My good friend Len Hartzler (who was the best man at our wedding,
groom exempted) had been reading our blogs and was somewhat perturbed by the
picture of the John Deere grading blade that we posted for Sporty. He said we could do so much better. Sunday afternoon he took me into one of his
fields to show me some of the equipment that he operates. Sporty, these combines are for you!
I had no idea how sophisticated farming has
become. Len showed me that for a fee of
$10 per acre, a company would provide for him satellite pictures of his land
showing precisely, within inches, which areas needs fertilization and which
areas do not. Len takes this information,
feeds it into the computers on his John Deere fertilizing equipment, and
through careful analysis he is able to substantiate that the $10 he pays for
this information is returned to him five fold in yield in the fall when he
harvests the crops.
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