Quotes About Agriculture

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.