Truly incredible article. THIS is what it takes to be successful: hard work, smarts and willingness to try new techniques to constantly improve.
Clayton, on the other hand, does absolutely NONE of this stuff. That’s why his “fifth generation ranch” is an utter failure. NOT because of “monopolies” but because he sucks at ranching and puts in zero effort. He’d rather tweet about data centers and phantom monopolies all day long from the upstairs bedroom at mom’s house where he resides.
Not Your Grandpa’s Farm: High Tech Boosts Output, Stewards Resources
This guy in the article sees opportunity and embraces it. What he DOESN’T do is run around scared like a pussy and demand that civilization come to a standstill because he’s to lazy and dumb to operate in the current environment, like someone else we know.
I HIGHLY recommend reading the entire article linked above. Truly amazing what they can do now. As usual, technology is deflationary and makes our lives better, for the most part. Only dumb shits and losers want to go back to the “good old days” of the 1800s because they have no clue what that actually entailed.
Here are just a few snippets….
The ag sector is evolving rapidly with the development of technology that supports the cultivation of plants and animals. For years, Hunt—who has specialized in the Hereford breed of cattle since the late 1970s—has used the latest technologies to guide his decisions as he grew and sold animals on Innisfail Farm, a rolling stretch of land with working forest and pastureland between Big Indian Creek and Little Indian Creek, just south of the Morgan County town of Madison, Georgia. (Hunt still tends the farm, along with his eldest son, Weyman Hunt, and Breck Debnam, the farm’s herdsman, who was named 2026 Hereford Herdsman of the Year by the American Hereford Association.)
[Started in the 1970s! Just like Comrade Clayton’s fake family ranch, supposedly! And Herefords too! Just like Comrade Clayton’s fake hobby ranch! But the similarities end there, because this guy is a pro and Comrade Clayton is a retard]
Hunt has kept pace with technology and stays current through groups such as the American Hereford Association, where he served on the board representing the Southeast.
On Innisfail Farm, the latest innovation Hunt has adopted is an automated feed system. He had his eye on the system for 20 years before buying it three years ago, a purchase he delayed in part because it was a sizable investment for his 100-head Hereford operation. For Hunt, the appeal of the system was its ability to track the amount of food each animal eats each day and the resulting daily weight gain that the system also measures. The data will serve many functions,including the identification of those animals that gain the most weight on less food so he can target them for breeding.
Cattle breeding has also benefited from new technologies. For example, after a genetically desirable cow is impregnated via artificial insemination with sperm collected from a bull with desired traits, the resulting embryos can be inspected, and some are implanted into surrogate mothers for gestation, resulting in calves with the most desirable traits.
Clayton Tucker never stood a chance in this modern environment as he is a low-IQ, lazy bum. THIS is what it takes to be a bad-ass rancher. Even this guy had his struggles in the beginning. His fuckup reads like a Clayton Tucker story:
He almost quit Innisfail Farm early in his career on the farm after losing 19 calves out of 21 calves delivered. The culprit was a bacterium, leptospirosis, which is spread in the urine of infected animals and, sure enough, Hunt had been keeping the pregnant cows in an old chicken barn he thought would provide shelter but proved to be a breeding ground for the fatal bacteria. Hunt didn’t have the experience or guidance to know that pregnant cows should not be kept in a place where urine and manure mix with the soil where cows stand.
So instead of being a lazy moron and blaming the deaths on “data centers” he took responsibility and realized he fucked up big time. Then corrected his mistake.
In other words, ranching is WAY more than just “my grandpa has a few cows on his land! I’m a rancher now!” It takes hard work and you have to know what you’re doing. Clayton does NOT know what he is doing AND he is too lazy to become proficient. That’s why he’s an unemployed bum living with mom and runs for political office every two years. He’s too big of a loser to make it in the real world.