Quotes About Agriculture

Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.

Foreign interference in America's agriculture supply chain poses a serious national security threat, especially given that the worst proponent is the Chinese Communist Party.

I always told my children that if they want to be pilot, go ahead and do it, or if they wanted to get into agriculture, I told them that I will support them. But when they chose music, you feel as if those birds have come back home to the nest.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

We need to do a better job of supporting diversity and inclusion within all sectors of our economy, including agriculture.

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

They killed us twenty thousand years ago with their crops and their craven connivance at hierarchy.

O não-plantio da safra de 1958 mandava um aviso de que ia haver escassez de alimentos, embora as estatísticas oficiais mostrassem um aumento de dois algorismos na produção agrícola. Anunciou-se oficialmente que em 1958 a safra de trigo da China tinha superado a dos Estados Unidos. O jornal do Partido, o Diário do Povo, abriu uma discussão sobre o tema Como podemos enfrentar o problema da produção excessiva de alimentos?

Sumer had devised the system of structural violence that would prevail in every single agrarian state until the modern period, when agriculture ceased to be the economic basis of civilization.

A primitive capitalism had developed, which had quite different priorities. The lavish sacrifices had been designed to impress the gods and to enhance the patron's prestige. By the fifth century, these eastern peoples had realized that their improved trade and agriculture brought them far more wealth and status than the Vedic rites.

I can turn the fields over, start again. It's sure to rain soon. Wheat's sure to grow.

La cooperación en el proceso de trabajo, que es la forma imperante en los comienzos de la civilización, en los pueblos de cazadores,20 o en la agricultura de las comunidades indias se basa, de una parte, en la propiedad colectiva sobre las condiciones de producción y de otra parte en el hecho de, que el individuo no ha roto todavía el cordón umbilical que le une a la comunidad o a la tribu, de la que forma parte como la abeja de la colmena. Ambas

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture