Quotes About Farming

And with plant species the proportion which has been cultivated is even smaller. From 200,000 higher plant species, only 100 or so are grown for food. And almost all of these were first tended or cultivated in the fourth millennium BC in Europe.

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

Our cattle, poultry and fish should not be exposed to antibiotics or hormones that will be harmful to their human consumers.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.