Notable quotable

Dow Agrosciences: farm like there’s no tomorrow! 1

“If you’re going to farm a piece of land, you ought to farm it for all its worth.”
—Tim Hassinger, commercial vice president at Dow AgroSciences, quoted in an AP story called “Chemical makers go on the offensive in agriculture.”

Grist food editor Tom Philpott farms and cooks at Maverick Farms, a sustainable-agriculture nonprofit and small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Follow my Twitter feed; contact me at tphilpott[at]grist[dot]org.

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  1. Jim Goodman Posted 8:03 pm
    28 Jul 2009

    So, has this guy ever farmed and made a living from it? If he has, does he think about the productive capacity of that land in 5, 10, 50 years? Probably not, corporate philosophy is all about profit today.

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