Bloomberg: "The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according to a White House official, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the president’s tariff policies."

The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social "And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."

Cadence update: no flash soybean sales to China for the fourth straight day.

Reminder

Looks like the nation's only area of "exceptional drought" will get a multi-day soaking ahead, including areas that had a record dry November.

damn

new definition of "2025" just dropped

Another sign of American's cognitive decline: Duke students used to have all sorts of clever and obnoxious chants, now they're just humming "Seven Nation Army"

For the record, this comes from the same online wellness culture moral panic that all of RFKJr’s policies come from too. It’ll be seed oils next. I’m not saying ultra processed foods are healthy. I’m just saying when I see language like “addictive” tossed around, I know where they get their info.

the incredible humble soybean

Discovered a new type of person, or at least a new type of car, that included the following bumper stickers: -"Free Luigi" -"Free Palestine" -"Newsom 2028"

Some results from recent Farm Journal ag economists survey www.agweb.com/news/usda-si...

Spotted Cow better

exactly what I'm looking for, take me there post-haste

at a stage where I hear a name like "Asante Samuel" and have to spend a minute figuring out whether that's a jr. or a sr.

instant replay is 51% good, 49% bad

A man becomes preeminent he’s expected to have enthusiasms Enthusiasms…

"One of the reasons for the popularity of palm is that in these rare tropical ecosystems, the plant yields an extraordinary 3.06 tonnes of oil per hectare, making it more than four times as prolific as sunflower oil and more than seven times as prolific as soybean oil."

lot of you will rightly denounce silicon valley's wares as depressing and dystopian but then go "ackshully brutalism is good"

The new Knives Out movie 👍

Bucks lose their 7th in a row, their longest losing streak since March 2014, Giannis Antetokounmpo's rookie season.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The problem in Aurora, Illinois appears to be resolved

"global futures markets from equities to bonds and commodities were still down" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s Butter Vs Margarine. Again

Two military personnel shot near the White House - ABC News.

Pretty good article on the challenges facing the local Tyson plant that closed, and any would be buyers. www.beefmagazine.com/market-news/...

“Deere’s widely underwhelming 2026 guidance suggests a more severe and prolonged agricultural downturn than we initially anticipated...." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just learned that Karoline Leavitt's brother was in the local Massachusetts news in 2014 for winning $1 million from Draft Kings by betting on the Patriots. The baby in the photo is his (in recent news, the baby's mother, born in Brazil, has now been detained by ICE) cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/f...

I like my pre-holiday markets just like the blowing snow -- sideways

Buy a new furnace when you can, not when you have to

Um...

ABC News reports Ukraine has agreed to the terms of the US peace proposal, with "minor details still outstanding".

Waymo privatized another public street: Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away. The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined. OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

The really bleak part is when it's older people you respected or even looked up to. Many such cases.

keep pushin'

Me, watching me 30 minutes ago poke around to see what those two disgraced political reporters are up to this time

community impact from the Tyson Foods beef plant closure in south-central Nebraska announced yesterday:

This sounds devastating for a town of a little over 11,000 people.

"The Lexington, Neb., plant employs roughly 3,000 people and can slaughter almost 5,000 cattle a day, according to industry estimates." 🎁 www.wsj.com/business/tys...

Tyson in Lexington apparently is closing at the end of this year. Big impact on #cattle feeders, and going to have monster impact on the community #Nebraska

Have to LOL at the irony of anti-Fiat crypto-maxi dweebs rooting for the CB to cut rates.

new contract lows in both cotton and rice today

relief rally imminent

Ag Outlook Forum stays in D.C. Haven't heard anything about the USDA relocation and new "hubs" lately