- Family
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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
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dishes tend to have a very carefree style: what's ripe at the farmers market or what's in my fridge, even if I'm cleaning out my fridge. It tends to be a very improvisational style. I major in salads, but a loose definition of salad; it can have a real robust skirt steak on top of it off the grill or quinoa or buckwheat or sprouted almond.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band there. I'd sit in with the band. Yeah, that's what I would do. Sit in with the band at the farmers market. Sing a couple of songs, eat a peach, and hug people.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.
- Nov 07, 2020
Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.
- Colony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
- Fertilizer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020