Livestock Management Quotes

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

My grandparents were always farmers.

If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

I will put rings in the noses of these hogs.

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

Farming's always been my business.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

Stray cattle roam every lane and alley, but we are building cow shelters and trying to resolve the problem.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Mending the fence when one loses a sheep is still not too late.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

I've been doing work for the farmers of Maharashtra.