Robert Grosseteste Quotes

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

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

I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.

All soils are not fertile.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

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 mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

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.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.