Susan Glaspell Quotes

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

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

Shall we encourage our young men to be farmers and mechanics? Yes, a thousand times yes, encourage them to become producers as well as consumers, to be owners and tillers of the soil as well as cultivators and rentors; teach them that it is just as honorable to be an honest farmer as to be a lawyer, teacher or a preacher, and the royal road to success and happiness is built on honest labor, either of muscle or brain.

If agrarian society must fall to the machine, at the very least, Iranians should own the machine.

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.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

Only a new seed will yield a new crop.

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.