Posted: December 12, 2011 Imagine how differently a day at the
office might have been in 1961. A secretarial pool takes the
place of word processing software. Googling a subject might take
hours and physical labor sifting through back editions of the
paper or encyclopedias and still yield limited results. Email
communications require a phone call, paper memo or even a
written letter sent through courier or mail without the
Internet. Once out of the office, communication ceases unless a
coworker dials a landline nearby. While most people have
capriciously wished for an end to modern technology following a
particularly annoying late-night text from an employer, only the
smallest minority actually advocates a return to the workplace
technology of 50 years ago. So, why do so many people outside of
agriculture think that a return to equally antiquated technology
would actually improve farming? Recently, a column in Stock and
Land magazine examined the impact of a large-scale return to the
farming methods of our fo