Tech Brings New Benefits and New Challenges to Cove Farming

Editor's Note: "The Changing Cove" series, written by Herald Correspondent George Berkheimer, won second place in the 2019 Professional Keystone Press Awards.

Much of the land area in Morrisons Cove is dedicated to farming and agriculture. While the landscape hasn't changed much over the years, the industry itself has undergone revolutions on a number of fronts – so much so that farmers from the 1970s would hardly recognize the equipment, practices and regulatory environment of the modern era.

It's difficult to gauge just how much the industry has changed by simply looking at numbers, b...