On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, James R. Frysinger wrote: > Note the limitation to the "large flat fields of Illinois". The grain fields of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc. probably have equal or even larger fractions of GPS deployment than Illinois. > Sorta leaves a lot of other farmland out. Some, in hilly states like Tennessee, but not a lot by area totals. > Yes, agribusiness lives closer to the cutting edge than mom&pop farms. There are virtually *no* mom & pop farms left in the US (with at least milk cows, beef cows, pigs, and chickens, at least one or more of each, and a large vegetable garden and fruit orchards as on my grandfather's farm, circa 1900 - 1950), even in Ohio, Tennessee, and S.C. Correct me with census data if they exist to prove the contrary. Gene.
