Digital Farmer Pillows

Young MacDonald

Old MacDonald had a data farm. AI AI O.

'You've got E.I.E.I.O mail'

"....Reception on my tablet is so much better since I added wifi to my mule..."

Farmers and new technologies

Old MacDonald's farm. Checking E-I-E-I-O mail.

'Oh, I plow the fields, Greta takes care of the house, and young Johan, here, maintains the website.'

"Picking blackberries has gotten complex, hasn't it?"

'This is ironic, our content farm is producing fertilizer.'

"It's an easy job these days: the sheep don't wander around anymore, they stare at their phones all day long..."

"The next facebook friend inviting me to play farmville is getting deleted!"

"I'm sorry I bumped you, honey. Hello, tech support, I have a farmer in the Dell!"

Old McDonald hacks into his mortgage account

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

'Personally I can't see anything wrong with GM crops!'

'I'm here to fix your robotic milker.'

If we build raised beds and a compost bin now

Cow Pilot.

"Let's honor this young future farmer - he's ready to endure hard labor, long hours and outrageously low farm prices..."

'They used to be called sheep, and they produced wool. Now they're some sort of bioengineered creatures, and they produce antibiotics.'

'It's better than we expected. Now the sheep produce wool in the winter and cotton in the summer.'

"He's a quick learner."

First there were virtual-pets. Now there are virtual owners and ranchers.

Locally Grown Stocks, Farm Fresh CDs, Free Range Annuities.

"Someday, son, all this will be yours..."

Biotechnology in agriculture

'Do you believe how easy it is to find corn on the internet?'

'This lettuce will grow on Mars...by the way, find out if 'red lettuce' is copyrighted.'

'Nobody move. I just dropped a contact lens.'

'Just seeing how my shears are doing...'

The sheep are much easier to keep track of now. They spend all day watching clips on Ewe Tube!

Old MacDonald had a startup.

"I need this grant to start my chicken farm."

'Er... vicar - does the church have a position on the donation of GM vegetables for the Harvest Festival?'

'Oh, I plow the fields, Greta takes care of the house, and young Johan, here, maintains the website.'