July 9, 2025 • 17 mins
Host and American Family Farmer, Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com shares the news affecting small farmers in America, including a focus on President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and how it will affect farmers. What should farmers know about his bill? Major cuts to the SNAP program, stricter qualifications for recipients, and passing costs off to the states. Next up, the continued issues of the screwworm and the problems these invasive, flesh eating pests are causing. ICYMI, a screwworm is a type of parasitic fly larva that fees on living flesh of warm blooded animals, including humans. Its name comes from the maggot’s appearance as it burrows into a wound, resembling a screw being driven into wood. Th screwworm can cause severe damage and even death if left untreated. The USDA is making plans to better prepare farmers should these pests get into their herds. Moving on, Doug shares a list of foods with the highest amounts of microplastics. They are apples and carrots (most commonly used in juice cleanses). Other foods with higher levels of microplastics include rice, pink Himalayan sea salt, sugar, tea, plant-based nuggets, fish sticks, shrimp, and water. What are farmers doing — or, what should they be doing — to minimize microplastics infiltrating their crops.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Doug Stephan, the American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored
in part by Caldron, the Safe Proven Way to Lose weight.
Check it all out at toploss dot com, where they
called it the crazy Hazy Days of Summer. That was
nt King Cole, also the dog days of Summer. A
lot of people in my neck of the woods have
had a hard time getting started with putting corn in
(00:22):
the ground and feed for animals, cows especially, and we've
had a hard time getting our hay and going. I
had all the best laid plans of mice and men
to get my first crop of hanging done early this year.
For change. Huh. We've had fifteen straight weekends of rain
here and we can't seem to be able to squeeze
(00:42):
out two good days. So it was very frustrating. I
know a lot of people around the country are dealing
with the heat, dealing with the rain. It just is
what happens on the farm, and that's what we deal
with here in the American Family Farmer Program. I'm Doug
Stephan here to talk about two very important things in
our news segment. The bill, as they call it, the
(01:04):
Big Beautiful Bill. It is big, but it isn't as
nine hundred pages. Can you imagine who do you know
that can sit down in a day and read through
either the House version or the Senate bill and glean
what is the nine hundred pages? That's what they have
staff for. And so a lot of these people are
getting upset as I'm doing this program. The bill has
(01:26):
not yet been passed. Trump wanted it done by the weekend,
and it is an iffy thing because there are a
lot of Republicans and Democrats who are trying to change
certain aspects of it, including the solar and the wind
things that affect a lot of farmers, at least to
my neck of the witch because there are a lot
of solar farms that have been proposed. And rather than
(01:48):
comment on the reason for it, because it seems ludicrous
to It's like, you know, you stop something, you start something,
and they say, well, we're going to save all this money,
but to start it again, you know as well as
I do that After Trump gets out of office, whoever
the next person is that comes into office, is going
to go back to trying to set up some of
the things that are energy efficient. Anyway, there are a
(02:11):
lot of broad efforts by Republicans to pass the bill.
There's a reconciliation process that goes on, and the priorities
are going to As I looked at the bill, what
I could understand tax cuts, increase spending for border security,
all of that sort of thing. And the question is
(02:33):
what should farmers know about this big, beautiful bill Senate
Agricultural Committee proposing major cuts to the SNAP program as
well as stricter qualification for recipients. I just have maintained
all along. SNAP program doesn't belong in the Farm Bill
or any connection to farms because it isn't relative directly relative.
(02:56):
It's just craziness. But somehow, rather over the years, years
it's happened, and the SNAP costs of course have gone up,
and now this bill wants to pass the cost off
to the states, and a lot of the states are wondering,
how do we budget ourselves for the next year. It's
just chaos and confusion. Although there are so many things
that need to be fixed, the Biden administration and previous administrations,
(03:20):
both Republican and Democrat, have made a mess of things.
Chairman John Boozman, a Republican of Arkansas who is in
charge of the Senate ag Committee revising plans. He says
he's proud of the legislation because it reflects Senate Republican
policy priorities. There is a strong commitment, he said to
(03:43):
Rural America. That commitment includes increases to all statutory price
policies with this year the crop year. Regarding the choice
between agricultural risk coverage and price loss coverage, landowners will
need to decide each year through the next five or
six years which they want. And then there are other
(04:05):
programs that are increasing what each farm can get for
let's see, well these programs. The Agricultural Risk Program is
going up for one hundred and twenty five thousand a
year to one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year.
