Soil Management Quotes

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

I've never farmed before. It's unforgiving, it's hard work, hard graft - but I loved it, and I loved everyone I met who guided me along the way.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Agricultural science is largely the contest between emerging pests and the emerging methods of their control.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.

It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our skin damaged, but if too high a percentage is damaged, we die. So, too, does soil and thus most life

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

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

All soils are not fertile.

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

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.