US FARMERS ARE SOE (State-Owned Enterprise) SLAVES
China is famous or notorious for its State-Owned Enterprise economy. There used to be over 150,000, now the whittled down list: Bank of China Bank of Communications Baotou Steel Beijing…
HOWARD GRAHAM BUFFETT FOR TRUMP’S AG SECRETARY
Howard Graham Buffett serving meals in Sierra Leone in 2007. He spends up to 200 days a year on the road, doing foundation work. (Jeannie O’Donnell / The Howard G….
INFRASTRUCTURE IS SPELLED WITH A ‘P’ AS IN PERMACULTURE
As I was pontificating about how you could have an urban income and a rural lifestyle by raising 50 goats on five acres, my fellow Leisure Learning Unlimited teachers were…
HEDGEFUND GURU BUYS FARMLAND
When a commodity trading guru like Dwight Anderson, founder of the iconic Ospraie Management, has something to say on the market outlook, people tend to listen, especially when he’s consigning…
RAW DAIRY
Finding a source of raw dairy products is akin to looking for ‘moonshine’ during prohibition. It’s the ‘speakeasy’ in the city or the ‘still’ in the country. Whole Life Buying Club,…
Agrinomics | MONEY | POLITICS
OCCUPY FARMERS’ MARKETS
When our sale of raw goat’s milk depended on Yuppie couples driving out to our farm fifty miles southwest of Houston the “invisible hand” of desperation slapped me upside the…
Agrinomics | Goat Farming 101 | KEFIR | MONEY
Agrinomics
Why pay this guy $15 for a gallon of milk when you can go to Wal-Mart and grab a Great Value jug for just $2.89? Truth is you need his…
A RETURN TO THE GOAT STANDARD
Early in my goat farming career I bought 6,000+ pounds of goats from a scalper named Floyd Thompson in neighboring Higgins, TX. – At the age of twelve, Will Rogers…
Agrinomics
“If we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it existed prior to 1913, we’d be fine. Remember that the…