Quotes About Agriculture

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.

Our current food system is simply unsustainable: when as many as 20 calories of energy or resources goes into every 1 calorie of food nutrition that we end up eating;

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

By the time Chester was born in i9o9, an agricultural depression, race riots in northern and southern cities, and nearly a thousand lynchings had further aggravated the precariousness of black lives.

more efficient than vegetable food.

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

small pasture where corn was grown for flour and chicken feed visible through the trunks east of his position. The open spaces between the trees were as cauldrons of heat where the foliage was brown, the heads of grasses bowed to the ground as if praying for rain. He stopped in the shade and adjusted the straps of the wood and cloth basket

The Romans had a great general named Cincinnatus. The legend is that he had wanted to live quietly on his farm but was persuaded twice to return to public

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Farmers deserve definitely our attention and support ,but certainly not alone through LIKEs vote on quotes and post on the social media.

Farmers deserve true support from the people and not 'Likes' vote on their picture shared on somebody's social media post.

Poor farmers need merely actual support, not LIKEs vote on their photo on somebody's social media post.

The nation has the best culture only if its population engaged in agriculture lives with satisfaction in their respective region.

There are many cheat who can make more money with their just one misguiding tweet than that amount a farmer can earn by selling one tonne of wheat

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.