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Paul Butler Farms in Macon County, south of Decatur, shares how tech has changed rural life

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Central Illinois 'Skip-gen' farmer, Paul Butler, left his software engineering career in St. Louis to return to his grandfather's Macon County farm. Technology has changed things since he grew up on it in the 1970s.


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