Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

Establishment at public expense of rural depots for the most improved agricultural machinery, to be lent out to the agricultural population at a rent covering cost and management alone.

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

Our thanks, and something more substantial than thanks, are due to the man engaged in the effort to produce a successful steam plow.

… whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

It is not known where he that invented the plough was born, nor where he died: yet he has effected more for the happiness of the world than the whole race of heroes and of conquerors, who have drenched it with tears, and manured it with blood, and whose birth, parentage, and education have been handed down to us with a precision proportionate to the mischief they have done.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

Agriculture is the new golf

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

I am proud of my invention but I am not happy that it is used by terrorists. I would much rather have invented something for agriculture like a lawnmower.

Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.

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

Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.

It's no good kicking progress In the teeth - there's nothing wrong with a tractor.

The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.