Quotes About Agriculture

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

If I lived my life over again I would stay in the countryside. I prefer the countryside, the milking of the cows and the sheep.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

Talk to just about any farmer in Kansas, and you will find him extremely pessimistic about his livelihood. Except for the owners of the very largest spreads, farmers simply cannot make a profit. Kansas has only about half as many farms as it did in 1950; those that remain continue to grow. A few are getting big; most are getting out.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden

Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

There are enormous financial interests involved in the food industry.

the state retrained the bitter fishermen to farm clams, which they now cultivate with the latest marine science and profanity.

beg them to compare the Oostvaardersplassen not with their dreamtime Europe of the classical age, but with a long-vanished continent where large mammals, rather than agricultural practices, shaped landscapes.

Food is a noble thing to trade.

There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken, cooking oil, or instant noodles.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.