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Photo source For several years Silicon Valley billionaires, including Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs’s widow, secretly have been buying up tens of thousands of acres of the nation’s most productive farmland in pursuit of a plan to replace the farms with...
by cfordlaw
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 12:56 PM PDT
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Today is the 30thanniversary of the death of my Dad, Glen Edward Holverson. It was the biggest sad event of my life. I’ve been alive almost as long without him as I have with him. I miss Dad enough to write this long-winded diary all these years later....
by Stude Dude
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on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 04:57 PM PDT
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I’m running for Congress. Oregon got redistricted. We had been in OR-4, Peter DeFazio’s district, but now we are in heavily Republican OR-2 (R+25, or so). Alas and Alack. This district is huge. It’s essentially the eastern two-thirds of Oregon, nearly...
by JoeForOregon
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 04:56 PM PST
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Farmer/Lawyer/Candidate As a Farmer I tell everyone that I am not your typical candidate. In this :30 spot, a few of my supporters were gracious enough to explain why. As Dr. Jeremiah Williams says in a sound bite, we are always working for unity. The...
by MichaelDrewry
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on Thu Oct 21, 2021 at 02:59 PM PDT
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Farmer & Attorney Michael Drewry, running for VA House of Delegates ask diverse citizens to leave the national politics at the door in order to solve regional challenges. Rural areas can't afford to have divided citizens, the populations of these...
by Amy Drewry
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on Fri Oct 15, 2021 at 03:30 PM PDT
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Last month a tear-jerking letter from a Kansas farmer made its way to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "If you could, would you please give this mask to a nurse or doctor in your state?” Dennis Ruhnke said in the letter, sharing one of the five masks he had...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed May 06, 2020 at 08:54 AM PDT
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A new report out of Bloomberg shows that the majority of the money Republicans and Trump have earmarked to bailout farmers hurt by Trump’s trade war with China, is going to big business, not to the majority of farmers. According to the report, 50% of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Dec 02, 2019 at 11:09 AM PST
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa's Republican senior senator, blasted the Trump administration Friday for EPA biofuel rules that have hurt Iowa farmers. "They screwed us ... when they issued 31 waivers,” Grassley told Iowa Public Television Friday. The...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Aug 19, 2019 at 10:42 AM PDT
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Half the fields out here are usually corn and the other half soy beans, flipped each year in an attempt at crop rotation aided by hefty helpings of nitrogen. In this spring of wet fields and Trump induced low bean prices mosta the corn got planted and...
by dyna
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on Wed Aug 07, 2019 at 08:28 PM PDT
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If you don’t think Donald Trump is in trouble in the Midwest—think again.
Watch below as this farmer and now-former Trump supporter tells CNN about the reality of Trump’s tariff war: “We’re in a free fall out here in agriculture. We’ve seen 30%...
by First Amendment
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on Thu May 16, 2019 at 06:54 AM PDT
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Just when you think that it cannot get any worse for farming, here comes Trump. I mean the weather is just shredding a lot of farms with flooding. Prices for almost all the products that farmers produce, including cattle, have been on a downward...
by crxmeup
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on Fri May 10, 2019 at 02:28 PM PDT
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(Old English rhyme)
Let the mighty and great
Roll in splendor and state,
I envy them not, I declare it.
I eat my own lamb,
My own chicken and ham;
by strawbale
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on Thu Jan 03, 2019 at 07:00 PM PST
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This is my first attempt at a diary, so I’ll do my best, and please be kind! I am exactly what my username says I am, a farmer and rancher in Montana. I’ve lurked around here for many years, and this election finally prompted me to sign up, if nothing...
by montanafarmer
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on Tue Nov 29, 2016 at 05:05 PM PST
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Been barely a week since Trump and his GOP worked the system to take over the White House and both houses of Congress. You'd think progressives would be taking stock of their defeat and coming up with a long term plan to retake rightful control of our...
by RuralRoute
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on Thu Nov 17, 2016 at 12:51 PM PST
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There are 67 members of the Minnesota State Senate, and 8 of them represent the big cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul. As one would expect, they're all democrats. And according to the Minnesota Farmers Union's tracking of legislators votes on issues of...
by dyna
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on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 02:03 PM PDT
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: I am not employed by the Sarah Lloyd campaign in any way, and I am not a resident of the State of Wisconsin.
Sometime not long before the Democratic National Convention earlier this year, I stumbled upon a social media post by someone...
by DownstateDemocrat
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on Fri Aug 26, 2016 at 04:36 PM PDT
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Greetings again from Minnesota, ancestral home of the Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) party, and we’ll discuss what happened to that “farmer” part in a bit. Darn near the middle of July and even a tall Scandinavian democratic socialist can get lost in...
by dyna
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on Tue Jul 12, 2016 at 02:00 PM PDT
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March is Women's History Month
Today is the 105th International Women's Day
[Each Story in Today's TILT Relates to Women in some way]
Today is
National Peanut Cluster Day
National Proofreading Day
Unique Names
by Tara Thralls
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on Tue Mar 08, 2016 at 11:01 PM PST
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St. Louis Rams center Jason Brown has left the NFL to pursue farming:
“My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest mistake of your life,’” ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 26, 2014 at 08:41 AM PST
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Back on July 2nd, I posted a poem called My Favorite Farmer .
I knew when I wrote it I would probably write about my favorite farmer again.
A man lived a long life, working the land he loved and ...
by ruleoflaw
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on Tue Nov 12, 2013 at 08:38 PM PST
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