Quotes About Agriculture

transhumance—i.e., moving livestock seasonally between different altitudes in order to follow the growth of grass at higher elevations as the season advances.

How was New Zealand?' 'Green and full of sheep

It's called ergot. Smell

Les agrocarburants provoquent des catastrophes sociales et climatiques. Ils réduisent les terres vivrières, détruisent l'agriculture familiale et contribuent à aggraver la faim dans le monde. Leur production s'accompagne du rejet dans l'atmosphère du dioxyde de carbone en grande quantité et absorbe un volume élevé d'eau potable. (p. 306)

Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the fields, left their big, smelly plops all over.

If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

I was raised to farm work.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the effects of nutrient pollution.

I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.

I grow strawberries, watermelon, onions, you name it.

Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.

A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.