The room where I stayed after giving a talk at Stetson Law looked out on the spot where Babe Ruth signed his monster contract with the Yankees. The one that reporters complained would pay him more than President Hoover; the Babe correctly pointed out he had a better year.

There’s a miracle tree that grows seeds a lot like soybeans in much worse land, without fertilizer or irrigation, with 4-10X higher yields and much more carbon storage. It’s called pongamia, and it could help save the planet. But there’s a twist.

This is unfortunately true and it’s annoying. There’s a Bluesky brigade that treats any deviation from maximalist climate politics (including, in my food/ag world, rejecting some arguments that are just wrong) as heretical denialism.

Florida Plunder & Loot gets another massive windfall at our expense from DeSantis and his cronies. Help us David Jolly!

Sri Lanka banned all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides–and the nation nearly self-destructed. I get why people hate chemicals, but they do help food grow, and we’ll need to grow more food in the next 30 years than we’ve grown in the last 12000.

Very annoying that both candidates for Miami mayor are sending me texts accusing the other one of supporting development. Don’t threaten me with a good time! ⁦Armand Domalewski⁩ ⁦YIMBYLAND⁩ ⁦Abundance Institute⁩