Re:Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
by commentingbadly on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:12PM
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> There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms.
I think OP might mean that these "high tech farms" are less like farms and more like movie studios. The tractor makers and the bank are acting like a movie studio. The are running a production in a certain area, with certain high tech equipment, with certain subleases on land for a certain number of years. There is no one driving vision and keeping the flame of what high tech should be. It's more like, "let's get this soy to market in the new way that is 7% cheaper before the other team does." Just a guess on what OP means
Hell, Lethbridge is home to at least one successful agtech biz, if not more. They're flying drones to analyze weed cover and optimize spraying based on positional data.
It can be very high tech. I don't know what you're saying that it doesn't exist. It's happening in canada literally right now.
That said a lot of these are for medium to large operations. Despite high tech, farmers who farm smaller plots generally have better yield. The automation has basically just let business expand into larger operations they might not otherwise have manpower or expertise to cover.