Farm Machinery Quotes

The majority of us don’t want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as straw-chewing figures in children’s books, we don’t quite believe in them anymore

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta.

We don't pay truckers not to truck, we don't pay miners not to mine and we shouldn't pay farmers not to farm.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Agricultural chemistry was not something that could be readily mastered by farmers, nor could the new machines be easily operated and maintained. Agricultural schools were needed to provide the necessary training. Then, if local gentry and rich households with large landholdings tried new methods—and if the new techniques were effective—the people will naturally follow them.

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.