Quotes About Farming

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Et sie minnuu tunne? Mie olen Rokan Antti. Pienmaanviljelijä Kannakselt. Nykyään Tikkakosken mannekiini.

Despite many differences in agronomic practices and in cultivated crops, all traditional agricultures shared the same energetic foundation. They were powered by the photosynthetic conversion of solar radiation, producing food for people, feed for animals, recycled wastes for the replenishment of soil fertility, and fuels for smelting the metals needed to make simple farm tools. Consequently, traditional farming was, in principle, fully renewable.

The combination of new equipment and new chemicals turned the American farm into the most efficient food bank on earth, capable of producing more wheat, corn, and so forth, per acre than any other country's farms in the history of agriculture.

Out here in the country there was no avoiding the direct link between death and dinner

Now there was silence. For hours on end the valley would be completely still and empty, and we became curious. What was everybody doing? Faustin, we knew, traveled around the neighboring farms as a visiting slaughterer, slitting the throats and breaking the necks of rabbits and ducks and pigs and geese so that they could be turned into terrines and hams and confits.

An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef.

Many people who think nothing of buying factory-farmed ham or chicken from a supermarket are quick to condemn hunting; yet hunting is more defensible than factory farming.

Let's step back from this debate and consider how it affects the question we are currently investigating, the role of war in the rise of archaic states. While there is confusion resulting from competing definitions, and a great degree of controversy about evidence and how to interpret it, all parties agree on one thing: warfare was particularly vicious among pre-state farming societies.

I represent a state that accounts for most of the food production in India.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

Agriculture is in my heart.

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

My aim is to make Andhra Pradesh a drought-proof state.

2,222 - Chickens you will eat in your lifetime, along with one sheep, six ducks, nine cows, and 63 turkeys – although you're unlikely to hunt, pounce on, and kill any of these creatures yourself!

corn yielded more calories per acre than did rice, wheat, or barley,

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It's true. That's where the loan waiver comes in.

You think he should turn to dairying and livestock," Kathleen said. "It would be easier and more profitable than trying to farm lowland clay." "You may be right," she told him ruefully. "But in this part of England, breeding livestock is not considered as respectable as working the land." "What the devil is the difference? Either way, one ends up shoveling manure.

I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a cattleman.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.

Some farmers, being warned that the bacterial count in their tank is creeping up, will pour chlorine bleach directly into the milk. There are some, despite warnings, who continue practices that allow cow dung to get into the milking machine.