I saw some videos about more modern farms, and they utilize drones, GPS, and a whole litany of other bits of modern tech to help with the farming stuff.
I agree that it needs to be farmers leading the change, but I don't think that the farming world is as primitive as people seem to think it is.
These tech folks don't. They'll say they're a software developer working on agtech.
It's a totally different mindset, it has nothing to do with the technical details.
Wellllll, long before his growth factor, we assumed we knew what a good balanced diet for chickens was. Then, presto, bingo, the issue was what barrels of fish, soy beans, ..., to feed the chickens to provide the diet for minimum cost. Right: Linear programming, the "diet problem", applied math in farming!
Which points to the irony of all this. The real goal of the “project” is not better nutrition or more efficient farming, is a marketable product. You want to know how to make it more nutritious, cheaper, sustainable, healthier and efficient? Eliminate animal farming and feed humans directly.
I hear that a lot.
Apart fom the nutritional benefits of eating meat, notr every place in the world is suitable to the sort of cropping required.
Where I live the land is well suited for grazing sheep, and not well suited for cropping
Cattle crammed into feed lots is a sad thing, I am not advocating it. I am advocating an approach sensitive to the needs of the land and people
That would be relevant if the livestock were grassfed but in the modern world where Soybeans from brazil are shipped to UK to feed cattle or From USA to Australia to feed pigs that doesn’t seem to be a problem.
The economics of farming do not stack up, here, with feed from off the farm.
Mostly sheep, a smattering of beef.
(I could cite the sources if anyone wish to investigate more) All this is just the efficiency aspect of it, let’s pretend they don’t need water or create any waste.