Quotes About Farming

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.

I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

In the early 1900s, a Florida farmer found a notable bud sport while inspecting his grove of Walters grapefruit trees. Tree after tree bore white fruit, except one. On that tree, the farmer spotted a branch weighed down with pink fruits. From that single bud sport, all pink grapefruits descend.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Now mind, you have a mistress instead of a master. I don't yet know my powers or my talents in farming; but I shall do my best, and if you serve me well, so shall I serve you. Don't any unfair ones among you (if there are any such, but I hope not) suppose that because I'm a woman I don't understand the difference between bad goings-on and good.   (All.)

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs.

Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.

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