#farm

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#few #herbicides #holds #i #know

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineering #even #farm #farmer #flow

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#always #amish #animal #auction #been

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#chance #complete #fairly #farmers #japan

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio. ↗

— Roy Rogers

#farm #i #i was raised #little #miles

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. ↗

— Will Rogers

#optimist #still

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ↗

— E. B. White

#good #handy #less #man #more

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#backbone #businesses #communities #family #family farms

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #interest #lots #positive #reasons

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life