Posted 1/22/2007 16:12 (#92744 - in reply to #92742) Subject: RE: Not sure on the machinery issue.
DG N. AL - 1/22/2007 15:01
Do you believe everything a college professor tells you?
I don't have time to run numbers right now, but I have a very hard time buying that claim. I don't think it will be close. You might want to do some research to back that one up.
Well on an issue like this I couldn't see much incentive for them to fabricate a claim. And yes, generally, when someone who devotes their working time to understanding information about a particular field and has an immense amount of farm level data to draw conclusions from says something, I assume that it is true and based in fact. It would be rather silly for me to do anything else. I would imagine that if your doctor tells you that you have pneumonia you assume that he is correct and take the prescribed medicine. If you weren't going to I would say to not bother going to the doctor.
I would say comparing a combine with a 6-row corn head in 1977 to a combine with a 6-Row head today is hardly a one-for-one relationship on a productivity basis. Would you?
What's good for the goose is not good for the gander...
