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High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. (Quote by - Alan Autry)

Agricultural regions are some of the key areas where we would like to understand and predict climate changes in order to aid adaptation to global warming. (Quote by - David Lobell)

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

The talks are going to continue today with the questions of market access, both on industrial tariffs and on agriculture. (Quote by - Christin Baker)

It's pretty exciting to be involved in this. For many years, the focus of sustainable agriculture has been on avoiding negatives: water pollution, soil erosion, pesticide residues, etc. In the ecosystems services concept, we're focusing on services that people appreciate and enjoy. Since the amount of land involved in agriculture is so large, we have a strong motivation to provide farmers incentives to support the ecosystem. (Quote by - Scott Swinton)

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns. (Quote by - Carl Hiaasen)

Simply demanding more in agriculture..does not add up to a serious negotiation. (Quote by - Peter Mandelson)

He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. (Quote by - Lucinus Junius Moderatus Columella)

The economy of the state has changed dramatically. The changing face of agriculture drove out farmers and farm families, which drove off businesses that rely on farm families. (Quote by - Richard Rathge)

Our biggest target market that we really want to work with is the agricultural sector. We have very good legislation..but we are unfortunately failing to bring on board, in a meaningful way, the department of agriculture. They are just lagging behind a little bit. (Quote by - David Lindley)

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. (Quote by - Richard Lugar)

We continue to learn more about how past agricultural practices are affecting our current environment. Unlike some pesticides used today, metals like arsenic and lead in old pesticides do not degrade over time. (Quote by - Carl Renshaw)

Agriculture is still the No. 1 business in Pennsylvania. It is such an important need for the commonwealth. (Quote by - Steve MacCarthy)

There have always been tensions and conflicts between agricultural and pastoral practices but desertification has accentuated them. (Quote by - Yakubu Dalhat)

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. (Quote by - Trofim Lysenko)

Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

You can only reduce so much from agriculture. Just the simple act of living is a cause of pollution. A well-managed farm still has some influences. (Quote by - Harry Campbell)

Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living. (Quote by - Xenophon)

More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy. (Quote by - John Fisher)

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)

Anything over two unlicensed vehicles, unusable machinery parts or scrap metal is considered a junkyard in an agricultural zone. (Quote by - Wayne Sorensen)

The program has been great for agriculture and rural communities in South Dakota. Class members say the leadership experience is well worth the time. (Quote by - Dan Gee)

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

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