Slate has a discussion of the future of robots on the farm. The theory is that young farmers come from outside agriculture so don't mind hand work and don't have the money to invest in expensive robots. On the other hand they're more likely to be techies than the production farmers who are in their 50's, 60's, and 70's, so might be early adopters. So it's a good, decisive on-the-one-hand, but on-the-other article.
I remember the farmers in Sherman County, KS in 1992 were almost all over 40, which the CED saw as an obstacle to adoption of Infoshare then. That's 20 years ago so a lot of them are now retired, and the number of farmers has probably dropped a good bit.
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