Even after all the farmland got developed into industrial, she wanted to be in her house. The best times is when she had company.
Quotes about farmland (16 Quotes)
But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.
The market for farmland was off but now it is on. You can throw all the old price comparisons out the window.
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
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.
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.
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.
If you look at where the development goes, a lot of it is on prime farmland.
I think you really created a separate district there. You need to draw lines around it. You have a rural district that's not farmland, an agriculture district with agriculture in there, and then open fields.
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.
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,
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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.
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.