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How Much Change Can We Stand
What changes have you wit
nessed in the farm scene since you
started farming? Depending on
how long you’ve farmed, or how
long you have lived, you can chalk
up quite a list. And no matter how
long the list, it would not contain
every change that would be con
sidered significant by someone.
And did you ever notice just how
quickly farmers latch on to new
ideas? As a breed of rugged in
dividualists, we are never slow to
try out a new gimmick, especially
if it holds out a little hope of im
proving our lot. Of course, if it
doesn’t pay off, we soon drop it, but
it’s amazing how many crazy new
ideas of the last fifty years have
stayed around.
The mechanization of
agricultme has been just one of the
success stories of our age.
Even cows have been mechanized
beyond Grandpa’s comprehension.
But the greatest strides have been
made in some of the more subtle
areas such as genetics in both
cattle and crops, pesticides,
chemicals and electronics. Most
purely mechanical devices are
now only slight improvements over
yesterday’s gadgets, but we’ve
only begun to use the really ad
vanced technology of the Space
age on the farm.
Will we be forced to keep up the
pace?
There is a lot of evidence that our
rapid adoption and use of the latest
in technology has brought
agriculture to the brink of disaster.
We have succeeded in eliminating
the need for millions of farm
workers. Most food and fiber is
now produced in such abundance
that markets are flooded and
prices on the knife edge of profit or
loss. And the only way to
salvations is to continue to produce
more ‘efficiently’. It almost seems
as though our ‘efficiency’ has
reached the limit of human en
durance. I sincerely hope not.
Young men and women are still
feeling the urgency of establishing
their place in the Sorry Scheme of
Things on the land. And they will,
given an even chance, take over
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from their tired elders and con
tinue the race to out-produce their
neighbors and the whole world.
And they will make it pay, and we
will continue to eat. Because, as
Omar Khayyam in the Rubayyat
predicted, they will “-dash it all to
pieces, then, Remould it nearer to
the Heart’s Desire-”
So, if I may also make a
prediction, we have only begun to
scratch the surface of advanced
agriculture. The most exciting
times are just ahead, and I envy
the youth that will have a hand in
making it happen.
And the pace that will be
required will not be too hard to
endure, because there is still a
tempering presence right here in
our midst that still holds on to
many of the time honored virtues
of humility, honesty, and hard
work. These team farmers know
how to combine the Old with the
New and make it work. That
plowman behind the six-horse
team probably has a computer in
the house!
He certainly has one or more
diesel engines that power a series
of acceptable devices that can
make life a little easier. Those
hydraulic lines can go anywhere
and run anything. So can the
compressed air lines, which have
the advantage of service from
pressurized storage useable at any
time without starting the diesel
engine. Not as handy as electricity,
but acceptable. And the horse is
still fueled by hay, the best source
of renewable energy on the farm!
Besides which, it still remains a
symbol of strength and stability on
the farm scene.
Never have so few farm laborers
produced so much food. The
pressures will always remain on
those few, but the rewards will also
be there for those who can get it all
together. Getting it together will
mean using the latest in
technology, and also keeping in
touch with some traditional values.
Farmers must retain the Spiritual
values which make us human.
Then the fast pace of progress can
be kept up and endured.
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