Quotes About Agriculture

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

People are quick to say with their mouth full, 'Well, the American farmer is on the dole.' But a loaf of bread is two bucks when it could be 10 bucks. I know what it is with the government in my business. We would be all for not having government in our business, but we need a fair system.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of this state.

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I come from generations of farmers.

Those who indulged in the violence at Red Fort were not genuine farmers but some anti-social elements.

I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.