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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

~David F. Houston

Topics: Agriculture Conditions Crops Existing Food Greatest Important Most Obvious Our Production Required Service Staple

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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

~David F. Houston

Topics: Crops Duty Farmer Food His Increase Individual Particularly Production Time

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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

~David F. Houston

Topics: Crops Devoted Effective Grown Increase May Most Production Regions Step Taken Them Where

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The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of drying them in the sun. Then it takes away a part of that crop and stores it in warehouses around California.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Around Away California Crop Crops Farmers Government Grapes Grow Growing Months Nine Nine Months Part Simply Stores Sun Takes Them Then Three Two Waits Weeks

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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Aesthetic Breeding Cattle Crops Erect Familiar Few Forests Hardy Ideal Industries Less Malls Planting Prefer Replace Shopping Time Trees

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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Amount Crops Either End Enormous Ethanol Food Good Natural Neither Require Up Which Wilderness

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Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.

~Emile Zola

Topics: Birth Come Corn Crops Eternal Fall Growth Life Love New People Perpetual Planted Renewal Spring Still Up Vines Whole Will

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What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

~Ernest Poole

Topics: Crops Grand Kind Only Raise Towns

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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Accompanied Agricultural Cane Crops Eight Enjoyed Father He House How Land Left Nine Occasion Old Other Pasture Planted Sugar Talking Were Where Years

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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

~Franklin P. Jones

Topics: Before Could Crops Fear Grown Long May Moon Opinion Paying Raises Some Somebody Which

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