Will Rogers Agriculture Quotations

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.