Quotes About Agriculture

I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

For the young, food is from Venus; farming is from Mars

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

The absolute number of workers in agriculture continued to rise until the twentieth century, but agriculture's share of the national workforce fell. By 1900 it had declined to 40 percent, from a majority in 1860. Those workers, however, still produced more than the country could consume.11

America is a series of river crossings; these rivers made us rich. They left the soil that has made us the breadbasket of the world, whether it's the James or the Ohio, the Mississippi or the Missouri. The great rivers define us and made transportation possible until the railroads revolutionized life in the 1830s and 1840s.

and produce as a result of their inundation with industrial herbicides and pesticides which, of course, make their way, again, into the Russian River. Then into the Pacific Ocean. And ultimately, into all the fish in your local supermarket. What is said about the environmental impact of vineyards in Sonoma County? Fucking nothing. It is our sacred cow." Darren raised his shot glass again, "Long live the sacred cow." Colin

We want to make the farmer and his wife and family believe and know that they are no longer the forgotten people, but make them know that they are remembered as part of—yea, they are the bulwark of the Government.

China is able to feed 23 percent of the world's population from 7 percent of the arable land—"by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains," as Fairbank points out.

Doub era sempre così. Aveva una casa grande e tutto quel granturco ben irrigato, ma si lamentava peggio di un coltivatore di grano. [...] Non sono mai riuscito a capire cosa avesse perso Doub. Magari la giusta prospettiva.

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

Så kom kornet på staur, så blev poteten tat op. Så kom vinteren. Neivel, så kom ikke sagen under tak i høst, men det fik ikke hjælpe, det gjaldt ikke livet. Til sommeren kom tid og råd.

I've married a man who owns nine cows, said Jinjur to Ozma, and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business. Where is your husband? asked Ozma. He is in the house, nursing a black eye, replied Jinjur, calmly. The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.