Well, I learned something today ...

WW (Wonderful Wifey) and I spent a couple days in beautiful Collinsville, Illinois at training for Farmworks software (www.farmworks.com). It was a spur of the moment thing. They had a class that didn't have a very large attendance, and Scott offered us a chance to be a part of it. That was Monday afternoon. So 5:00 Tuesday morning we headed out for the Collinsville Holiday Inn.

Anyway, on the way back we were talking, in traffic, amongst a bunch of trucks, etc. I learned that when you are coming up I-70 and discover you are at Litchfieldyou have missed the I-55/I-70 split and took the wrong road.

But anyway, it was a good class. I've had Farmworks software since 1996 or 97 with FarmTrac.

In fact someplace around here I still have the NAVMAN GPS sleeve that fit on an iPaq 3950. Long time before handheld GPS was common. I upgraded to FarmFunds,

their accounting program a few years ago and never did get it going. I had version 9. They recently released version 12. It has cleared up a lot of the issues I had when I tried to use it, and the training helped a lot. The basic problem is still GIGO (garbage in garbage out). If we don't put the effort into entering the data needed, it won't give us the information we need from it. It's well worth looking at for a farm wanting to use a better record keeping system.