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Quotes About Agriculture

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
~ Salva Kiir Mayardit
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
~ Jim Davis
We need to diversify the economy. We need to get away from sugar.
~ Said Musa
I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.
~ Matt Rosendale
It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
So, I went to McGill University in Montreal to study soil chemistry and microbiology, which I did complete, but realized early that little of this could be applied in our country, because we were learning of a Green Revolution that would suit a farmer who had 3,500 acres and not our poor farmer.
~ Suhasini Mulay
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
~ Joanna Southcott
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
~ Matthew Scully
My family, they come from farmers. I used to spend my summers on the farm instead of in the south of France. I loved the hard work and the earth.
~ Dominique Crenn
In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Though he works and worries, the farmer never reaches down to where the seed turns into summer. The earth grants.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Negroes are our benefactors. They produce coffee, tobacco, cotton, sugar, rum, wine, and brandy—all the luxuries of the civilized world. Yet how are they treated in return? Among
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
you gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
La mayoría de las investigaciones que se han realizado sobre cactus nopal experimentan con la variedad OS. Con todo, la variedad OS es menos agradable al paladar que las variedades de OFI. Esta última especie es la que comúnmente se vende y usa como fuente comestible en México
~ Ran Knishinsky
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
~ Ray Bradbury
Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way. The ploughman plods his weary way homeward. Plods homeward the ploughman his weary way. His weary way the ploughman homeward plods. Homeward his weary way plods the ploughman. Plods the ploughman his weary way homeward. His weary way the ploughman plods homeward. His weary way homeward the ploughman plods. The ploughman plods homeward his weary way. The ploughman his weary way plods homeward.
~ Joseph Devlin
His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce.
~ Joseph Heller
Glyphosate also interferes with ATP production by affecting your mitochondrial membranes. When coupled with the so-called inert solvents included in Roundup, the toxicity of glyphosate is magnified as much as 2,000-fold. This makes the membrane more permeable, allowing the glyphosate to go straight to the heart of the mitochondria.
~ Joseph Mercola
All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.
~ Joshua Cohen
The sun and the endless hours of swinging a machete in the fields had taken him from child to old man with no stage in between.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer