Fertilize Quotes

When we got there, it was about 10 p.m. It was fully engulfed. A lot of family memories were tied up with the feed store, even though it was closed. My grandfather, Bill Pace, was in his 80s and would help my dad run the feed store so Dad could take care of the fertilizer end of the business. - Pam Phillips

When the weather turns nice, folks go out and purchase fertilizer without much thought to what they are applying. Without a soil test it is easy to over apply nutrients, like phosphorus, that end up in our local streams and rivers. - Jay Chism

When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far. - Charles Benbrook

When a child is conceived, an egg is fertilized, and at that point the unborn child has all the DNA it will ever have. The DNA tells its hair color, eye color, skin color. ... It's a unique individual. An individual has been created with DNA that has never existed in the past and will never exist again naturally. - Anne Newman

What's the base of the pricing? The prices of fertilizer and electricity are regulated by the government, which reflect on domestic gas prices. - Chris Newton

We're putting out fertilizer today trying to get feed going. I've got one field that's even too wet, but that's all right. I'll take the rain. - Stephen Schmidt

We're able to sense how a crop grows within a field, much like a yield monitor will make a map based on yield. We can create different variable application maps to control different rates of fertilizers and chemicals that are put on the field automatically through a GPS receiver. - Lanny Faleide

Well, we've been pretty consistent with our statements and what we want to do as a group, and that gets better each weekend. We've certainly made some strides in the early part of September to where we are now, but now it's time to elevate the bar a little bit more. The team has done some real nice things up to this point, and we've won a lot of hockey games, but now you got to keep watering it and put a little fertilizer on it and grow with it. - Mark Johnson

We treat the manure as a fertilizer source. And when you can smell it, you're losing some of the nitrogen. - Ben Roling

We took on as a project helping a village in western Kenya. It was 5,000 hungry people beset with malaria and AIDS. And we said, 'let's apply the recommendations of the Millennium Project in this village with the support of a private donor, because government donors don't seem to do such practical things.' And we helped them get improved seeds and some fertilizer for the planting season. That's all. Very low cost. They produced four times more food this year than last year. - Jeffrey Sachs