Lage also offers customers a crash course on how to manage the basics things like saving files, setting up Internet use, and copying to floppy disks. Internet attracts farmers to computer Obviously, farmers need computers for business reasons for chores like recordkeeping and accounting. But the Internet has been a big reason that local farmers have taken to the technology, Lage says. People find out that they can e-mail their kids in college, or maybe contact a seed or chemical representative company directly. When you start getting e-mail jokes from farmers, you know they've really started using the Internet.
Lage also sells global positioning system receivers and field mapping software.
He's handy with precision ag software in demonstrating how the technology has revealed new insights from his own fields. But, he's not about to oversell the technology either. We're still only in the data-collection mode. And the data is still giving us more questions now than answers. The Lyons, Kansas, producer of wheat, grains and oilseeds hardly had that as a goal early in life.