Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bridges

Most produce travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the consumer.

Patrick Sullivan

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

I think there needs to be subsidies in place to make sure growers can farm successfully.

Kevin Moore

Just an old-fashioned demonstration. How farming used to be.

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

I think gradually, with the procurement of grants, we might be able to restore some of the farm back to the way it should be.

Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

Because we farm organically, we don't get many payments from the farm program,

It is government trying to protect people from themselves. GMO products are a tool conventional farmers use to eke out a living. Tradition is that neighboring farmers work out their differences and generally they can do a pretty good job.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.

If anything should go on the historic register, this farm should. It was a showplace.

Nicolas Cage

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

Given where prices have been, there has been a lot of on- farm storage by farmers, which has slowed deliveries,

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land.

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

I grew up on a farm and it is in my blood.

I grew up next to a farm in western Pennsylvania. This smell is 100 times worse.

If we go into the communities and say, 'We'd like to put a wind farm here,' and they all say, 'Not in our backyard,' then we might not be able to meet our goals.

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

My farming and my trading are by the Support of the Name.

Neighbors would pay the price for these farming practices.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Tim Johnson

This proposal is ill-advised and ill-conceived and obviously occurred with little consultation within the farming community,

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Ed Rendell

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Nancy Gibbs

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

John Goodman

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.