Acres Quote by Ralph Merkle

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— 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

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

Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you…

— M. S. Swaminathan

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

“Steven Apfelbaum, a restoration ecologist in Wisconsin, says that every 1 percent increase in soil carbon holds an additional sixty thousand gallons of water…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.

— Jack Herer

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,

— Nina Fedoroff

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no…

— Joel Salatin

Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things…

— Michael Pollan

I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written that if…

— M. S. Swaminathan