Whether by coincidence or intent, Paramount’s Yellowstone appears to provide some interesting prophetic incite that parallels our own current reality. Prophetic or coincidental? We’ll provide some incite, and the rest is for you to decide.
The show Yellowstone stars Kevin Costner as John Dutton, a cattle farmer whose family homesteaded a ranch in Southwest Montana back in 1883; the story of John Dutton and the Yellowstone Ranch take place in our modern era of smartphones.
Yellowstone is about a family who is at war with two enemies, both of which would like to acquire the family’s land. One enemy of the Dutton’s is a Native American tribe, and the other is a man with California money looking to buy and develop the land.
John’s daughter Beth Dutton works in the banking industry and specializes in killing businesses that are risky to the banks portfolio. Her respected position as a banker works to her family’s advantage. A legal opportunity for Beth to use her company to acquire land around the ranch is proposed as a means for the bank to make money from a government farming program referred to as the CRP.
Is the CRP a real government program? If so what is it all about? Well it’s real, and per the USDA Farm Agency website:
CRP is a land conservation program administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). In exchange for a yearly rental payment, farmers enrolled in the program agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality. Contracts for land enrolled in CRP are from 10 to15 years in length. The long-term goal of the program is to re-establish valuable land cover to help improve water quality, prevent soil erosion, and reduce loss of wildlife habitat.
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, CRP is one of the largest private-lands conservation program in the United States. Thanks to voluntary participation by farmers and landowners, CRP has improved water quality, reduced soil erosion, and increased habitat for endangered and threatened species.
Farmland is vital to a nations food supply. This raises a question. Is anything else threatening our food supply? Should a nation facing a food shortage be encouraging a food supply shortage via such a programs? Also, with such programs existing, and them requiring big money, who in the United States is and or has been buying up the farmland?
Well that’s interesting… You know what else is interesting? Bill Gates owns a mansion in Montana and is a member of a club their called The Yellowstone Club… True story.
Also, Bill Gates was recently named board of supervisors’ chairman for Maricopa County District 3. This district represents Paradise Valley and four other cities in Arizona. One of Mr. Gates first major act as chairman will be presiding over a hearing addressing the November 2020 election. He also wants Maricopa County to “set the bar for how governments serve” by being “transparent and timely in what we deliver” and fighting “distrust and disinformation.”
Crazy right? It would be if it were the Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates, but it is not, and unlike the big tech billionaire, Chairman Gates in Maricopa is on the right side. By the way, Dan Jenkins of Paramount’s TV series Yellowstone worked for a company called Paradise Valley. Just a bunch of coincidences right?
Was Beth of Yellowstone’s plan to get the government to pay rent via the CRP program flawed? Most likely… In fact someone on Reddit did the math in what they titled: Beth’s Land Grab Plan (Details).
