In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.

- Danny Meyer

I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.

- Frances Beinecke

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

- Frances Beinecke

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

- Ertharin Cousin

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

- Eric Ripert

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

- Emeril Lagasse

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

- E. W. Howe

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

- Dinah Shore

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

- Dick Armey

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

- Debbie Stabenow

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

- Alice Waters

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

- Daniel Webster

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

- Christine Milne

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

- Christien Meindertsma

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

- Catherine Helen Spence

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.

- Cory Gardner

On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.

- Chris Gibson

I come from generations of farmers.

- Chuck Palahniuk

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

- Bill Bryson

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

- Barbara Kingsolver