Quotes About Agriculture

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

The most difficult thing for us to do is to mitigate and offset our agricultural emissions. If we find a way to do that, then we're showing other countries how to do it, too.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

field beyond field beyond field of well-kept cotton, each tuft white as a senator's eyebrow.

Bad cotton country meant good moonshining country.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

What was it about white men that caused them to plant grass in places where grass couldn't possibly grow without them fiddling with it all the time?

I imagine he'd blow his horn when he threw the hay over. Cows are curious. Worse than cats. They'd come to see about it. And they've got good memories. Do it about twice, and when they hear a horn they think of good alfalfa hay. Come running.

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.