Odd Jobs: Deer Urine Farmer

“Nobody is talking about how this upcoming election is going to effect small businesses like ours,” says Judi Collora, 61, the co-founder and co-owner of Mrs. Doe Pee’s Buck Lures in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. If Obama is reelected in November, she says, it could wreak havoc on the deer urine industry.

Not directly, perhaps. But the dealers who buy and sell her product—pure, undiluted whitetail buck urine used as hunting lures—have been hit hard by the unstable economy under Obama’s administration. “In 2010, around 25 percent of archery shops closed their doors,” Collora says. “If Obama gets elected again, I think it’s going to happen again. They won’t be able to afford the taxes.” And when those businesses fail, she says, the deer urine business fails right along with them.