Source: WESTERN FARMER STOCKMAN, 4/25/17

More than 500 years ago we moved out of the Dark Ages into the Renaissance, where poets, writers, scientists and others suddenly seemed to have their brains turned on. And there have been other times of great scientific leaps forward, with the Industrial Revolution and the Space Age being two others. And always with progress in key areas we needed. In the interim, it was status quo, but no real "backward move."

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