194 Quotes About Farming

It was farmers that took all that land and made it America...It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook.

Without the farmer, there is no food.

Nothing can give as food but farming as much as fishing.

Fruits, flowers, trees and medicinal plants are not grown in factories. Who cares about these things anyway? One in 70 crores likes and buys all this and the one who is attached to these things. Now you will decide the price.

There’s nothing like eating food you’ve grown yourself.

Less than two percent of all Americans are now farmers. Corporations with all the warmth of equity investors now control the breadbasket of America. Anyone care to speculate how corporate control of the world’s food banks will work out for ordinary people who must eat to survive.