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• Bring diversity back to agriculture. That’s what made it work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Agriculture

• Agriculture looks different today – our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world’s population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed – many of them depending on American agriculture.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Agriculture

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  Pat Roberts

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Security, Agriculture

• If we win, we’ll make history, and I’ll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

  George Nethercutt

  Topics in History

  Tags in Agriculture, Committee

• The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animal, Agriculture, Environmental, Disaster

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  Garrett Hardin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture, Discovery

• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contentment, Agriculture

• Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

  Ralph Merkle

  Topics in Technology, Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture, Limit

• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  Quintilian

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Derive, Agriculture, Barren, Profit, Soil

• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Beauty, Work

  Tags in Stand, Agriculture, Tried, Around

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Produce, California, Agriculture, Good

• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age

  Alfred Nobel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture

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

  Zach Wamp

  Topics in America

  Tags in Manufacturing, Represents, Agriculture

• When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture