Farmers are antiquated and obsolete.

[danny W1M]

Robot farmers have successfully planted and harvested barley by themselves!

[URL="https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-farmers-harvest-barley/"]https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-farmers-harvest-barley/[/URL]

[bucket]

But who tells the robot when to work and how to get there?

[woodland]

But who tells the robot when to work and how to get there?

The government could forecast it like our weather..... I know how that would go for our area. Interesting to say the least.

[danny W1M]

bucket,

How about Commodity Processors, maybe Graincos?

Farmers are just that whiney, bitchy, inconvenient step, in the process of selling food to consumers.

[agstar77]

This all goes to the argument ,what are humans good for? How will people pay for goods machines produce if they do not have jobs? Will money be irrelevant? Are we going to a Star Trek world or extinction?

[macdon02]

Someone willing to take the risk will never be obsolete. Labor is always replaceable by tech.

[farmaholic]

I'm definitely past my "best before" date.....but.not quite past my "expirey" date.

Things/technology moves pretty fast these days....easy to get left behind. I'm almost at the age I don't care....

[Guest]

Wonder why the dumb f$&ker grew barley ? Not to smart , lol

[tweety]

Maybe read to the end of the article as to why. Its a good reason for university students.

[fjlip]

Maybe read to the end of the article as to why. Its a good reason for university students.

Beer made with NO human input? Hope robots don't drink...

[danny W1M]

Each planting system could have it's own drone with sensors to detect areas too wet or under water. Packing wheels could have sensors that detect rocks that need picking(by other automated equipment) with precise GPS locations. Map out the most efficient path to pick them, driving over the least amount of crop. If chemicals allow, spray most crops at night. no one will be falling asleep.

[Klause]

How about an autonomous robot that runs on tracks, seeds a 4ft area to each side of it. Seeds a 1ft circle with fertilizer placed in the middle of each circle after doing an instant soil test for what that square foot of the field requires… then seed around it in a cleanly tilled perfect 1' circle with the exact number of seeds and precision placement down to 1mm for that area… with a worker drone robot bringing seed and fertilizer to the seeding robot. Completely automatic and complete precision down to the square foot.

Impossible you say?

Stay tuned

[blackpowder]

I do see it as the future. For several reasons.