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- Nov 07, 2020
Agriculture Quotes
Perspectives on farming, food, and the land.
These Farmers quotes examine agriculture as both an environmental concern and a foundational industry, touching on emissions from livestock and farming's long history as one of the earliest forms of large-scale production.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.
- Goods
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- Nov 07, 2020
The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the No. 1 producer of agriculture products. I think opening up markets - more markets for agricultural sales is a very high priority for us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
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- Nov 07, 2020