Ryan Christensen's family developed a nine-hole golf course on 35 acres of unproductive farmland mostly to provide a community service.Yet indirectly, Christensen, 33, said what he's learned from running the hobby golf course is helping him to improve his farm's bottom line, and position it to meet future challenges.In 2014, Christensen upgraded the pivot that waters the golf course to variable-rate irrigation - a relatively new technology that allows irrigators to adjust flows from individual nozzles based on varying field conditions. The upgrade allows Christensen to irrigate putting greens, fairways and rough differently.
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