He tells us that the Department apparently would rather finance development of a new. tough strawberry that can be harvested by machine than a strawberry that tastes better or is more nutritious. This is the same department. according to Mr. Kontz. that has given little or no comfort and aid to a small. new cooperative organized by former migrant laborers to get into the strawberry cultivation business themselves. But the mere entry of corporations into agriculture has not been enough. especially for the conglomerates that have honed their managerial prowess into widely diversified interests that control a broad spectrum of agriculturally related businesses. They buy seed from one of their own subsidiaries to plant with machinery manufactured by another to plant on the land owned by another to be tended by laborers with pesticides. fertilizers. and machinery manufactured by still others within the same corporate structure.