Quotes About Agriculture

have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred to one : for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage, or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniencies of life as ten acres equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated?

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.

It is unfortunate but true that the proof that there are rocks in the field is usually the fact that we have just hit them with the plow.

To stay under 2°C, global emissions would have to fall nearly to zero within the next several decades. To stave off 1.5°C, they'd have to drop most of the way toward zero within a single decade. This would entail, for starters: revamping agricultural systems, transforming manufacturing, scrapping gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles, and replacing most of the world's power plants.

In New England, 1816 became known as the "year without a summer" or "eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death.

Por otra parte, conseguir que una sociedad de hidalgos o que pretendía serlo (Hasta los zapateros y los sastres presumen de cristianos viejos y pasean espada al cinto, escribía Quevedo) se pusiera a trabajar en la agricultura, en la ganadería, en el comercio, en las mismas actividades que estaban ya enriqueciendo a los estados más modernos de Europa, era pedir peras al olmo, honradez a un escribano o caridad a un inquisidor.

Hay's for horses, straw is cheaper, grass is free, you live on a farm and you get all three!

The quest to trascend life's pains would become far more central to the religious experience as human societies expanded dramatically, beyond the small-scale kin communities of prehistory, with the advent of agriculture, the rise of state societies, and the coming of modernity.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men, government employees and farmers.

A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

My grandparents were always farmers.

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.