Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In Central Virginia, farmers are some of our strongest conservationists. They understand the complex ecosystems they inhabit, and they cherish the role… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop… — Charles Lee Copy Share Image
“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests,… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Likely the milpa cannot be replicated on an industrial scale. But by studying its essential features, researchers may be able to smooth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Leaving the European Union is likely to have an impact on the workforce in sectors such as catering, construction and agriculture. I… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I can't remember one [example of regulation] that's good. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture - agriculture is a, zoning is z.… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Farmers had freed themselves in part from the blind natural forces of storm and insects only to become increasingly the victims of… — Grant McConnell Copy Share Image
“The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
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