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Farmers Quotes

In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

Arancha Gonzalez

Rose Ten Years Back Farmers High Up

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

Food Feel Living More Farmers Cost

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.

Forest Long Golden Cap Farmers Wild

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

Rise Ready Protect Farmers Pay Drop

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Opportunity Farmers Cash Crop Use

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

Government Support Transition Farmers

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

Food Poor Land Worst Farmers Own

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

Family Farmers Sides Both Sides Come

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Measure Sydney Farmers Successful

We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.

Food Better Want More Farmers Need

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

Children Grow Farmers Pay Feed Than

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers.

Son Born Ancestors Farmers July

I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Small Veterans Farmers Get Prosper

MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

Good Business Man Reputation Farmers

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

Stress Financial More Farmers Keep

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Reputation More Farmers Years Being

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

Beginning Start Young Farmers Out

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

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Science Know Farmers Always Things

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Today Environment Now Farmers Wild

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

Me Summer Farmers Started Markets

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

Christine Milne

Support Think Country Want Farmers

Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who demand - or set - them?

Arancha Gonzalez

Better Help Sustainability Farmers

When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.

Wife Sunday Los Angeles Go Farmers

I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

Sunday Farmers Buy Take Market Kids

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