Quotes About Agriculture

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output during our years in the E.U.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the end of hormones in meat. I actually think exerting pressure on McDonald's is probably just as important as on the Department of Agriculture.

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

I've always wanted to run my horse farm.

Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks.

There was a barn nearby but no sign of a house, and the cows were too dumb to walk back into the barn, so they stood like a bunch of fat assholes, blowing steam from their nostrils.

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high school. Then, late in 1921, I entered upon a short course in agriculture at South Dakota State College. I managed to enter college in 1924, and I was permitted to complete my college work in three years.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.

Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its seven billion people.