Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) reportedly will be tapped as President Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture in his administration.

Joel Salatin, a farmer, author, and speaker who advocates for sustainable and holistic farming practices, said on his website the Trump transition team contacted him to hold a position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Salatin said he accepted one of the six “Advisor to the Secretary” spots.

“My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture,” Salatin wrote.

HUGE NEWS! Thomas Massie is reportedly being tapped as Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture w/ Joel Salatin advising. There is no better person for the position.

Congratulations, @RepThomasMassie! You’ve come a long way from Trump calling to throw you out of the Republican Party 😎 pic.twitter.com/jBUiH3JV1P

— Murray 🇺🇸 (@Rothbard1776) November 6, 2024

A closer look:

Joel Salatin writes:

He’s been the sponsor of the PRIME ACT, which, if pushed through, would be the biggest shot across the bow of the entrenched industrial meat processing system we’ve seen in a century. Let liberty ring. Wouldn’t that be a change of fortune for Big Ag?

If RFK Jr. goes in as Sec. of Health and Human Services, everything will be inverted. Talk about the coolest turn about. He’d be the boss of the Faucis and Francis Collins–the whole covid anti-science crowd. Wouldn’t that be a change of fortune for Big Pharma?

And if Elon Musk goes in as a Government Waste Czar, do you think he could possibly find something?

Here’s an interesting tidbit. All the income taxes in the U.S. are $2 trillion a year. Government spending and borrowing are so out of control that if we eliminated $2 trillion from the budget, it would only set us back to 2020. Does anyone think returning to government spending in 2020 would destroy things? Of course not. So all we have to do is cut federal spending to 2020 levels and we can eliminate income tax. Period. Done. How would that make you feel?

Most people don’t know enough history to know that the federal government was to be financed entirely from tariffs and excise taxes. In fact, as a nation we operated just fine for nearly 150 years without an income tax. The only president who eliminated the national debt was Andrew Jackson, and he did it by eliminating the second bank of the U.S. Nearly 100 years later we got the third bank, known as the Federal Reserve, plus the income tax.

During that time, tariffs averaged 40-50 percent. After the income tax, tariffs dropped to an average of about 7 percent, where they remain today. If we went back to 40 percent, like we had for nearly 150 years, we would bring production home and free our citizens from impoverishing taxes.

Dear folks, this is a watershed moment to take a creative and serious look at the sacred cows in our nation and fry some serious burgers. We don’t know history. We don’t know liberty. We don’t know earthworms or aquifers or immune systems. I’m hoping this election is an opening to discovery. Perhaps we could even figure out how to put negative occurrences like jails, pollution, and cancer on the nation’s balance sheet, as a liability rather than an asset (Gross Domestic Product–more jails? wonderful, pour more concrete and make more jobs).

Perhaps we’ll eliminate federal involvement in education, from kindergarten to college. Make every teacher accountable to performance. Eliminate ALL federal intervention in the food system, in farming, in energy. The Constitution (read it) doesn’t allow for any of this and it’s time to examine all of it. Shut down foreign military bases; bring them all home. Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID to military aid. Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn’t.

I think whatever taxes we pay should be able to be designated to certain departments. That way we the people could support or defund departments directly. The reason we have K street is because all our freedoms are for sale. Eliminate government manipulation and the lobbyists all go home. These are simple things. Let’s do it.

What is your first request for the Trump/RFK Jr. agenda?

🚨 #BREAKING: Sources say Rep. Thomas Massie is set to be tapped for Secretary of Agriculture by President Trump

This would be HUGE!

Massie has been pushing for Food Freedom and getting the government off the backs of American farmers for YEARS.

He’s the perfect pick, and a… pic.twitter.com/UpXlzQozZ9

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 6, 2024

Wow.

Joel Salatin, a farmer and regenerative agriculture advocate, has been offered a position within the USDA.

He will advise Thomas Massie who’s agreed to be Secretary of Agriculture.

Here’s the full message posted to his website today:

“The deplorables and garbage… pic.twitter.com/rg4F1U5rKL

— Meat Head (@markeatsmeat) November 6, 2024

BREAKING NEWS: per his website, Joel Salatin has been contacted and agreed to be one of six advisors to the Secretary of Agriculture, who will be @RepThomasMassie

Are ya’ll awake now?! THIS IS HUGE

One of the legendary pioneers in the regenerative agriculture movement working… pic.twitter.com/hCdPSgYWJg

— The Regenaissance (@_Regenaissance) November 6, 2024

“Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson.  Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate,” Salatin’s website, ‘The Lunatic Farmer,’ says.

It's official, @JoelSalatin to be an Advisor to the Secretary of the USDA and @RepThomasMassie to be Secretary of Agriculture.

We are so unbelievably back, and truly are going to Make America Healthy Again.

Great news for all, especially our farmers and ranchers! https://t.co/UXQXcsQ2Ks pic.twitter.com/lKfG7SNOSr

— 𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 (@MASSExpedition) November 6, 2024

From The Lunatic Farmer:

With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 15 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world. He’s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference.

His wide-ranging topics include nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming as well as cultural philosophy like orthodoxy vs. heresy. A wordsmith and master communicator, he moves audiences from laughs one minute to tears the next, from frustration to hopefulness. Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures. His favorite activity?–Q&A. “I love the interaction,” he says.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement. He writes the “Confessions of a Steward” monthly column for Plain Values magazine, the “Homestead Abundance” column for Homestead Living magazine, and three columns a month for the e-magazine Manward. He also co-hosts a podcast titled BEYOND LABELS with co-author of that book Dr. Sina McCullough.

A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders, and foodies, Salatin’s practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action.

Mixing mischievous humor with hard-hitting information, Salatin both entertains and moves people. Seldom using a power-point and often speaking from an outline scribbled in a yellow legal pad, he depends on theatrics, style, and compelling content to hold attention and defend innovative positions. The rare combination of prophet and practitioner makes him both a must-read and must-hear in a time desperate for integrity leadership and example.

His speaking and writing reflect dirt-under-the-fingernails experience punctuated with mischievous humor. He passionately defends small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. Four generations of his family currently live and work on the farm.

This story is developing.