Quotes About Agriculture

Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.

I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job is to represent fishermen and farmers - everyone.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

There is no debate that the H-2A program needs significant reform. Increasing access, so that farmers and workers are able to meet their labor needs is incredibly important, especially in NC-11 where agriculture represents a pillar of our local economy.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.

Meat's effect on climate change simply cannot be ignored.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.

I found out that the animal agriculture business has a huge impact on our climate, so by cutting down on your meat and dairy consumption, you can have a huge impact and help the environment.

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

From the very beginning at Marley Coffee, we have appreciated the importance of growing our beans sustainably.

Sometimes sugarcane takes about 15 months to grow, and hence it is inappropriate to ask farmers to pay their crop loans in 12 months.

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?