The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow 'em, we're going to sell 'em.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

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.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

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.

Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

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

To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

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