#crops

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#commodity #corn #crops #designed #economy

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

#deer #harm #herds #injury #large

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. ↗

— David F. Houston

#crops #devoted #effective #enlarge #grown

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #broken #crop #crops #does

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#congressional #congressional district #crops #district #doing

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#cost #crops #grow #inherently #less

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#back #bacteria #case #crops #first