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

[Guest]

We have the same plus a rotary ditcher
Chuck has never left his little corner of the world and is totally out of touch

[SASKFARMER]

Chuck is out of his own world in his own area. Most think he is nuts.

We have sc****rs, Cats, and hoes and I can make water go uphill if you really want to dare me.

[jamesb]

I know a guy who bought a DOT. Used it to seed a few quarters. Ended up giving it back I understand. I think things did work but this stuff is just at the very start of its development. Give this 10 years and I think it will be interesting. I am amused by the farmers who appear to be threatened by this tech and maybe think they are out of job? I think the profitability in farming in the future will really dictate where we go. For myself I will wait until the bugs are worked out. We still have a lot of flat bins that have to be cleaned out in the summer and nobody likes that job. Its perfect for a robot it do. Imagine robots shoveling grain behind the drag auger in big bins?

[sumdumguy]

Self-unload drag?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I know a guy who bought a DOT. Used it to seed a few quarters. Ended up giving it back I understand. I think things did work but this stuff is just at the very start of its development. Give this 10 years and I think it will be interesting. I am amused by the farmers who appear to be threatened by this tech and maybe think they are out of job? I think the profitability in farming in the future will really dictate where we go. For myself I will wait until the bugs are worked out. We still have a lot of flat bins that have to be cleaned out in the summer and nobody likes that job. Its perfect for a robot it do. Imagine robots shoveling grain behind the drag auger in big bins?

Why not prioritize automating dirty, dusty, unhealthy, dangerous, not fun jobs such as this first. ( although, I think the hopper bin may have accomplished this decades ago...)

Probably because as difficult as autonomous driving is, cleaning out a bin is likely even more complicated, although the potential for things to go horribly wrong might be lower.

[WiltonRanch]

Need a robot for fixing fence and to deal with the accountant.