America Quote by Bill McKibben

“Between 1970 and 1992, a million farms—36 percent of all American farms—ceased to exist.”

— Richard Manning

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

— Vladimir Putin

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

— Jerry Moran

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

— Dolores Huerta

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia.…

— Howard Graham Buffett

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry.…

— John Boozman

There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to…

— Andrew Robb

Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion,…

— Daniel Seligman

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the…

— Will Rogers