Farmers Quotations | Page 3

You do not discriminate among farmers based upon the natural disaster that took their crops. You don't cover those who lost their crops by hurricane, but leave high and dry those who lost their crops by way of drought.

Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

We're not talking about amnesty or allowing foreigners to take advantage of our welfare system. We're talking about plugging the holes in our borders, and at the same time protecting U.S. farmers and consumers. In fact, we don't think you can succeed at one without the other.

We are not likely to get a sudden drop in production because farmers have fixed costs that must be covered, irrespective of whether they produce.

We are concerned over how the increase in power rates will affect wildlife. We are at this point, solely dependent upon how much water the farmers are using. It remains to be seen how this will play out, but we think less water will be coming through the hill, so that is a concern of ours.

We go to foreign countries and say, 'Our farmers will do what is right,' but turn deaf and dumb when those countries do not play by the same rules.

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer. We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer, ... We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

We've been working on trying to do something in this area for more than three years. Initially, we tried to find a way to extend the group health insurance we offer our employees to the farmers we do business with, but that wasn't possible within regulations.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

The expected yield increases make group products more attractive and may cause some farmers to switch to group products from farm products such as Actual Production History (APH), Crop Revenue Coverage (CRC), Income Protection (IP), and Revenue Assurance (RA).

We should provide incentives to poor African farmers to report immediately if they suspect an outbreak among poultry, and discourage them from rushing to sell birds on the market.

When prices are good, farmers take care of their crop a little better.

We like making our products and we enjoy the friends we've made through our involvement with the farmers market.

We as farmers have a lot of similarities. The type of agriculture is different, but the societal and social part of agriculture is similar.

We will continue to work for deficit reduction that will not burden farmers, particularly after the high fuel costs and extreme weather of the 2005 crop year, and without harming the mutually-beneficial relationship between farmers and food stamp families.

We would like to see steps taken to prevent drift from happening at all. Drift is a major exposure route for farmers and their families. Currently, lack of enforcement of existing pesticide drift laws is a major problem. The proposed rule is important because a crucial part of enforcement is being able to have notice so as to document violations. Notice goes hand in hand with the ability to enforce.

This whole lets wait and see what tomorrow brings, corn prices could be $0.30 per bushel lower. We are telling farmers to take a look at these current offerings in the market.

This report will provide the first USDA assessment of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on our farmers and ranchers, ... While it will take some time to determine the full impact of both the hurricane and drought, this report will give us some insight into the extent of the damage.

There have been tens of thousands of suicides by farmers in the country, and the government wants to dispute what a suicide is, who a farmer is.

Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

To say people are upset is an understatement. FSA offices are institutions in these communities, institutions that are providing vital services helping farmers and others in the related agricultural industries wade through the bureaucracy of loan payments, drought and disaster assistance and other farm programs,

This settlement culminates a four-year investigation, ... The plea agreement not only serves as punishment to the offenders, it also offers the opportunity to repay farmers who were financially damaged by these criminal acts.

With our farmers here in the U.S., there has been a pretty good movement over the winter. It seems like producer sales are slow, so you're really reliant on South America.

Without the divestitures, many American farmers would have faced lower prices for major crops they produce.

With strong wind resources located in many rural and farming areas in Maine, the program can provide the seed money for farmers to harvest wind, Maine's newest and most profitable crop.

When you are in a poor country that is challenged just to meet kind of basic needs, compensating farmers adequately and having a framework for doing that gets to be an expensive proposition.

The President's budget calls for stricter agricultural payment caps is an important reform of an outdated agricultural subsidy program is rife with abuse and loopholes and hurts small farmers here and abroad. The U.S. government spends billion of dollars each year on farm payments that are heavily concentrated in large-scale commercial operations, distorting international markets and causing controversy and unfairness in global trade.

Failure to protect the basic rights of these farmers may cause social instability. We must formulate a law on safeguarding their social welfare.

Families, businesses, school districts and farmers across South Dakota are feeling the effects of high fuel prices, and with our cold months closing in on us fast - and projections of a 70% increase in the price of natural gas - all South Dakotans may experience a significant impact on their budgets.

