Monday, March 28, 2011

Cade's Corner

As a young boy I had a lot of respect for farmers , so I would try to listen in on all the farming talk. I would latch on to every word as if they had all the secrets to life. I would hear them talk about their crops and say things like ,”...its time to lime the fields again.” Eventually I learned some of their practices .Twenty five years later things have really changed .We are now using GPS devices to level fields and steer tractors and computers to keep records .We take tissue and soil samples(and we have the capability of doing it on the farm).We don’t guess at anything .Its precision farming and we have to be up-to-date on technology if we are going to be profitable .My old farming buddies would be shocked if they could see the way we farm today and they probably could not imagine how they affected a young farmer-to-be.

Cade Easley
Integrated Pest Manager

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