The Secretary of Agriculture has defended the Trump budget. There's
(04:27):
a lot of stuff. The American Soybean Association concerned that
the Senate proposal doesn't prohibit foreign biofuel feedstocks are being
eligible for tax credits. There are proposals that turn the
administration's farmer First American Energy Dominance agenda around. They say
one thing and then another thing is coming out of it.
(04:49):
The National Cattleman's Association endorsing the Senate bill because of
tax provisions it believes will benefit cattle producers and this
so I guess the question is here, what's next. Before
a final budget bill makes it to Trump, there has
to be an agreement, and that's what's going on this week, reconciliation.
(05:12):
So that's that story, the world of the screw worm
and the problems that it's going to cause or has
already caused. Something else that we need to spend some
time on here in the news portion of the American
Family Farmer, which we will get to in a matter
of moments. In the meantime, when you spend time in
your car, you begin to realize the benefits of interior design.
(05:33):
Brian Moody, who's the executive editor for Auto Trader, is
here to share some of their top choices for the
best interiors for this year in cars under fifty thousand
dollars in.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The no When you spend time in your car, you
begin to realize the benefits of superior interior design. Brian Moody,
executive editor for Auto Trader, share some of their top
choices for the best twenty twenty five interiors under fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
One of our talk choices is the twenty twenty five
Buick Enclave. The mid size three to row suv has
one of the nicest interiors Buick has produced in years.
We like the thirty inch digital dash, ample use of
metallic trim, and a nice thick steering wheel. The sleek
and sporty twenty twenty five Genesis G seventy is athletic, attractive,
and surprisingly affordable. Quilted fabrics with contrast stitching and matt
(06:21):
finished metallic surfaces put the G seventy firmly in the
luxury class, and the RAM fifteen hundred manages to look
tailored and macho without going over the top, and has
clever storage and work functions built into the center console.
If you run your business out of your truck, the
RAM might be for you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
To see the full list of twenty twenty five's ten
best interiors under fifty thousand dollars, head to autotrader dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Back here on the American Family Farmer, Doug Steffen a
focus on the screw worm, something that has been getting
more and more attention because it is so dangerous, something
that I feel is being under reported and under discussed,
so I've gone into a biosecurity portion of the evaluation
(07:06):
of this. There is if you go to various ports
of entry where cattle producers from Mexico, for example, move
their cattle into the United States, there a This is
something that's gone on now for years and years and years. However,
(07:26):
last month the exchange of cattle in the port of
Presidio stopped because of the threat of the screw worm.
And this is the second time this has happened. Since
last November, we have banned in essence livestock imports from Mexico.
No more beef coming into this country. And so there
(07:50):
are a lot of US cattle producers that are concerned
about the threat of the northern migration of this flesh
eating pest. In case you don't know, oh, or haven't
heard me talk about it, or I haven't seen anything
about it. If you're a beef person, if you're a
dairy person, if you have sheep, if you have pork,
if you have anything with flesh you're raising chickens and
(08:13):
turkeys and stuff, this is the biggest danger that you'll
face this year. More than concerned about money and the
business of what's going to be in the big beautiful bill.
This bug comes in a fly and it infests warm
blooded animals, livestock, wildlife, human beings, dogs, pets. It lays
(08:38):
eggs in your tissue. If you have an open wound
or there's something in your mucous membrane that's exposed, A
lava burrows into your flesh like a screw, and it'll
eat the flesh and kill the animal, kill the person.
There was a guy who had five thousand head that
(09:00):
lost most of them the last time this thing was
a problem. So at any rate, if you look at
some of the impact, again, the Mexicans are onto this,
and that's a good thing. There is a lot of
cooperation here between the United States and Mexico in terms
of how do we fix this problem. Earlier in the spring,
(09:23):
a Mexican feed yard approached a couple of different people
about selling cattle, and they were selling it at six
dollars and thirty four cents a pound on the hoof.
That's really, well, that's pretty expensive up here. We're getting
about three bucks a pound for it. Anyway, Certainly the
(09:47):
farmers and ranchers in Texas are concerned about this. So
what are the next steps. Secretary brook Rollins says that
they are continuing to fight and to come up with
programs for this new world screwworm known as NWS. There
was an event a week or so ago in Texas
(10:09):
where she was joined by the Texas AD Commissioner and
other officials from Texas talking about this bold new policy
initiative that will help fight the spread of the screw worm.
