Benjamin, i have been a fisherman and farmer as my sole income for fifty years. The routine of raising and feeding out 50 pigs a year for the last ten years has only provided something like a break even venture. I carried a million pounds of rolled barley in 5 gallon buckets to feed them. I guess surviving it and enjoying it is the sole benefit because the income stream is in constant drought. Love that my fellow farmers watched the Covid market spike and the current scablands of interest$. That market spike saved me due to the loss of every restaurant account for an entire year so thank you public but you are a fickle mistress. The barley price spike from $350 a ton to $750 a ton was the bitter pill of reality in pursuing pigs. It came post Ukraine . But thanks for swimming upstream my friend , we only have so many years to I enjoy this place, be thankful for every day you avoid the office, but then it isn’t from experience I compare the two.
CORRECTION: We will see you in STL on Sunday the 25th, not the 24th. Oops.
Joel Salatin may often be over enthusiastic and hyperbolic sometimes but a huckster he is not. God bless that man!
Benjamin, i have been a fisherman and farmer as my sole income for fifty years. The routine of raising and feeding out 50 pigs a year for the last ten years has only provided something like a break even venture. I carried a million pounds of rolled barley in 5 gallon buckets to feed them. I guess surviving it and enjoying it is the sole benefit because the income stream is in constant drought. Love that my fellow farmers watched the Covid market spike and the current scablands of interest$. That market spike saved me due to the loss of every restaurant account for an entire year so thank you public but you are a fickle mistress. The barley price spike from $350 a ton to $750 a ton was the bitter pill of reality in pursuing pigs. It came post Ukraine . But thanks for swimming upstream my friend , we only have so many years to I enjoy this place, be thankful for every day you avoid the office, but then it isn’t from experience I compare the two.