Jim Nabors Quotes

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.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.

Philosophy of agriculture itself is changing, becoming systematized and mechanized…. Men of virtue and talents ... are bringing science to the aid of agriculture and introducing method and management to the dull monotony of a farmers life

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

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.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

Three acres and a cow.

Farmers are farmers in the first place because they have the deep-seated instinct to raise crops, not to cut them back, not to leave the land unproductive.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

The majority of us don’t want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as straw-chewing figures in children’s books, we don’t quite believe in them anymore

Sedentary agriculture is a necessary structure for state formation—not a sufficient structure but a necessary one..

The cultivation of the earth, as the primary and most certain source of national supply ... has intrinsically a strong claim to pre-eminence over every other kind of industry.