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By Brian Dunn
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Shelby County farmer Mike
Ellis doesn’t like to waste money.

When people told him he
needed to build a garage to pro—
tect his fartn equipment frotn the
weather, he said, “Show me it’ll
pay, and I will."

So far, no one has shown him,
and he hasn't.

But biosystctns and agricultural
engineering professor Scott
Shearer has shown Ellis some—
thing that has paid off: site—specif-
ic fartning or precision farming.

Site—speciﬁc farming is an infant
technology to help grow and care
for crops. It uses satellite and com—

puter technology to help farmers
know what parts of their land need
what chemicals, nutrients or fertiliz-
ers, and what areas of the field can
support the growth of more seeds.
A farmer's land has variability,
Shearer said. Some parts already

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have the nitrogen, phosphorous or

potassium needed, whereas other
parts are lacking. And some parts
of the field, like those recently
switched from pasture to crop
land, aren‘t suited for carrying as

many seeds as others.

“\Vith (site-specific farming), we
can see the variability in the field,"
said john Fulton, third—year biosys--
tems and agricultural engineering

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student. l\ow farmers can manage

the variability of the land."

lfa part of the field, called a cell,
already has the necessary ingredi—
ents, putting more ingredients
there is unnecessary, Shearer said.
With site-specific farming, farmers
won’t have to waste tnoney buying
chemicals, nutrients or fertilizers
to apply to a part of the land that
doesn‘t need it. But over the years,
farmers have grown accustomed to

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His father was a farmer. llis
father's father was a fartner.

:\nd Sam Hancock will be a
farmer too.

“:\s far as my family, that's all
we've done," said llancock, an
agriculture economics senior. “I
started driving tractors when l was
12. l was probably 15 when I start—
ed driving the cotnbine.

“Farming‘s been the center of
my life."

But llancock isn't necessarily
the stereotypical itnage of the
farmer. He isn't, as many of his
friends say, going to be Uncle Bob
back home, speaking bad English
and milking the cows.

Farming and agriculture have
changed over the years, and farm-
ers, have grown with the changes,
most agriculturists say.

Hancock said being a fartner is

griculture careers
not just for farmers

a lot more than managing the
fields and livestock.

:\ farmer is a manager, an
agronomist and a business person
among other things. i lancock said,

“Farmers play four different
roles simultaneously when most
people just play one role.“ he said.

Hancock, as did his father, came
to college to learn more about the
business aspects of farming, an
education he'll especially need for
the upcoming free enterprise from
the Freedom to Farm :\ct.

“lt's‘ more important to have an
agriculture degree today," he said.
“I mean, l can learn frotn my
father how to get the most of the
crop, but the
farming, that's education."

People who go to college for
agriculture, though. don't always
become farmers. That is. they
don't work on a farm in what can
be called production agriculture, or
the growth and production of food.

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Tractors on the Earth
receive coordinates
lrom orbiting satellites.
A computer then tells
a devrce attached to the
tractor when to spray
fertilizers, nutrients.
seeds and chemicals.

.\griculturists can also be scien~
tis'ts. engineers, managers, mer—
chandisers, journalists, foresters

the list goes on.

“'l'hat's' one of the myths of
agriculture," said _loe Davis, associ-
ate dean of Instruction for the (Zol—
legc of Agriculture. u’l'hat it's only
farming; that we‘re all farm boys."

.\bout 33 percent of those in
agriculture are in production agri—
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"The 33 percent doesn't mean
they're back on the farm." Davis
said. “'l‘echnology is where agri~

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By Price Atkinson
Senior Staff [Writer

Mike and joseph Berger sit
side by side in a semi-circle
joined by eight other members
of the class.

For an hour and a half, not a
word of English is spoken as pro-
fessor jeff Peters leads the dis-
cussion on the study of the
supematural in French literature.

But this isn’t your average
two-man tandem.

Joseph Berger has always
wanted to take a class with his
son, Mike, and a common inter-
est in French literature is noth-
ing but perfect timing.

“1 think it’s a very nice
opportunity for people to take
opportunities li c this with
their children, and it’s some-
thing we both enjoy,” said Dr.
Berger, chairman of the
Department of Neurology in
the College of Medicine.

