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They are also thinking of buying a fertilizer plant presently
owned by Land O'Lakes also based at Mora. On my first day of visit,
I spent first part of my time on the computer terminal seeing how
sales figure were entered into the computer.
This Computer terminal is used mainly for accounting purpose.
Working at this computer terminal gave me a a chance to see how the
necessary inputs are fed in to the computer for preparation of
accounting reports. I also studied the samples of balance sheet,
sales report per department, sales per location, and per item that
were made. This is done every month, thus enabling management to
take corrective measures. Some and important features of the
computer ar., the nominal fee paid for processing of this information
the computer relative to the high labour cost of employing men, and
the promptness and accuracy of the subsequent report obtained from
the computer.'
Later I was joined by Bill Turner a fee lance reporter making
a feature story on my visit to Land O'Lakes. He interviewed me
together with Mr. Robert Obon, and later we went on farm deliveries
to two farms within the viccinity of Mora where I participated in
pumping of gasoline from the tanks of the vehicles into the farm
storage tanks.
I too has a chance to talk to the farmers about how they feel
about the deliveries. They seemed pleased and satisfied with the
system of deliveries. We had informed chats with the members of
families of the farm owners. I found them quite friendly people,
just as the others I had met in Wisconsin.
Note that on this trip we also visited the co-operative
terminal or branch at Ogilive where the driver got information about
where the deliveries are made. There are two types of bookings, in
one instance the booking was made on the phone, and on the other
instance it was the contract type where the farmers expect the tank
to always be nearly full at all times. So the drivers go to the
farm frequently and whenever the level fall dovm he tops it up.
Later in the afternoon of what day I visited Land O'Lakes
feed plant withing Mora town, I was conducted around the builaing
which housed the grinder for corn for farmers, the warehouse where
different types of feeds are kept.
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