Agriculture Quote by Richard Manning

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without…

— Allan Savory

More and more agricultural land is being used for non-agricultural purposes. Whether it's any industry, express highway, or expansion of any city, agricultural land…

— Sharad Pawar

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Michael Shellenberger

There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to…

— Andrew Robb

“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community affects the…

— Wendell Berry

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

— James Howard Kunstler

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the…

— Martin Heidegger

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used…

— Joel Salatin