Posted by Banditfarmer on December 01, 2014 at 14:14:50 from (75.186.9.25):
In Reply to: Future of Farming posted by dennis (VA) on December 01, 2014 at 08:00:22:
Its funny how things go, Years ago if something broke down you could figure it out and fix it and get back up and running. Now days you have to call the dealer and wait for them to get time to come to the field to plug there computer in to find the problem.
I am a hands on person and I do understand the need to modernize but man sometimes I think they have gone to far. Just for fun last spring me and a friend got to talking about planters and he said that unless you have a modern planter you will only get 1/2 the yield. It pissed me off and I told him to prove it. He had a 20 acre field close to me so I told him you plant 1/2 with your planter and I will plant the other 1/2 with my 40 year old planter and we will see if the fall if he was right or not. He agreed and we did it, His new Kinze 15" rows vs. my AC 600 20" row planter same population. Well they grew good for the year and at harvest it told the tail. Ware I planted with my 40+ year old planter had 4 bu an acre more yield than his new planter with all the goodies on it. He bought my dinner for it and said he learned something that day.
Please don't get me wrong here as I do see the need for modern teck in farming. The yield monitor that prints out a diagram of a fields yields that can be given to the guy that spreads fert so he can add more or cut down the amount across the field for better yields. GPS for the sprayer and much more. The bad is when a mouse stops a $350.000 combine dead in its tracks just by chewing on a wire and frying a computer.
I thing for sure in the future of farming no matter how much technology you get or have and how new the equipment you have is it all comes down to one thing, A Human Brain to make all the decision to make it all work. You just cant beat the "OLD GUT FEELING". Bandit
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