Corn Quote by David Ricardo

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

— Michael Pollan

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a…

— Michael Pollan

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

“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

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

— Hope Jahren

The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels,…

— Nick Nolte

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can…

— David Ricardo

“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the…

— Wangari Maathai

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured…

— David Ricardo