The details of the initiative were pretty specific. I don't
know that you need to know those except you need
to know there's a five point plan to push not
(10:33):
only these parasitic pests, but other pests that come from
south of the border anyway. In addition to fighting the
spread of the screw worm, the USDA is making plans
to better prepare farmers should the pest get into your herds.
A lot of state animal health officials have been in
on the emergency management plans, especially the southern states Texas,
(10:58):
New Mexico, Arizona, California. They're building a new sterile fly
production facility at More Air Force Base. I think that's
in Texas. And what they did before three four years
ago was newter. They developed a male screwworm or a
fly that produces the screw worm and was able to
(11:23):
when it mates with the rest of the flies. It's negative,
it doesn't have any It's been neutered, so perhaps that
will fix the problem. We'll keep I'm still going to
stick on this thing because this is really a dangerous
item for us to be concerned about, I think is appropriate.
So that's the story. That's the update anyway on the
screwworm on the southern border. Doug Stephan here back on
(11:51):
the American family farmer. I came across ten foods that
are filled with microplastics, and I thought it past along
to you. I'm going to spend time talking about it
on our Good Day Health programs this week with doctor
Jack Stockwell and doctor Ken Cronhaus. But here's the list.
(12:11):
Microplastics rice, water or water bottles, Himalayan pink salt, apples, carrots,
sugar tea, plant based nuggets, fish sticks, and shrimp. Those,
according to research, are the ten foods that have the
(12:35):
most microplastics. What is a farmer can you do about this? Well,
it depends on what you consume a lot of apple
orchards around. What are you doing to keep this from
being a problem? It's in the skin. It's really it's
everywhere this stuff. I had also some thoughts on a
miracle of nature corn pollination. I saw something in Farm
(12:58):
Progress that made me think about what happens says the
tasseling season is about where I am anyway, the earlier
planted stuff. If you are lucky enough to get some
sixty eight day corn planted in April, then it's the
tasseling out right now. And then I was thinking about
the pollination process. And we've had some over the last
(13:20):
few months. We've had a couple of b people on here.
You realize how intricate the process is and how it
impacts yields on your farm and everybody else's farm. Your
success this year and every year depends on what happens
during the two weeks in this circumstance, after corn reaches
(13:43):
tasseling and pollen, the pollen begins to shed. This is,
you know, the seven Great Wonders of agriculture, as it
was referred to in the article that I saw, Tasseling
and pollination have to be on that list. The process
of producing hundreds of new corn kernels ever count how
(14:05):
many kernels of corn there are on an ear of corn.
I know that may seem very simple, but do it.
Sometimes take an ear of corn and count the number
of kernels on that ear of corn, and then you
stop thinking about the big picture and you look at
the little picture. What an amazing thing. Hundreds of kernels
(14:28):
every time with every stalk of corn from one seed.
It's so simple yet so complex. There are a couple
of different things that I saw in that article. It
made me think about the process and whether you even
pay attention to it, and whether you understand how intricate
(14:49):
and delicate the system is of growing food. And this again,
the corn plant, is one great example of it. Most
people don't realize. Most people are so far away from
the food source they don't really even know what goes on.
But it is fascinating to look at this. The agronomers
have been looking at this for a long time, and
(15:13):
they've developed the tassels that would be more inviting. That's
how much hybridization is factored into growing corn and other
vegetables as well. The business of when corn is most vulnerable,
you certainly hope not to have a hail storm at
the time that there is that these the two weeks
that the pollenization takes place, very very fragile time. And
(15:37):
yet I'm thinking about all the corn fields, all the
corn I've grown over the years, and you may have too,
and think about what you don't think about, right, you
don't think about it's just naturally. You expect the corn
to grow and the ears to develop and the bees
to do their job, and then the kernels are produced
on the ear and bingo bango each which tassel produces
(16:02):
two million pollen grains. That's a wide range. Think about that.
Hybrid Genetics are factors in all of this. I like
regular basic corn, I do unprocessed corn. I don't buy
from any of the big companies. I buy my guy
out in Illinois who has open season. If you will
(16:23):
on corn anyway, I just I'm thinking about how fabulous
it is that we have the pollen, we have the bees,
and what a miracle it is that things like this grow.
