Under the Wire

Everywhere I turn, I have heard a lot about the wonder of technology. It has worked itself into our lives, like it or not. Ironically, agriculture, usually one of the last bastions to resist change, seems to have embraced it completely. GPS, I guess, now allows tractors to drive a straight row while the operator reads a magazine, at least that is what my son-in-law used to do. My tractors don’t have it and there is no place to hang a monitor on my horse. Nevertheless, I recently discovered how all this has benefitted me without me ever realizing it.

A few days ago, I discovered GPS has increas...