Quotes About Farming

In 1830, America's farmers comprised seventy-one percent of the workforce. Yet, in modern times, this number had plummeted to less than two percent. Improved automation of farms had impacted a greater percentage of the workforce than autonomous vehicles ever could. Even so, society had readily absorbed the loss of these farming jobs, which had morphed into opportunities in other sectors.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Dependence begets subservience and venality," he wrote. There was something romantic, too, in Jefferson's attachment to farming: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Influenced by

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

organic apples at the supermarket may contain streptomycin and oxytetracycline, antibiotics that disqualify meat products from being labeled organic but are still used on apples and pears due to the regulatory quagmire. And

USDA statistics, as of 2012, showed 99 percent of durum wheat, 97 percent of spring wheat, and 61 percent of winter wheat as part of the harvesting process had been doused with Roundup, the world's

Aí me explicou: um senhor, no Palhão, na fazenda Nhanva, altas beiras do Jequitaí, para o ensino de todas as matérias estava encomendando um professor.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

I'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law, and to try and ensure that they are making both safe and profitable decisions for their business.

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

I want for us to be self-sustained so we can export. The government has a responsibility to have agricultural programs so people are able to grow their own food.

Globally, the highest number of irrigation projects are in India, and within the country, the highest number is in Maharashtra.

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

I'm a great fan of farmed products, as long as it's done properly, because it allows people to be able to afford them. If it wasn't for farmed products, a lot of people wouldn't eat so well.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Most livestock—an estimated 99% in America, 74% around the world—comes from factory farms.

Animal products provide only 18% of calories worldwide, yet take up 80% of the earth's farmland.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.