Farm Profitability Quotes

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.

When it comes to agriculture, there's no such thing as a free market.

Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest in the nation, has not a department or a bureau, but a clerkship only, assigned to it in the government.... I venture the opinion that an agricultural and statistical bureau might profitably be organized.

The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.

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.

By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.

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.

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.

The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

[Defending agricultural subsidies:] France is the world's second-biggest exporter of agriculture products, and it must remain so.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

The rural nature of our district relies heavily on the profitability of our family farms.

Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you may drop in yield until you build up the soil fertility - you need inputs for output.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.