Quotes About Agriculture

Iowa had a quarter of America's best-grade topsoil all to itself, and therefore it was at the head of the list when it came to corn and soybeans and hogs and cattle.

There were button makers, and hat makers, and glove makers, and turpentine farmers, and laborers, and locomotive engineers, and silk spinners, and tin mill workers.

Westwood had quoted from his recent research and said old-style wheat grew about four feet tall, but it was being bred down to a brawnier plant with more seeds, just two feet high. In which case the local farmers were still old-style. The wheat was easily four feet tall.

Grange Farm and Bishops Pargeter

Over the next 1,364 days, the Khmer Rouge, seeking to obliterate the social classes and create an agrarian society of peasants, was responsible for killing, starving, or working to death about two million Cambodians, out of a population of eight million. Accounting for the percentage of people destroyed, Pol Pot's Communist regime was the most murderous in the modern age.

Do you know who is up at four in the morning? Dairy farmers. Paperboys. Lunatics.

paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies—and died younger—than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn't be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

Liberals thought that it was possible to modernize agriculture, improve the peasants' standard of living, diversify the economy, and become a 'civilized' state. The conservatives were convinced that Romania was destined to remain an agrarian country for the foreseeable future.

and harvesting

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Our beliefs about traditional marriage date from agrarian cultures, where you made everything you ate or wore or used, where large extended families helped get this huge amount of work done so nobody starved, and where marriage was a working proposition. When we talk about "traditional family values," this is the family we are talking about: an extended family of grandparents and aunts and cousins, an organization to accomplish the work of staying alive.

Consider these statistics. It used to cost Farm Journal, a client of Key Survey, an average of $4 to $5 per respondent for a 40- to 50-question survey of farmers. Now, using Key Survey, it costs Farm Journal 25 cents per survey, and it is able to survey half a million people.

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.