Cents Quote by David Ricardo

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

— Joel Salatin

Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.

— John Paul Getty Jr

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and…

— Wendell Berry

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of…

— Carol Deppe

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

— Brooke Astor

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import…

— David Ricardo

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot…

— Mike Watt

The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a…

— Brian Regan

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

— Ehud Olmert

“Crop rotation and contour plowing require no additional capital equipment and would contribute significantly to productivity. By raising grain storage bins a few inches…

— Campbell R. McConnell

If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

— Kimbal Musk