Quotes About Agriculture

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

You know that 40 percent of the food in the United States gets thrown away because it doesn't look a certain way. It's crazy: just because the apple is not the right size or the carrot is not straight enough, it just doesn't get accepted.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

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

Toprak, onu ekenin mal?d?r.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Sumer, the land which came to be known in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. It has an area of approximately 10,000 square miles, somewhat larger than the state of Massachusetts. Its climate is extremely hot and dry, and its soil, left to itself, is arid, wind-swept, and unproductive.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Una vieja crónica tailandesa hace la siguiente descripción de los farang: "Son excesivamente altos, peludos y desaseados. Educan a sus hijos durante mucho tiempo y consagran su vida a acumular riquezas. Sus mujeres, grandes y robustas, son muy bellas. No cultivan arroz".

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.