date:May 21, 2013
gy cannot offset the consolidation in the industry, according to agronomists. With fewer farmers tilling the nation's soil, and the average farm size growing year by year, the 2013 crop cannot get in the ground much faster than it did decades ago.
When you see big planters running fast, they're certainly planting eight or 12 times faster than we planted 30 years ago, said Emerson Nafziger, an agronomist at the University of Illinois. We had smaller planters and tractors, but we just had so many