Mother Farmer UP

06/15/2026

Wait…what?!?! it’s only 7 and we have to keep working. When your exhausted from all the planting, harvesting, weeding…your time is way off 😂

06/11/2026

Our newest roosters. Well they have been here for almost year but I haven’t introduced them(incase they didn’t work out 😉) meet Hanz and Franz. Hopefully some of you know the reference from SNL, if not give yourself a laugh and look up a skit.

06/07/2026

Letting our employees on their first day know what it’s going to be like in the 87 degrees and full sun. 😂 They were great workers and really appreciate them being here, just could Mother Nature give them a break on their first day.

06/06/2026

Farmers, if you enter a grant with the USDA and any existing grants you are involved in ask the questions if you data is being collected. And make the decision that is right for you. I have always said be careful with taking money, unless you fully understand what you get yourself into.

The USDA just signed a $300 million deal with Palantir Technologies to consolidate every participating farmer’s data into a single system, land holdings, conservation practices, insurance claims and financial records, all in one place, all managed by one of the most controversial data companies in the country. The pitch sounds reasonable enough: less paperwork, faster payments, fewer trips to the county office. But the Union of Concerned Scientists is asking the question nobody in the administration seems to want to answer. Who actually benefits when a company with deep ties to ICE, the Pentagon and the IRS gets handed the keys to America’s agricultural data?

Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel and has built its reputation on surveillance infrastructure for the federal government. The efficiency argument is real but it is not the whole story. Farmers have historically been fiercely protective of their operational data, and for good reason. Once that information lives in a unified database run by a company with this track record, the question of how it gets used, and by whom, is no longer a hypothetical.

The Union of Concerned Scientists piece by Karen Perry Stillerman is one of the more clear eyed takes we have seen on this and it is worth reading before the conversation moves on.
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https://organicconsumers.org/why-linking-data-systems-at-trumps-usda-isnt-enough-and-might-be-a-disaster-for-farmers/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSP_RNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExaGxHVXVPZ3hpRDZ1eUNYc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlBmMVNsfLS-9d3byN5OL0z7B_IXL-u64X9S5Qw34M1LQd9sSw13o2FzR9Eb_aem_V27K9c5nGWrPFbOr7tadmA

06/04/2026

Don’t forget to swing by Settlers Cooperative for the Food Truck Rally on Thursday!

06/01/2026

05/31/2026

When Andy tries to say “no more chicks”