Farming Quotations | Page 2

It's a farming town. ... The rich people there are farmers - like it used to be in Sonoma.

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work.

It's kind of like a double crop. Farming your crop on land and harvesting the wind.

The black farmer, working hard for his own, became the living symbol of the strong, independent black man. Farming also allowed black families to move into other businesses, from funeral homes to preaching to construction, and thus served as the bedrock of all black wealth in America.

The bigger issue here is, to me, that when we can't access our neighbors with food, then farming just dries up. The fact is that all these hurdles that prohibit local food commerce keep what would be millions of dollars circulating in the rural local economy are therefore denied to the local economy. So farmers go out of business and sell to developers.

I WANT to get hold of the farming industry and shake it.

I started in high school because of the way rainforests were being cleared for cattle in the Amazon. Factory farming is very detrimental to the environment in a lot of cases.

The Mexican worker is the only people that has come and wanted to do this work in the 25 years I've been farming here.

The farming community always heard China would need a lot of our corn, but now I'm not sure that's going to happen. They seem to be very self-sufficient.

I'm not so thrilled about the factory farming movement in our country and also pesticides - you don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face.

I learned a lot from State, but I learned a lot more out here, ... Farming is a good example of having to listen to your elders.

In considering making changes to your farming practices, state and local crop consultants are a benefit in determining feasibility for your area. Everyone has their own plan of how to farm on their land, but it is important to utilize all the information possible when thinking about making a change to current practices.

If you look at the affordable homes here, we've come a long way from a farming community to a better quality of life. That was with his help.

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

In my view this is connected by the differences in the farming practices. In the West farming practices are well controlled -- ducks, chickens and humans do not mingle together.

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

Caged egg-laying hens are among the most abused animals in the world of factory farming today. Simply by using cage-free eggs, the White House can teach kindness and compassion to American children and the nation as a whole.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

I don't think the pictures and words can be separated, ... If you get an amazing photograph, like the dust clouds blowing over a small town in Kansas, it's not enough to look at the picture; (the readers) want to know, 'How did this happen, that half the farming soil of a whole state is blown away?' And then you want to know, 'Well, what happened to the people, and what kind of condition were they in? It's in the middle of the '30s, and most of them were unemployed, and how did they get out of it? Why didn't the politicians act sooner?'

I am pleased to learn that USDA is scrapping it's existing 'FSA Tomorrow' program, which could close 26 FSA county offices throughout North Carolina, ... These offices are crucial to our farming communities.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

The character of Great Falls has changed over the years, and it had gone in a direction that wasn't particularly how I wanted it to be. It was a farming community and then it became an affluent bedroom community.

A lot of times, people will try harder, will do more. They'll spend longer hours doing something involved with the farming (thinking) if I just try harder, it's going to turn out OK. One risk we run when people work longer hours is a greater chance of injury, maybe taking risks they shouldn't take.

The development of the pure vegetable oil sector could be an incredible opportunity to attract young people to the farming profession at a time of depopulation of the countryside.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

The disparity in land values is exactly the problem and the whole notion of the Williamson Act is to keep taxes down to keep farming affordable.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ...

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse