Quotes About Farming

Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: A milk dud.

Q: What do you get when you cross a cow and a duck? A: Milk and quackers.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Less land, less time, more crop.

After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute. It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply.

Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearance of large cities," wrote Jared Diamond. Malaria, probably the single greatest killer of humanity, and nearly all other infectious diseases are the heritage of agriculture.

Aš, vaikas, s?d?davau ant lauko ežios ir ži?r?davau, kaip mano t?vas su s?tuve ant kaklo eidavo per lauk?, l?tai, vienodu žingsniu, mostas buvo sujungtas kartu su žeme, su lauku, su tom s?klom: joks jogas niekados nebus ar?iau šito pasaulio, šitos žem?s, kaip ?kininkas.

Growers and winemakers are more like stewards who understand the potential of a particular piece of earth. Through farming and production they are able to realize that potential, which is sometimes mistaken for self-expression.

We are the first generation to be hunted by what we eat. Since the birth of farming ten thousand years ago, most humans haven't been hunters, but never before have we been so insistently pursued by our own food supply. The calories hunt them down even when we are not looking for them.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also, by contrast, reflect on how nature so often offers grace.

When I help a farmer, I don't differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

We have to really think about where our food is coming from. The hormones being put in the stuff we eat - all of that contributes to cancer.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

Where would Monsanto be without the U.S. farm program and world-class research labs?

Connecticut has a vibrant farming community - the products they produce are world-class and we want to help support the continued growth of this important sector of our state's economy.