To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

My expectation is the general trend of the next few quarters is for profit growth rates to come down, and it will start by having companies send out that message.

Possibly we could see a little bit of profit taking because investors had been anticipating that when the Fed does meet next week that they won't raise interest rates,

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

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