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Re:An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data... by gamblor956 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:04AM (#23210205)
The primary method of milking cows in the US has been by machine for decades...

And most farms in the US are highly automated: automated sprinklers, automated tractors, automated planters, automated harvesters (of crops that are amenable to machine harvesting).

It's simply that there are a lot of food crops that are trivial for humans to harvest by hand that would require very expensive machinery and technology to accomplish with a machine.

Re:An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data... by bingerman on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:05AM (#23211158)
This. The supply of cheap human labor tends to make technological progress slower.