—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Mr.y 25.1968 8 Good Morning (Continued from Page 12) house would be used to plug In communications to a third gen eration computer. Nor is it like ly that today’s farmer, even five years ago. suspected the very nature of his occupation would be radically changed by the in troduction of sophisticated com puter systems. 'But it was. U.S. farming has changed. Since the end of World War 11, the number of farms has de clined from 5.9 million to 3.3 million—well over 40 percent— while output soared. Today, U.S. farms with sales over s4o,ooo—the so called big farms—produce about 40 percent oi all agricultural output. And those big farms represent only 1 out of every 25 registered farms. Farming is big business—and sophisticated. For example, a recent IBM Agricultural Sym posium in San Jose, Calif, cov ered such diverse subjects as automated sensing, computer control of farm machinery of the future, decision making and simulation applied to a Califor nia range-feedlot operation: as well as. linear programming, mathematical models, budget ing, and EDP management Farm Management “Applications of computers in soh mg farm management prob lems may proie to be the most significant technological devel opment in agriculture during the next 15 years,’’ says L S Fife, International Harvester econo mist. Many of these innovations ba\e already been designed to give the farmer a working man agement information system With these contemporary man agement controls and procedur es farmers can manage their farms as the big businesses they are, and as a result, increase crop and livestock production. Accurate farm records are es sential in meeting federal in come tax regulations With ac curate records the farmer can analyze sound and weak points in his business and adjust his ef forts accordingly Universities ha\ e played a significant role in developing farm record systems using computers The Michigan State TEL-FARM project was one of the pioneers in this area Farmers using the TEL-FARM system choose up to eight confi dential summaries from data they feed the computer The summaries include such things as quarterly and annual financi al data on all farm income and expenses, repoits on loans and credit ratings, a net worth state ment and many more valuable management data Local banks al 1 over the country are begin ning to offer similar manage ment systems to farmers —REC- CHEK and PAM (Personal Ac counting Management) for ex ample Wendell A Clithero of IBM +old the 14th National Agricul tural credit conference of the American Bankers Assn that there are over 10,000 farmers now using electronic data proc essing in the processing of their farm records and farm analysis In addition to citing the Greely National Bank’s work in feed in ventory Mr Clithero pointed to Wachoua Bank and Trust Com pany of North Carolina as an ex ample of computerized farmiec oid keeping and analysis Wachoua B & T manages f'im pioperty accounts totaling about 00 000 aues of lard They rho manage one feedei pig op eifu.on with 200 sous and one tiUS'" account that has appiou mately 50 commercial brood cows. These accounts are han dled on computers just as any other bank operation—however bookkeeping-coding has been re defined to take into account spe cial farm needs. Harvesting the Crops Even Newton would be amaz ed to see how the apples are be ing shaken from the trees these days. At Rutgers University's 'Department of Agricultural En gineering, a computer is being used to find out how much force is needed to shake ripe fruit from trees while leaving the un ripe ones on the branches. Pres ent automated fruit harvesting methods, such as ultrasonic and mechanical tree shaking and air blasting, do not accurately con trol the amount of force neces sary. The Rutgers’ researchers are employing a small analog computer, to simulate fruit trees and to learn their reactions to varying forces. The computer amplifies sig nals from gauges placed on an actual fruit tree and then lec ords the signals on tape. Next, it analyzes the data from which Your Best Buy... 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