Not sure what this has to do with cooking, or even with "science" come
to that. Whatever... followups to sci.agriculture FWIW.

In article >,
(PENMART01) wrote:
>>Levelwave asks:
>>PENMART01 wrote:
>>> Just last year I made a $50,000.00 tractor purchse, saved on not only the 20%
>>> discount for paying cash but also the outragious interest I would have paid on
>>> a loan, and that loan interest is not a tax write off...
>>
>>What field did you work in before you retired?
>
>What "field"... I guess in light of my tractor comment I'm supposed to say
>something like *soy beans*. hehe
>
>I guess you're wondering if I was a farmer... not! I've worked in quite a few
>vocations, from culinary to aircraft to nuclear accelerators.

How fast did you get 'em to go?

> Tractors, real tractors, are expensive... $50K doesn't buy a real farm machine,

Times change. Not so many years ago (well, about 40 IIRC) you could
buy a small, but real, crawler tractor for AUD30k (actually 15k Oz
pounds at the time -- we didn't go "dollars" until the 14th of
February 1966, as the jingle in the back of the ossifying brain still
reminds me!).

>more of a fancy schmancy estate tractor.
>Real farm tractors these days typically run
>$500K and up, the more sophisticated versions don't even need a driver, they
>operate via on board computers and global positioning.... makes nice straight
>rows with no wasted overlapping.

As long as you bloody yanks don't scramble the signal for security
purposes. ;-) But I guess one may be able to neutralise even that if
using one of those differential systems that are still usually needed
for the necessary precision anyway.

>http://www.deere.com/en_US/newsroom/...ranchers/04082
>4_starfire.html
><http://tinyurl.com/4kavo>

>Here's my new toy, I have the cab (Grand L 3043) with every imaginable option:
>http://www.kubota.com/f/products/l30.cfm

What the hell do they mean by "WIDER FENDER INTERVAL" and why should
you care? But I really love that "NEW DESIGN" feature. 8-)

Cheers, Phred.

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