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Effingham County | McHusker:
I think you are describing a troubling phenomenon that is developing in the agriculture industry. As the "older" generation of agriculture support staff leave the industry they are being replaced by younger people who are two or three generations removed from the farm. They have no idea how to quantify anything because they lack first hand experience of how to raise a crop in the first place. Unless their professor, text book, Ag magazine/newspaper says something that is the way it must be. Ask yourself this question, how many of our academic experts farm on their own? Not that they own a farm and someone does it for them, but do it all by themselves from start to finish. Now we begin to see how incongruent we have become; the "experts" know more about our farms and how to grow a crop than those of us who are doing it! Also as our farms grow larger and there are fewer farm folk on the country side the reliability factor is also decreasing. One farmer with 10,000 acres knows much less minute detail than 10 farmers each with their own 1000 acres. Years ago you knew by the loads your neighbor pulled to the bin or town how his crop was doing. Hard for them to exaggerate with out the neighbors calling BS because they had a good idea on what really went down. Lastly the quest for instant feedback is partly to blame. Just because the yield monitor hit 250 for a brief time in one field, which is true they tend to forget when it was only showing 75. There is little incentive to report back in that later the whole farm only averaged 150. I feel with this variable year this is why we are getting such shoddy and substandard information to quantify what is really going on. | |
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Who is surprised?
