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Quotes About Farmers

office inaugurated Rural Free Delivery in 1896, which promised home mail service on roads passable enough to permit it—a mighty popular idea among rural farmers, who until then had viewed good roads and the taxes they required as schemes favoring big-city dandies on their bikes.
~ Earl Swift
Farmer Landis, and raisin or "Rosina" pie,
~ Edith Thomas
You can classify farmers into two major groups. One who saves seeds for the next crop and the other who purchases seeds from the market. Most of the commercial farmers like the US farmers are people who purchase seeds.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.
~ Nikki Reed
I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.
~ Christopher Timothy
We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.
~ Paul Polman
I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
~ Joseph Hume
I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.
~ Nick Offerman
In Arizona, where farm dust is currently regulated, farmers are forced to park tractors on windy days to prevent getting strapped with outrageous fines.
~ Stephen Fincher
Eleven million people in America work in the restaurant industry - and then when you start figuring in the farmers, the cheese makers, the wine people, all the other industries that support the restaurants, you're talking about a much bigger number.
~ Philip Rosenthal
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.
~ David Frum
I always enjoy talking with Texas' farmers and ranchers about what's working and what's not so I can best advocate for them in Congress.
~ Ronny Jackson
Alternatively, it may be that a form of early Indo-European arrived with the first farmers
~ Roderick Beaton
As with most other reservations, the government policy of attempting to excite pride in private ownership by doling parcels of land to individual Ojibwe flopped miserably and provided a feast of acquisition for hopeful farmers and surrounding entrepreneurs.
~ Louise Erdrich
The initial phase of this revolt was the Farmers' Alliance movement, born on the Texas frontier.
~ Sarah Chayes
Once this was a nation of farmers, builders, inventors, creators, explorers, and thinkers. Now we are a nation of bubblehead academic poseurs, race-guilt hucksters, and keening middle-class "victims" of imaginary wrongs.
~ John Derbyshire
In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman
Farmers especially marginal are simply the best to admire and probably next comes poor street vendors selling vegetables & fruits and then are food outlets who serve delectable , hygienic vegetarian cuisine at an affordable price that is comfortable to the pocket of the majority of the population.
~ Anuj Somany
Poor farmers need merely actual support, not LIKEs vote on their photo on somebody's social media post.
~ Anuj Somany
In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.
~ Danny Meyer
Those who indulged in the violence at Red Fort were not genuine farmers but some anti-social elements.
~ Amarinder Singh
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
~ Frances Beinecke
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
~ Catherine Helen Spence