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Half of his work was research and the other half was Extension, advising farmers. I had a lot of summer jobs on farms. One was a university research farm. Learned something about it. Seemed many family farmers were slow to make use of new research.
He was a leader in selective breeding in dairy farms. Had a very hard time getting most of them switch there methods, even though he could prove they could improve their herds at a very low cost. He ended up doing it by going to the banks and making it more difficult to get a loan without adopting some proven methods in breeding their herds. For a very low cost they could make a lot more money. Eventually almost all switched and milk production in the state skyrocketed. It became one of the first industries to rely on computers to select sires for each individual cow. Long story short