- Progress
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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers, young and old, educated and uneducated, have easily taken to the new agronomy. It has been heart-warming to see young college graduates, retired officials, ex-armymen, illiterate peasants and small farmers queuing up to get the new seeds.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves... our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest cooking influence, my No. 1, is my grandma. Then it's the farmers. When I go to the farm stand and see what's available, that's where I get most of my inspiration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020