- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers Quotes
Lines on the people who work the land.
These quotes speak to the pressures facing farmers today, including the striking claim that hundreds are leaving the profession every week even as others keep fighting on their behalf. Related themes continue in our Farm quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
- Nov 07, 2020
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
- Products
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers were 'unable to develop their landholdings due to many restrictions. We passed the land pooling policy so they can plan to build infrastructure - with the help of private builders too.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020