Futurist talks about the Future of Farmers

I spoke yesterday at the IL Commodities Conference and had more than a few comments about how the industry has radically transformed itself over the last few decades. More technology, fewer people, and that the typical farmer of the future will spend more time in the office than they will in the barns or the fields. Where once the thing to be measured were natural cycles, now they measure more often linear trends and increasingly farming has less and less to do with what farmers used to do. What we thought was agriculture has slowly been turning into accounting.

Here's an article that appeared in the November 20, 2007 edition of the Bloomington Pantagraph.