Joel Hollingsworth runs Smoke River Ranch in northeast Oklahoma. This conversation from our Farmer Stories Series talks about why Joel believes we need to keep manufcaturing in America & why Oklahoma's culture of self-governance is a cultural model the country can build around.
Farmer Stories pulls the best conversations from The Regenaissance archive - real voices from American farmers on the systems, economics, and communities shaping food and land in the US.
Timestamps
- 0:00 — Why build in America, not abroad
- 1:30 — The federalist structure and America's creation story
- 4:00 — Oklahoma's culture of self-governance
- 6:30 — Regen ag as a churn factory
- 7:30 — Triffin dilemma and hollowing out of domestic production
- 9:00 — How crop insurance locks out new farmers
- 11:00 — Foreign cattle and the 30% currency gap
- 12:30 — Land as money, not farmland
- 14:00 — Farm credit weaponized (Dustin Kittle story)
- 15:30 — Average rancher age 58.5
- 17:00 — What rural collapse looks like
- 18:30 — Sovereign debt and centralizing risk
What is The Regenaissance Podcast?
Hosted by @Regenaisanceman with the mission of reconnecting us back to where our food is grown & exposing everything that is wrong with our broken food system. We are more disconnected from our food than we ever have been. I sit down with ranchers and farmers to give them a voice and hear their stories, helping paint a picture of what it really looks like to support humanity with food. I also will be talking to others involved in the agriculture space as there is a lot that goes into it all. My hope is that from hearing this podcast you will begin to question what you eat and where from.