Re:The Farm Automation Breakthrough
by war1025 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @11:50PM
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Machinery is pretty expensive in its own right. Also tractors already have the ability to pull multiple different implements behind them. The only thing novel about this is that it's somewhat autonomous. Even that isn't terribly novel since most large scale farming uses GPS guided steering at this point. Ag is very very high-tech already.
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Re:The Farm Automation Breakthrough
by unimployed on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:03AM
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The automated equipment is still so expensive hardly any of it is owned or used by family farms. The thing was that 10+ years ago the automated equipment was owned by very large ventures (large cooperatives and bigger) that shared or sold service only, traveling the region with the equipment to sell that service. Pretty sure that case has hardly changed. Travel the country and you see that most farms don't have the latest equipment rolling or sitting on their land.