Think about it. Think about what you're growing, Think about
what's on your farm. Think about what a miracle it
is that you can do what you do with the
(16:44):
resources that you have, animals and vegetables and minerals and things.
It's amazing be thankful for that. I certainly am Doug
Stefan here on The American Family Farmer. The American Family
Farmer podcast sponsored in guard by Caldron, which is the
safe way for you to lose weight and keep it
off
This is Doug Stephan, the American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored
in part by Caldron, the Safe Proven Way to Lose weight.
Check it all out at toploss dot com, where they
called it the crazy Hazy Days of Summer. That was
nt King Cole, also the dog days of Summer. A
lot of people in my neck of the woods have
had a hard time getting started with putting corn in
(00:22):
the ground and feed for animals, cows especially, and we've
had a hard time getting our hay and going. I
had all the best laid plans of mice and men
to get my first crop of hanging done early this year.
For change. Huh. We've had fifteen straight weekends of rain
here and we can't seem to be able to squeeze
(00:42):
out two good days. So it was very frustrating. I
know a lot of people around the country are dealing
with the heat, dealing with the rain. It just is
what happens on the farm, and that's what we deal
with here in the American Family Farmer Program. I'm Doug
Stephan here to talk about two very important things in
our news segment. The bill, as they call it, the
(01:04):
Big Beautiful Bill. It is big, but it isn't as
nine hundred pages. Can you imagine who do you know
that can sit down in a day and read through
either the House version or the Senate bill and glean
what is the nine hundred pages? That's what they have
staff for. And so a lot of these people are
getting upset as I'm doing this program. The bill has
(01:26):
not yet been passed. Trump wanted it done by the weekend,
and it is an iffy thing because there are a
lot of Republicans and Democrats who are trying to change
certain aspects of it, including the solar and the wind
things that affect a lot of farmers, at least to
my neck of the witch because there are a lot
of solar farms that have been proposed. And rather than
(01:48):
comment on the reason for it, because it seems ludicrous
to It's like, you know, you stop something, you start something,
and they say, well, we're going to save all this money,
but to start it again, you know as well as
I do that After Trump gets out of office, whoever
the next person is that comes into office, is going
to go back to trying to set up some of
the things that are energy efficient. Anyway, there are a
(02:11):
lot of broad efforts by Republicans to pass the bill.
There's a reconciliation process that goes on, and the priorities
are going to As I looked at the bill, what
I could understand tax cuts, increase spending for border security,
all of that sort of thing. And the question is
(02:33):
what should farmers know about this big, beautiful bill Senate
Agricultural Committee proposing major cuts to the SNAP program as
well as stricter qualification for recipients. I just have maintained
all along. SNAP program doesn't belong in the Farm Bill
or any connection to farms because it isn't relative directly relative.
(02:56):
It's just craziness. But somehow, rather over the years, years
it's happened, and the SNAP costs of course have gone up,
and now this bill wants to pass the cost off
to the states, and a lot of the states are wondering,
how do we budget ourselves for the next year. It's
just chaos and confusion. Although there are so many things
that need to be fixed, the Biden administration and previous administrations,
(03:20):
both Republican and Democrat, have made a mess of things.
Chairman John Boozman, a Republican of Arkansas who is in
charge of the Senate ag Committee revising plans. He says
he's proud of the legislation because it reflects Senate Republican
policy priorities. There is a strong commitment, he said to
(03:43):
Rural America. That commitment includes increases to all statutory price
policies with this year the crop year. Regarding the choice
between agricultural risk coverage and price loss coverage, landowners will
need to decide each year through the next five or
six years which they want. And then there are other
(04:05):
programs that are increasing what each farm can get for
let's see, well these programs. The Agricultural Risk Program is
going up for one hundred and twenty five thousand a
year to one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year.
The Secretary of Agriculture has defended the Trump budget. There's
(04:27):
a lot of stuff. The American Soybean Association concerned that
the Senate proposal doesn't prohibit foreign biofuel feedstocks are being
eligible for tax credits. There are proposals that turn the
administration's farmer First American Energy Dominance agenda around. They say
one thing and then another thing is coming out of it.
