Harvest dust makes for a good "apocalypse" filter.

Yeah I went to several spots along the river and I noticed some, uh, problems.

Purify yourself in the waters of the Vermilion River

Mid-October. Wild.

The “Hell is Real” sign is a nice touch.

"But agricultural companies and commodity groups don’t have financial incentives tied to oats because oats don’t require hybrid seeds, crop insurance or as much fertilizer. These big players aren’t opposing oats, but they aren’t cheerleading either."

As I was saying…

Some animals are more equal than others.

I was guessing he misused the stat that soybeans are 90% of US oilseed production (Illinois supplying a fraction of that). But I’m not sure. Maybe there a pumpkin SAF pathway that I’m not aware of, lol.

And a follow-up: if we admit Illinois agriculture is increasingly a fuel-production industry, can we end the agricultural exceptionalism? The exemptions from pollution rules? The sweetheart tax rates? Time to treat ag like other fuel-production industries.

That we fund.

So many "always has been" meme possibilities here. Extractive systems such as US ag do quite well what they are designed to do - from their inception.

Our leaders have no vision for the rural Midwest beyond turning it into a sacrifice zone for corn and soybean interests.

Illinois Corn Growers: Our business model is entirely dependent on exporting our low-margin, undifferentiated commodities into a brutally competitive global market and asking the public to pay for the runoff and regular bailouts!

And just like that, the Mahomet data center is dead.

327 threatened or endangered species. USDA's own analysis says repeal of the Roadless Rule is "likely to adversely affect" 327 threatened/endangered species across the county. In the Shawnee, that includes the Indiana bat and timber snake.

Illinois was once 40% forest. Today it's about 14%, and what's left is fragmented. The Shawnee's six roadless areas (Bay Creek, Burden Falls, Burke Branch, Clear Springs, Eagle Creek, Ripple Hollow) are among the few intact tracts left.

I can’t even bring myself to utter my dirtbag husband’s name, but I’m urging you to vote for him because “team.”