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 always fought for farmers getting better prices.
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.
I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.
I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow 'em, we're going to sell 'em.
Marketing is a major headache for farmers.
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.
