dun":3dqr5hj3 said:
novatech":3dqr5hj3 said:
Those that do not take advantage of proven "new technology" will eventually fall. The way grand paw did it simply will not continue to work.
I have watched business prosper and business fail my entire life because of their resistance or acceptance of technology. Ranching is no different.
What really tears me up on these boards is hearing some condemn some of the new technology when they obviously have never really taken the time to investigate it.
That is not ignorance. That is pure stupidity.
How about some examples of proven new technology?
Other than the computer, cloning, and DNA testing I can't come up with much in the ranching biz that is all that new. A.I. was commercially viable 50 years ago. E.T. goes back to the 80s. We got our first disk mower (used) back in 1986. I am 38 and I don't remember our farm without the big round bales. The new pickups will not do anything that my Grandfather's 1971 model wasn't able to do. I have an Electric fence charger on a shelf in the barn that is older than I am. Vaccinations have been around for 40-50 years. Performance testing is 50++ years old. EPDs go back to the 1970s.
I would hate to have to switch back to my Grandfather's 1953 model Allis Chalmers WD-45.......but (if you have the implements for it) it can do most of the things that a new tractor can do. And by the time of the John Deere 4020 tractors really haven't changed that much. Just about everything we do today was invented or developed by that "older generation".