The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland. — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer. — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn! — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers. — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm. — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is,… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over,… — Fuzzy Zoeller Copy Share Image
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“Farmers don’t picket government corruption, they picket fences. Let this be a lesson in love and the proper way to separate churlish… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
“Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“The doctors in Songnam-ri had to be farmers, too. They cultivated medicinal plants, and actually grew their own cotton to have a… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“Farmers learned to plant fallow fields with clover, which recharges the soil with nutrients.” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem;… — Hank Haney Copy Share Image
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods. — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
