David F. Houston Quotes

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

Farmers are farmers in the first place because they have the deep-seated instinct to raise crops, not to cut them back, not to leave the land unproductive.

No loss, in proportion to its amount, affects the interest of the nation so deeply, and vitally, and is so difficult to recover, as the loss of agricultural capital and produce

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

All soils are not fertile.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

We're trying to bring improved seeds to rural villages to increase yields. We're also trying to improve the roads to make it easier for people to get their produce to the market.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.