Farmers Quotations | Page 2

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

If we don't start getting seeds to the farmers now, they will miss the September harvest and we will have to support them until April 2001.

If this is true, it's another slap at South Dakota farmers and ranchers from the Bush administration, ... There's no substitute for the face-to-face interaction that producers have with FSA personnel. They need the opportunity to ask questions, to explain their circumstances. To lose that opportunity is going to be a serious problem.

I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.

I don?t know about the technicalities involved in raising the height of the dam. What I do know is that farmers have been displaced from their land and they have lost their livelihood. Till the people who have already been displaced by the dam are not rehabilitated, the height of the dam should not be raised.

I am delighted that the USDA has backed off its irresponsible plan to close or relocate FSA offices that our farmers depend on without first undertaking a serious analysis of the effects of that plan,

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

I am going to be running with the teachers and the farmers and the bus drivers and the hard working men and women of this country. I'm going to be running with the people, not the privileged.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

Catfish started to grow, because row cropping became so unprofitable, and a lot of farmers quit row cropping and started catfish farming.

Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

China should make a larger attempt to solve the lingering problems of farmers whose land was inadequately or randomly compensated in the past, and I am sure it will.

I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.

France's argument that the CAP is used primarily to support its small farmers rings hollow. Europe's regime of farm subsidies goes to the wealthiest landowners and destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers.

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

From the beginning, we quickly learned that when you're talking about a public market, it's like you're showing people a many-faceted diamond, and everybody sees a different slice of it, a different reflection of what it could be. For some people, it will be a place to promote organic produce. For others, it's a community-gathering place. Others see it as a small business incubator, and others see it as a way to provide farmers with an outlet to allow them to be sustainable. The fact is it's all of those things.

Giving farmers more flexibility to pay back their loans will help many of them stay in business during this difficult period of low prices, ... USDA is committed to providing needy family farmers as much help handling loan repayments as we possibly can, in addition to making credit more accessible.

Globalization does have winners and losers, but mostly we're a winner. When farmers in Korea protest against globalization, or miners in Germany protest globalization, they're protesting against us.

I got an e-mail from a guy in Hong Kong, ... I get 'em from Afghanistan. I have farmers who come up to me - people who live on the East Coast, the West Coast; they come up to me - and they say, 'I'm so pleased I don't have to drive my tractor anymore up onto hill No. 7 to listen to the game. I can get it on the Internet.'

If the government is just there to kill the animals and cull them there is the possibility that the farmers won't report cases.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

There is a strength in the system because it is not dependent on revenue from farmers to have money to lend to farmers. There's plenty of capital for new ventures.

There is no affect to area pork producers in the slightest way. The demand for pork from local farmers is still as high as ever.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.

There is no fair or justifiable reason to single out dairy farmers for such drastic programmatic cuts and tax increases.

The purpose of this meeting is to request participation and invite comments from a broad range of local agencies, organizations, businesses, and especially farmers and ranchers,

We're offering so much for families at this week's Farmers Market. After you buy your locally grown produce, children can participate in crafts and games at the Family Fund's Big Pumpkin Fair. We're very pleased to partner with the Family Fund again for this memorable event.

Having attended the World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, we must make sure the many trade agreements now being actively negotiated by our government do not put U.S. sugar farmers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. The world sugar market is the most distorted commodity market in the world, caused by the dumping of surplus sugar from countries that don't want to play by the same rules as U.S. farmers.

He should have said up front that helping farmers harvest crops in south Georgia is more important than educating children all over the state. Then school systems could have made a better decision whether to close or not,

His strong suit was not Congress but rather his attention to farmers and women and families.

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

There are no shortcuts. The idea that you are going to deter farmers from growing more coca ? which is the goal of eradication ? has not worked.

We must encourage American businesses and farmers by weeding out the excessive red tape that Washington has been creating over the past decade. Regulations act as a hidden tax, and if we are not careful, they can begin to suffocate small businesses, destroy jobs, and choke off economic growth.

