YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS: Burge Flying Over Fields

  • Jake Burge holds the controls as he demonstrates flying his crop spraying drone while standing in front of the trailer he built himself to carry his drones and equipment.
    Jake Burge holds the controls as he demonstrates flying his crop spraying drone while standing in front of the trailer he built himself to carry his drones and equipment.
  • Jake Burge explains his drone flying business, Evolution Ag, to an attentive group of Rotarians at a recent Gothenburg Rotary Club meeting. (Photos courtesy Gothenburg Rotary)
    Jake Burge explains his drone flying business, Evolution Ag, to an attentive group of Rotarians at a recent Gothenburg Rotary Club meeting. (Photos courtesy Gothenburg Rotary)

    Part Two of a Two-Part Series 

    Jake Burge may not have always known specifically what career path he might one day take, but he admits the one thing he’s always been sure of is that it would be in agriculture. While he is still figuring out his future, Burge has spent his summer developing his own ag-related business using some of the latest technology available.

    Less than two weeks from now, Burge will be back on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln beginning his senior year. The 2023 graduate of Gothenburg High School is enrolled in the Engler program at UNL where he is studying ag systems technology. He will earn a precision ag degree when he graduates next spring.

    “I knew I wanted to do something ag for sure, and didn’t really like the thought of ag business. The ag syste…