Farmland Quotations

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.

So it's an old, aging system that instead of protecting farmland is actually protecting small cities, levees of questionable integrity protecting higher value real estate.

If a community decides that they want that farmland in perpetuity . . . there'd better a strong desire on the part of the community to subsidize that farming operation. Somebody's going to have to pay fair-market value for that property.

I am still waiting for over four months for the map I requested showing the scientific boundaries that put my farmland into the Highlands Preservation.

The purpose of zoning land for agricultural preservation is so that prime and unique farmland may be converted to urban use last,

Land comes in and goes out again, so you can't quite tell for sure what's happening. We know there's development every year, so a certain amount of farmland in California will shift from being farmed to moving into development.

Some of the most-producing farmland is being changed over from agricultural to residential. We're not always using the land the best way.

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

I think it's possible to have both. I think the farmland and country atmosphere we have here in the area is pretty well protected and I'm sure the zoning and planning commissions in each community are trying to keep a balance.

We are not against development or growth at all. We would like to see smart growth where key resources such as prime farmland are protected.

We saw a financial disaster in agriculture in the early 1980s as a result of inflated farmland values and the increased borrowing on those values. When the bottom dropped out of the farmland market, we saw loans called in and foreclosures to cover those loans.

Today's stage was quite varied. There were places where you needed to be very careful. It was muddy in parts and some puddles of water stood in sheltered areas. Other places were much faster across rural farmland and you could push a little, but after the puncture we had no chance of setting a fast time.

At that point it was pretty much open farmland out there. Now that intersection is kind of the future of the industrial market from the standpoint of access to infrastructure.

We will probably continue seeing land sell within this trading range. There is more interest now in farmland than last fall.

Between 2000 and 2004, corn returns exceeded soybean returns in many areas of Illinois. Budgets suggest that recent cost increases have narrowed the gap between corn and soybean returns. Higher corn yields will be required in 2006 as compared to recent years for projected corn returns to exceed soybean returns. From a returns perspective, farmers may wish to plant soybeans on farmland that could be corn-after-corn in 2006.

Unfortunately, a lot of water is covering farmland and towns and roads, ... The good news is our emergency plan worked just the way it was supposed to.

Farmers can't lose their livelihoods and suffer a drop in living standards because their farmland is occupied.

This is driven by the concept that you can preserve farmland while creating housing, instead of just taking the land and chopping it up.

The Bay region is losing farmland and farms at a rapid rate. There's not the resources to sustain this industry.

The conservation of high nature value farmland will probably require a more concentrated effort in core areas, whereas a retreat of agriculture and targeted nature development in other areas seems quite promising,

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

I razed them... we specified the farmland of those who were convicted and I signed.

They indicated that farmland was not being purchased for agricultural purposes in most cases, and that the income from the agricultural use was not a primary consideration in the purchase.

As a farmer, I want farmland to remain in farming.