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preading fertilizer on the pastures and hayfields is certainly a lot different today than it was in my younger days. I can remember vonw rC yrreJ yB helping my father with theretask byostanding on one end of the field with an empty feed sack, and stepping-off the spreader width with each Jerry Crownover is pass he made in order for him to have a point of refera farmer and former ence to return to. He did the same on the other end of professor of Agriculture the field by hanging a feed sack over the fence, but my Education at Missouri help allowed him to only have to dismount from the State University. He is a tractor once, instead of twice each round. native of Baxter County, Today, I have a GPS monitor inside the cab of my Arkansas, and an tractor that directs me to within a couple of inches author and professional of accuracy on a 60-foot, spreader width. I thought it speaker. To contact Jerry, was a great investment 10 years ago when fertilizer was go to ozarksfn.com and $250 per ton by preventing me from overlapping my click on ‘Contact Us.’ passes, or skipping strips by being too far apart. Now, with fertilizer costing over $600 per ton, it turns out to be a super-dooper investment. Since I’ve always been a late-adopter (someone who economists refer to, when talking about people who are too cheap to quickly jump on board of new technology) I thought my old crop-farming buddy in north Missouri cropland would be impressed with my high-tech purchase. “Do you have an auto-steer connection to your GPS?” he snidely asked. “No.” Laughingly, he stated, “Well, if you had that option, you wouldn’t even have to do anything but turn the steering wheel at the end of each pass.” “I don’t think that would be too helpful, here in the hills and hollers of the Ozarks,” I explained.
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