Quotes about Conservation Agriculture

Wendell Berry

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

Paul Polman

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

Jaggi Vasudev

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

Jeremy Grantham

The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

Hezekiah Niles

Philosophy of agriculture itself is changing, becoming systematized and mechanized…. Men of virtue and talents ... are bringing science to the aid of agriculture and introducing method and management to the dull monotony of a farmers life

These were amazingly accurate assessments at a time when this was not at all obvious to most. The large mechanization of agriculture would take place in the 1830s and 1840s but this astute observer saw the intellectual ideas impinging on society and realized that it was only a matter of time for these ideas to be implemented and bring great change to agriculture. That change has never stopped and continues at an even more rapid pace in modern times making American Agriculture the most efficient and effective in the world.

John F. Kennedy

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Alison Prost

Agriculture is the largest source of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay, and is also the cheapest to reduce by far. Many farmers deserve credit for their efforts to stem pollution from their barn yards and fields. But just as those who live in our cities and suburbs are doing more to clean the Bay, so must farmers.

In the Chesapeake Bay and many other bodies of water in the country Agriculture is responsible for most of the remaining pollution. The two biggest agricultural sources are chemicals (runoff from fertilizers and pesticides) and manure (from chicken and hog farms).

Helen Clark

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

Dan Barber

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

Conservation Agriculture Quotes