a lot like Regenerative Ag. Imagine the sales teams of the chemical and machinery companies trying to convince our grandfathers to flip from that system to spraying WWII chemicals all over the farm, "same stuff we killed soldiers with?". using hybrid seeds "you mean I can't save and replant my own seed?" and so on. All those farmers had to figure out "how to modernize" with chemicals and factory seed paying big money up front.
I think some changes may be hard transitions but most farmers actually do care about the health of our nation and it’s very evident that we have a major problem - let’s try to fix it.
I like what RFK has to say and he's spot-on; big AG, big GOV and their agencies have allowed the food in our supply chain to turn in to highly processed CRAP. Look at the ingredients of the food you consume by the major producers like Frito-lay, Pepsi-Co, McDonalds....just to name a few....ingredients that have been found to cause cancer and are outlawed in other countries. BTW...I'm a fifth gen farmer (Dairy & grain crops) with this opinion and even I think our food supply and gov regulatory agencies are completely corrupt!
Trumps last Secretary of Agriculture was a flop. I hate it when politicians talk like they know ag. He didn’t say anything about the removing restriction, such as Water of the US. We don’t need a big government bureaucrat with zero ag experience picking winners and losers. This fuels the inflation machine while ignoring monopolies in beef packing and fertilizer industries. I’m stopping ( not finish) my rant here and finishing my cup of coffee.
I have both conventional and organic crops~ I hope we get an overhaul to our commodity based agricultural system, our rural communities are shrinking because there are less farming families. The consequences of chemicals like atrazine are no secret. We as farmers can do better
They've been after Atrazine for decades, it ain't going away, and no it doesn't turn the frogs gay.
Regenerative agriculture what a buzz word…I recall farmland that my dad bought in the late 80s that was a hilly weed farm…we leveled hills, drilled a well, put a center pivot on it, ran corn / soybean rotation with conventional till which kind of worked…then Roundup ready crops came along which supported a shift to no till…that farm now is very productive, organic matter has risen substantially on hillsides, and erosion is reduced
The Ag industry is too complex to “fix” in a 4 year term. The government taking a one size fits all approach to farming practices is going to make it harder for smaller farms. Having to update equipment to meet whatever green practices they will have is expensive, especially when equipment manufacturers in this country only make new equipment for larger operations. That’s just one example. Banning certain chemicals (which I agree with on some) is going to force farmers to buy from bayer, syngenta and other large corporations. The list goes on and on.
Less the government tries to help the better. They are not experts and most have never farmed a day in their life.
Bigger farms always have more resources to help with change & compliance issues, so therefore always benefit from every program more than a small farm.
30 minutes nw of Manhattan ks and has close to 3 inches yesterday afternoon and had very little run off, thankfully settled dust and filled in the huge cracks. Should bring wheat up
My two cents as a Canadian.
Greenwashing is real and farmers are already doing a lot to support the environment.
Talking about highly processed foods but then pointing the finger back at the farmer has no validity. Granted, the food system should reassess processed foods to the degree we are at today, that doesn't fall back to the farmer.
Ag retail is going to have to lead the charge on responsibly using chemical and fertilizer with soil sampling, to maintain plant and soil health. Farmers care about their soil health and their pocket book, so change is only going to happen if it helps both.
That change isn't going to be done in a 4 year term and especially not if we're pointing fingers.
Corporate America won't allow any changes ever.period.
That's a dumb comment. Corporations do NOT control markets they just react to them
@@markhasenour12 yes they control them, that is their purpose
@@jaripukki267 🤣🤣🤣🤡
I used to think that too. After I was on the inside of a big corporation, it’s much worse than you think. The biggest corporations are destroying true capitalism to benefit themselves. It all comes at the expense of consumers and taxpayers.
USDA subsidizes the over production of commodities (16% of total budget) and subsidizes the over consumption (70% of total budget) of those commodities as ultra-processed foods. About 7% to forestry and conservation, and 6% for everything else...
American farmers and consumers would be better off without a USDA. RFK jr can do almost nothing but enjoy the marble bathrooms, old growth conference tables, leather chairs and scenic views of the Mall from inside the USDA building.
Former USDA-FAS thoughts
If we are wrecking the soil, why do we keep hearing about record yields here and South America?
A greater and greater dependence on chemical inputs, that's why.
Try growing vegetables on the soil.
@@Boodlemaniayou're a complete moron!! You must have failed your grade school chemistry class...
@@EricCarlson-bz2ptfarmers choose what they grow based on markets
@@markhasenour12 No shit, try and grow green beans after you spray atrazine.
