Quotes About Agriculture

When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.

Party politics must be transcended to resolve pressing issues like agrarian matters or other similar issues.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

Farmers have good years and bad years—like every other business—but the median income of farm households is consistently higher than the median income of nonfarm households. The average American household has a net worth of $82,600, versus $827,000 for farm households.19 About half of the billions in farm subsidies go to farmers with household income over $150,000.

In a Washington Post interview, the former USDA chief economist Joe Glauber acknowledged the hypocrisy of the farm lobby taking a stand against income testing for eligibility for farm subsidies, while "you have a knockdown drag-out over whether you'll give SNAP payments to someone earning $26,000 instead of $25,000. Give me a break."21

I was much inclined to abolish for ever the practice of allowing the people corn at the public expense, because they trust so much to it, that they are too lazy to till their lands; but I did not persevere in my design, as I felt sure that the practice would some time or other be revived by some one ambitious of popular favour.

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I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.

News flash, horses poop about fifty pounds of manure a day. That's per horse. Of course cows poop about three times that, so we have it easy by comparison.

Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry," wrote Karl Marx—an overstatement, but one with much truth.

Each strand of corn silk is actually a hollow tube connected to the undeveloped mother cob. The pollen travels down the silk to the cob, where it forms a single kernel. Each kernel has its own silk attached to it. Someone up there thought of everything, because they even made it so the silk is covered with a sticky substance that catches the pollen. To make sure it doesn't just blow away.

El suelo pobre produce al hombre rico, porque la pobreza del suelo estimula el trabajo del hombre al que más tarde debe este su riqueza.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

That's Kansas. Or Missouri. One of those corn states.

I heard her ask Lord Nebel how many sheep he was running on his estate. He didn't even know he was running sheep." "I have sheep, but from the look of it, all they do is eat. No running.

Farmer George. That was what people called him behind his back. Little did they know he took it as a compliment. He had meant what he'd said to his mother that morning. The earth was beautiful. Soil was a miracle, and from it sprang all life and hope.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be talking about how are we gonna feed the kids at school.

If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.