Quotes About Agriculture

Make hay while the sun shines.

Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.

What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called "snirt.

It was no longer a matter of growing a fat crop, only of growing enough for the seed not to die out. There will be another year, he consoled himself, another summer in which to try again.

Fezes são um bom fertilizante. -Então vamos espalhar você na terra pra ver o que acontece.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.

I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.

I have done my plowing:I have sown my seed.Again I have time to sit and read my books.