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Posted by G Taylor on June 26, 2001 at 22:54:01 from (64.10.111.25):
In Reply to: Farmers or Astronauts? posted by Stan in AL on June 26, 2001 at 06:56:47:
2 of 19 respondents are full time farmers & the rest professionals with a farm background. Too bad so many farmers are like my Dad. "If it worked good in 1955 it still works now." No use for or afraid of computers & modern technology except colour satelite TV, microwave ovens, indoor plumbing, refrigerators & comfortable tractor cabs etc. Couldn't afford local land as European mega corporation was buying all the farms around home. Dislike poverty, so went to school & then got a trades ticket. Do tech work with electrical & control systems on Candu reactors. Captain on Emergency Response Team also. Have 50 acres next to Dad's farm & investing in suburban land to eventualy finance a hobby farm.
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