The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will, in the end, contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield..
Farming is a profession of hope.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Farming is not just a job. It’s a way of life.
Without farmers, civilization itself would be in jeopardy.
Agriculture is civilization.
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
Farming is a profession of hope.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Farming is a profession of hope
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
Farming is a profession of hope.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
