The sort of headline my 10-year-old self expected to see in 2007

[spoondave]

Robots May Become Essential on US Farms

Comments

[dagnabit]

The local Amish farmers may be able to offer a different view on what's "essential" for a farm. :)

[spoondave]

Good point. I wonder how the typical Amish farm compares to the industrial-scale operations on the plains, though. Not every farm can be tended by a single family!

[dagnabit]

I suspect it's a case of apples and oranges. How much of a mega-farm's production goes back to support the mega-operations? How much is really profit? I know that the Amish do well here economically but their lifestyles are pretty modest so their spending is low.

[spoondave]

Regardless of modest lifestyles, if you've got 36 square miles of corn to harvest in the space of a few weeks, Pops and a pair of oxen aren't going to cut the mustard. :)

[archeansoul]

For some reason you do not appear in my friends' page anymore. Did you upgrade your journal in some way? Anyway, I got your email about not getting notified about my comment, and I replied, but not sure whether you got it. Anyway, yes, I do have a flickr account.