Harvests are going to be poor because most farmers got inputs late and that means more foreign currency will be used to import food we should be producing.

Harvest is a time of high energy use to fuel tractors and combines and that hits right at the bottom line. Prices (of grain) are a bit low and as we have fewer exports then prices may drop some more so farmers are caught in a real price cost squeeze.

Guess I never really belonged in Westchester. I was never really happy there. But the hard-dirt farmers in Vermont-when I got with them, it was like coming home.

Knowing and talking to the farmers is important to me. Some of the cheese I sell is hand-delivered from the farmer who made it.

Keeping pesticides out of streams is the ultimate goal. Farmers who have some of the old stuff -- because they bought a farm and it's not labeled -- this gave them an avenue to get rid of it.

I think it is a very interesting debate but our first and major concern is whether we can increase opportunities for creating wealth for more farmers in developing countries. That is the beginning and end of everything we do.

It boils down to an exercise in risk management. The old system uses a single value, while this new system gives farmers a range to work with. If farmers are risk averse, they can use the high side of the rate range. If they are more willing to accept risk, they can use a lower side of the rate range, increasing their potential for economic reward.

It appears that Illinois farmers pay a heavy price in the president's budget this year. His proposed budget cuts to price support programs will cost Illinois farmers about $65 million.

I think it says something about the spirit of Kansas and of America that we can talk about the financial challenges facing our own farmers and at the same time ask for -- and get -- help for those even worse off, ... Only in America. Especially in Kansas.

It costs about twice as much. The farmers can't keep up with the demand.

It is government trying to protect people from themselves. GMO products are a tool conventional farmers use to eke out a living. Tradition is that neighboring farmers work out their differences and generally they can do a pretty good job.

I thank you for your efforts, especially in calling for an end to agricultural subsidies and trade barriers that actually impoverish African farmers and producers,

I think we can extend MILC and do reconciliation in a way that has little or no impact on other important farm bill initiatives I support and have worked hard to protect. This important provision has been critical for Minnesota dairy farmers in the past, and I am confident it will be equally important in the future.

It isn't enough just to pray for rain, ... These are the times when our farmers need the full support of the state and federal government. We depend on them for every meal we eat and now, because of the drought, they are depending on us.

It is not profitable. About 98 per cent farmers will be indebted. Only 2 per cent will be debt free. Some may hide it.

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

People are positioning themselves ahead of the planting intentions. It's going to be a bullish number, ... Growing maize wasn't profitable, farmers have switched.

Our grain is brought in by local farmers and shipped out of here either by semi or by rail.

Over recent years, rural communication development made great progress, as more than 40,000 administrative villages have telephones. The use of telephone will help farmers broaden horizon and have easy access to information,

Our people have been transformed from rice and slash-and-burn farmers into workers and owners of the family rubber plantation.

Our role is to make farmers as efficient as we can, to sell them the right product to make them the most amount of money. That's our number one job. What it all boils down to is what gives you the best bang for your buck.

Our farmers need help to recover from their economic losses and begin to replant for next season, ... More Washingtonians are employed by agriculture than any other industry in this state. This is about our economic vitality. We need to provide the assistant and support to help folks pull through.

Our farmers have cut back. We have to help them out.

Our time frame with this is on Nov. 15, we need to submit a plan on how to consolidate 26 county offices to Washington. We're going to be gathering input from farmers and others on the best way to do this.

Overall, I'd say we have the best farmer's market we have had for years, ... Farmers have done an outstanding job promoting produce, with the new locations and support of the city, it has been a good year.

Our trading partners need to understand that we will do everything possible to ensure the competitive position of American farmers and ranchers,

Our biggest challenge will be trying to find ways to help farmers make it through this year,

Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squeezing everyone, farmers and truckers, small businesses and families. When oil prices rise, the prices of all goods increase. That's why the Administration has to step up and take action.

Our nation's increasing standard of living would certainly be reduced without the safe, abundant and affordable domestic food supply produced by America's farmers and ranchers.

