Agriculture Quote by Tom Vilsack

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

— Tom Vilsack

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion,…

— Daniel Seligman

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

— Vladimir Putin

“Agricultural productivity had been rising for some time, leading to increasing production of food and, as food accounted for most of the household budget,…

— Edward A. Hudson

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

— Anonymous

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

— Sandra Lerner

“1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average…

— Daniel Berleant

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

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry.…

— John Boozman

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes…

— Barbara Kingsolver

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

— Bill McKibben