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I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods.

Quotes by Grace Potter

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

Quotes by Girma Woldegiorgis

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Quotes by George Crabbe

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.

Quotes by Gary Weiss

On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it's the farmers.

Quotes by Gary Cohn

I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

Quotes by Erik Prince

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

Quotes by Eric Ripert

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Quotes by Eric Schlosser

Increased access to broadband expands our ability to do commerce and will help bring our farmers' operations into the 21st century.

Quotes by Elise Stefanik

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

Quotes by Elise Stefanik

The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.

Quotes by Elise Stefanik

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

Quotes by E. W. Howe

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Quotes by Dinah Shore

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Quotes by Dick Armey

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

Quotes by Debbie Stabenow

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Quotes by David Suzuki

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.

Quotes by David Schwimmer

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

Quotes by David Chang

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Quotes by Daryl Hannah

My dishes tend to have a very carefree style: what's ripe at the farmers market or what's in my fridge, even if I'm cleaning out my fridge. It tends to be a very improvisational style. I major in salads, but a loose definition of salad; it can have a real robust skirt steak on top of it off the grill or quinoa or buckwheat or sprouted almond.

Quotes by Darby Stanchfield

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Quotes by Danny Huston

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

Quotes by Daniel Webster

It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band there. I'd sit in with the band. Yeah, that's what I would do. Sit in with the band at the farmers market. Sing a couple of songs, eat a peach, and hug people.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.

Quotes by Cory Gardner

Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.

Quotes by Chrystia Freeland

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

Quotes by Chrystia Freeland

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.

Quotes by Chrystia Freeland

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

Quotes by Christine Milne

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

Quotes by Christien Meindertsma

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.

Quotes by Chris Gibson

Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.

Quotes by Chris Gibson

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

Quotes by Chris Gibson

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.

Quotes by Charles Sturt

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Quotes by Charles C. Mann

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

An ideal night for myself and my boyfriend would be going to the farmers market, making ourselves a nice meal, and then anything outdoorsy.

Quotes by Brie Bella

I'd love to hang out with sheep farmers in New Zealand for a week.

Quotes by Brad Leone

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Quotes by Bill Gates

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Quotes by Bill Gates

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Quotes by Bill Bryson

Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.

Quotes by Ben Sasse

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.

Quotes by Arunachalam Muruganantham

The move towards a unified agricultural market helps farmers get correct remuneration for their produce.

Quotes by Arundhati Bhattacharya

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Quotes by Arthur Capper

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

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.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

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?

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

Quotes by Anna Getty

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.

Quotes by Anand Gopal

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

Quotes by Amy Klobuchar

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

Quotes by Allen Boyd

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Quotes by Alice Waters

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

Quotes by Alice Waters

Buying food from farmers and people that I know adds that human element that I love.

Quotes by Alex Guarnaschelli

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