Longlane Farms, LLC

10/07/2026

While we don't plant and harvest our own hay, the end of hay season does offer certain...opportunities. Such as a successful launch on Saturday September 27th of B's 40", Class F Engine (can handle up to a Class H!) rocket.

10/04/2026

Truth is truth, even if it's unpopular. We find mylar balloons in our pastures all the time - at least one every six months or so. Mylar balloons = dead animals.

***PSA*** It is not my intention to personally attack anyone with this post, but if it hits home, oh well. If you are the type of person that releases balloons to celebrate something or someone’s birthday, death or any other occasion, you are a selfish AS***LE! What goes up, must come down and 9 out of 10 times it comes down in a rancher’s pasture. All animals are curious by nature and will try to eat it. Most times they are not able to pass the object and it can kill the animal. All for what? So you can feel good on little Johnny’s birthday or because you miss aunt Ethel. Stop being selfish. It’s littering and in my opinion the worst kind. We spend everyday trying to keep these animals alive, caring for them, supplying their every need and fighting the weather, drought, disease. The last thing we need to deal with is some jerk letting balloons go! This makes number 8 this year alone

09/30/2026

Where do agriculture and IT meet? At Titan Farms in Ridge Spring, South Carolina. While Titan Farms has the best peaches anywhere, they are in need of an IT Technician.

Check it out, share it and repost it, and let's help them this position find the right person:

Position Summary: We are seeking a detail-oriented, organized, and adaptable IT Technician to support a broad range of technology across the organization. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys troubleshooting, learning new systems, and supporting both traditional IT operations and specialize...

09/29/2026

Believe that your food can be art AND taste amazing? Babas on Wentworth (https://babascharleston.com/) in Charleston, South Carolina knocked it out of the park this past weekend. These are skewers of our ground goat meat prepared in a most delicious and careful way for a catered event. Thanks to Matthew Horton for giving our goat meat a chance, and we look forward to partnering again in the near future!

09/21/2026

Seeds used to belong to the farmer who planted them. That balance has slipped.

USDA figures show four companies controlled about 84% of U.S. corn seed sales and 78% of soybean seed sales in 2018-20 (Fuglie, 2023). A later USDA report found that this kind of concentration can shrink farmer choice and independent breeding (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2023).

The Fair Seeds for Farmers Act would limit new federal plant protections to the Plant Variety Protection Act and the Plant Patent Act. It would also block enforcement of new contracts that forbid seed saving, research, breeding, or propagation (Fair Seeds for Farmers Act, 2026; McGovern, 2026). Patents already issued would remain valid.

Sponsors note that seed can account for about 25% of a farm operating budget, so the right to save seed could cut farm bills and ease grocery prices (Warren et al., 2026).

🤔 Do you think farmers should be free to save and study the seed they buy? Share your view below.

🤩 Then contact your Representative and Senators. Ask them to cosponsor H.R. 9681 and S. 5104.

References

Fair Seeds for Farmers Act, S. 5104, 119th Cong. (2026). https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5104/text

Fuglie, K. (2023, October 2). Two companies accounted for more than half of corn, soybean, and cotton seed sales in 2018-20. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=107516

McGovern, J. P. (2026, July 14). McGovern, Casar introduce Fair Seeds for Farmers Act to address affordability crisis, put America’s farmers and families ahead of billionaire Big Ag corporations. U.S. House of Representatives. https://mcgovern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400385

U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2023). More and better choices for farmers: Promoting fair competition and innovation in seeds and other agricultural inputs. Agricultural Marketing Service. https://www.ams.usda.gov/reports/more-and-better-choices-farmers-promoting-fair-competition-and-innovation-seeds-and-other

Warren, E., Booker, C., & Welch, P. (2026, July 23). Warren, Booker, Welch lead fight to stop Big Ag from ripping off farmers and families. U.S. Senate. https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-booker-welch-lead-fight-to-stop-big-ag-from-ripping-off-farmers-and-families/

09/21/2026

We're grateful for the opportunity to provide goat for a Babas on Wentworth catering event! If you're ever in Charleston, SC and looking for an amazing bite, look no further:

an old world café & bar in downtown charleston - like the european neighborhood cafés that inspire us, we serve coffee and house-made pastries in the morning, and sandwiches and salads in the afternoon; and in the evening, proper aperitivo service, including delicious wines, killer cocktails, an

09/20/2026

We've watched vultures attempt to attack goat kids on our farm in middle South Carolina. A solid livestock guard dog jumped 4 feet off the ground to chase them off before they ever landed. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19KKJGs7pt/

Black vultures eat newborn calves alive across at least 18 states, and a rancher who wants to shoot the birds doing it needs a federal permit that allows five kills per year against flocks that regularly number more than 20.

Oklahoma rancher Yancy Paul encountered one of those flocks on his family’s 800-acre farm near Lexington. “Before I could get to him, it was probably 40 or 50 of them just plucking at that newborn calf,” he said. The birds attacked the calf’s eyes and soft tissue while it was still alive.

Black vultures are primarily scavengers, but they also attack calves, lambs, piglets, and other vulnerable livestock. Newborn calves are at greatest risk while they are wet, unsteady, and unable to defend themselves. The birds may gather around a cow during labor and begin pecking before the calf can stand. Some injured animals have to be euthanized.

The problem has spread as black vultures have expanded north from the Southeast into Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and neighboring states. In the USDA’s 2015 cattle death-loss survey, producers attributed 24,600 calf deaths to vultures. That represented 10 percent of calf losses blamed on predators, up from 6 percent in the previous national survey.

Those figures are estimates based on producer reports. Unless someone witnesses the attack, it can be difficult to determine whether vultures killed a calf or began feeding after it died from disease, exposure, or complications during birth. Researchers nevertheless consider livestock attacks well documented, and producers in 18 states have reported them.

Black vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. In 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began allowing state farm bureaus and agriculture departments to issue free subpermits under master depredation permits. Many of those subpermits allowed a producer to kill five vultures per year, with the limited shooting intended to frighten away the rest of the flock.

Permit limits vary by state. Oklahoma increased its annual allowance from five vultures to ten in 2024 after complaints from cattle producers continued to rise. Ranchers are also advised to remove carcasses, watch calving pastures closely, use noise deterrents, and display a legally killed vulture as an effigy. For someone facing the flock Yancy Paul described, even the expanded Oklahoma permit covers only ten of 40 or 50 birds.

Image is for illustration purposes only

Source: KCUR / KOSU / Harvest Public Media / USDA APHIS Wildlife Services / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry / Purdue University / Avery and Cummings, Livestock Depredations by Black Vultures and Golden Eagles

09/19/2026

Great to be partnering with Farms on Main!

We now have goat meat from Longlane Farms, LLC

09/11/2026

"FOX Carolina News asked why South Carolina, which also sees dozens of cases of raccoon rabies per year, is not included in the program.

A spokesperson for the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following statement:

“Oral rabies vaccine zones are positioned in areas of states representing the westernmost extent of where raccoon rabies is present geographically. In the southeast, those boundaries are present in southeast VA, western NC, east TN, northern GA and AL. The goal is to prevent westward spread of raccoon rabies by creating a continuous vaccine barrier that stays in front of rabies occurrence on the landscape that eventually will be moved further to the east as rabies is locally and regionally eliminated. The program is very close to establishing an ORV area in South Carolina counties bordering North Carolina and Georgia in the next few years. However, raccoon rabies is present throughout the state of SC and other nearby states and the program does not ‘spot treat’ local areas of outbreak that are not part of the continuous barrier.”"

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As rabies remains a serious public health concern, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be spreading millions of rabies vaccine doses in bait across the Southeast.