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Quotes About Farming

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
~ Pat Paulsen
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.
~ Bob Beauprez
Saying you must rotate three crops a year, a certain percentage of your land must be set aside, and some of the other proposals, my sense is that it's a little anti-technology, and the ability of European farmers to feed Europe is reduced as a result.
~ Sandra E. Peterson
Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
~ Carlene Carter
My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.
~ Jasmine Guinness
Marketing is a major headache for farmers.
~ Sreenivasan
The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
~ Michael Greger
I am committed to helping our farmers in any way that I can.
~ Elise Stefanik
I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.
~ Lindsey Vonn
I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig.
~ George Orwell
arrachons, s'il se peut, au néant de l'oubli, le sillon de Germain, le fin laboureur
~ George Sand
With Chikens, we have a Super Fare Deel, which is: they make the egs, we take the egs, they make more egs. And sometimes may even eat a live Chiken, shud that Chiken consent to be eaten by us, threw faling to run away upon are approche, after she has been looking for feed in a stump.
~ George Saunders
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
~ George Washington
In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.
~ Sonny Perdue
I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.
~ Jimmy Dean
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
~ Gary Miller
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
~ Michael Pollan
Till 1966 when the Green Revolution came to Punjab, nobody grew this crop. Only when farmers saw money in it, did they start rice cultivation.
~ Amarinder Singh
In spite of the dominant role played by women in both farming, they are denied credit as they lack land titles. Only a small percentage of Kisan Credit Cards goes to them.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
~ Dustin Clare
As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
~ Robert H. Grubbs
Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
I'd be sent down South in summertime to work with my grandmother in the field and working with cattle, chickens, beans and tobacco.
~ Rob Morgan
Q: What do cows make during an earthquake? A: Milkshakes.
~ Scott McNeely