Is It Time To GO ROGUE? Polyface Farm Tour and Rogue Food Conference Recap.

My wife and I went to rouge food conference 3 weeks ago here in Florida. It was very informative and I felt the same way about "finding my tribe".

Wanted to go. Maybe this year. Thanks for the video!👍👍👍

I love that they only put gravel in their wheel tracks on the farm road.

Thank You for sharing with us. I lived on the East side of Michigan as a kid( Oscoda Tawas aria)

Excellent review- heading to the RFC in Swoope in May. (** I have an extra ticket if you need one as my daughter can no longer attend- adult ticket).

well spoken

Je te regarde de Republique dominicaine ou j'étudie depuis 2 ans de démarrer ce type de projet. Ce serait le premier en RD. Pas facile.. Merci pour tes videos. Marc

Thanks for the advice on going to food conferences. To find likeminded people. I definitely need advice on regulations in my country. I’m sure you guys have it bad in the states but I’m sorry to say Sweden has the absolute most strict rules for both food and animal conditions. To the point that before you kill a bird you have to sedate or partially sedate with either gas or electricity. Crazy…

USDA Food safety laws have absolutely nothing to do with safety. It’s crony capitalism at its best. Joel Salatin has proved this when he states that it’s perfectly legal for us to give food to our friends and family, but the minute we try and charge money for it it becomes illegal. There is nothing else like that in our society. If this was about protecting people and safety we would not be able to slaughter animals on our farm and give it to people. But that is perfectly legal. The reason is the entire food industry in America is controlled by four companies. Cargill and Tyson are two of them. Those are the household names. By having these regulations it harms and small and medium size family farms. It’s just like the way New York and California tried to pass laws making Uber and Lyft illegal because the taxi companies and the limo companies donate to politicians to pass laws making those companies illegal because they don’t want the competition. It’s the exact same thing with how cities across America are passing ordinances making it illegal for Airbnb because local hotels pay local politicians to kill the competition. It’s unconstitutional and anti-American! It’s crony capitalism and it’s BS! There is this bit of bipartisan legislation that has been held up in the House of Representatives since 2015 called the Prime Act. It gets its name from the highest cut of beef which is called prime. When you go to an expensive steakhouse you’re eating prime beef. What prime beef that is leftover you might find in a high-end grocery store. Butcher shop, sometimes Costco. But most of what you buy retail is the second tier of quality called choice. The prime act is trying to make it legal for small and medium size farms and ranches to avoid federal USDA laws and regulations for any meat you raise and process on your farm that is to be sold within your state boundaries. Any meat sold outside your state would still be required to go through a USDA inspected slaughterhouse. You would see locally grown and raised beef and other meat and poultry products sprout up like weeds if the Prime Act gets passed. There are a handful of states who have politicians that are owned and controlled by large agribusiness and they keep blocking the prime act. They give this song and dance about safety, but that is pure propaganda! They don’t want the competition because they know people would love local organic hormone and antibiotic free humanely raised meat and poultry! It is crony capitalism at its best! Many states that have large agricultural economies have laws that try and help get around some of it but it’s impossible to get around all of it, but the primac would solve this problem at least on the state level. The reality is it’s unconstitutional. The constitution gives the federal government the right to legislate and regulate interstate commerce. Agriculture within your state borders is intrastate commerce. The federal government has no legal standing in this situation. Yep a few states ever got together and filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government they would probably win. If a bunch of farmers ever got together and try to do it they would probably win. But the problem is getting before the Supreme Court and fighting your way through the more liberal lower courts because the federal government has infinite resources to fight you! But I have no doubt if it ever reached the supreme court especially with the current composition of the court it would easily be struck down as unconstitutional for the federal government to be involved in Intrastate agriculture. the purpose of the rogue food conference is to use creative loopholes and creative business practices to get around USDA rules and regulations that hurt small farmers and ranchers and homesteaders. The passage of the Prymak would be a huge step in that direction as well. If you care about these things, and if you’re watching this or other farming and homesteading channels on YouTube you obviously do, you should contact your US representatives and senators and ask them if they support the prime act. If they do not you should push them to support it because it will help their constituents! Not just their farming constituents but all of their states constituents. When people think of South Carolina I’m sure they think of Myrtle Beach and Hilton head and Charleston and tourism etc. but Charleston also has a large manufacturing base but even in 2022 the largest sector of the SC economy is agriculture.

Simple is the word for sure. Minimum investment and max production. I saw Joel S 10 years ago here in WI before Joel was the big Rock star he is today.

Did they mention anything about farm tax exemption? Maybe don't doing it because it keeps you under the radar? So many questions lol I didnnt get to go this year

Where can I find where these conferences are? I know about the one in Tennessee this year. But I raise pastured poultry like Joel and I wanna go to events like this with my wife.

Agorism at its finest!