Tim Holden Quotes

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

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

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

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

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

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

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.

Farming's always been my business.

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

The agricultural interest of our country is so essentially connected with every other and so superior in importance to them all that it is scarcely necessary to invite to it your particular attention.

I am a small business owner; I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

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

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

The Agriculture Committee was one of my top committee choices because it will give me the platform to be an even stronger leader for our hard-working farmers in South Jersey.

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.

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

I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickings, or minds so well improved as my garden.

All presbyters, clerks, monks, converts, pilgrims, and peasants, when they are engaged in the labours of husbandry, together with their cattle in their ploughs, and the feed which they carry into the field, shall enjoy perfect security; and that all who molest tem, if they do not desist when they have been admonished, shall be excommunicated.

Three acres and a cow.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest in the nation, has not a department or a bureau, but a clerkship only, assigned to it in the government.... I venture the opinion that an agricultural and statistical bureau might profitably be organized.