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Supplement to The Freeborn & Mower County Shoppers/Spring 2017
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“Traveling With the Professionals”
Resistance is Futile By Mike Merten, CCA, Pioneer Sales Professional As we prepare for some time to evaluate the coming planting how they work and season (beginning whether they have the as early as the day potential to improve my we put the planter, current systems. And sprayer, or other there are usually some equipment away improvements made after using it last and tweaking done after season) we all look the initial release, before for ways to improve the product becomes how that equipment more user-friendly. Mike Merten, CCA operates. It may Pioneer Sales Professional I will say to the ones be an upgrade, who completely ignore trade for new or newer model, or just clean the advancements and and lubricate before stowing it in the shed. view them as useless, Depending on the age of that equipment, there Resistance is Futile. For are all kinds of things we can do. And many of you ‘Next Generation’ Star Trekies out there, these would include the addition or application you may remember the episodes involving the of precision technologies. Whether it’s a new Borg invasions. The Borg were a species of monitor that would allow for VRS (variable sub-human aliens who lived in a society of the rate seeding) to apply different populations ‘One Collective’. No individuality- everyone of seeding across your field or vary the rate of worked for the good of all. Their motto was nitrogen when side dressing, row shutoffs on “you cannot survive their attack”. Resistance the planter, swath control on the sprayer, down was futile. You will be assimilated into their pressure adjusting equipment for the planter, collective, or die. or just record-keeping software that records Now I’m not saying that to resist modern and maps the operation performed, there are technology will put everyone out of business. changes that can be made. There are as many ways to make a living off In the competitive business of farming today the land as there are farmers to try. But as (competing with the challenge of staying more and more advancements in our farming profitable that is), we need to look at these systems come along, the harder it will be to available products, evaluate them, and decide stay competitive without integrating these which ones will actually give us a good ROI systems. If everyone else is doing it, and (return on investment), then implement the operating more profitably, then you are at a ones that will. disadvantage. As independent as farmers are, there is It needs to be mentioned that some of naturally a large spectrum of opinions about these newest technologies have the potential these new technologies. I know some who to help improve our operations from an say they don’t want or need to invest in them environmental standpoint. And we all know because they do not see the advantages in there is continually more pressure on us to do their operation, and it’s just more money that. down the tube. On the other hand there have Remember, your Pioneer sales rep is a great always been the ones who will buy the newest resource to help use these systems, from asproducts for their farm and put them to use planted mapping, VRS prescriptions, fertilizer just as soon as they’re available. I guess I find recommendations, to yield data analysis and myself somewhere in between. I do like to read hybrid evaluations, just to name a few. 15300 about and see the newest technologies, talk780th Ave | Albert Lea | 507-373-8895 Have a safe and profitable growing season. to dealers, get prices, etc.. Then it takes me
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