Forty percent of American farmland is owned by someone over sixty-five. When a ranch doesn't have a successor, it doesn't get passed down. It gets sold. To a developer. To an investment fund. To someone who might never run a cow...
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72 million Americans can't pay their medical bills. The food system made people sick. The healthcare system manages the sickness. Both industries get paid. That cycle costs $1.1 trillion a year in healthcare and drives 20,000 farms out of business. Someone close to me is...
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We're living through the highest beef prices ever recorded. And right now, I know a lot of farmers and ranchers are asking themselves a question that makes complete sense on the surface: why bother selling direct to customers when commodity prices are...
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Here's something that should matter to every parent filling a grocery cart. Walk into any grocery store, and you'll see what looks like endless choice. It's an illusion. Nearly 80% of the products on those shelves are controlled by just a...
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Last week I wrote about Vital Farms and Wall Street in the chicken coop. Your responses flooded my inbox. The message was clear: Okay, Cody, so where DO we buy good eggs? Fair question. I've been thinking about it all week. Here's...
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