Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

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.

Patricia Polacco

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Marcus Samuelsson

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

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.

Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.

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

You can be a really successful farmer with an oil well in your backyard.

White wheat is worth less today than when I started farming in 1972. The safety net, frankly, is gone.

Steve Bridges

Most produce travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the consumer.

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

When it started, we were just kids and we were working around Gainesway, and we learned a lot there just being the farm manager's kids. I was 12 years old, and he'd put me on a tractor and say, 'Go out there and mow that field,' and come pick me up at night. He had us working doing something all the time.

We protected our future. We did it by not ripping up the farm system.

On our farm here, we're using about (12,000) to 15,000 gallons a year. You can do the math on that. It's a substantial increase in money.

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

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

Because we farm organically, we don't get many payments from the farm program,

If anything should go on the historic register, this farm should. It was a showplace.

Nicolas Cage

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

Given where prices have been, there has been a lot of on- farm storage by farmers, which has slowed deliveries,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.

Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

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Kenny Troutt

I go to the farm generally every other week, but I'm on the phone with them every day, and I watch every race on TV. Not a day goes by when I'm not working on that.

Dan Glickman

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,

What a farmer does not know, he won't eat.

We farm here, but we also live here. We understand the stakes.

Tim Johnson

This proposal is ill-advised and ill-conceived and obviously occurred with little consultation within the farming community,

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Nancy Gibbs

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.