Quotes About Agriculture

It has been estimated that a hunter-gatherer needs about ten square miles of game and berry-filled land to live on, whereas agriculture can produce enough calories in a tenth of that space to keep fifty people alive.

In this, the people living in the Near East were especially fortunate. There are fifty-six edible grasses growing wild in the world – cereals like wheat, barley, corn and rice. Of those, no fewer than thirty-two grew on the hills and plains of the Fertile Crescent of today's southern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, compared with just four varieties apiece in Africa and America, and only one native variety, oats, in Western Europe.

Human groups who kept cows so as to drink their milk developed digestive systems to cope, while Asians who never did this did not.

Cow pastures exist because we need meat, not because of any clever social thinking on the cow's behalf.

Der Fortschritt", sagte er schließlich, "ist wie eine Herde Schweine. Und so muss man diesen Fortschritt betrachten, so muss man ihn bewerten. Wie eine Herde Schweine, die auf dem ganzen Gehöft herumlaufen. Aus der Existenz dieser Herde ergeben sich verschiedene Vorteile. Es gibt Schinken. Es gibt Wurst, es gibt Speck, es gibt Eisbein in Aspik. Kurzum, Nutzen! Und da braucht man nicht die Nase rümpfen, dass alles vollgeschissen ist.

1. Rolnictwo karmi, ubiera, chroni od ch?odu, dostarcza rozrywki i wspomaga sztuk?. – Z t? rozrywk? i sztuk? troch? przesadzi?e?. – A gorza?k? z czego si? p?dzi? – Rozumiem.

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

In Punjab wheat production it is a 'gamble of temperature' unlike other parts of the country where there is a 'gamble of rainfall'.

Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies focus on financing the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

When I was kid, one of the big things was watching all the cattle trucks and wheat trucks coming through town.

We did not domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

Green Revolution 1.0 came in 1966-67. I was a farmer then myself. Back then, we were getting food from wherever there was a surplus, Australia, the U.S., Canada. We signed an agreement with Americans and were getting wheat from them.

We had about 400 acres, and I'm legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.

What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.