Alec Baldwin Quotes

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violent Red Revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of Iran. I call it the Green Revolution

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

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

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.