Expertise Quote by Philip M. Parker

Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.

— Vikrant Parsai

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and…

— Bill Gates

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species,…

— John Lawson

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 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

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

— Hope Jahren

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

— Michael Pollan

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

— Louis Kronenberger

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell