Quotes About Agriculture

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

The creation of agricultural enterprises represents one of the most effective ways to stimulate rural development.

To own an orange grove in Southern California is to live on the real gold coast of American agriculture.

Successful agricultural colonies existed in San Bernardino, colonized by the Mormons.

Wherever citrus production dominates, a rather distinctive social life has long existed. This citrus belt complex of peoples, institutions, and relationships has no parallel in rural life in America. It is neither town nor country, neither rural nor urban. It is a world of its own.

The children of the grove owners, oppressed by the placidity of . . . Redlands, have begun to leave the area.

The citrus belt . . . has three dominant symbols: the church, the orange, and the 'no-trespass' signs.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Where do they come from? Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? No, the truth is quite different. They are, most of them, made by us.

No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom can beat an exponential population growth.

Labour had become expensive and your average lord could now make more money out of sheep than he could out of his peasants. There was more wool on sheep, for a start, and you could also eat them – which is possible with peasants but socially taboo – so the lords started to throw the expensive, troublesome and uneatable peasants off their land and replace them with sheep.

His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide.

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor.

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

The industrial revolution in England was only made possible through intensified agriculture and the use of coal for manufacturing, which delivered far more energy for far less labor.

For a chicken trapped inside the world of modern food manufacturing, to break out of the shell i sot enter a deeper darkness full of bewildering pain and suffering from birth to death.