Quotes About Agriculture

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

As Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton, I led the effort to bring running water to every American home.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

I wish I owned a bunch of farm land. I'd love to have fields full of grain.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

As a farmer, I understand firsthand the challenging circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created within our agriculture community.

Parity is for farmers.

During 2009-2014, the Budget allocation for agriculture increased by a meagre 8.5 percent. From 2014-2019, the Modi government hiked it by 38.8 percent. By opposing the passage of these historic Acts in Parliament, the Congress exposed itself.

I've long held that you can judge a country's economic plight by the number of goats it has. The more goats there are, the more desperate the situation in that particular village, town, or country.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

It takes at least 100 human generations for agricultural societies to develop into states

major American agricultural concerns.

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When I lovingly prepare breakfast for my future children, I'd at least like to know that I served them Monsanto-engineered cornflakes with rBGH-infused milk, diazinon-sprayed strawberries, and irradiated bananas.

Well, why should I sell the Canadian farmers' wheat?

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.