Wednesday, July 31, 2019

My Political Preferences for President

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I've written on this blog that I support Amy Klobuchar for 2020. [Note: I started writing this before the Tuesday debate.] I remember ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

How Food Waste Happens

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Watching DC's channel Four News.  (4 pm, 7/12/2020)Just had a consumer segment reporting on a test of having a supermarket deliver produ...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Fraud in the Farm

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Farmers are no better or worse than other humans--that's my position and I'm sticking to it. What's important, I believe, is s...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

MFP II

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Farm Policy blog has a post on the announcement of signup for MFP II If I'm correct, CCC may be getting close to exhausting its borr...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Down and Dirty Dairy People

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My mother always celebrated the goodness of farmers, particularly dairy and poultry farmers. Se would be disappointed at the shenanigans de...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Electric Airplanes and Electric Motorcycles

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This   article  discusses the developments in electric aircraft.  I had no idea they were being worked on. Noertker and his team at the Lo...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Will Autonomous Cars Save Parking Spaces in the City?

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It's assumed the answer to my question is "yes"--some recent articles arguing for changing zoning requirements in the city to ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

A Circuitous Route to Farm Survival--Cather, Stephens, and Somerby

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Among the books in our house when I was growing up were three or four by Willa Cather, including My Antonia. .  I've read it several tim...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Boyd and the 109,000

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EWG reports John Boyd's testimony before a House Committee on Financial Services: "John Boyd is founder and president of the 109...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Trump and Bureaucracy

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A tweet: So much of modern administrative law is premised on the “presumption of regularity”—an assumption that, all things being equal,...