A film demonstrating the ways that technology could be used to plan and operate agricultural enterprises more efficiently. This mixed-sound production includes scenes of large IBM punch card computers in operation as well as various activities on multiple farms, including poultry and hog feeding, crop spraying, and heavy machinery use. The film also depicts clerical, data entry and bookkeeping tasks. Its audio segments include a conversation between a farmer and OSU Extension employee discussing the use of a computer program to track income and expenditures and to plan for the next planting season. Also included is an interview with a Beaverton-area dairy farmer discussing the value of running cost studies on various agricultural enterprises.
Digitized from a film original held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120:106), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
