Howard Graham Buffett Quotes

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.

The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

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.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

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

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.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

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

Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and plant healthcare for higher yields.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

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

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.