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Farmer Feedback from the Technology Showcase
Responses from Local Illinois Farmers to a
Technology Showcase Preview
Bob
Holthaus — Pana, Illinois
“The simplicity of seeing what the future is going to bring was the
most valuable thing for me today. You can read about and see it on TV, but
it’s nothing like here where you can see it first-hand.”
Phil
Mansfield — Taylorville, Illinois
“The drought tolerant and nitrogen use efficiency technology was
the most valuable for me to see. With nitrogen, it will reduce input costs.
Plus, in the future, we might have restrictions on how much nitrogen we can
apply.”
Kevin
Wood — Raymond, Illinois
“The future is right here – it’s what we’re going
to plant and my son’s going to plant over the next 20 years.”
Alan
Blount — Morrisonville, Illinois
“The new technology is comforting to me as a farmer. Now you can
go out and plant a crop and almost forget about it until harvest – it’s
kind of like insurance.”
