The dirt road finds the use.

Prime Future 154: the newsletter for innovators in livestock, meat, and dairy

ICYM last week’s newsletter, full Prime Future content will only be available to paid subscribers. 

The one exception is the 92-year-old rancher I met this week, the mover and shaker kind. I asked him what’s the biggest change in the cattle business he’s seen over his career. He shook his head in disbelief, “the scale!”

Oh, and the first thing he said to me was that he reads Prime Future. Since being a forward-thinking nonagenarian is total #goals, that man gets a courtesy subscription upgrade. So I suppose the paid thing is only for the non-92 year old ranchers ☺️

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I love when history intersects with agricultural progress and provides glimmers of insight into the future of the industry.

Take George Washington.

Sure, he led a bunch of rag-tag starving wanna-be soldiers to victory against the global superpower, got the US off to a good start as the first president, and then in the ultimate power move, established that whole precedent that a United States president would not be a lifer. Hat tip to you, George.

But perhaps his bigger contributions were to the early American agricultural economy: