Quotes About Agriculture

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Taxes grow without rain.

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience.

The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields.

The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

organic apples at the supermarket may contain streptomycin and oxytetracycline, antibiotics that disqualify meat products from being labeled organic but are still used on apples and pears due to the regulatory quagmire. And

USDA statistics, as of 2012, showed 99 percent of durum wheat, 97 percent of spring wheat, and 61 percent of winter wheat as part of the harvesting process had been doused with Roundup, the world's

First came Sumer with its amazing ziggurats, agriculture (they had four types of beer!), and written language. The Sumerian cuneiform tablets, more than half a million still cached away in museums across the world, state that civilization was brought to them by beings who could fly through the air. These god-like beings were called the Anunnaki, translated as "those who came from the heavens to the Earth.

And as old Thomas Jefferson said, 'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.' I hate to plow.

Most native plants are also higher in protein and fiber and much lower in sugar than the ones we've devised. The ancestor of our modern corn is a grass plant called teosinte that is native to central Mexico. Its kernels are about 30 percent protein and 2 percent sugar. Old-fashioned sweet corn is 4 percent protein and 10 percent sugar. Some of the newest varieties of supersweet corn are as high as 40 percent sugar.

A ceia indo principiando, somente falei também de sérios assuntos, que eram a política e os negócios da lavoura e cria. Só faltava lá uma boa cerveja e alguém com jornal na mão, para alto se ler e a respeito disso tudo se falar.

Indeed, on a high plane of generality there is nothing very much for economic theory to say to the planner, except: Do not listen to those who say you want this rather than that — agriculture, not industry; exports, not home production; light industry, not heavy. You always want both. [p. 113]

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

Every artificially inseminated pig is a blow to the face of Imperialist warmongers.

Bartholomeus van Rijn, thirty-six, had bought a Coornhart and a Blijenburger from Double in the "dry bulb time" between flowering and replanting of the bulbs in the early autumn.

Land taken from Native peoples in Texas was then cleared by enslaved people, who were then put to work planting, tending, and harvesting crops.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.