This year is no different…however today, many of you joined us in our frustration when the entire Rogers cell network went down! How does that affect us here on the farm you might wonder! We use GPS technology to steer our tractors and sprayers so that we can control our wheel traffic. This is very important in order to reduce compaction in the soil and allow the roots of the sweet corn to grow and thrive! We also depend on this technology to keep our rows straight from pass to pass so that when we return in a couple weeks to plant through the plastic, the rows line up perfectly! Our sub-inch accuracy is accomplished using cell correction and our carrier is none other than Rogers!! So this morning, we like many others, were literally lost on our farm. We were so thankful to Bell for providing us new SIM cards and after a crazy trip to town and a bit of reprogramming we were finally ready to roll!! That is until we discovered a flat tire on the machine after just a few feet down the first row! As I said before, we are very prepared going into this special day, but plastic laying day is always full of surprises!