Looks like we've come a long way from a team of oxen pulling a wooden furrower. Incidentally, little miss 21st century 4-H member can plow my field anytime.
High tech farming. It is a long way from when I was growing up on the farm and we had a Ford 801 for spraying/hay windrows, and Massy 165 for everything else.
Yeah, better have the John Deere service department on speed dial. Crap like that has a million miles of wires in it. All it takes is for one of them to make a bad connection and you're down.
The thing is, now days, you almost have to have equipment like that in order to be competitive in farming. The days of the small farmer are dwindling down. I have a friend who went to Michigan State Univ. for agriculture. He has a dairy farm, milking 120 head last time I knew. He stayed for only a short time, I don't know how long, and quit,said that they couldn't teach him anything of use. He probably was right. That dairy farm is a multi million dollar endeavor. His brother, a year younger than me, was a math genius. He left the farm and went to work for Rockwell, in Minnesota. I don't know if he is still there, but he was doing quite well from what I had heard. Also, the tractors now have software that is non user serviceable. You can't even try to fix something, due to John Deere having a patent on the software, and not letting anyone touch it. Smart marketing ploy, but it pisses the farmers off, big time. Pay over 150,000$ for a tractor, and you cannot hire a computer tech to fix a bug, you have to hire the factory tech to come and fix it, if they cannot do it over the internet.
Nebraska girl. She farms with her Dad & Uncle, and she has her own acreage & cows. Going to UNL.
ReplyDeleteThe university of no learning. The other two in their system are UNO the university of no opportunity, and UNK the university of no knowledge.
DeleteHa. Sounds like personal experience. She's going the ag route, and since that's pretty much based on hard knowledge (science), she'll do okay.
DeleteThat's Laura Farms, a hottie up & coming farmer. She has a bunch of good videos on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteLooks like we've come a long way from a team of oxen pulling a wooden furrower. Incidentally, little miss 21st century 4-H member can plow my field anytime.
ReplyDeleteHigh tech farming. It is a long way from when I was growing up on the farm and we had a Ford 801 for spraying/hay windrows, and Massy 165 for everything else.
ReplyDeleteYah everything's fine with automation till it breaks.
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Yeah, better have the John Deere service department on speed dial.
DeleteCrap like that has a million miles of wires in it. All it takes is for one of them to make a bad connection and you're down.
The thing is, now days, you almost have to have equipment like that in order to be competitive in farming. The days of the small farmer are dwindling down.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who went to Michigan State Univ. for agriculture. He has a dairy farm, milking 120 head last time I knew. He stayed for only a short time, I don't know how long, and quit,said that they couldn't teach him anything of use. He probably was right. That dairy farm is a multi million dollar endeavor.
His brother, a year younger than me, was a math genius. He left the farm and went to work for Rockwell, in Minnesota. I don't know if he is still there, but he was doing quite well from what I had heard.
Also, the tractors now have software that is non user serviceable. You can't even try to fix something, due to John Deere having a patent on the software, and not letting anyone touch it. Smart marketing ploy, but it pisses the farmers off, big time. Pay over 150,000$ for a tractor, and you cannot hire a computer tech to fix a bug, you have to hire the factory tech to come and fix it, if they cannot do it over the internet.
pigpen51
From the Boeing School. Sales numbers over reliability.
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