“This was really the last
opportunity for me to take a
c as with my son,” he said. “I
mean it’s something they can
share, and something you can

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Mike, the youngest of two
whose brother is studying
medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, is a senior at
Henry Clay High School where
he gets out at 2:10 p.m. and
heads over to the Lexington

(Iampus.
Btit it wasn’t the time that
almost kept Mike from

enrolling at UK this semester.

“I signed up actually for an
intermediate class," Mike said.
“l didn‘t think I was gonna be
able to take this class because
we get the course syllabus, and
all these books are, like, hun-
dreds of pages.”

Joseph Berger said he knew
Mike would be able to handle
the course after taking two con-
versational classes taught by
Peters.

“I knew that Mike was going
to be able to handle the materi-
al, because ifl was oin to be
able to handle it, t en e was
going to be able to handle the
material,” Dr. Berger said.

In high school, Dr. Ber er
said he took French but was an

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average French student in
advanced French classes."

Three years ago, he had to
go to Paris for a conference on
the study oflllV in the brain, a
conference he co-founded and
co-ehaired.

Needing to brush up on the
language, he hired a student
frotu France to practice with
hitn once or twice a week after a
close friend issued him a chal-
lenge.

“She told me I’d never learn
how to speak French, and you
don’t dare me, you just don’t
dare me," he said with a conﬁ-
dent chuckle.

Mike, who‘s waiting to hear
from Penn, Harvard and Stan-
ford, beneﬁted from spending
two summers in France study-
ing at a language school.

Dr. Berger decided to join
his son there and spent a week
studying French intensively.
Then they traveled around the

country together.

Now they spend time travel-
ing through “ambiguous" 18th
Century short stories and
novellas together.

“We sit around and stay up
late and try to f1 re out differ-
ent novels and w at they're try-
ing to say,” Mike Berger said.

Both said they each have a
competitive side.

ike Berger said his dad is
“very competitive to see who

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'l'oo much pow er or too little
quality?

lfa Nov. H ruling by a state fed—
eral judge stands, col ege and univer—
sity administrators may censor stu-
dent yearbooks and newspapers with-
out violating First Amendment
rights.

The ruling came down in the case
involving Kentucky State University
adntinistrators. who denied the stu—
dent yearlmok staffthe right to publish
its lWl-‘H yearbook, The 'Ihoroln‘r'rl.

Judge _Ioseph Hood cited the LS.
Supreme (Zourt's 1988 ruling on the
Huzeltt‘oorl School District 1'. Kilhlmeier
as the basis for ruling in favor ofthe
KSU administration.

lfHood's ruling stands, it will also
mark the first time the llazelwood
case has been ap lied to college media,
according to officials at the Student
Press Law Center in Arlington, Va.

Attorney Bruce ()rwin, who rcp—
rescnts the former adviser, Laura
(lullen, said Hood ruled that Cullen
“didn't have standing to bring claims
on behalfof students,” ()rwin said.

()rwin ﬁled a so arate action in
fall of I995 on behal of KSU student
Charles Kincaid and the yearbook
editor at the time, Capri Coffer.

For administrators at KSU, stop-
ping publication of the yearbook was

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By Molly Mize
Senior Staff II "titer
and Mal Herron

an issue of quality.

“The yearbook that year was very
poor," said Betty (iibs‘on, vice presi—
dent ofStudent Affairs at the universitv
and principal defendant at the trial.
“Faculty and staff pictures were chlud—
ed. :\ lot of pictures weren‘t labeled.

“livery yearbook since then has
been 100 percent better." (iibson
said, denying any censorship. “'l‘his
was just one inch ent."

Bruce Edwards, director of mar
keting at KSL', said the layout,
design, misspelled words and
misidentification ofst; tits were the
key reasons for stopping publication.

Hardly arty cutlines appear under
the photographs, even the one for
Miss KSU, and several students have
the tops of their heads cut off. One
sttident, Edwards said, questioned
why “is our yearbook ur le, when
our colors are green attrfgo d?"

Another example of the book's
shoddy uality, Edwards said, is a
picture 0 former presidential candi-
date Ross Perot with students frotn
the university.

“He never came to the university,"
Edwards said. “\Vhy is that picture
there?"

The university honors the First
Amendment, he said.

“(It is) clearly a question on the
quality of the publication, not the
content of the ublicatiOn, and the
judge agreed,” Edwards said.

"on, now senior editor at the

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