Ready Set Grow Podcast - Farmer using DOT Autonomous farming and robots in the future

[biglentil]

Farmers are arguably the most self sufficient and resilient group on the planet. Of course the globalists want us replaced by a robot.

[ajl]

I think the large scale adoption of this technology is a long way off. What is needed now is that central banks stop printing money allowing interest rates to rise, government start getting back to sound budgeting and laying off about 2/3 of their labor force, and then the labor vs capital decision is not always in favor of replacing labor with capital. Large, inefficient farm operations would be replaced by smaller and more nimble competitors. Fruit and vegetable production would be more decentralized and less dependent on foreign labor. The implication of all this is that autonomous farming systems would not see large scale adoption because they are not all that efficient in most applications unless capital is artificially cheap.

[furrowtickler]

There may be a small place for this tech where it’s already being used .. orchards and very high value row crops like vegetables and irrigated crops . Used to be highly intensive manual labor faring industry. They can replace a huge unreliable work force
In low value commercial crops , it will be a while with far lower net returns and huge fluctuations in facing Mother Nature full on .
There is a place for this tech , just not frost , drought , market prone dryland farming in western Canada.., JMO

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It seems like an odd priority when one looks around the world at Agriculture.
When much of the food produced in the developing world is done almost completely by manual labour, it would seem like there is much lower hanging fruit than to eliminate the last few operators of an already massive efficient mechanized piece of equipment, which is doing the equivalent work of thousands of subsistence farmers.

[Ache4Acres]

There is no doubt there is a future ahead with 100% robotic automatic equipment on every farm. It will start in pockets and expand. Humans have tried to compete against robots in every other facet and ultimately the robots get too good. It will happen here too.

20 years from now you will be hard pressed to find a new tractor with a cab

[Dr Tone]

My grand father passed away long before auto-steer, I often think it’s something he wouldn’t imagine possible.

Maybe we’ll see autonomous hover machinery in the swamp. 😂

[Rareearth]

Maybe swarms of drones doing the field spraying of herbicides, pesticides and biologicals is more believable or easier and cheaper.

Autosteer adoption was a sneaky slow, then massive now 98% adoption uptake. It will all come down to economics profitability and opportunity in the future.

[Dr Tone]

Maybe swarms of drones doing the field spraying of herbicides, pesticides and biologicals is more believable or easier and cheaper.

I can 100% see it happening. In fact it’s already started for small scale specialty crops.


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[SASKFARMER]

So drones will replace farmers. Can someone explain? Ok, I get a dot it seeds all night then how do I move to field two a mile away. Load on trailer and move then who fills the dot in the middle of the night because what could it seed 40 acres. So basically babysitting an automated system. **** it's more fun driving around your field at least you understand your land.

This is a bullshit thing.

Maybe a full-size drone helicopter to spray. But a little piss in the wind won't work.

[Old Cowzilla]

I wish I had 2 robot tractors to bunk feed this morning -37

[woodland]

I wish I had 2 robot tractors to bunk feed this morning -37

Nah I’d sooner have them chipping ice from the waterers and pulling frozen net wrap. Heading out in a few minutes here and not looking forward to it. ⛄️

Putting on an extra coat for sure ............... and cardboard over the rads.

[bucket]

Nah I’d sooner have them chipping ice from the waterers and pulling frozen net wrap. Heading out in a few minutes here and not looking forward to it. ⛄️

Putting on an extra coat for sure ............... and cardboard over the rads.

Would like to see a robot take frozen net wrap off in minus 30 weather....that would summarize what a robot would be good for...it would take it off the bale....then you could spend time untangling the robot.