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

[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?

[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.