Central Arkansas, decent rain, not a huge amount of runoff. Much needed.
My fear is the government's and the public's definition of a small family farm and "corporate" farm. Many would label big family owned row crop farms as "corporate" farm just cause they have a lot more than the guy with 30 acres that pretend farms on the weekend.
Yeah cuz runnin cattle and pasture chickens on $10k + an acre will pencil out
Bingo, that's what they want.
That’s where things are heading if they don’t change now! Are you even in the ag industry? Things are a mess and if things don’t change now it will be too late. If you don’t want the government involved than stop being pussys and stand up to corporate America and big ag! Right now big ag is killing the industry and driving land prices up and small farms out and it’s been that way for yrs. Look up the European farm protest and you will see American farmers and there lack of back bone to make change
As a small rancher, it's to my benefit to be a good sturt of my land and my grass.
When you think about it I don't sell beef, I sell grass. With out the grass I have no beef to sell. I don't need the government to tell me what I can do or not. The grass and the dirt have been on this earth for a long time. It will be here way after you and I are gone. This is God's house and he and he alone control the earth,weather, and man.
Put your faith in him and not the government or the corporate greed.
Overhaul or stay the same, I think either direction sounds like a headache. Headaches eventually do go away though.
As a german farmer I have been in ILL in the early 80's and I believe that the success of the USA is directly related to the top soil which has been created over hundreds of years ago until today. But the soil is degenerating throug tillage. In the early 19 century the tillage didn't hurt so much due to lack of machinery. This changed over the decades. And today modern equipment is very gentle to soil, but only if used responsible.
Our soils are being mined out.
@@feelnrite Hello feelrite, what do you think is a proper answer ? Regards from Germany, where people are realy getting crazy...
Research done by Dr. David C. Johnson and proven out by large scale farms such as the Hagerty farm 110 miles north east of Perth Australia show what can be done without chemicals and fertilizers. When you till the soil you destroy the fungal in the soil because they are like cotton candy filaments and the branches are ripped apart. This work was originally established by Dr. Elaine Ingham who in her time and due to her research knew more about soils than anyone else in the world. The Hagerty's using an air seeder and liquid applicator that applies a fungal spore component that you can make yourself replaces the damaged fungal and those spores for a symbiotic relationship with the plant, wether grains or bushes, or trees to provide all the nutrients that the crop needs. They also run a ruminant such as sheep over newly acquired land to introduce beneficial bacteria to the soil. Dianne Hagerty in a video talked about 1 field that they continuous cropped for 18 years with the last 6 years in consecutive wheat with no drop in yield. By the way their yields are 1 1/2 times higher than their neighbours who use full chemical and fertilizers.
The Senate will never approve anything RFK proposes. I think you are right, even if RFK were to change things as stated in his ad, it would take years. The likelihood of his proposals will not only need to go through the Senate, but will need to go through some strong opposition. Not saying it won't happen, but the chances are slim.
Not to mention with the supreme court's new ruling of "Chevron Deferance" all of the government agencies will have a harder time making big changes quickly or if they do it will be fought out in the court systems later on.
Payment limits without the loop holes and no insurance subsidies Mr RFK
What do you mean by payment limits? Farmers only get a few percent of the ag budget as it is.
@@jlkkauffman7942 most of the ag subsidies goes to a few large grain farmers with multiple llc . Without the food programs the urban congressmen would never vote for any farm bill.
Our ground is too hilly to run cultivators without erosion, and I sure don't want to have to go back to shield spraying cotton. The chemistry has it's place
Point is that you don't eat the cotton. RFK is referring to a lot of banned items in Europe that end up in the highly processed food and foods such as corn syrups and additives that are harmful to a persons health.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
The government does actually help quite often. We are the government, that’s the great thing about America.
The 9 most scary words you can hear in the English language
@@stever5359 nonsense....
Sounds like no more Crop Insurance and or Farm Payments.
Sounds good to me
Government needs to stay out of it!
I would be interested in hearing your story,and any on your team too, perhaps a separate post?
It may still be too soon. It is for many who lived it like Joe.
Im excited to think that we could be less reliant on heavily processed foods. But im unsure about what it could mean for small farms. In my opinion, the change in 4 years would be minimal, so i do hope RFK Jr gets a chance.
I dont disagree with some of what he says. I dont like eating stuff when you cant pronounce half the stuff in it. Regentative ag would raise prices as i dont know many that can get everything planted timely and sustain yields. Would cut carryout. Would help smaller farms as large farms really struggle with regenrative ag but would raise food prices for consumers.
