As a farmer and former English major, it gives me no pleasure to announce this, but the truth is agriculture is now ground zero for jargon and its fallout on effective communication. In fact, the other day I was talking to a young farmer when I realized I couldn’t understand him at all. It wasn’t that he was mumbling. It wasn’t that he spoke a dialect different from my own. It was just his words—words full of sound and agribusiness...
