Agribusiness Advocate Mugs

Drought ruined corn crop.

"Looks like we grafted a few too many human genes into the kohlrabi."

View to the Future

"Hello, son. I suppose chicken farming doesn't seem so bad now."

'I had to overcome stereotypical misunderstandings about who makes a good leader.'

"Your shepherd, Louie, has retired. I'm Mr. Smathers. I will be your grazing-resource coördinator and flock welfare-and-security manager."

"There's a big green giant at the door!"

'Thanks to a little genetec engineering, we can merchandise these fish right on the farm.'

Disraeli's Local Taxation Reform for Agricultural Interest

'With all the new laws being proposed, our tomatoes with founder genes may soon be an endangered species.'

Man rolling the world across a shaky bridge between organic food and genetic food.

"Looks promising. I just hope you aren't leading us down the garden path again."

"I can't afford to feed you."

'I'm pretty sure this means the price has finally hit bottom.'

'I don't know if she's gonna be much good. I don't think she's even registered.'

"Whatever happened to common sense?"

'These were developed in the 1980s - they're a heritage genetically modified variety.'

Tom Cotton

You just plant the seed, water it, and when it grows, you eat it --- I call it "agribusiness."

"We represent a North Carolina trade association and we'd like to file suit against the Native Americans for introducing our clients to a certain agricultural product."

'Any Questions?. . . Anyone else?'

"...and the farmers - what would they do without me?...wait, don't answer that!"

"I'm sorry son, but one day all this will be yours."

GM Food and World Hunger

Speculators and Food Production

I was the barn cat until the farm went corporate.

'Free range isn't all that! We basically get leftovers from the cattle!'

What the new farm bill means. . . to the small farmer. . . to the corporate farmer.

'What's your take on this new farm program legislation? -- I've never been on a farm.'

"To be fair, you each must lose 50 pounds..."

"Oddly enough, I could never work in a cubicle."

SOIL BANK: 'Loam dept...clay, sand & gravel'.

Small dairy farmers have no future.

'You got anything that'll kill harsh immigration laws?'

Sri Lanka Organic Farming Crisis