Quotes About Agriculture

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry.

To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight.

Conversation with them turns only upon women, food, and (in the rainy season) the crops.

pretty soon, there will be ten billion people coming to dinner. And there is no way they are going to be fed organically.

Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.

It was the fact that we were selling dead animals. You see, farmers are only supposed to sell live animals to processors and marketers who are supposed to make all the money—those notorious middlemen. After all, we couldn't have all that middleman money going to farmers. No, that wouldn't be right. Farmers are supposed to be peasants, serfs, impoverished dolts, remember?

Every time we eat, we participate in farming.

How about the Weston A. Price Foundation's Nourishing Traditions? Oh, books, maybe you read books. Okay, how about Sir Albert Howard's An Agricultural Testament? Or perhaps Rodale's Complete Book of Composting? Never heard of them? Where have you been, under a rock?

Consider that about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy are required to cultivate 1 calorie of starchy vegetable food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1.

Throughout civilization and around the world, six foods have provided our primary fuel: barley, corn, millet, potatoes, rice, and wheat.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

In agriculture, whatever you plan and execute takes 2-3 years to have an impact.

Jovenel Moise is a guy who will continue to do all that is good in all domain, but agriculture is our locomotive.

I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.

Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name Paradox. Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

Death might be a necessity in farming, but suffering? Never.

All in all, Europeans maintained genetic continuity from their earliest establishment out of Africa until Middle Eastern farmers arrived in the last 8,000 years, bringing with them agriculture and a lighter skin color, the researchers said.

The sunlight lying on an acre of farm land weighs several tons, believe it or not.

Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose.