Agricultural Economy Quotes

The real wealth of a nation resides in its farms and factories and the people who man them.

The American farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything he buys at retail, sells everything he sells at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

The small land holders are the most precious part of a state.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

I don't have farmers I can convert into factory workers.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

The proposed tariff is a tax to be levied principally on the great body of agriculturalists who constitute a large majority of the American people and who are the chief consumers of foreign imports... Instead of struggling against the dictates of reason and nature, and madly trying to produce everything at home, countries should study to direct their labors ...to things for which they are best adapted. ... We ask no tax on manufacturers for our benefit.

Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

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.

Agriculture is the new golf

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

Nowhere, in the farming portion of the United States, would slave labor be generally employed, if the proprietor were not tempted to raise slaves, by the high price of the Southern market which keeps it up in his own.

Corporative economy introduces order even into economy. If there is a phenomenon which ought to be well-ordered, which ought to be directed toward certain definite aims, it is precisely the economic phenomenon, which interests the whole of the citizens. Not only industrial economy ought to be disciplined, but also agricultural economy, commercial economy, banking economy, and even the work of artisans.

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.