Quotes About Agriculture

Farm jobs are not a bargaining chip.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

The land belongs to those who work it.

Comer carne de ganadería intensiva es comer humillación, angustia y dolor.

California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange.

The most important issues are the recovery and removal of oil seeds, oil cake, and only then the removal of grain.

It's like a banana farm for guns!

He avoided stepping on the plants—though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?

One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow.

I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans

Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.

When major lectin-containing foods were introduced to our diet about 10,000 years ago in the form of grains and beans, our health dramatically changed for the worse.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.