Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Glickman

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,

What a farmer does not know, he won't eat.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

The Mexican worker is the only people that has come and wanted to do this work in the 25 years I've been farming here.

Dixie Lee Ray

Not only just that, but actually, they can take property away from, let's say a farmer, who has a farm pond and uses that to irrigate his land.

It's no different than a farmer keeping his grain in storage playing the futures.

Arnold Palmer

I loved the quaintness of Orlando in those days. It was an old farm town, a great place, but not really on the map.

It's what they used to do a long time ago. To keep the heritage of old farm equipment.

It's very rare for a major league team to own a farm team. They own about as many teams as the rest of major league teams combined.

I WANT to get hold of the farming industry and shake it.

It took away the safety net, the usual farm subsidy programs.

Amanda Cooper

They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.

They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in a farm that doesn't want them.

They were all very nice. I went to farms like Coggeshall in Bristol.

Pascal Lamy

They made a step forward in recognizing U.S. farm programs will have to be reformed.

They indicated that farmland was not being purchased for agricultural purposes in most cases, and that the income from the agricultural use was not a primary consideration in the purchase.

There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.

There's just a lot of snow up there in the mountains right now, which I'm sure the farmers are happy to hear - the farmers and the salmon.

This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

John Wallace

In total around 14 percent of global methane comes from the guts of farm animals. It is worth doing something about.

If you turn a farm silo on it's side ? that's how big these things are.

How do we farm around it? It's not feasible to do that.

Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good reason to be wary.

Sterling Marlin

I know it sounds kinda crazy, but working on the farm is something I enjoy. I like to get out and just putter around.

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.

Howard Berman

This important legislation addresses two harsh realities: an intolerably high percentage of the farm workers who plant and harvest our produce are undocumented - and they are the most poorly paid and poorly treated workers in the United States.

A guy like John Givens, who sells at farmers markets, that's the way to go.

Richard Pombo

You will see a shift in the priorities in the Farm Bill.

W. S. Gilbert

As a farmer, I want farmland to remain in farming.

Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

Successful farmers and gardeners have been swearing by the Almanac for many years. Our predictions have withstood a lot of scrutiny.

Neil Hamilton

At any market, you can see vendors who have been conventional farmers raising soybeans and corn. But they find they can make the same money from a half-acre of strawberries.