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- Nov 07, 2020
Crops Quotes
From the soil to the science above it.
These crops quotes begin close to home, memories of tending animals and fields as a child, before widening into the hidden ecological toll that ploughing and harvesting can take. Browse Farmers quotes for more on rural life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
By converging people, process, and data, the benefits the Internet of Everything delivers to humanity are seemingly infinite. Imagine being able to track and understand, and then predict, long-term weather patterns. Farmers will be able to plant crops that have the greatest chance for success.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been intimately involved in the techniques of genetic modification as a scientist since GMOs were first conceived. In that time, hundreds of studies and tests have been done on GMO safety - and we've seen no scientific evidence that GMOs are inherently more dangerous than crops produced by traditional plant breeding.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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- Nov 07, 2020
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020