"The American Rancher was the original environmentalist"
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Lol. I'm really not that interesting, I promise.
No not premium. All the poor people like me need to hear!
Would be interesting to hear Joe's story.
It's not Lol
Rain fell yesterday in WC Iowa to the tune of 1.5"!! It's been a long time coming since we had this much all at once. Fall tillage will go much better now. RFK makes interesting points.
I look forward to hearing the specifics of what is being considered. Our food chain needs some overhauling as America has an obesity problem like never before.
Love to see where some of the regulations and red tape are cut to allow small farms to provide local food.
SEE HOW LONG YOU CAN HOLD YOUR BREATH, THIS IS HOW LONG ANY CHANGES WILL MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE LONG RUN OF HOW FARMING WILL CHANGE.
All caps? are you pissed off? Why? Trump LMAO!?!?
@@debi5292SORRY, I'M 81 AND I CAN'T SEE VERY WILL, SMALL LETTERS ARE VERY HARD FOR ME TO SEE, SO I CAP EVERYTHING I TYPE.
Good morning Joe. Can you tell me where you find the data for the number of short positions. I've seen it posted and heard you talk about it before. I'm new, don't know, and spent the night looking on the Internet last night without luck. Thank you.
Data is here: www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm We include "fund tracker" charts, which are much easier to understand, in our email every Monday morning following the CFTC report.
I think the commitment of traders reprot would be a place to start.
End GMO grains and antibiotics in feed.
We wanna hear the story dude put it out there! There's a thousand stories on youtube now of how guys got started farming from all decades. There is so little content about how/why people started getting involved in commodity markets and trading (pre covid meme stocks) out there. The details that seem boring to you are areas of the industry completely unknown to so many others
Agreed.
Don't discount this. I remember when Bush come out and said he was going to change the way we had fuel in this country and started making ethanol on a huge scale. It was when I had to quit farming and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me because I could have made it with the new rules. It looks to me like this is something that's probably going to take hold because it's been brewing for several years underneath the radar. This change will probably come way faster than you think similar to the way ethanol took off really fast. Just my two cents worth but I think it's something that really should be looked at and very well could happen
In previous life..I was he relationship manager between Lind Waldock and household name equity firm. A real tragedy was the career Lind Waldcok employees who got kicked in face by Refco, Then MF global. Careers wasted....Barry Lind was a little tight with the $$$...But ran a tight ship who never would have blown up his firm...and impacted his farmer customers
REFCO was slightly before my time. I know some of the LW people who were later at Man then MF.
The firm I was at cleared through MF Global- that was an interesting few weeks
We need less soy and chaffe. More wheat kernels. Husks are currently prevelent. Sad
OK so when you’re talking about how Kennedy would affect USDA. I would hope that he would create opportunities for people who expired to be future farmers. I would hope that there would be greater financial support at a time when the average age of a farmer is almost 60 to bring in younger people to be farmers. There are a couple programs that give people loans that are under 35 and some of the stuff already exist so if you could increase funding Lower standards that might be a beneficial for bringing new people in.
Personally what I am interested in is understanding that this guy wants to get away from GMO‘s and harmful pesticides as he spoke about banning pesticides that had been banned in other countries already. So I would look to Europe and what they have band that we use to understand That exact direction that he would be heading in.
This might get a little messy if we can’t produce enough food to feed all the people because the bottom line is that without pesticides we don’t have enough there will be a takeover on the fields by all the critters both microscopic and vertebrae.
I’m currently in the process of becoming a certified spray drone pilot in the US.
Well I don’t think that he would be against this type of work he would just highly regulate what would be available for farmers.
Not necessarily, for every post there are about 1700 beneficial insects, why kill everything with a pesticide application when you can provide a home for the predators with pollinator strips!
It means you cant use your oil well in the backyard to make yellow food dye
sounds like the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
CP’s could use hair cuts and new best management practice updates. Some silly footprint and cow fart points, ratings, crazy stuff can be trimmed.😮
Can they make any worse he showed Gabe Brown right direction
100% for RFK. Big farming ( corporate farming) no good for America
Little rain here in STL
You are correct Joe, a lot of talk and very little substance. He's very anti big ag. He still whines about Monsanto and that company hasn't existed for several years now. Kip Tom will be in Trump's ear as well and won't let RFKjr do anything too crazy
Who will be in Trumps ear?
Good ! there is fear in the air!
You got a tacit endorsement from the Millennial Farmer yesterday.
I still got my 12-year-old cultivator for corn. Better kick out some more kids to man The Bean buggy.
