About this episode

Vance Crowe and JR Burdick discuss the impact of political actions on agriculture, including beef prices and SNAP benefits, while exploring Bitcoin's role in farming.

In this week’s Ag Tribes Report, host Vance Crowe is joined by dairy farmer and Bitcoiner JR Burdick for a fast-paced tour through the biggest stories shaping agriculture. They unpack President Trump’s viral post urging ranchers to lower beef prices and the backlash from cattle producers who point to low herd size, packer settlements, and market volatility driven by political posts. Then they dig into the looming SNAP crunch amid the government shutdown, how an AWS outage jammed up harvest logistics and farmgate payments, and the partial reopening of FSA offices to process $3B in producer payments—plus the real-world cash flow pinch for beginning farmers. JR also delivers the Bitcoin Land Price Report, shares why he’s bullish on both land and Bitcoin, and explains practical resiliency lessons from a payments outage. We close with his Peter Thiel paradox—Gen Z’s push to rebuild rural “place” over “career”—and a candid look at rebuilding community, selling raw milk and pastured pork, and accepting Bitcoin on the farm.  JR’s farm: nourishingfamilyfarm.com and @jrcowfarmer on X. Legacy Interviews - A service that records individuals and couples telling their life stories so that…

People in this episode

Host: Vance Crowe

Guest: JR Burdick

Topics covered

• agriculture
• beef prices
• SNAP benefits
• Bitcoin
• community rebuilding
• farm payments

Keywords

• Trump
• beef prices
• SNAP
• Bitcoin
• agriculture
• community
• farm payments
• JR Burdick

Sponsors

Legacy Interviews, River.com

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AWS, FSA

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