John Ivison

I work with WNY agriculture. I help farmers solve production & pest problems. Other interests: Bills, Sabres, snowmobiling, pediatric cancer

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

New York’s primary energy source is natural gas from out of state and out of country. While there is stiff competition in the category of most idiotic policies in NY, the state’s ban on natural gas extraction may be the pace setter. Was in Binghamton this morning to talk about this abundant energy resource that is available in the ground underneath NY. Despite all the jobs, lower cost of living, increased revenue, and vibrant downtowns that would come with reversing the state’s ban, Albany politicians like Kathy Hochul and her friends just refuse to apply basic common sense and lead NY back to greatness.

[ben farming long @benjaminaustic]

Hey New York! Dan here thinks that green energy is going to bring down the price of electricity.

What Dan doesn’t realize is that green energy skyrocketed our rates in the first place. Grok estimates $1 to $2 billion CONSERVATIVELY in added costs STRICTLY FOR GREEN ENERGY INITIATIVES IN 2025 ALONE, mostly paid directly by the New York electricity consumer. Take a look:

Don’t be like Dan.

https://t.co/eV1QAsldhU

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

You’re looking at thousands of studs that have been jammed into the ground, on what was previously prime farmland, as they continue to build out Cider Solar in Elba and Oakfield, New York.

The studs will hold the Chinese-made solar panels that were constructed and shipped with fossil fuels and rare earth minerals.

Cider Solar is a massive 500MW industrial complex that will destroy 4,000 acres by the time they’re done.

Since commercial solar only generates at 15% of its annual potential in Upstate NY (actually closer to 10% in Western NY), this 500MW complex will only generate 75MW of power when it’s all said and done.

Thousands of acres gone. Soil compacted. Runoff reported. Chemicals sprayed to suppress vegetation. Animals displaced in every direction. And the history and culture of these towns destroyed forever.

All for our governor, greedy politicians, and subsidies for foreign corporations.

Video submitted by @JenniferSitter2

[New York Farm Bureau @NYFarmBureau]

With planting season here, more farm vehicles are on the road. Watch for the orange triangle indicating a Slow Moving Vehicle (SMV) and drive with caution, allowing at least 50 feet of following distance for the farm vehicle ahead of you.
#ShareTheRoad

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Rainy day in New York. So I read the state budget. All 4,000+ pages of it (10 bills).

It’s a novel. A very expensive one. Written with your money.

How does any of this make New York more affordable for you?

$6M — FIFA soccer fields. Because the World Cup.

$10M — Grants for nonprofits to buy their own buildings.

$160M — Quantum computing hubs. Five of them.

$500M — Cash bailout for NYC. Upstate pays. $4B total to make Zohran happy.

$103M — Arts Council grants. Plus $8M just to run the agency.

$75M — Subway design studies. No shovels. Just studies.

Full list in the slide.

$268.5 billion. $2.4 billion in items that do nothing for your life. Aren’t you tired of this?

Put me in that room. I’ll be the loudest guy at the table. I promise.

New Yorkers pay the most. It’s time someone fought for them.

[Ed Sikora @alabamaED]

Symptoms of crown rust on oats include orange pustules of spores developing on leaves. Each pustule contains thousands of spores that can be spread to neighbouring plants and produce a new pustule in only seven to 10 days under ideal conditions @CropNetwork @plantdisease

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Truth to power.

[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

The biggest wealth transfer in American history isn’t happening on Wall Street. It’s happening on U-Hauls.

Over $2 trillion in income fled high-tax blue states for low-tax red states in just 11 years.

And blue states’ solution? Raise taxes again.

[John Ivison @John_Ivison]

Unique trail cam pic…

[Josh Linville @JLinvilleFert]

It is the 6-week anniversary of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Fert price comparisons:

NOLA urea - +$230 or 49%
NOLA UAN - +$145 or 38%
Midwest NH3 - +$245 or 32%
NOLA DAP - +$130 or 21%
NOLA potash - +$10 or 3%

...corn - 2-cents or 0.5% higher

#sickeningforfarmers

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's check in on Gerald the Planet Killer.

Gerald is a four-year-old Hereford cross in a field near Ledbury. He weighs about 600 kilograms. He has been busy this morning.

6:14am - Woke up. Began destroying the planet by eating grass.

7:02am - Continued environmental catastrophe by walking slowly toward the water trough.

8:45am - Committed a war crime against the atmosphere by exhaling.

9:30am - Did a pat. In a field. Where it will become part of a complex nutrient cycle that has been running successfully since before humans existed.

11:00am - Grazed a section of meadow, inadvertently aerating the soil with his hooves, spreading seeds in his dung, creating habitat for dung beetles, and sequestering carbon through the root systems his grazing stimulates.

Noon - Had a lie down.

The scientists monitoring Gerald's methane output have calculated that this methane, derived from grass pulled from British soil, is part of a carbon cycle that has been net neutral for ten thousand years of continuous cattle domestication.

They have not been asked to present this finding anywhere.

Gerald is unavailable for comment. He is destroying a particularly threatening patch of ryegrass on the south side of the field.

Someone stop him.

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Forcing @EliseStefanik out of the New York gubernatorial race makes no sense whatsoever. To replace her with a half-assed weekends-only vanity campaign which has shown no signs of life is a disservice to fools like me who thought the Republican Party was the only hope New York had of escaping the incompetent tyranny of a succession of Democrat idiots.

[John Ivison @John_Ivison]

I grew up one town over from Leroy not “Lah Roy” as the news stations pronounce it. Now I wonder if I’m wrong?

[Bob Confer @bobconfer]

Here we go again...yet another year of "I Love New York" tourism commercials in which Ellicottville is mispronounced. I'm surprised Cattaraugus County's marketing people or town & business leaders haven't addressed this.

[John Ivison @John_Ivison]

Had the @BuffaloBills lived up to expectations we’d be playing at home today.
Winter storm #fern

[Paul Blake @ptblake]

Per sources, “Frank from Cheektowaga” is next to be interviewed for head coach of the @BuffaloBills . #BuffaloBills

[Paul Blake @ptblake]

Now interviewing for the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Per sources… #BuffaloBills #nfl #ketchupguy

[Antonella212 (Instagram) @NYorNothing]

@ScottKacsmar Someone should invent one service where u can watch them all… we could call it CABLE?!

[John Ivison @John_Ivison]

@SalSports ⬆️ D line, running game
⬇️ drops, #72