Wheat exploded in price yesterday (limit up) after USDA forecast that over 8 million acres of HRW (Hard Red Wheat) will be abandoned in the Great Plains That's 37% of planted acreage reported in the March Prospective Planting report, and means U.S. farmers this year will harvest their smallest wheat crop since 1972. This comes on top of already record-low planted acreage heading into the season (lowest since 1919 in some metrics). Global supplies are tightening too. Expect bread, pasta, baked goods, and processed foods to climb in the coming months — and pressure on livestock feed could push meat/dairy prices higher as well. This is another brick in the wall of rising food costs. Grow your own food — that is the answer. Stock seeds, expand the garden, learn to preserve, and connect with local growers.

New Study: "Green" Energy Fails 62% of the Time! The "green" decarbonization hoax took another blow as a new, peer-reviewed study in Greece revealed Solar meets demand only 32% of the time. Wind, 44%. Combined, they FAIL to deliver 62% of the year. Even with storage, the gap between generation/consumption is MASSIVE due to poor correlation with actual peak demand times. Annual “totals” are a lie. These expensive, hail-magnet, land-gobbling boondoggles are unreliable by nature. This is why your power costs more, blackouts loom, and grids still need constant fossil/nuclear backup. They’re not replacing anything. They’re destabilizing everything. Source: lidsen.com/journals/jept/jep…

Dear @ProfluentBio Corteva Catalyst’s Senior Director Mathias Müller recently stated that SMEs should “do a lot of the legwork” on gene-edited crops “so we don’t repeat the debacle of GMOs.” As a Corteva Catalyst partner using AI (ProGen3 OpenCRISPR) to design next-generation gene-editing tools for resilient crops, are you aware of what specific liabilities Corteva is seeking to shift onto smaller partners like Profluent? Have they been transparent with you about any anticipated health, environmental, or market risks such as horizontal gene transfer, off-target effects, microbiome disruption, or environmental persistence? Request for comment. Thank you. agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

Dear @micropep Corteva Catalyst’s Senior Director Mathias Müller recently stated that SMEs should “do a lot of the legwork” on gene-edited crops and next-gen biologicals “so we don’t repeat the debacle of GMOs.” As a recent Corteva Catalyst investor with a multi-year R&D collaboration on micropeptide-based biocontrol solutions (crop protection & biofungicides), are you aware of what specific liabilities Corteva is seeking to shift onto smaller partners like Micropep? Have they been transparent with you about any anticipated health, environmental, or market risks such as horizontal gene transfer, environmental persistence, microbiome impacts, or off-target effects? Request for comment. Thank you. agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

Dear @TropicBio Corteva Catalyst’s Senior Director Mathias Müller recently stated that SMEs should “do a lot of the legwork” on consumer-facing gene-edited crops “so we don’t repeat the debacle of GMOs.” As a recent Corteva Catalyst co-led investment ($105M Series C) with ongoing collaboration on GEiGS® gene editing for disease resistance in corn, soybean, and tropical crops (banana, rice, etc.), are you aware of what specific liabilities Corteva is seeking to shift onto smaller partners like Tropic? Have they been transparent with you about any anticipated health, environmental, or market risks such as horizontal gene transfer, off-target effects, microbiome disruption, or environmental persistence? Request for comment. Thank you. agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

Excellent report by @thedreydossier about an unaccountable group within the Executive branch quietly usurping control of all US FedGov interfaces/touchpoints — and doing who-knows-what with all the data collected. This extends the same technocratic takeover that was sensed in the early days of DOGE, and then *seemed* to go away: thedreydossier.substack.com/…

Dear @resurrectbio @CianDuggan Corteva Catalyst’s Mathias Müller said SMEs should do the legwork on gene-edited crops to avoid repeating the GMO “debacle.” As a recent Corteva Catalyst investment with a joint development agreement on corn disease resistance (via gene editing), are you aware of what specific liabilities Corteva is seeking to shift onto smaller partners like Resurrect Bio? Have they been transparent with you about any anticipated health, environmental, or market risks (e.g. horizontal gene transfer, off-target effects, microbiome disruption)? Request for comment. Thank you. agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

Ranchers Sound the Alarm: Data Centers Are Devouring Water and Farmland While the AI hype train rolls on, ranchers are watching data centers explode across rural America — sucking up the water, land, and energy needed to grow food. This is not Chinese propaganda, as some claim; it's reality. One large facility can drink 5 million gallons of water per day. That's enough for 140,000 cows. Smaller ones still rival 30,000-head herds. Projections show data centers could claim 3-9% of Texas’s total water by 2040, with similar strains hitting other states. In Georgia, one data center “lost” nearly 30 million gallons through "improperly tracked connections" while locals were forced to conserve water. These are built for 50 years of operation, even in drought-prone West Texas, Arizona, New Mexico—regions already stretched thin by aquifer decline and extreme weather. Ranchers can’t just relocate when shortages hit. The technocrats are giving priority the servers powering their AI surveillance and narrative control, to the detriment of the producers who actually feed the country. agdaily.com/livestock/ranche…

