“Farmers grow on the land. I suppose farmers grow farmers, rather than using sex to reproduce.”

“A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land.”

“I used to live in a seedy section of town. There were a lot of farmers in the area.”

“A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people..."A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which just means that the more you walk around your place the better everything seems to grow and flourish.”

“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”

“The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.”