How can you be in the television age of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation without working the word "forensic" into the conversation?
Forensics apply to the appraisal industry, too.
There is a host of background information about any farm available at courthouses, county engineer's offices, USDA offices and on the World Wide Web, but you need to know where to find it and how to use it.
Did you know that the Mitchell County Engineer's Office has an aerial photo of the entire county as of 1976 that shows where nearly all of the drainage tile lines were at that time?
We do.
If you don't know when a building was built, we can probably guess it within 10 years.
Did you know that Harvestore silos first started installing white roof caps instead of blue in 1967?
We do.