Acres Quote by David F. Houston

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

— Ovid

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

— Amarinder Singh

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of…

— Ed Begley, Jr

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if…

— David F. Houston

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed…

— David F. Houston

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room…

— Howard Graham Buffett

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite…

— Ellen Gustafson

Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital…

— David F. Houston

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— Ralph Merkle

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

“Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not bring fruit…

— Seneca