Farmstrong Podcast

Few things connect people faster than food. For host Ryan Armstrong, stories of people behind the food hit deepest. This podcast puts a face behind your food.

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Episode 10 - The Mulberry Tree App - Francine

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A farmer walked into his Farm Credit office, told the lender he planned to lose 250 dollars an acre, and walked out with the loan.

Tommy Wheeler spent 27 years in NASCAR, then started growing rice in North Carolina, a crop nobody there had grown in 120 years. His banker called it the dumbest business plan he had ever heard.

Then Tommy showed him the math farmers actually run.

"I'm losing 500 an acre growing corn. If I can lose 250 with rice, I can double in size for the same level of loss."

That is American agriculture in 2026. Purdue budgets put full cost corn breakeven near 5.45 a bushel while futures trade around 4.40. At 180 bushels an acre, a grower is behind before the combine moves.

Rice costs more per acre to grow than corn. Water, levees, pumping, specialized herbicide. Tommy knew all of that because he penciled it out before he planted a seed. He took the crop with the smaller loss and built the mill to sell it himself.

The lender had the loss right. What he missed was what the loss bought.

Barn Talk laid the whole thing out this week. A bank that called the plan stupid, a farmer who took the money anyway, and a rice mill running in a state that had not grown the crop in over a century.

I run cattle in north Idaho, not rice. The principle holds. A family that owns the mill and the market sets its own margin.

Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

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@OkieStotts This could all be settled over a @WaffleHouse meal. No doubt.

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The entire Agricultural community has been saying this was a foregone conclusion since 2022 when the industry went to hell in a hand basket. We all knew then it would never turn around until the fear of it becomes profitable and it’s far beyond too late at that point.

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NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly.

1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting.

No fertilizer. No crops. No food.

Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025.

160,000 farms closed since 2017.

Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year.

They're not struggling. They're being wiped out.

And the media is busy covering everything else.

The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

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@cornbreadcowboi And WINSTON for the win

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@cornbreadcowboi 2001 Pepsi 400 or bust

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@calleymeans @joerogan @JamieVernon @mulberrytreeapp

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So you’re saying and @BallardFirm is saying that this defense stance is worth their time. Anyone with an hour of corporate espionage knows the gig here, if a non issue resources need not be allocated, let alone a “public statement”

I’ve lost jobs fighting this fight. It is real

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.@CalleyMeans has fucked with the bull. Here are the horns.

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@ReOpenChris

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@OkieStotts CCR said y’all boys from Oklahoma roll your joints all wrong. I believe that.

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@OkieStotts CCR said y’all boys from Oklahoma roll your joints all wrong. I believe that.

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@AnthonySabatini 😂😂😂😂

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@OkieStotts Re-read my post. Fertilizer was never mention. The industry as a whole was referenced.

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Word.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

In light of suggestions that Susie Wiles and James Blair may pursue legal action over my Joe Rogan interview, I am publicly requesting that she, Ballard Partners, Continental Straregy, and other relevant parties immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and communications, including:

✅All communications between Susie Wiles, Ballard Partners, and their representatives concerning lobbying access, meetings, policy decisions, and corporate clients.
✅All communications involving Bayer, Monsanto, Ballard Partners, and White House officials concerning glyphosate, the national security executive order, and the administration’s position in Supreme Court litigation involving Bayer.
✅All communications concerning sugar-industry political contributions, fundraising commitments, and discussions about how those interests related to federal nutrition policy.
✅All communications involving Tony Fabrizio, food-industry representatives, and White House officials concerning MAHA initiatives, school nutrition standards, and the proposed federal definition of ultra-processed foods.
✅All drafts, internal correspondence, meeting notes, and communications involving Walker Barrett, Heidi Overton, and other relevant officials concerning the glyphosate executive order and Bayer litigation, including discussions about Secretary Kennedy’s involvement.
✅All relevant lobbying agreements, invoices, payment records, meeting calendars, visitor logs, and communications concerning corporate efforts to influence the policy decisions discussed in my interview - including from Continental Strategy.
✅All nonprivileged communications concerning my allegations, their factual accuracy, and any contemplated legal action arising from my interview.

This preservation request includes emails, text messages, Signal, WhatsApp, encrypted or disappearing messages, attachments, drafts, and relevant electronically stored records.

I welcome a full and transparent examination of the facts.

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@calleymeans @joerogan @JamieVernon @mulberrytreeapp

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@calleymeans @joerogan @JamieVernon @mulberrytreeapp

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Somebody tell @SusieWiles47 and @BallardFirm PRONTO.

@calleymeans @joerogan @TheoVon

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If there was nothing to protect there would be no motive to act other than do an open dialogue with @BallardFirm and @calleymeans

Don’t weigh words, allocate your choices for alliances via actions.

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@OkieStotts I never disagreed with anything you said. You questioned what world I’m living in. If we weren’t in the same one, we would not be able to converse. Relax. We are on the same team.

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@calleymeans @joerogan @JamieVernon @mulberrytreeapp

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If there was nothing to protect there would be no motive to act other than do an open dialogue with @BallardFirm and @calleymeans

Don’t weigh words, allocate your choices for alliances via actions.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

Ballard correcting things I didn’t say and actually trying to argue they haven’t subverted the White House policy process, which is now being fixed.

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@OkieStotts And this is why agriculture has an issue with itself. You are stubbing your own toe. Stop being angry at someone who is on the same team. The idea of having a difference of opinion is the thesis of your condition. The ability to agree to disagree is founded upon your freedoms.