Quotes About Agriculture

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.

Sweden endured a potato famine like in Ireland and loads of people emigrated to the US.

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.

Since Roman times, farmers have periodically planted their fields with Rhizobia-toting legumes to add fixed nitrogen to the soil.

In the early 1990s, the American government, in an attempt to persuade Peruvian farmers to grow something other than coca — the immensely profitable raw material of cocaine — began to subsidize Peruvian asparagus.

Historically, kale has been a more popular food for livestock than for people, though for both it is notably nutritious

don't you forget that those stinky smells have a purpose. Without the barnyard, there'd be no bacon. Without the fertilizer..." He waved his hand over the garden before turning again to Matthew. "Don't be afraid to deal with the mess, son. The sweetest moments come from the most offensive fertilizer.

When men no longer live in harmony with one another, the sun still shines and the rain falls, but the fields are less well tended, the harvests less abundant.

everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked

It's the crop.

There was Henry Blakely who fell into the threshing machine that time and that was pretty grizzly.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.