Quotes About Agriculture

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.

It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the No. 1 producer of agriculture products. I think opening up markets - more markets for agricultural sales is a very high priority for us.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

In the first two years of the Trump administration the numbers just collapsed—compared to the Obama and George W. Bush administrations alike. At the Department of Agriculture, to take just one other example, fines levied on meat and processed food conglomerates for cheating contract farmers and other violations plummeted by 2018 to a tenth of 2013 levels.

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

The terraced slopes were a marvel of human muscle, a compelling demonstration of what China's giant workforce could accomplish over generations. Even so, many from their region had left farming for trade.

To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: An udder failure.

Q: What do you get when you cross a cow and a duck? A: Milk and quackers.

it was not that plants treated with insecticides had as many eggs, nymphs, and insects on them as untreated plants—they had more! Indeed, insecticide treatment caused up to an 800-fold increase in insect density. This meant that insecticides weren't preventing hopperburn, they were largely responsible for causing it. How the hell could that happen?

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Less land, less time, more crop.

It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.