Fertilizer Quotes
Words on soil, seed, and what makes crops grow.
These quotes treat fertilizer as more than a farm input — it's infrastructure, in the same breath as the roads that carry it to Africa's farmers, and a stand-in for who gets to feed the world.
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
Africa Quotes
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
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...
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
America Quotes
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.
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.
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater...
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Others weigh nitrogen fertilizer's outsized role in corn country, and the surveillance-era irony of buying a ton of it. For related themes, see the Broken quotes.