Amsterdam bans public ads for meat (and fossil fuels). Stunning: Amsterdam has OUTLAWED billboards, bus shelters, and metro ads for meat, burgers, steak, chicken, pork, fish — plus gas cars, flights, cruises, and home gas contracts. Officially in effect since May 1, 2026... but an oh-so-generous grace period with no fines until 2027. This is how the technocrats shape perception offline: they literally remove things from sight so they become "unseen." It's censorship of reality itself. If you still doubt they'll go much harder in the digital realm — shadowbanning, training AIs to dodge topics, curating your feed — this is all the proof you need. What else are they making invisible to you? nltimes.nl/2026/05/05/amster…

I’ve been a bit quiet the last few weeks dealing with some health issues, but I’m back at it — this week filing several FOIAs on genetically engineered microbes and “synthetic life” deployed across US farmland to offset fertilizer shortages. Thanks to my those supporting the work; none of this digging happens without you. Stay tuned . . .

Dear @pairwiseplants , Corteva Catalyst’s Mathias Müller recently said SMEs should “do a lot of the legwork” on consumer-facing gene-edited crops “so we don’t repeat the debacle of GMOs.” As a key Corteva partner (i.e. seedless blackberry), are you aware of what specific liabilities Corteva is seeking to shift onto smaller partners like Pairwise? Have they been transparent with you about any anticipated risks (such as horizontal gene transfer, microbiome disruption, allergenicity, or environmental persistence) flagged in research? If so, can you comment on what some of those risks are, and what mitigation strategies Pairwise has in place? Request for comment. I have also emailed the comms team. Thank you. Article: agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

Dear @corteva @CortevaUS Corteva’s Mathias Müller: “We don’t want to repeat the debacle of GMOs”, we'll let startups/SMEs do the legwork on consumer-facing gene-edited crops. What negative health/environmental outcomes are you anticipating? What specific liabilities are you structuring these partnerships to avoid? Research groups (including GeneWatch UK) have highlighted risks such as: horizontal gene transfer to microbes/gut flora, microbiome disruption, allergenicity, antibiotic resistance spread, and uncontrollable environmental persistence/co-evolution. Have you modeled these (or other) risks, and is that what inspires Mr. Müller’s comment about avoiding liability? agfundernews.com/how-to-sell… Request for comment. I have also emailed Corteva PR and Mr. Müller directly. article: agfundernews.com/how-to-sell…

American farmers face loss of $100 /acre -- this is what I've meant when I keep saying the technocrats are making farming economically unviable: "Across the country, corn growers are feeling squeezed from both directions. Costs for fertilizer, diesel fuel, crop protection, and seed continue climbing, while corn prices remain too low to offset those expenses." This is a #WarOnFarms to consolidate control of food production into the hands of the technocrats. Grow those gardens... agdaily.com/crops/american-c…

USDA Destroying 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes all California canneries for good Del Monte (139 years old) filed bankruptcy as rising energy prices and steel tariffs exacerbated an already bad balance sheet. They closed their Modesto and Hughson canning plants and canceled long-term contracts worth hundreds of millions. Farmers now have no buyer for clingstone peaches meant for canning. The USDA is "helping" farmers, providing $9m to destroy the orchards, calling it 'support for transitioning.' This is what systemic failure looks like in a centralized food supply: one big player collapses, and the entire chain breaks. Grow your own food! De-centralize! #GoGrow fortune.com/2026/05/07/calif…

Time to #GoGrow a garden — food prices are going to continue their trend!

"US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows" In the post below, I mentioned "You don't cut 50,000 people off from their electricity unless you WANT an outcry against the new data centers." Now we are seeing clear signs: they DO want it. This is a brand new agenda: socially engineering a pushback against the AI takeover. And the FBI is already training for it — linking it even with Luigi Mangione: "In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists." So, as data centers drain our aquifers and consume our resources, they are already pre-positioning to classify anyone who objects as "anti-technology extremist" terrorists. "In California, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, state and local police have removed or arrested speakers at town halls who criticize data centers, in one case before they were even allowed to speak. [...] This has led to protesters and activists being surveilled under domestic extremism provisions while being charged with crimes like criminal trespass and vandalism." Reality is getting weirder... wired.com/story/us-law-enfor…