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Posted by John Reifsteck
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
 Most people don’t consider farming as a high technology business. They are wrong. Sure, raising crops or livestock still requires lots of hours of hard physical labor, but there are other aspects of agriculture that most people have never thought about. Farmers invented science as we know it today, and good farmers, successful farmers have always made use of the best technology on their farms. Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little about farmers inventing science, but only a little. Think about it; our ancient ancestors were all hunters and gatherers, just like a lot of other creatures of our earth. One of our ancestors noticed that plants didn’t just spring from the ground; he guessed they grew from a seed, and planted some of those seeds to see if he was correct. Sounds pretty much like the scientific method we all learned about in grade school; observation, hypothesis, prediction and testing. Modern agriculture and modern science began together.
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