Sarah On Farming

• Most of our sacred "small farmers" are millionaires pulling down six-figure incomes.
• Farm labor is often exploited and trafficked, and farmers know it
• The US has spent years shifting farm production to soybeans and corn - for livestock feed, and practically anything other than food for humans - and then Trump decided to kick the struts out from under it
• Farmers either get markets wired in for them, or they get bailed out.
• It's hard not to believe the whole fuckin' thing is rigged

Keep It Together

There's plenty of real stuff for us to lose our shit about. It makes no sense to go out of our way chasing phantoms.

Justice Department accuses two Chinese researchers of smuggling 'potential agroterrorism weapon' into US

Sonny Perdue

Sonny Perdue is our new Sec'y of Agriculture (by a vote of 87-11).

Follow the Wikipedia link and read the bio, because I'm not gonna spend much time here bitchin' about his "commitment to the American farmer", which is code for "take good care of ADM and Monsanto, and the little guys will be plenty grateful for the crumbs".

What I dislike most is that a guy born 70 years ago, and named George Ervin Perdue III - a full-sized adult grown-ass man - is still called Sonny.

That's what I really don't love about The South.

Here's the Washington Post piece on it.

Farmed And Dangerous Promo