“Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.” ImportantStatesHelpingQualityMajorsResearchFruitProducersYieldFarmersCropsStrawberriesImportant WorkRaspberriesWashington StateMarketability Author:Rick Larsen
“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.” WayChildrenStatesGrowsDifficultGrowing UpLuckyUniversityFarmersTenants Author:James Hansen
“As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.” YearsWellsStatesHelpingOpportunityEnergyNationsSupportDevelopmentShapesProgramRegardBillsDeterminePrioritiesFarmsFarmersInitiativeAgricultureCommodityConservationLegislationInputRenewable EnergyGreat OpportunityNebraskaCommodity Prices Author:Dave Heineman
“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingRealStatesWatchesToo MuchSmartSeriesWestPaintCreditGladGenerosityFarmsFarmersGood PeopleFenceAdviseMortgageDakota Author:Will Rogers
“Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'” IfsWantHas BeensSaidStatesHouseWhiteHellTaxesWineWhy NotWhite HouseFarmersPlatforms Author:Pat Paulsen
“What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesDoneUnitedUnited StatesHavensProgramSouthOur FamilyFarmsFarmersDakotaBailoutsSouth Dakota Author:Kristi Noem
“But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.” WorldCountryStatesFactsSpeakForgetKnownMinutesDangerVictoryRemainsOur CountryGermanyCollectivesFarmersConcreteSocialistThreatenedOne MinuteGreatest Victory Author:Mikhail Kalinin