Farm help wanted: Technical expertise required

Tag: farm sprayers
 
JACKSON, Mississippi (Agriculture Online) -- Aside from delayed planting farm sprayers, acreage switches and a shortage of soybean seed availability, the recurring theme of the Crop Tech Tour in the South is that higher technology is requiring higher educated farm help.

With tractors equipped with auto-steer, flow control sprayers and planter programs, RTK receivers and other monitors, having an educated technician is vital.

Mark Harris, a Mississippi State University graduate, along with his dad Buck Harris, farms over 3,500 acres in the Mississippi Delta. The Harris' have adopted computerized techniques to tractors to become more efficient.