It amazing to see that even farming has gone high tech. Look at the bottom line savings and increased yield[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

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Creator, With farming, it's gone pretty much to the big farmers and hi-tech. No more ma and pa farmers[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]like there used to be. Around here, they just sellout to the developers[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]Can't compete in todays market[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]Dairies have also gone hi-tech. Local dairyman went on vacation[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]came back and his whole herd died of a disease(cat fell in feed mixer)and his brother-in -law(I think)fed the whole herd. They said he lost over 200 years of genentic research and would be years before his operation would make money again[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]Luckily, he was well liked in the dairy community and they pitched in and gave him some of their producing cows[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]Everything is computer controlled, milking, feeding, breeding, etc.

Pretty soon, if Toyo has his way, we will all be controlled by a micro-chip[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]No more one nighters[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]for Toyo, micro chip will tell Mr. ***** to go back to sleep tonight[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Yeah The google bar Kick ***. Pop open a new browser type in what you wanna know and hit search web. Great lil gizmo i love it. yeah i forgot about hoss's fancy heels [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] We'll try and keep the politics over in the politics thread. I wont hold it against ya B&RW [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

I aint for control via the chip. Just a flippin tag. Like a liscense or anything else. with scanning the chip a doctor could pull up your medical records and possibly make the right life or death descision with medications and crap. Their and many many positives to chips, and 0 negatives.

 

If there are many, many positive things with a chip, like you stated and 0 negatives[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]then, why not give it all the control and information about your life? That why, before any 4play, the girl/woman/ or whatever, is in your life, can say wait a minute, I need to scan for previous VD encounters[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

And, if it's good enough for Mudd, why isn't it good enough for you[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

The particular ranch that we did all that work for is some 9,000 acres. I was suprised too. We barely touched what they ran. Maybe 2500 acres total. They have a HUGE cooler/plant out there. 12KV service and all.

The ranch itself doesn't own most of that. It's owned by different people. It's funny out there if you look at an older ranch. The holdings are in the name of kids. You'd have a kid, put the land it that kid's name so you would get water rights. Each person was limited in the amount water they got rights to. The ranch was started by a guy. He died in NY when he went back with the first load of produce via train. The company then moved to his wife, then their daughter and now her husband runs the place. And their kids now work there. Well, some of them do. I think it dates back to the 30s or 40s.

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Skinner, That's a major operation there[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] It's good the kids kept the ranch going[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] Yea, alot of smaller farmers joined together to build a co-op to survive[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]As a small player, it's hard to make a living anymore[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

I'm not sure how involved the kids are in the operation. I know they are late-20s early 30s in age range. But from what I kinda suspect, work for them is sitting in the office. Porsche Boxters don't handle the fields too well out there. I know the irrigation company guys morso. THe dad is a Mech. Engineer so he's into the technical stuff. He's just an a** hole.

The ranch owners own an irrigation company and we deal with them. They have somewhat of a clue. That company is run by a father and son team. The dad is a little unorganized, but the son is. Nice kid. Oh, and he rides a YZ125. Haven't ridden with him yet. Poor guy was involved in a triple fatality in Firebough. Had a farm worker van pull out in front of him. Earlier in the morning, just after midnight, his sister was robbed at gunpoint. Not a good day for that family.

Some of the irrigation contractors out there have no clue, especially WRT the electrical side. We like to do things a certain way. Like put PVC pipe in under the concrete pads, and stub up through the pad. But they never gives us a chance to do it. This time it was a rush job. So it jacks up the cost for the owner. It's not cheap to put in GRC (galvanized Rigid Conduit) as opposed to PVC. More material and labor. And these farmers don't even know their APNs. Fresno County is always XXX-YYY-ZZo (o=option. usually like an S). I get APNs of like say 12-34-56. All that area is always say 120-034-56o so I can call the county and ask for the real APN.

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well, you don't have a clue who any of these folks are, but i am impressed with your ability to use your search engine to find out so much about all these former socialist prime ministers we've had. that's the problem with the dam internet, makes everyone look like a genius, even the fools. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Well you crazy canadian would you like me to write you a synopsis on what each person did in the government carrier? i know what they all did. so there. well They all did nothing good [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] hell they even took away your guns!!!