Agriculture Quotes

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

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

Eating is an agricultural act.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Agriculture is the new golf

Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.