I liked using them. I can remember when we used to cultivate soybeans and corn. Although my dad would never put it in these words (as a religious man) he thought he died and went to heaven when Atrazine came along. In the early days before some resistance got started in the weeds and grass it originally would get both the broadleaves and giant foxtail with it being the only chemical. Plus he mounted a six row band sprayer home made from steel pipe fittings on the front of the MF35 (55 gallon steel drum for a tank) and sprayed only a 10-15" band so the cost was minimal (still doing the cultivating). Always three times cultivating and sometimes four on soybeans with the early passes at probably 2 mph (talk about boring). Still with weeds and grass in the row before chemicals even with the multiple cultivations. And after I had been farming full time quite a few years auto steer on tractors and automatic steering and booms on sprayers was pretty sweet also. Then fungicides on soybeans and wheat ten or twenty years ago flown on by a plane or helicopter sometimes or our own self propelled sprayer sometimes.

I had no problem embracing technology and enjoyed it. It allowed me to grow the farm multiple times the size of my dad's farming, and he was a pretty good sized farmer for his day and age. He had started out with horses and mules. His technology leap was to his first tractor in 1939. A used 1937 JD B on steel.