Quotes About Agriculture

As we walked past a quad bike chained to a farm gate, he remarked "It's such a pity how times have changed. You can't leave a piece of machinery out on the road any more." He seemed to have forgotten that he had just been describing a time when you couldn't leave you cattle out.

Planted in apple orchards they are of benefit in preventing apple scab

Some apple varieties, such as Jonagold, Stayman, Winesap, and Mutsu, produced sterile pollen, and could never be used as pollenizers. Yet pollen from other varieties could be used to pollinate those pollen-sterile trees. Really, the honey bee did all the work.

dello Sperone ch'era il miglior vigneto della nostra contrada

To hear Chip talk you'd think every Nebraskan male knows how to put a horseshoe on a mule. They know how to bring forth grain from dirt, or what a combine harvester is. They get what happens to that brought-forth grain, the steps before the Cheerios. The women knit long underwear and are adept at fruit canning.

You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that's not enough either. If there's too much poison around. We're talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anyways, I'd pick raven. A raven can kill, but will he eat garbage? Yes. He will.

Soil drainage is particularly important, but even that can be corrected, either with tiling or raised beds.

No food without blood and sweat." "Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren't busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?" "In winter, the lazy man freezes to death." "Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load." "Useless to ask about the crops, it all depends on hard work and fertilizer." "If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy. (Chinese proverb)

harvest   28   13.6 Haymaking and carting   24   11.7 Threshing 130

Ploughing and sowing   12     5.8 Cereal harvest   28   13.6

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.

Today's seeds are tomorrow's harvests.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

From the older ox the younger learns to plough.

Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers. Why

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

ANES  (ANES)  AWNS  (AWNS)  n.s. The spires or beards of corn. Dict.

Culture begins with cultivating the land, planting seeds, bringing intentionality to cycles that we act to perpetuate.

The initial phase of this revolt was the Farmers' Alliance movement, born on the Texas frontier.

Arabs are harvesting

Factory farms feed their sick and dying cows, called "downer cows," to chickens and pigs.

Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.