by Texas Slim | Dec 2, 2025 | Farm Policy, History, Land Rights
Before the Federal Reserve, a cattle loan was exactly that: a short-term note tied to a specific herd, payable when the beef hit the railhead. Ranchers either paid up or lost the herd. There was no backstop, no extension, no creative accounting. The system was...
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...
