Acres Quote by Ralph Merkle

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration,…

— Ralph Merkle

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much…

— Ramez Naam

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

— Joel Salatin

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer…

— Charles C. Mann

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia.…

— Howard Graham Buffett

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

— Charles Walters

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on…

— Norman Borlaug

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in…

— David F. Houston

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

— Michael Shellenberger

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

— Sam Farr