Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.
Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.
Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
These dust storms. . . . Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.
To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. . . . [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there. " It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us.
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?
A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.
The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.