Agriculture Quotes

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

One of the trends we're seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it's grown and what's in it.

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.