Larry MacPhail Quotes

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

In many parts of Ireland the breed of cows is so wretched that feeding them involves a certain loss of land.

You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed

I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who make their living in the beef world. Ranchers, primarily.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

I have no affinity for cows. I mean, they're cool.

I have horses.

When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It's true. That's where the loan waiver comes in.

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.