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...House of Commons was at last demanding a whip hand over the House of Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...only because of rising costs but also because of the tremendous amount of runoff waste on his property. At that time, he learned that the GPS was being used in the precise cultivation of high-value fruits and vegetables, mostly in California, with great results in terms of yield. He asked California-based Trimble, a navigation technology company, to design for him a GPS that would work for the hulking machines of grain country. That fall, Mitchell installed the Trimble AgGPS AutoPilot guidance system on his tractor, making his farm the first in the Midwest to use auto-steering...
...every time it passes through the rows, also allowing him to minimize the amount of land that is compacted--a serious cropping problem. Since installing a GPS three years ago, the Mitchell Farm has seen a 30% to 40% drop in fertilizer costs and an 8% annual increase in yield over the rest of the county...
...seasons pass, however, the results may more than make up for the initial costs. "When Clay first started with the autopilot, the economics didn't seem feasible," says Doug Hefty, a farmer neighbor of the Mitchells'. "But as time went on, I had the opportunity to see what the yield did on his corn hybrids. He surpassed me by leaps and bounds--it's embarrassing. He's using less fertilizer and nitrogen than I am but growing 20 bushels more corn an acre...
Ignatius Ikunza, a second-year M.Div. candidate, said the move would likely yield academic benefits—but he said he would miss the social life Cambridge affords. “It’s going to be a sacrifice for me,” Ikunza said...