Quotes About Agriculture

If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

We grew up in a farming family, so I always ate non-processed food and fresh produce.

I produce schnapps on my farm but I'm not fond of drinking it.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

Israel is a producer of growth.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

With global markets ever expanding, we need to make sure that our American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers are well positioned to continue to lead the world.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

After the Green Revolution, I came up with the concept of the Evergreen Revolution. In this we will see increase in farm productivity but without ecological harm.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.