I believe RFK Jr was once a lawyer for water keepers. A very anti hog confinement group. How do you get that toothpaste back in the tube. Doesn’t sound like less government at all
Great news. Get rid of ethanol too
Wow, 105 comments, Joe!!!
Trump has also reigned in RFK during every speech and interview lately. Complimentary and saying RFK will have an important role but also recognizes there are some differences of opinion they will have to work out.
Yes RFK
It needs it.
What I want to know is what chemicals are they going to try and ban? A man in a suit has no business telling us how to farm.
A man in a haz-mat suit has no business farming our food with dangerous chemicals either that have been banned world wide except for continued use by the American farmer.
Reversal in beans.
I hope for a rally, but worry that it's just a normal FND bounce.
Based on some of the people that have had RFKs ear about regen ag, it would not surprise me if he advocates for limits on nitrogen applications and soluble fertilizer. Potentially tied to crop insurance premiums.
Based on the process foods comments, I bet he wants to overhaul food stamps to limit less healthy options.
From what I’ve heard from him and Nicole, it’s getting the corruption out of our production, and forcing companies to be transparent on the ingredients and put warning labels on there packages. I haven’t heard him talk about mandates on the ag side, just education. Something has to change however because we are losing family farms left and right, I agree with him that our current system is bad for our health and bad for the environment, now I’m not a huge environmental nut but I do believe we’re supposed to be good stewards with the resources we have been given. We’re losing approximately 4 to 5 tons of topsoil per acre every year due to water and wind erosion, and on top of that our current mono cropping model with the normal amount of chemical inputs, along with excessive tillage is depleting our soils of nutrients, and lowering organic matter, which in turn collapses the soil and makes for less water infiltration. so it then begs the question are we farmers creating our own droughts! A lot of soils across the country can only infiltrate 1/2 inch per hour of rainfall, we can get several inches in 30 minutes. I’m not going to claim to know all or any of the answers but as a farmer myself something has to change, we grow so much corn that we have to find uses for it, or we take land out of production to artificially raise corn prices, so do we want free markets or a manipulated market?
Aren’t we suppose to have the smartest people in office. If not smart at least open minded enough to listen to the smartest people and ideas.
Why does Joe look older in 2011 than in 2024.... MF Global experience must have been rough; maybe too much Ceres????
I'm not actually sure that the pic is 2011...may have been slightly more recent. It's at least 8-9 years old I think.
Is it really the USDAs job to get people to eat healthy? Nonprossed is not that hard to find but it's not as convenient and maybe doesn't taste as good as most of the junk people eat
Rfk scares big ag! The small family farm can navigate the changes. The ag industry is sad corporate piece of shit that needs to change. He should put a 500 cow 2000 acre land limit For dairy. If you think farming in America is fair just and sustainable, your the problem
RFK s voice might be even weaker than his mind
RFK has forgotten more than you will ever know and he retains far more than your limited view allows you to see.
@@kerrryschultz2904is obviously RFK burner account
All things are possible in Christ Jesus. Period. This is a piece of cake.
Animal and Soil husbandry needs to come back and $ controllers need to be put in their place.
Just get rid of the usda all together and farmers will be better off. #frauds
in what world a center right (or extreme right) will be concerned about the good of the small farmer against the good of big companies? RFK sounds like a center left candidate. That does not sound like a GOP speech at all. It's either a lie or a lie. You choose.
Farmers will be alright with the changes. Certainly adjustments and learning to do, but ok ua-cam.com/video/0I_nG29c-7I/v-deo.html
Trump is supposed to be "anti establishment" but alot of shit lately seems fishy. mike pompeo is a " great guy" 😂. Rfk sounds like he reading climate bs straight from the wef playbook.
USA up shit creek with no paddle😂😅😂. The global non west global south do not want anything to do with the empire of EVIL.
Viva BRICS+ and M bridge.
Re RFK Jr.....just rhetoric babbling with no substance. You can't make everyone happy but that little advertisement sure makes it sound like you can.
Good morning! What are your thoughts on RFK Jr's plans regarding USDA, farming, etc??
Quality not so much quantity.
Milk is sold based on component, I believe. Corn soybeans and many other crops sold on components? No more soy oil as food?
I say less government control and let the market dictate what and how we raise our crops and livestock! That's all I have to say about that.
Well he didn’t say he wanted government to b in control of 30% of farmland by 2030 . Vilsack
I really hate how people say farmers are poisoning the earth and ‘killing the soil’. If those statements were true we wouldn’t have any weeds or pests. Just ignorant.
If Trump does improve things in our country , and I think he will , Then in 4 years whoever takes his place in the Republican party will most likely continue the improvements .