Mike Johanns Quotes

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Farming's always been my business.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

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

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

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

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

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written that if you want to achieve 4% growth rate in agriculture, you should have 8% growth in animal husbandry and fisheries and 8% in horticulture.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

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