Quotes about agriculture
agriculture profound people
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do. Michael Pollan
agriculture towns north-carolina
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. Skeet Ulrich
agriculture possibility walks
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience. Michael Shanks
agriculture miracle productions
There are no miracles in agricultural production. Norman Borlaug
agriculture waiting
Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
agriculture administration cuba
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. Max Baucus
agriculture fire subsidies
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. Michael McCaul
agriculture dirt rich
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich. Larry Holmes
agriculture growth proportion
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. Friedrich List
agriculture wildlife damage
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. James Cook
agriculture hungry harvest
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. John Arbuthnot
agriculture people calling
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Thomas Jefferson
agriculture mind noon
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.
agriculture liberty four
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
agriculture regulation study
I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad Ronald Coase
agriculture government tough-times
The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s. Thomas Sowell
agriculture america water
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Robert Kennedy
agriculture relief given
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. Will Rogers
agriculture worry fit
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.
agriculture needs pay
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.
agriculture plowing more-time
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
agriculture clubs association
Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
agriculture people president
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.
agriculture steak plates
Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
agriculture trying rotation
Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
agriculture essentials figures
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.
agriculture years lasts
Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
agriculture political would-be
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
agriculture trying looks
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
agriculture trying birth-control
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.
agriculture bills relief
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
agriculture being-thankful boards
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.
agriculture optimist farmers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.