Agricultural Surplus Quotes

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

There shall come seven years of great plenty … And there shall arrive after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty shall be forgotten.

The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.

The single most important problem with food in this country is that it is vastly overproduced.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

Sedentary agriculture is a necessary structure for state formation—not a sufficient structure but a necessary one..

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

It should be only the surplus of the crops of any Province, beyond what is needed for the supply of its own wants, that should be exported. Station persons in the harbors to see that foreign ships do not take away produce to foreign shores until the Public Providers have got all that they require.