Quotes About Farming

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

I've never farmed before. It's unforgiving, it's hard work, hard graft - but I loved it, and I loved everyone I met who guided me along the way.

Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They're made from cotton.

I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

The highest priority of my government is to remove various difficulties faced by farmers and to raise their standard of living. The schemes of my government are not only removing their hardships but also reducing the expenditure incurred by them on farming.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?

That is how farm-raised crocs exist for the first three years of their lives, in a crowded, pitch-black prison, with constant, blaring music—then a sudden blast of light, a beating, and some food.

We're kind to the pigs and the chickens as well, mama. But then butchery comes and we prosper. It is the way of things.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.