“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.” EconomyEnvironmentSecurityFoodCircumstancesInnovationLocalsFarmersAdaptedFood Security Author:Bill Gates
“Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.” HelpingSeemsFoundPrayerAnswersEconomyEnvironmentFaultsOilTragicFarmersDependenceOur PrayersDilemmaUnwantedForeign OilBiodiesel Book:On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm Source: On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm
“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.” PeopleIfsHas BeensProblemPoliticsGrowthWealthEconomyGrowingTreeEffectsPolicyBuildingGoes OnPleaseHealthyRootsOrganizationManagementMethodPropertySpeciesSpreadManageCorporationsSoilLiberalismFarmersOwnershipPrevailingParamountBuilding UpProperty OwnershipGrowing Tree Author:Peter S. Grosscup
“We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.” StillsWisdomGovernmentRunningActionYoungPoliticsSocialEconomyMovementTheoryCitizensOrganizationWelfareLiberalismHelpfulFarmersUndertakingsCooperativesDistributorsSocial Theory Author:Herbert Hoover
“A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.” WisdomPoliticsCommunityEconomyLandCitizensOffersPropertyLiberalismOwnersRepublicFarmersAssurance Author:Thomas Jefferson
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.” WisdomPoliticsGivenBornEconomyHorseUnionsLiberalismCollectivesCommunistFarmersSovietSoviet UnionBarns Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.” EvilPoliticsSilenceCompanyEconomyPlayerBabyPercentCapitalismCriticismBaseballListsCorporationsLiberalismPrintDriversFarmersRepresentativesOwnershipPointingTaxiBaseball PlayerGreat CompanySensing Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.” ShouldTwoUseWisdomCareTodayFacesPoliticsForgetResponsibilityPrinciplesCasesEconomyAspectHorsePropertyPossessionTwo ThingsLiberalismDividedFarmersRighteousInseparablePrivate Property Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.” KnowsSaidStatesUseUnitedUnited StatesEconomyOppositesFarmersHerbicides Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.” AmericaStrongEconomySafetyProductionsCompanionComplimentFarmsFarmersAgricultureSafety NetRural America Author:Tom Vilsack
“Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.” ProblemGivenLinesStruggleEconomyTroubleSolutionsDifficultyFarmersTransportationMerchants Author:John Moody
“Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system.” ImportantEconomyEnvironmentEatingEvidenceLocalsFarmersImmuneImmune System Author:Suzanne Whang