Quotes About Agriculture

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods

Tractors and boobs. There you have it.

The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

You get a lot more calories for the price of hamburgers and french fries than you do for carrots, not least because the government subsidizes the production of corn and soybeans, the basis of cheap corn sweeteners and vegetable oil.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

To summarize the soy-food situation: soy companies produce about 25 billion pounds of meal and oil every year for your use, much of it federally subsidized, that they are eager to get you to buy.

Good God, with a bounty Look down on Marion County, For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too, I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do.

When it came time to populate the one thousand miles of our nation-state, we planted 70 percent of the people at the southern end where only 30 percent of the water was made. This wasn't misplaced people, we told ourselves. This was misplaced rain. In our resolve to move those molecules of water to where the crops and houses grew, California pulled off the ultimate sleight of hand.

We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

America's food system is broken.

The word "canola" is a bastardization of "Canada oil," made from a variety of rapeseed developed in Canada specifically designed to produce oil from these low–erucic acid varieties.)

When our government policies and agricultural subsidies have supported the flood of an extra 700 calories per person per day into the food system since 1970 (mostly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup from corn and trans fats), we have a problem.

Il loro valore economico globale per l'agricoltura è stato stimato in 217 miliardi di dollari nel 2008, in quanto circa un terzo di tutte le coltivazioni beneficia o dipende in maniera esclusiva dall'impollinazione da parte degli insetti, in particolare dalle api.

Everywhere I went in Africa it was the same story. Foreign-funded NGOs, supported mainly by donors in Europe, were delaying or blocking the development not just of biotechnology but of modern agriculture generally across the continent.

hugelkultur, a method of burying logs in earthen mounds as the basis for gardens, a nifty function-stacking that stores nutrients and moisture in the soil while sequestering the carbon of waste wood that might otherwise be burned.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.