Top 303 Agricultural Quotes & Sayings

Keeping our agricultural sector strong and secure should be a bipartisan concern.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.

Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

The government of Qatar, as I mentioned, has proposed to come and lease Kenya's Tana River delta in order to farm there. What I am not sure of is, has an environmental impact assessment been made to ensure that exploiting this delta for agricultural activities is the best way we can use the delta?We must be concerned about the long-term impact of agricultural activities in the delta.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

Agricultural workers, together with the working class, constitute the main force in building a powerful socialist country, and the agricultural front is now a major thrust area in building the country into a socialist economic giant.

Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Eating is an agricultural act.

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

With proper infrastructure and packaging, India can certainly become a global player in agricultural exports.

Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

I want for us to be self-sustained so we can export. The government has a responsibility to have agricultural programs so people are able to grow their own food.

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

The move towards a unified agricultural market helps farmers get correct remuneration for their produce.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.

More and more agricultural land is being used for non-agricultural purposes. Whether it's any industry, express highway, or expansion of any city, agricultural land is being used.

As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.