by Texas Slim | Nov 10, 2025 | Business, History, Land Rights
The Texas Panhandle didn’t fall to war—it was sold off, one section at a time, in exchange for a building and a promise. By 1882, the Texas Legislature had grown tired of delays. The Capitol in Austin needed to be rebuilt. There wasn’t enough gold in the treasury to...
by Breeauna Sagdal | Nov 4, 2025 | Climate, Farm Policy, Land Rights
As beef prices hit records and grocery shelves thin out, Washington’s new commodity isn’t cattle— it’s nature itself. Hidden inside a $125 trillion accounting experiment called natural capital, the Biden administration quietly converted millions of working acres into...
by Breeauna Sagdal | Sep 12, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Land Rights
Members of Congress are all too happy to make a grand spectacle of regulating private industry. But, when the government itself is culpable for harming Americans, the federal government’s love affair with toxic sludge – known as “biosolids” – is a...
by Beef News | Jul 23, 2025 | Culture, Farm Policy, Land Rights
In Oregon, it’s still legal to install a solar farm on agricultural land. But don’t even think about selling marionberry jam from your neighbor’s crop stand, hosting a flower-arranging class, or serving soup under a tent. Under the Oregon Department of...
by Beef News | Jul 1, 2025 | Land Rights, Business, Farm Policy
It was never hidden—but it almost slid through anyway. Buried deep in the Senate version of Trump’s megabill was a 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation. The language threatened to cut off access to a new $500 million federal AI fund for any state daring to pass...
by Beef News | Jun 29, 2025 | Farm Policy, Land Rights
In 1998, the USDA told the truth. Then they buried it. Before “regenerative” became a buzzword and “climate-smart” became a cover story, a group of farmers, researchers, and rural advocates delivered a warning—and a way out. Their 120-page report, A Time to Act, was...