(04:49):
The National Cattleman's Association endorsing the Senate bill because of
tax provisions it believes will benefit cattle producers and this
so I guess the question is here, what's next. Before
a final budget bill makes it to Trump, there has
to be an agreement, and that's what's going on this week, reconciliation.
(05:12):
So that's that story, the world of the screw worm
and the problems that it's going to cause or has
already caused. Something else that we need to spend some
time on here in the news portion of the American
Family Farmer, which we will get to in a matter
of moments. In the meantime, when you spend time in
your car, you begin to realize the benefits of interior design.
(05:33):
Brian Moody, who's the executive editor for Auto Trader, is
here to share some of their top choices for the
best interiors for this year in cars under fifty thousand
dollars in.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The no When you spend time in your car, you
begin to realize the benefits of superior interior design. Brian Moody,
executive editor for Auto Trader, share some of their top
choices for the best twenty twenty five interiors under fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
One of our talk choices is the twenty twenty five
Buick Enclave. The mid size three to row suv has
one of the nicest interiors Buick has produced in years.
We like the thirty inch digital dash, ample use of
metallic trim, and a nice thick steering wheel. The sleek
and sporty twenty twenty five Genesis G seventy is athletic, attractive,
and surprisingly affordable. Quilted fabrics with contrast stitching and matt
(06:21):
finished metallic surfaces put the G seventy firmly in the
luxury class, and the RAM fifteen hundred manages to look
tailored and macho without going over the top, and has
clever storage and work functions built into the center console.
If you run your business out of your truck, the
RAM might be for you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
To see the full list of twenty twenty five's ten
best interiors under fifty thousand dollars, head to autotrader dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Back here on the American Family Farmer, Doug Steffen a
focus on the screw worm, something that has been getting
more and more attention because it is so dangerous, something
that I feel is being under reported and under discussed,
so I've gone into a biosecurity portion of the evaluation
(07:06):
of this. There is if you go to various ports
of entry where cattle producers from Mexico, for example, move
their cattle into the United States, there a This is
something that's gone on now for years and years and years. However,
(07:26):
last month the exchange of cattle in the port of
Presidio stopped because of the threat of the screw worm.
And this is the second time this has happened. Since
last November, we have banned in essence livestock imports from Mexico.
No more beef coming into this country. And so there
(07:50):
are a lot of US cattle producers that are concerned
about the threat of the northern migration of this flesh
eating pest. In case you don't know, oh, or haven't
heard me talk about it, or I haven't seen anything
about it. If you're a beef person, if you're a
dairy person, if you have sheep, if you have pork,
if you have anything with flesh you're raising chickens and
(08:13):
turkeys and stuff, this is the biggest danger that you'll
face this year. More than concerned about money and the
business of what's going to be in the big beautiful bill.
This bug comes in a fly and it infests warm
blooded animals, livestock, wildlife, human beings, dogs, pets. It lays
(08:38):
eggs in your tissue. If you have an open wound
or there's something in your mucous membrane that's exposed, A
lava burrows into your flesh like a screw, and it'll
eat the flesh and kill the animal, kill the person.
There was a guy who had five thousand head that
(09:00):
lost most of them the last time this thing was
a problem. So at any rate, if you look at
some of the impact, again, the Mexicans are onto this,
and that's a good thing. There is a lot of
cooperation here between the United States and Mexico in terms
of how do we fix this problem. Earlier in the spring,
(09:23):
a Mexican feed yard approached a couple of different people
about selling cattle, and they were selling it at six
dollars and thirty four cents a pound on the hoof.
That's really, well, that's pretty expensive up here. We're getting
about three bucks a pound for it. Anyway, Certainly the
(09:47):
farmers and ranchers in Texas are concerned about this. So
what are the next steps. Secretary brook Rollins says that
they are continuing to fight and to come up with
programs for this new world screwworm known as NWS. There
was an event a week or so ago in Texas
(10:09):
where she was joined by the Texas AD Commissioner and
other officials from Texas talking about this bold new policy
initiative that will help fight the spread of the screw worm.
The details of the initiative were pretty specific. I don't
know that you need to know those except you need
to know there's a five point plan to push not
(10:33):
only these parasitic pests, but other pests that come from
south of the border anyway. In addition to fighting the
spread of the screw worm, the USDA is making plans
to better prepare farmers should the pest get into your herds.
