A New Look

450 pages. That's how much my husband had to read to learn how to operate the new combine's monitor. Two completely different manuals. And the second one started with "This manual assumes you have read and understood the previous manual." I was a little afraid he was going to throw something.

69 minutes. That's how long it took to download the software necessary to retrieve the information stored in the Precision Planting monitor. That and three tech support phone calls.

23 seconds. That's how much time it took for him to realise he should have imputed all the planting information in a different way.

Farming sure doesn't look like it used to.

12 months. That's how long it will take for him to get over this mistake.

But some things will never change.