Quotes About Farming

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.

Teach the young minds the agriculture rather than technology.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

I just love chickens.

Look at a seed in the palm of a farmer's hand. It can be blown away with a puff of breath and that is the end of it. But it holds three lives — its own, that of the man who may feed on its increase, and that of the man who lives by its culture. If the seed die, these men will not, but they may not live as they always had. They may be affected because the seed is dead;

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise everything from chickens to llamas, and, you know, have an artist residency.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.

Farmers have good years and bad years—like every other business—but the median income of farm households is consistently higher than the median income of nonfarm households. The average American household has a net worth of $82,600, versus $827,000 for farm households.19 About half of the billions in farm subsidies go to farmers with household income over $150,000.

cranberry bog

Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut tree chips.

I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.

News flash, horses poop about fifty pounds of manure a day. That's per horse. Of course cows poop about three times that, so we have it easy by comparison.

We run several thousand head of steers. Those are the ones that end up on your barbecue. I have another few hundred head of cows for breeding purposes." "No bulls?" she asked, unable to keep from grinning. He sighed the sigh of the long suffering. "A dozen or so.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Each strand of corn silk is actually a hollow tube connected to the undeveloped mother cob. The pollen travels down the silk to the cob, where it forms a single kernel. Each kernel has its own silk attached to it. Someone up there thought of everything, because they even made it so the silk is covered with a sticky substance that catches the pollen. To make sure it doesn't just blow away.

Farmer George. That was what people called him behind his back. Little did they know he took it as a compliment. He had meant what he'd said to his mother that morning. The earth was beautiful. Soil was a miracle, and from it sprang all life and hope.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

I really am serious abut catfish farming. I'm very interested in aquaculture.

To make matters worse, it was clear that small-scale subsistence farming had, sadly, become extremely difficult to maintain in a modern economy. Many of the MST settlements depended on government subsidies to survive. They could wave red Che Guevara flags and rage against the unfairness of global capitalism until they turned hoarse, but that was the reality we all had to live in.