About this episode

Vance Crowe and Elliot Henderson discuss key agricultural stories, trade policies, and economic implications for rural voices.

In this week’s Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by entrepreneur, farmer, and Iowa Corn Growers director Elliot Henderson for a fast-moving breakdown of four big stories shaping agriculture. They react to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins’ media blitz and her tightly messaged take on trade, cattle, and screw worm—praising her talent while questioning how much of it reflects independent ag thinking. They unpack California’s Prop 50 and what partisan redistricting could mean for rural voices in the nation’s top ag state. They also look at the viral Danish claims linking cow deaths to the mandatory Bovear methane-reducing additive and the broader US–EU cultural and monetary incentives behind climate policy. Rounding out the news, they examine NYC’s push for city-run grocery stores, the economic fear driving urban support, and the parallels Elliot sees for ag if subsidies and policy continue to distort markets. Then they run the Bitcoin Land Price Report (with land softening to ~$12.5K/acre in NE Iowa) and debate Bitcoin vs. land as a store of value. In the Peter Thiel Paradox, Elliot challenges ag’s reliance on transfer payments, H-2A tweaks, and policies that wall off opportunity…

People in this episode

Host: Vance Crowe

Guest: Elliot Henderson

Topics covered

• agriculture
• trade policy
• climate policy
• urban economics
• property tax
• Bitcoin vs. land

Keywords

• agriculture
• trade
• climate policy
• Bitcoin
• property tax
• USDA
• California
• urban support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: USDA, California, Bitcoin, EU, NYC

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