Quotes About Agriculture

rains failed, there were crop failures, people starved. STUDENT: What's that? CLIMATOS: It means that people died because they had no food. STUDENT: What? CLIMATOS: Yes, incredible as it may seem, they had nothing to eat

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

While there are good arguments to be made that a large number of cattle mutilations are actually a covert monitoring operation for infectious diseases—diseases that are deemed necessary by the agriculture and health authorities to keep under wraps for fear of scaring the public—

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

corn yielded more calories per acre than did rice, wheat, or barley,

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life.

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It's true. That's where the loan waiver comes in.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.

I think every business should build on their strengths, and the strengths of Victoria are our clean, green agriculture; the strengths of Victoria are our strong education system.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.

You think he should turn to dairying and livestock," Kathleen said. "It would be easier and more profitable than trying to farm lowland clay." "You may be right," she told him ruefully. "But in this part of England, breeding livestock is not considered as respectable as working the land." "What the devil is the difference? Either way, one ends up shoveling manure.

What has happened to you? I hardly recognize you." "Nothing's happened. What do you--oh, yes, I've lost a bit of weight. Never mind that, I've just arranged to purchase a threshing machine." West's face glowed with pleasure. At first Devon thought he was being sarcastic. My brother , he thought, is excited over farming equipment.

You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

This is an industry to not only look at, but become a part of for the future, right now in the present. It can create wealth, amplify health and help to save, sustain and grow economies while reducing our footprint. With the farm bill making it legal, again; it's time to return to hemp.

Over 80 percent of all GMOs grown worldwide are engineered for herbicide tolerance. As a result, use of toxic herbicides like Roundup has increased fifteen times since GMOs were introduced. GMO crops are also responsible for the emergence of 'super weeds' and 'super bugs': which can only be killed with ever more toxic poisons

The long-term impacts of GMOs are unknown, and once released into the environment, these novel organisms cannot be recalled.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.