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens.

Local plants have netted most farmers between 10 and 15 cents more a bushel.

March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the hill. The rain we got should help set up local farmers for the spring season.

Literally, today a gallon of diesel is costing our farmers more than they are getting in return for a bushel of wheat,

I strongly believe that American farmers and businesses can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field.

We need a national identification system in the country to help for the industry and farmers livestock when we have this situation.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

The advantage we have is, away from the city, we're talking to real people. We talk to farmers about hedging and forward contracts concerning oil and currencies and that reminds us that there are real people using the markets. In London, you don't see your neighbors for dust.

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

Most farmers still can't believe the news and are hoping the lab tests confirming bird flu are wrong.

Mostly the rain has come at a good time for our warm-season hay crops. We have a lot of farmers who will be planting some hay crops.

Most of Indiana fared well in terms of weather and crop yields, but we knew that the lack of rain last summer was going to create problems in pockets of our state. These disaster designations will allow assistance for Hoosier farmers who need it.

We need to realize that there is very little incentive for farmers to report suspected outbreaks,

We have offered a bold proposal on agriculture. It includes the deepest cuts in domestic subsidies and in tariffs of any proposal on the table. I can tell you that American farmers and their advocates in Congress are keenly aware that our agriculture proposal has real consequences, and would entail real reform.

When it's good for the parks department, it's bad for the farmers and vice versa.

Without a legal work force, Michigan farmers are at risk of losing productivity and leaving some of Michigan's most valuable crop land un-harvested. This loss in productivity will have a multiplying effect to local economies as well as the state tax rolls.

We're a grassroots organization, which means the Minnesota Corn Growers is run from the bottom up. Individual farmers give us direction, but in order for that to happen we have to have a strong membership-strong in numbers and strong in feeling connected to the important work we're doing.

We are trying to address those two things and get systems that produce more per hectare and help farmers reduce their labor times.

We must work together in the Doha (WTO) negotiations to eliminate agricultural subsidies that distort trade and stunt development, and to eliminate tariffs and other barriers to open markets for farmers around the world,

We must support the industry that drives our state's economy. That means being very attentive to the needs of our farmers and ranchers. It means aggressively exploring opportunities in the areas of biotechnology, value-added agriculture, and foreign markets.

We must rebuild this country together for the good of our nation. We should not be divided into groups of farmers and groups of black. We are Zimbabwean -- that must go deeper into our minds.

We had had one of the biggest economic droughts that the midlands had ever seen, and the farmers needed help. It didn't cost anything much to put the decals on the helmets, but it did a lot of good in directing publicity to the problem. There were stories in many national newspapers and sports magazines.

We have to maintain the water flow downstream, and we have to maintain the lake elevation. When you pull out the amount that went for agriculture, we feel that we'd be able to do that. Unfortunately, the farmers are squeezed in the middle.

US farmers should not have to compete with foreign governments in international markets.

U.S. farmers don't care what they sell their crop for because Uncle Sam tops it off for them, so they're never losing money.

Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.

Today's decision is great news for farmers and for Pioneer. This approval supports expanded choices for farmers and recognizes the safety and value of Pioneer biotech products worldwide.

We need hot, dry weather. Upper Valley and New Mexico farmers were not hit as bad with the rainy weather as the cotton farmers in the Lower Valley, but we're (also) having trouble getting equipment in the fields.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

The president has laid open his farm for screening, just like he hopes other farmers will do to help us contain the bird flu outbreak.

Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.

Those farmers could go out and buy the exact grain that they could have produced themselves from some other area of California or another state and import it into the county for their feed--obviously driving up their cost of production, as well as requiring more fuel consumption to get those products to the North Coast. It's kind of an illogical initiative from that standpoint." ()

We are doing everything we can to help our Gulf Coast producers recover from the affects of Hurricane Katrina, ... The assistance announced today is an important component of USDA's efforts and our commitment to help farmers and ranchers rebuild their operations.