A Quote by Elmer Kelton

The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Elmer Kelton

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Actual Courage Drought Endurance Events Farmers Inspired Limits Living Longest Memory Most Never Outer Outer Limits Pressed Ranchers Severe Time

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Elmer Kelton
American - Journalist
April 29, 1926 - August 22, 2009

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.

Michael McCaul

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Tom Robbins

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

Jerry Moran

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Mary Garden

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.

Daniel Levitin

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Tom Robbins

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Jerry Moran

I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

Erik Prince

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

Max Baucus

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Tom Vilsack

Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.

Ben Sasse

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

Byron Dorgan

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

Michael Pollan

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

Milton Friedman

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Walter Savage Landor

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