The Government is determined to improve producer prices for milk to cushion farmers against the negative effects of drought and also boost their income.

The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress.

We're the spokesman for tree farmers across the nation for the next year.

The Government of Canada is pleased to be able to respond in a significant way to this new invasion of colonial tunicate. This is an excellent example of how the Governments of Canada and P.E.I. are collaborating to support the province's economy. Not only will this study help the mussel farmers in PEI in the short term, but it will also have long-lasting effects for the future of the industry.

We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.

Uptake of AR1 pastures in NZ has been phenomenal. Farmers have quickly latched onto the many benefits of our technology.

The reason that we were really interested in that is obviously because of the regulations that most farmers and ranchers have to deal with.

The other day, I went to the farmers market, and everybody was hugging me and stuff, but there were people on the outside saying, 'murderer.'

This waiting period gave farmers a chance to complete their folders.

We have about 100 farmers who are very interested in this facility, consumers who want to buy fresh, quality produce from Mississippi farmers, and they don't have to compete with out-of-state produce.

You hear from these farmers that they're not rich. They go out and work some long hours with hopes of someday leaving what they've established over their lifetimes to their kids and grandkids.

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

With genetic engineering and even with traditional breeding, it's important that farmers don't become dependent on just a few varieties of a crop, but instead try to preserve diversity.

With research completed, North Carolina is poised to lead the nation in sustainable hog production. It's time to turn research into reality and put the results and the benefits directly into the hands of farmers. The next step is to figure out how to make alternative technologies more affordable, and this won't happen in a lab or pilot project. There are a lot of motivated farmers who are stepping forward and want the new technologies as soon as possible. They should get them, and be rewarded for their pioneer spirit.

What concerns me is the mixing of birds from different places in one spot. We warn the farmers who work with our industry to have absolutely no dealings with the live-bird markets.

What that trade pact does to our farmers is criminal. If I become president, I will change it in at least seven areas, otherwise there won't be a trade accord with the United States.

We have to evolve a scheme that transfers windfall profits to farmers willing to stay on the land and farm. Transfer payments may be the only way to keep them in business.

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

We know that it will be a tough fight given the economic pressures we are now facing, but I believe it is critical that our farmers get a fair price for their milk,

We feel like some of these environmental regulations being put on farmers are just too extreme.

There have been generations and generations of farmers here. It's a tradition.

Both of us have over 500 million farmers whose interests need to be protected in the agriculture negotiations. We have similar concerns on environment, climate change, energy policy and so on. Even if we don't coordinate on each issue, we will find ourselves on the same side.

Between 2000 and 2004, corn returns exceeded soybean returns in many areas of Illinois. Budgets suggest that recent cost increases have narrowed the gap between corn and soybean returns. Higher corn yields will be required in 2006 as compared to recent years for projected corn returns to exceed soybean returns. From a returns perspective, farmers may wish to plant soybeans on farmland that could be corn-after-corn in 2006.

Being utopian, we're hoping to put the best thing out there on the market. We'd be happy having 40 to 50 percent of farmers locally using a system like this in the next four to five years.

biggest competitor, Canada, through their government sites, to see what the farmers are getting this year to cut our throats.

Everybody had a tractor in the '40s. There's not much farming now. In the '40s and '50s you had more farmers than you had people working in the cities.

As tobacco has sort of subsided, we have had a number of farmers who have successfully gotten in the business of berries and small fruit.

At the moment the farmers put them on themselves. But the automatic machines use lasers to find the udders, and a computer memorizes the configuration of the udder for the next milking.

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.

Diesel prices are driving farmers crazy. It's not just coffee-shop complaining.

Corn farmers in the United States recognize the tremendous value and performance that Monsanto's insect-protected and herbicide-tolerant traits are providing to their farms. This season, we are seeing strong order patterns in our corn traits business, and early indications also reinforce that the company's value-pricing model is expected to drive penetration of our corn traits.

Do they want to keep it simple and fun or complicated and not so much fun. The lodging business is a whole different business. Farmers and ranchers are good with the public but they have probably never been in the customer service business.

