Farmer Diaries

Once again I am back from the US.   The trip was trouble free because we flew private there and back.  My friend invited my wife and I to join him in Jackson Hole for 10 days of skiing.  The truth is that it's evident that some pigs are more equal than others.  The customs and immigration experience when flying private is very different.  We still needed a visa but no real questions were asked, we landed in Chicago to refuel…and then to Jackson Hole My comment is different, I saw the USA as a billionaire would.  As an example the "cost of leasing a G700" is $32,000 per hour and we used it for nearly 30 hours all in all…you do the math of how expensive the flight was for the four of us.  Our host "borrowed" a 9 bedroom house from a "friend of a friend".   We had special VIP ski passes where we did not wait for gondolas and at only in 3 star restaurants the entire 10 days we were there.  The notional cost of the trip for the four of u...

The US now owns Venezuela…and not in a good way.  America is not known for its nation building skills, and yet it now owns the disaster that is Venezuela.   Starvation and exodus are the natural progression.   In addition it will become a haven for narco-terrorists, more so than it already was. I am sure that Trump and his friends really thought that little attack very well…I guess that he will now attack Iran now.  

2025 has been a strange one.    Our family is stronger than ever, our four kids are doing great and everyone is healthy.   The farm is doing great, and our businesses are doing very well.   Sure we have seen declining demand for our products, but since demand far exceeded supply it really has not hit the bottom line, the only change now is that we have enough stock to meet demand.  It doesn't say anything good about the UK economy, but we are ok for now. Politically, the UK has been an unmitigated disaster, with an incompetent government and an idiot as prime minister.   Granted Brexit is finally starting to hurt, mainly because the EU is hurting and the first to suffer are the outsiders (AKA us…).  However, the incompetence of the government is breathtaking, and the blame must be squarely set at the 10 Downing Street. If someone had told me that America could decline as fast as it did over the past year, I would have called you a liar....