Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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

There have been generations and generations of farmers here. It's a tradition.

The main purpose of this is to do solid work for the farmers and not to increase their financial burden.

First we need a safety net from the farm bill. It would be a safety net that we would not use every year.

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.

Farmers should be willing to try this for 30 days.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.

Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.

David Hudson

Farmers must now have highly trained financial management skills.

Farmers in other parts of the world should learn from American agriculture's mistakes. Looking to nature is a better model for farming.

Farmers feel like they will raise something. They are pretty sure there will be some bushels there now.

Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses for it, and use it at home.

There was a larger use of the farm with the horses. Now there are no longer horses there. It is now strictly used as an outdoor laboratory for our agriculture production courses.

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.

At one time, I had an office on Music Row, but we moved to a small farm and I just like being here, ... I get up every day and go out in the trailer and spend a few hours writing.

Tim Foley

This is a breakthrough for farmers in the South. Farmers needed a good, high-yielding variety with multi-race SCN resistance.

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.

Your security on the farms is given and it is given not only by me but by the president. All other things should stop.

Matt Blunt

Young people (should understand) how important what happens on a farm is to their well-being,

This is harebrained. It's inappropriate to be farming that out to the private sector.

Henry James

This is a pretty serious-minded farm show. But it has to be when you're pulling the farmer away from the farm.

They don?t want to limit growth; they don?t want a health ordinance. But they sure as hell don?t want a hog farm next to them without a say in it.

They are serious farmers. This is a serious farming operation.

You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

Even if we do try and pick up the pieces on the farm and go back into bananas, we're still looking at nine months before there's any income.

Every single flock at every single farm is being tested. We're doing this program to reassure the people that poultry is safe to eat.

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

Eva Longoria

Ive always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.