There is no debate that the H-2A program needs significant reform. Increasing access, so that farmers and workers are able to meet… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
For generations, farmers in Central Virginia and across the United States have engaged in voluntary conservation practices that have not only improved… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
The industrial revolution in England was only made possible through intensified agriculture and the use of coal for manufacturing, which delivered far… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation—a primary principle in permaculture.” — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
While there will be policy disagreements, Secretary Vilsack has broad support across the agriculture community, including the Tennessee Farm Bureau, and has… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food,… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the No. 1… — Robert Lighthizer 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture.… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
Clean hydrogen can play a major role in our all-of-the-above energy approach, and we're grateful to the Department of Energy for recognizing… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
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