American Quote by Hope Jahren Download Open image “Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.” — Hope Jahren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Calling Economics Really Role Special
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 -… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You and I are going to work our asses off, teach them shit over and over, risk our fucking lives for them, and they… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
