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

[SASKFARMER]

Yea funny thing even the remote Weather station said **** it today and isn't sending a signal for the last half hour. Yep, it's cold and tec is not going to work. It's us that have to go out and work. Liked the guy waiting inside his electric car yesterday to charge while I was shopping. He was still there when I got done and went to two more stores and passed again and he was still there. Ah tec. Yea was not going to be replaced.

[joedales]

Welcome back Joe

Thanks Furrow....I visit Agriville regularly but leave all the moderating to Nicole and team.

I hope everyone is well there and stay safe and warm.

Joe

[MBgrower]

There's an app for that!

drone flyby will send detailed map to the robotic field units before they begin, so they know areas to stay away from.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks Furrow....I visit Agriville regularly but leave the complete lack of moderating to Nicole and team.

I hope everyone is well there and stay safe and warm.

Joe

Fixed it.

[bucket]

drone flyby will send detailed map to the robotic field units before they begin, so they know areas to stay away from.

And who is controlling the drone?

No matter what , there will be people involved 24/7 so what is wrong with the existing western canadian farm?

Millions unemployed , surely some of them could sit in seats and operate equipment for far less than than DOT??????

[AlbertaFarmer5]

drone flyby will send detailed map to the robotic field units before they begin, so they know areas to stay away from.

Combine that with remote sensing of soil moisture in real time, overlaid on soil type maps ( in my gound, I can drive through standing water in some higher OM black soil, and get stuck in damp clay on hills dry enough to walk on with running shoes).

[GDR]

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P.S. I don’t foresee a robot anytime soon that’s able to cruise around the calving field in a snowstorm at 3 am and make the call wether that heifer needs a pull or the calf that just fell out needs a hotbox and which to deal with first. Guess I’m still required for a little while yet here😉

If you would have looked in my corrals last night you would have thought you saw that robot, I'm sure I was walking stiff just like one at minus 36. Cant complain though just a few checks but nothing to do. They pulled a service rig in on the well accross the road in the night and had it up with the lights on by 630am, wouldn't trade places with those workers in this weather either.

[sumdumguy]

Just think how great a robotic corral cleaner would be. One that just drove around and loaded manure on a conveyor that took it onto a truck. Tada!

[woodland]

Just think how great a robotic corral cleaner would be. One that just drove around and loaded manure on a conveyor that took it onto a truck. Tada!

A Roomba on steroids?😉

[sumdumguy]

A Roomba on steroids?😉

Exactly, funny thing that’s exactly what we said. Unbelievable!

[chuckChuck]

I’m a software developer, I just farm on the side to guarantee that I’m broke.

There is no autonomous vehicle algorithm that can figure out how to work our fields which can have 40 holes/runs with water per 1/4 section. Or at least not without leaving too much precious little non mud we have left.

If you got 40 low spots and wet runs on a quarter it sounds like your land is marginal or you are too wet to seed. In a wet spell that land would be best not seeded to annual crops like we learned in 1999 and 2011.

But there are many fields in parts of Canada, USA and Europe that are uniform and well drained where autonomous machinery will work. Adoption in those situations will make more sense.

Automation has already taken over a lot of the jobs that farmers use to do when you consider what auto steering and precision farming technology already does.

[Dr Tone]

If you got 40 low spots and wet runs on a quarter it sounds like your land is marginal or you are too wet to seed.

No shit sherlock! Every time you post I keep envisioning Ace Ventura talking out his ***, weird.

We have a sc r a p e r and pull blade and every chance we get we work on our land. Maybe an autonomous ditcher or battery powered self propelled sc r a p e r would help?