The Rural Voice, 1989-09, Page 32THE GREAT STEEL PLACE
A complete inventory of
angles, pipe, tubing, flat bars,
plate, beams & channel
Elma Stee
and Equipment Ltd.
3 m. E. and 2 m. S. of
Listowel
519-291-1388
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For a crop that
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FMCS
G.2852
If you're looking for more tons of top quality feed
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yields, regrowth and disease resistance.
Magnum Plus
Excellent persistence and winter hardiness
make Magnum Plus a variety that stands up to
frequent cutting.
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Ask your FUNK's forage dealer for details.
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30 THE RURAL VOICE
Less range of possibilities, of cost -
price combinations, and instantly see
the effect on the bottom line. (It can
be a discouraging prospect.)
Have you ever struggled with a
cash flow, trying to figure out the
overdraft on the bottom line, and not
knowing what it would be because
you don't know the interest figure on
the bank line, yet you can't figure out
the interest cost because you don't
know the overdraft? Simply type in
an interest rate, and the computer does
the rest.
Talk to everyone
you know, and many
people you don't know,
who have — and use
(an important distinction)
— a computer. Don't hesi-
tate to make a complete
fool of yourself...
Again, with filing, the computer
comes through with extras. It is like a
multidimensional filing cabinet, where
you can put the same piece of paper in
dozens of different files at once, so
you could file something alphabeti-
cally, by geographical location, by
number, by date, by colour, by
category, all at the same time.
This is only the most cursory
(sorry about the pun) look at some of
the things a computer can do, and we
haven't even mentioned games, or
graphics, but its value can be seen for
keeping herd records, doing crop
budgets, financial statements, cash
flows, writing letters — all the
business end of things on a farm.
Now, the agribusiness specialists
and OMAF advisors will all tell you
that expenditures should be cost-
effective and demonstrate a profitable
return and so on, but you might as
well throw all that out the window
when it comes to computers. There's
only one good reason to buy a com-
puter — because you want one. If you
don't want it, you'll never have the