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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Thanksgiving
Business
Agriculture
Dinner
First
Has-Been
Indians
Head
Since
Overalls
Pilgrim
Fish
Been
Up
Fertilizer
Production
Grants
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Good
Gardening
Miracles
Over
Around
Does
Spread
Heap
Fertilizer
Little
Works
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.
Alex Shoumatoff
Broken
Soil
Down
Way
Nitrogen
Bacteria
Some
Per
Cotton
Pounds
Highly
Toxic
Dead
Chemical
Fertilizer
Get
Lakes
Acre
Creating
Requiring
Usual
Washed
Growing
Zone
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
You
Strong
Difficult
Increase
Too
More
Wisely
Like
Make
Chemicals
Making
Fertilizer
Patents
Land
Sparingly
Then
Many
Growth
Applied
Apply
Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
Arancha Gonzalez
Revolution
Latin
Latin America
Seeds
Driven
Share
Greater
Fertilizer
Green
America
Did
Modern
African
Irrigation
Gains
Asia
Use
Farmers
Productivity
Many
Techniques
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill Gates
Buy
Change
People
Will
Difficult
Enough
Increasingly
Crops
Cheap
Feed
Climate
Climate Change
Fertilizer
Going
Which
Themselves
Grow
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey
Hurt
Pay
Farm
Programs
Everyone
Rural
Rural Areas
Area
Tractor
Reductions
Fertilizer
Often
Farmers
Companies
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Kylie Bax
Hair
Wish
Would
More
Had
Head
Sprinkled
Fertilizer
Maybe
Grow
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
Norman Borlaug
World
Free
Free Society
Society
Tell
Destructive
Misinformation
Feed
Without
Becomes
Chemical
Fertilizer
Population
Present
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
Wish
Out
Something
Could
Like
Making
Fertilizer
Tobacco
Useful
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
Thomas Friedman
Great
Relationship
World
Water
Open
Environment
Open Spaces
Hand
Lot
Fertilizer
Ambivalent
Green
Golf
Spaces
Pave
Pesticides
Uses
Helps
Downside
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