Famous Quotes & Sayings

We plan on using the tractor for general jobs around the farm and probably for some planting.

Orison Swett Marden

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

Joel Salatin

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

Joel Salatin

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

With our farmers here in the U.S., there has been a pretty good movement over the winter. It seems like producer sales are slow, so you're really reliant on South America.

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

There are about a half-dozen farms that are very scared. We need lots of people. It really is different this year.

We as farmers have a lot of similarities. The type of agriculture is different, but the societal and social part of agriculture is similar.

Trying to farm around telephone poles, you can do it, but it's not easy.

Debi Mazar

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

Mostly the rain has come at a good time for our warm-season hay crops. We have a lot of farmers who will be planting some hay crops.

Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.

We need to realize that there is very little incentive for farmers to report suspected outbreaks,

We protected our future. We did it by not ripping up the farm system.

Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.

On our farm here, we're using about (12,000) to 15,000 gallons a year. You can do the math on that. It's a substantial increase in money.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

Patricia Polacco

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Marcus Samuelsson

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Bud Selig

Mark is doing wonderfully well, ... He is a perfect owner. Thoughtful and quiet. He's got a great farm system going and I predict more good things for my old team. I wish them the best.

Dave Carter

Organic farming is personal.

Dolores Huerta

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

You can be a really successful farmer with an oil well in your backyard.

White wheat is worth less today than when I started farming in 1972. The safety net, frankly, is gone.

When it started, we were just kids and we were working around Gainesway, and we learned a lot there just being the farm manager's kids. I was 12 years old, and he'd put me on a tractor and say, 'Go out there and mow that field,' and come pick me up at night. He had us working doing something all the time.

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

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We farm here, but we also live here. We understand the stakes.

Kenny Troutt

I go to the farm generally every other week, but I'm on the phone with them every day, and I watch every race on TV. Not a day goes by when I'm not working on that.