A lot of state animal health officials have been in
on the emergency management plans, especially the southern states Texas,
(10:58):
New Mexico, Arizona, California. They're building a new sterile fly
production facility at More Air Force Base. I think that's
in Texas. And what they did before three four years
ago was newter. They developed a male screwworm or a
fly that produces the screw worm and was able to
(11:23):
when it mates with the rest of the flies. It's negative,
it doesn't have any It's been neutered, so perhaps that
will fix the problem. We'll keep I'm still going to
stick on this thing because this is really a dangerous
item for us to be concerned about, I think is appropriate.
So that's the story. That's the update anyway on the
screwworm on the southern border. Doug Stephan here back on
(11:51):
the American family farmer. I came across ten foods that
are filled with microplastics, and I thought it past along
to you. I'm going to spend time talking about it
on our Good Day Health programs this week with doctor
Jack Stockwell and doctor Ken Cronhaus. But here's the list.
(12:11):
Microplastics rice, water or water bottles, Himalayan pink salt, apples, carrots,
sugar tea, plant based nuggets, fish sticks, and shrimp. Those,
according to research, are the ten foods that have the
(12:35):
most microplastics. What is a farmer can you do about this? Well,
it depends on what you consume a lot of apple
orchards around. What are you doing to keep this from
being a problem? It's in the skin. It's really it's
everywhere this stuff. I had also some thoughts on a
miracle of nature corn pollination. I saw something in Farm
(12:58):
Progress that made me think about what happens says the
tasseling season is about where I am anyway, the earlier
planted stuff. If you are lucky enough to get some
sixty eight day corn planted in April, then it's the
tasseling out right now. And then I was thinking about
the pollination process. And we've had some over the last
(13:20):
few months. We've had a couple of b people on here.
You realize how intricate the process is and how it
impacts yields on your farm and everybody else's farm. Your
success this year and every year depends on what happens
during the two weeks in this circumstance, after corn reaches
(13:43):
tasseling and pollen, the pollen begins to shed. This is,
you know, the seven Great Wonders of agriculture, as it
was referred to in the article that I saw, Tasseling
and pollination have to be on that list. The process
of producing hundreds of new corn kernels ever count how
(14:05):
many kernels of corn there are on an ear of corn.
I know that may seem very simple, but do it.
Sometimes take an ear of corn and count the number
of kernels on that ear of corn, and then you
stop thinking about the big picture and you look at
the little picture. What an amazing thing. Hundreds of kernels
(14:28):
every time with every stalk of corn from one seed.
It's so simple yet so complex. There are a couple
of different things that I saw in that article. It
made me think about the process and whether you even
pay attention to it, and whether you understand how intricate
(14:49):
and delicate the system is of growing food. And this again,
the corn plant, is one great example of it. Most
people don't realize. Most people are so far away from
the food source they don't really even know what goes on.
But it is fascinating to look at this. The agronomers
have been looking at this for a long time, and
(15:13):
they've developed the tassels that would be more inviting. That's
how much hybridization is factored into growing corn and other
vegetables as well. The business of when corn is most vulnerable,
you certainly hope not to have a hail storm at
the time that there is that these the two weeks
that the pollenization takes place, very very fragile time. And
(15:37):
yet I'm thinking about all the corn fields, all the
corn I've grown over the years, and you may have too,
and think about what you don't think about, right, you
don't think about it's just naturally. You expect the corn
to grow and the ears to develop and the bees
to do their job, and then the kernels are produced
on the ear and bingo bango each which tassel produces
(16:02):
two million pollen grains. That's a wide range. Think about that.
Hybrid Genetics are factors in all of this. I like
regular basic corn, I do unprocessed corn. I don't buy
from any of the big companies. I buy my guy
out in Illinois who has open season. If you will
(16:23):
on corn anyway, I just I'm thinking about how fabulous
it is that we have the pollen, we have the bees,
and what a miracle it is that things like this grow.
Think about it. Think about what you're growing, Think about
what's on your farm. Think about what a miracle it
is that you can do what you do with the
(16:44):
resources that you have, animals and vegetables and minerals and things.
It's amazing be thankful for that. I certainly am Doug
Stefan here on The American Family Farmer. The American Family
Farmer podcast sponsored in guard by Caldron, which is the
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