Quotes About Agriculture

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Work is the province of cattle.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.

Milk production is one of India's great success stories.