#agriculture

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#american #billion #commodity #depending #feed

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...) ↗

— Tracie McMillan

#food #systemic-devaluation-of-labour #food

Woman was domesticated so that man could be tamed. When will we unite and rise up against the livestock? ↗

— Bauvard

#domesticity #funny #humor #livestock #love

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. ↗

— Alan Autry

#companies #complement #development #focus #heritage

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#advances #agriculture #care #continue #defense

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. ↗

— Jim Costa

#agriculture #essential #finite #human #human life

More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy. ↗

— John Fisher

#economy #jobs #means #more #ohio

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#am #committee #community #congress #first