Quotes About Agriculture

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Because the students were needed in the fields from early spring when the cotton was planted until after most of the cotton had been picked in the fall, the school adjusted its terms accordingly, beginning in October and dismissing in March.

Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself.

He who could not find plow-oxen owns cattle.

Since the start of collectivization, the necessities of life had almost completely disappeared from the shelves of the village store.

What the commissar said was again repetitious. He declared that the governments of the capitalist countries were being ruthlessly exploited; the farmers in those countries were working with primitive implements. Only in the Soviet Union were farmers taken care of: they were happy; they were embarking on the socialist way of production (he said this as if it were an accepted fact); and they were supplied with the best agricultural machinery.

The communist rulers began to squeeze the peasants and farmers: the more prosperous among them were subjected to heavy taxes; the prices for grain were arbitrarily cut by 20 percent....

Lui è morto, ma io voglio continuare a vivere. Il grano nei campi dev'essere falciato

Respecte la terre, et elle te respectera. Travaille-la, elle te le rendra au centuple.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Myxomatosis,

The manorial system, widespread in the West from Charlemagne's time onward, was not at first favorable to the development of agriculture and commerce. Manors tended to be self-sufficient; the economy was closed. Men lived in their small world, in constant fear of the strange world beyond, from which came only evil. The best they could hope for was to endure, and they endured.

MIGHT AS WELL RAISE MOOSHROOMS

Present-day culture, social relations, cityscapes, modes of production, agriculture, and transportation have remade the traditional proletarian into a largely petty bourgeois stratum whose mentality is marked by its own utopianism of "consumption for the sake of consumption." We

Relying on investments, mainly stocks, is good, but not great, because it weakens the new generation by paying less attention to the physical labour of ploughing the land.

I recently broke up with my tractor provider. I was scared to do it in person, so I just sent a John Deere letter.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants.

The Louisiana Territory, as he envisioned it, would encourage agriculture and forestall the growth of manufacturing and urban poverty

Profit-seeking planters and industrious husbandmen, on the other hand, were needed to cultivate the ground for its riches, and in doing so impose a firm hand.7 This powerful conception of land use would play a key role in future categorizations of race and class on the experimental continent.

The land and the poor could be harvested together, to add to—rather than continue to subtract from—the nation's wealth.

The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.

so you won't see anything spectacular for a while. There's mostly farmland

CO2 had increased due to human activities, CO2 will continue to increase unless changes are made, and these increases will affect weather, agriculture, and ecosystems. None of the physical scientists suggested that accumulating CO2 was not a problem, or that we should simply wait and see.