Another one of our fantasies is that we'd like to make this area more active with ongoing flea markets and farmers markets so when people drive by they will see that there's activity in this town.

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Employing proper chemical handling practices, such as the use of personal protective equipment and adhering to the re-entry intervals prescribed by pesticide product labels is required by federal law to protect the health of farmers and farm workers.

Environmental Defense is pleased to work with Frontline Farmers on a voluntary plan to help farmers get affordable access to new technologies in a timely manner.

Drought and other natural disasters continue to plague many of America's farmers, ... USDA is working to provide needed assistance and emergency loans for farmers during these tough times.

especially with the high cost of energy already an enormous burden for our farmers and ranchers.

Ethanol is a rare win-win for nearly all involved. Farmers get higher crop prices, consumers get away from imported energy, environmentalists get renewable and cleaner burning fuel and government gets to send less direct aid to farmers.

Farmers who do not speak up and out on their own behalf allow others to speak for them, and most of the time, they're not going to like what they hear.

Farmers today place a high value on insect resistant crops. We're excited about the possibilities this technology offers in order to help our customers maximize their harvestable yields and ultimately be more profitable.

Farmers should take just 5 or 10 minutes each day to consider farm safety and put things right before carrying out their work. It may save their life or the life of a family member or close friend.

Farmers should be willing to try this for 30 days.

Farmers reported partial to complete damage of their crops and properties.

Farmers patience is completely exhausted. They will not accept pre-movement testing unless there is a cull.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.

Farmers need to work together with their community to try and develop measures of relief, ... Nothing specifically can be done yet, but there is much concern.

Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.

Farmers must now have highly trained financial management skills.

Farmers may not yet be 100 percent comfortable with the changes, but they understand why it's being done and can see the value in it. All land-grant universities in the North Central region are moving toward a similar basis for generating nitrogen recommendations.

Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us.

Farmers in other parts of the world should learn from American agriculture's mistakes. Looking to nature is a better model for farming.

Farmers have responded to escalating fertilizer prices and low commodity prices by delaying purchase decisions until an appointed time closer to spring seeding.

Farmers have lost control of that food as it's going through the chain. And maybe it's about time that farmers held on and had a tighter grasp of that production, and took it through processing and packaging.

Farmers have been dealing with self-replicating products for years.

Farmers has repeatedly stressed that we are doing everything we can to find coverage for Ethel Adams. We have believed all along that key pieces of evidence, such as the final investigative police report, and a surveillance tape, would support our belief of additional negligence in this matter and would allow us to grant coverage. These have not yet been made available.

Farmers feel like they will raise something. They are pretty sure there will be some bushels there now.

Farmers can't lose their livelihoods and suffer a drop in living standards because their farmland is occupied.

Farmers can't adjust their prices. The people who sell inputs can adjust their prices to take up the slack. Farmers have adjusted all they can. ... We've been able to see increased production because of improvements in varieties and techniques.

Farmers can expand their knowledge through timely and relevant educational sessions, and they'll have an information-packed experience at the trade show with more than 600 booths. Gain the advantage of networking with other growers and talking with top industry leaders.

Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses for it, and use it at home.

Farmers are obviously running water and starting up their wind machines, hiring helicopters to go up and mix up the air a little bit. But when it gets down to a certain temperature, there is only so much a farmer can do.

Farmers are feeling the pain of rising input costs, including energy prices, and fertilizer prices that have tripled in just the last few years. They are clearly looking for relief from costs pressures, which they cannot pass along to their customers.

Farmers are facing a double whammy - an income squeeze, and they're also facing a cost squeeze with electricity (and) gas going up,

Farmers and the peanut industry are always looking for more disease-resistant, higher-performing varieties.

Every year we have farmers who visit a local farm store and are informed that their private pesticide applicators license has expired and they need a new license before they can purchase any of these products.

There's a general view that farmers just want to hire cheap labor, and they could find plenty of workers if they were just willing to pay better wages. But the wage data show that the average farm worker already makes nearly twice the minimum wage, with benefits on top of that.

There's no question that they hit the Louisiana farmers and the Florida farmers pretty hard. It knocked the cane over and inundated it with water.