To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.

The corn is not choked by the weeds but by the negligence of the farmer.

Frankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.

I’m still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn’t suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus.

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without proper respect for the soil.

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

Farming is a profession of hope.

If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.