> Farmers have always been at the brink of technological progress.
You would think we would see more automation and fewer cows being milked by hand were this true.
You would think we would see more automation and fewer cows being milked by hand were this true.
And most farms in the US are highly automated: automated sprinklers, automated tractors, automated planters, automated harvesters (of crops that are amenable to machine harvesting).
It's simply that there are a lot of food crops that are trivial for humans to harvest by hand that would require very expensive machinery and technology to accomplish with a machine.